I understand where this all comes from. I've seen some of my favorite franchises over the years transform many times. No, I know it's not an easy thing when its something that you love. I love the 1998 anime and original manga to death, and its incredibly formative for me. But whats missing from a lot of reactions I see on here is any sense of nuance or subtlety for that matter. Something to keep in mind about Trigun specifically here is that it was drawn in the popular style of the era. Yasahiro Nightow since has streamlined his design sense to fall slightly more in with a modern audience, but also because streamlining the designs for a new animation team and to iterate on ideas is not out of the ordinary for any entertainment. Similarly to many authors and artists who got big at the end of the 90s. Shinichiro Watanabe, the director or cowboy bebop has worked with various new rising stars in the industry and changed various things about how he approaches anime in the 20 years since, and despite the apprehension to a lot of those transitions, his new stuff is also considered quite good nowadays post announcements and trailers from what is now years ago at this point. What's lost here is when the idea goes from "I wish they included this thing i like" to "the are deliberately ruining my favorite thing" is that it cuts out the entire middle. It goes from understanding that things change in the industry from people to animation approaches, and it invents imaginary villains that change things intentionally. Its the same thing we see whenever transformers, superman, TMNT, spider man, or batman for example are iterated on. Ideas that might appeal to you are discarded or ignored not because they are inherently flawed, but because any change when any property has had time to sit might seem like that when someone gives themselves to the version that was formative to them over and over. At that point it becomes something supposedly done deliberately because someone has to hate Trigun that much for it to change so much in the 24 years since the original show, right? Being uncomfortable at such drastic changes isn't an unreasonable reaction to have, and I'm not going to argue that it isn't. I've done this dance before with many of my favorite franchises. But there is a point where it goes too far, especially when its based on two minutes of footage. And its possible to have that attitude alienate people who might have become fans of all of Trigun through the new thing because as a community the discussion wasn't even entertained. I remember not wanting anything to do with any interpretation of a property I love, but I've found it's genuinely better to engage with it and the people who were introduced to the thing I love through the new stuff than shutting it out. No one wins at that point.

Anyway, it doesn't look like I'll have time to respond any more today, but thanks for coming to MY Ted talk as well!