Trigun and Trigun Maximum Receive Deluxe Hardcover Editions
One Trigun fan who recently went viral because of their tweet and username that proudly celebrates Wolfwood’s large manhood will be ecstatic to hear this announcement.
Bigolas Dickolas, the impact and power you have (joking, but not really).
In an Anime News Network exclusive, Dark Horse Comics has revealed they will release a hardcover Deluxe Edition of Trigun and Trigun Maximum. The Deluxe Edition of Trigun will contain 672 pages and feature a compilation of two volumes of the manga. The Deluxe Edition of Trigun Maximum will contain 584 pages. Both releases will have an original 7 x 10″ page format.
The recent resurgence of Trigun‘s popularity is likely connected to one passionate Trigun fan by name of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood (@/maskofbun). Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood (@/maskofbun) became an overnight Twitter sensation when they tweeted out a recommendation for Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s queer sci-fi novella This Is How You Lose the Time War. Their tweet was cryptic, only saying, “read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it’s only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it’s only like four hours. do it right now i’m very extremely serious.” They followed up their initial tweet with another, slightly more violently persuasive than the first: “*grabs you personally by the throat* you will do this. for me. you will go to the counter at barnes and noble. you will buy this. i will be greatly rewarded.”
The tweet blew up after two days. Everyone who saw or interacted with Bigolas’s tweet rushed to do exactly what the fan asked commanded people to do and bought Time War. Those who had already read the book and loved it flooded the comments to excitedly share quotes from the book with other fans. This Is How You Lose the Time War, released in 2019, quickly climbed the Amazon Bestsellers Chart, and peaked at #3 on the overall list. It hit #1 on the science fiction romance list. Bigolas gained more than 20,000 followers and its sudden virality had overwhelmed the Trigun fan. In an interview with Gizmodo, Bigolas said “A lot of this was spurred out of my passion for both good anime and good literature.”
El-Mohtar and Gladstone, the authors of Time War, were floored at seeing their book’s sudden popularity. El-Mohtar wrote a blog post on her website, titled “I tried to title this post for twenty minutes and failed,” to express how grateful she was to Bigolas for their passion and has made a commitment to watch Trigun to return the favour. With regards to why this tweet took off the way it did, El-Mohtar told Slate, she believed it was “pure fan-to-fan enthusiasm.”
“In the context of a fan account, where people are used to sharing phenomenal art and GIFs and feelings and stuff, that kind of primes an audience for receiving something in a certain way,” she said. “I also like studying the grammar of it […] I do think there is poetry to it! No cap: Read this. Then, all caps: DO NOT look up anything … To me, the tweet is beautiful.”
Bigolas’s tweet had caught the eyes of publisher Simon and Schuster’s corporate marketing team as well as Yoshihiro Watanabe. Watanabe, a producer of Trigun Stampede, merely tweeted “Have I bought the book? Yes.” Bigolas used their newfound fame to plead with Dark Horse to reprint the Trigun and Trigun Maximum manga as it had been out of print for over a decade. Dark Horse informed Insider they were “very much aware of the interest in the Trigun manga, and while we can’t share specifics just yet, fans should stay tuned for some exciting news very soon.”
The Trigun fan was over the moon at hearing the news of the deluxe hardcover editions, but has urged media outlets to not attribute the reprint announcement to them. “ITS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR MONTHS AND THERE ARE MANY PASSIONATE FANS FOR THIS SHOW AND MANGA,” Bigolas wrote. “IT IS BIG NEWS FOR ME PERSONALLY I LOVE IT IM CRYING PHYSICALLY BUT DARK HORSE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WHILE PLZ SUPPORT THEM.”
Created by Yasuhiro Nightow, Trigun began serialization in Monthly Shōnen Captain in April 1995 and concluded in January 1997 due to the magazine’s closure. The series moved to Young King OURs with a new name, Trigun Maximum, from October 1997 to March 2007. Trigun Maximum has been collected in 14 volumes while Trigun has been collected in two volumes. The manga inspired an anime adaptation in 1998, animated by Madhouse and directed by Satoshi Nishimura. A reboot called Trigun Stampede released in January 2023 with Studio Orange animating it and Kenji Mutō directing. Both adaptations have received critical acclaim.
Set on the planet No Man’s Land, Trigun follows Vash the Stampede, who acquired the nickname “The Humanoid Typhoon” after he accidentally destroyed a city. Now with a double dollar bounty on his head, he must fight off the countless bounty hunters tracking him down. Along the way, he meets a priest named Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who carries a cross-shaped gun called the Punisher and, as Bigolas said in their interview with Insider, is “the coolest dude in all the Wild Space West.”
Trigun Deluxe Edition releases on Dec. 5 in bookstores and a day later in comic shops. Trigun Maximum Deluxe Edition releases in April 2024.
Source: Anime News Network, Twitter
