It's been a minute since I've read, but I remember being similarly impressed with Trigun Maximum as I was with the Fullmetal Alchemist manga. There are a lot of similar well addressed themes of purpose, sacrafice, redemption, and manipulative world ending threats from things/abilities that were supposed to be humanities salvation. I know the community is very biased, and the FMA manga remains probably my favorite, or if not - 1a, b, or c...but Trigun Maximum ranks up there as well imo.

Don't let the charming but rushed quirkiness of the original anime fool you.

EDIT: this series does not look manga accurate though so oh well. Would have loved to see a manga accurate Angle Arms fight finally adapted for animation

I mean the fma comic is on another level of literature than pretty much most other comics in general so ya, but I think they mean like it’s just more book accurate.

I would agree that it’s unlikely. FMA:B Is a masterpiece. But that’s not what I meant. It’s a similar situation of why it’s happening (ie to do a faithful adaptation because the first entry diverged so strongly).