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Japanese anime television serial and its manga accommodation

Wolf's Rain
Wolf's Rain Region 2 Volume 1.jpg

Encompass of the anime's kickoff Japanese DVD volume
Genre
  • Dark fantasy[1] [2]
  • Dystopian[2]
  • Mail-apocalyptic[3] [one]
Created by Bones, Keiko Nobumoto
Anime television series
Directed by Tensai Okamura
Produced past
  • Masahiko Minami
  • Minoru Takanashi
  • Go Haruna
Written past Keiko Nobumoto
Music by Yoko Kanno
Studio Bones
Licensed by

AUS

Madman Amusement

NA

Funimation

Great britain

Anime Limited
Original network FNN/FNS (Fuji Television receiver)
English language network

IN

Animax

Ocean

Animax

Great britain

Rapture TV, AnimeCentral, Vice on Television set

The states

Adult Swim

ZA

Animax
Original run
  • Jan 6, 2003 – July 29, 2003
  • Not-broadcast releases:
  • January 23, 2004 – February 25, 2004
Episodes 30 (Listing of episodes)
Manga
Written by Keiko Nobumoto
Illustrated by Toshitsugu Iida
Published past Kodansha
English publisher

NA

Viz Media
Magazine Magazine Z
Demographic Seinen
Original run July 23, 2003 – February 23, 2004
Volumes ii

Wolf'southward Rain (stylized in uppercase as WOLF'S Pelting ) is a Japanese anime idiot box series created by author Keiko Nobumoto and produced past Bones. It was directed past Tensai Okamura and featured grapheme designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto with a soundtrack produced and arranged by Yoko Kanno. Information technology focuses on the journey of four lone wolves who cantankerous paths while post-obit the odor of the Lunar Flower and seeking Paradise.

Wolf'south Pelting spans xx-half dozen goggle box episodes and four original video animation (OVA) episodes, with each episode running approximately xx-three minutes. The series was originally broadcast in Japan on Fuji Television receiver, some of Fuji TV'southward affiliate stations, and the anime CS television network, Animax. The consummate thirty episode series is licensed for a N American release by Funimation, in Europe by Beez Entertainment and in Commonwealth of australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. The serial was adapted into a short two-volume manga series written by Keiko Nobumoto and illustrated by Toshitsugu Iida. The manga, which was released while the series was ambulation, is a retelling of the story rather than a straight adaptation. It was originally serialized in Magazine Z and has been released in North America by Viz Media.

The anime series was well received in Nippon, being the third-ranked anime series in its timeslot while airing on Fuji Telly. The Bandai Entertainment English-linguistic communication release sold well in Due north America. It helped Bandai gain the 2004 Anime Company of the Year award from industry news company ICv2 in the ICv2 Retailers Guide to Anime/Manga. The manga adaptation was selected every bit one of their top ten anime products of 2005 and sold well in North America. Reviewers of the serial gave it high marks for characterization, emotional weight, visual presentation, narrative and its soundtrack, while disparaging the existence of four recapitulation episodes in the centre of the series. The manga accommodation also sold well in North America and received adept reviews, though reviewers felt its brusk length resulted in a rushed plot and neglected supporting characters.

Plot [edit]

According to an quondam legend, when the end of the world comes, a place known as Paradise will announced. Notwithstanding, only wolves volition know how to find it. Although wolves are believed to have been hunted to extinction nearly two hundred years ago, they still exist, surviving by casting illusions over themselves to brand them appear human.[iv] Freeze City is a northern human being city in a world where the majority of people live in poverty and hardship.

Kiba, an injured lone white wolf, goes to Freeze City following the scent of the Lunar Flower, which is the key to opening Paradise. There he encounters Tsume, Hige and Toboe, three other wolves who were drawn to Freeze Metropolis past the scent of the Lunar Flower and are now living in the city. The wolves encounter Quent Yaiden, a onetime Sheriff of Kyrios who is obsessed with hunting downward wolves, and his dog Bluish. Cheza, the Flower Maiden who is destined to lead the wolves to Paradise, is existence studied at a laboratory under the care of Cher Degré. She is awakened past the smell of wolf's blood. As Kiba and Hige approach the lab to observe her, she is stolen abroad by Lord Darcia the Tertiary, whose people created Cheza.

With the Flower Maiden gone, the wolves take no reason to stay in the urban center. Despite some initial misgivings and suspicions, they decide to stay together and follow Kiba in his search for the Blossom Maiden and Paradise. As they pursue Cheza, the wolves travel through various cities and the remnants of former habitations. Cher joins the city's army to endeavour to recover Cheza, while Cher'due south ex-hubby Hubb Lebowski searches desperately for Cher, and Quent continues his relentless pursuit of the wolves. When Blue eventually encounters Cheza, it awakens her wolf claret from dormancy and causes her to exit Quent and take on her own human form. She joins the wolves and travels with them for a while, developing an intense and close romantic human relationship with Hige, and meanwhile Hubb finds himself traveling with Quent, who is now searching for Blue as well as the wolves. Hubb eventually finds Cher and from at that place they continue their pursuit of the wolves to discover Cheza.

Together the wolves reach Darcia'south continue subsequently Kiba goes off on his own. Hubb, Cher and Quent arrive in the keep, and Tsume, Toboe, and Hige find Kiba, Cheza and Darcia during a sword fight between Darcia and Kiba. The reunion is short-lived however because Jaguara'southward troops set on, destroying the keep in the process. The Noble's troops capture Cheza, Hubb, Cher and Blueish during the raid, and the wolves get separated from Kiba. Later on finding Kiba, the wolves continue their journey to rescue Cheza from Jaguara, while Cher rescues Bluish and manages to observe Cheza with help from Hubb, but Jaguara's troops instantly recapture Cheza, taking Hubb with them and forcing Cher and Blue to observe Cheza on their own.

The wolves and the humans somewhen come up together in Jaguara'southward city, where the captured Cheza is being held. In attempting to rescue the abducted Cheza, Kiba, Tsume and Toboe are captured. Tsume and Toboe are thrown into a dungeon with Hubb while Jaguara attempts to utilise Kiba's claret to forcefulness Paradise to open up. Meanwhile, Hige and Blue are reunited outside the Continue, where Hige remembers that he had once worked for Jaguara and decides to go rescue his friends, but not before telling Blueish to stay outside and promising her that he will return to her no matter what. While waiting for Hige, Blue is reunited with her primary Quent and meanwhile Darcia, having survived the attack on his go on, interrupts Jaguara'south anniversary as Kiba and the other wolves break free and rush to free the Flower Maiden. Hige is wounded during the fight against Jaguara and Kiba arrives after Darcia is poisoned by the Noble. Darcia battles Jaguara along with Kiba and finally slays her as the keep begins to plummet, catastrophe the anime'due south original 26-episode run.

As the original video animation (OVA) episodes begin, the wolves and the humans escape Jaguara'south city, which has fallen into chaos. Quent is gravely wounded saving Blue from an oncoming vehicle, but he and Blue are found by Hubb and Cher, and afterward past the wolves and Cheza. Together, they all go on making their way to Paradise, pursued by the now insane Darcia. As the Earth begins to fall into destruction, Cher dies when the car falls off a cliff. And shortly after, Toboe is accidentally shot by Quent when he tries to shoot Darcia who in plow kills Quent. Hubb tries to go along upwardly with the remaining wolves climbing up a mountain, but falls to his death. Darcia attacks the remaining wolves killing Hige, Bluish, and Tsume, leaving only Kiba, Cheza and Darcia alive at the identify where Paradise tin exist opened. Darcia and Kiba battle over who will open Paradise, in which Kiba is fatally wounded. Darcia dies when he attempts to enter Paradise due to non existence a true wolf. Kiba finds Cheza as she dies and disintegrates into seeds. Dying, Kiba concludes that his quest has failed, merely rain begins to fall and Cheza'southward seeds grow into thousands of lunar flowers. As he dies, Kiba falls into the water'southward depths but sees the blood reddish moon turning back to its normal color. Cheza's expiry causes Paradise, too every bit the world, to be reborn. However, Darcia's corruption can be seen taking root in this new Paradise. The concluding scenes take place in what appears to be a 21st-century Japanese urban center. Kiba, manifestly reincarnated as a human, passes other humans who resemble Tsume, Hige and Toboe; a lunar flower is seen blooming in an alleyway.

Changes in the manga adaptation [edit]

The two-book manga adaptation includes some of the core events of the anime series with few changes, but as a whole the manga veers profoundly from its anime inspiration. Many events from the anime do not occur in the manga, and some of the events from the anime that are presented in the manga are completely different in terms of dialogue, chronological sequence, and final outcomes.[5] In particular, the second volume tells an almost completely different story, with Darcia recruiting Blue to aid him open the door to Paradise with her blood. The wolves must become to Darcia's keep, rather than Jaguara's, in order to free Cheza, with Kiba missing but appearing at the stop to make the final rescue effort. At the cease of the manga, the four wolves and Cheza are sitting on a rock as the clouds break and sunlight streams through for the showtime time. The world rejoices the end of the Ice Age and rumors that Paradise has been institute grow.[vi]

In the manga most of the characters are like in appearance and personality to their anime counterparts, only some characters seen in the anime do non announced in the manga, including the Noble Lord Orkham.[5] [6]

Principal characters [edit]

The main cast of Wolf's Rain

  • Kiba ( キバ , lit. "Fang" ) is a white wolf who is dedicated solely to finding the Lunar Blossom and opening the way to Paradise. He will protect Cheza with his life. Kiba primarily acts on his instincts, which sometimes atomic number 82 him to behave rashly, this shows the dogmatic changes through a wolf'south position in a human mindset or a wolf mindset, and this causes the other characters to call him idealistic. Full of wolf pride, Kiba initially expresses cloy at wolves who employ homo disguises, but eventually realizes that information technology is necessary to survive.
    Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (Japanese); Johnny Yong Bosch (English, Bandai Visual dub), Darren Pleavin (English, Animax Asia dub)[7]
  • Tsume ( ツメ , lit. "Claw" ) is a gray wolf with a big X-shaped scar across his chest, not counting many others. Rough and self-reliant, Tsume is a strong fighter who keeps his true feelings to himself. He joins the others later on his homo gang in Freeze City betrays him. He does non initially believe in Paradise, but eventually starts to believe in their goal after seeing the peachy sacrifices his new pack was doing in guild to open Paradise. Though he frequently quarrels with Kiba over their journeying, he eventually accepts his leadership and comes to trust in him, also growing protective of Toboe and somewhen forming a brotherly human relationship with him.
    Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese); Crispin Freeman (English, Bandai Visual dub), Victor Lee (English language, Animax Asia dub)[7]
  • Hige ( ヒゲ , lit. "Whiskers" ) is a brown wolf with a carefree mental attitude, who seems quite comfy living in man society. Hige likes to converse with girls and to eat, and due to the latter he is quite stubby. After coming together Kiba, he goes along with the idea of searching for Paradise without much argument. Hige wears a neckband around his cervix, that seems to attract soldiers of a Noble, Lady Jaguara, leading him to put his wolf coiffure in danger and himself in pain.
    Voiced by: Akio Suyama (Japanese); Joshua Seth (English language, Bandai Visual dub)[seven]
  • Toboe ( トオボエ , Tōboe , lit. "Howling") is a red/brown wolf and the youngest of the group. He is considered the pup or the runt by the others, but after he badly fights a huge walrus during the journey to rescue Cheza from Jaguara, the other wolves change their mind nearly him. He was raised by an onetime woman who found him outside the urban center, and all the same wears the bracelets she gave him. Due to his upbringing, Toboe is friendly and protective towards nigh humans. He forms a brotherly relationship with Tsume.
    Voiced by: Hiroki Shimowada (Japanese); Mona Marshall (English, Bandai Visual dub), Candice Moore (English, Animax Asia dub)[7]
  • Cheza ( チェザ , Cheza ) is also called the "Blossom Maiden". The wolves need Cheza to find and open the gateway to Paradise. She was created via alchemy from a Lunar Flower, and as such needs water and sunlight to survive. Originally asleep and under study in a lab in Freeze City, Cheza is eventually able to join the wolves, whom she loves, and travels with them. She refers to herself in the 3rd person, unremarkably adapted to "this one". The spilling of wolf claret makes Cheza scream, and she has the ability to heal them or put them to sleep through her song and touch.
    Voiced by: Arisa Ogasawara (Japanese); Sherry Lynn (English, Bandai Visual dub), Andrea Kwan (English language, Animax Asia dub)[7]
  • Blue ( ブルー , Burū ) is a blue wolf/domestic dog hybrid. At first, she travels along with Quent Yaiden, hunting wolves. But afterward Blue finds out that she is actually half-wolf, and unwilling to hunt her ain kind, Blue leaves Quent to join the wolves, eventually falling in dear with Hige. She is strong, fearless and independent.
    Voiced past: Mayumi Asano (Japanese); Jessica Strauss (English, Bandai Visual dub), Sarah Hauser (English, Animax Asia dub)[7]

Production [edit]

The series was created primarily by Keiko Nobumoto with director Tensai Okamura claiming he was not sure if they had a very total advice. When Nobumoto created the series, she was sort of intrigued by the two dissimilar aspects of wolves. Being noble, the dignified existence of wolves in sociology and the fierce character of real wolves, and how becomes a conflicting characterization. Okamura was not certain that he understood Nobumoto'south intention. The male human pursuers, Hubb and Quent, helped the director become a greater understanding of their story.[8]

Release [edit]

The Wolf'due south Rain anime series was produced past BONES and directed by Tensai Okamura. Keiko Nobumoto was the writer and story editor, while Toshihiro Kawamoto created the graphic symbol designs.[nine] The series premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on January 6, 2003, and ran for a total flavour of twenty-six episodes, with the final episode ambulation on July 29, 2003. A four-episode original video animation (OVA) was afterward created and released to DVD to provide a fuller determination to the story than the original television run did, and to make up for the four recap episodes that were originally broadcast in the middle of the series. The first two OVA episodes were released on January 23, 2004, with the final two released a calendar month afterward on Feb 25, 2004.[x] Animax as well aired the series on its corresponding networks worldwide, including East asia, Southeast Asia, Due south Asia, Latin America, Europe, and other regions.

Except for the four recap episodes, the entire Wolf'southward Pelting anime series aired in the Usa as part of Cartoon Network's Developed Swim lineup in 2004.[11] It was broadcast on Europe'south digital specialty station Rapture Television set from Nov 14, 2005, to July half dozen, 2006.[12] [xiii] Information technology also aired in the Uk on Anime Central starting Nov 4, 2007, with but the commencement 26 episodes airing.[14] [15]

Wolf's Rain was licensed for Region 1 DVD release by Bandai Entertainment. The entire series, including the iv OVAs, were released in seven individual volumes that contained four episodes, except for the starting time two volumes, which had 5 episodes. With the first volume, Bandai offered a stand up-alone version and a limited edition version, which included an art box, Kiba plushie, and the first CD soundtrack. Bandai besides released the thirty episodes in a complete series box set and in a ii-role "Anime Legends" collection.[sixteen] [17] Funimation has since licensed the serial following the closure of Bandai Entertainment and released the series on a Blu-ray and DVD combo pack on Feb 7, 2017.[eighteen]

In Region two (Europe) the series is licensed by Beez Entertainment, which also released the entire serial, including the OVAs, in seven individual volumes, and later as a box set which also included the first soundtrack CD (see below). In Region four, Madman Amusement owns the series license and released all twenty-six episodes and iv OVA episodes in the grade of a complete series box set.[xvi]

CDs [edit]

All of the music for the Wolf's Pelting soundtrack was composed and arranged past Yoko Kanno.[19] The vocal songs are performed by various artists, including Maaya Sakamoto, Raj Ramayya, Ilaria Graziano, Steve Conte and Joyce, and they were recorded around the world, including Japan, Poland, Brazil, the United States, and Italy to offer a diverse range of music and requite the soundtrack an international season.[20] Two CD soundtracks, produced past Yoko Kanno, Toshiaki Ota, and Shiro Sasaki, were released in Japan by Victor Entertainment.[21]

"Gravity", the series' ending theme, is a song performed by Maaya Sakamoto. It was released as a unmarried on February 21, 2003.

Wolf's Pelting Original Soundtrack, Volume 1 was released March 29, 2003. It contains twenty-one tracks, including the opening and closing themes throughout near of the master series "Stray" and "Gravity" and many of the background sounds used during primal points in the master series.[21] The soundtrack was released in the U.s.a. by Bandai Entertainment on May xi, 2004, nether the title of Wolf's Rain Original Soundtrack. [xvi]

Wolf's Rain Original Soundtrack, Volume two was released on January 21, 2004. It contains an additional 23 tracks, including the endmost theme for the final episode of the main series "Tell Me What the Rain Knows", sung by Maaya Sakamoto and with lyrics by Chris Mosdell. It also includes background music from the final episode not included in the broadcast version, and music from the 4 OVA episodes. The 2nd CD has not been licensed for release outside Japan.[21]

Manga [edit]

The 2-volume manga series was originally serialized in Magazine Z, a monthly seinen magazine, with the first chapter premiering in Apr 2003. The manga, which was written past Nobumoto and illustrated by Toshitsugu Iida, is an well-nigh complete retelling of the anime story. Each chapter of the manga series is called a "grope", which is a reference to a Japanese phrase for arriving somewhere subsequently enduring hardships.[5]

The two volumes were released in North America by VIZ Media as individual volumes in 2004 and 2005.[22] An sectional edition of the first volume was released on Nov 5, 2004, in Borders and Waldenbooks stores that included a collectible box to hold both volumes and a 3D lenticular card.[23] The Viz English release is adapted by David Ury, who also acted equally translator and Egan Loo.[five] The series has also been released in German by Heyne, in Italian by Shin Vision and in Smooth past Japonica Polonica Fantastica.

No. Original release date Original ISBN English[24] release appointment English[24] ISBN
ane July 23, 2003 978-4-06-349139-5 May 3, 2005 i-59116-591-1
  • Grope 1. A Brusque Story
  • Grope 2. The Key to Paradise
  • Grope 3. Escape From the Fortress
  • Grope 4. The Fortress of Solitude
  • Grope 5. The Flower That Dances in the Wind
Kiba, a wounded white wolf, goes to a city in search of the Lunar Blossom that can open the door to Paradise. There he meets Tsume, Hige, and Toboe, three other wolves using illusions to announced equally humans so they can live in relative safety in the city. All four presently find themselves the target of Quent Yaiden and his canis familiaris Blueish, who seek to kill every remaining wolf in the world. Cheza, the Lunar Bloom, awakens at Kiba'south inflow, but she is stolen abroad by Darcia. The four wolves join together and leave the town. Afterward a crude trip through a town that violently rejects all outsiders, the wolves are able to run across with Cheza, who sensed their presence beneath and jumped from Darcia'south airship to float down to them.
two Feb 23, 2004 978-iv-06-349161-6 June xiv, 2005 1-59116-718-iii
  • Grope 6. The Spellbound Pack
  • Grope 7. A Deplorable Song
  • Grope 8. The Grave That Looks Towards Sky
  • Grope 9. The Pedigree of the Guides
  • Grope x. The Depths of Despair
  • Grope 11. Rain
The four wolves fight a large pack of wolves that went crazy after seeing Cheza, but Cheza realizing her wolves were losing, sang the crazed wolves to slumber. Her vocal also affects Bluish, who realizes for the beginning fourth dimension that she has wolf blood in her. Darcia recaptures Cheza, badly wounding the four wolves in the process. Darcia aims to open Paradise using Cheza and the blood of Blue, whom he plant in the woods and recruited for the project. After a fight with Darcia that leaves Kiba completely blind, the wolves are able to free Cheza and escape Darcia's proceed just before it collapses. At the cease, as the wolves and Cheza sit on a rock, the sun breaks through the clouds for the first time and the Water ice Historic period ends, leading people to believe that Paradise has opened.

Reception [edit]

In Nihon, Wolf's Rain ranked third amidst anime series airing in the same time slot behind Air Principal and Honey Boys.[25] The series was considered "a large hit in 2004" for the North American marketplace,[26] selling well in mass markets likewise as in online markets and at independent retailers. ICv2 notes that information technology has "a strong entreatment to the growing teen and older anime audience."[27] The serial was selected equally one of the top 10 anime properties of 2005 for the ICv2 Retailers Guide to Anime/Manga.[28] Its release was also a central reason Bandai Amusement earned the ICv2 Anime Visitor of the Year award for 2004.[26]

Tasha Robinson of SciFi Weekly praised the serial for its unusual focus on not-human characters and the interesting dynamic of wolves behaving like wolves equally they collaborate with the human being characters and environments in the series.[29] [30] Carlo Santos of Anime News Network praised the visuals of the series, noting that they "showcase Studio BONES at their most imaginative, with cute backgrounds that describe settings from high-tech mysticism to urban decay to open up wilderness. The character designs are equally striking: in their homo form, the wolves wear gimmicky outfits, making them the almost accessible of all characters."[30] Both Santos and Chris Beveridge of Mania.com noted that the Region 1 DVD volume containing the 4 recapitulation episodes should be left unbought and skipped as a waste product of money; however, they praised Bandai's release of the episodes for putting the episodes on a single volume, dissimilar in the Japanese release where they were spread over two DVDs requiring them to be bought to go the new episodes on the same volumes.[xxx] [31] [32] Other critics have complained that while the show had an original and innovative storyline with beautiful visuals and appealing characters, the episodes themselves were poorly paced, undeveloped, and plagued with plot holes.[25]

In The Anime Encyclopedia, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy criticized the product delays and the hiatuses that led to the creation of the iv recap episodes, stating that "if the makers had spent less time recounting the story so far, they might accept had more than enough space to finish the unabridged run within the requisite 26 episodes". They praised the series' soundtrack, feeling it supported "the atmosphere and character development", and felt the "moody, nighttime, and understated" art was attractive.[33]

Yoko Kanno'southward soundtrack for the series has also been hailed for its beauty and the style it adds to the series' emotional impact.[19] [30] The instrumental tracks were found to mirror the evidence'southward tone perfectly, evoking feelings of sorrow and loss. Co-ordinate to 1 reviewer, the soundtrack "...shows [Kanno'south] skills as both composer and pianist..." and is "...a treat to hear."[20] Kanno'south work in the series was nominated for an Annie Award in the "Music in an Blithe Tv set Production" category in 2006.[34]

The Wolf'due south Rain manga accommodation has also enjoyed success in the Due north American market, with the second volume being the 9th acknowledged graphic novel on the Nielsen BookScan list for Feb 13, 2007.[35] It was considered a "major manga hit" amid manga series adapted from an anime series.[36] Anime News Network's Liann Cooper praised its artwork, but also felt its brusk length and rushed storyline made information technology hard to connect to the characters. He too felt the supporting characters, Cher, Hubb and Quent, were only included "merely to have them included".[37] Carlo Santos, also of Anime News Network, praised the "snappy pacing" while besides considering information technology the primary downfall of the series.[38] In reviewing the series for Manga: The Consummate Guide, Rebecca Brown felt the series was a "transparent grab for cash" and criticized its farthermost brevity and the fine art, which she felt was "barely adequate and at times not fifty-fifty that."[39]

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External links [edit]

  • Bandai Aqueduct'due south official Wolf'southward Rain website (in Japanese)
  • Fuji TV's Official Wolf's Rain website
  • Victor Entertainment official Wolf's Rain soundtrack (in Japanese)
  • Wolf'southward Pelting (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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