Trigun

[DarkLordDragon]

TRIGUN

===============
INTRODUCTION:
===============


In the distant future... On a desert planet... There is a legendary gunman. His name is Vash the Stampede also known as Humanoid Typhoon.
Well I guess we all know about Trigun, it's really a very cool anime and I like it so much... Trigun has it all: action, drama, humor, science fiction, philosophy, fun, donuts, and spikey hair. It's just a phenomenal anime and that's why I like it. If you're a huge fan of Trigun, welcome to a very thorough resource on the series. (Here's a quick fact, in case you were wondering. The reason the series is called "Trigun" is because Vash uses three different guns during the course of the series... I like his Silver Gun! it's so cool... This series starts off to be almost a pure comedy with a little action, but it evolves into a lot more and still keeps its fun, Anyway let's get going guys...



============
MY REVIEW:
============

The story: 8/10
The characters: 9/10
The graphics: 8/10
The musics: 8/10
Style: 9/10
Overall: 8.5/10


THE STORY:
Ok the story of Trigun is very good, I like it... A city was just destroyed by one man, well that gives alot of powers even though he looks just like a joke character but yet it's great, anyway the story is pretty good and well done I appreciate the story writer, brothers fighting against each others, cowboys, Samurai fighters, warriors of all type fight to live... You can say their only amusement is fighting, I like the gang stuff alot, it's pretty cool... Don't know what to say all I have to say that the story is very cool and you will like it for sure...


THE CHARACTERS:
There are alot of cool characters and I mean alot, the top of my list is none other than Legato Bluesummers, he was the damned one along with many others just like Vash, Knives, Demonic...etc There all type of characters, serious characters, joke characters, fat ones, ugly ones and the old ones, I forget to mention there are girls outta there so both the guys and girls will like the characters... Girls using Bazooka or dynamites and some cool guns so I am sure like it, or maybe some uses 3 guns at the same time as Vash, or one damn strange weapon such as Wolfwood's weapons, man... They have many great characters and I am sure you will find your favorite from this cool series... Oh yeah let me add that Vash owns Spike Spiegel hehe


THE GRAPHICS:
The graphics of the series is damn good as well, no bugs and the background were done very well, no slow actions all fast, everything moving fast and cool, they are really creative...


THE MUSICS:
Well It's pretty good but I think it's not the best but yet it has alot of great musics, I was looking for Trigun's musics but didn't found any, it's pretty to find out, but you can see the anime if you really need to hear hehe... And the best of all it's not a boring musics just like Samurai's musics though...


STYLE:
The anime style is damn good, they gived at least credits for everybody except for the none main characters not only that if you just noticed, everybody have his own style, we have Vash the main character who is mix with some others (Joke and serious sometimes) also we have the boss Knives who wanna be the boss even though he is pretty weird, and then we have the real leader Legato, I like Legato's type characters... They are the best always, then we have alot others of cool characters such as Wolfwoods, Demon Eyes, and the Bad Lad gang leader...etc


OVERALL:
Well I think it's one of the greatest anime outta there, I like it so much, if you know nothing about Trigun, I definitely recommend giving its episodes a rent or even a buy because it deserve it, it's better than many others... But as you all know everybody have his own opinions, so don't blame me if you don't like it, ok! But yet I know you will like it...

[DarkLordDragon]

============
THE STORY:
============


One man has been credited to the destruction of several cities. Throughout time the world has known only the chaos and inevitable destruction that has followed him. The City of July fell victim to the same man. A lone gunman described only as an enigma, with a bounty of a $60,000,000,000 reward has been placed on his head. His name is Vash The Stampede. Many years have passed, yet his mystery remains. The Bernadelli Insurance Agency sends two individuals Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson in search of the gunman. Knowing only of his credulous past they are sent to prevent any further damage caused by him. The man is legendary, dawning a red trench coat, lightning quick marksmanship and going by the alias of "The Humanoid Typhoon." Yet when they finally catch up to him, they are uncertain whether or not this man could be the actual cause of the unparalleled damage marked throughout history and time.
The man they catch up with is clumsy, goofy and yet he carries the characteristics of the gunman they are in search of. However is this his real persona or just a shadow hiding the legend he has become. Throughout time and their continuous journeys alongside him, the two women realize that he is the Humanoid Typhoon. Yet his past still remains a mystery. Surviving only through what he knows, the planet gun smoke is one of a continuous battlefield. Living only to justify all the wrong he has done and hopefully reconcile himself with the lives he saves. Vash lives in the present yet his past in an inevitable crossroad he must take again.



=============
CHARACTERS:
=============


MAIN CHARACTERS



VASH THE STAMPEDE




STORY:

Vash the Stampede is the main character of the Trigun series. He is known as the "Humanoid Typhoon" and "the Stampede" because everywhere he goes, destruction follows. But that destruction is not always his fault.

Vash is actually a genetically engineered plant/human hybrid. He does not age and has a very soft heart, which makes him prone to crying. Vash was engineered alongside a twin brother, Knives.

There's a lot of mystery surrounding Vash, most of which gets answered by the end of the series. Overall, he's a tender, goofy guy who loves donuts and women.

Vash, being genetically enhanced, is also an incredibly good gun fighter. He can dodge bullets, assess enemies perfectly, and has very advanced intelligence (though he only reveals it a handful of times).

Despite his excellence at fighting, Vash has vowed never to kill anyone (something he learned from Rem, his former teacher). In every circumstance, Vash tries to find a way of rendering enemies defeated without actually killing them.



MERYL STRYFE




STORY:

Meryl Strife works for the Bernardelli Insurance Company. Her job is basically to follow Vash around and try to prevent damages caused by the Stampede.

At first, Meryl absolutely does not believe that Vash is really Vash. Then, after seeing how skilled Vash is as a fighter, she begins to have a change of heart.

Meryl eventually ends up falling for Vash, though she is too strong a person to admit it.



MILLY THOMPSON




STORY:

Milly Thompson is Meryl's side-kick and good friend. She is very tall and almost always cheery. Throughout much of the series, Milly comes across as being very shallow. There are, however, key instances where a great deal of intelligence is revealed to be present in her mind. Indeed, Vash even made a similar comment about Milly's intelligence to Wolfwood on one occasion.

Milly is very good-hearted. She's the type of person you want to always be with. She's a very pure creature.



NICHOLAS D. WOLFWOOD




STORY:

Nicholas D. Wolfwood is a traveling priest with a great love for orphans and other misfortuned children. When Wolfwood meets Vash, it's friendship at first sight.

Wolfwood hides a very mysterious past (that we only find out about toward the end of the series). He's an excellent marksman and is almost as good a fighter as Vash.

Wolfwood's weapon of choice is a giant cross that has tons of little guns inside of it. The cross can also be used as a machine gun and can be used to fire missiles as well.



REM SIEBUREM




STORY:

Rem is the most important figure in Vash's life. Though she died when Vash was still young, her message of love and peace is still deeply rooted in the Stampede. She's the reason Vash tries never to kill anyone in his battles.



KNIVES




STORY:

Knives is Vash's twin brother. He's just as capable a fighter and just as intelligent as Vash, only he harbors a great grudge against humanity (for no apparent reason). Knives makes it his goal to destroy every human being on the desert planet he's stranded on.

[DarkLordDragon]

GUNG-HO GUNS



LEGATO BLUESUMMERS




STORY:

Legato is the head of the Gung-Ho Guns. His goal in Trigun is to make Vash suffer eternal sorrow. Legato is extremely powerful, having the ability to telekinetically make anything move. He uses this ability a great deal, even forcing people to do things against their own will.

Legato also was responsible for installing the gun on Vash's arm



MONEV THE GALE




STORY:

Monev the Gale is the first of the Gung-Ho Guns that we meet. He is a behemoth of a figure, training his entire life to find and kill Vash. He meets his end when Vash reveals his secret gun arm.



DOMINIQUE THE CYCLOPS




STORY:

Dominique the Cyclops is an alluring young woman who is able to manipulate a person's senses using her "Demon Eye" (a device that is attached on one of her eyes). Dominique is stopped when Vash ignores his senses by focusing on his sensation of pain.



E.G. MINE




STORY:

E.G. Mine is probably the most short-lived of the Gung-Ho Guns. After first killing both Monev the Gale and Dominique the Cyclops (for failing), he faces off against Vash. E.G. is then killed by Rai-Dei the Blade for failing in his duel against Vash.



RAI-DAI THE BLADE




STORY:

Rai-Dei the Blade was a samarai before joining the Gung-Ho Guns. He is a very skilled swordsman and has only one wish: to experience the rift between life and death. He wishes to face a worthy opponent (enter Vash) to be brought to this point.



LEONOF THE PUPPERMASTER




STORY:

Leonof the Puppetmaster is one of the stronger members of the Gung-Ho Guns. He has the ability to create powerful puppets from a distance. These puppets range in look from being very obvious to being very, very close to human.



ZAZIE THE BEAST




STORY:

Zazie the Beast's greatest strength is his child-like appearance. He seems very innocent and emotional until he is about to strike. Zazie looks like he's about to be converted to the side of good right before he is killed by Wolfwood (a controversial move).



GRAY THE NINELIVES




STORY:

Gray the Ninelives is a hulking behemoth that is rumored to have nine extra lives. Wolfwood faces him and is immensely impressed, Gray never seems to die. Wolfwood then learns Gray's secret (that he's really a robot) and (mostly) does away with him.



HOPPERED THE GAUNTLET




STORY:

Hoppered the Gauntlet is a very garrulous member of the Gung-Ho Guns. He has very tough-to-penetrate armor and flies around like a spinning top. He proves a very difficult challenge for Vash.



CAINE THE LONGSHOT




STORY:

Caine the Longshot is a very quirky member of the Gung-Ho Guns. He doesn't look like very much but has a massively long sniper rifle (that he uses to try and pick off Vash from a far distance). Vash, using advanced mathematics (which he does in his head), finds Caine's position and confronts him. Caine then kills himself to Vash's anguish. (Though Caine is given a nice burial by the Stampede.)



CHAPEL THE EVERGREEN




STORY:

Chapel the Evergreen looks similar to Wolfwood in dress (because Chapel was responsible for Wolfwood's upbringing). This fighter taught Wolfwood everything he knew, in the hopes that Wolfwood would follow in his footsteps as a Gung-Ho Gun. Wolfwood confronts his old mentor and manages to defeat him (though he chooses not to take his life). After Chapel is defeated, Wolfwood takes his green apple (that he's carried for a long time) and walks away, enjoying its great flavor. Chapel has a clear opportunity to shoot Wolfwood as he's walking away, but he definitely doesn't want to do so. Chapel is then forced, telekenetically, by Legato to kill his student (who doesn't put up a fight, learning from Vash that it's not right to kill people). In the next episode, Chapel tries to avenge Wolfwood's death but proves to be no match for Legato.



MIDVALLEY THE HORNFREAK




STORY:

Midvalley the Hornfreak is one of the more powerful members of the Gung-Ho Guns. He loves playing high-quality music and takes great pride in his saxophone. His music, beside being mellifluous to the ear, also has the special ability to cause shockwaves that can deflect bullets and cause explosions. Vash is almost killed by Midvalley, until he manages to ricochet a few bullets into the Gung-Ho Gun's saxophone. Then, Midvalley kills himself.

[DarkLordDragon]

MINOR CHARACTERS



RUTH LOOSE




STORY:

Ruth Loose is a character we meet in the first episode of the series. He is a bounty hunter after Vash's head. Ruth is mistaken for being Vash the Stampede because the real Vash simply does not look or act very intimidating.



CLIFF SCHEZAR




STORY:

Cliff is a very wealthy man who garnered his great fortunes by selling water to a draught-ridden city. He hired Vash to protect him from those who would foil his enterprise. Cliff's greed, coupled with his violent nature, leads to his eventual demise in the second episode.



MARIANNE




STORY:

Marianne is the young woman who lives under Cliff's roof. She is really a sheriff and wishes to bring Cliff to justice. Vash falls head-over-heels for her



FRANK MARLON




STORY:

We meet Frank in the third episode of Trigun. He used to be a former master of designing and building guns. Then, his wife and child were shot by a robber who used one of his guns. Frank then quit the business, seeking solace in alcohol. He finally finds himself, through an encounter with Vash. Frank is also the man who repairs Vash's gun on at least two occassions throughout the series.



EARL BOLSTALK




STORY:

We meet Earl in the fourth episode. A former outlaw (of very cruel demeanor), Mr. Bolstalk ages to become respected a member of the upper-class. He has an only daughter who is taken hostage and who is eventually saved by Vash. Bolstalk then ends up dueling the man who held his daughter hostage, only to lose (though he only gets injured in this battle). He is then turned-on by a crooked sheriff, only to be saved by Vash.



STAN




STORY:

Stan is the crooked sheriff in the fourth episode who hatches a plan to kill Mr. Bolstalk (having harbored an age-old grudge against him). Stan and his men are foiled through the joint efforts of Vash, Milly, and Meryl.



THE NEBRASKA FAMILY




STORY:

A very back-water family that has both mutant and normal members. The Nebraska Family appears twice within Trigun and both times cause trouble for the law-abiding.



ELIZABETH




STORY:

Kaite is the boy that Brilliant Dynamites Neon uses to infiltrate the sand steamer. His father was the man who designed the sand steamer. His father always wanted Kaite to do something great with his life as well. Kaite ends up leaving Brilliant and helping Vash bring the Bad Lads Gang to justice.



BRILLIANT DYNAMITES NEON[/color]




STORY:

B.D.N. is the leader of the Bad Lads Gang. He is an excellent fighter and is ruthless toward his opposition. Through the use of a child-spy, Brilliant manages to hijack a sand steamer (which carries Vash on board). Despite his shortcomings though, Brilliant is an honorable man who doesn't go back on his word of saving the steamer after he loses to Vash in a duel.



KAITE




STORY:

Kaite is the boy that Brilliant Dynamites Neon uses to infiltrate the sand steamer. His father was the man who designed the sand steamer. His father always wanted Kaite to do something great with his life as well. Kaite ends up leaving Brilliant and helping Vash bring the Bad Lads Gang to justice.



MICHELLE




STORY:

A woman who Vash tries to pick up by pretending he's badly hurt. She ends up giving him a slap in the face.



NEIL


STORY:

A little girl whose father ran away and whose mother was left to tend a diner all by herself. Vash and Wolfwood help Neil out and Neil's father miraculously returns.



JULIUS




STORY:

The son of Fondrique's mayor, Julius is used as a human key for the caravan to enter this city. He runs away with Moore because he's disappointing in the caravan's morals.



MOORE




STORY:

Moore is used as human cargo aboard the caravan in episode 11. Julius runs away with her, utilizing the help of Vash.



BADWICK




STORY:

The son of an elderly couple on a valuable piece of land in episode 15. Badwick tries hard to sell his parents' land, even resorting to allying himself with the vicious land owner Morgan, but, in the end, he sides with his parents and all is made well.



MORGAN




STORY:

The vicious land owner who is obsessed on getting Badwick's parents' land. He even resorts to hiring members of the Nebraska Family to sieze the land by force.

[DarkLordDragon]

JOEY


STORY:

The captain of the ship that held Vash and Knives when they were children. He kills Rowan, against the wishes of Rem, when Rowan goes insane and seems very threatening.



STEVE


STORY:

One of the crew members aboard the ship that held Vash and Knives when they were children. Steve always resented Vash and Knives, believing them to be monsters.



ROWAN




STORY:

One of the crew members aboard the ship that goes insane and freezes Steve forever, before being killed by Joey.



MARY




STORY:

Rowan's co-conspirator aboard the ship that carried Vash and Knives. May ends up getting killed by Rowan, after he goes insane.



LINA




STORY:

When Vash was living as a homeless person, the young girl Lina is the one who found him and gave him a place to stay.



THE POLO AND FAMILIES


STORY:

Two feuding families in New Oregon that fought viciously over the rights to the town's satellite.



BRAD




STORY:

One of the residents of the suspended ship. Brad is in love with Jessica (who is in love with Vash). After harboring lots and lots of resentment toward Vash, Brad ends up sacrificing himself to save him.



JESSICA




STORY:

An adolescent girl who, from an early age, fell in love with Vash. She is a member of the suspended ship. Jessica is also loved by Brad and was even asked to marry him (though she refused).

[DarkLordDragon]

==========
WEAPONS:
==========


AGL Arms .45 Long Colt




The AGL Arms .45 Long Colt (EF Auto Ejecting, Double Action) is Vash's weapon of choice. The reason for this probably has to do with it's extreme accuracy and power of the .45 long colt round. It's big, it's heavy, it's badass. Vash's gun is based on a normal revolver, most likely a colt python. The unique thing about this gun is the barrel, it's fires off the lower part of the cylinder (the barrel is underneath) The gun also has other "special" uses specific to Vash, but you find out what later on.



AThe Punisher (Crucifix)




This thing is huge, and heavy. It's heavy "Because it's so full of mercy" It's got 4 main parts, 2 of which i know about. 1, the long piece, is a machinegun. 2, One of the horizontal parts, stores about 8 .45 auto handguns. The other horizontal part (i'm guessing) is ammo for the machinegun. The vertical part is a rocket launcher or RPG of some kind.



Milly's Stun Gun




Milly Thompson's Weapon of choice. This thing is also huge. It's got 6 barrels in the early ep's and 8 a little later on. It fires large tubes that fold out into 4 parts, knocking targets down (and out) and clamping around them so they can't move. It works for quite a few things, like launching the Punisher to Wolfwood and taking out robots.



Meryl's Derringers




Meryl doesn't like big guns, she likes small ones, lots of them. She carys 50 of these derringer double (maybe single) shot pistols under her cape. I'm guessing they fire .45 auto rounds, either that or 9mm rounds.



Toy Gun




Kids use this toy gun to shoot each other, Vash uses it to demoralize bad guys. Another gun for Vash, because it's nice and non-lethal.



P.F. Marlin




These guns play an important part in one episode, otherwise they're just collectors guns. They fire .45 Long Colt rounds as most revolvers do.



Generic Rifle




This is the generic rifle used by some of the goons. It's based on the M1 Garand rifle from WWII. It's clip fed and semi automatic.



Grader model 2043




This is the TRIGUN version of the Colt Commander. Clip fed, semi automatic, .45auto. Wolfwood has a couple of these, and so do random badguys.



Trigun AK




This is the TRIGUN version of the AK assault rifle. I guess through the years the AK series assault rifles survived. These weapons are known for their rugged design, and reliability.



Mauser Handgun




This is the TRIGUN version of the Mauser handgun. Fires 9mm rounds. Used by gunfigters, goons and civilians



The Belief Lighting




The Belief Lighting is the standard revolver for most of the goons in Trigun. Wolfwood uses it in one ep. The BL fires .45 Long Colt rounds and holds 6. There are 2 variations on the Belief Lightning that show up in Trigun.



Pump Action Shotgun




This is the pump action shotgun that goons use in trigun. Only really shows up in the first episode, but it does a good job of blowing apart a couch. Fires 12ga shotgun rounds.



Brilliant Dynamites Neon's Handgun




This is the gun that Brilliant Dynamites Neon uses. It's his sidearm of choice. Looks like it fires .45 MAGNUM rounds. Clip fed, semi auto, glows in the dark. Looks like a mix between a Desert Eagle and a mauser.



The Trigun UZI




Another goon favorite, the UZI seems to have survived the years just like the AK. This is more like the mini uzi and micro uzi then the full size UZI, making it more of a machine pistol then a SMG. Fires 9mm rounds, probably has a 30 round clip.

[DarkLordDragon]

=======================
EPISODES DESCREPTION:
=======================



EPISODE 1: THE $$60,000,000,000 DOLLAR MAN


In a bar, two bandits are talking about Vash the Stampede, a legendary outlaw who has a $$60 billion (double dollar) bounty on his head. Suddenly, the bartender rushes out of the bar and the entire establishment comes under heavy fire, getting blown to pieces. We see that Vash was inside and a group of hunters outside had come after him.

After the entire bar collapses and everything shatters into a billion pieces, we see that Vash has still survived. He is calm and takes out his gun to fire back.

We cut to a town that Vash had passed through some time prior. The town is almost completely decimated. The local sheriff warns a bounty hunter to stay away from Vash.

Inside a bar, two innocent-looking young women walk in. They ask the bartender for information on what Vash looks like. They are both concealing really large weapons.

We cut to the area that Vash was sighted at previously. It seems that when Vash pulled his gun on the bounty hunters, he was out of bullets. He ran and buried himself for a while to escape them (Vash has a very humorous and silly personality - he's a dork). Vash is forced to emerge to breathe and takes out a couple of the hunters before finally being caught and tied up. The bounty hunters rejoice until...

The two young women we met earlier on arrive at the scene. They claim to be representatives from the Bernardelli Insurance Company (disaster inspectors). Also arriving on the scene is another bounty hunter, one who calls himself "Ruth Loose."

A lot of misunderstandings follow. Ruth Loose believes the boss of the bounty hunters is Vash and the boss comes to believe that Ruth is Vash. A big fight breaks out and the two young women (with the real Vash) run away. The young women give Vash some donuts and money to go warn a certain town to evacuate in preparation for Vash's arrival (they don't know who they're talking to).

The young women then hone their binoculars on the gang of bounty hunters. They are caught soon after. They see that the leader of the gang and Ruth have joined forces (realizing their mistake). They go to search for Vash, first tying the young women up.

Suddenly, the young women are cut free when Vash enters the scene. Vash takes on all the bounty hunters and, after a long fight, manages to miraculously win (knocking both Ruth and the boss to a near-death state). Vash is then shocked to see an avalanche of rock come forth from a great explosion caused by Ruth. The rock comes down upon the town that the young women were trying to protect.

The last scene of this episode shows one of the young women filling a damage report. She sighs that their search for Vash has restarted.


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 2: TRUTH OF MISTAKE


The two young women (Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson) arrive at a new town, completely fatigued and exhausted. They despair that the town has become deserted and that there's no water in sight. Two men pass by and laughingly mention Vash and a rich man named Cliff Schezar, who lives nearby. The two young women run toward the mansion.

After knocking on the door for a bit, the young women are shocked to see Vash answer it. Vash takes some donuts from them (that the women intended for Cliff) and chats amiably with Milly (though Meryl is frustrated and still doesn't believe that Vash is really THE Vash).

Meryl and Milly walk into the mansion and sit down to talk with Cliff. Cliff explains that he needed a good bodyguard; someone's been trying to kill him. Cliff also introduces everyone to a Marianne Aura Cayzen. After some talk, Meryl takes Cliff behind a curtain for some "private" talk.

Meryl tells Cliff that the person acting as his bodyguard is not Vash and that he's an imposter. Cliff then responds by telling her that he knows this, he's just pretending to scare away any would-be attackers. Interestingly enough, the curtain is not sound-proof at all and Milly, Vash, and Marianne all hear the conversation. The young women then asks Cliff to be allowed to stay and help him.

Later that evening, at dinner, we learn that Cliff has become so rich because he's selling water to the draught-ridden area. Marianna is uncomfortable with Cliff's business and excuses herself. Vash follows.

Inside Marianne's bedroom, Vash tries to kiss her but Marianne tells him that she saw something move outside (not wanting to get near him). Vash jumps out the window and grabs Meryl, taking her for the trespasser. As Meryl and Vash are arguing, they look up and notice that Marianne's gone from her window. Furthermore, Cliff is gone too. Meryl suspects Marianne, Vash doesn't suspect anyone yet, and Milly suspects ghosts (silly Milly).

Amidst the arguing, Vash accidentally triggers the opening of a secret passageway that leads underground.

Underground, we see Cliff beating up on Marianne (who is wearing a sheriff's badge, trying to bring the water monopolizer to justice). Cliff is about to shoot her when Vash jumps in the scene. Cliff tries to shoot Vash but he's too quick. Vash eventually gets the upper hand in the fight though he accidentally makes one of Cliff's underground water tanks explode.

The mansion explodes and water fills the entire town. Vash, Milly, Meryl, and Marianne stand outside the town with Cliff Shezar tied up. Marianne thanks Vash but Meryl shrugs off his accomplishments as being "dumb luck." No one recognizes Vash for who he is: The Stampede.

Vash walks into the distance, complaining that if he revealed himself to Marianne, he'd be arrested. Furthermore, Vash complains that the flooding of the town will probably be blamed on him as well.


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 3: PEACE MAKER


The episode begins in a bar. Two wealthy men are lavishing themselves with drinks until a drunkard stumbles in. The drunkard asks the two to buy him a drink but the two kick him out of the bar, beat him up, and threaten to shoot him in the face. They leave the drunkard sprawled on the floor. The drunkard laughs when they leave, calling them "idiots."

In Warren City, Milly and Meryl are sitting down, eating and discussing how they should find Vash. All of a sudden, Vash walks by and Milly quickly greets him. Vash raises a hand and wishes the two women well. Meryl grows irritated, reminding Milly that that clumsy oaf could not possibly be Vash.

Vash is walking along when he bumps into the drunkard we met in the beginning of the episode. The drunkard persuades Vash to buy him a drink and, at the bar, Vash ends up asking the bartender (a rather cold woman) whether she knows a "Frank Marlon." The woman responds to the positive, Frank is a local hero that is supposedly a great gun repairman. We find out that Frank Marlon is actually the drunkard sitting across from Vash.

Meanwhile, Meryl and Milly are talking to the town's mayor. They are stunned to hear that Warren City doesn't have a sheriff.

We cut to the top of a cliff. A group of bandits are relaxing and watching over the town. They wish to attack an armored car that is scheduled to enter soon. The bandits' leader, a man who laughs a lot, hopes that the rumor of Vash's arrival into the town is true: he wants to use Vash in his scheme.

Vash and Frank stumble outside the bar. They're both really drunk. Milly and Meryl talk to them for a bit (they're patrolling). Vash then takes leave for Frank's house. Inside, both of them drink more alcohol and we learn that Frank Marlon quit making and handling guns long ago.

Furthermore, we find out that Frank Marlon lost himself when his wife and child were killed when some bandits shot them during a bank robbery. Adding to the pain was that the guns the bandits used were made and hand-delivered to the bandits by Mr. Marlon.

The next day, the Bandits rob the armored car, pretending their leader is Vash (so the citizens of the town cooperate).

The real Vash arrives at the scene and takes out one of the bandits. He prepares to face off with the leader when the bartender comes on the scene with a pistol. Following the bartender's lead, all the townspeople take out their own guns and surround the bandits.

All is not lost though for the outlaws. The leader, though sweating profusely, presses a switch in his gun that reveals it to have the firepower to kill everyone. Before he can do anything though, Frank Marlon steps to his back and points a "gun" to the back of the leader's head. The leader and his men drop everything and run away. Frank laughs, revealing that he never had a gun, he just formed his hand into the shape of one. Vash laughs too, showing that he was doing the same (though under his jacket).

At night, amidst the celebrations, Vash is given a fully repaired gun by Mr. Marlon. Vash is thankful and leaves town. Meryl and Milly also leave town, glad that there was zero damage done to it. Also, Meryl seems to, very slowly, become more and more interested in the man she doesn't think is Vash.


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 4: LOVE AND PEACE


Vash gets dropped off a good distance away from a new town. The driver asks if he really wants to walk all the way and Vash responds to the positive.

Meanwhile, in a bar in the town, Milly and Meryl are sitting down and talking. Near them, a young woman is playing cards. The young woman is having a great time, winning lots of money. She asks if anyone else wants to play her. A rough-looking man states that he will play her on one condition: that they play for her life. (He then takes out a gun.)

In a lonely part of the town, the sheriff (named Stan) informs the wealthy Earl Bolstalk that his daughter is being held hostage at a ransom of $10 million. (His daughter is the young woman we met in the bar who won at cards a lot.) Mr. Bolstalk is furious. All of a sudden, Vash walks by the men.

Vash is wearing headphones and is singing and dancing along to the music. The men try and get him to stop but Vash continues onward. Vash eventually enters the bar where all the people are being held hostage. Upon seeing the robbers inside, he screams and cries for help.

Vash is tied up and says his greeting to Meryl and Milly. Vash then notices the young woman being held hostage and squirms toward her, immediately in love. The robbers beat up on Vash in response and one of the robbers, a crazy guy named Jean, almost shoots the young woman in the head.

Outside of the bar, the sheriff and Mr. Bolstalk have a plan up their sleaves. They have hired a group of bandits to take control of the situations. The bandits are all insane but they're skillful and are willing to do the job for a bit of money.

The bandits storm the bar and take out all the robbers but the leader. They also begin to threaten some other of the hostages and tear the place apart. Vash cuts himself free from his fetters and, with the robbers' leader, they take out all the bandits.

The robber leader then tells the story of how his parents were murdered and their land was stolen by a group of outlaws lead none other than Earl "Grim Reaper" Bolstalk. Vash sympathizes with the leader.

So the robber leader steps out of the bar with the other hostages and challenges Mr. Bolstalk to a duel. The robber leader wins the duel but only shoots Bolstalk in the shoulder, letting him survive. All is not over yet though...

Stan and his men surround everyone and Stan laughs that he is going to kill both Mr. Bolstalk and the robber leader, having harbored a grudge against Bolstalk for the longest time. Vash and Meryl both cooperatively respond to Stan violently. Vash tackles the sheriff while Meryl opens her cloak to reveal she is well armed. Meryl takes out all of Stan's men while Vash knocks Stan to the ground and removes his badge.


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 5: HARD PUNCHER


The episode begins violently. Vash is sitting down in a small diner in Inepril City when a group of bandits break in. The bandits open fire and we see Vash laying down in a pool of blood moments later. But all is not as it seems.

You see, Vash was really laying down in a pool of tomato juice that he spilled when he was trying to run away. Vash rises up and takes a toy gun (that fires darts) from a little boy nearby. He fires the dart gun and "kills" every single one of the bandits. The bandits realize how good Vash is and they surrender soon after. Vash makes them take off all their clothes and weaponry before fleeing.

The diner's owners then sit Vash down to treat him for a hearty meal. After a few moments though, the owners pull out guns on Vash, wishing to have their shot at the huge reward. Coming from every direction, almost every resident of the Inepril starts walking toward Vash, intent on collecting the reward.

We cut to Milly and Meryl. They're just outside the city, observing how the people inside are going ballistic over something.

Meanwhile, Vash is running away as best he can.

Milly and Meryl enter the city and talk to the city's mayor. The mayor tells them that they're after Vash's bounty so that they can repair an energy plant that has been in ruins for years. The mayor's face grows dark as footsteps are heard in the distance. It seems the mayor, in a desperate attempt to combat Vash, released the Nebraska Family from prison. The Nebraska Family is made up of a father and a son. The father is an old man while the son is a giant who towers over the town (picture a human Godzilla that's part locomotive). The father rides in one of the son's pockets.

Vash gets captured by being lured into a bar by a group of armed, young women. The women explain to Vash that he has to die in order to save the town's economy. Suddenly, the bar explodes: the Nebraska Family smashed it with one punch. Vash survives though and everyone in the town looks on in shock (especially Meryl who is still unbelieving that the dork she knows so well could really be Vash).

Vash and the Nebraska Family face off. But the old man doesn't want to play fair. He readies his son to launch his hand (it can be shot out like a projectile weapon) at the women who are unconscious from the bar explosion. The hand blasts toward the women and Vash charges and shoots the hand enough that it falls to the ground.

Vash then reveals to the Nebraska Family that he has one bullet remaining in his gun. He fires the bullet with such precision that it immediately topples the giant child of the Family. The old man is stunned and the townspeople gasp. The old man then takes out a gun of his own but surrenders a few seconds later in awe of Vash's skill. The episode ends very importantly: Meryl finally believes that the man before her is really Vash the Stampede. She types up her insurance report.


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 6: LOST JULY


Outside of the sheriff's office, a man stands in awe of a bounty on the office's wall. He reads the bounty and it states that the Nebraska Family (from the previous episode) is wanted for $$700,000. The sheriff leaves his office and informs the man that the Family has been caught already, by the entire city of Inepril. The man is disbelieving of such news. (It seems Vash gave the entire city his bounty so that they could rebuild their power plant.)

In Inepril City, Vash is being paraded around town by Meryl and Milly. Meryl is loudly proclaiming how great Vash is and how everyone should fear him. Suddenly, a huge sand steamer (a monstrous locomotive) rolls into town. The steamer has tons of engineers inside and merchants and a very beautiful lady who everyone in the town makes eyes toward.

Sunset approaches and Vash is standing alone on a ledge near the power plant. From behind, the gorgeous lady we saw earlier (named Elizabeth) arrives and begins recounting some portions of Vash's life. Vash takes one look at the lady and immediately wants to marry her. Elizabeth tells Vash that she is a high-ranked engineer and that she wants Vash to do a favor for her. In exchange, Elizabeth will give Vash "whatever he wants." Vash immediately agrees though he does not notice that he and the woman are being watched by some half-man, half-robot that looks to be quite menacing.

Meryl and Milly are wandering around outside, near the sand steamer. Vash enters the scene with Elizabeth (being her new bodyguard). He acts incredible submissive to her, allowing her to call him "Spot" and calling her "master." Meryl gets noticeably upset (jealousy?) and leaves.

Elizabeth takes Vash to the hotel she's staying in. She tells Vash to sleep in a different room than her. The moment Vash enters the room, he is attacked by the cyborg. After a quick battle, the cyborg drops a bomb inside the room and flies outside. The room explodes and Vash is sent tumbling to the ground outside. Elizabeth opens her window and thanks Vash, she had put him in the room where she was intended to stay.

The next day, inside the plant, Elizabeth is working diligently with Vash at her side. Meryl and Milly storm in and yell at Vash for the damages he caused (their insurance company has to pay for all damages caused by Vash after all). Before anything can be resolved though, there is a major system error, it seems one of the sectors of the plant has malfunctioned. Vash and Meryl run toward the sector.

Once inside the sector, the cyborg reveals himself and Vash pushes Elizabeth away to battle him. It only takes a little while for Vash to defeat the cyborg. But was that his real enemy?

Elizabeth leaves the room and closes the door behind her. It seems she was the one who hired the cyborg in the first place. She reveals that Vash destroyed her city when she was a little girl and made the entire population homeless and at war with each other. Elizabeth's parents even died in this fray.

Vash looks on sadly as energy beams fill the room. Elizabeth tells everyone in the plant to evacuate - that everything will soon explode.

Mysteriously, Vash steps to the middle of the room and lifts his hands high into the air. The plant doesn't explode. Vash leaves the plant a few moments later and everyone cheers heartily.

Elizabeth approaches Vash and pulls a gun to his stomach. Vash tells her that he has no memory of anything from his earlier days. Elizabeth, after some hesitation and after hearing how much the city loves Vash, decides finally not to shoot him. She simply falls to the ground in tears. Vash also sheds tears and hugs her in empathy.


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 7: B. D. N


The episode begins in Inepril City where Vash is being treated as a hero at a grand party. A young gentleman sits down next to a sober Meryl and a drunken Milly. Meryl and the gentleman talk a little about Vash (nothing really important).

The next day, Vash jumps aboard the sand steamer (without telling everyone) and leaves the city. Milly and Meryl, upon hearing the news, hurry to catch up to him.

Vash is lying down inside the sand steamer's rest area. One of the crew approaches him and tells him that they will soon be approaching the hang-out area of the Bad Lad Gang, a notoriously evil and powerful group. The crew member asks if Vash would be interested in going on guard duty for them; Vash refuses him, wanting to travel as a passenger, not a guard.

Vash travels to the wash room. As he is washing up, a young stowaway accidentally hits him on the head while descending. The stowaway then tries to flee but Vash catches him and makes him apologize. The stowaway then makes up a ridiculous story about how his parents died when he was young and his aunt and uncle abused him. Luckily for him, Vash buys the story and agrees not to turn the boy in.

Vash then goes to buy some food and is surprised to see Milly and Meryl working the cash register. Vash gets his food, commenting to himself how Milly doesn't realize how sharp she is, and then goes to a private room where the stowaway is staying (it turns out Vash agreed to be the sand steamer's guard in exchange for a private room).

After giving the boy his food, Vash suddenly collapses onto the floor. The boy then climbs in the ventilation shaft of the steamer (he was the one who somehow knocked Vash out) and signals the Bad Lad Gang to attack. The Gang, who ride on motorbikes, race toward the steamer. They face no resistance from the steamer because the stowaway boy had put sleeping gas in the ventilation shafts.

The Bad Lad Gang infiltrate the steamer and the leader of the group, a man by the name of Brilliant Dynamites Neon, announces himself.

Meanwhile, Vash is still fast asleep. He has a strange dream where a mysterious young woman is talking to him (her back is turned to Vash). Vash calls the woman by name: "Rem!" but she doesn't answer. Vash wakes up a short while later.

Brilliant Dynamites Neon has all the passengers of the sand steamer held hostage. After getting some valuables from the passengers, he finds the steamer's main safe. Knowing that he can't possibly crack the safe (it's too secure) he decides instead to break into it. He then goes to the steamer's navigator and tells him to reroute to the Enora Precipice.

Brilliant Dynamites Neon then viciously kills one of the crew members of the steamer for disobeying his orders. The stowaway walks in a few moments later and is in shock at the death. The stowaway then gets vividly upset when he hears what the leader has in mind: he wants to break the entire steamer in half (by running it into the Precipice) to crack the safe open.

The boy then, after getting beat up a little, yells to Brilliant that the ship was his father's. Brilliant puts a gun in the boy's mouth and forces him to submit. Then, from behind...

Vash the Stampede breaks into the scene! After holding the Gang for a few moments, Vash grabs the boy and is forced to evacuate the area, jumping out the window and landing on a ledge on its posterior. Vash and the boy then climb into a ventilation shaft and infiltrate the steamer once again.

Brilliant Dynamites Neon tell the captain of the steamer to operate everything as planned, forcing a passenger (a young woman) to help him steer (because Brilliant killed the guy in charge of that previously). When the captain finally submits, Brilliant lets out a great laugh. The episode ends on that note, without conclusion


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 8: AND BETWEEN THE WASTELAND AND SKY


Vash and the boy are hiding in the ventillation shaft of the steamer. The boy takes out some plans of the steamer's blueprints (that he copied from his father when he was younger) and shows Vash. The boy also tells Vash that B.L.G. wishes to drive the steamer into a canyon to break it in half. Through flashbacks, we learn that the boy, named Kaite, had a very loving father who dedicated his entire life to the development of the steamer. Kaite's father always wanted Kaite to devote his life to something grand and Kaite sheds a few tears remembering this.

Vash and Kaite leave the shaft and take out a few gang members. Vash takes all the members' weapons, lots of machine guns. Vash and Kaite then go into a room and use one of the fallen gang member's communication device to radio in to Brilliant (posing as the gang member), telling him that Vash is superhuman and that he's in a specific area of the steamer.

Vash then gets ready to leave, giving Kaite a pen that has very high-tech communication features (so Kaite can guide him). Kaite is absolutely stunned, knowing the pen to be made from a technology lost long ago. Vash doesn't offer an explanation as to how he got it and just leaves.

A few steps out of the room, Vash sees the gang members he shot earlier. He gets distressed, realizing that they might die (Vash made a promise to some yet-unknown woman long ago never to kill). Vash then works hard, trying to seal their wounds.

Vash begins to charge through the steamer, using Kaite's directions. He takes out a good number of gang members. Finally, Brilliant figures out that Kaite is navigating Vash and sets up an ambush - the ambush is successful and Vash is held at gunpoint by a large number of armed men, including Brilliant himself. Kaite is also captured.

Brilliant is about to shoot Vash when one of his own members turns and points a gun to his throat. Brilliant is confused until the gang member reveals herself as Meryl. Another gang member then reveals herself to be Milly. They call Vash by name and everyone in the room gasps.

The train begins to stutter - there isn't much time before it hits the canyon. Vash and Brilliant draw their guns, in preparation to duel. Brilliant agrees to stop the train if Vash wins.

So Vash and Brilliant duel but it's a very confusing one. Vash hits Brilliant a few times (though causing minimal damage) and Brilliant misses (though Vash was already hurt before the duel and is wounded on the floor anyway). Brilliant refuses to shoot Vash (though he has an easy chance now) because it would be dishonorable and he wants to win fame the hard way.

Everyone applauds that Vash won the duel and the captain orders the steamer to stop. The brakes won't work though.

Kaite tries to help the crew of the steamer stop it but they won't accept his help (recognizing him as a member of the B.L.G.). Kaite then, on his own, hits the emergency brakes and stops the steamer. But it's too late.

Or is it?

At the last second, Brilliant Dynamites Neon steers the steamer to a stop. He paid off his debt to Vash (from the agreed-upon bet of the duel). He then tells Vash that the next time they meet, he's going to kill him.

The next day, Kaite and Vash sit atop the steamer (which is right on the edge of a great cliff, leading into the canyon). Kaite begins to sing a song and Vash gets emotional because the song Kaite's singing is the same one the mysterious woman of his past used to love as well.

The episode ends humorously when Kaite thinks Vash is making fun of him by crying so much at the song.


SCREEN SHOTS:

[DarkLordDragon]

EPISODE 9: MURDER MACHINE


Vash, Milly, and Meryl are travelling from the sand steamer aboard a bus toward another city. Vash regrets paying Milly and Meryl's fare to come with him. Suddenly, the bus comes to a halt and a lone young man, who was stranded in the desert nearby (spotted by Vash), gets rescued.

In the bus, the rescued gentleman introduces himself as Wolfwood. He tells everyone he's a priest and is stunned that the one who first spotted him was THE Vash the Stampede.

The bus stops along the way and Vash and Wolfwood get out to stretch their legs for a bit. Wolfwood tells Vash that he's travelling to make money for the children of the orphanage he works at back home. Wolfwood then gives some food to two starving children aboard the bus. Vash gives a warm smile in response to this act of kindness and Wolfwood comments that it's the first time he's seen Vash *really* smile, he thinks Vash normally just pretends to smile to cover up his inner pain.

Humorously enough, Wolfwood carries a miniature church that he places on people's heads to act as a mini-confessional. (Though you have to put money inside the confessional to make it work.)

Suddenly, as Vash and Wolfwood are talking, someone runs and tells them that one of the passengers, Eric, has gone crazy. The two rush to Eric and see that he is wounded. Vash comments that his wounds could not have come from a human. Just as he says this, a giant robotic spider appears in the distance.

The spider charges toward the passengers and Vash shoots it (to no avail). Milly then fires her own weapon at the spider and takes it out. But over a dozen more come rushing in!

Everyone runs into the bus and it takes off soon afterward. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief, except one mother who yells that her little daughter was left behind. Vash and Wolfwood immediately jump out of the bus and prepare to save the child. Wolfwood left his weapon behind though so Vash tosses him a small knife to take its place.

Vash and Wolfwood hide behind large rocks. Vash begins telling Wolfwood about how the spiders work but Wolfwood ignores him and jumps in to attack one. The priest's knife breaks immediately upon impacting the spider. A few seconds later, he is running away from a lot of them.

All at once, the spiders begin to fall. Vash figured out their weak point. He simply shoots each one's heat sensor, making it unable to function anymore.

Vash and Wolfwood run toward the crying little girl who is sitting far in the distance. They mistakenly fall into a sand trap on the way though and end up in an underground area. As they are looking around, tons of spiders appear and give them chase. As they are running away, Wolfwood yells to Vash that everything's his fault. Vash tells him that they are on a ship that crashed in the past.

After gaining refuge in a small room, Vash and Wolfwood charge out, take out some spiders and enter the ship's inner room. The inner room turns out to be a plant that is producing spiders en masse. Vash gives his gun to the priest and jumps into the middle of the room, among all the spiders. The priest gives him strong support (being a very good shot). Unfortunately, the priest runs out of bullets.

Both Vash and the priest are about to be incinerated by a couple of spiders. Mysteriously, and we don't see how this is done, both the spiders get fried. The priest looks at Vash and is disbelieving, wondering how he did it.

Vash and Wolfwood enter the ship's central control room. Suddenly, the roof begins to puncture. A hole opens in the roof of the ship and Milly and Meryl's faces appear.

The next scene shows everyone safe on the bus. Wolfwood goes and sits next to Milly, leaning against her to sleep. Meryl then sits next to Vash.

The next day, the bus arrives at its destination (May City). Wolfwood and Vash part ways.


SCREEN SHOTS: