Wolf's Rain
ウルフズ・レイン
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Drama
Details & Synopsis
In a world slowly dying, where cities rot at the edges and the wilderness has gone silent, wolves are supposed to be extinct. They're not. They walk among humans in the shape of men, drawn by an instinct older than civilization toward a paradise that may not exist.
Produced by Bones and directed by Tensai Okamura, Wolf's Rain aired on Fuji TV in 2003. Twenty-six episodes, plus four OVA episodes that complete the story, built around a question the show refuses to answer cleanly: what does it mean to chase something you can't prove is real? Kiba, Tsume, Hige, Toboe. Four wolves, one impossible journey, and a girl made of flowers who may be the key to everything.
Yoko Kanno scored it. Of course she did. The soundtrack is devastating in the way only Kanno can manage, something that sounds like grief given a melody. The world is gorgeous and terminally bleak. The ending will sit with you.
Skip episodes 15-18. They are recap episodes and they will kill your momentum. Watch everything else without stopping.
Produced by Bones and directed by Tensai Okamura, Wolf's Rain aired on Fuji TV in 2003. Twenty-six episodes, plus four OVA episodes that complete the story, built around a question the show refuses to answer cleanly: what does it mean to chase something you can't prove is real? Kiba, Tsume, Hige, Toboe. Four wolves, one impossible journey, and a girl made of flowers who may be the key to everything.
Yoko Kanno scored it. Of course she did. The soundtrack is devastating in the way only Kanno can manage, something that sounds like grief given a melody. The world is gorgeous and terminally bleak. The ending will sit with you.
Skip episodes 15-18. They are recap episodes and they will kill your momentum. Watch everything else without stopping.
Alt Title
ウルフズ・レイン
Studio
Bones
Network
Fuji TV
Aired
2003
Episodes
30
Genre
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Status
Completed
Guides and reference pages for this series. More coming.
