Wolf's Rain (ウルフズレイン Urufuzu Rein?) is an anime series created by writer and story editor Keiko Nobumoto and produced by Bones Studio. The series was directed by Tensai Okamura and featured character designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto with a soundtrack produced and arranged by Yoko Kanno. Its original run lasted from January 6, 2003 – July 29, 2003.
(Source - Wiki)

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Plot Summary: In some distant future, it's common knowledge that all wolves have been extinct for 200 years. However, it seems this is false as wolves have not disappeared but rather have taken human form. Kiba, a lone wolf, wanders into a city, trying to sniff out the Lunar Flowers that are supposed to lead whoever follows the scent to paradise. The source of the smell is Cheza, a girl who sleeps in what appears to be suspended animation in a lab. She and the wolves are drawn to each other, and Kiba hopes to find paradise once he finds the source of the scent of Lunar Flowers. However, once Kiba finds Cheza, she is kidnapped by a mysterious person called Darcia, and his search begins anew. Before he leaves the city, he meets 3 other wolves, Tsume, Hige and Toboe. All four wolves have very different personalities and ideas, and their friendliness towards each other is a little rough around the edges. However, they soon band together to continue to search for paradise.

Genres: adventure, drama, science fiction, supernatural
Themes: post-apocalyptic, wolves
Episodes: 30
Age rating: Older Teen
(Source - ANN)

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I'm watching this anime at the moment; and i think it's really good. Anyway, the plot is really interesting! What confused me again (the same thing confused me in FMA), why did they use russian?



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i've only seen bits and pieces of this anime so i really can't judge... but what i do like about this anime is its music... another yoko kanno masterpiece, especially "gravity" sung by maaya sakamoto. so short, yet bitter sweet.

I haven't heard this song yet; but the ones I've heard by now are really good!

eh? Gravity is the ending song of Wolf's Rain...

what's Wolf's Rain like/about?
it seems interesting

you know where I can download the eps, instead of one by one?

Wolf's Rain is an anime by Studio Bones and much of the same crew behind Cowboy Bebop save for Shinichiro Watanabe. It focuses on a group of wolves who have the ability to telepathically disguise themselves as humans. It takes place in the future on earth after some sort of devasting cataclysm. The wolves are searching for a mythical place called, "Paradise". The villains of the series are the enigmatic Nobles who are somehow related to the wolves and are also searching for Paradise. It's a 30 episode series and its really well made. The English dubbed version airs on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and it is fantastic.

Good description. I have nothing to add except that it's a very emotional show. The settings are very bleak, the characters seem either perpetually depressed or else too naive to be. But the show's not a whiny, spooky, I'm-so-sad "gothic" self-indulgence. The music, as has been mentioned, adds to the feeling of loneliness which runs throughout everything in this show. But it does this by being either upbeat or nonexistent. It forms this contrast or emphasis, which is a soundtrack's job, but the emphasis is overwhelming and the contrast stark.

I'm an emotional rock. I mean I'm tough. Dancer in the Dark didn't make me cry (I teared up a little...a little). Nearing the end of Wolf's Rain is an episode which made me cry and go to bed at noon. It's a good show.

Note: I was watching a good fansub. I haven't seen the American dub and so my statements do not apply to it.

i wanted to watch it, but it was licensed so i turned to cartoon network instead. the art seemed great but the first big turnoff was that joshua seth played one of the main characters, and i am really, really sick of hearing him in every single dub out there. and then i heard some of the other voices, and in my opinion, they aren't wonderful either. i didn't watch any more after that, so don't trust my opinion on the dubbing. kiba and tsume look really cool, though, so maybe i'll go back and watch sometime if it's still playing

It's really, really good. It's, as was said above, 'gothic', there are almost no jokes, but the whoe atmosphere isn't depressive, it's sad and beautiful.

I'll dl it after Shaman King

Wolf's rain is a good series. It starts off really slow but it really picks up in the end. The story line progresses nicely.

emotional as in oh-i'm-in-tears-b/c-its-so-sad or is it more of a meaningful, purposeful type of emotional?

its bloody so it makes it cool and it is sad

Sad as in, people don't really cry very often in this show because they simply have no more tears to shed. As in, life is just always like this so what's sad about it?
It's sad because it only occasionally dawns on the characters precisely how sad their lives are.
Someone said it's sad and beautiful and with that, I'd definitely have to agree. It's sad the way living in the last days of the age of mankind would be sad. The way idly knowing, somewhere on the periphery of your mind, that you are among the last generation of a soon-to-be extinct species.

Don't get me wrong though, it never quite throws it in your face. It lets you feel the permeating melancholy for yourself, and define it in your own terms. Perhaps, for you, there is some hope. Maybe there isn't.

Geez what a good show!

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http://mp3.pasaran.ru/anime/

I don't know who you are Russian guy, but I love you, this site has Samurai 7....I am forever in debt, lol

EDIT: I take all the above back, cause the links on that site all screwy, feh

ON TOPIC: Wolf's Rain's a great anime

Woo. Spoiler tags. x)

Yeah.. the story was really sad.
I was often in conflict to watch or not watch the anime,
becuase i want to watch it, but i don't want to get depresssed after watching it.
However, it was worth watching.
It was really good.

I wish there was a second season..T.T

not only does that show make no sense lol i mean jeezus the humans are wolves??!! wtf i mean wats up with that i watch it and like it but it makes no dam! sense

I'd HAVE to agree. WOLFS RAIN IS THE BEST ANIME SERIS EVER.Sorry FMA, you just don't have what it takes, to make you a truly fantastic anime seris. (excuse the poor grammer).

WAIT A MINUTE!? HOW THE HEAK CAN YOU SAY THAT IT MAKES NO SENSE, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!(YOU JUST HAVE TO WATCH EVERY EPISODE, PAY ATTTENTION, AND DON'T FALL ASLEEP!)HOW DARE YOU HEVEN HAVE THE NERVE! (Besides, most message boards are for fans, and for people who have questions about the seris, NOT haters).undefined [SIZE=14][COLOR=red]

Unless you want to know how it ends, don't you dare look @ this and spoil it for yourself, trust me, if you do, it will haunt you for the rest of the time that the siris is on.

No, no, don't fight now.
I must say that I didn't really fancy the series that much. It was a little too boring and slow for my taste. I really liked the beginning and the end though. Plus I do think that the idea and whole concept with the humans and wolves was great.
I kind of understand the series, even though it was a little wierd at the end. It's much harder to explain though. Some things weren't so clear to me either.
All in all it was a very touching and beautiful series. I wish that people hadn't spoiled the end for me, becuase I was too prepared(yes, exactly, don't spoil yourself). Still, I was at least a little surprised.
The reason I watched this was becuase of Kiba (weird me ). I saw his picture and decided that I had to see the anime and I ended up watching it all. I'm glad I did.

And kiba's mate: I actually think that FMA does have what it takes for a truly fantastic anime series. It's the best there is actually(with Digimon ) but that's just my opinion though. If you're here I would think that you would consider it mighty great too, even if you think that Wolf's Rain is better. Check the threads in the FMA anime section about why people love that series so much

Thanks 4 the advice, I'll look into it.

I am so so so so so so so STUPID!! It seems as though I'll NEVER learn to leave those spoiler tags ALONE! Christ you'd think for someone who hates spoilers as much as I do, I'd learn my goddamn lesson. It's...it's those 'spoiler' tags! They're too fun to click on! They entice! They're an attractive nuisance!!

*breaks down in wracking sobs* But that will never ever be a surprise to me now. That's so depressing. As a storyteller myself, I absolutely hate it when the pacing and momentum of a story is ruined, such as when someone finds something out before they're supposed to. It's just so vitally important to the storytelling process to withhold information until the relevant time.

I...just...wish I could resist those damn soiler tags.... Sorry for the rant everyone...I'm just very upset with myself...nevermind me.

Yeah, I know what you mean I hate getting spoiled too, and I do it myself too!
But someone/some poeple sploiled for me that EDIT: I took that away... probably you'd click it anyway.
But well, it was information that I didn't want to know. Wolf's Rain is one of those serieses that shouldn't be spolied. I think that that took quite a bit of the enjoyment away from me.
FMA is another series. I'm so happy that I didn't get spolied... oh well, about the end anyway.. I did make a few shocking realisations before that...

i no... i love that song.... and wolfs rain. practically as much as inuyasha.. i was so sad when they took it off the air..

'gravity'? yea its so freakin awesome.hopefully after fma theyll show it again. i love it so much.i cried when toboe died...*tear tear* he was the best ! RIP TOBOE

i tried clickin on the link a few post b4...it looks like episodes of anime.2 bad they dont work.*sob*

yes... once i knew the ppl of cowboy bebop made it i knew that most of them would probbaly die since they killed spike... *cries hysterically* WHY???.....

the last ep was confusing to me... was kiba looking for cheza? and didnt he pass her??

cant help u on tha 1.ive got short term memory loss.i watched it like 3 or 2 months ago and i dont remember.

oh... thats alright. i was just thinking alound really..

BTW- wuts this 1 4??

Yes, Wolf's Rain is a depressing, however, great show. It has its moments of suspense and sadness here and there (mainly on the "Final Four". AKA OAV) but it still attaches you with the plot by making you wonder about so many questions...

Will the wolves reveal themselves to the humans? Will they possibly be aliies/friends? Who is "so-and-so"? What else does it say in the book of the moon?

Watching it at first can be dull but stick into it with the first volume of the DVD and you're good to go.

wolf rains the best only second to fma

Wolf's Rain put me in a deep lil pit of despair every time I watched it. It's an incredibly emotional anime and there are only about 4 or 5 episodes that didn't make me cry. but it's still a very artsy anime and I have to appreciate something that moves me like Wolf's Rain did.

Ok. Basically I'll tell you what hapened in the spoiler.&please other people, if you are just now watchingit, don't spoil it for your self, and take a peade @ this spoiler.