History Anime / GingaDensetsuWeed

* TheChick: Reika, so very much. She doesn't miss out on a Crowning Moment, though.

* HotBlooded - Kyōshirō. Weed by definition. ''Everyone'' gets their moments, often overlapping with their CrowningMomentofAwesome.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas No, Weed isn't]] [[TheStoner what he's smoking.]] Also not to be confused for Anime/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes AKA ''Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu''.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas No, Weed isn't]] [[TheStoner what he's smoking.]]

* SchrodingersCat: Both of Weed's friends die towards the end of the series - [[spoiler:Jerome]] (anime), [[spoiler:GB]] (manga)

[[IThoughtThatWas No, Weed isn't]] [[TheStoner what he's smoking.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Large dog breeds like Akita Inu (Gin), Tosa Inu (Musashi) and Great Danes (Ben) have an average lifespan of maximum 10-12 years (6 to 8 years in the latter's case). In the manga, the TimeSkip since ''Nagareboshi Gin'' is 10 years, making it plausible for them all to still be alive (save Ben). The anime however, changes the time skip to 14 years instead, certainly pushing the boundaries, specially when wild dogs in general have a shorter lifespan than owned dogs do.

* GenerationXerox: Weed is a dead ringer for dear old Dad. Pretty amazing considering [[LegoGenetics his mother has white fur]].

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Weed, who's barely ''a year old'' (the equivalent to a 7-10 year old child), somehow develops an immense understanding of life and death, justice and evil, which is particularily noticable in his speech to the puppies in episode 16 (who are what, a few months younger than him?) Fans' opinion differ on whether it's impressive or an AssPull.

* OffModel: The ''Weed'' adaptation is ''really'', '''''really''''' bad with this, to the point of [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]]. One wonders if the animators were too used to drawing humans... or [[TheyJustDidntCare whether they cared]].

* ArmyOfTheDead: [[spoiler:While they're not doing any actual fighting, the spirits of all the past Ohu soldiers (including the recently deceased such as Smith and John) appears at Weed's battle against Hougen, giving Weed the strength to stand up again after he's nearly been defeated, and simultaneously gives Hougen a bad scare by directly speaking to him, apparently only being visible to him and Weed. And when Weed's next Battouga misses, a sudden powerful wind is created to send him spinning straight back towards Hougen. (The manga version is especially intense.)]]
** In the anime only, they're also implied to have [[spoiler:created the lightning that ultimately kills Hougen.]]

* ChangingOfTheGuard: Most of the characters from ''GingaNagareboshiGin'' get sons or otherwise similar characters to take over their roles.

* {{Rewrite}}: The first episode offers a flashback to the ending of ''GingaNagareboshiGin'', changing some facts around such as decreasing the number of dogs present, narrating the attack was lead by Gohei when originally he only appeared at the last minute, and most prominently showing Gin defeating Akakabuto by tearing through his stomach with his Battouga as opposed to originally decapitating him.

* RetiredBadass: The old dogs who used to be Ōu warriors in GingaNagareboshiGin.

* CharacterDevelopment: Special mention goes to Smith who went from being the PluckyComicRelief to the ObiWan in ten years.

* AffectionateParody: A series of comic pages done by Website/{{Deviant|art}} artist [=IsisMasshiro=], parodying episodes [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/The-pro-slaughterers-1-104485979 4]], [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/Kaibutsu-s-rise-and-fall-1-129138845 5 and 6.]]

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* {{Chickification}}: Unfortunately, this happened to Lydia after her HeelFaceTurn in the later arcs. It also apples to Cross, though it started in the first anime/manga.

* SuicideAttack: Jerome and his comrades, whose tactic consists of charging Kaibutsu one by one and bite into his chest area, where his heart is located. Doing so, Kaibutsu will pull them off, killing them in the process, but not without them using his own force to rip parts of his chest out, leaving more and more access to his heart for the next attacker. By the time it's Jerome's turn, he reaches all the way in to his heart, however, ends up letting go as his injuries are too great. Although the attack does give Weed's group the opportunity to off Kaibutsu themselves, having progressively slowed him down and weakened him.

* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Victor and his Russian Dog Army in Hokkaidō arc

Now has a [[Characters/GingaDensetsuWeed character sheet.]] No, Weed isn't [[TheStoner what he's smoking.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The anime is ''alot'' less violent than the manga. One prime example would be [[spoiler:the torture of John by Hougen and his followers. In the manga, John's stomach has been ripped so that part of his intestines are hanging out, resulting in Hougen grabbing and ''pulling them out'', only to have John ''bite them clean off'' causing them to be [[{{Squick}} flunged at Hougen's face.]] In the anime, this is toned down to Hougen impaling John on a branch, a branch that John then removes to throw at Hougen's face.]]

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Akame and Tesshin both count, like whoa. Tesshin is even referred to as the 'ninja dog of Kōga'.

* InTheBlood: Weed inherits natural strength from his father the way Gin did from Riki.

* TheReveal: Weed has two older brothers, Joe and Yukimura. They were taken care of by another male dog as Sakura had been too sickly and weak to care for three puppies.

** [[spoiler:While GB isn't a bad guy, he often curses himself for his cowardice, until they fight the hybrid bear in which he finally finds his courage and furiously attacks and wounds it. However, he suffers lethal wounds in return and dies shortly afterwards [[DiedInYourArmsTonight while Weed hugs him.]]]]

* SadisticChoice: A rare example with a minor villain character in GB's backstory where he reveals to Weed that he had met Hougen once before, during a time when he had looked after a couple of abandoned puppies. One day he decided to risk showing them to Nero, hoping he'd accept them seeing how cute they were. His timing was awful however, as the day he showed up with them was the same day Hougen was controlling Nero's territory, and upon seeing the puppies, he (Hougen) threw a fit and questioned Nero where they came from, blaming him for breeding without his consent and hiding females from him. Nero desperately tried to explain the puppies weren't his, to which Hougen then ordered for the puppies to be thrown in front of him... and asking him to kill them if he was telling the truth. Nero, knowing Hougen would kill him instead if he refused to kill them, conceded. [[ForcedToWatch While poor GB was watching.]] And Hougen was laughing.

* AffectionateParody: A series of comic pages done by Website/Deviant{{art}} artist [=IsisMasshiro=], parodying episodes [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/The-pro-slaughterers-1-104485979 4]], [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/Kaibutsu-s-rise-and-fall-1-129138845 5 and 6.]]

* AffectionateParody: A series of comic pages done by [[{{Deviantart}} Deviant]] artist [=IsisMasshiro=], parodying episodes [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/The-pro-slaughterers-1-104485979 4]], [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/Kaibutsu-s-rise-and-fall-1-129138845 5 and 6.]]

* ThouShaltNotKill: Somewhat zig-zagged with Weed as he is willing to kill an enemy in self-defense or otherwise when it's the last way out, but killing someone who're defenseless and/or are pleading for their lives is a major BerserkButton for him, [[spoiler:to the point he even refuses to kill the BigBad when the latter's been wounded so badly he can hardly stand, and lectures his father and everyone present for wanting to do so.]]

* ArmyOfTheDead: [[spoiler:While they're not doing any actual fighting, the spirits of all the past Ohu soldiers (including the recently deceased ones such as Smith and John) appears at Weed's battle against Hougen, giving Weed the strength to stand up again after he's nearly been defeated, and simultaneously gives Hougen a bad scare by directly speaking to him, apparently only being visible to him and Weed. And when Weed's next Battouga misses, a sudden powerful wind is created to send him spinning straight back towards Hougen. (The manga version is especially intense.)]]

* AffectionateParody: A series of comic pages done by Deviantartist Isismasshiro, parodying episodes [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/The-pro-slaughterers-1-104485979 4]], [[http://isismasshiro.deviantart.com/art/Kaibutsu-s-rise-and-fall-1-129138845 5 and 6.]]