The promised time has come. Just a day after a mysterious Twitter account teased a new Trigun-related announcement for June 17, 2022, Toho formally confirmed Trigun Stampede, a new anime series based on Yasuhiro Nightow’s manga classic. Crunchyroll also confirmed that it will simulcast the anime globally upon release, with more information to be announced at Anime Expo in July 2022.
Tweets from the official Trigun Stampede Twitter account confirmed in both English and Japanese that the production is all-new, with a new cast, staff, and studio.
25 years after the first anime series, #TRIGUN will
be reborn in 2023 entitled TRIGUN STAMPEDE, produced by the Japan’s best 3D animation
studio Orange (@cg_orange_inc) with an all-new staff and cast. https://t.co/HqMU1s6sMN pic.twitter.com/a0R1TGsnMg— 『TRIGUN STAMPEDE』アニメ公式／トライガン・スタンピード (@trigun_anime) June 17, 2022
The tweet teased a piece of key art showing protagonist Vash the Stampede dressed in his red coat. He sits overlooking a city that has grown around the wreck of a massive crashed spaceship.
CG studio Orange will handle production on Trigun Stampede. Orange animated the CG anime series Land of the Lustrous and BEASTARS, among others. Orange also helped out with CG elements on a variety of productions. These include mecha sequences for Majestic Prince and assistance on Girls und Panzer der Film and the Godzilla Singular Point anime.
The announcement contained little other detail. However, it suggests that Trigun Stampede is a reboot rather than a spin-off or a continuation of the 1998 series. The 1998 Trigun anime’s story deviated from the source manga because the manga was still running at the time. Similarly, the 2010 Badlands Rumble film featured an original tale of Vash’s adventures. It may be that Trigun Stampede will be a more direct adaptation of the now-complete manga. If that ends up being the case, it will be to the original Trigun anime what 2010’s Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood reboot was to the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime series.
Trigun Stampede is in production. It will release sometime in 2023. You can view the original anime series on streaming services or read the source manga in English through Dark Horse.
