History Anime / WolfsRain

* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: Everyone dies, but Cheza's lunar seeds are able to create a new paradise for their souls. However, Darcia's eye is still there and it slowly starts to taint the world. We then see that Kiba (and likely the rest of the cast) has been reincarnated in the modern day, and the search for paradise begins anew.]]. Manga ending is different from the anime, where [[spoiler:all the protagonists, including Hubb, Cher, Quent and Cheza doesn't die.]]

* BareYourMidriff: Tsume. Complete with pelvic bones...

** MamoruMiyano and JohnnyYongBosch as Kiba

** SteveBlum as Darcia
** MaayaSakamoto as Hamona (and also the ending theme vocalist)

** KariWahlgren as Cher Degré
** MaryElizabethMcGlynn as Jagura
** And '''NorioWakamoto''' as '''[[MundaneMadeAwesome The Owl]]'''!
** The composer is YokoKanno

* RelationshipVoiceActor: SteveBlum and MaryElizabethMcGlynn in a series with music composed by YokoKanno. [[CowboyBebop Sound familiar?]]
** Related, UnshoIshizuka (the voice of Jet Black) with Yoko Kanno, and MaayaSakamoto with Yoko Kanno as well (Sakamoto sings the outro theme "Gravity.")

* SolemnEndingTheme: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHOWudQNgAg Gravity]]", sung in English by MaayaSakamoto.

* [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Absurdly Sharp Fangs]] The wolves' fangs are basically the equivalent of swords and slash things way too easily. TruthInTelevision while wolves do have a ''very'' strong bite force and ''very'' sharp fangs they ''cannot just run by and cut open someone's waist and cause them to bleed to death.''

** MamoruMiyano and JohnnyYongBosch as Kiba.
** Creator/ArisaOgasawara as Cheza.
** KentaMiyake and Creator/CrispinFreeman as Tsume.
** SteveBlum as Darcia.
** MaayaSakamoto as Hamona (and also the closing theme song vocalist).

** KoukiMiyata and MonaMarshall as Toboe
*** Correction: Toboe was not voiced by KoukiMiyata; he was voiced by HirokiShimowada

** And '''NorioWakamoto''' as '''[[MundaneMadeAwesome The Owl!]]'''!
*** And the composer is YokoKanno

* EvilEye: [[spoiler:This is what is below Darcia's eyepatch.]]

* HumansAreBastards

* OwlBeDamned: That freaky (ghost?) owl who keeps popping up.

* JustBeforeTheEnd

** ArisaOgasawara as Cheza.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Kiba and Hige spend an ENTIRE night sleeping in one in Episode 3 and neither of them ends up falling sick or anything like that. Later in the same episode the two of them along with Toboe trudge through the sewers with no problem at all with Hige complaining he "doesn't like smelly places" at the most.

** [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath Rather fittingly]], Toboe is shot and killed accidentally by Quent.]]

* [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Absurdly Sharp Fangs]] The wolves' fangs are basically the equivalent of swords and slash things way too easily. TruthInTelevision while wolves do have a ''very'' strong bite force and ''very'' sharp fangs they ''cannot just run by and cut open someone's someone's waist and cause them to bleed to death.''

* LotusEaterMachine: There's a plant whose pollen puts anyone who comes near it to sleep until they eventually die. This is possibly subverted, depending on your interpretation of the scenes that follow.

* MismatchedEyes: Lord Darcia.

* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked to make the Nobles, especially Darcia in the last few episodes, unnerving even without those ''EyesWideShut'' masks of theirs. The show manages do this even with [[spoiler: Darcia's wolf form.]] Those MismatchedEyes are creepy.
** What's ''really'' creepy about [[spoiler: Darcia's wolf form eyes]] is the way they're ''wide open.''

* InterspeciesRomance: Kiba has ''two''. Cheza the ArtificialHuman, and a [[CatGirl female Caracal]] (which may have been dead at the time) from the LotusEaterMachine.

** Toboe and Leara. It didn't last long though, as Toboe accidentally killed her pet hawk, and in the emotion of the moment he dropped his human disguise and let out a mournful howl. She understandably does not take any of this well.

->''"A voice calls to me... it says 'Search for Paradise'..."''

''Wolf's Rain'' originally ran for twenty-six episodes, but budget cuts and the SARS outbreak resulted in '''four''' consecutive {{clip show}}s (episodes 15 to 18); the broadcast series ends with the wolves foiling a Noble's attempt to enter Paradise, but without a proper conclusion to the story. Four {{OVA}} episodes, released a few months later (and listed on DVDs as episodes 27 to 30), brought closure to the story -- but also received criticism for their dark and tragic events. The final episode also explains the show's title, as rain had only showed up in the opening titles until that episode. (Some TV networks outside Japan omit the [=OVAs=] from the show's broadcast.)

->''"A voice calls to me... it says 'Search for Paradise.'"''

* BareYourMidriff: Tsume. Complete with [[FetishFuel pelvic bones]]...

* MrFanservice: Kiba, Tsume, Hige and even Darcia all qualify, depending on your [[FetishFuel tastes]].

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: In the finale, Darcia kills them all and his eye corrupts the paradise Cheza's seeds created.]]
** ''May'' be mitigated by the last few moments [[spoiler:when we see Kiba, reincarnated in the modern world, starting to run, [[HereWeGoAgain implying that the search for Paradise has just begun anew.]]]]. So I think this classifies as a BitterSweetEnding rather than [[spoiler: a win for the villain]]
* BadassAbnormal: Darcia was already very {{Badass}} as a human. [[spoiler: Then he goes all Buick-sized wolf on them]].

* DeusExMachina: Cheza

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Kiba
** TheBigGuy: Tsume
** TheLancer AND TheSmartGuy: Hige
** TheChick: Blue/Cheza
** TagalongKid: Toboe

* InfantImmortality: Averted ''hard''. In the first episode Tsume is leading a human gang of thieves. During a heist a young boy who {{Hero Worship|per}}s Tsume falls. Tsume tries to catch the boy, but witnessing Tsume's sudden transformation into a wolf causes the kid to panic, fall, and die.

** MaayaSakamoto as Hamona.

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