8 Anime Series Better Than Trigun

Trigun was undoubtedly the undisputed master of “cool” in its heyday, but with time, some new kids on the block have grown up to be even cooler than Trigun. There was a time when the billowing red duster of Vash the Stampede and high-stakes pacifism were the hallmarks of the Space Western subgenre, the combination of the dust-filled atmosphere of an old-fashioned frontier and the metallic sharpness of futuristic sci-fi. It was an experimental era of storytelling when the lone gunslinger was not merely a power fantasy but a container for the expression of a weighty burden of a violent past. But with changes in the anime medium, the technical flexibility of studios and the richness of writers’ storytelling also improved.