teddikilla My mother knows I love anime, so she came home with a box set called Wolf's Rain that she picked up for only $15 (It said 15 dollars on the side). And I thought, 'this will suck, it's so cheap.'.... But I put on the first disc about a week later, about 10 hours later I realized it was around 11 in the morning... I'd watched almost all of the series! That was about a year and a half ago, I've only just gotten to reviewing this because something relating to it pops up (I was wikipedia-ing Bones studio this time for example) and this is my first ever review. Needless to say, this anime is now one of my favorites, I've seen it twice and I look forward to seeing it a few more times down the line. :]

Rectangular_businessman "Wolf's Rain" is one of the most beautiful and inspiring anime shows that I've ever saw. I'm not a big fan of anime, but I loved this show. The animation, the characters, the story, and the music (The great music made by Yokko Kanno, who also made the score for very good animated shows as "Cowboy Bebop" and "Escaflowne") all was perfect.The story, despite being somewhat strange, it is captivating and wonderful since the very first moment. "Wolf's Rain" it is one of those anime shows that you could see thousands of times, and always have the same magic and charm.And about the last episodes...I know that many reviewers disliked the ending, but, personally, I thought that it was a perfect ending for a show like this, the kind of ending that is sad and emotional, but fulfilling and hopeful at the same time."Wolf's Rain" is a great anime show, and I highly recommend it to anyone.

bennyhagen Thanks to it's charming characters Wolf's Rain can keep one involved enough to make it trough the interesting but badly told story, that just never wants to get started leaving you on the edge of your seat (in a bad way) all along the series. On the other hand Wolf's Rain rather frequently lets you down, probably topped by the 4 - I repeat, four - unforgivable flashback filler episodes (that you might just as well skip) right in the middle of the whole thing, at the one and only point, where it really looks like things could finally lift off. The artistic concept is okay, but the animation is minimum effort, to the point where everything looks just like a colored manga. I espetially found the drawing time saving repeating shots obtrusive.All together, despite it's likable characters and the interesting story, as much as I tried to like it, Wolf's Rain simply drags ass and as it never really reaches any climax, I'd say, it's rather a waste of time than anything else.We've all seen better than that.4/10

Cammy Jade Krueger I enjoy this adventurous suspenseful drama, but one flaw can be said. That they stray off of the course of the storyline way too many times to focus in on each of the main characters and other trite matters. "Wolf's Rain DVD 4" is nothing but replays, recollections of the series thus far from the view of the main characters, each handing down a commentary on their own personal episodes. I would say that they read too much into the things they encounter during their journey, and can spend half to entire episodes on something that doesn't even have to do with the main event. It appears as if they are walking towards the end, but would tend to break often and dilly-dally then start up again. But I can see how the creators might have done this intentionally, for the audience to see how intense this journey was which could have gone on for what might've been years. All in all it is fair, there are always new encounters and sights along the way, making every minute of it enjoyable despite the sidetrackings. The story manages to keep a steady tempo throughout each scene, whether stagnant or flowing which is difficult to do, which is why most rivaling animes lack this in their story-telling.