Yup. And they pulled that out and went with it in the anime, although by the time they got there it was as far divorced from manga canon as you can get. In the anime, his backstory involves being part of an unnamed clan/tribe running around a place that looks an awful lot like the American West, whose prey - that they caught by hunting with traditional methods, IIRC - was slaughtered wholesale by men on horses with guns and moustaches (er, the men, not the horses or guns) who then went and slaughtered the rest of the clan/tribe.
I don't actually remember if Gat's folk lived in tepees in the anime, and wild horses aren't going to get me to pop that disc in again because it was the most excruciatingly mind-numbingly boring episode in a bad lot.
Anyway, we were definitely explicitly supposed to see him as NA in the anime, and they pulled that from his appearance in the manga, I think.
(damn I need to make that DON'T CRY EMO HAZEL icon.)
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Re: Finally got my copy
Tue, Jul. 4th, 2006 07:32 pm (UTC)I don't actually remember if Gat's folk lived in tepees in the anime, and wild horses aren't going to get me to pop that disc in again because it was the most excruciatingly mind-numbingly boring episode in a bad lot.
Anyway, we were definitely explicitly supposed to see him as NA in the anime, and they pulled that from his appearance in the manga, I think.
(damn I need to make that DON'T CRY EMO HAZEL icon.)