PlayStation 1 - PAL - Shinken Densetsu (1998) Tohoku Shinsha
A high school girl named Kaoru found him abandoned in a box outside her house one rainy afternoon, and decided to take him in. Her dog-hating mother, however, didn't appreciate this, and after a month of putting up with puppy problems, she insisted that Kaoru get rid of it.
But Kaoru didn't exactly have much of a chance to do this, since she had apparently been targetted by an evil organization fronted by none other than the world-famous prophet Nostradamus. And while our brave little puppy tried his hardest to take on the war-machine sent to abduct her, the battle ended with exactly the fate you'd expect when a puppy squares off against a war-machine. Bruised, battered, and on his own, poor little Pal seemed to be in a hopeless situation...