triangle stampedethe latest anime based on Yasuhiro Nightow’s 1994 space western manga series triangle, ended his first season last weekend. The 2023 iteration of Vash the Stampede’s adventures on the alien desert planet Gunsmoke sparked many lively, heated debates among fans as to whether or not they were familiar with the original 1998 anime.
A second season of the anime, dubbed the “final phase” of the series, has been confirmed to be in production. While we don’t yet know when Season 2 of triangle stampede will premiere, the brief post-credits scene at the end of the final episode of Season 1 hints at what’s in store for Vash and company. — and it hints at future characters and events previously unexplored by the original 1998 anime produced by studio Madhouse.
What happens in the post-credits scene of triangle stampede?
The end credits sequence for the final episode of triangle stampede is different from the one that appeared in previous episodes. It shows a continuous view of a moon’s cratered surface overlooking a red and brown planet – believed to be Gunsmoke.
After the credits roll, the sound of a sonar-like ping is heard, followed by two voices, one male and one female, discussing “phase two” of something dubbed “Project Pieces of Earth.” The female voice, identified as “Special Ops Lieutenant Colonel Independent Chronica,” orders the male voice to perform a scan of the entire surrounding solar system, citing a strange “fluctuation” from a local planet. The scene switches to a close-up of Planet Gunsmoke, with a shocked Chronica saying the fluctuation appears to be from “Project SEEDS”.
Who is Chronica?
First appears in Chapter 69 “Get Ready, Get Set” by Yasuhiro Nightow Trigun Maximus Manga, Chronica is a self-confident “plant”. In the Trigun universe, plants are interdimensional beings, like series protagonist Vash and his twin brother, Millions “Nai” Knives, originally created by mankind as a source of fuel to power the giant starships and the terraforming technology needed to establish human colonies on habitable planets are required outside of Earth’s solar system. Like Vash and Knives, Chronica is a so-called “independent” plant, meaning that it is sentient, with a human-like consciousness and body.
Chronica never appears in 1998 triangle Anime Series – This adaptation was produced before it was featured in the Trigun Maximus manga In Nightow’s manga, Chronica and her “Independent” Plant mate, Domina, respond to an energy signal from Millions Knives that fuses the bodies of all plants remaining on planet Gunsmoke to create a vast sentient warship to destroy humanity. It is known as “the Ark”.
Chronica and Domina were sent to Gunsmoke to look for survivors from “Project SEEDS”, the colonization program started thousands of years before the beginning of How to install Trigun. It was part of an effort to preserve humanity beyond Earth, which had become uninhabitable due to ongoing pollution and global warming.
Discovering that Knives has gone rogue, Chronica and Domina use their ship to attack the Ark from Gunsmoke’s Orbit. They later become instrumental in Vash’s final confrontation with Knives.
What does that mean for triangle stampede?
triangle stampede takes place in a continuity separate from Yasuhiro Nightow’s 1994 manga triangle (later renamed Trigun Maximus) or the 1998 anime series directed by Satoshi Nishimura and produced by Studio Madhouse. Given what happens during the finale of triangle stampedeit’s likely that Chronica and her partner Domina will star in Season 2 of triangle stampedewho act as either conditional allies of Vash in his continued fight against Million Knives, or possibly even as enemies.