Trigun Stampede: Better than I expected, Yet worse in every way!

Yeah dude, classic anime can't be topped. It Just can't.

Well, thanks for being open-minded and giving Stampede a chance even if you don't think it will really be for you. As a lon-time fan of the OG anime myself, I'm very much looking forward to more Trigun content, and I've found myself very charmed by the series so far. I am of course as sad as everyone else at the absence of Milly, but it's only been 2 episodes; they could very easily be holding her in reserve and have plans to add her back to the narrative at a later point. Because if you'll notice, this seems to take place chronologically earlier in the timeline than the OG anime does. The city of July still exists. Vash's bounty is only 6 million $$, not 60 BILLION $$. So it would not surprise me in the slightest if we see Milly at some point later on down the line and Meryl becomes an insurance agent (those two actually become reporters instead of insurance agents later on in the manga, so this would be an interesting reversal if they go that route).

And to say that there are "no mysteries at all" coming up in this new show because we saw a small glimpse of Vash and Knives' backstory is. Well, just patently untrue. Because you're correct, the OG anime treated everything having to do with the worldbuilding and Vash's backstory/identity as this grand, slowburn mystery that needed to be solved. The reason for this is that the anime creative team had about 3 volumes of manga to go off of when production started. The anime premiered in 1998, and the manga did not end until 2007. tbh it's a feat and a miracle that the anime turned out as well as it did, considering just how little source material they were working with at the time. But the manga never treats Vash's identity as mystery, we know from chapter 1 this goofball is Vash the Stampede. The backstory with Knives and Rem is revealed within the first 20 chapters, I believe, and we're never in any doubt this world is not Earth. However, there are still plenty of twists and turns in the story afterwards, some of which even I'm not aware of, because I haven't been able to read the manga myself, and I've been trying to dodge spoilers for the most part. But even the few I have stumbled across are more than enough to convince me that Trigun Stampede has a slew of new places it could take the story and characters that would very much surprise anime-only Trigun fans. So I'm very much willing to give this series a chance and see where they're going with it before decrying it as inferior to the OG anime in every way. I think, unless they drastically fumble the ball on this, that which series one prefers might just come down to a matter of personal taste, like picking a favorite Fullmetal Alchemist anime. And at the end of the day, it's just more Trigun to enjoy, which I won't complain about. 😉

Def going to check this out when I watch the episode

Land of the Lustrous is an excellent sci-fantasy anime fully in CGI, I highly recommend it.

Trigun is also one of my favourites and Stampede did get me a little nervous but at the end of the day, the old show will be there regardless. I'll definitely give it a chance since studio orange has delivered before. As long as they stay true to Vash's pacifist nature I'm not gonna hold plot changes against them.

Don't want to colour your expectations of the manga but let me just say it's a good thing you cut your teeth on Blame and Dorohedoro first because holy shit is the action hard to follow in Trigun Maximum.

for me at least first ep wise i like this way more than the original first ep
it leave a much bigger impression for me, the original trigun take 5 ep for me to start liking it

As someone who considers Trigun my favorite anime of all time, I can't detach myself from the original while watching the new series. Never had such a nitpicky feeling with a show. The OG series is just too spot on with its details while this new series has odd music choices, plot logic holes and its pace feels too quick for you to get attached to anything. In the 3rrd episode of the new series, I dont get a sense of fear from Knives when you have a triumphant orchestral piece playing as he kills people. E.G. Mine immediately kills several people with bombs, yet characters arent flipping the hell out that those same bombs are attached to them. 0 emotion displayed, yet they wanted to make this new series more serious tonally. I dont get that feeling from it whatsoever because everything is moving too fast as well. Like you said, its not bad, it just feels like a husk because of how vibrant and entertaining the OG is.

I like the new series BUT i was expecting/hoping a faithful manga readaption aka "the brotherhood/ultimate" treatment. Im not a huge fan of the character redesigns, since its losing the appeal of the original series. Fucking weird man, think about it this way: this story, show, design was successfull…how are we gonna follow it up and give it the exposure it deserves?…by making our own story. Why would you derail from what made it popular in the first place? I dont hate the CGI but id much rather it be 2D with CGI mixed in. Similiar to Hellsing Ultimate's approach. The full 3D doesnt look right, the frames dip, the anime expressions just fall flat, the motions are jankey. Studio Orange is by far the best anime CGI company out there but its still fucking CGI that looks more like CGI then anime. Ill be watching the rest of the episodes but ill never stop thinking " damn what a missed oppertunity".

I actually haven't read the manga or watched OG Trigun, so Stampede is my introduction of it to me. After watching other reviewers saying that it's totally different from OG, but hearing that even OG differed from the manga source itself, it'll bring me towards to watching it after this has finished airing to see the reputation that it holds for veteran watchers.

I tried to watch Trigun Stampede last night. I turned it off after the first 5 minutes after quickly realizing that it was not for me. I love OG Trigun.

Trigun and FMA were my first, so my attachment to them is huge, but I'm definitely happy with it so far(ep.5), it's different, more fast pace, and it's still building up, and I'm not quite sure what is going on, but it feels right.