Trigirls

Minor note: This was recorded before Patrick Stewart's passing. This week on Trigirls: Everyone copes with the revelations from the Dragon's Nest. In this volume, Meryl, Milly, Vash, and Wolfwood attempt to lay low for a while after leaving the Dragon's Nest district behind. Meanwhile, Legato summons the final two Gung-Ho Guns, Double Fang and Trip of Death, members of the sinister assassin-cult t...

This week on Trigirls: it all comes crashing down. In this volume, the fight between Vash, Wolfwood, Milly, Hoppered, and Midvalley reaches its denouement as Vash begins to recall the events surrounding July. Content warnings for discussions of: mass death, sexual violence, ableism, body horror, bugs, torture, and incest. Images referenced for this episode Featuring Stella-Jude (they/them), Maggie...

Correction: in our discussion around Vash being called Knives's "little brother", we mistakenly overstated the importance of knowing the birth order of twins for Japanese speakers. Although there is more emphasis placed on this than there is in the English language, it is not nearly as important as we claimed, and there are ways to refer to a sibling/twin without specifying older/younger. This wee...

This week on Trigirls: So much yucky happens as Vash and Wolfwood do their best to protect the Melca Border Floating Ship from an attack by the Gung-H0 Guns. In this volume, Vash and Wolfwood face off against Leonof the Puppetmaster and Gray the Ninelives respectively, though things turn complicated as Leonof hides puppets among the civilian populace and vice versa while Grey proves harder and har...

This week on Trigirls: Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood journey across the desert, chasing the trail of empty towns left by Millions Knives. In this volume, the killing game is back on! Vash is confronted by the rollerskating samurai Rai-Dei the Blade, and he and Wolfwood are forced to confront their ideological differences as they continue to journey together. Meanwhile, the Melca Borde...

This week on Trigirls: Vash the Stampede is gone, and in his place is the mild-mannered vagrant Eriks in Trigun Maximum Volume 1 In this volume, Wolfwood arrived to collect Vash from his newly found and deeply loved peaceful life with the spitfire youngster Lina and her tough-as-nails grandma Sheryl as Knives has returned and is seemingly responsible for a slew of disappearances across the planet....

This week on Trigirls: Vash meets the sinister and terrifying Legato Bluesummers and his deadly group of assassins, the Gung-Ho Guns, in Trigun Volume 2. In this volume, Vash encounters Legato, servant of Millions Knives, Vash's long-lost and genocidal brother. Legato sets up a game for Vash: collect the 12 coin halves held by the Gung-Ho Guns and see what happens. Vash, Milly, and Meryl also enco...

This week on Trigirls: Maggie, Moose, and Stella-Jude are reintroduced to Vash the Stampede and his plucky companions in Trigun Volume 1! In this volume, Vash defends April City from the Nebraska family and saves the sandsteamer from certain doom, all while accompanied by intrepid insurance agents Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson who are determined to prevent the "Humanoid Typhoon" from causing any...

This week on Trigirls: Maggie, Moose, and Stella-Jude discuss the epic highs and lows of Trigun (1998). For next week, we will be reading Volume 1 of Trigun (1995). Content warnings for discussions of: misogyny and sexual violence Images referenced for this episode Featuring Stella-Jude (they/them), Maggie (she/her), and Cassie/Moose (she/they/it) Produced by Maggie Our theme music is "Far Feasibl...

This week on Trigirls: Everything at last must come to an end as Vash nears his final confrontation with his brother, Knives in episode 25, "Live Through", and episode 26, "Under the Sky So Blue". In these episodes, Vash recovers from his bout with Legato, struggling to reconcile his pacifist ideals with the fact that he has now knowingly, willingly, taken a human life. With help from Meryl and Mi...

This week on Trigirls: the ideological differences between Vash and Wolfwood come to a head, and Vash's commitment to pacifism is put to the test in episode 22 "Alternative", episode 23 "Paradise", and episode 24 "Sin". In these episodes, Vash, Wolfwood, Meryl, and Milly come face to face with the remaining Gung-Ho Guns, Zazie the Beast, Caine the Longshot, and Chapel the Evergreen, and Vash final...

This week on Trigirls: Vash returns from his voluntary exile and takes Wolfwood home to meet his family in episode 19 "Hang Fire", episode 20 "Flying Ship", and episode 21 "Out of Time". In these episodes, in an effort to catch Typhoon Jacqueline, the Humanoid Typhoon gets embroiled in a feud between the Polo and Fris families. Once swept up in the typhoon, Vash and Wolfwood arrive aboard the flyi...

This week on Trigirls: we get a more in-depth look at Vash's past and his relationship with his brother, Knives, in episode 17 "Rem Saverem" and episode 18 "Goodbye For Now". These episodes introduce us to a young Vash and his twin brother Knives aboard one of the spaceships belonging to Project SEEDS, an extrasolar colonization effort for humanity after the collapse of Earth's biosphere. Meanwhil...

This week on Trigirls: Vash's problems continue to escalate in episode 15 "Demons Eye" and episode 16 "Fifth Moon". These episodes introduce the nefarious "Gung-Ho Guns", a gang of killers who exist solely to attack Vash and cause him suffering, operating at Legato's behest. Vash previously faced the first of their number, Monev the Gale, and this time, he faces Dominique the Cyclops at Jeneora Ro...

This week on Trigirls: the plot is here! Folks, the plot has arrived in episode 12 "Diablo", episode 13 "Vash the Stampede", and episode 14 "Little Arcadia". In these episodes, Vash comes face-to-face with a new enemy: the sinister, psychically powered Legato Bluesummers. Legato has sicced the mercenary Monev the Gale on Vash, and once the dust has settled, Vash and the Insurance Girls reflect on...

Another update! At the top this time because it's important. This week's episode was late because we were waiting on our hosting service to pull our distribution from Spotify. We will no longer be distributing our episodes there due to our disagreement with Spotify's policies on generative AI and their choice of ad partners. If you'd like to know more, Austin Walker and Jack de Quidt from Friends...

All aboard the Humpback Class Sandsteamer the Flourish ! The Trigirls and Vash make their way across the desert on board a combination train/cruise ship in "B.D.N." and "And Between the Wasteland and Sky...". In these episodes Vash becomes embroiled in a train robbery/hostage crisis executed by the infamous Bad Lads Gang of bandits and their notorious leader, Brilliant Dynamites Neon. Along the wa...

The Trigirls continue following Vash the Stampede across the unnamed desert planet that is his home, this week watching his misadventures in "Love & Peace", "Hard Puncher", and "Lost July". In these episodes, Vash helps settle a dispute between wealthy landowner Bostok and the people whose lives he ruined on his path to riches, defends a town from the unpredictable no-goodniks the Nebraska fam...

The Trigirls get their first introduction to Trigun (1998) with the first three episodes of the series: "The $$60,000,000,000 Man", "Truth of Mistake", and "Peace Maker". Introduced to the hapless yet mysterious gunman Vash the Stampede, insurance claims investigators Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson tail him around the unnamed desert wasteland planet, trying to prevent the "Humanoid Typhoon" from...

In our inaugural episode, Stella-Jude and Moose quiz Maggie on how much she knows about Trigun (spoiler: she knows nothing). How many guns does Vash have? What is a plant? How many women are there in Trigun? Hear her guess the answers to these questions and more! In two weeks, the Trigirls will be discussing episodes 1, 2, and 3 of Trigun (1998) entitled "The $$60,000,000,000 Man", "Truth of Mista...

This is the introductory episode/"trailer" for the Trigirls podcast. The first full-length episode will be up on Monday, January 19th, 2026. See you then! Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bBWk96rWQK0Sl5p75r7aa_uYzmfOyG81ZY9eK_ZLwDI/edit?usp=sharing