Silver Fang

First, the story: I love the story, maybe more than you normally would, as i wasn't very old when I first watched it, and it has therefore grown really big on me. Anyways, it the good against the evil. It has humor, ACTION, some horror elements, sorrow and a tiny bit of love. It's all about helping each other, standing together and do your best, as in many other animes. The thing that it is all about dogs makes it all the more interesting. ART: Ok, I'll admit - the art is really not very good. Same scenes are used over and over - for example when thedogs run. Also there are some technical flaws like the dogs' front legs when they run - they suddenly end up having both a shoulder, an elbow, the wrist and an extra joint! I.e. they've put a joint too much on them, but funny enough only when they run. It doesn't really have a great impact on the story, but it is just something that annoys me (being a dog-person). There hasn't been paid much attention to detail. When seeing a mass of dogs, the only differences between them is often only color, and sometimes size, but of course it's hard to make every charater different. Also, the colors of the dogs are odd, like in many other animes. Weird colors like blue and blood-red, and their color patterns are also often a bit off. I really like the soundtrack! Lots of different music suitable for every situation. Well composed and makes you feel it deep inside you! The chracters are... nothing special. We know how they each are and how they behave, but I don't think the focus is on the characters, other than perhaps just a few. Despite the bad things, I have ALWAYS enjoyed this anime, wanting to be Daisuke and tried to train my old, fat Labrador like Silver/Gin, lol! An all-time favorite for me because of the theme - dogs fighting bears with their life! A beautiful story STUFFED with action, feelings, courage - you name it! Recommendable!!!

If you ask me for my generation Ginga: Nagaberoshi Gin was a phenomenon. If you ask anyone who is around their thirties about Gin they usually have some memories about it. Even those who do not watch anime at all and that is because there were those five VHS-cassettes to blame. In my country (Finland) the most brutal and bloody scenes were censored (like the decapitation) and the anime was put together so that one episode lasted about hour and a half. I am not sure is this anime or manga very popular elsewhere but with the young finns this anime adaptation has a special placein our hearts. Even so two finnish bands: Children of Bodom and Whispered have covered the intro theme which is amazing and I never seem to get tired about it. You can find them in Youtube. This anime is about dogs with human kinda intelligence. They do not start to "talk" until you watch few episodes. So far I've never seen an anime starring dogs and maybe that's why most of us here in Finland won't think this is an anime at all in truth I found it out when I started to watch anime in my teens. We only think about the big round eyes don't we? I think this is a nice change and I really like the characters. There are many differend breeds and personas within the series. Gin is a young akita, John is a german shepherd, Ben is a great dane and I fell in love with each of them. And you can't never forget the Kai brothers. I also really like the main villains which are the bears. This is a show about dogs versus bears and I think they establish it quite well. It's a faraway mountain place so the bears can roam freely. At first I thought that why do not they just take an army there and desolate the bears but I guess the government in this universe isn't interested in a small mountain town which seems plausible so it's up to Gin and his friends to overthrow the bears and their ruler Akakabuto from the mountains. The story is mostly about gathering large enough army to challenge the bears. The bears are huge and terrifying I remember I was scared of them when I was just a small boy. In fact I don't think they are bears they are more like a bear looking monsters or demons. The bears won't "talk" and I think that makes them even more terrifying. Sometimes less is more. And there are many unique bears as there are dogs within the series: Akakabuto is sort of a main villain and he has lost an eye and gone mad from the gunshot wound to his brains. Then I remember the bear with harpoons stuck on it's back who lived in a forsaken ship which had landed ashore. The human characters are also quite good. Daisuke is a young enthustiastic boy and the owner of Gin. There are his mother and father but they reprise minor roles. Gohei is an ancient hunter and Daisuke's grandfather. He is sort of obsessed with Akakabuto which is his Moby Dick. Sometimes Gohei seems as mad as Akakabuto and he trains his dogs with brutality. He hits them and makes them eat raw bear meat. But then there are these moments of compassion which make him a better character. I remember I feared and respected him when I watched the anime in my childhood. I really like the music even thou the sound quality is bad. This anime is almost 30 years old and it has lasted quite well. You could call this a vintage anime? I started to cry when I heard the sad theme and I do not mean I was moved and few tears dropped to my cheek. I like weeped for real. This just makes me so sad and I am not even sure why because the animation is plausible/downright ugly/recycled/stilled at some points but there is so much emotion in many sad scenes at least for me. Maybe it's just nostalgia? The music is so memorable and every theme fits in to the action. I really enjoy the soundtrack. Especially the sad tunes. That's one of the reasons I start to cry when I watch this. For me some of the fight scenes are just epic even more than in a Lord of the Rings or a similar movie and this just features a dog fighting a bear. I can feel my inner manchild within when a battle begins and the music starts. Really if I take the nostalgia glasses off I think the final score is somewhere between 8 or 9. Otherwise I might give this 10 out of 10. I try to be objective but with our generation of finns Ginga: Nagaberoshi Gin will forever be remembered. In the end the story is solid and the characters are good you kinda miss them when the series are over and that's usually a good sign. You have emotionally connected with them so that means they are believable. I could recommend this to you if you dislike anime or are just starting the hobby. Without the people as main cast it might get you over your prejudices about anime and see it as an art form which has so many ways and styles and stories to express itself. Somethings are outright silly: the dogs have some kind of super powers. They lift giants rocks, use special attacks, use the wind to traverse big cliffs and so on. But all in all a great classic anime for me!

okay, not gonna lie, this is got to be in my top 3 animes ever, im still sort of a noob when it comes to anime, so maybe that could change, anywho, this show was amazing, it was a little different to me at first, because i have seen a lot of supernatural powers stuff, and most of this was completely realistic, the action in it is amazing, and it is very adventurous as well, it's a little stiff when it comes to comedy (there isn't too much comedy in this at all, just some minor parts) but i was okay with that because itwas very emotional to me, once i started watching this, i couldn't stop for any short period of time at all, once i grew to it, i didn't watch anything else, this was it, if it was a newly started anime, i would have a hard time going a week to wait for the next episode, (or however long it really was between episodes) it has a really good story to it, the art is really good (for being the 1980s at least) if the art was like what it is now adays i would've probalby given it a 5 at most, but it's old, so i will keep it at 8, the music in it, outstanding though the quality is low (once again 1980s) it was really good music though, the characters are amazing even the humans the only thing that keeps me from giving it a 10, instead of a 9, is that i really liked the relationship between the humans and dogs in this series, but i wish there was more involvement with the humans, i mean not too much involvement, but enough to the point where maybe daisuke could help Gin out a bit more in the series, maybe not much more, but a little more, the dogs however, they all have great personalities, and they are perfect, Enjoyment, well as i stated previously i couldn't stop watching it, it kept me exited for every episode, i wanted to just watch it endlessly. things that you might want to note, it can be a bit on the gory side, it's sequel Ginga Densetsu Weed, is actually even more on the gory side, but it is still worth the watch, it made me pretty emotional, you could say it moved me a bit.

This anime is about a Akita dog named Gin who is noticeably more intelligent and athletic than the other dogs from the time he is a small puppy, he is very brave and does not even flinch when a rifle is fired right next to his head. His owner is a badass bear hunter named Takeda Gohei who is still very fit and strong even in his 68th year. The bear hunter Takeda Gohei lost his previous bear-dog Shiro to the monster bear Akakabuto and was attacked by the bear as well giving him several large scars across his face. Takeda Gohei had shot thebear in the eye and the bullet lodged in his brain, causing the bear to become even more aggressive and grow insanely large. The bear is also intelligent and recruits other bears into his crew and threatens to conquer the whole region. Gin is given training from hell from his owner Gohei which he will use in later battles. Gin eventually goes off on his own with a pack of wild dogs and decides to recruit other dogs from all over Japan into his army to defeat the monster bear Akakabuto. As you can probably guess this anime has alot of action and the interesting story will always keep you wanting more, I strongly recommend this anime to anyone who likes action series, I give it a 10/10 overall.