The Trigun Stampede anime has received a stylish new “climax visual” that depicts a top-down view of Vash the Stampede and his brother Millions Knives battling while falling through the air, with the lights from the city nightscape illuminating them. 

The visual also features a neon sign-style rendition of the anime’s title and the tagline, “The twins’ song shakes the planets.”

The release of the climax visual comes after the Japanese premiere of Trigun Stampede‘s ninth episode, “Million Knives.”

Trigun Stampede is an original 3DCG series inspired by Yasuhiro Nightow‘s Trigun manga, which ran from 1995 to 1997 before being followed up by 1997 to 2007’s Trigun: Maximum. The anime debuted on January 7. 

Hulu describes the show as:

Vash the Stampede’s a pacifist, so why does he have a $$6 million bounty on his head? That’s what’s puzzling rookie reporter Meryl Stryfe and her veteran partner in their investigation. But they uncover something heinous–his evil twin brother.

Trigun Stampede is directed by Kenji Mutou (Hello World co-storyboarder) with Tatsurou Inomoto (One-Punch Man Season 2 scriptwriter), Shin Okashima (Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san), and Yoshihisa Ueda as series composers and scriptwriters. Orange is the animation production company.

Other staff include:

• Concept artist Kouji Tajima as concept designer and original character designer

• Novelist Takehito Okishi as story supervisor

• Koudai Watanabe (“STUDY ME” director and character designer) as character designer

• Tetsurou Moronuki (THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS: Spin-off!, Psycho Pass 3: First Inspector action animation director) as character designer

• Takahiko Abiru (Vinland Saga) as character designer

• Akiko Satou (Kimi no Matsu Basho e) as character designer

• Takeshi Ninomiya (Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time Solomon animation director) as character designer

• Illustrator Yumihiko Amano as character designer

• Eiji Yamamori (Godzilla Singular Point kaiju designer) as creature designer

• Eiji Inumoto (BEASTARS) as CG chief director

• Yuuji Kaneko (Ranking of Kings) as art director

• Satoshi Hashimoto (Bubble) as color designer

• Takashi Aoki and Ryuuta Koshida as compositing directors

Meanwhile, the cast includes Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Vash the Stampede, Junya Ikeda as Millions Knives, Tomoyo Kurosawa as Young Vash, Yumiri Hanamori as Young Knives, and Maaya Sakamoto as Rem Saverem. 

The Trigun manga was serialized in Tokuma Shoten’s Monthly Shonen Captain magazine, while Trigun: Maximum was serialized in Shounengahousha’s Young King Ours magazine. The original series was initially compiled into three tankoubon volumes, with Shounengahousha later compiling it into two volumes. Trigun: Maximum has 14 tankoubon volumes. 

The manga previously received a 26-episode anime series adaptation that aired in 1998 and an anime movie titled Trigun: Badlands Rumble that was released in 2010. These were produced by Madhouse and directed by Satoshi Nishimura.