![]() The issues with humans was a brief scene, and the fox was introduced about 20 minutes before the climax, meaning that one of the biggest decisions in the movie had almost no buildup, foreshadowing, or even support, due to the short run time of Ame’s storyline. From Yuki’s perspective, Ame just ran away while she was at school one day From Hana’s perspective, her son ran away forever, barely saying goodbye as he left, and from Ame’s perspective, his family is gone and he will never see them again. One, for a movie about family and its importance, Ame running off really destroys the family togetherness for everybody. Sam: Lets talk about the Ame wolf side ending for a little bit, because that is what really pushed this movie over the edge for me. Also, the tragedy was a very forced thing the dad’s death came out of nowhere and Ame leaning into his wolf side came off as an edgy bishonen darkside plot that many, many battle series have done to death. I contrast it with Usagi Drop, which needed nothing supernatural and ran the same story in a bunch of 20-minute episodes with much less of a budget. ![]() I’m just so done with this.ĭrew: It’s the kind of movie where I feel there was a decent plot lurking in there somewhere, but it got so caught up in the “kids are werewolves” themes that it forgot to really focus on a mom raising children and got no message across, if it had one it was going for. The characters really didn’t seem to mesh with them though. Nothing went right for me, except for the backgrounds looking very nice. It felt like it dragged on forever, but that’s nothing new for how I feel about anime movies. It felt like Grave of the Fireflies to me, in that it was supposed to be sad or something, but I felt nothing for any of the characters, the ending was obvious, and I really just wanted it to end so badly. I didn’t really know what the movie would end up being like or about, but that was just awful. To be fair, it’s a premise I kind of hate, but I was going in with high expectations. And it took two hours to hit an ending that was obvious in a tenth that time. The beginning was pretentious and didn’t know how to use animation budget, there were times when the animation was just jerky, the story felt like something that would have been better if the main element (wolves) were removed entirely, and it felt dead-set on its own conflicts without really paying attention to aspects that could have been interesting. Welcome to the latest installment of the column where we, the Animetics crew, trade lowbrow thoughts on stuff we just finished! In this installment, we discuss the 2013 Tokyo Anime Fair Best Animation Winner, Mamoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children, and the many ways it disappointed us.įor one, it focused far too heavily on this element rather than a more solid core storyĭrew: I’m just gonna start us off by saying that, being the one who originally suggested this movie, that it felt like basic mistakes the movie.
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