Reviews

I picked this anime up and dropped it twice. Just now finally finished it. The anime was amazing, but it wasn't without flaw. My engagement in the story was like a roller coaster. Started high, dropped a bit around the middle, then shot back up like a rocket during the later episodes to the end. I was very tempted to give this a 10 due to its ending, but I can't ignore the flaws. One of them being they didn't go into much detail about the wolves human form. Is it simply an illusion or something physical? I came to the conclusion both, but then I thought maybe is goes even deeper. I thought they might have an anthropomorphic form that's disguised as a human. It's the only theory that really makes sense because there's certain animation/transitions that wouldn't make sense otherwise. Not like they can use their paws to carry stuff and press/open things. I also don't get why Tsume needed a weapon. I feel like it was just thrown in to make him look cool, but in the end it served no purpose. I think it would've made more sense if they didn't have a human form. At the same time I think they gave them a human form because 'talking animals' is kinda cliche. It was a good concept though.

*SPOILERS*

Anyway, I've seen A LOT of depressing anime (as you'd see by my list), but I gotta say, out of all of them, I think this is the most depressing anime I've ever seen. I know technically they lived and the idea was to stay true to the story of "human's being born from wolves", where a new world is started and they became humans, but I'm kinda sad it just showed the 4 main characters at the end. What about blue and the humans? I really wish it would've at least shown Blue and Hige together as humans. They did a superb job on the ending regardless. I always love anime that ends like this, it all ends where it began. Dark anime is always my favorite because we grow up engraved with this idea of heroism and there's always a happy end, but these types of anime are a reminder of reality which is the good guy doesn't always win.

*More elaboration on my theory above

So, earlier I said I think that the wolves human form was an anthropomorphic form inside of an illusion. To go into more detail I came to this conclusion because it shows animations where the anatomy of their wolf form matches with their human form. Secondly, there's no other way they could be using their hands to hold stuff or press things; prime examples, Tsume carrying that box of stolen supplies in the beginning and when he pressed that keypad to let hubb out of his jail cell. Lastly, in one of the episodes where it shows Quent's town is being destroyed by the wolves, it shows a book being burned up and the inside of it shows picture of a werewolf.