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Funimation Gets Trigun TV Anime Series on BD/DVD
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The North American anime distributor Dragon Ball Z anime.
The Trigun anime adapts Yasuhiro Nightow's manga of the same name. 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. Funimation will ship its DVD release this fall.
Anime Expo 2008 that it agreed to manufacture, sell, and distribute selected DVD titles from Geneon Entertainment in North America. However, FUNimation had not announced that it will distribute Trigun until now.
Tsuneo Imahori are all returning from the television series for the new project.
Update: More background information added.
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