Monday, November 28, 2005

Trigun, as most of us know, is one of the most popular anime series in the U.S. Part of what helped it gain popularity is the awesome gunfights, amazing animation, wonderfully creative character designs, and Vash .Vash the Stampede is a complex guy and can change moods very quickly. Maybe that is why so many people are attracted to his personality

Why wouldn't Vash be a popular character? He is definitely different than most main guys of anime and manga. He cries and he can be some what dorky from time to time. But at the same time, he has many of the same attributes as the others. He's what you might call “a pretty boy”, he has a terrible past, and he's lecherous. Sounds like most characters in anime, right? But it is his beliefs that really get to people.

Vash doesn't kill !. It is some-thing that goes against his morals. Even if he doesn't know the person, he'll be terribly upset if they die. An example would be episode nine-teen. Vash begged for another man's life, even though it was a man he had never met before .. Now that's something new.


now lets move on to his past. As most of you know, he has a very sad past full of death and destruction. With the death of Rem and the rest of the crew, he and Knives were left stranded on the Planet Gunsmoke. This was tough for Vash, because Knives wanted to wipe out the human race, yet Vash, as we all know, is against such ideas.

So, eventually, Vash finds someone related to Rem. He heads off to a city called July. There he finds Knives, who beat him there, and has killed this man that was related to Rem. Vash's reaction is crying, and asking Knives why he murders. Knives eventually shoots Vash's arm off (this would explaining his mechanical arm). Then, that sets off the Angel Arm, what you might call “the big daddy of guns in the series”. It goes off, and BANG! There's the destruction of July. His first criminal record.

So, how do we sum Vash up? funny,,Nice,, peace-loving, ,,, and, to some fangirls, quite irresistable How his past will effect him in the future is anyone's guess. What he'll do is also a mystery. But one thing we do know is that the Humanoid Typhoon's legacy in anime and manga will always be secure



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