You think the die you tossed will turn out to be a lucky one?

ANIMONDAYS exists to exhibit great works of animation from all over the world (but mostly Japan). This month we're on the lookout for a notorious bank robber - it's Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010)!

Twenty years ago, notorious outlaw Vash the Stampede, a.k.a. the Humanoid Typhoon, interfered with a bank robbery, letting the black-hearted gang leader Gasback get away unscathed. Now, Gasback is tearing through the desert on a quest for revenge, racking up a bounty that no hunter can ignore. As seemingly everyone on the planet Gunsmoke chases after Gasback, Vash finds himself pitted against old friends as he reckons with the consequences of his fateful choice.

Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010), is a lead-and-explosion-filled extravaganza in the sadly underutilized Space Western genre. Yasuhiro Nightow (writer/creator) gives us an atypical Western hero in Vash; despite his planet-wide reputation for catastrophe, he's goofy and friendly, if a bit of a womanizer, and he refuses to ever take a life. It's a refreshing, gentle counterpoint to the hard, gritty cowboys of Sergio Leone and John Ford, but it's still got plenty of that classic Spaghetti flavor seasoned with a bunch of Mad-Maxian weirdos.

Join us on August 11th, 7:00 PM, for the rootinest-tootinest-cyborg-shootinest film we've ever shown at Animondays! Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Rated PG-13ish for gun violence and some foul language.