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{{quote| ''A voice calls to me... it says "Search for Paradise."''}}

[[Just Before the End|The Earth is dying]]. Years of war between greedy Nobles have reduced the world to a handful of high-tech, Giger-esque cities in a barren wilderness. But there is one small hope left: [[All Myths Are True|an old legend]] says that in civilization's last days, wolves will follow the scent of lunar flowers to Paradise. Both wolves and lunar flowers have been extinct for centuries, however -- orhowever—or, at least, that's what people think.

The remaining wolves learned [[Master of Illusion|how to project illusions]] which [[Humanity Ensues|make them look and sound human]]. Four such wolves -- Kibawolves—Kiba, Tsume, Hige and Toboe -- meetToboe—meet up in a decaying domed city, drawn together by the scent of lunar flowers. The scent originates from Cheza, a [[Mysterious Waif|mysterious young girl]] who was genetically bred from a lunar flower by a group of Nobles, in the hope of studying her and capturing a wolf in order to open a gateway to Paradise.

* [[Abridged Series]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQi9Ax8UzCw You better believe it!]{{context}}

* [[Accidental Murder]] :

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: You'd better believe it.{{context}}

* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|Class 3A into Class 6. The whole planet is dying, because years of war has wrecked the environment beyond repair, so the world is slowly being enveloped by a nuclear winter ice age. By the end of the last episode, Kiba is assumed to be the last living creature on the planet, before he dies and [[Reset Button Ending|resets all of reality.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]]: In the finale, Darcia kills them all and his eye corrupts the paradise Cheza's seeds created.}}

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: All the signs in the series are in perfectly correct Russian.

* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]{{context}}

* [[Due to Thethe Dead]]: {{spoiler|Cher is the first person to die in the final episodes, unable to get out of the vehicle fast enough before it falls down the cliff. Hubb and the Wolves are able to get down the cliff fast enough for Hubb to spend his final moments with her, before he lays her body into the nearby river and lets it sink into the depths.}}

* [[Dystopia]]: Mew's world, the fake Paradise.

* [[Five-Man Band]] :

* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: The aforementioned ability of the wolves to assume human form is sometimes confusing. Most of the time, they apparently [[Our Werewolves Are Different|retain their wolf form, only ''appearing'' to be human]]. They also, for the most part, seem to be incapable of certain human activities such as driving or using firearms. Yet they sometimes appear to be holding objects in their hands. It usually translates to holding things in their mouths, as shown when Tsume grabs Toboe to keep him from falling. The confusion mostly stems from the fact that they also spend a lot of time looking human even while there are no humans around to fool. Possibly, this is a sort of [[Translation Convention]]; the audience can identify with the characters better if they look human. It doesn't really get weird until they start chowing down on [[Bambification|a dead deer]] -- while—while in human form.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Kiba has one after Cheza dies. Then he dies shortly after. Tsume has one at Toboe's death as well,proving himself to be a [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]] after crying [[Manly Tears]] and going into his [[The Woobie|Woobieriffic]] [[Backstory]] with his dead,fallen friend.}}

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Doesn't Darcia the Third rise from the dead, [[Mad WorldMadWorld|swapping his wolf form for a chainsaw attatched to his arm, and participating in a game show called Death Watch?]] {{spoiler|Only after [[Cowboy Bebop|killing that white-haired gangster.]] }}

* [[Holographic Terminal]]{{context}}

* '''[[Inverted Trope|Humans]]''' [[Furries Are Easier to Draw|Are Easier to Draw]]: This may be the only series that turns the [[Animals Are Easier to Draw]] Trope on its ear. The wolves may spend a questionable amount of time appearing human because it's easier to animate. [[Most Writers Are Human|The artists presumably have much more experience animating the human figure and its movements]].

{{quote| "I wanted to take you to paradise..."}}

* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]{{context}}

* [[Howl of Sorrow]]:

* [[Hypno Trinket]]{{context}}

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Tsume

* [[Just Before the End]]{{context}}

* [[Licked Byby the Dog|Licked By The Wolf]]: Early on when Tsume is being a jerkass, Toboe's liking for him is one of the few things (besides his badassery) that makes him likeable. Although being voiced by [[Crispin Freeman]] doesn't hurt...

* [[Lie to Thethe Beholder]]: The wolves' human forms are merely psychic illusions; they can't fool animals, security cameras, or so on.

* [[Names to Know Inin Anime]] :

* [[Official Couple]]: Kiba and Cheza. {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|Their romance ends very tragically...]]}}

* [[Power-Up Food]]: Quent Yaden can see through the wolves' illusions [[By the Eyes of Thethe Blind|after consuming alcohol]].

* [[Raised Byby Wolves]]: Interesting 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}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Reset Button Ending]]: After Kiba dies, we see the whole world has been reset into modern day Earth, indicating that Paradise is just the real world where wolves are not mystical creatures.}}

* [[Talking to Thethe Dead]]{{context}}

* {{spoiler|[[That Poor Plant]]: [[Tear Jerker|Poor Cheza...]]}}

* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: Blue spends half the series fighting wolves with a burning passion and hatred, only to find out she's half-wolf.

* [[Train Job]]{{context}}

* [[Translation Convention]]: All the text in the series appears to be in the Cyrillic, i.e. Russian, alphabet. The Russian seems to be genuine - egfor example, ''Kniga LunaLuny'', The Book of the Moon.

* [[Warrior Poet]] {{context}}

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