Anybody see the last episode of Wolf's Rain?

[Cordelia LeFay]

So, yeah, anybody here watch the last episode of Wolf's Rain??

I first began to watch it when it first aired, stopped watching in the middle, but picked it up again--so there might be a lot I don't understand to the ending that I missed, but I think everything that the ending "explains" is there in the first couple episodes.


So, what did you guys think? Are you happy with it? Did you throw something at the tv? Or did you just didn't understand it at all?

For me, I don't think it was the best ending, but it was certainly very interesting.

But let me get this straigth first, the maroon wolf (I forget his name) bits into Chesa, gets poisoned and dies--leaving only his wolf eye behind. This destorys the whole paradise thing, however, Chesa turns into seeds, which gives rebirth to Earth and everyone.
I'm a little shaky on what Kiba says tho---Chesa says there's paradise but Kiba understands that he'll always look but he'll never find it.

Unless I understood it wrong, the biggest surprise for me was that whole we-are-special-wolves thing was a bigger allegory for the human race. We think we're special and we've got the key to paradise when in fact we really don't know what is or what it means---only that we have this urge to keep pursuing it.


Uh, so that's what I got....anyone else care to share?

[Matt Alan]

....XD: I thought it was boring. I saw an episode in the middle, and the very last one. Dissatisified.

[Sukisho]

I saw it but not really...lol.. I have it recored but dwasn't paying much attention while it was on...should go watch though...lol

[Koinu]

It made no sense at the end. XD

[Pretty Kunoichi]

Whoo...I feel a bit obsessed. I heard about the series about a year ago, bought it, and watched it. (I translated it myself, mind you, so my facts might be as jumbled as my Japanese) It's one of my favorite animes, actually. ^_^

Anywhoo...

In the stories evolutionary pattern, humans evolved from wolves. Darcia, (the maroon wolf) is a human who discovered how to become a false wolf. Wolves are the bringers of paradise, yet there is only one who is able to birth a new world. When the current world is at it's end, warriors will search to create a new, better world with their flower maiden. Paradise. This itsself is false, because in the end, Tsume admits that somewhere, he knew that he would never be the one to find Rakuen (paradise) and that the others were merely there to help Kiba and Cheza get to the end of their journey.

The flower maiden's (Cheza's) blood is toxic to all wolves, poisoning Darcia. Kiba also came in contact with Cheza's blood, yet she told him the flowers would protect him. The flower maiden is sacraficed so that a new world can be born and requires the mixture of her own blood with that of the chosen wolf. Once this happens, the path of Rakuen can be realized and the world reverts back to nature.

However, Darcia's blood taints the 'pathway'. So Rakuen is again, false, leading them away from the garden paradise to the gritty reality that holds very many similarities to modern times. The scene where Kiba ran towards the flower in the end signified that his search for the true paradise and his flower maiden continues. In other words, nobody else really mattered except for the fact that they gave their lives in order to start anew.

I think that the series symbolizes how rotten our environment has become, placing a modern city as an example of "failed paradise" and that the wolves, Kiba in particular, signify a type of 'Big Bang' if you must. History repeats itsself.


Maybe that's just me. Questions? Arguments? Mockery? XD;;; Praise? I actually had the attention span to type that. GO ME. You can't simply dismiss a Shinchiro Watanabe movie without giving it a second glance. There's always some sort of meaning. *cough cough COWBOY BEBOP cough cough*






BTW, *SELF PROMOTION* If anyone's interested, I made WR a fanfic taking place after the series...this is to prove I really have no life except to sit around and ponder the meaning of life explained to me through the art of Japanese animation. O.o;;
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1846903/1/

[Stray]

I thought paradise had been opened at the end, and Darcia's eye represented that, even though the world was born anew, evil was still in the world.... You can't be rid of evil.

In conclusion, Paradise is a place on earth, until humanity has it's way with it.

[Pretty Kunoichi]

A definitely, but Kiba is still searching for the perfect one, don't you think? ^^;;