Reception
The first manga volume run of 30,000 sold out shortly after release. The second volume concluded the original series early the next year, and went on to be the top earning graphic novel of 2004. The popularity of the manga and anime skyrocketed Vash to being a merchandise, wherein action figures, plush dolls, keychains, clothes, and even his trademark cosplay sunglasses were made. He also makes a cameo appearance in Wild Arms 2nd Ignition. In artist, writer and musician Voltaire's fourth Deady book ("Deady: Big in Japan"), there is a cosplayer dressed as Vash eating pocky. The pop punk/ hardcore band, Four Year Strong, has a song named Vash the Stampede. The lead singer of Mushroomhead wore a Vash the Stampede coat in many concerts before it was stolen from his dressing room. A video game, called Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke, based on the Trigun manga, was in development for the PlayStation 2 system. It was unveiled in 2002 in Sega's 2002 GameJam video. The unveiling consisted of a 20 second clip from the game. No news or comment came back after.
Vash the Stampede was ranked #17 in IGN's Top 25 Anime Characters of All Time, saying "As a character design, though, he's one of the all-time greats. Yasuhiro Nightow is an excellent artist any day of the week, but he outdid himself with the hero of his most famous comic strip. Most fans were sold on Trigun before they even watched the show. Vash the Stampede just had the look – the long coat, the spiked hair, the custom six-shooter, like a blazing red version of all the great gun-slinging heroes of Westerns past. That look worked on a couple of levels, too, once we found out exactly what was hidden underneath the famous duster".
He is ranked #12 by 97 votes in Top 100 Anime Characters Survey by AnimeSouce.com. Saying that " He can make you laugh at one moment and then go “THAT KICKS ASS!� the next. He has super speed, perfect accuracy, and the will to do anything for anyone no matter if they are good or evil, even if it costs him his body or his dignity. He is the greatest cowboy to ever live on another planet and he has the greatest goal in life ever to be thought up: LOVE AND PEACE."
AnimeOnDVD describes Vash as character as "..running a gamut of emotions and attitudes (and shows off his way cool dancing moves) as well as a bit of what makes him the most feared person and worthy of the $$60,000,000,000 price on his head..." In a review for Volume 5, the reviewer stated that the change in Vash's character; "..brings things to a different and more interesting level.." Vash's history was described as "..really interesting but they tend to have more questions asked than really answered." T.H.E.M Anime Reviews say that Vash "...is the poster-child for the misunderstood hero.."
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