It’s the Trigun renaissance, and we’re living in it. Following a long-awaited return to Yasuhiro Nightow’s world of bounty hunters and gunfighters with 2023’s Trigun Stampede reboot, a release window for its previously announced sequel has been set, and it’ll be a bit of a wait.
Trigun Stargaze will air sometime in 2026, with a new teaser visual featuring the tagline “Existence and pain”, and a striking art style that paints protagonist Vash in bold, strong brush strokes against a red canvas. The image also revealed several project staff, including the director, character designer, and scriptwriter.
Masako Sato, known for her work on Haikyu!! To The Top, is helming the series at returning animation studio Orange. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Shangri-La Frontier) is handling the series composition and script, while Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Devilman Crybaby, Look Back), who also illustrated the teaser visual, serves as character designer.
As for the voice cast, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Genshin Impact) and Yoshimasa Hosoya (Attack on Titan, Honkai: Star Rail) will reprise their respective roles as protagonist Vash the Stampede and his sidekick Nicholas D. Wolfwood in the Japanese dub. The characters are voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch (Bleach, Code Geass) and David Matranga (Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia) in the English version.
The official description for Trigun Stargaze has yet to be released, but the sophomore outing is set 2.5 years after the original and serves as the “final phase” of the conflict between Vash and his vengeful twin brother, Million Knives. The synopsis for Stampede is as follows:
“Vash the Stampede’s a joyful gunslinging pacifist, so why does he have a $$6 million bounty on his head? That’s what’s puzzling rookie reporter Meryl Stryfe and her jaded veteran partner when looking into the vigilante only to find someone who hates blood. But their investigation turns out to uncover something heinous—his evil twin brother, Millions Knives.“
The series adapts Nightow’s manga of the same name, which ran in the Monthly Shonen Captain magazine from 1995 to 1997. It received an anime series from Madhouse in 1998 and later continued its publication in 1997 with Trigun Maximum, ending in 2007. An anime feature film, Badlands Rumble, premiered in 2010.
Trigun Stargaze is set to debut in 2026.
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