Synopsis

A lot of the chaos blamed on "Vash" is actually caused by bounty hunters chasing the massive 60-billion-double-dollar reward on his head. He's wanted for destroying a city called July, but Vash doesn't even clearly remember doing it. Despite being an impossibly skilled gunfighter, all he really wants is "love and peace"—and he only uses his guns to protect people. As the series goes on, you gradually learn more about Vash's past and the history of humanity on Gunsmoke, the desert planet where everything takes place. The show starts off pretty comedic, but it gets progressively heavier, with real character development that turns genuinely emotionally intense by the later episodes. Eventually Vash teams up with Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a priest who's nearly as talented with a gun as Vash is. Wolfwood later becomes the target of a mysterious assassin group called the Gung-Ho Guns, and their reasons for coming after him aren't immediately clear. What makes Trigun stand out is how it transforms into a serious exploration of morality. It asks tough questions: What does morality actually mean? Can we really judge different moral systems against each other? If someone's forced to break their own moral code, does that mean the code was meaningless to begin with? Can they still believe in it afterward? And ultimately, can people find redemption for their mistakes, and how?

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