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''Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest'' (Wolf Guy - Ookami no Monshou'') is a [[Seinen]] manga by Tabata Yoshiaki and Yugo Yuuki, the same guys behind [[Akumetsu]]. Like Akumetsu, it's a pretty violent series with a mysterious male protagonist, though with a more supernatural bent.

According to [[wikipedia:Wolf Guy|TheOtherWiki]], however, ''Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest'' is actually one of the many remakes of a short shonen manga from [[The Seventies]], originally written by Kazumasa Hirai and illustrated by Hisashi Sakaguchi, but it takes a few notes from Hirai's later novel entitled ''Adult Wolf Guy'' as well. The manga even had an OAV series in the early nineties, with famous seiyuu [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] voicing the male lead, Inugami Akira ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDqb_C2F6Q here you can watch the OP song]). Yuuki and Tabata took the basic concept of the oldie manga, re-set it in modern times, and gave it a ''really'' [[Darker and Edgier]] spin.

The story goes like this. Akiko Aoshika, a beleaguered and incredibly hot middle school teacher, is stumbling home from an evening at the bar after another day of hell at work. She comes across a young man, [[Meaningful Name|Inugami Akira]] who keeps her from falling flat on her face. After arguing back and forth about her being a teacher or not, he tells her to beat feet, for a storm's a brewin'...

Unsurprisingly, Aoshika follows him anyway, whereupon he walks smack into a large gang. They proceed to beat the tar out of the boy, while the teacher looks on in horror. Not that it matters, as he springs back up [[Good Thing You Can Heal|five minutes later.]] The gang leader decides to be more thorough and employs [[Car Fu]] to take the boy down. This seems to work so they turn their attention to back Ms. Aoshika, who is in the early stages of [[Heroic BSOD]] due flashbacks of her own troubled youth. Eventually she just faints. When she wakes up, all of the gang members have been beaten up and she is completely unhurt.

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Flash-forward to the next day, where she is dropped off at the school by the police. By the way, guess who's her [[New Transfer Student|new transfer student?]]...

The series finished with 117 chapters, 12 collected Volumes.

* [[Achilles Heel]]: For werewolves, the moon, obviously. Inugami's conscience even admits that the new moon is the ONLY reason he didn't {{spoiler|leave immediately to go find Aoshika in 69.}}

* [[Achilles' Heel]]: For werewolves, the moon, obviously. Inugami's conscience even admits that the new moon is the ONLY reason he didn't {{spoiler|leave immediately to go find Aoshika in 69.}}

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Ryuuko and Haguro. Also, Ryuuko AND Aoshika both want Inugami, though they differ in their reasoning. Aoshika wants him because, magnetism aside, he looks [[Lonely At the Top]] and she wants to help him; Ryuuko, on the other hand, simply wants to bang the most evil and powerful man she can find... and if she can't find the most evil, then she'll settle for the most powerful.

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* [[Attempted Rape]]: Several times. Poor Ms. Aoshika.

** {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama|Not so attempted]] in the recent chapters.}}

* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: Inugami.

* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: Ryuuko was abused and raped by her dad and a pimp. Look where it got her.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Inugami becomes this for many people, specifically the Kurodas.

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* [[Broken Bird]]: Nearly every female in the series is one or becomes one.

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: It's like [[Too Stupid to Live|everyone has a deathwish]] by trying to bully Inugami.

** In fact, his aunt insinuated that normal humans have a predisposition to just want to start fights with Inugami, since he isn't a normal human and they therefore want to eliminate him as a threat to their hierarchy.

* [[Can't Argue with Elves]]: Inugami dislikes humans because he thinks [[Humans Are Bastards|they are battle-happy idiots.]]

** Though later {{spoiler|after the school massacre}} he realizes that he really isn't any better.

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** [[Likes Older Women]]: {{spoiler|Inugami}}, from what it looks like.

* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Inugami and DAMN, does Haguro [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|make him suffer for it.]]

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: No, Haguro, Inugami did not show you his werewolf form because he feels you can understand him and has a burning desire to be with you. He did it to get you to leave him alone forever. [[Stalker with a Crush|didn't]] [[Yandere|work]] with all he [[Moral Event Horizon|does to anyone he thinks gets too close to Inugami.]]

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: No, Haguro, Inugami did not show you his werewolf form because he feels you can understand him and has a burning desire to be with you. He did it to get you to leave him alone forever. [[Stalker with a Crush|didn't]] [[Yandere (disambiguation)|work]] with all he [[Moral Event Horizon|does to anyone he thinks gets too close to Inugami.]]

* [[Crapsack World]]: This is not a happy place.

* [[Creepy Child]]: MANY.

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** Ryuuko is pretty much this trope incarnate. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v07/c065/8.html Seeing her huge boobs] after {{spoiler|Haguro slashes her shirt and bra}}? And then {{spoiler|he traces cuts down her bare breasts?}} Eeeeew, no. And this isn't one of her worst/lesser moments, either...

** A handsome and rugged-looking dude and a naked beauty hugging? Hot, and sometimes sweet. {{spoiler|A handsome and rugged-looking dude covered in both injuries and the blood of his enemies while giving a [[Cooldown Hug]] to a naked beauty who has been through lots of rape lately and has just broken down}}? More like both disturbing and heartbreaking.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Inugami towards humans.

* [[Fingore]] - When Haguro learns of how Kuro unwittingly damaged his reputation, he removes his finger - by grinding it between his signet ring and the floor. Seeing how Haguro is a son to a Yakuza boss, it was a sort of inverted [[Yubitsume]].

** {{spoiler|Post Aoshika's release from her chains and during Inugami vs. Haguro' battle}}, Haguro gets to slice two of {{spoiler|Inugami's}} fingers, and he ''eats them'' in an insane attempt to confirm Haguro is {{spoiler|a superior beast to Inugami}}.

*** It looks like {{spoiler|Haguro got four more of his fingers in chapter 109.}}

* [[Flash Step]] - Inugami under a full moon.

* [[Foil]]/[[Evil Counterpart]]: Inugami and Aoshika vs Haguro and Konuma: a [[Badass|strong]], [[Insufferable Genius|proud young man]] who hangs around a [[Closer to Earth|comparatively more sensible]], if [[Broken Bird|broken young woman]]. While [[Heroic Neutral|Inugami]] and [[Badass Damsel|Aoshika]] eventually rise above this, [[Complete Monster|Haguro]] and [[Uncanny Valley Girl|Konuma]] never do.

* [[Forced to Watch]]: Inugami {{spoiler|was forced to watch Aoshika's horrific gang rape via video, helpless to save her.}}

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Kuro.

* [[Gang-Bangers]]: They abound.

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* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Inugami rescues his teacher from baddies on the regular, gives hope to his oppressed fellow classmates and stops an [[Ax Crazy]] {{spoiler|from gunning down the student body vice president at point-blank range.}} He is also a jerk to everyone.

** [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]: He may be a jerk, but not a super asshole either.

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Inugami's tendency towards taking hits increases with his power, depending on the lunar phases.

** Under the full moon, he can and has take a shotgun to the face with literally no injury.

** Under the new moon, while completely human and vulnerable, the thugs that had been at his throat since he arrived are completely disinterested in direct confrontation.

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* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The first Kuroda.

** {{spoiler|Also, the second Kuroda.}}

* [[Hot for Student]]/[[Hot for Teacher]]: [[Hot Teacher|Aoshika]] seems to lean on Inugami a bit too much. Inugami, on the other hand, seems to come to school for no other reason than it makes her happy.

** {{spoiler|Confirmed. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v06/c049/22.html On her end.] She is visibly disturbed by it.}}

** {{spoiler|Ryuuko confirms Inugami's feelings [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v07/c065/13.html for] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v07/c065/14.html Ao][http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v07/c065/15.html shika][http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v07/c065/16.html -sensei.] Haguro is NOT [[Crazy Jealous Guy|pleased.]]}}

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* [[Insane Troll Logic]]/[[You Fail Logic Forever]]: Who misses the {{spoiler|sane, emotionless Haguro?}}

** {{spoiler|Strangely, he doesn't make the connection that people don't tend to SEEK OUT the people who want to do them harm even if they can't actually harm them.}}

** Reaches new heights in chapter 65. The correct response is"[[You're Insane!|You're insane]], Haguro."

* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: This appears to be the author's [[Author Appeal|"thing".]]

** Pretty much everything that comes out of Ryuuko's mouth has to do with this trope. {{spoiler|Interestingly, Ryuuko and Haguro's latest coupling seems to imply she's not too keen on violence being done to ''her''.}}

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* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: Aoshika has one in chapter 50 when she had a [[Green Aesop|back-to-nature]] experience when she sees a wolf (supposedly Inugami in his more "tame" form).

* [[Power Born of Madness]]: Haguro is much more dangerous than a normal human should be.

* [[Rape as Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Aoshika was raped as a highschool student}}. Ryuuko too, but she doesn't appear to care that she was raped anymore.

* [[Rape as Drama]]: {{spoiler|Poor Chiba...}}

** {{spoiler|chapters 70-81 are basically one huge extended rape scene for Aoshika...}}

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* [[Say My Name]]: ''INUGAAAAAAAAMIIIIIIIIIII!!!!'' ''CHIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!'' all said by Haguro.

* [[Shaming the Mob]]: Was Aoshika's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in volume five when she tells the surviving students off when they verbally attack Inugami. She even backhands one of them.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: At one point, Inugami kills a {{spoiler|lion, which escaped from a zoo,}} to save Aoshika.

* [[Shower Scene]]: [[Mr. Fanservice|Inugami has one,]] [[Ms. Fanservice|Aoshika has a lot more...]]

* [[The Sociopath]]: Ryuuko Konuma, the Kurodas, [[Up to Eleven|Haguro.]]

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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: {{spoiler|Kuroda uses pretty much everything he could carry from Haguro's family's gun cellar against the student body.}}

** A meta example: Eighteen chapters of {{spoiler|rape}}? Was it necessary?

* [[Touch of the Monster]]: Invoked on the [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v02/c009/ Volume 2 cover].

* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Inugami.

* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: Egads. [[There Are No Therapists]] in this series, are there?

* [[Two-Teacher School]]: Aside from one of her co-workers, the school seems to consist of Aoshika, the principal and the vice principal.

* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: While not married, Haguro and Ryuuko take the trope and crank it...

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* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Haguro is right about Inugami being a monster. He is not right about him having a monstrous personality to boot.

* [[Yakuza]]: Haguro Dou's the son of one. As if they needed another reason why he's scary.

* [[Yandere]] ''and'' [[Cute and Psycho]]: Ryuuko. Holy shit, no fanservice from this chick will ''ever'' make up for the sheer batshit crazy she has on for dangerous men.

* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] ''and'' [[Cute and Psycho]]: Ryuuko. Holy shit, no fanservice from this chick will ''ever'' make up for the sheer batshit crazy she has on for dangerous men.

** And now Haguro is yandere for Inugami. Yandere times a thousand. Times a ''million''. If you thought Ryuuko was crazy, she's got '''nothing''' on Haguro.

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Inugami, Haguro, Ryuuko and Chiba all look older than they should.

* [[You Monster!]]

* [[You Sexy Beast]]: This troper prays Ryuuko never quite figures out what Inugami is, lest this come into practice.

** She's been clued in. Damn you, Haguro!! {{spoiler|Now he seems to think it too...}}

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** Eventually chapter 113 gives us the other side, {{spoiler|with Haguro's death giving closure to the arc, Aoshika murmurs in her mind that she loves Inugami, her very existence belongs to him; the sad part is that she couldn't say to him, as Inugami apparently vanished after the fight, on his death bet no less, his aunt even says he is dead already}}.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Chiba. And it looks like he's shaping up to have [[Came Back Wrong]] as well...}}

* [[Badass Abnormal]]: As of Chapter 65, Haguro thinks he's one. Well, unless [[Ax Crazy|madness]] counts as a superpower. Played straight later in Chapter 105, {{spoiler|by eating two of Inugami's fingers Haguro develops some powers right away, like better night vision and sense of smell}}.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Inugami arrives just in time to keep Kuroda from {{spoiler|busting caps in Vice President Kimura.}}

** Aoshika surprises Haguro at gun point when he was ready to {{spoiler|behead Inugami with his katana}}.

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* [[Super Senses]]: After {{spoiler|Haguro ate two of Inugami's fingers}}, he started to develop some super human abilites right away, such as {{spoiler|being able to see better in the dark}} and {{spoiler|able to trail Inugami's blood like if it was highlighted by luminol}}.

* [[Tongue Trauma]]: {{spoiler|Oh GOD, Chiba!}}

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: even after breaking down way back when Inugami transformed in front of him, Haguro went loose when {{spoiler|Inugami managed to kill many of his henchmen and breaking Aoshika off her chains, while fighting a weakened Inugami and managing to really injure him for the first time ever}}, Haguro has an extensive flashback of the time he and Inugami first met and couldn't do shit against him, but now that {{spoiler|Haguro got to slice two of Inugami's fingers off, Haguro lost his mind in pure insane joy by ''eating the fingers he just cut off'', and then cries because while he enjoys the possibility of Inugami being defeated, Haguro also lost the image his invincible "idol"}}.

* [[Villainous Valour]]: {{spoiler|Haguro managed to behead Ogre-Chiba after he snapped out from his [[Villainous Breakdown]]}}.