Wolf Guy
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| Wolf Guy | |
| ウルフガイ (Urufu Gai) | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kazumasa Hirai |
| Illustrated by | Hisashi Sakaguchi |
| Published by | Bunkasha |
| Magazine | Shuukan Bokura Magazine |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 1970 – 1971 |
| Volumes | 11 |
| Live-action film | |
| Ōkami no Monshō | |
| Directed by | Shōji Matsumoto |
| Written by | Jun Fukuda |
| Music by | Riichiro Manabe |
| Released | 1973 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Naoyuki Yoshinaga |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Released | December 17, 1992 – June 21, 1993 |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kazumasa Hirai Yoshiaki Tabata |
| Illustrated by | Izumitani Ayumi |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Magazine | Young Champion |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 2007 – 2012 |
| Volumes | 12 |
Wolf Guy (ウルフガイ, Urufu Gai) is a Japanese manga series of two volumes published in 1970 by Bunkasha. Originally written by Kazumasa Hirai and illustrated by Hisashi Sakaguchi (坂口尚), the series has been readapted with a more violent and mature setting in 2007 by Yoshiaki Tabata and Yuuki Yugo. This new adaptation, also known as Wolf Guy: Ōkami no Monshō, has been released as twelve volumes by Akita Shoten.
A live-action film adaptation, titled Ōkami no Monshō was released in 1973.
Plot
Akira Inugami is a new exchange student at Hakutoku Middle School, but there is another side of him that is secret and hidden. He is a werewolf.
The story begins with the Homeroom teacher Akiko Aoshika walking home drunk, suddenly trips and is saved by Akira Inugami who then proceeds to walk away. Ms. Aoshika sees that he is a student and pursues him only to be jumped by Inugami's old school rivals. The gang attacks Inugami without mercy and seems beat him to death and yet he keeps getting back up. They then hit him with a car and he appears dead, they began to ruffle through his pockets. Ms. Aoshika faints soon after witnessing it and then Inugami takes his true form, the form of a Werewolf and destroys the gang. When Ms. Aoshika awakes, she finds the gang dead around her and is escorted to her school by the police only to find that Inugami is her new exchange student.
(Note: This plot by Tabata and Yugo differs greatly from the original novel written by Kazumasa Hirai.)
Characters
- Akira Inugami (Inugami Akira 犬神 明)
The main protagonist of the story. An exchange student enrolled where Akiko Aoshika works at where he is constantly bullied and abused by other students (whom he usually ends up killing). His parents were killed when he was young by hunters, mainly because of their werewolf lineage. He can transform into a werewolf in his own will. He is quite powerful during full moons and is weak only during the days of new moons. He shows to be quite intelligent in matters that concern him. It is said that the reason he is bullied so badly is that, as a werewolf, normal humans have a natural subconscious fear of him. In the manga's closing chapters, Akira decides to stop taking the abuse of humans, seeing them all (with the exception of Akiko) as demons and beasts, and gleefully slaughters Haguro's men. He is taken by government researchers after killing Haguro and is experimented on with apparently no hope of escape, but it is implied that Akira does eventually escape and reunite with Akiko in Alaska.
- Akiko Aoshika (Aoshika Akiko 青鹿 晶子)
The female protagonist in the story. She is a homeroom teacher who met Inugami prior to his introduction in her class. She was saved from being gang-raped at the first part of the manga by Akira Inugami, much to her surprise, Inugami is transferred to her classroom. She was a victim of rape when she was young, and was divorced from her husband. She escapes to Alaska after the final battle with Haguro and begins to live with several wolves hiding in the wild, waiting for Akira to find her.
- Dou Haguro(Haguro Dou 羽黒 獰)
Son of a powerful gangster, he is the main antagonist in the manga. He is extremely well built and is feared by students and teachers alike. He has an innate hatred for Inugami. Though he initially comes on as emotionless and merciless, after a confrontation with Inugami's true form, Haguro loses his mind and becomes obsessed with Inugami and his complete destruction, to the point where he can only have sex with his girlfriend while thinking about Akira or carving Akira's name into his flesh. He commits several horrible acts throughout the series, including raping one of his subordinates to death for speaking to Akira, or raping Akiko before the final battle. During their fight, Haguro devours several of Akira's fingers, gaining a fraction of his power in the process, he also realizes that he wants to eat Akira so that they may "become one". He is killed after Akira assumes the form of a white wolf (apparently created by his love for Akiko) and impales Haguro with his own katana, which had been rammed through Akira's abdomen. He makes a final plea for Akira to become one with him, but he dies before hearing Akira's answer and is dragged into hell by the souls of those he killed.
References
External links
- Wolf Guy (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Ōkami no Monshō at IMDb