Trivia / Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin

• Creator Backlash: The Wolf Arc. The only reason it came to be was because Takahashi was told to keep on drawing the series and he has all but pretended it didn't even exist in his later works.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Gin is voiced by Eiko Yamada, a girl. Likewise with Smith the male dog who was voiced by the woman Kyōko Tongū. He is also dubbed by female voice actors such as Beatrice Järås of the swedish dub who was also dubbing most of the female characters. Daisuke is voiced by Chika Sakamoto who was well known for voicing Mei from My Neighbor Totoro and Agumon from Digimon.
• Dawson Casting: With the combination with Crossdressing Voices above which is common with japanese voice acting, Daisuke who is a 12 years old boy was voiced by a 27 years old woman, Chika Sakamoto.
  • In the Finnish, Swedish, and Danish dub Daisuke and Gin is voiced by adult voice actors despite him being being 12 years old and Gin being 1 year old during the time when he starts speaking.
    • In the Swedish dub they are both voiced by 30 year old actor Staffan Hallerstam, but sounds much younger even if not like a child.

    • In the Finnish dub they are voiced by a 50 year old Pertti Nieminen, but similar to to the Swedish voice, he manages to sound relatively young without making the voice sound forced. The impressive part is the fact that the actor's natural voice was very deep and baritone like. As Gin and Daisuke he has a raspy and somewhat nasal voice and sounds like a man in his 20s.
    • In the Hungarian version they are voiced by real kids, which makes them naturally childlike.
    • In the Norwegian version they are voiced by actress Kari Ann Grønsund, who was 40 during the time but speaks with her trademark raspy voice that makes her sound younger and has used this voice in several cartoons when voicing child or teenage characters
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: A subbed version of the anime was put out some time ago that was much better than the infamous blue subtitles version. However, since the website has since shut down, the only place to find this subbed version is on YouTube. It should be noted the first half (Episodes 1-10) were done by one sub group and the rest of the episodes (Episodes 11-21) were done by a different group using the same formatting.
• What Could Have Been: Before Takahashi settled on using wolves for the second story arc of the manga, his publisher suggested a new Big Bad bear named Aokabuto, but Takahashi refused to do it.
• Also known as Silver Fang in most dubs and Hopeanuoli in the Finnish dub.
• Troubled Production:
  • The Finnish dub went through this. The dub was made and released in 1989 based on the Swedish version, and done by the company named Golden Voice Oy. The company had recently started it's business that same year and received many dubbing jobs with this one being one of them. Unfortunately due to this, this along with some others, had to be done with some rush. Accompanied with limited resources during the time the quality of the dub became slightly inconsistent with the 2 first films being mostly very good with some flaws, while the 2 last ones being similar but with more noticeable amount of flaws, like some characters voices changing occasionally and for some permanently (having different voice in the second movie but by the start of the third being different) However the series became popular in Finland too and many fans have accepted the dub too and considering it good in it's own right.
  • Also according to an interview in 2015, the distributor named Lars Backlund bought the rights from Sweden already in 1986, but release wasn't until 1989, which might mean/hint that they struggled to get companies to dub the program. This is probably due to it's violence, and the fact that it was anime which wasn't popular in Finland until ironically this was released. He didn't elaborate on this though, and rather casually said it. This is probably due to the fact that the interview didn't focus on the Dub but rather on the history how it came to Finland and how it's doing there these days.