TRIGUN
TV
Sharp-shooting hero comes to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in March
What
do you get when you combine guns, the goofiest hero since the Tick,
two overworked insurance investigators, ruthless villains, a minister
that carries more weaponry than your average street gang and more guns?
These
ingredients that make up the insanely popular anime series Trigun,
coming to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup--Monday through Thursday
from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.-- in March (debut date and time still to be determined).
Licensed for American release by Pioneer Entertainment, Trigun
combines fast paced action, gut-splitting humor and a riveting plot
to create a truly fantastic series.
The
"hero" of Trigun is Vash the Stampede, believed
responsible for the annihilation of the city of July in a post-apocalyptic
Western frontier world. Now he has a $60 billion bounty on his head.
But Vash ain't your typical anti-hero-- his marksmanship is so phenomenal
that he never kills his opponents. Plus, Vash is such a goofy and friendly
guy that bounty hunters have trouble believing he's actually
the infamous Vash the Stampede.
But
other pursuers aren't as easy to shake. Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson,
two investigators from the Bernadelli Insurance Agency, have been assigned
to track down Vash the Stampede and prevent him from destroying any
more towns (although he goes out of his way to avoid killing, Vash has
an incredible talent for random property destruction). Far from stopping
Vash, Meryl and Milly usually get sucked into the center of whatever
maelstrom he stirs up. The three are soon joined by Nicholas Wolfwood,
a traveling minister carrying enough artillery to outfit a small mercenary
troop.
The
series, while never completely losing its humor, soon takes on a darker
tone as Wolfwood, Stryfe and Thompson are drawn into Vash's mission
to stop the ruthless murderer Knives and his gang, the Gung-Ho-Guns.
But the secrets of Vash's mysterious past may prove to be their undoing.
An
anime series so heavy with gunplay may have trouble on the American
airwaves--even on Cartoon Network's late night block for adult viewers--but
fans need not worry about overdone editing.
“When
the tapes arrive to our library,” explained Terry Kalagian, vice president
of programming at Cartoon Network, “we will review [the show] and make
the necessary adjustments so that it fits our standards for broadcast
and is given the appropriate rating. But fans can be assured that we
will be careful to preserve the elements of the story that have made
it such a popular series.”
--Caitlin
Moriarity