Weed

    (ComicsOne, 2001)
™ and © 1999 Yoshihiro Takahashi

Yoshihiro Takahashi’s Ginga Legend Weed is among a handful of canine-oriented manga that he has created; the others being Yamato the White Fighter and Ginga Nagareboshi Gin. Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, published in 1983, was actually the first part of this story. Takahashi is credited for introducing the idea of a puppy hero to Japanese comics. In 1999, Takahashi began writing the sequel to Gin, and the result is this family-oriented adventure starring Weed, a puppy who loses his mother in the Northern Alps of Japan. Before his mother dies, she tells him that he’s the son of Gin. Weed decides to travel across the land and search for his father, and he is accompanied by other dogs along the way, learning lessons about life and survival in the wild.

— Malcolm Bryant
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