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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2003
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Book List in Order: 40 titles



  • It's a western, it's sci-fi, it's punk, and it's popular. It's Trigun and it's become one of the most popular anime in America. But before it was animated, it was a manga. And now Dark Horse has finally brought that manga to America! Continuing our f...



  • Dark Horse continues its parade of new manga with the second, super fat volume of Trigun! Set in some kind of post-apocalypse western future, Trigun continues to knit a goofy yet mysterious story about a nice-guy gunslinger with a dangerous past and ...




  • In the first volume of Trigun Maximum, we caught up with Vash and watched him jump back into service for Peace and Love! But now the action really begins. Remember the Gung-Ho Guns? That modge-podge group of assassins born and bred to kill Vash? Well...



  • Trigun Maximum Volume 3 is intensity embodied - a front to back fight! Vash the Stampede and the mysterious Wolfwood versus the terribly resilient Gray the Ninelives and one of Yasuhiro Nightow's most curious villains, the completely frightening pupp...



  • Adding to the Trigun collection of fantastic television animation and dynamic manga, a new hybrid of the two mediums arrives to keep the experience alive. Composed entirely of frames taken from the popular Japanese animated television series, the Tri...



  • Vash the Stampede is back for more intense action, and it looks like it’s only going to get harder as the saga continues! As before, we’ll see some vicious battles with new foes from the Gung Ho Guns, tough and strange fighters with one mission, ...



  • Vash the Stampede and his cohorts remain locked in a frenetic and terribly destructive battle with the remaining members of the Gung-Ho Guns, who are terribly resistant to defeat. The bitter feud promises to reveal secrets about both Vash and his mor...



  • A lot of the Gung-Ho Guns have fallen victim to defeat and therefore death, but not by the bullets of the reluctant hero, Vash the Stampede. But even if the "Guns" seem to be dwindling, that doesn't mean there's a lack of violent freaks tearing up th...






  • On this desert planet of chaos, corruption, and heat, few people can afford to be generous, non-violent, and kind. But what if you're not completely "people"? That's the dilemna of being Vash the Stampede, the gunslinging, seemingly unstoppable hero ...



  • Unlike the subtitle of this new installment of Trigun Maximum, our hero, Vash the Stampede isn't exactly experiencing the happiest of days. Rather, his struggle with his brother-in-destruction, Knives, is escalating to extreme heights. But wait, befo...



  • Okay, now this is just getting scary. Knives has imprisoned Vash, and now he's going around gathering plants. By plants, I don't mean green things growing out of the ground, but instead those angelic, humanoid, power plant beings that make it possibl...



  • For Brandon Heat, death doesn't matter. Driven by his need for revenge, he returns from beyond the grave to cripple Millenion, the huge mafia organization that used undead monsters as its enforcers. His ultimate goal will be to destroy Harry McDowel,...



  • "This is the story of Nicholas Wolfwood and Livio, two boys for whom friendship was brief, but still burned deep into their boyhood conciences. But those bits and pieces, though full of light, are mere shadows to these men of guns and blood and viole...



  • If ever there was an intense volume of Trigun, "Wolfwood" would at least be its equal. Since the day Vash spotted his decimated soul in the middle of the desert, Nicholas Wolfwood has become a favorite of fans. A man of the cloth with a tortured soul...



  • Gungrave Archives brings together this set of separate, untranslated books from Japan to the U.S., completely translated, at a reasonable price, in high-quality binding and featuring two pull-out posters! Yasuhiro Nightow's additions are only a part ...



  • With so many intense scenes and watershed moments taking place in volume eleven of Trigun Maximum, it's next to impossible to write descriptive solicitation text. But readers have come to expect excellent action coupled with dramatic tension and time...



  • With a fleet of rescue ships from Earth facing off against Knives, the humans in chaos on the ground, Livio renewing his struggle against Elendira, and Vash trying to keep everyone from getting hurt, Trigun Maximum promises a dizzying array of action...



  • The stage is set for the chaotic climax to this nonstop thrill ride! Vash the Stampede has seen a lifetime's worth of fighting, space travel, and gunplay. Now his twelve-volume trek is almost at an end. But after a savage beating, can Vash defeat his...






  • Fourteen volumes, almost three-thousand pages, an internationally popular anime, and one of the most recognizable characters in the genre: this is the saga of Vash the Stampede. For the past decade, Trigun Maximum has pollinated the manga medium and ...



  • In the interdimensional maelstrom of New Jerusalem -- what New York used to be before it went to hell, literally! -- the agents of Libra quietly keep the lid on the paranormal pressure cooker. When agent Klaus Reinhertz tracks the source of the s...



  • Vash the Stampede, the galaxy's deadliest gunslinger, emerges after two years in hiding to help his beleaguered desert homeworld, Gunsmoke. But the Stampede's many enemies have kept their motors running, and they're back on his trail and determined t...



  • Trigun is back with a heavily armed posse of talented gunslingers! An anthology of Trigun tales, Multiple Bullets features the hard-to-find story “Badlands Rumble” by Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow (available previously only with the limited-...



  • Libra agent Zap has been kidnapped, and Libra leader Klaus Von Reinhertz must make a deadly deal to free him. In a secret underground fighting arena, Klaus is pitted against one horror from the Beyond after another, ultimately to face one of the terr...



  • From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes Blood Blockade Battlefront, a megaton manga blast of science-fiction insanity! An escaped Blood Breed brings Libra operative Zap Renfro's former master to New Jerusalem, and ...



  • Though a man (plant?) of peace, Vash the Stampede may be the deadliest gunslinger in the galaxy. But his brother, Knives, may be the deadliest creature in existence. Orchestrating a campaign of terror and destruction, Knives and his plant army are ou...



  • Jersulalem's Lot--the former Big Apple gone to otherworldly hell--has crime problems like any other city...well, not exactly like them. One of the Lot's yakuza gangs is looking to up-armor for its local turf battles, and dealers from the Beyond can p...



  • With Vash the Stampede's brother Knives' power growing exponentially and the shattered wreckage of Earth's spacefleet littering the planet Gunsmoke, Vash must lay everything on the line to prevent the apocalypse his crazed brother is determined to de...



  • In Jerusalem's Lot--the mystically transmogrified New York City--a bacteria-sized crimefighter is on the trail of an equally microscopic foe. But the tiny terrorist is hiding out inside the body of Libra agent Leonard Watch's pal Real, and any threat...






  • From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes Blood Blockade Battlefront, an otherworldly manga brawlIn Hellsalem's Lot--the former New York City--the agents of Libra fight to preserve balance in the mystical collision o...



  • From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes Blood Blockade Battlefront, a paranormal hurricane of epic proportions!In Hellsalem's Lot--the former New York City--the agents of Libra fight to preserve balance in the my...



  • From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes the final blockbuster chapter of Blood Blockade Battlefront, a titanic typhoon of science-fantasy madness!In Hellsalem's Lot--the former New York City--the agents of Libra f...



  • Trigun creator, Yasuhiro Nightow, returns to Dark Horse with a frantic new mini-series -- Blood Blockade Battlefront!In Nightow's new world, a breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers a...



  • Sci-fi insanity from Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of Trigun and Gungrave! Traffic in New York has never been a picnic, but with the Big Apple destroyed and rebuilt as the dimensional-gate madhouse known as Jerusalem's Lot, gridlock is a little more comp...



  • New York Times bestseller Trigun is a worldwide manga and anime sensation!Trigun Deluxe Edition collects Trigun Volume 1 and 2 in a beautiful hardcover featuring nearly 700 pages of Yasuhiro’s Nightow’s signature creation, collected for t...



  • Yasuhiro’s Nightow’s Trigun is an international hit! Now the sequel series, Trigun Maximum, is being collected in beautiful hardcovers. Trigun Maximum Deluxe Edition Volume 1 collects the first three Trigun Maximum volumes in a deluxe har...



  • Yasuhiro’s Nightow’s Trigun is an international smash, and Trigun Maximum Deluxe Edition Volume 2 collects Trigun Maximum volumes 4, 5, and 6 in a deluxe hardcover edition featuring over 600 pages of Nightow’s signature creation in ...



  • Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun is an international hit, and this edition collects Trigun Maximum volumes 7, 8, and 9 in a deluxe hardcover format featuring over 600 pages of Nightow’s signature creation at the original serialized size!Vash the...



  • Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun is an international hit, and this edition collects volumes 10, 11, and 12 of the sequel series Trigun Maximum, in a deluxe hardcover format featuring nearly 700 pages of Nightow’s signature creation at the origin...






  • Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun Maximum draws to a mind-warping conclusion!This edition collects Trigun Maximum volumes 13 and 14 in a deluxe hardcover format featuring nearly 600 pages of Nightow’s signature creation at the original serialized...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yasuhiro Nightow has published 40 books.

The next book by Yasuhiro Nightow, Trigun Maximum Deluxe Edition Volume 5, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Yasuhiro Nightow, Trigun, Volume 1, was published in October 2003.

No. Yasuhiro Nightow does not write books in series.