It genuinely does break my heart to know there is such hatred and condemning being thrown at Studio Orange and the Stargaze team because it's so clear this was not made as a hollow adaptation for money without passion, it's painfully clear the team loves Trigun.
The fact that repeatedly they tell fans "if you got into Trigun through our show, then please go read the manga too" and express how they love the original material, even how exciting it was to speak with Nightow about the manga shows they truly do love this series. They never wanted to replace the original story, they wanted their show to bring a new take to the story and introduce more people to Trigun. They dared to do something rarely seen in anime, that is more common with western adaptations, where they didn't do a one-to-one adaptation and instead sought to remix and engage with the original story in a new way as fans of the material.
Even if it wasn't executed well or the way people wanted, seeing them be thrown constant hate, a lot of it unwarranted, and even death threats is deeply upsetting. The team worked with what they were given, a single 12 episode season and they put their all into doing their best with that. This is far from a Voltron or Game of Thrones situation despite what people may make it seem like. You can not like Stargaze, you can even hate it, and criticism is justified, trust me I have plenty. But to act like this was some kind of cashgrab hollow show is just wrong and to attack the team for it is even moreso. Like others have said, for a fandom about a series centered on Love and Peace there seems to be little among it.
