Trigun Maximum Review

Trigun Maximum continues from where the original Trigun manga ended. Two years after the events of blowing the crater on the moon, Vash finally continues his journey in which dangers are always present..

Art of Trigun Maximum isn't very good. The author manages to make most of the scenes with a good flow, but too often the action and the drawing starts getting so packed and it did distract me more often than I would have liked. I basically mean that when the action gets too rough, the author doesn't manage to pull through bringing the readers along with him, making them wonder what was going on again? There are some signs of improvements along the way as the manga was published for pretty long, over 7 years if I recall correctly?.

Characters of Trigun are understandably very likeable. Vash himself has a place in my heart as one of the first anime characters who I had pleasure of encountering (in form of anime, but anyways) when I was an early teenager. So the main character is a carefree man, with somewhat unknown history who can also get serious displaying unbelievable gunman skills. What's there not to like? As for the side characters most of the people who journey alongside Vash are those kind who I consider good. They don't do anything excessively and most of the time make their appearances worthwhile not counting a few exceptions. As for the villains I think that the author pretty much succeeded there very well. Triguns villain -scheme pretty much follow a traditional one where there are lots of minor villains, but I didn't think that there was anyone who would have disappointed me in any way. Villains were imaginative, most of them had reasonable motives and backstories, they were in general entertaining to read of.

Story of Trigun definitely deserves a lot of praise. Most of the characters and especially the main characters (including main villain) have such backstories which are very well designed and thought out. Story of Trigun can be summed up as a tragic story, which doesn't leave readers cold: characters aren't spared, Vash's ideals are constantly challenged while they are being revealed to the readers in bits and pieces. In the end of Trigun Maximum I could say that it was indeed more complex story than I would have thought at first and that raised the depth and the enjoyability of the series to the new heights.

In conclusion, I'd say that even if you had watched the anime, you should definitely read the manga also. They are somewhat similar in terms of characters and plot, but the manga version can be considered as many times more deep and satisfying as it opens up so much more stuff about the world, history and the characters than the anime could have done in it's shortness.