TRIGUN (Season 1)

Trigun (1998) is a cult space-western anime you can watch online on iFILM. Set on a desert planet in the far future, it follows Vash the Stampede, a gunfighter with a staggering $$60,000,000,000 bounty hanging over his head.

His reputation is so monstrous that whole towns clear out at the rumor he's coming. People say he wiped the city of July off the map single-handedly, though Vash himself can't recall it thanks to amnesia. The truth is stranger: this legendary outlaw is a goofy, donut-loving pacifist who flat-out refuses to kill and survives every shootout by non-lethal means. Two insurance agents trail him to keep the property damage down, and a sharpshooting priest named Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who hides a past as dark as Vash's own, eventually joins the road.

Running 26 episodes from Madhouse and directed by Satoshi Nishimura, the series adapts Yasuhiro Nightow's manga. Beneath the slapstick of the early episodes sits a surprisingly bleak meditation on pacifism and guilt, which is why Trigun became a gateway classic for a generation of anime fans. Stream every episode of Trigun (1998) online on iFILM.