What is TRIGUN rated, and is it OK for kids?

Better for teens than younger kids: it is rated TV-14, with strong violence.

TRIGUN (1998)

Series · 24m episodes · Rated TV-14 · In Japanese

Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English), Sci-Fi

A legendary gunfighter with a sixty-billion-dollar bounty acts like an idiot across a desert planet.

Pulpy, with big broad humor. A late-night trip at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.

Streaming on Crunchyroll.

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TRIGUN parents guide

Some innuendo or implied sex and mild language, about what a TV-14 should carry.

Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated TV-14.

Scare: Mildly scary; A few tense or eerie moments.
Jump scares: None noted
Gore: Light gore; Some blood or injury, briefly.
Violence: Strong violence; Violence is frequent or intense.
Sex and nudity: Mild; Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
Language: Mild; Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

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Three questions

Is TRIGUN scary?: Only a little. TRIGUN has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
How gory is TRIGUN?: Light gore and strong violence.
What is TRIGUN rated, and is it OK for kids?: Better for teens than younger kids: it is rated TV-14, with strong violence.

What is TRIGUN about?

Trigun takes place in the distant future on a desert planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. But the real Vash the Stampede, the enigmatic and conflicted lead character, is more heroic, even though he usually acts like a complete idiot.

Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)

It leaves things open rather than tying them up.