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Trigun Stargaze Anime Reveals Full Trailer, More Cast, Theme Song Artists, January 10 Debut
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The "Trigun Stargaze Tokyo Premiere" at Tokyo Comic-Con 2025 debuted the full trailer for the Trigun Stargaze anime on Saturday. The event also announced more cast members, the theme song artists, and the January 10 premiere for the anime.
The newly announced cast members for Vash's new foes are:
- Cho as Leonof the Puppet-Master
- Taketora as Hoppered the Gauntlet
- Shinichirō Miki as Midvalley the Hornfreak
Singer Ano is performing the opening theme song "Picaresque Hero," and the band FOMARE is performing the ending theme song "Stardust."
The anime will premiere on TV Tokyo and its affiliated channels on January 10 at 11:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m. EST). It will also stream on various services in Japan.
The anime stars returning cast members:
Other (mostly returning) cast members include:
- Kōki Uchiyama as Legato Bluesummers
- Ayumu Murase as Elendira the Crimsonnail
- Ryūsei Nakao as William Conrad
- TARAKO as Zazie the Beast
- Ryūji Satō as Millions Knives (replacing Junya Ikeda)
The new cast members include Chika Ayamori as Milly Thompson (a character who appeared in the original 1998 anime but not in Trigun Stampede) and Ryūji Satō as Millions Knives.
Crunchyroll had previously stated it would stream the "final phase" when it airs.
Masako Sato (Anima Yell!, Haikyu!! To The Top) is directing the anime at Orange. Takehiko Oxi returns from Trigun Stampede for the original story. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Girls' Last Tour, Is the order a rabbit?, Do It Yourself!!) is writing and supervising the series' scripts. Kouji Tajima is returning from Trigun Stampede as the original character designer and concept artist. Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who helmed the recent critically acclaimed film Look Back, is the animation character designer for the anime (Oshiyama previously worked on special effect design on Trigun Stampede).
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: Trigun Stargaze Tokyo Premiere at Tokyo Comic-Con 2025, Crunchyroll (Lim Dempsey)
