Synopsis

Much of the chaos blamed on "Vash" actually comes from bounty hunters chasing the massive 60 billion double dollar reward on his head—supposedly for destroying a city called July. The problem is, Vash doesn't even remember doing it. All he wants is "love and peace," and despite being an impossibly skilled gunfighter, he only uses his guns to protect people. As the story unfolds, you gradually learn more about Vash's shadowy past and the history of human civilization on Gunsmoke, the desert planet where everything takes place. The show balances humor with serious character development, and it gets increasingly emotional as it goes on. Vash picks up a traveling companion in Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a priest who's almost as deadly with a gun as Vash is. Later, a group of assassins called the Gung-Ho Guns start hunting Wolfwood for reasons that aren't immediately clear. By the end, Trigun becomes a genuinely heavy exploration of morality itself. It asks questions like: What does morality even mean? Can you judge different moral systems against each other? If someone's forced to abandon their principles, does that destroy those principles forever—or can they still try to live by them? Is redemption actually possible, and what would it take? One-shot included: Volume 2: Trigun (pilot)

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