Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki

Title:Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki
Wolf Children
おおかみこどもの雨と雪
Overall:Buy
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Notables: MIYAZAKI Aoi
R1 License - FUNimation
Hana is a 19-year-old student who falls in a "fairy-tale like" love with a "wolf man". Over the course of the 13-year story Hana gives birth to two children—older sister Yuki, and younger brother Ame, or "Snow and Rain". At first the family quietly lives in city trying to hide their wolf heritage, but when the "wolf man" suddenly dies Hana makes the decision to move to a rural town, far from their previous city life.
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117-minute animated film released in Japanese theaters on June 25, 2012.
Animated by Studio Chizu
Licensed by Funimation
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Buy 10 9 9 8 9 Ggultra2764 [series:2897#1552]
This family film told over the span of 12 years focuses on a young woman named Hana going through the challenges of raising her two children, Ame and Yuki, after being widowed by her wolf man husband. The film mixes fantasy and light slice-of-life drama in its exploration of the complicated lives of the family as Hana tries raising her children while concealing their rather unique origins. As the children grow up, both start going along on rather different paths of life as either a wolf or a human that Hana finds herself having to come to terms with towards the final quarter of the film. The major characters in Wolf Children get enough focus where we can come to understand the issues they have with their rather unique predicaments (mainly Hana, Ame and Yuki) and having some supporting characters that serve to add some dimension to their situation with interactions between wolves and humans. The anime is also believable in exploring the complications that arise from the situation of Hana's family where she does isolate herself from others at first due to fearing the ramifications of anyone discovering Ame and Yuki's origins before Yuki starts going to school and Ame decides to be raised in learning to be a wolf. The movie's slow pace for two hours and the lack of any major conflict in it may turn off some folks. But the movie not pandering or sticking to conventional territory was a huge plus in my enjoyment of the film. The visuals retain Mamoru Hosoda's regular drawing style with beautiful and highly detailed scenery and having moments of fluid movement shown in the movements of any of the wolves, though animation isn't a major element of this movie compared to Hosoda's previous work on Summer Wars. If you enjoy light drama or any of Hosoda's previous works, you are likely to get plenty of enjoyment out of Wolf Children.

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