Films like Trigun: Badlands Rumble.

Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010) reads as Warm, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Blue Exorcist: The Movie (2012) poster
1. Blue Exorcist: The Movie2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) poster
2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006) poster
3. Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019) poster
4. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) poster
5. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas2003

Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009) poster
6. Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018) poster
7. Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell2018

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eragon (2006) (2006) poster
8. Eragon2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Stronghold (2017) poster
9. The Stronghold2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Monster Hunt 2 (2018) poster
10. Monster Hunt 22018

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Epic (2013) (2013) poster
11. Epic2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

One Piece Film: Strong World (2009) poster
12. One Piece Film: Strong World2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

These are Trigun: Badlands Rumble’s neighbours — where are yours?

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