Wolf Rain and Heiqi

One of the fans of the Bone Club, although I didn't read all the works of the Bone Club due to style issues, but I have always loved the works of the taste, such as the first part of the Black Contractor (I don't know how many times I watched it) such as Steel The Alchemist. This wolf rain was only watched in the past two days. At first, I only learned about it because of the youthful work of my favorite seiyuu. After half a month on and off, I finally finished it.

This is a very Heiqi-flavored work, or in other words, Heiqi's story has a certain continuation of Wolf Rain's worldview. Both have "end times" plots, and Yin in Heqi is so similar to Jesha in Wolf Rain. Compared with some bright colors in the plot of the Heiqi unit, the overall tone of Wolf Rain is calm, even depressing, and does not cater to the audience. I think this is also one of the reasons why Wolf Rain has become a niche work, because even during the viewing process, the heart is empty and empty, not to mention the ending.

Personally, I love tragedy, but the core of tragedy is still supported by a good story. In my personal opinion, Wolf Rain is a work whose artistic expression is higher than the purpose of "storytelling". Its apocalyptic atmosphere and image settings (wolves, flower people, nobles, etc.) are beautiful and delicate, but this advantage is also overwhelming - the main story behind this seems simple, but it involves the unification of many branch lines , such as "stone", the origin of "paradise", the meaning of "noble", the role of "tree of beginning". In the previous plot, it was just a brushstroke, without much explanation. As a result of the last few words, especially after the nobles opened the false gates of paradise, the behavior of all the characters puzzled the audience. Why did Dacia become a wolf? Where are they going? How did Jessa turn into a seed again? During the whole process, the audience is very passive, passively accepting the new setting and passively accepting the direction of the story. In the early plot, there was too much ink on several wolves, which led to the weakening of the "wolf" in the later stage and the emphasis on various elements of the "end of the world" worldview, everyone began to lose their heads.

Perhaps it was because of the lessons of Wolf Rain. Although Mr. Okamura still added confusing settings in the later black contract, such as Hoshimi-sama, Contractor, Meteor Fall, Wall, Doll, etc., These settings will be repeatedly involved in the plot, and even Hoshimi-sama will recite a poem in each unit of the plot. Each unit drama story is an expansion of the world of Heiqi, so although a huge hole is left at the end - how the wall is formed and how to eliminate it, it does not affect the human nature that Heiqi wants to express. The discussion can be described as incomplete beauty.

In short, I really like the worldview constructed by Mr. Okamura in these two works. The contractor who strips human nature, the "wall" that cannot be approached, the "seed" of the flower that represents hope, the "paradise" of nothingness, the fleeting "meteor", the earth, the starry sky, people, wolves... The disadvantage is that it is difficult to In such an unreal world setting, tell a story that real people can understand. Looking forward to more original works by Mr. Okamura.