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''Chirin no Suzu'' (チリンの鈴 - Literally translated as 'Chirin's Bell'), released out of Japan as ''Ringing Bell'' (an alternate translation of the Japanese title; see [[Meaningful Name]] below), is an anime film about an [[Break the Cutie|adorable little lamb]] [[Chibi|named Chirin]], who wears a bell around his neck. He is warned by his mother not to stray past the fence around the farm that the sheep live on, for the Wolf King lives in the nearby mountains and will surely eat him. Chirin does as he's told, and lives in happiness.
Until one day, the [[Sugar Apocalypse|farm is attacked]] by the fearsome [[Big Badass Wolf|Wolf]], and Chirin's mother is killed trying to protect him. Confused and angered by this, Chirin runs off to find the Wolf. At first he plans to kill the wolf, but finds that he's far too weak. Instead, he becomes the Wolf's apprentice, no longer wanting to be a weak sheep, but instead wanting to become a strong wolf like him.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Chirin's father is not seen or mentioned anywhere in the film. As a matter of fact, the entire flock of sheep has no rams in it at all.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: The film presents the moral that revenge is totally not cool. The film essentially goes out of its way to avert this trope. How well did it work? Well, take a look at the [[Misaimed Fandom]] entry in the Your Mileage May Vary section.
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Dying Like Animals]]: Chirin doesn't want to be like the other sheep. It's understandable for Chirin to feel that way, since the sheep know about Wolf's existence and yet do nothing about it.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Chirin does this, and it comes back to haunt him later.
* [[Failure Hero]]:
** To put it bluntly, every time Chirin tries to be a hero, he fails...horribly. He tries taking on Wolf as a lamb, and every time he is easily beaten in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. One of those times, he managed to successfully headbutt right through a thick tree, and he tried the same trick on Wolf...which did not work. Oh, and he is trying to kill Wolf out of revenge, which is not exactly heroic to begin with.
** Chirin tries to take on a herd of buffalo (or bison), a skunk, and a group of gophers. He fails...epically.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The most obvious example is when Chirin tries to defend a bird's nest from a snake, only to smash all her eggs by accident. When Chirin {{spoiler|kills Wolf at the end}}, afterwards Chirin feels that he invoked this trope.
** Before that, it's stated by Chirin's mother that Chirin is not allowed to go beyond the fence because the wolf will kill him if he did. Since Chirin tends to go past the fence every time (hence the bell around his neck), it allowed the wolf to know where he lives.
* [[Non
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Wolf becomes this for Chirin. Probably because of [[Stockholm Syndrome]].
* [[Please Wake Up]]: Chirin has this reaction when he finds his mother dead.
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* {{spoiler|[[Villain Protagonist]]}}: Chirin turns into this later on.
* [[Was It Really Worth It?]]
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original Japanese script somehow manages to go even [[Darker and Edgier]] than it already is. The wolf kills the entire flock of sheep, not just Chirin's mother, leaving him with a horrible case of survivor's guilt and questioning why he is still alive. Also, Chirin doesn't tell the wolf that he's out for revenge (so the audience don't know either) until they go to attack the sheep again & Chirin surprise kills him, leaving Wolf to utter [[Ironic Echo|the same words]] as Chirin did as a lamb. Then Chrin regrets his revenge and is left alone.
* [[Xenofiction]]
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: This is one of the reasons this story is a tragedy.
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