My Review On Wolf's Rain

[Samaki_Bamtastic]

Alright so I finished Wolf's Rain a few days ago, and let me just say now IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!

There might be a few SPOILERS here and there so if you're planning to watch it don't read this XD.

This was def one of the best shows I've ever met, they get you so drawn in, and I felt like I knew the characters in real life.

This was THE FIRST show ever to make me cry, and I don't cry easily.

Toboe was my favorite, then he died =(. I cried after his death, but not really after anyone elses, I mean I didn't really like the others as much as toboe only Hige and Kiba came close, but when Hige died, I didn't have much in me to cry, and Kiba didn't REALLY die, I mean he kinda did, but yeah....

ANYWAYS.

The beginning of the series went really slow, and was kinda boring, but for some reason it just drew me in and I couldn't stop watching. They leave so many questions that no matter how boring it is you HAVE to keep watching it.

After the first like 3 episodes the show starts picking up.

The first day I started watching them I got to episode 14 then stopped when that one was finished, I was really tied and thought, hey why not wait for a few days. I started again like 3 days after that on episode 19, I watched some of episode 15 but it was just the first few episodes again but with narrating from different people so I decided not to.

I wish I knew what happened to the girl in the fake paradise that Kiba was in though.

I got to the episode 26 thinking, alright it's 12 at night I should probably be getting to sleep soon (usually go to bed at 1), nooooooooo, I was so into the show that I didn't pay attention to the time or the episodes, I stayed up till around 2 finishing them off.

I think I missed a few things at the end when I first watched it because when I went back (I decided to watch the last show over again) I saw a lot of stuff.

I'm still depressed, till this moment, at the ending, and I finished it 3 days ago. The world just went to the way it is today, which kinda got me wondering, maybe WE are the Wolves and this world they were in wasn't Earth it was some other place, maybe mother nature brought us there as wolves to give them humanity or something, I dunno.

Was there supposed to be a second season or SOMETHING??? If there was they better make it soon, I don't care if it's in Japanese or not, it will come to youtube sometime with subtitles, I would really like to know what happens after they get to "paradise".

[Chongous]

&& &Oni-san, come here, to where my hands clap
No matter how you run away, I'll catch you
The voice that was coming from the animal trail where cidadas cry, is no more

[ The part where they did a flashback on where Toboe accidently killed his master made me cry. ;.;

And I haven't heard anything on a 2nd season. D:

Maybe paradise is like, heaven after you die or something ]

&& Take these fingers, my fingers I'll take all your fingers away
To the unopenable forest where cicadas cry
There's no turning back anymore

[Asuka Chiyoko V2]

Another victim of our need to be weak
The lights are on, the stage is set for failure.
You've got one more chance to do right - and it's tonight.

TL;DR?

Each player takes his chance to play,
And lives to fight, lives to fight, another day.

[rockababy101]

this anime was so sad

[Moonsicle]

Whoever said 'Love Hurts', was absolutely right.
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Oh, god; this anime made me cry. HARD.
Toboe was my favorite, and when he died I did cry, but I cried even more when Tsume was saying goodbye to Toboe. I was bawling.

[Mugetsu Ookamiza]

it was only ever meant to be 26 eps (the recaps were made because during the time SARS was going around most of the animation team got sick but they still were required to put out new eps so they reused some old stuff, threw in some angles they decided not to use, and just a little bit of new stuff). part of what Wolf's Rain is about is about mythic themes (such as The Hero's Journey and the Quest for Paradise). it ends with the Cyclic Myth, showing that everything is a cycle that repeats, perhaps not exactly the same, but along the same lines starting with the creation of the world, the world reaching it's peak, the decline of the world, the death of the world, and then its rebirth. there is no need for a second season because the plot would be pretty much the same as the first. also, at the end all the wolves are reborn as humans (Kiba is the only one this is debatable for since he seems unchanged, but that could just indicate he is spiritually unchanged instead of still a wolf physically) so it wouldn't be Wolf's Rain anymore.

[LianMeiKuroExile]

No, that is the final ending. The manga for Wolf's Rain is only two volumes.


Kiba made it to paradise, but paradise is a perfect place, a place that cannot survive for long without being sullied (the eye from Darcia). Paradise is temporary and fleeting. It's the earth at its newest and freshest (after being reborn). It speaks on the futility in finding something that the world hasn't tainted in one form or the other.

It shows the city again, (assumably centuries later since the earth was frozen to create the aforementioned paradise) and the wolves are all alive. The difference here is that there is a *real* lunar flower blooming, and not a man-made one (Cheza's only fault in not being able to really take them to paradise). Kiba rushes off to find paradise again, but the flower may signify he will find the paradise he truly wanted someday. Cheza pretty much tells him that for his efforts in protecting even a man-made flower, the true flowers will return and he will succeed.

So the ending isn't quite so sad knowing Kiba will find the true Paradise in the end for all his efforts and that he will find Cheza again.

[Mugetsu Ookamiza]

LianMeiKuroExile

No, that is the final ending. The manga for Wolf's Rain is only two volumes.


Kiba made it to paradise, but paradise is a perfect place, a place that cannot survive for long without being sullied (the eye from Darcia). Paradise is temporary and fleeting. It's the earth at its newest and freshest (after being reborn). It speaks on the futility in finding something that the world hasn't tainted in one form or the other.

It shows the city again, (assumably centuries later since the earth was frozen to create the aforementioned paradise) and the wolves are all alive. The difference here is that there is a *real* lunar flower blooming, and not a man-made one (Cheza's only fault in not being able to really take them to paradise). Kiba rushes off to find paradise again, but the flower may signify he will find the paradise he truly wanted someday. Cheza pretty much tells him that for his efforts in protecting even a man-made flower, the true flowers will return and he will succeed.

So the ending isn't quite so sad knowing Kiba will find the true Paradise in the end for all his efforts and that he will find Cheza again.

I believe that the OP is talking about the anime, the second half of the manga runs very different from that.

in the anime it's indicated that Darcia and Kiba both represent different sides of existence, like Yin and Yang. Kiba represents the positive side whereas Darcia represents the negative side. both sides are necessary for life to grow and thrive, so even tho Kiba came out the winner at the end part of Darcia still made it into the reborn world so that things could progress.