Ginga Fandom Survey

[SoullessDog]

So, I was looking at the Old Board and found the Ginga Fandom Survey. I've seen it a few times in the past and I enjoyed seeing everyone's answers. Then I remembered that GB doesn't have a Ginga Fandom Survey. I brought it up in Casual Chat and Arano told me I was free to make one.

The original survey was created by MitchFox, so shout out to him. I'm not completely copying his topic, there are some very slight differences.

Ginga Fandom Survey

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?

6. Do you roleplay?

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)

16. What pairing(s) do you love?

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.


My Answers

1. I found out about GDW when I stumbled upon a fanfic on a site I won't mention. Let's just say that it's a particular side of the fandom that I don't think I should mention here. But from there, I looked up the characters and found out about the GDW anime.

2. Sadly, none.

3. I'm currently reading GDW:O, and it's the only of the mangas I've read. So by default, GDW:O.

4. Sadly, none.

5. GDW.

6. I'm currently in a roleplay.

7. Ginga Board.

8. Weed.

9. Tough question, memory's not too good. I would guess some of the villains: Hougen, Genba, Sniper, Lector, and Thunder. I don't know why, I can't help but love them.

10. I don't think there's a character everyone else loves that I don't. Maybe the characters in the manga that I haven't read yet.

11. Definitely Weed, and I think I'm kinda feeling something for Sirius. Aside from them, I'm not really sure who everyone else hates that I love.

12. I can't think of any characters I used to love and don't anymore.

13. Riki, Gin, Weed, Orion, Tesshin, Jerome, John, the list goes on. Pretty much the ones I could trust not to rip up my bed.

14. Kamakiri: I would definitely kill him. You have the other villains, which have a character you can't help but like. And then you have Kamakiri.

15. Don't know. Maybe Lydia's life in Russia? Or Ken and Kagetora during their war against Kaibutsu?

16. There's a lot of pairings I like or can see working. To me, it depends on the story. But I love male/male pairings. A few favorites of mine: Weed x Kyoushiro, GB x Rocket, Ken x Kagetora, John x Gin, Orion x Yamabiko.

17. I don't really hate any pairings, unless the relationship in the story if detrimental. I guess in canon, Weed x Koyuki is detrimental.

18. I really like this community we have on Ginga Board. The people I've interacted with here are nice and fairly open-minded. Some of them have some really interesting ideas in the form of fanfics and AUs ideas. Some have great artwork. And others are just nice to talk to. It's kinda nice that the fandom is small, makes us like one of those small towns where everyone knows each other, you know?

19. I've seen many sides of the fandom, and not all are good. So far, the people on Ginga Board seem alright, but there are other sites with other sides of the fandom. There's some hate. Plus, I wish there were more fans of Ginga.

20.

• I've heard that he's only continued with Ginga because others wanted him to, so I guess I'd want him to retire so that he can rest.

• Ask him for permission for myself and other fans to rewrite Ginga.

[LIBRAKIND]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?

I'll be honest...I don't remember how I heard about it, but I remember when I did, I googled it and was like "What the hell?? Where can I watch this???" I watched the anime, GDW first bc i was a fool and didn't know. This was around like 2007-2008.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?

I... dont have any lmao.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?

I enjoyed GNG the most and that's prob gonna stay true the further I go along.....

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?

Plushes, figures, keychains and a bunch of other things.....

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?

GNG Anime.

6. Do you roleplay?

No not really.


7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
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The Ginga Board
The only one I ever been on lmao

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?

Tesshin (and Jerome)

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?

Uhhh... that was prob John? Didn't care about him at all at first.

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.

I don't think I have a character like that.

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.

That might be Hougen. Maybe I honestly don't know lmao.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.

Hmmm, that may be Kamakiri? I don't necessarily dislike him but I dont like him as much as I did when I was younger.


13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.

Probably Mel. He's a baby.

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate? Be as graphic with the details as the rules allow. (I figure a lot of people would probably want to hurt Weed, and definitely Sirius)

Probably punt them into a cliff.

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)

Kurojakiiiiii. I wanna see more of his Koga shenanigans.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?

I don't really ship Ginga characters but Great x Bemu amuses me.

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?

Prob Weed and Koyuki just bc of how weird they had to make it on how she resembles his mom.

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?

I love seeing the ocs people make!

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?

That it's small.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.

I'd wish for the poor man to just REST. That's really my only wish. Just let him go publishers please.

[Arano]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
I first saw bits of the GNG anime as a random Youtube video in 2006.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
All variations of GNG, all Weed specials and one-off non-Ginga stories... Too many books to itemise!

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
GNG

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
Too much

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GNG

6. Do you roleplay?
No

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
c:

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Gin... closely followed by Benizakura

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
-

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Jerome

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Love is too strong a word but I guess Sirius is the most controversial choice. I like his problematic-ness.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
-

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
All the females that get axed from the storyline and sent off to be a pet lol

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Turn them into a meme

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
I'd like to see a stand alone warrior female protag story.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
-

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
The creepy fan pairings of Weed x Jerome and Weed x Hougen.

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
That it's small, cosy!

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
... Also a product of it being small; the reliance on fan-translations for english readers.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
I mean this in the nicest way possible: after GDN, please retire.

[Jinto]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
Saw GNG anime for the first time 2004-2006 maybe? Can't remember

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
I only have four last mangas of GTLW as I started bying them towards the end of last year. But soon GDN starts being in the stores.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
My favourite that I have read is GDWO

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
DVD's. Nothing else

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GNG

6. Do you roleplay?
No

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Here

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Gin

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Orion

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
I don't know

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Weed, Sirius (not everyone but many do)

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
No one for this


13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Bon because his more wholesome than others and Shion because he behaves well

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
I really don't hate or dislike any Ginga character too much

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
Don't know. Maybe someone new.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
-

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Anything too weird

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
People are friendly and some do hard work to translate the newest mangas. And the fact that after all these years since the original series there are still fans. Both new and old.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
I don't know

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
Try to get GDWO anime happen, end the series and take a well deserved rest.

[Razzoruu]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
In 2011.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
I have too many, I'm trying to collect at least every translated manga. Currently I'm only missing some volumes from GDW and GNG.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
Weed 60 is my favorite volume.

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
A few figures, a keychain from Manga museo, DVDs, PP plushies, posters

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
Story wise I choose GDW but I prefer the old style in GNG.

6. Do you roleplay?
No

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Ginga board

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Weed

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Akakama , Sasuke , Yukimura

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Andy , Gin , Akame

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Sirius , Monsoon , Koyuki

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
Bon , Orion

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Mel

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
I would make them regret the annoying thing they did and probably kill them off.

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
Sasuke or Bella

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
Weed x Koyuki

17. What pairing(s) do you dislike?
Jerome x Lydia

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
People are so nice !

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
I don't know.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
-Have characters show more emotions by making them more expressive. Yukimura is a good example.
-Add the karelian bearhound the finns have been wishing for.
-Give Weed some badass scars.
-Please, let Gin, Kurotora and Cross rest already, give them an honorable death.
-It would be awesome if the dead ones could meet their loved ones as a ghost or something. I really want Orion and Sirius to meet. Also GB and Weed.

[kahooton]

Ginga Fandom Survey

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?

About 2014 on someone's instagram post. I think it was the GDW figures drawn exactly as they seem meme

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?

I only have the official Japanese GDW artbook currently

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?

GDWO for sure

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?

All the GDW figures, a Murder S keychain, Red shark glow collar gin, homemade clay boys, and the chutora plushie I recently finished! Also have a Hougen and John PP plush coming in the mail soon

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?

GDW; I watched it first and it honestly has such a special place in my heart

6. Do you roleplay?

eh sometimes! It depends

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?

this one

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?

Jerome

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?

Sniper/Murder S Kurotora Moss Hougen.

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.

Bellatrix Sasuke

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.

Hougen Bon Murder S Terumune

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.

Kyoushiro and Weed, also kinda Jerome

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.

John, Bon, Sirius, Rigel, or Kagetora

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?

I have no idea- they're dogs

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)

More of the kai dogs for sure!!

16. What pairing(s) do you love?

Kagetora x Ken and Jinnai x Kirikaze

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?

any pairing where we have no idea who the mother is

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?

Everyone here is so kind and together! I know just about everyone here and it's like a big community! I love it

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?

Not much actually

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.

- who the hell are all the mothers we don't know out there
- make more badass females
- make a chutora spinoff of his death or something
- what happened between GNG and GDW

[Spirit Tree]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
Back in early 2016 during my first year of college. Found the GDW anime on YouTube and have been into the series ever since.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
I don't have any of those mangas. Sorry.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
I'm not really sure. I just don't have an answer to that.

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
I don't own any merchandise.

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
I prefer the GNG anime.

6. Do you roleplay?
No I don't. Not sure if I will.

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Only here on Ginga Board.

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
I would say Riki.

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
I did not expect to love Ben. But after seeing him more in GNG, he's one of my favorites.

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Kurotora; Kyoushiro

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Not sure about this one.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
I kind of like Weed, but I really don’t care much about him anymore. Not after what he has become since GDWO.

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Riki and Orion (because I need dogs that can protect me from evil people); Smith, GB, and Sasuke (because I would like to have dogs that can make me laugh)

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Send him into oblivion.

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
I would like to see a story about GB from birth. Others I would like to see are Jerome, Lydia, and more story of Riki and how he and Fuji met.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
Love pairings
Jerome and Lydia
Riki and Fuji
Gin and Sakura
Weed and Koyuki

Best friend/special bond pairings
Gin and Smith
Gin and John
Gin and Ben
Weed and GB
Weed and Jerome
Weed and Mer
Orion and Noah
Orion and Bon
Orion and Yamabiko

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Sirius and Monsoon

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
The members are nice and great to hang around with. I consider every member on Ginga Board a friend.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
...I really don’t want to say.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
Since TLW was so full of crap and had such an abrupt and bizarre ending, I wish that Yoshi will end GDN with a better ending and end the Ginga series with a bang so he can finally retire peacefully. Along the GDN progress, I wish that Yoshi will give Orion a beautiful female as his love interest and make Bon and Bella love each other as well.

[Dragon]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
Back when I was like... 11? My friend showed me GDW. Sadly I didn't get into it back then D;

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
I have 2 different versions of the whole GNG set, a random GDWO book [volume 29], a random GDW book [volume 14] and volume 1 of english GDW!

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
Well...I can't read any of the physical ones ouo; But I do love rereading the Russian arc and GDWO!

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
A Jerome plush (soon Gin+John!), a Riki pin from Regnant, and a GDWO face mask! I also got a DVD set of GDW.
One day, I'd like to get a keychain or pin too. Also one of the cool shirts!

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
It's soooo hard to say. The GDW anime was really really good.. I think I still love GNG a bit more though >.<

6. Do you roleplay?
I do but privately and only with Knight! 0:

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Gingaboard and sometimes I lurk to see if GingaScans is ever back from the dead Maybe I should get back to posting there again...

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
John =u= He was just too cool.

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Izou, Akakamakiri, and Gin. Izou was so casted aside for all of GDW, but in GDWO omg I love him. Aka, I totally thought he was just going to be a red clone of his dad, but wow what a turn around. Probably one of Yoshi's finest work of character development. And Gin as an adult was boring to me, but Knight helped me find a way to love him!

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Benizakura... Kurojaki ... Daisuke? Terry? I don't think people love them, but they're surprisingly treated kinder than I'd expect. o3o;

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Orion/Sirius.. hmm... I dunno what characters are actually hated, but I'll say ones that I've seen criticized: Masamune, Yukimura, Jerome, Viktor, Bon

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
I'm sure everyone can relate to KJyoshiro being the answer here </3 But I still like OG Kyoshiro. I think I used to like Akame in my first go of Ginga, but I don't care for him anymore. Same for George. I thought his first appearance was awesome, but then he kinda just...faded from existance? Really sad u.u

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Mel, for being a cute and nice golden retreiver~
And Riki for being a well behaved, protective Akita +_+

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Uhhh boop their nose real hard but then theyd probably kill me

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
Tesshin in his training age with the main trio! Maybeeee.. the start of Kyoshiro's journey of forming a pack... And a mission Jerome had to go on in his early ages!

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
Gin + John [couple]
Izou + Shigure [couple]
Jerome + Lydia [couple]
Izou + Orion [fatherson]
GB + Weed [fatherson]
Moss + Tesshin [grampsgrandkid]


17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Ben + Cross [Cross blushes to way too many guys. It never sat right with me >>; especially since she was pregnant during most those times, and then Unsai... speaking of..]
Unsai + Cross [just no]
Sakura + Gin [where'sthechemistry?]
Orion + Andy [it just.. feels so forced just to have John's replacement be a main, even though these two were barely talking to each. In fact, Andy should be Rigel's friend over Orion since he's the first one he met and played with.]

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
Despite its small size, we're still dedicated to it by working on translations for it even in small teams/alone and finding more news about everything Ginga even though the series being so old!

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
Mmhh... it's pretty small and quiet despite what I said above. I wish people were a little more talky about the series, but I think that's just smaller fandoms in general huh.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
Put a bit more care into the art, develop/focus on multiple characters again, more girl characters who aren't useless since the only useful one became useless and then died, and more unique plots. Maybe even start a whole new cast so we can be refreshed again... but I know thatd never happen.

edit: I read everyone's posts! ...AND NOW I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR GIVING A WHINY ANSWER TO #20

[canisfamiliariz]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?

Funny story, but when i looked up weed (the plant) as a joke i managed to find some pictures of the anime and i became intrigued so.. Quite a fascinating way to get into the anime

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?

I sadly do not own any of the mangas.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?

Ginga Nagareboshi Gin

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?

I dont own any Ginga-related merch either, unfortunately though i do wish i did.

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?

GNG anime

6. Do you roleplay?

I do!

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?

This is actually my first post! I wish to post more often on this board, and i saw this survey and thought it would be a fun thing to do.

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?

I'd say Ben.
9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?

I would say Orion. I expected pretty low of GDW:O some reason, but i've actually really come to love Orion and his manga!

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.

I dont have a answer for this one, sadly.

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.

Nor do i have a answer for this.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.

I'd say Sniper.

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.

None of them, i know any ginga character is much happier with the Ohu army.

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?

Not much, since i dont really hate any character.

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)

I think it would actually be pretty interesting (and somewhat funny) to have one of the bears as a star for a change.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?

Jerome/Lydia most definitely. They're really sweet together

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?

I dont really have a answer for this.

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?

Definitely the art and the OCs! I love seeing fanart of any fandom im in.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?

I guess kinda how its pretty small compared to other fandoms. I'd really love to see Ginga be as popular again as it used to be

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.

I'd ask him for advice on how to write stories with dogs in them. Im not that good at storytelling so i guess it would be nice to get some advice.

[Raki]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
I saw Ginga Nagareboshi Gin for first time in a swedish manga magazine called Manga Mania. I was 8 years old. There were two side with story and pictures of GNG, akitas and plushies. I already loved dogs so I knew that I'll like this show!

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin - Phone edition 1-5, and Wolf arcs 1-2, GNG 4th edition 1-8 and also two volumes of 2nd edition.
Ginga Densetsu Weed - 1st edition 1-60, volume 5 of Beginning Story Compilation
Ginga Densetsu Weed Orion - 1-30
Ginga Last wars - 1-5, 17-29, 21
Ginga Densetsu Akame - 1-2
Ginga Densetsu Riki - 1st edition
Yamato - 4th edition 1-10, 3rd edition 1-2
Kacchu No Senshi Gamu - 2nd Edition
Byakuren no Fang - 1st Edition 1-4
Fang - 1-2
Lassie - 1-2
Ginga no Inutachi
Ginga First Wars - 1
Shin Gaiden- 1-2
Weed Gaiden -1
Weed World - 1-5
Meteor Gin - 1

I think there are all of my manga books. Maybe missed some but yeah.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
I love reading all of them C:

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
All of Pureplastic plushies
Top Sangyo Large Weed DVD version
A lot of keychains, stickers, bookmarks, two GNG clearfile, Ginga Stage album, Battouga bag from Ginga Stage, figures, towel, GDW CD and more.

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GNG anime 100%

6. Do you roleplay?
No but I'd like to do.

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Only this forum.

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Riki.

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Hougen and Victor, they're good villians.

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Mel

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Dunno

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
Jerome

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Benizakura, Chibi, GB

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Nothing


15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
I'd like to see a female as a boss of a large pack.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
Ben and Cross

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Weed and Jerome

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
People are so kind and I'm really thankful for them who are working to translate. They're awesome!

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
Dunno

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
To make more anime, GDWO and a lot of spin off anime! I'd love to see more anime of them. Maybe a remake of GDW.

[Fino]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
I'm pretty sure it was because I saw a YouTube AMV with a thumbnail of Gin. I was really into Wolf's Rain as a kid (because I love wolves and dogs) so naturally that drew my interest. That was probably around 2007?
2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
I actually don't own any manga. I fell out of love with anime in general as a teenager but Ginga was the only one to stick around; I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it was in English though.
3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
I just started to read Ginga Nagareboshi Gin but I'm not far into it yet.
4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
I have the GDW figures, I ordered the Gin, Weed, and Riki plushies from Urumi, and honestly that's about it.
5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GNG for sure.
6. Do you roleplay?
Not anymore, I did as a kid though.
7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Probably in the General Talk section. I just recently started getting back into Ginga so I have a lot of 'catching up" to do.
8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Gin! He remains my favorite.
9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Kurojaki probably.
10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Hm.. not sure.
11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
None.
12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
I started to like Weed a lot less than I did when I was younger.
13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Gin or Riki.
14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
There really aren't any that come to mind so...
15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
I'd like to see a female character get the spotlight! Cross maybe, or even Fuji.
16. What pairing(s) do you love?
I don't really do this but Gin and John probably if I had to pick.
17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
None.
18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
We do a lot of fun things like projects, and keep GB going.
19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
It's so small, and hard to find people offline to enjoy it with.
20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
I'd want to tell him that there needs to be more strong females, or at least one who really gets the spotlight! I don't believe he would ever do it though, sadly. I'm more curious to know if he owns Akitas himself, or if he ever did.

[Crystal]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
It was back in 2006 (joined the old old GingaBoard in 2007).

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
So many... Off the top of my head, I know I own complete sets of GNG and GDW as well as a lot of individual stories and other works by Yoshihiro Takahashi. I still need to finish collecting GDWO, Last Wars and GDN though.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
GNG

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
So much... Plushies, lighters, soundtracks, figures, trading cards, stickers, DVD/VHS, fan-made pins and keychains... I still need to finish my collection site where I document everything I have.

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GNG (though I actually do like the GDW anime despite its animation flaws)

6. Do you roleplay?
No, not for Ginga.

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
GingaBoard

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Akame

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Rocket

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Orion (I don't dislike him though, just don't know enough about him)

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
I'm not really sure if there are any. Maybe Weed? I wouldn't say I love him though.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
Nothing comes to mind.

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Not sure.

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Nothing.

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
I would love to see a story about Shiro.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
There aren't any pairings I really like in Ginga. I guess I'd say Ben and Cross.

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Again, not a fan of any of the pairings.

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
I love that we're such a small community and that everyone is so kind!

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
Nothing comes to mind! I really do love this fandom.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
I don't have any personal wishes other than it would be really nice if Yoshihiro Takahashi were able to retire soon!

[Sonichu]

Ginga Fandom Survey

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
Reading about Akita dogs on wikipedia-it was in the 'see also'.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
GNG/GDW omnibuses, some Last Wars, some Yamato, side stories.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
Yamato, GDW, and TLW

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
File folders, a weedo keychain, manga insert posters/postcards/bookmarks, a wonderful bootleggy Weedo plush, GDW anime bootleg dvd, GNG totebag, fan made Riki pin & keychain by Mako~~ (just bought some ginga stickers from her, she's wonderful)

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GDW-the nostalgia is strong as hell, I bonded with the characters more than GNG.

6. Do you roleplay?
Nah.
7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
lol there is only Gingaboard left

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Weedo

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Tesshin, Unsai, Akakama, Koyuki, Bon, Andy

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Orion, Yukimura, Terumune, Izou, Mutsu brothers, Joe

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Sirius, Weed, Koyuki

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
Jerome's crap got OLD

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Bella, let her live her LIFE. Bon too, he got only two braincells protect him

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Bearfood

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
Masamune, Maxime, Unsai

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
Idc
17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Idc

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
That it has made me some of the best friends I can ask for.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
It's very very small and self contained, like a small town where everyone knows your history.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.

To do what he wishes with his life-if he wants to work until his hand falls off, go for it. If he wants to quit today and spend his afternoons taking his granddaughter out for ice cream, go for it!

[Wolpard]

Ah, this seems fun, so here we go~

Ginga Fandom Survey

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
2009, I was 11 years old.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
I just have 3 volumes- all of English translated GDW

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
GDW!

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
All of the PP plushies, two RedShark sofubis (original blue and pink), HardCC Gin shirt, GDW figures (only Kyo and Tesshin)

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GDW (though I prefer the visuals and soundtrack to GNG)

6. Do you roleplay?
Occasionally but not so much anymore

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Only GB, pretty sure its the only one there is these days

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Jerome

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Ben, GB

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Probably some of the minor characters that are more popular in fandom, like Great (I don't dislike these characters, I guess I just don't see as much appeal in them)

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Sirius lol

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
Jerome? I don't dislike him, but I definitely don't have that same love I had for him as a kid

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Tesshin ;p

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Pink Juice

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
Tesshin hehe (I want to see his arc between GNG-GDW)

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
I'm not really a shipper, but of canon pairings I think Hiro/Reika is pretty darn cute

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Weed/Koyuki feels a bit lackluster unfortunately, I just think it was executed poorly

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
I love that we are a small, tight-knight community who just love ridiculous muscle dogs haha. I also love how welcoming and chill the environment is and the creativity behind AUs/fixes to the story we all accept as being very broken.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
Being tiny has its pros but it also has its cons; we do struggle with English translations as a fandom and that's no one's fault, its just a result of not being super popular. Also, while most of the Ginga communities are very well managed so these people get booted pretty quickly, I notice that due to Ginga's more conservative nature it does attract some......... "edgy" people. But like I said, the fandom is pretty good at not accepting that behavior anyway!

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
I would definitely wish for female characters that play bigger roles/aren't there to be damsels in distress or baby machines. However, I think most of all I would just wish for Yoshi to retire and take a rest. He has been writing Ginga for such a long time.

[Sandatora]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
I'm.. not sure now lol. I thought it was during my da times when it was all the rage to hate on Ginga (and a lot of these people literally flat out said Yoshi 'owns / trademarked' blood and lip licking) I even saw people that drew photo realistic dogs be attacked solely because they had realistic designs, like how you can't draw realistic cats without Warriors fans bugging you. The rabid fans at the same time were just as annoying and stopped being innocent once they learned you didn't like Ginga and would start attacking you.

So it's a wonder I ever gave Ginga a real chance and actually liked it (Ever since I was a kid I loved dogs living in the wild stories) and imagine my confusion when I decided to join this board and found I already had an account before this even went down. xD The only thing I can think of was me mistakenly believing a popular Ginga artist I liked at the time created the series (Like I thought other popular artists around the time created Adventure Time, Regular Show, Wolfs Rain and even Sonic and all the talk and art was just fanart for them.. kid me was dumb and didn't watch many shows) and when they talked about the board and I thought it was one of those wolf and dog rps that were all the rage at the time so I joined.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
Only two, Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin Shin Gaiden volume 1 and 2

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
Early gdw. I love the style and the vibe it gives off

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
n/a

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
Gng anime. There's something really nostalgic about it, like something I watched when I was a little kid like I get with old Pokemon and Digimon

6. Do you roleplay?
Not with Ginga

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Only here lol

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Kaibutsu. Teen me loved edgy backstories like that (and still do lol)

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
n/a

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Bella, Orion, John

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Sirius, Weed (only when he was a kid)

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
Bob (cool at the start but.. not much after. I still like his design though!)

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
I don't know, they don't seem to make good pets xD

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Idk

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
No idea.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
Not really a shipper. I'm fine with the canon ships though

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
Unsai's and Cross's feelings towards each other are cute but I don't like the thought of them in a pairing.

I also don't like pairings where a non-adult dog is paired with a years old dog and / or any incest pairings too. I see that a lot and no

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
Not sure. But with this board even if I say I'm going to leave and have reasons I always end up coming back a few years later because there's always something home and family like here even when old members leave and new ones replace them.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
Thankfully the fandom has calmed down since my time on da imo. It's really only Ginga pet peeves among the fandom's members that gets terribly repetitive, and some cases I don't get at all... because it's things you see in practically all manga / anime in the same genre as Ginga and Yoshi has been doing it for years so it shouldn't be a surprise.

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
That he would be able to do whatever he wants, even if that means doing a human manga or retiring.

[Adams Angel]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?


Back in like, 2017-19 ish?

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?


I sadly do not own any of the mangas.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?


GNG, GDW, GTLW, GTFW

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?


I do not own any Ginga-related merch yet.

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?

Ok, this one is hard. Ginga Nagareboshi Gin is a great anime, but the first 6 (or 7?) episodes were mainly human focused which bothered me a bit. Ginga Densetsu Weed is a good anime also, it doesn't have much humans, but the animation is wonky

6. Do you roleplay?

Not really, sometimes though.

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?

Only this one.

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?

It was either Ben or Riki.

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?

Idk

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.

I do like Gin both as an adult and pup, but as an adult he just... doesn't do much at least in the GDW anime.

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.

Hougen and Sniper.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.

I don't have an answer for this one.


13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.

Kurojaki, Akame, Ben, Gin, Jerome, or even Sniper or Hougen

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
I would kill them.

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
Jerome and Shiro (Riki's father.)

16. What pairing(s) do you love?

Ben x Cross
Ken x Kagetora
Hiro x Reika
Jerome x Lydia

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?

Weed x Hougen
John x Gin
Weed x Jerome
Weed x Kyoushiro

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?

The community is pretty chill and the people are nice.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?

I wish the Ginga fandom was more popular, I'd like to meet more people who like Ginga

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.

I wish females played bigger roles.

[Noroi]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?

Can't remember lol
2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?

I read online
3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?

GNG specifically Wolf Arc(cause my baby Noroi)
4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?

I own a shirt and I put it somewhere
5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?

GDW anime but the mostly for Hougen's death
6. Do you roleplay?

Yes but I usually only do when I know what fandom its gonna be.
7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?

Ginga Board
8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?

I don't know but I can say for the Wolf Arc very much NoroiI love him <3
9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?

Blue, Noroi, Genba, Tesshin, Wanwan, Shuou, Bill, and the list goes on

10, Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't

I fucking hate Hougen but everyone else loves him so...
11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.

Noroi ig
12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.

Hougen I get the vow and everything but I loves Genba
13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Masamune ,Tesshin / , The Famous Collar Bandit, , Thunder , Lydia , Kenshin , MY BOY , Goldeye he's a neat dude : D , Gaia , Rocca , Kaibutsu/P4 , Shuou, Wanwan, Izuna, and that's it this was just an excuse to use smilies lol
14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?

Beat the shit out of Hougen
15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)

Noroi ^^ because I want to see why him and Juga are in different empires or just him being a puppy with his parents(even 'better' he gets taken in as a orphaned pup with Juga and seeing him grow up.
16. What pairing(s) do you love?
17. What pairing(s) do you hate?

Only answer for 16 is Jerome x Lydia but the reason why I put these two
18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?

Noroi
But to be serious I absolutely love this Board~! There's so many nice people here and it feels like one big family! I also LOVE how I feel so welcome here! <3 Looking at you Spirit, Zack, Sanda, and many other people on here <33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?

The fact Noroi diedshhhh I love him if you couldn't tell
Being called a 'furry' because of drawing characters(or dogs in general)/reading a book about dogs I don't care really it just gets annoying after a while you know?
20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
Resurrect Noroi PLEASE

[Ollervo1]

1. When did you first hear about any Yoshihiro-related manga/anime?
I watched the GNG VHS-series as a VERY young toddler, i have known ginga as long as i can remember.

2. What mangas do you own and have many do you have?
Only Ginga. I own basically every manga that is part of the main timeline. Also akame 1-3 and the first wars.

3. Which of the mangas do you love reading the most?
I suppose the original GNG manga is the best, but i have also really enjoyed Weed so far (just started the Hybrid arc.)

4. Other than the mangas, what other Ginga-related merchandise do you own?
The uncut DVD:s and the VHS set. Also misc. Weed- anime

5. Which anime do you prefer; GNG anime or GDW anime?
GNG all the way.

6. Do you roleplay?
Nah.

7. What Ginga-related forum board do you hang out?
Ginga Board

8. Who is the first character you fell in love with?
Akatora

9. Who are the character(s) you never expected to love as you do now?
Moss. I didn't think much of him for the longest time, but now he's my favorite dog character.

10. Character(s) everyone else loves that you don't.
Gohee, I guess. Sure, he's a great hunter (and one of the only hunters in GNG to have balls to deal with Akakabuto) but he's a grouchy drunk who beats up puppies in his spare time. I still like him tho.

11. Character(s) you love that everyone else hates.
Sniper in Weed. He's a great villain IMO, but in ginga board he doesn't seem to be very beloved.

12. Character(s) you used to love but don't any longer.
-

13. Character(s) you would definitely keep as a pet.
Mukku and Sasuke.

14. What would you do to a character you dislike or hate?
Either kill them off or rewrite them.

15. Character(s) you would love to see as the star of the story (e.g. Mel's Trip in Weed Gaiden)
Akakabuto.

16. What pairing(s) do you love?
Sasuke and GB. It's always fun seeing their interactions with each other and they feel like they have a nice friendship.

17. What pairing(s) do you hate?
-

18. What are your favorite things about your fandom?
Im pretty new here, so i cant really say yet.

19. What are your least favorite things about your fandom?
Same as 18

20. Lastly, what would be your wish list if you could write to Yoshihiro Takahashi? State as many wishes as you want.
A story about Akakabuto would be awesome also, if working on this series is straining you, just retire already. You given us so much already, it's just fine to quit