Vash, Knives and the rest of the Trigun crew are set to return in the upcoming TRIGUN STAMPEDE anime series from acclaimed anime studio Orange (BEASTARS) next year. To keep fans excited about the series, the studio via the official Twitter account for TRIGUN STAMPEDE has been releasing a bunch of new concept art by Kouji Tajima with the two latest showing the wonders of space and traveling through the vast vacuum. 

 

 

 

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照りつける太陽と美しい虹。砂漠を歩く少年の姿が描かれている#TRIGUN #トライガン pic.twitter.com/3Wsnlor4BL

— 『TRIGUN STAMPEDE』アニメ公式 (@trigun_anime) August 20, 2022

 

 

 

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描かれているのは、広大な宇宙空間を進む船団#TRIGUN #トライガン pic.twitter.com/j74L0Aatyl

— 『TRIGUN STAMPEDE』アニメ公式 (@trigun_anime) August 27, 2022

 

RELATED: TRIGUN STAMPEDE Whips Out New Anime Concept Art with Young Vash and Knives

The staff and cast of TRIGUN STAMPEDE are as follows:

• Created by: Yasuhiro Nightow (Published in Young King Comics by SHONENGAHOSHA）
• Director: Kenji Muto (Land of the Lustrous episode director)
• Concept Design, Character Concept: Kouji Tajima (GANTZ:0 character artist)
• Animation Production: Orange

• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Inosuke Hashibara in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) as Vash the Stampede
• Tomoyo Kurosawa (Phosphophyllite in Land of the Lustrous) as Young Vash
• Junya Ikeda (Jo Kido in Digimon Adventure tri.) as Knives Millions
• Yumiri Hanamori (Nadeshiko Kagamihara in Laid-Back Camp) as Young Knives
• Maaya Sakamoto (Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne) as Rem Saverem

The original Trigun manga ran in Monthly Shonen Champion from 1995-1997, with the continuation titled Trigun Maximum running in Young King OURS from 1997-2007. Dark Horse released the English edition of the series. The first anime series produced by Madhouse aired in 1998, with the film Trigun: Badlands Rumble released in 2010.

TRIGUN STAMPEDE will stream on Crunchyroll as it airs when the series premieres in 2023 worldwide excluding Asia, but including the Philippines, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. 

Sources: Trigun anime on Twitter (1, 2)

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.