History YMMV / GingaNagareboshiGin

** [[spoiler:Gin flipping John on his back, momentarily defeating him. Perhaps even more so in the manga where John is ''seriously'' pissed for being caught off guard by a pup.]]

** [[spoiler:Gin flipping John on his back, momentarily defeating him. Perhaps even more so in the manga where John is ''seriously'' pissed for being beaten by a "little kid".]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would constantly tear each other a new one, break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate man-eating bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode and censored about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' [[spoiler:(instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his [[SpinAttack Battouga]], it was edited so it merely looked like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would constantly tear each other a new one, break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate man-eating bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode and censored about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his [[SpinAttack Battouga]], it was edited so it merely looked like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

** Gin and Daisuke's goodbye in the last episode, ''so'' bad. Daisuke tries to approach Gin, but is then stopped by the other dogs, snarling at him for getting too close to their new leader. Daisuke complies and settles with simply talking to Gin from a distance, telling him they will always be true friends and he can come for a visit whenever he wants. Through this, Gin is so shocked to see his old human he appears to not know what to do, and can only stare with teary eyes. Daisuke then says goodbye and runs off, leaving Gin to nearly break into tears before being interrupted by the dying Riki, telling him not to cry as it's a day of celebration.

** Gin defeating Sniper, complete with the show's theme song playing as battle music.

* TheScrappy: Hyena

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the serie didn't recieve much attention in either Japan or America (due to animes starring animals not being a huge thing), it became a hit in Scandinavia and Finland, even having the anime being dubbed into each of the languages, the serie (while being majorly censored) released on VHS, and the manga currently translated into finnish.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Akakabuto and his minions with their ghastly visage and brutal slaughterings of humans are meant to scare the living daylights out of the viewers. For instance, in one flashback scene a group of lumberjacks are attacked, and we see how one of the men visibly panicked tries to crawl away from the bear towards the fourth wall, only to have the bear notice him and pounce him. Given the context of being a kids show, demonic bears killing people while eerie music plays is what one would objectively call High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
** This troper ''still'' has nightmares about Akakabuto, 20 years after the first viewing of GNG.

** Even if it didn't really do anything, Daisuke ramping off a snowbank to crash his snowmobile into Akakabuto. How many people can claim they've throat-punched a bear with a snowmobile?

** Even if it didn't really do anything, Daisuke throat-punching Akakabuto with a snowmobile was still pretty awesome.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the serie didn't recieve much attention in either Japan or America (due to animes starring animals not being a huge thing), it became a huge hit in Scandinavia and Finland, even having the anime being dubbed into each of the languages, the serie (while being majorly censored) released on VHS, and the manga currently translated into finnish.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the serie didn't recieve much attention in either Japan or America, it became a huge hit in Scandinavia and Finland, even having the anime being dubbed into each of the languages, the serie (while being majorly censored) released on VHS, and the manga currently translated into finnish.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would constantly tear each other a new one, break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode and censored about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his [[SpinAttack Battouga]], it was edited so it merely looked like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would constantly tear each other a new one, break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode and censored about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his [[SpinAttack Battouga]], it was edited so it merely looks like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would constantly tear each other a new one, break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode and censored about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his [[SpinAttack Battouga]], it's edited so it merely looks like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the serie didn't recieve much attention in either Japan or America, it became a huge hit in Scandinavia and Finland, having the anime being dubbed into each of the languages, the serie (while being majorly censored) released on VHS, and the manga currently translated into finnish.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would constantly tear each other a new one, break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode and censored about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his Battouga, it's edited so it merely looks like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode and censored about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his Battouga, it's edited so it merely looks like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate bears. Which is when they probably went into panic mode of censoring about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his Battouga, it's edited so it merely looks like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The people behind the VHS versions of the show released in Scandinavia and Finland must have figured it was a kids' flick given how the story centers around cute, cuddly dogs. That is, until they saw how the dogs would break each other's necks, commit suicide, have their eyes pierced with a scythe, cry blood and decapitate bears. Which is when they went into panic mode of censoring about one half of the show, even cutting out ''how it ended'' (instead of showing Gin giving Akakabuto the final strike by tearing his head off with his Battouga, it's edited so it merely looks like it was Gohei's bullet that did the job.)

** Believe it or not, but Pink Dragon is [[AllThereInTheManual apparently supposed to be male]].

* TheScrappy: Hyena and Daisuke