Review of Trigun

Check out that animation when Vash fights that samurai guy. HA HA HA HA! Budget issues much? First some good things. The environment feels very fleshed out and realized. You could sum it up perfectly with "sci-fi plus western," but it feels like its own world, which I really feel is a huge boon in fiction. Flaws, though? Inconsistent, often very poor animation. Two one-dimensional characters crammed together (an idiot savant joker and a dark, troubled guy) instead of a truly fleshed out protagonist. A sudden tone swing in the middle of the series from comedy to drama that is very, very ham-fistedly "dark". (It's reallysad and stuff when a kid dies, innit?!)

It seems like their heart was in the right place, but I imagine adult swim nostalgia is about the best thing Trigun has to offer anyone nowadays.