History Anime / TheTibetanDog

* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Tibetan Mastiff King, having earned the title for defeating all the other Tibetan Mastiffs, and is the leader of their pack.

* DavidVersusGoliath: Doogee and the other Tibetan Mastiffs vs. [[spoiler:the Demon.]]

* DavidVersusGoliath: Doogee and the other Tibetan Mastiffs vs. [[spoiler:an elephant-sized monster.]]

* ClearTheirName: Doogee is spotted next to dead bodies by Jialuo, causing him and the villagers to believe he naurally killed them. Tenzing and Nuopu subsequently attempts to find out what really happened.

* FishOutOfWater: Tenzing, having moved from the city to the prairie, takes some time to adapt himself.

Can be viewed with english subtitles [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmTlIpgngkg here]].

* AnimeHair: Tenzing is strangely enough the only one who has it.

* BearsAreBadNews: The bear who appears on Tenzing's first day of herding sheep (though all it does before the Tibetan Mastiff attacks it is to curiously sniff at a horrified Tenzing.)

* WouldntHitAGirl: Doogee refuses to fight the female dog Nari.

* HotDad: Tenzing's dad.

''The Tibetan Dog'' (Chinese: 藏獒多吉; Japanese: チベット犬物語 ～金色のドージェ～) is a 2011 Chinese/Japanese animated film directed by Masayuki Kojima, co-produced by Madhouse, China Film Group Corporation and Ciwen Pictures. It features a young boy named Tenzing leaving for Tibet after [[ParentalAbandonment his mother passes away]] to live with his father in the prairies, [[ABoyAndHisX where he eventually encounters a true friend in form of a golden Tibetan Mastiff.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Tibetan Mastiff King, having earned the title for defeating all the other Tibetan dogs, and is the leader of their pack.

* BearsAreBadNews: The bear who appears on Tenzing's first day of herding sheep (though all it does before the Tibetan dog attacks it is to curiously sniff at a horrified Tenzing.)

* BigDamnHeroes: Doogee's introduction is to save Tenzing from a bear. Later the other Tibetan dogs do the same by saving him and the sheep from wolves.

* HeroicDog: The titular character, [[spoiler:complete with a HeroicSacrifice at the end.]] The rest of the Tibetan dogs counts too, all serving as badass sheep herders, fighting off wolves with little to no effort, [[spoiler:and fearlessly attacks the Demon alongside Doogee at the climax battle.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: As mentioned above. [[spoiler:Doogee battles and defeates the Demon, but is mortally wounded in the process. When witnessing Tenzing coming to his aid only to be followed by an avalanche, he gathers what's left of his strength to pull Tenzing on his back and escaping with him, making it to a cliff where he jumps to get Tenzing safely to the other side. Having managed so, Doogee himself falls down the cliff and ends up at a mountain shelf, where he dies while Tenzing cries besides him and the other Tibetan dogs howls.]]

* HowlOfSorrow: The Tibetan dogs all howl for [[spoiler:Doogee when he dies.]]

* MeaningfulName: Tenzing and Nuopu name the gold-furred Tibetan dog Doogee Yongzhi, as explained by Nuopu is the name of a magical golden stone on Kunlun Mountain.

* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:The reason's Doogee's sometimes disappear and is seen close to a crime scene of dead bodies; the Demon had killed Doogee's previous owner, and Doogee was trying his best to track him down in order to have revenge. Jialuo also becomes obsessed with getting revenge against Doogee, mistakenly believing the dog to have killed his brother.]]

* HonorBeforeReason / RevengeBeforeReason: Lampshaded by Tenzing's dad, when Doogee [[spoiler:is fighting the Demon all by himself, a monster-like creature that's the size of a ''building'', all in order to avenge his former owner. And he ''wins.'']]

* HonorBeforeReason: Lampshaded by Tenzing's dad, when Doogee [[spoiler:is fighting the Demon all by himself, a monster-like creature that's the size of a ''building'', all in order to avenge his former owner. And he ''wins.'']]

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Tenzing's dad appears indifferent to his son and spends most of his time preoccupied with his medical profession. Eventually however, he reveals to feel uncertain at how to proceed with Tenzing, and believes he hates him for not having traveled to help his mother when she fell ill, which was something Tenzing had wanted to ask him about as well.

* ButtMonkey: The (Japanese Chin?) dog Wala often has to suffer the consequences of being a miniature dog among lion-sized ones.

* ButtMonkey: The dog Wala often has to suffer the consequences of being a miniature dog among lion-sized ones.

* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: While the bear Tenzing first encounters appears rather docile, the wolves appearing later are much less so.
* HeroicDog: The titular character, [[spoiler:complete with a HeroicSacrifice at the end.]] The rest of the Tibetan dogs counts too, all serving as badass sheep hearders, fighting off wolves with little to no effort, [[spoiler:and fearlessly attacks the Demon alongside Doogee at the climax battle.]]

* BearsAreBadNews: The bear who appears on Tenzing's first day of herding sheep (though all it does before the Tibetan dog attacks it is to curiously sniff at a horrified Tenzing.)

* FishOutOfWater: Tenzing, having moved from the city to the prairie, takes some time to adapt himself.

* HonorBeforeReason: Lampshaded by Tenzing's dad, when Doogee [[spoiler:is fighting the Demon all by himself, a monster-like creature that's like the size of a ''building'', all in order to avenge his former owner. And he ''wins.'']]

* AntiVillain: Jialuo, a robber, [[spoiler:clearly hurts over his murdered brother, and obsesses over getting revenge.]]

Can be viewed with english subtitles here [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmTlIpgngkg]]

Can be viewed here [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmTlIpgngkg]]