Wolf Children Review

 

Hana was just another college student until one day she met a mysterious man and fell in love. This man was in fact was the last of the  shape shifting wolves. This does not deter her and the two end up having two end up having two children, a daughter named Yuki and a son named Ame. However the father ends up dieing in an accident leaving Hana to raise the two children, who have inherited their father's ability to change into wolves, on her own.

 

half wolf all cute

Wolf Children is a movie that might have a slightly strange premise which is used amazingly well. I have heard of some people voicing concerns of being a show about furries but I found this to not be the case. The father is actually a somewhat minor character in the movie and the wolf transformations in the children are mostly just metaphors for the nature of children although it does have it's plot uses as well.

 

It's not like I am helping you to adapt to rural life because I like you or anything

This movie is something that fits between drama and slice of life. While it usually has the laid back nature of a slice of life movie it is different from most works of art in the genre is that it lacks the frivolity that many slice of life works have. Instead Wolf Children is the story of the life of a woman and her children in it's entirety with it's ups and downs. It is a story of subtle drama like is rarely seen in anime and well worth watching. Also the movie has a clear message to it and it manages to tell it without being overly preachy and heavy handed (the fact that there are two children in the movie helps this).

 

The use of nature in this movie is wonderful

Overall I found this to be a high concept art movie that lives up to the promise that high concept movies have and can easily be one of the next great movie classics. 

 

Rating the golden wolf, this movie is one of the best anime movies I have seen