Anime

Ginga Legend Weed

Characters

 

Weed
Jerome
Ken
Kagetora
Tesshin
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Ginga Legend Weed (銀牙伝説ウィード Ginga Densetsu Uīdo?, lit. Silver Fang Legend Weed) is an ongoing adventure manga series by Yoshihiro Takahashi. It has been published by Nihon Bungeisha in the magazine Manga Goraku since 1999, and collected in 58 bound volumes as of May 2009. It is a sequel to Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin, following the adventures of Weed, the son of Gin.

It has been adapted as an anime television series produced by Studio Deen, which was broadcast on Animax starting in November 2005. Future Film in Finland has translated the anime for Scandinavia, and released DVDs in November 2006. A complete box set was published in November 2007 (Finland and Sweden)[1][2], August 2008 (Japan)[3] and October 2008 (Denmark)[4]. No plans to release the anime for English-speakers are in the works at present date.

Ginga Densetsu Weed (Silver Fang Legend Weed) is the sequel to a Japanese series, Ginga Nageraboshi Gin, and focuses on a young pup named Weed, who is known to be the son of the great bear-hound Gin. He starts out as a lonely pup desperate to find his mother food while she suffers from induced starvation. He meets with an English Setter named GB and pleads for a dead bird that GB caught because his mother is terribly sick. Overcome with emotion, GB gives him the bird. Later, Weed loses his mother and a dog named Smith promises to take Weed to Ohu and let him meet his father. After he arrives in Ohu, Weed saves Ohu from a terrible human experiment, Kaibustsu, and becomes the new leader until his father returns. A message is passed trough that Weed's father is being held captive in the Southern Alps where the bloodthirsty Hougen has his territory. Weed must save his father and throw down this cruel leader.