Gungrave

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Japanese: ガングレイヴ
English: Gungrave
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Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 7, 2003 to Mar 30, 2004
Premiered: Fall 2003
Broadcast: Tuesdays at 01:30 (JST)
Studios: Madhouse
Source: Game
Genres: ActionAction, DramaDrama, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, GoreGore, Organized CrimeOrganized Crime, Super PowerSuper Power
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.821 (scored by 6967969,679 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #9432
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1248
Members: 190,751
Favorites: 2,426

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Episodes: /26

Synopsis

Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowel, two friends so close they could be called brothers, receive an abrupt and violent reminder one fateful day of how appallingly merciless the world around them can be. Their whole lives before then were simple and easygoing, consisting largely of local brawls, seducing women, and committing petty theft to make a living and pass the time. What they failed to realize is that in this cruel world, happiness is fleeting, and change is inevitable.

Enter Millennion, the largest and most infamous mafia syndicate in the area, which accepts Brandon and Harry into their ranks and starts them at the bottom of the food chain. Harry has ambitions to ascend the ranks and one day replace Big Daddy as the supreme leader of Millennion, while Brandon only wishes to support his friend and appease Big Daddy who has taken custody of the woman Brandon loves.

Based off the third-person shooter video game under the same name, Gungrave is an epic story of friendship, betrayal, and avarice that spans the course of several years, ultimately tying back to the gripping and foreboding first episode, all the while building up to the story's thrilling conclusion.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Poundmax, Bob

Supporting
Chafurin
Japanese

Asagi, Mika

Supporting
Sakuma, Kumi
Japanese

Asagi, Maria

Supporting
Inoue, Kikuko
Japanese

Lee, Balladbird

Supporting
Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Jolice

Supporting
Kase, Yasuyuki
Japanese

Staff

Tsuru, Toshiyuki
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation
Araki, Tetsurou
Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director


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"Family" by Tsuneo Imahori
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Ending Theme

"Akaneiro ga Moerutoki (茜色が燃えるとき)" by Scoobie Do




Reviews

Jan 31, 2024
IMPORTANT: Do NOT watch Episode 1, skip straight to Episode 2. Episode 1 is literally just a carbon copy of a later episode and it spoils basically everything, you're better off without it.

With that out of the way, Gungrave is an interesting anime that has a lot of strengths, but also a few weaknesses. This is because it has got two components to it:

1) A very watertight character-driven gangster story that takes up most of the anime, which is very much worth the price of admission.
2) While it's not quite correct to call it this, there is a point where I would describe ...
Feb 12, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Gungrave has a unique flow to it that comes from being transcribed from a video game story and setting to an anime, and for the most part it navigates that pretty well. It can be very edgy at times with some over the top eye-rolling dialogue, but does what it sets out to do well overall. The strong parts of the show are it's narrative during the first section, and the payoff for it during the second. The art and voice acting (in the dub at least), however, are definitely the weakest aspect of the show, and are distractingly poor at times. Overall, I would ...
Nov 13, 2023
A very unknown anime, but with his small fanbase it is the most overrated anime I have ever seen (just see the reviews in MAL itself), its community treats it as a classic cult, which it COULD have been but is FAR from being. (Now if you don’t have the patience to read this book, scroll down to the final considerations where I summarize my opinions)
Gungrave starts with a HORRIBLE first episode, where he wants to give some taste of what will happen in the future but ends up just being bad and giving heavy spoilers of what we will see later. I ...

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