You're Wrong About Trigun

[Walter white screaming out of car] BROSKIE!!! YOU NEEDED 9 MORE SECONDS TILL 8 MINUTES!!!

I love the original Trigun anime so much and still need to read the manga sometime, so I was definitely hesitant to check out Trigun Stampede, but the CGI is really damn great and Vash is still Vash to me even with this new look but having no Milly does suck cause this Roberto guy is not good to me after 5 episodes

Dakota, I love your videos

original Trigun fans are now their own worst enemies…. they have lost the hability to make constructive criticism… who cares if the direction and pace is diferent, it's a new take with it's own secrets to unveil and works around the Themes maximun brought up that the original could not touch because of the timing it was produced… thou the new vash in this version lacks personality (or haven't got any time to develop) but after episode 6, this show is going for what hit the most in the second half of the original: the consecuences, morality and pain that rules this cruel world… and that is what i always loved from the original

Does suck about Millie lol. I rewatched the original in anticipation for this remake, and man oh man am I enjoying the hell out of it. The CGI threw me off at first but it's working so well and the fact the characters still move and emote like 2d/handdrawn animation with barely any noticeable mistakes or hiccups in scenes is so insane to me. It's crazy seeing how animation, especially computer animation, has come so far. It's clean, it's fresh, I don't remember a lot from the manga (it's been 15 years now so I'll need to reread it lol). I'm just so excited. 😁😆

As someone who’s never watched trigun, I think this new one is SOLID.

Good to see you again, broski. Hope you are doing well.
I must admit that Trigun Stampede to me so far has been visually stunning, but as a story has been a somewhat hollow imitation of the original. Things are simply moving too fast, and we never get to see Vash at his best before he is broken down. You might call the opening episodes of the OG anime "filler", and in the sense that it's anime-original and doesn't move the story forward it is, but it also gave us a lot of opportunities to see Vash at his best, doing his "crouching moron, hidden badass"-thing, giving us a good look at that side of him. Then the attack from the Nebraskas forces him to be more serious, hinting at his depths. And this depth gets more and more pronounced until his confrontation with Monev, where he is pushed so far that he almost loses himself and his morals.

Compare that to Stampede. How often have we gotten to see Vash succeed? Knives shows up in episode 3 and crushes everything, and every episode after that has furthered pummeled him, with episode 5's confrontation with Monev being especially egregious. It's a fine episode in its own, but as a part of the story, it feels so rushed. Vash has failed yet another person, and Wolfwood guns down Rollo and admonishes Vash's pacifism the same way he did in the OG with Ra-dei, but here it has no buildup. In Stampede they have yet to have ANY discussion about ethics so far. As far as Wolfwood knows, Vash's pacifism has yet to bite anyone in the ass. This only works because we know this dynamic from the OG and the manga, but in Stampede it rings hollow.

There are other issues as well, like how Meryl has almost nothing to her character now, being reduced to a stock point-of-view-character that has everything explained to her.
Mind you, I don't hate it, but it has massive flaws that remind me a lot of similar issues in FMA:B's first 13 episodes, where they speedran material already covered to get to the new stuff. After that FMA:B became great, and I hope Stampede will do similar, but so far, the story pales in comparison to the OG and the manga.

I don't feel any of the characters thus far feel very much like they did in the manga or og anime, Vash being the most different. The story and pace is also very different. To be completely honest, if I hadn't seen the original manga and anime I may not mind this one to much since I wouldn't be comparing (aside from the 3d/2d, still cant stand it). But the fact that it has so many changes makes me wonder why studios don't just start coming up with new original work instead of so many remakes/reboots.

As someone who has never seen anything of Trigun before this, the anime had me hooked from the beginning. The CGI is extremely good (come on guys, even if you don't like CGI you can't deny this is at least good CGI if nothing else), and the characters are all amazing. I do think indeed there are some points where the story may have benefitted from some more mystery instead of revealing a lot at the beginning and moving so fast, but not to the point where I get annoyed by it or lose interest. I'm also definitely watching the original after this ends.

My beef with Stampede is short and simple. Vash's gun is now a .22 caliber. Makes it much easier for him to wound targets and not kill them. The .45 he used to have was a burden. The new .22 revolver is a crutch that removes or diminishes the challenge he once had to bear to avoid hitting a killing blow. Completely deflates the tension.