Anime vs. Manga: Trigun

[AngelSakura]

Alrighty, I've decided that in order to educate the people of CAA (and the internet in general, if I ever stop being such a lazy webmistress) about the differences between the anime and manga of Yasuhiro Nightow's masterpiece: Trigun. I found some problems roleplaying the manga storyline while everyone only knew the anime, plus, it's just so awesome! *Angel, your innner fangirl is showing...* I'm not sure how I'm gonna do this, but for the moment, I'll give a basic description of the events of the chapter(s) I'm doing, tell the anime episode(s) it corresponds to, if any, and list the main differences. I'd like to not that this is not a summary of the manga. You can't get any hard-core facts from it; it's probably most useful to anime fans who want to learn about the manga.
First, some general information, if for some bizarre reason you don't know either: Vash the Stampede is a famous outlaw on the planet Gunsmoke in the far future. Among the many things he's accused of, one of them stands out: the decimation of Third City July, almost literally ripped out by the roots without any survivors. Or bodies. As our story opens, Vash has a sixty billion double dollar bounty on his head, and everyone on this desert planet wants him dead. The thing is...he turns out to be a weak dork with spikey blond hair who just wants to eat doughnuts. Is this really the man who destroyed July?!
Attachments:
#1. Anime Vash
#2. Manga Vash

[AngelSakura]

Just one more thing: this is basically one giant spoiler, despite what I said before. Also, I added Meryl and Millie's intro page.

Yosh! We're starting off with the first five chapters. Enjoy!

[font='Verdana Ref']Trigun Volume #1

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter Zero: High Noon at July[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']On 7/21/0104, Vash crouches in the ruins of [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Third[/font][font='Verdana Ref'] [/font][font='Verdana Ref']City[/font][font='Verdana Ref'] July[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 1: The $$60 Billion Double Dollar Man[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']A bounty hunter gang attempts to shoot Vash in a saloon and fail miserably (the ketchup scene)[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']Millie and Meryl get their introduction in a saloon, when they place their trademark unusual orders (a banana sundae, a mille feuille cake, and a [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Ceylon[/font][font='Verdana Ref'] tea set)[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']The town’s entire population corners Vash, the waitress from the saloon holding the gun[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 2: Loony Tunes[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']There’s a quick narration of the basic story of Gunsmoke’s settlement and the destruction of July[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']Millie and Meryl arrive in the town as the mob’s pursuit of Vash ensues[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']The town’s leader confesses calling in the [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Nebraska[/font][font='Verdana Ref'] family just as they arrive – Gofsef and the old man[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']Vash has been cornered again, this time in a warehouse by women with rifles[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 3: Hard Puncher[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']Gofsef smashes the saloon and Vash saves the women who were threatening him[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']Vash defeats Gofsef by shooting his smashing-fist[/font]

[align=left]-[font='Verdana Ref']Millie and Meryl declare Vash an “officially designated localized disasterâ€

[Ssjjvash]

hm, how interesting.

I think I like the anime Vash more than the manga one just because he looks goofier. ^_^

[AngelSakura]

[font='Verdana Ref']Trigun Volume #1[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 6: Diehards[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']Kaito begs BDN to spare the ship, because it was his father’s[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']BDN takes this for betrayal and prepares to shoot Kaito[/font]

-[font='Verdana Ref']Vash saves Kaito at the last minute[/font]

[align=left]-[font='Verdana Ref']Kaito shows Vash the blueprints to the “Flourishâ€

[Golden_Griff]

Gah! Too...many...words! >_< Must...come back! >_<

hm, how interesting.

I think I like the anime Vash more than the manga one just because he looks goofier. ^_^

I agree

[AngelSakura]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Trigun Volume #2

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 1: Blood and Thunder[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Legato appears in a town square (the famous hotdog scene)[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']He informs Vash he’s the servant of Knives and tells him about the twelve Gung-Ho Guns and the twelve coin-halves[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Legato disappears, leaving behind a paper bag containing the shoemaker’s head[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Legato visits a mystery person training in a cellar[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 2: Diablo[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Vash is put in jail for Legato’s murder of the shoemaker, as no one even saw him[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']He remembers talking with Rem on the SEEDS ship, looking at the room full of cold sleep capsules, the crash and Knives’ confession of sabotaging the mother ship[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Monev the Hurricane Gale, Gung-Ho Gun number one, arrives, blowing the jail to pieces and accidentally freeing Vash from his cell[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']As the fight starts, Monev realizes it’s going to be harder than he thought[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 3: Fragile[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Vash shoots at Monev, disabling one of the machine guns on his arm[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Vash loses his prosthetic arm[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Flashback to Knives explaining why he sabotaged to navigation system right after the crash and Rem reversing the thrusters on the ships carrying people to save them[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Vash shoots off Monev’s mask and smashes his right eye with his gun, but spares him as he thinks of Rem[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 4: Scars[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Monev explains himself and gives Vash the first half coin[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Meryl types up her report and sees Vash’s extensive scars when he gets out of the shower[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Vash leaves town only to find Monev dead and spiked to a giant stone cross in the desert[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']The second Gung-ho Gun, E.G. Mine, arrives and gets knocked out within five minutes[/font]

[align=left][font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Vash sees Legato watching from a cliff overhead and yells, “From now on, I’m hunting you!!â€

[Golden_Griff]

*Griff listens attentively, taking notes at her desk*

Chapter 5: Slaughter café

- The Roderick (a.k.a Roadwreck) slave trader gang enters a saloon in Jeneora Rock where Legato is eating

- They try to start a fight with him and only succeed in making him mad

- Legato mentally forces the gang to kill each other

Ha ha! Never, EVER get between a psycho and his meal

Vash shoots off Monev’s mask and smashes his right eye with his gun, but spares him as he thinks of Rem

*raises hand*

Hey I got a question In the manga, is Vash less, umm, benevolent (?) than in the anime? To me it sounds like he would have killed Monev if he didn't think of Rem

Hmm, actually I didn't see all of the episodes so I'm not exactly sure who all is who.

[CDLviking]

I think that scene in the anime is pretty consistent with the manga.

[AngelSakura]

<<*raises hand* Hey, I got a question. In the manga, is Vash less, umm, benevolent (?) than in the anime? To me it sounds like he would have killed Monev if he didn't think of Rem. >>

<<I think that scene in the anime is pretty consistent with the manga.>>

CDLviking's right. I saw that episode and he still smashed his eye. He was really starting to lose it; he saw all the people Monev killed and it was almost like he was going battousai on us. ^^ The only difference in that particular scene was his thought of Rem. In the manga, it was more like a vision. I would scan it but she's kinda....nude. It was from the back, and she's got long hair, but...yeah.

Give me a bit to scan some pics and we'll finish up this volume. Anyone taking notes, make sure you can write pretty fast; your brain might explode. It gets pretty messy in the differences department.

[AngelSakura]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 6: Gathering of the Devils

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']The bus Millie, Meryl and Vash are riding to Jeneora Rock stops to pick up someone stranded in the desert: one Mr. Nicholas D. Wolfwood, traveling priest![/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Meanwhile, the rest of the Roderick gang show up in Jeneora to avenge their boss’s death at Legato’s hands[/font]

[align=left][font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']The gang finds him, and Legato orders an invisible someone to “kill half of themâ€

[AngelSakura]

These two extra "bonus tracks" were included at the end of the second Trigun. They consist of the original Trigun pilot and a short oneshort about Vash's life when he was younger (not that he looks it).

[font='Verdana Ref']Trigun Volume #2[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Bonus Tracks!![/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Day In Day Out[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Vash wakes up, meditates (three seconds) and trains with his gun (three hours)[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']We see the first part of Mr. John P. Smith’s (a.k.a. Vash’s) day, as he plays with kids in the streets and challenges the neighborhood old man to chess (he loses $$5)[/font]

[align=left][font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Later that night, while in a saloon, a thug named “Sonic Sodomâ€

[Ssjjvash]

Yeah, his meditation was in the anime. He meditates for three seconds and no longer. XD
I do believe that was the episode where Wolfwood signed Vash up to fight or something and then Vash signed him up to fight. It was originally to win money.

[AngelSakura]

Ah, yes, that sounds familiar. I'll edit that.
Did you see the conclusion of Trigun #2 on the previous page?

[c.t.,girl]

i soooo think vash looks so much hotter in the manga!! @_@ vaash! MINE!!! *huggleglomps vash* ^_^

[AngelSakura]

I must agree with you. That is, if you don't mind.

[c.t.,girl]

VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!

[AngelSakura]

I'll take that as a yes and get started with Trigun Maximum.

[Ssjjvash]

Ah, yes, that sounds familiar. I'll edit that.
Did you see the conclusion of Trigun #2 on the previous page?

yup, I did! ^_^

[c.t.,girl]

i just got my first anime!! $$60,000,000,000 Man!!! yeeeeeeee!! vaaaaaaaaaaash!!! *huggleglomps vash*

[AngelSakura]

[font='Verdana Ref']Trigun Maximum Volume 1: Hero Returns[/font]

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[font='Verdana Ref']Chapter 1: Hero Reborn[/font]

[font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']Wolfwood enters a town supposedly being held hostage by Vash the Stampede[/font]

[align=left][font='Verdana Ref']- [/font][font='Verdana Ref']A man named Eriks bursts into the saloon dragging a 12-year-old girl named Lina; he’s protecting her because she made one of “Vash’sâ€

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

AngelSakura, I must say that this is quite impressive and looks like a lot of work. Thanks for the efforts.

Have you concluded which one you like better? I haven't seen the anime all the way through, but just bought the first three anime dvds, and only have the first two Trigun mangas, not the maximums, so I can't say that I have a preference yet until I see it all. I'll get there.....

[AngelSakura]

<<AngelSakura, I must say that this is quite impressive and looks like a lot of work. >>
Ooh, definately. First I have to figure out the most important stuff in the chapters, then I have to type it up, then I have to explain the differences in a way that won't induce total brain meltdown, and finally, I have to pick out the highlight spread of each chapter, scan them, and clean them up. Sometimes I have to wrestle with the formatting when I post it, and sometimes nobody even posts on the thread when I update. Lots and lots of work.

<<Have you concluded which one you like better?>>
If you mean anime vs. manga, definately manga, mainly because you get a lot more explaination. For instance, in the anime, Hopperd the Gauntlet is just a human bullet, but he's apparently got a backstory and (gasp!) a personality in the manga. There's also the small matter of a couple characters who die before their time...

If you mean Trigun vs. Trigun Maximum, I like Maximum better, probably because Nightow-sensei cleans the art up a bit, unclutters the panels, ect. Also, Trigun had some really freaky proportion action. I once measured a full fifteen headlengths on a picture of Legato. By the end of the most recently released translated Trigun Maximum, His Life As A..., Vash is back down to apporoximatly eight and a half, making him look a lot more natural.

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

Awesome - I'm going to have to see if I can get around to picking up the Trigun Maximum after Christmas - maybe I'll have some extra cash then.

Great job again, and thanks for working on it for us.

[AngelSakura]

*salutes* Just doing my duty as a Trigun fan. In all honesty, I've always wanted to have one of those websites all the Trigun fansites link to. Y'know, the kind where the link description says, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T MISS THIS." So I think I'll make my own site to host this on pretty soon.

[AngelSakura]

Okey dokey, here you go: my really pathetic and really empty comparison site.

http://home.att.net/~dmll.stephens/

By empty, I mean that I only have one comparison up. But I've got some nice links...and...uh... Just go there. It was hard to code, and I did it from scratch.

Also, I recently got the first three DVDs. Go me.

[Lunis]

Wow, AngelSakura, you're really great at summarizing! I bet you get A plusses in school.

[quote="AngelSakura"]On another note, what on earth did Lina call that pig-man in the dub? I rewound my recording three times to no avail. In the manga she said “loliconâ€

[AngelSakura]

Ah, it's just because I like Trigun so much. ^^;; Anything else, I'm absolutely terrible at, heh heh. Would you do me a favor and sign my site's guestbook?

[AngelSakura]

Sorry it took me so long, guys. Here's the next chunk. I don't feel like messing with my scanner right now, so just be satisfied with the summary thing. Here you are:

Trigun Maximum Volume One: Hero Returns
Chapter Six: Sin
- Vash thinks of Rem and realizes the old man's situation is not all that different from his; he lowers his gun
- The man begs for his life and the old man asks him if he remembers how his daughter begged
- Vash stops the old man at the last minute and gets an elbow to the head
- The old man hears his hostage calling for his father
- The scene cuts to after the indcident; it appears the old man wasn't able to kill his hostage
- Sensei explains to Brad how Vash considers everyone "kin" so he has to help in all situations
- Later that night, Wolfwood breaks Vash out of jail and they give the old man a lift out of town ^^;;
- The sheriff turns out to be one of Leonof's puppets, and another puppet tells Legato, "There is no mistake. Vash the Stampede has resurfaced."
Trigun Maximum Volume Two: Death Blue
Chapter One: Return of the Blue Wind of Death
- A convict is sent by a local town to check out the Goodman manor because troops that were sent in weeks ago haven't come back
- Midvalley and Grey are sitting outside the manor when Convict winds up his boomerang
- The manor is demolished, but Grey grabs Convict and kills him with the boomerang (*splat*)
- Midvalley kills a couple of troops with some kind of wave from his saxophone (*thwack*) and Hopperd the Gauntlet arrives in dramatic fashion (he's the human bullet)
- Legato controls the remaining troops and marches them all (40) into one small truck (*squelch*)
- Meanwhile, Brad and Sensei eat in some city and a puppet fly spy (lol) lands on Brad without his notice
- Legato announces that "the second stage" is about to begin
Chapter Two: Resume Our Business.
- In our first look at Legato in TriMax, we see that he's now in a portable straightjacket/iron lung of some kind, forcing him to eat his steak with his face
- The rest of the Gung-Ho Guns arrive in this place (GHG headquarters?)
- Midvalley points a pistol at Legato's head, saying he doesn't want to be controlled by a maniac any more
- Legato calmly uses his mind powers to twist Midvalley's arm behind his back, adding that their orders are now to cause Vash ultimate suffering, but not to kill him
- Arriving at a cleared out town, Wolfwood and Vash meet Rai-Dei the Blade, Gung-Ho Guns number nine
- Rai-Dei appears to recognize Wolfwood, to Vash's puzzlement, and tells him to stay out of this fight
- Vash and Rai-Dei start to fight, revealing that the samurai is on skates
- During a short break, Rai-Dei informs Vash that the GHGs now know the location of his "secluded home"
Chapter Three: Samurai Showdown
- Watching the other two set up for a fight, Wolfwood thinks about the reasons the GHGs were chosen: "...astounding kill techniques and nearly limitless strength..."
- Wolfwood attempts to help Vash, but the gunslinger turns him away, saying, "If this isn't one-on-one, I'll never make him understand..."
- Rai-Dei announces his "Jigenzan Ittou-style Succesion Technique" and starts out with some sort of whirly thing he calls the "Double Nebula"
- Vash appears to be out of bullets, but uses the gun in his arm to continue
- When *that* runs out, Rai-Dei tries the Double Nebula again, but Vash uses a string attatched to his gun to trip him
- As the dust settles, Rai-Dei's sword is several feet away, and both men are on the ground, Vash's gun in his opponent's face
Chapter Four: Wolfwood
- Vash askes Rai-Dei to promise not to kill anymore people, and starts to walk away
- Rai-Dei refuses to believe that his sword style lost to Vash's gun, remembering his brutal training, and prepares to shoot Vash in the back
- Wolfwood abruptly shoots his fellow GHG into a bloody mess
- Vash turns around, shocked, and slugs his friend in the jaw, then checks to see if Rai-Dei is still alive
- Wolfwood knocks Vash to the ground, and tells him (this scene sounds so calm this way, but they're both seethingly angry) that underestimating the GHGs is being naive
- Vash gets up (now he's back to calmness) and tells Wolfwood that he's wrong, and that Rai-Dei wasn't going to shoot him
- Wolfwood puts Vash's gun into his hand and holds it to his own head
- He says, "If you really believe I'm wrong, pull the trigger." He adds that if he needs to trade his life to allow Vash to take out the next man who gets in his way, he will
- As Zazie the Beast watches from a building's roof, Vash tells Wolfwood that he is the coward in this situation
- Meanwhile, Millie and Meryl hitch a ride to Edwards with a toma farmer named Jessie
- A giant ship crashes out of the sky in front of them
- They find a little girl in the wreckage, calling for Vash to help her
Corresponding Anime Episodes:
Chapters four through six (of TriMax one) - Anine episode nineteen, "Hang Fire"
Chapters two through four - [see "Major Differences"]
Major Differences:
Well, for starters, Sensei is mysteriously missing in the anime, at least in this part, so Vash is wearing normal clothing in "Hang Fire". Also, the hostage is given a name, a status in town,
and, ah, a nose ring, for some reason. Vash evades capture after the incident, so no jailbreaks are nesessary. Legato does not dramatically reappears by killing off a troop of soldiers, but the
convict (I think his name is Descartes) lives on in the anime by becoming the short-legged red-wearing mohawked giant mistaken for Vash in the first episode. ^^
Rai-Dei did not insist on babbling about spiritual awareness while fighting Vash. There was one other major thing: he was missing his skull-skates. Something's odd about this...how do
you skate in a desert? He also had little attack names that he called out before doing anything really dramatic. I missed the all-important episode for this section, "Flying Ship", so I'll need some
help later.