#trigun commentary

Well. Trigun sure has a lot of stargazing doesn’t it?

And I basically ended up doing an informal, fumbly, sort-of interview with him in a meet & greet line. I am so sorry for taking up the time of people behind me. But I thought what he had to say was interesting and wanted to share some of it here. Please keep in mind this is recounting from memory+various notes that were made after speaking to him and there may be inaccuracies. The main question I asked was, as the sole person between either Japanese or English who got to reprise their role in Trigun, what was something he liked and/or missed from Trigun 1998, and what was something that he liked about Trigun Stampede? I also asked how he felt about the choices made in how Stampede is telling the Trigun story. I learned that JYB suspects that the decision to have him reprise Vash was made pretty late, because by the time he was contacted to reprise Vash, he believes Trigun Stampede had already begun airing. Basically, it was cutting it close enough that he had already resigned himself to the idea that he wasn't going to be in it before he found out he would be after all. (For reference, the english dubbed episode release schedule was two weeks behind the initial episode broadcast).

From the 90's anime, he misses the over-the-top cartoonish goofiness, and the fact Vash began as more of a mystery character who you learned more about later in the story and slowly realized the darkness he was hiding. But, he feels that they probably couldn't have recaptured or portrayed that as successfully in this day and age if they tried to do the same thing all over again.

He enjoyed the 'more dark and serious' tone of Tristamp. He also felt that Vash's emotions and characterization were more 'real', and he tried to make sure his performance reflected that, and specifically brought attention to the performance in episode 12. He also noted that you can feel it in the Japanese track as well.

He was especially enthusiastic about how Vash and Knives got to have a big, awesome battle in the finale, because he had been disappointed by how short their battle was in the 90's anime.

He expressed some frustration that there are people who flat out won't give Stampede a chance because of various complaints like 'where is Milly?' and 'why is Vash's hair different?' (these are examples he personally brought up), when a lot of that stuff gets cleared up in the finale.

The spelling seems to be purely phonetic (for pronounciation purposes only) and isn't supposed to mean anything, but the characters used for it are: