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