I think you all are wondering, what is this show about in the first place. You know it has something to do with dogs right?
Well, yeah. It has to do with dogs and humans - but mainly dogs.
Ok, so the plot is that in Japan or Canada, I'm sorry I'm not sure, you see in that Legendary version it was said that this whole thing took place in Canada, that makes sense right, oh wait I haven't tell you anything yet.
Here's the plot in the nutshell.
It's Moby Dick!
I'm not even kidding, it's Moby Dick!
- With bears instead of whales.
Way way back when in some time there was an old man named Gohei who was a hunter and was hunting a bear with he's trusty old dog who was Gin's grandfather. Gohei missed a shot and ever since the bear he was hunting could only see with a one eye and couldn't hibernate this lead that the Bear became aggressive, smart, vicious and really really big, which actually happens if bears don't hibernate, no shit that's what they do!
Anyways the bear was known ever since as Akakabuto and started to terrorize the nearby skiing resort. And now we can go back to the whole place issue. You see while I haven't been in Japan and I don't really like to go there I've understood that Japan is a rather small place with a ton of people on it, but I don't really know if there is any bears so I can only make the guess that if there ever was a crazy bear terrorizing a skiing resort Japanese government would send the army there to napalm the whole forest to kill that bear, but in here they only send some hunters who then refuse to kill the bear because it's too dangerous 'cause that makes sense right?
Now if this would take place in Canada it would make more sense, you see while I never been in Canada either I know that it's a big place with less people living there than say Japan, now if a bear would be terrorizing a Canadian skiing resort it would make more sense that they wouldn't be doing so much, because Canada is a big place and a bear is well, rather small when you come to think about it besides it would have died for natural causes. Keep in mind though that I'm not insulting Canadians here, ok? I'm just saying that Canada is a big place and it's surprisingly easy to loose a bear in such a place.
Then again they eat rice and so for, so hell if I know where this takes place! Let's just say that this takes place in Jacapanada and move on.
So Akakabuto is killing people and terrorizing the local skiing resort and only one crazy man is willing to hunt down the said bear, but he has a new dog Ricky (martin) who dies trying to rescue Gin, it's a long story watch the anime and thus Gin wows revenge on Akakabuto and then Gohei takes Gin away to train him so he would make him the greatest bear hunting dog some day. And then the Gin's owner Daisuke decides to hunt down that same bear. Also Gin's dad is presumed death, but only lost he's memory and thus is leading an army of dogs trying to kill Akakabuto who is also gathering an army of bears and fortifying the mountains, I'm so not even kidding. Gin eventually joins he's dad's side who doesn't remember Gin, but sends him away with some other dogs to gather an army to kill Akakabuto and he's army which they do and the old man get's he's revenge like Ahab.
So that's basically the plot. It's a long show with twists and so on, but that's basically it. There is also references on old samurai stories and characters like there is a dog called Musashi like the legendary samurai sword master Musashi, there is Iga and Koga-clans who are in a war with each other and jump on trees and now we know have the reason why the Koga clan in Ninja Scroll was so bad. The show also relies heavily on samurai virtues and bushido code.
So yeah that's the show. The technicals? Well the show looks good for it's time I know that the manga had the dogs doing all kinds of martial art movements and saying they're names and so on but that's not in the show. The animation is good, even though some fight scenes rely heavily on still images and speed lines much like DB&DBZ, it's really tedious and boring from time to time. Oh, and the intro to this show is awesome! Check it out!
The dub? Well like I said the original Finnish dub is hit and miss, mostly miss. The Japanese dub is solid I guess? I really don't know, 'cause I didn't pay much of attention to it not to mention I really don't know that much about Japanese voice acting so there you go. The English dub? Well I was surprised to hear that this show hasn't been brought in US. or other English speaking nations, but I do know that an English fandub exists so, yeah.
Well that's that stay tuned for the exiting finale.
The awesome opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lgRoburY3g
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