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** {{spoiler|Toboe unintentionally killed his elderly human owner/grandma because he was being too playful.}}

** {{spoiler|Later he kills a girl's pet hawk by giving over to his hunter instinct.}}

* [[Animal Talk]]: The classic "two languages, Human and All Other Animals" version is explicitly in place once you see Toboe having a conversation with a horse. Even before then, Toboe often talks about having heard rumors from other animals, such as cats and crows.

* [[Anime First]]

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The Nobles certainly aren't a very moral bunch.

* [[Artificial Human]]: The "flower maiden," Cheza. Ancient ''alchemy'' was involved, apparently.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Jaguara's elite wolf-hunter soldiers. The armor makes sense, but there's no rational reason they should use those poleaxes and swords instead of guns. The shields make sense, except for the fact that the handle is basically just a handgun grip, which is great for aiming a small weapon but terrible for use with a shield.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Darcia}} becomes this in the OVA episodes.

* [[Badass Abnormal]]: Darcia was already very [[Badass]] as a human. {{spoiler|Then he goes all Buick-sized wolf on them}}.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Tsume. Complete with [[Fetish Fuel|pelvic bones]]...

* [[Beta Couple]]: Hige and Blue.

* [[Big Badass Wolf|Big Badass Wolves]]: Well, ''duh''. However, there is a grain of realism to their fantastically long/high jumps—wolves in the real world can clear up to six feet with no head start whatsoever.

** Kiba can bend steel with his ''fangs''.

* [[Divided We Fall]]: At first Kiba and Tsume have this relationship, but over time Tsume comes to believe more in their quest for paradise and becomes a vital aid.

* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Curious.

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Quent, Hubb and Cher. Mainly Quent though.

* [[Due to the 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.}}

** Jagara's city is implied to be this.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Cheza

* [[Fangs Are Evil]]: Well, considering the hero is ''named'' after his fangs...

* [[Fantastic Arousal]]: When Toboe and Hige get petted by Cheza, they become blushing moaning fanatics crying out that it "feels nice"

** [[The Hero]]: Kiba

** [[The Big Guy]]: Tsume

*** Certain Japanese voice actors can be recognized as well. Like Mamoru Miyano as Kiba.

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Hige seems to be described by other characters as being chubby. In his wolf form he's a tad fluffier than the others, but other than that he is still your typical anime pretty boy.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Cher

** It's also a lot easier for the audience to relate to human-like characters than to wolves.

** Except for the scenes where you have them EATING CARRION in HUMAN FORM. Or when Toboe licks Tsume's bullet wound. What the hell, animators!?

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

** Kiba and Tsume too. Also some between Cher and Cheza...

* [[Homing Projectile]]: the sufficiently advanced lasers.

** The wolves after {{spoiler|finding Toboe's dead body.}}

** Toboe does this in remorse after {{spoiler|accidentally killing a girl's pet hawk.}}

* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Tsume starts off like this, but gets better.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted ''hard''. In the first episode Tsume is leading a human gang of thieves. During a heist a young boy who [[Hero Worshipper|Hero Worships]] Tsume falls. Tsume tries to catch the boy, but witnessing Tsume's sudden transformation into a wolf causes the kid to panic, fall, and die.

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

* [[Jump Cut]]: This is how we transition between wolves looking like wolves and looking like humans; no morphing, no nothing.

* [[Kill the Cutie]]: Several. {{spoiler|Toboe is the most memorable one,though.}}

* [[Kill'Em All]]: In a distressingly systematic fashion, {{spoiler|followed by a possible [[Reincarnation]], depending on what you think is actually happening in that very last scene.}} However, {{spoiler|the manga version of the story has the wolves and Cheza survive. The bad news is that Kiba ends up being blinded in the fight with Lord Darcia. The good news is that the clouds part, [[Cue the Sun|the sun shines]] and the Ice Age ends.}}

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: {{spoiler|Jagara}} does this openly. Followed by an [[If I Can't Have You]], when the beloved doesn't appreciate the deed.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Cheza

** [[Mamoru Miyano]] and [[Johnny Yong Bosch]] as Kiba.

** [[Arisa Ogasawara]] as Cheza.

** He does it again in the finale, {{spoiler|this time killing everyone but Kiba and Cheza. The only reason why both of them survived was because Darcia got incinerated when he tried to enter Paradise alone.}}

* [[Nostalgia Heaven]]: {{spoiler|In episode 29, the dead or dying Toboe has a vision of himself as a pup with his beloved human Granny (whose death he accidentally caused and always felt guilty over).}}

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Not explicitly addressed until the very last episodes. And even then, it's up to interpretation.

* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Cheza

* [[Relationship Voice Actor]]: [[Steve Blum]] and [[Mary Elizabeth McGlynn]] in a series with music composed by [[Yoko Kanno]]. [[Cowboy Bebop|Sound familiar?]]

** Related, [[Unsho Ishizuka]] (the voice of Jet Black) with Yoko Kanno, and [[Maaya Sakamoto]] with Yoko Kanno as well (Sakamoto sings the outro theme "Gravity.")

* [[Roboteching]]: Beam cannons used by Nobles tend to behave like this.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: While in the city, {{spoiler|Hige}} starts losing his mind, making for one of the more disturbing sequences in the anime.

* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Many of the songs are sung in English.

* [[Sword Fight]]: Jagura vs Darcia

* [[Theme Naming]]: Kiba = Fangs, Tsume = Claws, Hige = Whiskers, Toboe = Howl, Darcia = dark.

* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Jagura managed to hit a running wolf this way. Granted, the wolf in question was running ''towards her''.

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

* [[Tragic Dream]]: Hub comforting Cher while they are being held captive by discussing how after this is over they'll live by the sea in a house together, and grow old together. Even if they get out of the situation, the world is an icy wasteland on the verge of a complete nuclear winter, there's really no chance they'll ever get to see this dream come true.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Deliberately invoked to make the Nobles, especially Darcia in the last few episodes, unnerving even without those ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]]'' masks of theirs. The show manages do this even with {{spoiler|Darcia's wolf form.}} Those [[Mismatched Eyes]] are creepy.

** What's ''really'' creepy about {{spoiler|Darcia's wolf form eyes}} is the way they're ''wide open.''

* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Cher usually has disheveled hair due to her work, and this just makes her that much hotter.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: Justified as they're actually looking for something.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] Inverted, most humans in the story are important only by their relation to the wolves. The remorseless killing of dozens of human mooks (And even some members of Tsume's gang)by the wolves is never given a second thought.

* [[Alien Among Us|Wolves Among Us]]

* [[Yandere]]: Jagara

* [[You Are Worth Hell]]: Blue has no idea if she "counts" as a real wolf, and if she'd be able to get to Paradise at all. Hige is willing to give up paradise if she can't come with him.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Blue seems to wear a version of them when she's in human form.

 

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