English Dub Season Review: Trigun Stargaze Season Two

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Overview:

Two and a half years after the dark day of the Lost JuLai, Meryl Stryfe roams in the desert wilderness of Noman’s Land alongside her younger assistant, Milly Thompson. She still pursues Vash the Stampede, the culprit behind the cataclysmic events that took the lives of 90 percent of the JuLai city population. Vash, also referred to as the “Humanoid Typhoon,” is now sought after for 60 billion double dollars—the largest bounty in the history of the planet.

Our Take:

To the best of my knowledge, this season of Trigun wraps up the story of the manga. If you’ve read my reviews, then you’ll know that I love it when something gets a conclusive ending. As far as endings go, I would say this is as close to a happy one as we can get in this type of universe.

Vash starts the season the lowest of the low, mentally at least. Luckily, he has good people looking out for him, and he manages to break out of his depressive funk. My biggest issue with this second half was that we didn’t get nearly as many cool fight scenes as we did in the first season, I feel. It was more focused on the story. Let me rephrase that, we didn’t get as many cool fight scenes involving Vash. Though the few he was in were pretty badass.

One thing this season added that I didn’t know I needed was Ian Sinclair voicing a guy who can kill people with his saxophone, Midvalley the Hornfreak. I think this character alone is worth the price of admission for the second season.

I’ll admit I expected this to have a lot more depressing of an ending than what we got. This was as close to a “Disney” ending as I’ve seen in an anime. Sure, some bad things happened, but ultimately it was very hopeful. In fact, the only thing this show didn’t have that you know I love is romance.

This Trigun remake isn’t nearly as good as the Full Metal Alchemist remake, Brotherhood. But to be fair, that is an incredibly high bar to clear. As far as remakes go, this attempt to be more faithful to the manga, I think this is a great anime. I’m just glad that studios still see value in attempting remakes to be more faithful to the source material.