Trying out new things

Thanks to a Netflix subscription, I'm now able to check out a whole slew of movies and TV shows without actually having to risk buying them and finding out that I hate them. Just recently, I got the first disk for an anime series called Trigun. For those not familiar with it, it appears to be an anime warping of Maverick. The protagonist is Vash the Stampede, a man with sixty billion on his head (that's right, billion). Wherever he goes, death and destruction follow in his wake. What most folk don't know is that Vash is never directly responsible for this. In fact, he's a total wuss who gets faint at the sight of blood. Yet all the bounty hunters who go after him are convinced that he's a dangerous killer. Following him are Meryl Stryfe and Millie Thompson, agents from the Bernardelli Insurance Society. Their job is to try to keep the damage Vash's presence causes to a minimum so their employers remain financially solvent. So far, it's a pretty fun series.