Review of Trigun

I watched Trigun for the first time back when it was airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. I got nostalgic for Trigun after seeing it mentioned on Twitter and decided to rewatch it except this time in Japanese. If you're rewatching due to nostalgia - Trigun still holds up after all these years. There are some mannerisms that are a bit dated but Trigun is still enjoyable to watch. I personally don't have any qualm with the older animation quality but my BF who hasn't seen Trigun before didn't like it and he lost interest after the first episode. Reminder that this anime was drawn in the timewhen you had to actually paint with paints on a plastic sheet and layer all the sheets together to make a single frame... then you had to actually take a photo of it and then rinse and repeat the entire process to get an animated clip.

The show is a bit slow the first two episodes but it starts to pick up after that.

I was surprised with how far into the series you have to get to see some of the villains.

Also the biggest shock for me was Wolfwood's Japanese voice... He's a lot more badass sounding in the American dub. In the Japanese version he speaks Kansai-ben which isn't the problem, the problem is that his voice actor's Kansai-ben is really really weird and off. It's very forced and sounds oddly flat in certain areas. It's so weird because his voice actor grew up in Hyogo-ken which does speak Kansai-ben but Wolfwood's intonations and stuff are all weird.

If you don't understand Japanese, then it really doesn't matter, but if you do understand Japanese then... yes.... that's something that was unexpected to me and bothered me.