Wolf's Rain: Complete Collection II
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 325 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Bandai
DVD Reviews of Wolf's Rain: Complete Collection II
DVD Review: Wolf's Rain - Quest for Paradise
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Wolf's Rain! I usually only rent DVDs. I had to buy this series! (Warning - if you are not buying the "Limited Edition Collection" in the unique designer box, you will need to buy both "Complete Collection 1" and "Complete Collection 2" - or all 30 episodes (minus the "Recollections" episodes) to really get the full story. Unlike many Anime series, this truly is a serialized novel with a beginning, middle and end.
You can certainly enjoy Wolf's Rain without diving below the surface, or looking for deeper meanings, and if you are happy with that fine! Enjoy! This series has a compelling storyline, endearing characters, beautiful art work and a truly great soundtrack.
However, some people who watch this series complain about the end. I think that those viewers haven't realized that, as engrossing as Wolf's Rain is as a standard Quest Fantasy story, at its heart it is an allegory. It is symbolic of each person's spiritual quest.
Each of the characters represents a different aspect of the spiritual seeker. The events that they experience are symbolic of the stages of spiritual growth that spiritual seekers go through, and the choices a spiritual seeker needs to make - with their consequences.
I have studied comparative religions for many years. There are aspects of a spiritual journey that are portrayed in Wolf's Rain that are found in Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions (especially Sufism), in North American Shamanism, in Hinduism, and in modern psychology. However, the spiritual journey portrayed in Wolf's Rain is most deeply informed by Vajrayana Buddhism. If you understand the basic world view of Vajrayana Buddhism, you will understand the ending.
If you want to learn more about the type of spiritual quest described in Wolf's Rain, or if you just want to understand what the series' creators were trying to say, I'd like to recommend a few easy to read, easy to find books "The Dark Side of Light Chasers" by Debbie Ford; "Open to Desire - Embracing a Lust for Life" by Mark Epstein, MD; and "Entering the Stream - An Introduction to The Buddha and His Teachings" Edited by Samuel Bercholz and Sherab Chodzin Kohn (Especially look at Chapter 21 - The Oxherding Pictures and Part 4 on Tantric Teachings.)
If you really want to dive deep, I would also recommend, "Man and His Symbols" by Carl Jung; and "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious" by Carl Jung.
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