I'm gonna tie you up in a reed mat and dunk ya! While Gunsmoke is an alien planet, the people who live on it that the series focuses on are originally from Earth.
Project SEEDS was a deep space mission to find new planets for humanity to colonize because Earth's resources were dried up.
The main antagonist of the series, Knives, was responsible for crash landing the SEEDs spaceships on Gunsmkoe years ago. Since then, humanity was forced to set up base on Gunsmoke and establish a new colony on the inhospitable planet. That is why all the characters speak English and use dollars to trade and have a culture similar to Earth's.
She was thought to perish along with the rest of the crew following Knives' attack but may have survived and gone on to live a normal life on Gunsmoke. Meryl Stryfe has shown to have a striking similarity to Rem, both in terms of her appearance and outlook on life. It has thus been speculated that Meryl may be the granddaughter of Rem or her reincarnation. Vash is frequently shown to be hitting on women aggressively, to the point that it actually drives them away. This sort of behavior is actually quite antithetical to Vash's otherwise calm, serious, and gentlemanly nature.
The reason behind this dichotomy of behavior might be a pretty sad one. Vash feels that people who get close to him end up getting hurt. He is also shown to be embarrassed by the multiple scar wounds that pepper his entire body. The reason why he acts so pervy around women might be because he is deliberately trying to keep them at a distance from him.
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Unfortunately I haven't found a clear explanation on Wikipedia or the Trigun wikis. So, my question is: What is Trigun Maximum's relation to the original manga and anime? Is it a sequel, or a re-imagining, or both? To what extent does it overlap or follow on from its predecessors? So, Trigun Maximum was a continuation of Trigun. The anime is based on Trigun only, as its air date was the same year that Trigun Maximum started publication.
You'll notice the anime diverges from the manga quite a bit though. If people say one or the other is a "reimagining," this is most likely due to the choice of the people making the anime to change the story in order to give it an actual ending.
I would not really call this a "reimagining," though: it is more like they came up with an alternate canon because the manga was not finished. In other words, the anime started out based on the manga, but then it came up with its own story independently, and the manga author did what he planned to do from the beginning, without being influenced by the anime. It's possible that people making the anime may have asked the manga author for input on events that he had planned that he had not yet written, but I do not know this for a fact.
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Mary is horrified at this, but Rolan smiles, saying "I guess that now makes us partners. Rolan tells Rem that he had no choice, that Mary had betrayed him after all he had done for her.
He then points the gun at Knives, saying that it must be his fault that Mary had to die. Rem stands in front of the line of fire and tries to talk Rolan down, saying that no one has the right to take the life of another.
Joey tries to get in contact with them, eventually getting a video feed from the room to work. Rem continues to slowly walk toward Rolan while he steps back, clearly disheveled and scared.
Rem is about to take the gun from Rolan when Joey opens a hatch behind Rolan, sending him and Mary's body into space while safety bars close keeping Rem from being sucked out too. Rem is incredibly upset. Joey tries to explain that he thought Rolan was going to shoot her, and that he was doing what he thought was best.
Rem is convinced that Rolan wasn't going to shoot her, and laments their fallen comrades with Vash by her side while Knives heads off to the bridge where Joey is. Knives tells Joey that he agrees with his decision; that it was the right choice, but Joey has doubts, saying that maybe Rem was right. Angered by his change of heart, Knives says that he's just like all the other humans and shoots Joey, confirming to himself that his is the right choice.
He leaves the gun in Joey's hand and alters the ship's course program. Rem and Vash hear a message from the computer system that the fleet had changed its course and was about to crash.
The three decide to go to the escape pods, but at the last moment, Rem hangs back, saying she has to try help Joey and save the others. She closes the door despite Vash's protests, telling him to take care of Knives. The pod launches and Vash watches as the control ship Rem is on explode in reentry.
As Vash collapses, crying, Knives laughs, surprised by Rem's self-sacrifice. He reveals his plan of changing the courses of the ships containing SEEDS project humans, while keeping the plant ships safe so he and Vash could create a paradise for them alone on the new planet. Only attempting to keep Rem alive because Vash was so attached to her. Just at that moment all of the fleets receives a new directive, automatically starting the reverse thrusters so the ships can enter the atmosphere safely.
The pod then falls onto the surface of a planet. When Vash regains consciousness, he sees dozens of ships raining down like meteors. Knives try to help him, but Vash pushes him away; accusing him.
Knives demeanor changes as he grins madly, agreeing with what he did, calling it "spectacular". The two brothers then spent the following years wandering through the deserts, observing crash sites and the few survivors.
During a discussion about humans leeching off of the Plants to survive, Knives' proclaims that he's out to kill the spiders to save the butterflies as that is what makes logical sense. While Knives is sleeping Vash holds a rock above Knives' head, ready to kill him to save the humans but finds himself unable to do so, not wanting to go against everything Rem told him and throws the rock down, crying.
During their search through the crash sites, they find a group of humans arguing over water. Knives disgusted by their selfish behavior activates the ship-board Plant's Angel Arm , but Vash pushes him over and prevents him from firing. Years later, Knives finds the ship he was looking for. He spends 1 year rummaging through the wreckage whilst Vash waits for him to return, saying how he hates being alone. When Knives returns he finally presents two revolvers and wears battle armor.
He throws one of the revolvers to Vash, and tells him they are their new "siblings" and would be used to wipe out the "human scourge," before going up to a hill and test-firing, creating a huge blast similar to a nuclear explosion.
Vash knowing that the two guns were made to aid Knives in his plan of "cleansing" the planet of its human populace becomes conflicted both emotionally and morally against his brother's goal; remembering the morals Rem taught him. In his conflict, Vash shoots Knives in the leg. After witnessing the pain and shock his brother has just experienced Vash, in panic and dismay, takes both guns and flees into the desert as Knives painfully calls out for him to come back.
Vash then spends two years alone wandering Gunsmoke until he finally collapses from exhaustion and is rescued by a group of humans from the only remaining fully functioning SEEDS ship above the planet. While there, he makes friends with the humans and is gifted with his signature red duster styled trench coat. After a few months, he leaves and ventures out into the world. Vash returns to the ship 80 years later in search of any relatives of Rem in its data banks.
Buskus had studied Plants and established a new plant-theory in July City. Upon arriving in July City he is greeted by Knives, who had slain Buskus; the very man Vash had come to speak with.
Knives announces that he's destroyed the last connection Vash had to Rem so that he can stop with his foolish sentiment towards humans. Vash points his gun at Knives and in the exchange that follows Knives shoots off Vash's left arm. Against Vash's will, Knives activates Vash's previously dormant Angel Arm, hoping to annihilate the surrounding town.
However, Vash aims the blast at Knives; the resulting blast reducing July to rubble. Though there were no casualties as a direct result of the skirmish as Vash's Angel Arm seems to only destroy inorganic material. However, there were indirect fatalities after the homeless citizens of July began to fight among themselves; turning the remnants of the town to "Hell", in the words of one survivor.
The incident in July brands Vash an outlaw throughout Gunsmoke and he comes to be known as "The Stampede" and "The Humanoid Typhoon" as destruction seemingly follows him wherever he goes. With Knives unaccounted for, Vash spends the next twenty-three years hiding from civilization in order to stay alive. It is at this time two insurance agents, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, are assigned to find and watch Vash in order to prevent further damage wherever he goes. After their first meeting, the two women accompany Vash throughout his travels, much to Vash's dismay.
The next pivotal point in the story comes in April City. Upon learning Vash the Stampede is in the city, the residents seek to capture him for the bounty as the city has been depraved and sunken in poverty due to the shutdown of one of the city's main reactors.
In a desperate, but foolish, attempt to capture him the city's mayor enlists the help of the Nebraska Family , a sinister father and his giant half-machine son who have recently escaped from prison. Vash is captured without the Nebraskas' help in a small saloon, but soon Nebraska's reveal they have plans of their own for the bounty. The bar is destroyed by Goseph 's retractable fist, but all inside manage to survive.
Vash carries the survivors to safety and stands off with the Nebraskas, but the family stoops to lower methods by taking aim at the survivors in order to strike Vash off his guard. However, Vash thwarts this action and defeats the Nebraska family with only six bullets. The city's wealth is restored with the bounty for the Nebraskas and repair immediately begins on the damaged reactor.
The project is led by a young, beautiful woman named Elizabeth who soon reveals she has an agenda of her own, that being to kill Vash. She lures Vash to the reactor which she has sabotaged to seemingly prevent Vash from escaping. When Elizabeth locks Vash in the reactor she reveals her intentions to kill him are not for the bounty, but for vengeance.
Twenty-three years before, a three-year-old Elizabeth was a resident of July City when it was destroyed by Vash. Though none of the residents were killed in the destruction they began to destroy themselves in their pain and suffering. Elizabeth's parents would-be victims to this destruction and she would be all alone.
In her flashback, she finds comfort in the arms of one man, a very familiar man. As Elizabeth leaves Vash to die, he miraculously shuts the reactor down himself before encountering Elizabeth outside as she pulls a pistol on him intent on getting her revenge.
Vash then tells her he remembers nothing of July's destruction, only the ruins of the city when he awoke. Shocked, Elizabeth still begs in her sorrow for revenge, but suddenly recognizes a tearing Vash as the man who comforted her all those years ago.
She collapses in the realization of the truth and spares him. As Vash and the girl's journey on they meet a traveling priest carrying a large steel cross named Wolfwood. Although he appears to be just an ordinary priest, in an ensuing struggle with machines powered by lost technology, Wolfwood shows to be more by using his own skills in gunfighting. The two-part ways afterward but would meet many times down the road. This causes Vash to take up his gun once more and leave his peaceful life to go take care of his brother, soon after the Milly and Meryl begin traveling with Vash again and the group starts traveling together.
Wolfwood accompanies Vash on a visit to his home SEED ship and once they arrive they are met almost immediately with conflict by the reemergence of the Gung-Ho-Guns and are attacked by puppets controlled by Leonof the Puppet-Master, Hoppered the Gauntlet, and Gray the Nine Lives, after a long struggle the two defeat them with Hoppered dying in a Plant core explosion and Gray and Leonof being killed by Wolfwood with latter being out of revenge for the murder of Brad.
Soon after, Wolfwood consoles Vash after Brad's unfortunate death and the group eventually reach a town that is barred off and protected heavily after another incident involving mysterious disappearances with the town not allowing them to enter, The four then come in contact with a group of orphans living outside of town and stay there for a little while until they need to assist the city when it is attacked and it is revealed to be one of the orphans that was behind the entire incident, who was in truth Zazie the Beast a member of the Gung-Ho-Guns who holds Vash at gunpoint threatening to shoot him and the orphans while Vash, the orphans, and the insurance girls trying to convince him otherwise and it appears as though it is working, but despite best efforts for a peaceful solution Woolfwood decides to shoot Zazie to save Vash and the others causing a falling out over both his and Vash's ideals overkilling.
After arriving in Carcases the Woolfwood splits off from the others and encounters his teacher Chapel the Evergreen and it is revealed that Woolfwood was hired by Knives to bring Vash to him and is warned of an incoming battle, later Woolfwood questions his decision to kill Zazie contemplating his life's history with violence and starting to come to grips with it believing in alternatives to killing while breaking down and crying being comforted by Milly, the next day Wolfwood apologizes to Vash over the fallout as does Vash but the moment is broken up by a gunshot from the sniper Caine the Longshot with the two hiding out in a nearby saloon and making plans to take on Chapel and Caine with Wolfwood deciding to take on his former mentor and Vash going after the sniper, but not before Nicholas asking Vash what his real name is with him replying that it is "irrelevant" with the two of them reconciling and giving the other a smile before going off to battle.
After a brief scuffle Nicholas defeats Chapel and decides to embrace his comrade's morals and not kill him walking away, but after his back is turned Chapel, under the control of Legato, raises his Punisher with Wolfwood doing the same and gunshots are fired but only from Chapels gun fatally wounding Nicholas who once again consoles Vash for not being able to prevent Caine's suicide and informs him of Knives' location to which Vash questions but he is already gone leaving a blood trail to a nearby church and after a brief few words of regret over his life actions Wolfwood passes away and is later found by Vash who retrieves his Punisher gun and buries him, later informing the girls of his passing.
The next day, Vash goes off on his own to mourn privately crying at the loss of his best friend, he would later honor him by using his Cross Punisher in his final battle against Knives with the gun ultimately securing Vash's victory. The story comes to its main focus when Vash encounters Legato Bluesummers who shocks Vash to the knowledge of his brother's survival by revealing that he is in service to Knives.
Knives has made it the sole purpose of Legato's life to cause "eternal pain and suffering" for Vash through a cutthroat and mostly super-humanoid gang known as the Gung-Ho-Guns. In order to carry out Legato's purpose, the Guns seek to harm Vash and eliminate all that's around him of whom he cares for. This even results in the deaths of the entire gang, not by Vash himself, but either due to elimination for their failures by Legato or suicide in order to scar Vash's conscience.
Vash's struggles with Legato come to a turning point with the death of Wolfwood. In the next city, he comes to Vash and he encounters Midvalley the Hornfreak , who fails to defeat Vash and uses his powerful horn to kill himself.
Though Vash is further scarred by these events and continues his pursuit of Legato, he still refuses to kill him when Legato reveals his intent to allow Vash to do so in order to bring his "ultimate" suffering by his first conscious kill. It is only when Legato threatens the lives of Meryl and Milly in the anime, and Livio in the manga, that Vash has no other alternative and shoots Legato in the head, killing him.
The girls bring Vash to a small town to heal his injuries as Vash spends the next few weeks in torment over what he perceived to be his first murder. Vash refuses to confront Knives knowing he would have to kill again should the moment come. When the locals of the town learn of Vash's presence they take him to the outskirts of town and drag him behind a speeding vehicle. Meryl comes to Vash's aid and stands between him and a frustrated gunman.
Vash sees Rem in Meryl's actions and his morale is revived. Saying his goodbyes for what may be the last time, Vash ventures into the desert with Wolfwood's Cross Punisher to confront Knives for the final battle, finding him in a small flourishing oasis in the middle of the desert. After the two exchange docile greetings they face-off. The fight soon comes to a stalemate, as both men come face to face with one another's guns.
Knives knowing Vash won't fire shoots Vash, subduing him, then prepares his Angel Arm and fires it. Vash counters with his own Angel Arm and negates it. Knives, however, gains the upper-hand once more and takes Vash's gun giving him two Angel Arms. As Knives is about to fire, the voice of Wolfwood comes to Vash telling him to "use it.
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