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Trigun Stargaze Anime Listed as Premiering in January 2026
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
TOHO animation has revealed it will stream a teaser video for the Trigun Stargaze anime on October 11 at 6:00 a.m. JST (October 10 at 5:00 p.m. EDT). The description on the video reads: "Anime 'TRIGUN STARGAZE' Coming January 2026!"
New York Comic Con will screen the world premiere of the anime's first two episodes on Friday at 3:30 p.m. EDT. The panel will be livestreamed on New York Comic Con's Twitch channel (it is unclear if the screening of the first two episodes will also be livestreamed).
Trigun Stargaze is the previously announced "final phase" of the Trigun Stampede anime, set 2.5 years after the end of Trigun Stampede.
Crunchyroll had previously stated it would stream the "final phase" when it airs.
Trigun Stampede premiered in Japan in January 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired and is also streaming an English dub.
The story follows the misadventures of Vash the Stampede, a gunman on the lam with a "60 billion double dollar" bounty on his head. Vash earned his "Stampede" nickname thanks to the destruction that zealous bounty hunters wreak on any town he visits.
Kenji Mutō (Cavity Express director, BEASTARS storyboarder, Land of the Lustrous episode director) directed the anime at Orange. Kouji Tajima was the concept designer and was credited with the character concept. Takehiko Oxi was credited with the story draft, and Tatsurō Inamoto, Shin Okashima, and Yoshihisa Ueda wrote the scripts and were in charge of composition. Nao Ootsu was the chief designer, and character designers included Kōdai Watanabe, Tetsurō Moronuki, Takahiko Abiru, Akiko Satō, Sōji Ninomiya, and Yumihiko Amano. Tatsuya Katō (Free!, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya franchises) composed the music.
Madhouse's previous television anime adaptation aired for 26 episodes in Japan in 1998. The anime launched in North America for home video in 2000. Geneon Entertainment (formerly Pioneer) originally released the series on DVD, but Funimation has since licensed the series and released it on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. The series is now streaming on Crunchyroll following Sony's Funimation Global Group's acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T. Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block aired the anime in 2003.
The Trigun anime adapts Yasuhiro Nightow's manga of the same name. The manga ran in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Shonen Captain magazine from 1995 to 1997. The manga returned with Trigun Maximum in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine later in 1997 and ran until 2007. Dark Horse Comics has released the manga in English.
The Trigun: Badlands Rumble anime film debuted in April 2010 and was the first new Trigun animation in over a decade.
Sources: TOHO animation's YouTube channel, Trigun Stargaze anime's X/Twitter account
