from the geniuses who brought you cowboy bebop

comes the crappiest piece of crapper crap, wolf's rain.

wow. i finally suffered through the last episode, to be left with nothing. no resolution. no explanation. no nothing. what a crap series. i don't remember if i posted about the movie spartan, but i watched that entire movie thinking, it's bad, but it's not bad enough to stop watching. i've already put this much time into it, i might as well finish it. hopefully if i watch just a little bit more it'll get better or make sense. take that same feeling, and apply it to 30 fucking 20 minute episodes. 10 hours, wasted. gone.

ok. you have 4 wolves. you have 1 half wolf that belongs to a old human hunter who hates wolves. you have a detective trying to win back his ex-wife, who is a scientist studying a flower girl. the flower girl is supposed to lead the wolves to paradise. what is paradise, you ask? good fucking question! after 10 hours of pure nonsensical babble about paradise, and what is paradise, and how to get to paradise, and if paradise exists, i still have no fucking idea. oh, and you have some bad guys, but they aren't even worth describing, they're so confusing.

wolves deceive humans by appearing to them as humans. except when humans are really drunk, or dizzy, or have just been clocked on the head, or wear some red eyepiece gear, then they can see through the deception. wolves gave birth to humans? wolves turned into humans and then were kicked out of paradise? humans are wolves who forgot themselves? the series posits a whole bunch of theories and forgets to actually explain which if any is true.

so for 10 hours, you watch this cast of characters meet up, separate, meet up again, separate some more, all while wandering through a wasteland. it's always either snowing or not snowing. and the wolves are always either hungry or eating. they fight some things occasionally. a lot of the show is the wolves losing the flower girl and then rescuing her again. what the fuck is a flower girl, you ask? i couldn't fucking tell you. she does turn into seeds at the end, whatever the fuck that means.

at the end, everyone dies. as each character dies, he or she tells the main character that he or she knew all along that he or she would not be allowed into paradise and that only the main character would survive. why did they go along then??

what a dissatisfying piece of work. come on! cowboy bebop, and then this. how does that happen.