Silver Fang

It was licensed in North America in 2020 by Manga Planet. The series tells the story of a young Akita Inu pup called Gin (Japanese for "silver") who leaves his master, a young boy named Daisuke, to join a pack of wild dogs. The pack is gathering strong dogs from all over Japan to fight a giant, monstrous, bloodthirsty and deranged Ussuri brown bear named Akakabuto (Japanese for "red helmet") and his entire army of bears. The story begins from the point of view of the humans, but swings to the dogs afterwards. Takahashi was reportedly inspired by a news article about hunting dogs that had been abandoned by their owners and had begun living as wild animals. The manga was adapted as a 21-episode anime television series by Toei Animation, simply titled as Silver Fang, which aired on TV Asahi and its affiliates from April to September 1986. It received the 1987 Shogakukan Manga Award for best series. A sequel manga by Takahashi, titled Weed, was published from 1999 to 2009, with four other series following since.

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• Title — Sequel • Content — * Weed

• Type — tv series • Title — Silver Fang • Director — Tomoharu Katsumata • Producer — Morihiro Kato (TV Asahi) • Writer — * Mitsuru Majima • Kenji Terada • Music — Gorō Oumi • Studio — Toei Animation • Network — ANN (TV Asahi) • First — April 7, 1986 • Last — September 22, 1986 • Episodes — 21

• Type — manga • Author — Yoshihiro Takahashi • Publisher — Shueisha • Imprint — Jump Comics • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Jump • First — December 12, 1983 • Last — March 23, 1987 • Volumes — 18

• Name — Silver Fang: The Shooting Star Gin • Ja Kanji — 銀牙 -流れ星 銀- • Ja Romaji — Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin

During the Autumn on 1983, a hunter named Takeda Gohei is famous for his bear hunting skills with his trained dog, Riki. A large bear given the name Akakabuto has been causing trouble in the mountains of Ou, killing humans, cattle and wild dogs. Gohei trains Riki's son, Gin, a silver striped Akita Inu, to be his next bear hunting dog after Akakabuto supposedly kills Riki. However, Gin meets a pack of wild dogs under the leadership of an amnesia suffering Riki, and leaves his owners to travel Japan with the pack to find other dogs and take down Akakabuto once and for all.

The TV series was produced by TV Asahi and Toei Animation, with Tomoharu Katsumata serving as series director, Mitsuru Majima and Kenji Terada writing the scripts, Jōji Yanase designing the characters, and Gorō Oumi composing the music. It was broadcast every Monday from 19:30 to 20:00 (Japan Standard Time) on TV Asahi affiliate stations from April 7 to September 22, 1986, for a total of 21 episodes. The anime adaptation ended with the Akakabuto arc, and the Hakkenshi arc was not produced. In addition, the development of the last half of the story is simplified, with some dogs lacking any lines and their appearances reduced compared to the original manga. Takayuki Miyauchi performed both the opening and ending themes, "Nagareboshi Gin" and "TOMORROW".