Review: Trigun (Nishimura Satoshi)

On a Tatooine-esque desert planet, human colonists struggle to survive in a hostile environment, their population spread thinly among small, American-West-style ranches and towns. As if climate, banditry and the delicate balance of their technological infrastructure (based around barely-understood "plants" brought from Earth) weren't enough, they also have to contend with the depredations of Vash the Stampede, a legendary gunfighter who leaves a trail of disaster (though, oddly, not death) wherever he goes. Two unlucky insurance adjusters, Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson, are assigned to track down the man known as the Humanoid Typhoon and determine if he is, in fact, responsible for all this Class G property damage. As they chase one rumor after another, they keep crossing paths with a genial, red-coated young man with a passion for peace and doughnuts and an instinct for trouble ...

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