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bergars
The ending of the series. What a way to finish it.
I'm pretty angry about the separation between the ending of the series, and this ending. Both are unchanging, and I watched both, thinking it's weird how they attempt to wrap it up before this. An incomplete experience, without much of an explanation, but then, there comes what's basically a movie to wrap it up.
I loved this ending. The bleakness gets turned up to eleven, the characters are now given no forgiveness. Everybody is a victim from the world, and there's nothing they can do about it. All or nothing, we move on to the ending, or we die trying to get there. And there wasn't even an assurance that paradise was waiting for them. "Maybe it's all for nothing, but I won't know until I get there". That's how I can encapsulate this en…
Read at the sourceDoutei-kun
*CHEZA : The world will close up for a while. So we will be apart for a while. So when the next world opens up... when paradise opens up, we will meet again. This one will be waiting for you. Find this one...
*KIBA : No matter what it is, I will just accept it.
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This is after KIBA saved CHEZA from JAGARA, they are going to open up the Paradise. Everyone is aware of the fact that there's only one chosen one, but still they are accompanying him.
1. These four episodes felt very tragic, the fact that they had to lose their precious ones, in the end even themselves (physical bodies). We feel bad for them, because we assumed they were among the chosen ones, but there was only one 'chosen one' all along.
2. They are scared of death, because they…
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With that decadent vibe and focus on human nature/ emotions you could not have hoped for a different ending.While I understand the appeal of death/ rebirth cycle archetype, this story could have played out much better if the narrative wasn't always focused on four wolves wandering a world thats coming to its end, and sadly, this is more than 60% of the series.
I think with proper worldbuilding to human nuances ratio this series could truly shine and ending would hit much harder.
7/10 for potential and Takaya Kuroda. I watched this series because I saw he did a part here before he became a Yakuza legend <3
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"This is one of those rare & beautiful stories lost in the flow of time yet you don't wanna miss."
A truly unique & amazing storyline revolving around wolves & humans set in a post apolocalyptic world on the verge of destruction while every characters fate becomes intertwined by one destination..A deep storyline filled with Intense drama,unique plot,very good action scenes & surprising twists & turns.....Also packs some heavy emotional & sad scenes throughout the whole story.❤😍
Every character in this anime is very well written,loveable & all the important characters plays a significant role in the story.👌
The soundtracks,Music composition was done perfectly that puts a certain impact on the audiences so that they can enjoy It wholeheartedly.
For an Anime that was released on 2003,The an…
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Hope, Progress, and Paradise
Warning: Heavy Spoiler Filled Review
This review is intended to give viewers a greater experience and in depth understanding of said works. Or at least to enjoy seeing things from a different perspective, a fresh take on a wonderful adventure all over again.
Wolf’s Rain is an age old mystical tale that takes a radical and audacious turn of the beaten path. It goes on a journey, no that’s not quite right, it’s not quite defined and constrained. Well then perhaps a pilgrimage is more appropriate, nope not it either. This grand tale is unbounded, it isn’t concerned with a set in stone theme or ideology, though it’s intent on putting up a hoax to the very end. At the very onset this series doesn’t bode very well, you expect it to be a coming of age tale about th…
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I have just finished watching this, and my heart aches. The end of this anime was really emotional and heart wrenching, which had a lot to do with the characters. (I am obviously not allowed to spoil anything for anyone in here, so I will just keep quiet with my feelings.)
In the end, there was a little too much blood, and it felt a little bit rushed to me, compared to the rest of this anime. They could have easily avoided that by just putting a little bit more plot to the other episodes. I really have to say that they did a great job on the characters though. They all really grew on me, and I don't know one character in this anime that I really dislike. They all have their own unique backstory that made them really likable and relatable, which I personally love.
Overall, I think that I…
Read at the sourceShironMaoKyoshro
I almost gave this a 9 overall, my reason, it seems rather open-ended during these last 4 episodes of Wolf's Rain, but I realize, that was definitely the goal of the producer, Bones, now, I have watched all the way through another of Bones' series, Space Dandy, and the ending of that was also very open-ended, not that these two anime are anything alike, i just thought I would mention it. At first it bugged me, but now that I think about it, I actually really like the ending, This was an exciting, emotional, and unique ending. It was just as outstanding as the first 26 episodes, great action, awesome adventure, everything about it was amazing, it seems rather unique compared to what I have seen, but in a good way (the whole series in general) at first it seemed about the same as a lot of ot…
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I absolutely liked wolf's rain from episode one till its ending at episode 26.
However, i completely hated the ova the extra four episodes. they were extremely pathetic, and the act of forgiveness and sacrificing of oneself or should we say wolf self for the other especially the pops guy was taken to another level entirely, till it became completely illogical and excessively pathetic.
Also, i feel like the writers just needed to make everything completely depressing such that you think the characters you liked from the start completely stupid in just these four episodes, and did i already mention pathetic>?....
Its as though the writers were trying to ensure every wolf's rain fan cried their hearts out within 90% of these ovas.
Left to me, the wonderful work of wolf's rain and its a…
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Well I'm going to write this review for the series as a whole b/c this is truly the ending of the show and really should be considered as part of it and not just ovas. Overall the show had a very interesting concept with plenty of badass wolves fighting to keep it interesting, the story is fairly simple and the show doesn't do a very good job at explaining why certain things cause something else to happen, another complaint would have to be their are too many filler episodes for my taste but none the less a very interesting and entertains series to watch. I really did enjoy most of the characters and I liked how they brought all the relations between the main characters to a final conclusion, was slightly confused and upset about the ending the first time I watched it but after going over…
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*This review makes reference to my thoughts on the original tv show also and also contains some minor spoilers*
Having just watched the Wolfs Rain OVA I have to say I was very impressed.
I am not a big fan of the original tv series. It was slow, padded out with too much filler and apart from the odd few stand out moments it never fulfilled it's potential or made up for it with a great end like for example Speed Grapher did. I couldn't give it any higher then 6/10.
The OVA is very different. This was the Anime I was expected to watch when I watched the tv series. An emotional roller coaster, it beautifully portrays all the main characters struggling through what feels like hell, a desolate wasteland world on the brink of death, desperately trying to take this one and only chance to open…
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Do you want to get your heart broken and battered? The Wolf's Rain series ends here and I have to tell you it is not very pretty with a typical Japanese-Animation-World-Apocalypse-Ending. I am getting sick of this!
On a more objective note, the characters remain constant to what they were before the OVA - each with their own individual personalities. They continue on their journey to their paradise but eh this trial is different from all of the others.
If I were to grade this OVA, it would receive the same grade as Wolf's Rain, there's no real difference in quality when compared to the original series. However, the ending strays from I think the typical happy shonen themes we've seen in the previous 26 episodes...
One can't help question some of the illogical happenings throughout the O…
Read at the sourceIppoSRB
Wolf's Rain OVA are Episodes 27-30 or, 4 last episodes in the anime.
At first I will say: The whole point of anime, all thoughts and ideas that creator had when he was making this show, are concluded here.
So, you actually can't say that you've watched Wolf's Rain if you havent seen these 4 episodes.
You see, you can look at this show like it's written for younger audiences, and you can look at it as if it is one special riddle that has secrets hidden behind it's obvious covers.
Or You can look at it this way: Watching Wolf's rain without OVA can satisfy you. And you don't need to watch OVA if you are looking at this show superficially. That is unnecessarily.
But if you scratch through the pure surface of the show you will not be confused about later "tragical" events.
Generally speaki…
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Wolf's Rain was an amazing, touching and emotional Anime. I personally think that it delievers a powerful message to most viewers, of how humans are slowly rotting the world in which we live on and that.. in the end, the only ones who will be able to right our wrongs are the animals. The characters had truley unique personalities, and each of their deaths were very sad, even though they were fictional characters.
I think that, with Hige and Blue's relationship, it was rushed a bit, however.
Wolf's Rain was a very enjoyable anime that left me speechless and wanting more, I think that each character got just the right amount of screenplay and attention, and in the end the foreshadowing was removed to reveal an amazing, jaw-dropping conclucsion. There is not much more to say than, for me, th…
Read at the sourceGin-iro
This OVA honestly doesn't feel like an true OVA. There really is no difference to the animation or sound, and doesn't add much to the show besides more problems for the characters. The soundtrack is the same soundtrack they used in the show and there is no new characters introduced. Just another sub-plot that is cleverly told in a way that doesn't make it seem out of place.
In order to "finish" the series in just four more episodes, the pace is fast and to the point. The constant attention to detail and new developments is enough to make people watch.
Granted, this ending is better than what people got with episode 26, but it is still open-ended makes you feel that they didn't accomplish much. It gives the sense that Wolf's Rain is a never-ending series, though this is implied.
Anyway,…
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Better known as episodes 27-30, the Wolf's Rain OVAs are like the natural four last episodes of the series. If you've read my review of the 26 episodes of the anime, I had a few gripes. Combined with the OVA, on the other hand?
It becomes STUNNING!
Intense, emotional, and gripping, the OVAs are the climax of Wolf's Rain. This is where Nobumoto really shined... a good shounen series, but with a seinen-class masterpiece of an ending. The story is given proper closure and the action is at its flashiest, but the characters are beyond what I can describe. It brings them alive and pulls you in, and I found myself near tears for people I hadn't even cared about before.
Make sure you set aside time to really watch this. Prior to watching this, I thought Wolf's Rain was overhyped. That notion has…
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This is a sequal to the series: Wolf's Rain. So this picks up after the end of that one. In a nutshell, usually people would refer to Wolf's Rain OVA with an "Eww, that totally killed the series." If that's all you've been hearing, then you should perhaps give it a chance. It isn't totally evil and bad.
The story itself was a little dull, and the ending... That was a bit obvious after a little bit. The Entire story isn't very sound, or very continuous.
The Art, it was decent. With a bunch of blood splattering everywhere... It was decent. The colors were well done, and the landscape was nice too. It doesn't get a nine because, the battle scenes were a bit more head one warrior type instead of Ninja back stab and jump away. There wasn't too much action, expecially when it wanted to get thi…
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