noxar_adTri gun: Original or stampede?
Endmaker
wizardbeardLooks like no official explanation, but the leading theories are relating to the main character’s three main weapons or the three major figures of the story (can’t be more specific than that without spoilers).
I definitely never picked up on a specific meaning myself though.
I guess because he has (mild spoiler)
3 total “guns”.
The original is better. Stampede has an interesting aesthetic…
I need to watch it. I avoided Stampede since the art style is so different compared to the manga but it’s supposed to incorporate much of the manga that the original anime diverged from. So it’s worth watching both. Like old fairy tales that have a bunch of different takes on them that people enjoy numerous of
Original at least for the art style and mood and music. 90s anime has art and music much different than today. Like Cowboy Bebop and Hajime no Ippo would sound way different and way different lighting today if remakes today happened with some story changes. Trigun Stampede people seem to like and people seem to accept both aren’t 100% faithful manga adaptations
MoogleMaestroBetween those two options, I’d go with the original. Know full well that the pacing of the original show is a little all over the place, ranging from way to slow to stupidly fast on a whim. However, the writing is better than the new show (imo), the direction is awesome and ultimately the journey of the story is complete and concise. You’ll definitely feel like you want more by the end, which is how you want a show to be.
Stampede is new, but it suffers from some poor pacing decisions and bad writing. It takes the manga and condences the plot points majorly while adding some of their own. It’s not terrible, but I’d argue the characters feel a bit like paper standee versions of themselves due to how little development they’ve given the characters and how quickly they went through critical story beats.
So I’d watch the original and then read the manga. Once you read the manga, you’ll know what to expect from the characters and then the writing issues of stampede become a bit less of a problem (though still annoying imo)
catalystSo far unfortunately I agree with this. I want to love Stampede/Stargaze. But it just seems to lack the heart that made the OG series so memorable, and as you said it seems to be moving very fast and the characters feel thin and underdeveloped. Things just happen so quickly I don’t feel like there’s enough time to get invested.
There are moments that truly stand out; Really any scene that Milly and Meryl share together (not the banana split!) makes me smile.
If you like the characters, then just watch both. I only suggest watching the original first. Stampede seems to lose a lot of the subtlety the original handled so well.
Trigun has better writing but it’s not canon due to the manga getting canceled and the anime writing its own ending… Stampede and stargaze adapt the revitalized manga including its ending…
Just watch the original. The remakes are unholy abominations, as remakes tend to be