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Trigun Stampede and the upcoming Stargaze is giving us the best version of Vash the Stampede, according to manga Yasuhiro Nightow (and me!) [Popverse Jump]

Trigun Stargaze feels more in line with the original manga than anything we've seen before and even it nearly sent Vash into space.

Popverse Jump Header Trigun — Image credit: Orange/Popverse

Features by Trent Cannon, Senior Contributing writer

Published on Fri Oct 17 2025

When you tell someone you’re a Trigun fan, the follow-up question is always, 'Which version?' There is the original manga by Yasuhiro Nightow, the 1998 anime adaptation by Madhouse, or the most recent anime, Trigun Stampede, by Orange to choose from, and each of them has radically different interpretations of Vash the Stampede’s journey. They all feel different, but they're all valid as long as they give us a Vash the Stampede we can recognize.

Something that has always made Trigun so interesting is that it Nightow, despite being the original creator of the series, has been remarkably chill about how wildly different both of the anime adaptations have been. He had limited involvement in the original 1998 anime, but would often refer to it when working on the manga, calling it his “lighthouse” when he struggled to figure out where to go with

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