~Anime of the Month~
March is Trigun!
CREDITS:
Genre: Action/Sci Fi
Mangaka: Yasuhiro Nightow
Anime License: Pioneer
Manga License: Digital Manga
SUMMARY:
[Summary obtained from Amazon]
Who and what is Vash the Stampede, a.k.a. "The Humanoid Typhoon"? To bounty hunters, he's an outlaw with 60,000,000,000 Double Dollars on his head. To Meryl Stryfe and Millie Thompson of the Bernardelli Insurance Society, he's a walking disaster area who's cost the company a fortune. This comic adventure takes place in the distant future on a desert planet that looks like the American Old West. Vash wanders from town to town, unsuccessfully pursuing peace, doughnuts, and "the mayfly known as love." Meryl and Millie follow him, trying to minimize the destruction, but Vash's only real friend is the gun-totin' preacher Nicholas Wolfwood. Despite their grudging affection, Wolfwood articulates the other characters' thoughts when he tells Vash, "When you're around, things always seem to get worse!"
March is Trigun!
CREDITS:
Genre: Action/Sci Fi
Mangaka: Yasuhiro Nightow
Anime License: Pioneer
Manga License: Digital Manga
SUMMARY:
[Summary obtained from Amazon]
Who and what is Vash the Stampede, a.k.a. "The Humanoid Typhoon"? To bounty hunters, he's an outlaw with 60,000,000,000 Double Dollars on his head. To Meryl Stryfe and Millie Thompson of the Bernardelli Insurance Society, he's a walking disaster area who's cost the company a fortune. This comic adventure takes place in the distant future on a desert planet that looks like the American Old West. Vash wanders from town to town, unsuccessfully pursuing peace, doughnuts, and "the mayfly known as love." Meryl and Millie follow him, trying to minimize the destruction, but Vash's only real friend is the gun-totin' preacher Nicholas Wolfwood. Despite their grudging affection, Wolfwood articulates the other characters' thoughts when he tells Vash, "When you're around, things always seem to get worse!"
THE CAST OF MAIN CHARACTERS:
[All Character Bios obtained from Anime Yume]
Vash the Stampede
Also known as the Humanoid Typhoon, Vash is a wanted gunman with a $$60,000,000,000 reward on his head. However, though Vash is credited with the destruction of many towns and cities, there is no record of him ever taking a life, and anyone who tries to pursue him usually ends up injuring themselves, rather than suffering at his hands.
Even though Vash has a reputation for being insanely destructive, his true personality is actually the opposite of that reputation. He's kind, gentle, and extremely carefree. He shrinks from harming anything that lives, and he only fires off his gun to prevent pain to others. His philosophy is that there's always a way to save everyone, no matter how evil they may seem.
Meryl Strife
Known as "Derringer Meryl," Meryl works for the Bernardelli Insurance Co. She and Milly were assigned to follow the legendary gunman, Vash the Stampede, and send records about his destruction rate back to the company. At first, Meryl couldn't believe that that donut-snarfing dork was actually the legendary gunman. But after she saw how Vash was able to escape from every bounty hunter attack he faced, and get through it without killing a soul, she was forced to conclude that he really was Vash the Stampede, though he wasn't quite like how she pictured he would be.
Meryl is more like the leader of the two. She gives the orders and Milly follows what she says. She's also the most serious of the pair. Milly likes to eat and have fun, but Meryl's more interested in finding out about Vash's unusual habits. Meryl always criticizes Vash's reckless way of living, but it's obvious that she develops feelings for him.
Milly Thompson
Known as "Stungun Milly," Milly works for the Bernardelli Insurance Co. She and Meryl were assigned to follow the legendary gunman, Vash the Stampede, and send records about his destruction rate back to the company. She's got a large family back home, whom she writes letters to regularly. Milly knew right away that the man who was supposedly Vash the Stampede, really was(though Meryl had difficulty believing it.)
Milly's a bit ditzy and oblivious to some things, but she doesn't seem to have a mean bone in her body. She mainly just likes to eat and have fun.
Nicholas D. Wolfwood
A traveling priest, Wolfwood's church also doubles as an orphanage. Like Vash, Wolfwood also also tried his best to save as many people as he could. However, he and Vash had conflicting ways of doing so. Wolfwood's tactic seemd to be "if the majority can be saved by the death of a lesser amount, then so be it." But Vash believed that there's a sure way to save everyone, and to reform even the most diabolical of individuals.
Knives
Knives is Vash's twin brother. Just after they were born they were taken in by a group of space explorers, and one of the explorers, Rem, acted as their caretaker. Rem treated Vash and Knives with kindness and gentleness, but Knives still remained a distant. He couldn't understand Rem's policy of "there's a way to save everyone." He used this metaphor: If you want to save the butterflies, you have to kill the spiders; if you want to save the spiders, you have to let them kill the butterflies for food. He believed that trying to save both sides was a useless contradiction. His indifference towards the people he grew up around caused him to hate all humans.
