Editing Trigun (section)

==Production==
[[File:Yasuhiro Nightow 20110630 Japan Expo 1.jpg|thumb|left|Yasuhiro Nightow, writer and illustrator of ''Trigun''|alt=A black haired Japanese man wearing glasses]]
After leaving college, [[Yasuhiro Nightow]] had gone to work selling apartments for the housing corporation [[Sekisui House]], but struggled to keep up with his manga drawing hobby. Reassured by some successes, including a serialized manga based on the popular video game franchise ''[[Samurai Shodown|Samurai Spirits]]'' for ''Family Computer Magazine'', he quit his job to draw full-time.<ref name="Interview-MNM-Puff"/> The series was conceptualized as a mix between Western and science fiction as Nightow found it not seen in Japan by the time he started writing ''Trigun''. To contrast Vash from the typical heroes in [[action film]]s, Nightow portrayed him as a pacifist since he did not want his lead character to be a murderer. Throughout the story, Vash avoids killing enemies by disarming them and avoids inflicting mortal wounds during combat. His cheerful personality was used to highlight this trait with his catchphrase being: "Hey, sorry. Love and peace?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ramenparados.com/12th-japan-expo-entrevista-yasuhiro/|title=[12th Japan Expo] Entrevista a Yasuhiro Nightow|date=July 20, 2011|publisher=Ramen Para Dos|language=es|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424005617/http://ramenparados.com/12th-japan-expo-entrevista-yasuhiro/|archive-date=April 24, 2017|access-date=March 8, 2020}}</ref> Other elements of the manga were based on real life. Wolfwood's name was taken from the lead singer as his image for the priest. He is also modeled on [[Tortoise Matsumoto]] from the band [[Ulfuls]].<ref name="Anime Expo 2009">{{cite web|url=http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Features/AX_09/5.html|title=Anime Expo 2009|work=Neoseeker|publisher=Anime Expo|date=March 29, 2012|access-date=March 10, 2023|archive-date=September 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927150426/http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Features/AX_09/5.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In order to create "warm" environments, Nightow drew several eating scenes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://international.ucla.edu/institute/article/110449|title=Anime Expo 2009: interview with Yasuhiro Nightow and Satoshi Nishimura|publisher=UCLA|access-date=March 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212214256/https://international.ucla.edu/institute/article/110449|archive-date=February 12, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the making of the manga, Nightow attempts to draw the fight scenes carefully as he has "all these images running through my head of characters moving this way and that, and contorting into all sort sorts of amazing action poses, but thinking about it and putting it to paper are always two different things". In regards to the narrative, Nightow uses a "logical and intuitive manner" as his {{lang|la|[[modus operandi]]}} in order to make readers being capable of following it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Interviews/1309/Gunning-for-Answers-An-Interview-with-Trigun-creator-Yasuhiro-Nightow-5-26-06|title=GUNNING FOR ANSWERS! AN INTERVIEW WITH TRIGUN CREATOR YASUHIRO NIGHTOW 5/26/06|website=[[Dark Horse Comics]]|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=February 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227075828/http://www.darkhorse.com/Interviews/1309/Gunning-for-Answers-An-Interview-with-Trigun-creator-Yasuhiro-Nightow-5-26-06|url-status=live}}</ref> While Vash is the manga's protagonist, anime director Satoshi Nishimura used [[Meryl Stryfe]] as the main character. In the anime, she searches for the Humanoid Typhoon and initially does not believe it is Vash due to his childish behavior.<ref>{{cite book|title=Trigun Art Book|publisher=[[Tokuma Shoten]]|year=1998|isbn=978-4-19-720087-0|pages=61–63}}</ref> To create suspense, writer [[Yōsuke Kuroda]] suggested that Vash would not shoot a bullet until the fifth episode, which causes Meryl to realize he is the famous gunman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/trigun.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040404092017/http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/trigun.html|website=[[Animerica]]|access-date=March 9, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2004|title=Trigun}}</ref>