Ginga Nagareboshi Gin anime

Gin is a silver brindle Akita Inu dog and he is the main character of Ginga Nagareboshi Gin.

The Story tells of him growing up to become a great bearhound. As a newborn puppy he sees his father Riki get thrown off a cliff by a giant bear Akakabuto. He is taken at a young age by Takeda Gohei to be trained as his new bear dog. His training is tough but he endures and becomes stronger than the rest of his siblings. Daisuke is Gin's good friend and trains with him after Gohei has to stay bed ridden to get better from injuries. Gin helps Daisuke make his first bear kill when he steals Doctor Hidetoshi's hunting bow and at this time Gin gets his characteristic head scars.
  When Gin encounters the wild dog pack of Ou he gets inspired and joins them, leaving Daisuke with a great pain in his heart. He saw the pack take down a bear and is willing to join because their goal is o take down Akakabuto. Their leader reminds Gin of his father Riki, but the he claims he doesn't know the silver puppy. Gin grows and matures, helping greatly with acquiring good soldiers. Other dogs are inspired by Gin's bravery. He displays great leadership skills and is picked to take over the first platoon after Ben loses his vision from the Iga dogs' poisoned spikes.

 In the final battle the wild dogs leader Riki finally recogizes Gin as his son. Gin learns a deadly attack called Zetsu Terou Battouga and kills the giant Akakabuto, but his father dies from the wounds and Gin takes over the wild dogs pack.

Ginga Nagareboshi Gin manga

The Ginga Nagareboshi Gin manga continues with Ging and his pack battling with wolves, but it doesn't have any great impact neither on Ginga Densetsu Weed anime nor mangas.

Ginga Densetsu Weed anime

In Ginga Densetsu Weed Gin is an adult dog and a leader of Ou pack. gin and his two trusted friends, John and Akame travels away from Ohu to search for Gin's long lost mate Sakura. They meet a dog named Hook who tells them that Sakura is dead, but she had a son named Weed who had gone to Ou to search for his father. On their way back Gin and his companions are ambushed by Hougen's army. Gin sends Akame back to find Weed, but he, John and the female dog named Reika are imprisoned by Hougen. Gin is wounded and kept in a ruined house untill Tesshin comes to his rescue. He appears under Gaijou in the final battle against Hougen, but he desn't help his son, as he believed it's Weed's fight and he should defeat Hougen alone.

Ginga Densetsu Weed manga

In the manga Gin's story goes a little diffrenet. Istead of being too weak to move and rescued by Tesshin, Gin escapes Hougen's prison by himself. The Ginga Densetsu Weed manga continues after defeating Hougen with Gin, Weed and their pack meeting Gin's other sons - Yukimura and Joe and helping Gin's old friend on Hokkaido defeat Russian army dogs who attacked their home.