History Anime / WolfsRain

* BigBadWannabe: While Lord Orkham manages to kidnap Cheza in the beginning, his forces, ambitions and knowledge prove to be inferior towards Jaguera's and Darcia's. [[spoiler: Hence why he is quickly killed by Jaguara's EliteMooks, once she enters the scene. Too drive this home, his MookLieutenant has more characterization and even made to the poster]]

* BittersweetEnding: Many might consider the anime a flat out DownerEnding since [[spoiler: the world ends and all of our main characters have died lonely deaths. However, the epilogue shows us that the wolves have been reincarnated into the modern world and may begin their search for Paradise anew.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: All the characters do this quite often after the credits. When previewing the next episode, for example Toboe says, "[. . .] [Liara]'s so nice, really nice, eh, oh wait, you don't know me yet do you? Just watch the next episode, you'll see."
* CanineConfusion: Hige, Toboe, and most of the wolves are more brown then any real wolf, and every wolf that has markings is over simplified--although realistic ones would be hard to animate. The only visually realistically wolves are the pure white Kiba and [[spoiler:pure black Blue (who is a wolf-dog).]] The [[spoiler:pure black Darcia]] would count too, if not for [[spoiler:his eyes being different colors.]]

** Hubb, at the mentioning of his failed marriage with Cher.

** In the first episode, Tsume is leading a human gang of thieves. During a heist, Gehl, who {{Hero Worship|per}}s Tsume, falls. Tsume tries to catch him, but although the illusion makes it seem as if he grabbed him by shoulder with his hand, he's actually using his teeth. Hurt from the bite, the kid sees through the illusion and panics, falling to his death.

* EliteMooks: Jaguara's fully armored soldiers take a while to fall into VillainDecay. They retain a threatening air, [[spoiler:slaying Lord Orkham]], having an immunity to bullets and wolf bites, and conquering pretty much all the other countries. One takes on both Blue and and a gun wielding Cher and holds both back until he's hit with a tank shell. When the Decay finally hits and Kiba tears through them, he's still left with injuries that last the remainder of the series.

* EvilOverlord: Both Orkham and Jagerua quilify. They rule over vast territories, are absolute rulers and let their citizens die in poverty.

** The degree of this is show to be limited to human-visible spectrums: while they appear human to the human eye and to video camera, when Jaguara's soldiers look at them through heat-vision scopes they are clearly wolves.

* HereWeGoAgain: Subverted. The series opens with Kiba wounded, staggering through the snow after the death of his pack: "A voice calls to me. It says, 'search for Paradise...' " The scene and monologue recur in episode 30, [[spoiler:only this time, he's the only character who is still alive. In the last scene of the series, some of the characters appear alive again in a modern city, and Kiba starts running, implying that his search for the Paradise started again.]]

* NewOldFlame: Cher and Hubb. They were married once, but divorced when Cher's career and her interest in Cheza (the latter because she was sad that she and Hubb could not have children) became more important to her. Hubb doesn't hide the fact that he still loves her, and while Cher starts out cold and dismissive towards him, she eventually show signs of still being in love with him as well. [[spoiler:Towards the end of the series they reconcile and consider starting over, which is sadly doomed by the EverybodyDiesEnding.]]

* OnlyGoodPeopleMayPass: The entrance to Paradise. Darcia attempts to enter [[spoiler:after being fatally poisoned by Cheza's blood]] and is spectacularly destroyed. Unfortunately this also prevents Kiba and Cheza from using the portal.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy : Kiba has a chip on his shoulder.

* RaisedByWolves: Inversion. Although this show is about wolves, only ''two'' out of the five wolf main characters were actually raised by wolves, Tsume and, presumably, Hige. The rest were raised by humans. Because they are wolves, they tends to lack emotion when they are in their human forms, and can be very awkward when actually conversing with humans. Toboe, Blue, and Hige are all much more comfortable around humans, because they have been around them more. In Toboe's case, his attachment to humans [[spoiler:is what ultimately causes his downfall]].

* ShootTheDog: Quent makes this his entire life mission after a wolf destroyed his home and killed his family. [[spoiler:He ends up regretting it after he shoots a wolf who gave up ''his'' life trying to save him, causing a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment just before dying with said wolf.]]

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The wolves' human forms have golden/amber eyes, to reflect their true nature. Kiba and Blue are the only ones with different eye-colors.

* TranslationConvention: All the text in the series appears to be in the Cyrillic, i.e. Russian, alphabet. The Russian seems to be genuine - eg ''Kniga Luny'', The Book of the Moon.

* UncannyValley: Darcia's expressions in his wolf form, because it is clear he is forcing human expression to a wolf's face. This makes his grin especially disturbing.

* WhiteWolvesAreSpecial: Kiba, the main character is a white wolf.

* {{Xenofiction}}: Mostly told from the [=POV=] of wolves

* {{Bishonen}}:
** Kiba and Toboe, [[DudeLooksLikeALady who is easily confused for a girl by viewers]]. The voices don't help. Even the artist for the series' manga ''also'' thought Toboe was a girl!
*** In the anime's ending [[spoiler:Toboe is wearing the girliest shade of pink ever, to the point where it looks like he was reincarnated ''as'' a girl.]] Might be Lampshading the fact the writers do realize how feminine Toboe comes off as.
** Darcia might be the most straightforward example, though; unless he's too old for the trope.

** All the signs in the series are in Russian. [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish And in perfectly correct Russian too.]]

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The OST has songs sung in several different languages, including English, Japanese, French, Italian, Portuguese, and even some Native American chanting. [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish And it's all done flawlessly]], but then again, this is Music/YokoKanno, after all.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Many of the songs are sung in English.

* OfficialCouple: Kiba and Cheza. [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Their romance ends very tragically, however.]]]]
* Darcia and Hamona as well, until the latter became ill.
* Hige and Blue. What makes this more [[TearJerker tearjerking]] is that Blue is afraid of dying alone, and Hige [[spoiler: decides to die by her side,]] which eases her fear.

* KillTheCutie: Several. [[spoiler:Toboe is the most memorable one,though.]]