"Jin-Roh" is a dark movie, moreover it is rather grotesque as for a claim to realism. The only thing that can justify the gloomy grotesque, is a warning that cannot be conveyed to the audience by other artistic means. Is there such a warning in the "Jin-Roh"? And if so, what is it?
To answer these questions you should find answers to the two "why?" questions posed in the anime. "Why?" - asks Fuse Nanami Agawa, a "Rotkäppchen" who wants to blow herself up. "Do you want to leave the pack and go live with humans? But know that even if a wolf in human form lives among humans, he will never become a human. It's like the crime of that girl..." - he is answered when persuaded to kill Kei. So, Fuse suggests that there is no way back, that when you become a wolf, you can only pretend to be a human, but in essence you will remain a wolf. "Why?" - asks Fuse. And the deceased Nanami Agawa, a member of the Sect, replies to him: "I am a wolf, a member of a pack. There is no way for me back to the world of humans. The only way out is death". Therefore, Tobe says / indoctrinates: "Now it is real Fuze before you... We are wolves disguised as human beings." Because their command is: "Thou art".
But is it? So the second "why" is - "why didn't Fuse shoot Nanami Agawa?" If he really could not change, would Fuse have his doubts? Would the werewolves' chief, observing from cover, doubt whether Fuse would kill Kei? Would Tobe convince Fuse that there was no going back? Maybe the wolfskin, the armor worn by the special squad, yet just a mask that the powers (Fuhrer, Vozhd, Duce, Party, ideology, movement) leading wolf packs are trying to impose as "essence" on their pawns? By introducing humans to criminal practices - feeding Rotkäppchens with meat and blood (this is not an invention of the authors of "Jin-Roh", but one of the old folk versions of the "Rotkäppchen") of their own mothers, do they not bring up generations of future obedient werewolves? But the "Rotkäppchen" has many endings, and the one where the wolf wins is only one of many. In fact, the inevitability of this ending is possible only if such inevitability is indoctrinated.
Is this the warning of the gloomy grotesque "Werewolves"? Perhaps the warning that authors didn't saw neither intended. Indeed, in fact, Fuse had the opportunity to escape. There was an opportunity to throw off a wolf's skin and come to another final of the "Rotkäppchen". But conformism, subordination of human nature to the will of the pack, loyalty to a collective, which became second nature, turned Fuse into a wolf, and the "second nature" became the only one. The path to any form of totalitarianism is quite simple and inconspicuous - it is enough to "identify oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognise no other duty than that of advancing its interests". By "dissolving" his human essence in the "pack", Fuse created an idol to warship, and this idol demanded human sacrifices, ultimately devouring the soul of Fuse himself. In essence, any idolatry leads to this, but idolatry, which is projected onto social phenomena (group, ideology, "just" movement or activism), is especially destructive - it leads to totalitarianism.
