I have mixed feelings about Trigun, an anime which I finished watching roughly a week ago. Namely, I loved the first half, and hated the second half.
I’m just gonna put everything under spoiler tags, because I don’t wanna have to worry so much about how I word my paragraphs.
The first half was so…so damn original. You’ve got this guy wandering around, Vash the Stampede…a legendary outlaw who’s famous for leveling whole towns and other such crap. As the story is narrated (mostly) through the perspectives of two ladies given the task of following him, he gives all kinds of mixed signals about his identity. He accomplishes dangerous tasks by making it look like sheer dumb luck, is completely nonconfrontational, ridiculous, loves kids…the list goes on. It’s amazing how this was pulled off. The music, while not as amazing as some other animes I’ve seen, is definitely good, and it grows on you after a while. One thing particularly stood out about the beginning that I liked: The action sequences. I normally do not like action sequences. I think I have this mental block where I can’t enjoy action sequences that involve superficially unrealistic things (Like giant robot battles, stuff with fighting vampires and stuff like that). While the premise of one man fighting against a ton of people is somewhat unrealistic, the fact that the WEIRDEST thing you see in the first half of the series is are a few peculiarly large villains is awesome. It’s almost all just a bunch of western showdown shootout-type action sequences. They were all so fucking amazing, and had me at the edge of my seat. I especially loved how Vash almost never fired his gun. It was amazing. Of course, the other great part about the story was is humour. I didn’t really like it at first (Like as in the first episode, lol), but it grew on me really quick. I was pretty hooked, and watched the first stretch really fast.
Phew. That sounds like it’s gonna be such a great anime, right? Nah…I was letdown again 
The second half was such typical anime. We start out with a very original story, and then throw in all this seriousness and gravity. Now it’s all about an angsty guy named Vash who only knows about tríste and how sad he is about everything, and tormented inside, and blaaa blaaaaa blaaaa. What was set up to by a very lighthearted anime becomes really upsetting and serious Almost no humour is there, and what little comic relief there is is so sparse, that it just feels so out of place that you don’t even laugh that much. The cool western showdown action is replaced by peculiar villains (that aren’t so peculiar in anime style stories), like a Sax player that kills people with his sax notes, some dorkwad who can manipulate people, a whole bunch of mutated freaks with absurd gadgets, and all kinds of shit. In the end, it was a very huge letdown. There wasn’t even a very nice feeling of closure in the end. It was like Vash killed (or did he just beat the living crap out of him? I don’t even know, that’s how fast it happened) Knives, and was like “Well, that was cool.” and left. Very upsetting, and if I wasn’t the kind of person who just HAS to finish what he starts, I probly would have stopped watching the anime at about the episode where Dominique came after Vash.
In the end, if I have to give it a rating of 10…I’ve give it a 5 of 10… perfect first half, awful, awful second half.