Wolf's Rain

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:19 am

Has anyone watched this one? I found it atmospherically one of the most powerful animes I've seen. It's certainly (world wise) one of the most original. The animation and the sound/music are all great (if you ignore the noses and the strange space-ships), and it even has an opener which I don't find cheesy. It makes a bit too much use of stupid audience panicker moments (like fades on a gunshot, only to reveal that what happens is exactly not what the audience is supposed to think), but I can overlook the minor faults.

Now for the big one:

In a way it is like Blame. What the hell is the ending supposed to mean? If someone has seen it, and think he understands it, please PM me or something. (so as not to post spoilers here.)

In fact the story is much like Blame altogether, (except the world is totally different), people looking for some sort of key to paradise (which in Blame would be the net terminal gene, or whatever it was called.)

So please, if anyone can give me pointers (maybe I'm just too tired to think right now, I had to watch it to the end....).

Post by **Eldo** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:23 am

hmm...I watched less than 8 episodes. I really liked the animation and the world that is presented to us. But I stopped downloading it once my HD got royally screwed. The last episode I saw were a group of wolves selling themselves as labour for the humans to get cash and food.

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:26 am

Get it all from boxtorrents, it's only 4 gig or so, and mostly boxtorrents has lots of fast seeders.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:46 am

One of the animes In my top 10 all time favorites.

Post by **Necromancer** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:20 am

I like everything relating wolves, so I'll dl it. Let's see if it's worth the "wolf" in the name.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:22 am

haahahah okay then, I am a HUGE fan of wolves they are my favorite animals next to cats, and I love the anime.

Post by **Ayanami** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:52 am

Can't say I am a fan of the anime, ending was garbage, unless I missed an episode or something. I don't know, I thought it was boring, but that is just me.

Post by **Dominion** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:24 am

STRAY!!

this is definitely a worthwhile anime to watch... the animation was done by the same people who did Cowboy Bebop so youll notice that Spike "isnt" dead

in any case alot of japanese anime seem to perpetutate the notion of reincarnation and never ending cycles... this is an example of it... if you notice at the end...

*SPOILER*
when the world ended when they are walking through the city, it looks like a modern day city.. kinda like NOW.. it makes you wonder how many times its happened before and it just goes to show that there really never was a Paradise and theyll forever be searching for it
*SPOILER*

id say this is definitely worth buying and thats saying alot, in my opinion.. same goes for the sound track.. i have it on my comp but if i get the chance id buy it.. yoko kanno is a muh-fugging genius

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:09 am

Spike was way cooler than anyone in Wolf's Rain. The characters in CB were generally way better than those in WR. The best characters in WR were the humans. I really liked Hubb and his wife, and the old guy wasn't bad, too.

The wolves were ok, but a little stereotyped.

Post by **Ayanami** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:31 am

Brainpiercing wrote:Spike was way cooler than anyone in Wolf's Rain. The characters in CB were generally way better than those in WR. The best characters in WR were the humans. I really liked Hubb and his wife, and the old guy wasn't bad, too.

The wolves were ok, but a little stereotyped.

Yeah, I thought the best characters were the humans as well.

And I also agree that the whole cast of CB kills the Wolf's Rain cast.

Once again, that is just me.

Post by **Dominion** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:15 am

what i meant was hige looked like spike what with the hair-do and all

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:10 am

Uh, Hige is shortish and stocky, has brown hair and a chubby face. Spike is lean, tall, and has a thin face.

Hes, the hair-do is similar, but the similarity ends there.

Post by **Necromancer** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:58 pm

My download is ready now, so I'll start watching it. Let's see...

Post by **Sahlen** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:43 pm

Wolf's Rain is one of the best Animes I've ever seen.
Awesome characters, good story and fitting music.
But I don't really understand the end.

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:15 pm

Necromancer the start is a bit slow and the mood is not very catchy, rather dark from the beginning. But it picks up after the first few episodes.

Post by **Necromancer** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:30 pm

Yeah yeah, I'll watch all episodes until tomorrow or let's say I'll try. So there's no possibility I'll stop watching it because of the first parts.

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:45 pm

15 to 18 are entirely recaps, there's nothing new in them, so you can skip them entirely. Continue with 19.

If anyone else downloads this you might want to not download those at all.

Post by **Sahlen** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:38 pm

Yeah I can confirm that.
Just a waste of time watching them.

Post by **Necromancer** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:20 pm

I just watch everything. Got half of the way now. 15/30

Post by **Dominion** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:34 am

well i dont know about you Brainpiercing, but that was the first thing i thought of when i first say hige... they are both similar in personality though since they are both lazy bums so i got you there

Post by **teo** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:42 am

I like the animation but too bad the ending is crap.
I think i understand the ending because of that bad blood got mix with the flower girl the ending will take you back to 21st century.
Kinda shallow or is it just me??

Post by **Sahlen** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:13 am

I don't hink the end was crap.
It is just hard to understand I'm watching the whole anime again do understand it ^^.
Well ok it is a really sad ending but I think there's a reason why it ended that way and if you know the reason maybe it's not that sad...
Well just my opinnion.

Post by **Necromancer** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:51 pm

teo wrote:I like the animation but too bad the ending is crap.
I think i understand the ending because of that bad blood got mix with the flower girl the ending will take you back to 21st century.
Kinda shallow or is it just me??

I don't think so, I think it all started over again, because they really opened paradise. It was an open ending. Will they ever meat again in their new world, are they somehow linked now. Will this happen everytime. What about the others, Blue, the old man, Hubb and Cher.
It was a sad ending but somehow a good too. I liked and and I'm satisfied with it.

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:36 pm

Hmm, I still think they should have elaborated a LITTLE bit more. Especially concerning the non-wolves involved.

Post by **BsMoBs** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:29 am

one of the best anime with gungrave cowboy bebbop and berserk