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Basics
Trigun is a sci-fi manga series with a steampunk Wild West theme created by Yasuhiro Nightow in 1995, and adapted into a 26 episode anime series in 1998 by Madhouse. It is the story of Vash the Stampede, a.k.a. The Humanoid Typhoon, a person with a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head, and the two Bernardelli Insurance Society employees, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, who were ordered to follow him and minimize the damage that seems to follow Vash everywhere he goes. Vash can almost appear to have two personalities -- that of a harmless idiot and that of an unstoppable warrior -- but is always staunchly pacifist.

Manga
After leaving college, Yasuhiro Nightow had gone to work selling apartments for the housing corporation Sekisui House, but struggled to keep up with his manga drawing hobby. Reassured by some successes, including a one-shot Samurai Spirits manga based on the popular video game franchise, he quit his job to draw full time. With the help of a publisher friend, he submitted a Trigun story for the February 1995 issue of the Tokuma Shoten magazine Sho-nen Captain, and began regular serialisation two months later in April.

However, Sho-nen Captain was cancelled early in 1997, and when Nightow was approached by the magazine Young King Ours, published by Sho-nen Gaho-sha, they were interested in him beginning a new work. He was however troubled by the idea of leaving Trigun incomplete, and requested to be allowed to finish the series. The publishers were sympathetic, and the manga resumed in 1998, under the new name Trigun Maximum. The story jumps forward two years with the start of Maximum, and takes on a slightly more serious tone, perhaps due to the switch from a sho-nen to a seinen magazine. Despite this, Nightow has stated that the new title was purely down to the change of publishers, and rather than being a sequel it should be seen as a continuation of the same series. The 11th tanko-bon was published at the end of 2004.

The T.V. series TRIGUN closely follows the first two enlarged manga, but at the start of the Trigun Maximum books the two go in different directions.

Sho-nen Gaho-sha later bought the rights to the original three volume manga series and reissued it as two enlarged volumes. In October 2003 the US publisher Dark Horse Comics released the expanded first volume translated into English, keeping the original right-to-left format rather than mirroring the pages. With the anime version already well known in the US, the first print run of 30,000 sold out shortly after release. The second volume concluded the original series early the next year, and went on to be the top earning graphic novel of 2004. On the heels of this success, Trigun Maximum followed quickly, and as of February 2006 eight volumes have been released. Translations into German, French, and Italian have also been released.

Anime
Trigun was created by the animation studio Madhouse in 1998 and directed by Satoshi Nishimura. It is licensed in the United States by Pioneer USA (now Geneon). In 2003, Trigun began broadcast as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. Despite the hopes of many fans, Nightow has stated that due to the finality of the anime ending, it is unlikely any continuation will be made, though a film was recently announced by Madhouse.