TRIGUN STAMPEDE (Seasons 1–2)

TRIGUN STAMPEDE (2023) is a Japanese sci-fi action anime series you can watch online on iFILM — Studio Orange's reimagining of Yasuhiro Nightow's manga, set on a desert planet where survival depends on how fast you can draw and how little you trust the person next to you.

Vash the Stampede carries a $$60 billion bounty and a reputation for leaving cities in rubble. Rookie journalist Meryl Stryfe goes looking for a monster and finds someone who flinches at his own gunshots. The past he's running from catches up across the season in ways the original 1998 anime only sketched around the edges.

Studio Orange — the team behind Land of the Lustrous and Beastars — rendered it entirely in 3D CGI, and the results are unlike most animation: the desert breathes, the action is choreographed like fight cinema, and the lighting shifts with the drama. Third screen adaptation of the manga, and the sharpest visually. Stream TRIGUN STAMPEDE (2023) on iFILM.