I'm finding that I often need more than one episode to get into an Anime. Some of my favorites have all been ones whose first episode I would describe as, "not exciting" me into watching the rest of the show. Natsume Yuujin-chou, Naruto, InuYasha, just to name a few. Now, I can say the same thing about Trigun.I was resistant to it at first because a) it's on Netflix and I hate dubs and 2) the first episode was not exciting to me. But, not having internet (so right now Netflix is my only source of Anime) I decided to give it another shot.
Now, only 6 episodes in, I'm actually really enjoying it! I like how Vash always seems to find himself inadvertently involved in maelstroms of disaster and mayhem. I like how he seems to wiggle out of them, though it's never clear whether his escape was intentional or purely by accident, and I like that on top of it, he also manages to save the town and everyone in it, somehow.
It is an old show, and in this day it's painfully obvious in the animation, and Vash's American voice gets on my nerves sometimes, but all that can be forgiven; it's just pure fun. I do hope to watch it in Japanese, at some point, though.
[*Edit*]
I hated the end. It should have had more episodes or another season. And Hulu now has it in Japanese, fyi.
