NICHOLAS D. WOLFWOOD, THE PUNISHER

Hey there!

Courtesy of Cheap Bots Done Quick, @NICO_WOLFWOOD is a bot which posts random pictures, quotes and figures of Nicholas D. Wolfwood from Trigun every 3 hours, every day.
It's very early in development, so images and quotes are still being added - feel free to follow, though! The bot is overseen, in their free time, by one very passionate person hyperfixated on Trigun, and all content posted is from official sources.
I also RT Wolfwood/Trigun fanart! Likes are full of any fanart that's been RT'ed. Non-automatic replies from me will always be prefaced with slashes, //like this.
DMs are open if you have questions or suggestions!

You can also check out @VASHUSTAMPEDE for once-every-hour posts of Vash the Stampede, instead.

Praise the Lord!!

LORD, WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE?

What kind of content is being posted?

The bot posts uneditedβ˜† screenshots and quotes of Nicholas D. Wolfwood from:

  • the anime (Trigun; 1998)

  • the manga (Trigun; 1995-1997, Trigun Maximum; 2004 - 2009)

  • the movie (Trigun: Badlands Rumble; 2010)

  • the art book (Trigun Art Book: Japanese Edition 1998)

  • the soundtrack albums for the anime (Trigun Spicy Stewed Donut)

  • Trigun: Multiple Bullets (Badlands Rumble promotional manga anthology)

  • magazine covers (Young King OURs issued from 1999-2007)

  • the 2020 Brave Frontier crossover (held April 15th - May 6th)

  • figures (produced by Kotobukiya, Kaiyodo, Cerberus Project/Yamato, and Epoxy Parfait)

More sources/content types are being considered! There are a few silly pics coded in as well, just for shits and giggles. Each picture is captioned with the source it came from, such as the episode or volume and chapter it was found. Other characters may also be in the images the bot posts, but the bot won't post anything without Wolfwood in it.β˜† - Some posts may be edited to exclude massive spoilers. This is the only exception; see this page for details.

Does the bot reply when I comment?

It used to! The bot used to reply if you requested a picture of Wolfwood from either the anime, manga, or movie. As of February 10th, 2023, however, the reply function was deactivated in anticipation of certain Twitter policies to be implemented. This is so that the bot won't reach its monthly quota too early and be unable to tweet for the remainder of the month.
If this is something that Twitter eventually reverses, I will re-implement it.

Are spoilers going to be posted?

As of right now, no massive spoilers are coded into the bot (i.e. character death scenes, endings) for the sake of any newer fans following. Some screenshots may even be edited solely to exclude/censor such spoilers - these posts will be tagged accordingly. Some posts may still contain minor spoilers (i.e. lore-related), albeit out of context. If this is a concern, you may want to avoid following the bot until you've finished the series.

Some of the screenshots look grainy!

An unfortunate side effect of the original source material being decades old, I'm afraid. The manga screenshots are of the highest quality available (direct digital scans), however the anime and movie were obtained through secondhand sources to avoid supporting Nightow directly (why?) and the quality may be questionable at times as a result.
The good news is that this is a somewhat temporary issue. If there is ever a better quality source of these materials found - or a site which can reliably edit them to look less grainy - the images will eventually be replaced with their higher-quality counterparts!

Why don't you support Nightow?

CW: pedophilia, CP/child pornography, CSEMYasuhiro Nightow, the creator of Trigun, was one of several popular mangakas to release a statement of public support for Nobuhiro Watsuki's 2021 Rurouni Kenshin exhibition. Watsuki was arrested in 2017 for being found with so much child pornography that it was believed he would become a redistributor, had laws not been altered 3-4 years prior to make the material illegal. Watsuki himself admitted to being a pedophile in a personal, detailed statement of his attraction to minors.
Though Trigun and Trigun Maximum predate Nightow's support of Watsuki by decades, it is a personal choice of this bot's mod to avoid supporting him financially anyway. This is why all the material posted by the bot is obtained through secondhand sources.

Content / Trigger Warnings

While it isn't the focus of the content the bot posts, it may contain more graphic content due to being Wolfwood-oriented, at least in comparison to its Vash counterpart. It's important to address that the series is very dark, and some screenshots may show glimpses of it here and there. Most screenshots posted won't include these things, but regardless, here is a list of common triggers or squicks that may make an appearance on this bot - vague, frequent, or not - that I feel warrant a warning. This list will be kept updated as more screenshots are added.


  • Guns (bullets, pistols, revolvers, shotguns, missile launchers, toy replicas)

  • Guns / weapons aimed at the head, body or 4th wall

  • Explosions

  • Knives, blades

  • Blood (sometimes fake, but with strong resemblance, i.e. ketchup)

  • Gore / organs

  • Body horror / distortion, uncanny valley (mainly the Plants)

  • Alcohol / alcoholism / drinking

  • Frequent depictions of smoking / cigarettes

  • Injuries (bullet wounds, severed limbs, deep scars, external metal implants)

  • Arm-specific damage

  • Frequent mentions of death, dying, killing, violence, etc.

  • Mentions of suicide, and implications of depression or suicidal ideation

  • Frequent mentions of religion or a God (Christianity - angels, crosses, prayer, etc.)


Please note that the screenshots in question will not be tagged with warnings themselves - by following the bot, you are aware of this content being posted and are okay with seeing it. If you see something you want added to this list, please feel free to DM me!

Credits

Of course, since I do not have the funds to buy and scan all Trigun media, I must rely on the dedicated fans online to provide scans and whatnot for the bot to post, since I do not have any physical volumes or DVDs myself. Some sources can go uncredited for various harmless reasons, but below I will list and update the sources where I obtained some of the content the bot posts.
If you own any of the figure images the bot posts and want me to take them down/replace them, please contact me through Twitter ASAP and I will!

- This blog deserves a mention for certain high quality scans - though not all scans are obtained through themβ˜†.
β˜†The manga screenshots and quotes that NICO_WOLFWOOD posts are from the Official Dark Horse Translation - nothing fan-made or edited from this blog is posted. It is mainly credited because of the high-quality Dark Horse scans which can be found on it.
- MyFigureCollection requires a mention for most images and information of the Wolfwood figures the bot posts. [Kotobukiya, Kaiyodo (Badlands Rumble), Kaiyodo, Cerberus Project/Yamato, Epoxy Parfait]
Additional image credits outside of MyFigureCollection: [Kaiyodo]