Wolf's Rain OVA

As the world accelerates toward its own destruction, Kiba and Cheza—with the help of Tsume, Hige, Toboe, and Blue—race to reach true paradise before the entire world is rendered uninhabitable. Now reunited, Cher and Hubb decide to accompany the wolves in hopes of seeing the journey through to its end, while a distraught and confused Quent wanders aimlessly into the wasteland with his mind fixated on revenge.

Meanwhile, Lord Darcia the Third has finally put his plot into motion and pursues Cheza, pitting him against the pack. As everything falls apart yet simultaneously falls into place, the wolves struggle to survive in an increasingly dangerous environment. Though the end draws near, paradise seems further away than ever before.

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Kiba Main

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Toboe Main

Shimowada, Hiroki Japanese

Tsume Main

Miyake, Kenta Japanese

Hige Main

Suyama, Akio Japanese

Blue Main

Asano, Mayumi Japanese

Cheza Main

Ogasawara, Arisa Japanese

Lord Darcia the Third Main

Kuroda, Takaya Japanese

Yaiden, Quent Supporting

Ishizuka, Unshou Japanese

Lebowski, Hubb Supporting

Miyamoto, Mitsuru Japanese

Degré, Cher Supporting

Kouda, Kaho Japanese

Minami, Masahiko Producer

Takanashi, Minoru Producer

Okamura, Tensai Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Wakabayashi, Kazuhiro Sound Director

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Jun 6, 2023

bergars

Recommended

The ending of the series. What a way to finish it.

I'm pretty angry about the separation between the ending of the series, and this ending. Both are unchanging, and I watched both, thinking it's weird how they attempt to wrap it up before this. An incomplete experience, without much of an explanation, but then, there comes what's basically a movie to wrap it up.

I loved this ending. The bleakness gets turned up to eleven, the characters are now given no forgiveness. Everybody is a victim from the world, and there's nothing they can do about it. All or nothing, we move on to the ... ending, or we die trying to get there. And there wasn't even an assurance that paradise was waiting for them. "Maybe it's all for nothing, but I won't know until I get there". That's how I can encapsulate this ending.

It all became a beautiful metaphor for humanity's need for purpose. Somebody to love, food to be tasted, water to be drank, a mountain to be climbed, or a place to call home. The ending kick-starts a world ending threat where, for once, I love that it doesn't worry about following through. It ends, where it began, and not the beginning presented, but the one we've been watching from episode one. It's something that crushed me when I saw it, and it, somehow, connects with us, with our time and space. A series that decides to look at us as a byproduct of the story that we've just experienced. It's magical.

Characters get a great wrap, and I have to give this the rating it deserves as an experience, derivative of the one before. Almost a masterpiece, but a series that should be remembered. I finally experienced one of the so-called, 2000s masterpieces.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jul 19, 2024

Grn_canislupusX

Mixed Feelings

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So I'm gonna make this short.. Wolfs Rain Ep26 ending didn't really feel like a proper ending, so when I found out there was a 4Ep OVA that finishes up the story, I was excited to watch it! But what was the point of killing off all the characters all at once just to end with Kiba waking up in a new tainted world run by humans again!! And it's so vague about it, are they reincarnated? do they still have there past lives memories? are they still wolves in this life? (They don't show them as wolves in the end scene) What happens with ... blue? WILL THEY EVER REACH PARADISE!!? So stupid and not satisfying at all.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 15, 2013

Tia22

Not Recommended

I absolutely liked wolf's rain from episode one till its ending at episode 26.

However, i completely hated the ova the extra four episodes. they were extremely pathetic, and the act of forgiveness and sacrificing of oneself or should we say wolf self for the other especially the pops guy was taken to another level entirely, till it became completely illogical and excessively pathetic.

Also, i feel like the writers just needed to make everything completely depressing such that you think the characters you liked from the start completely stupid in just these four episodes, and did i already mention pathetic>?....

Its as though the writers ... were trying to ensure every wolf's rain fan cried their hearts out within 90% of these ovas.

Left to me, the wonderful work of wolf's rain and its awesome cast should have been left completely alone. I mean how can i rate the main story 9 out of 10, and its 9 not 10 simply because i did not really enjoy those filler recap episodes...but still i liked every single other thing. yet i rated this one 4?!!! its so crazy how bad its written.

I mean what is the point of reaching paradise at all if they all suffer crazily at the whim of the writers?...plus what was with the terrible Darcia guy suddenly totally taking over affairs? ridiculous.

well, i will always have the memory of wolf's rain the initial ball of awesomeness instead of this confusion, and brutally, morbid need of the writers to crucially and tortuously kill off every character that every made any sort of sense.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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