Wolf Guy: Ookami no Monshou

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As a huge fan on this manga, I would like to warn you about some things in this story: First, it's heavy, and for psychologically strong people. If you are not, don't just say this manga is terrible, because it's perfect. You're the weak one. Are we clear? The reason why I wanted to review a manga I first saw 2 years ago it's because I saw a lot of reviews that hated Wolf Guy for the same reason: Weak heart. "Oh, Aoshika is raped for 5 chapters in a manga with 117 chapters, so that makes me hate the entire plot", for God sake, ... stop. "Oh, but a guy is raped as well, in a really traumatic and mortal way", alright, if you have such a weak heart why did you read a manga wich warned you about violence? Of course is gonna be violent! What was you hopping for, Naruto? That's a Seinen, not a Shounen, I'm sorry if it's too much for you, but that doesn't destroy the manga. Actually, makes it even more amazing. To begin with, I'm sorry, but Aoshika's Rape was the most realistic thing in Wolf Guy. Yoshiaki, the author, was trying to show Aoshika's feelings the best he could. When a girl is raped it looks like it has no end, that was her point of view, that's why it took so many chapters even though it was just one day. He did a great job. That wasn't for yours, or his, entertainment, it was to make it more realistic. You felt a hollow inside? That's amazing, that was the objective, you tough it was for you to like it? Of course not! Read it, get traumatized, and make sure to never be a raper, because that are girls right now passing by much worse moments and being raped for a lot more guys. At least Aoshika was drugged, that was almost kind of them. It exists amazing movies, wich nobody complains about, with much more traumatizing things. I already saw a movie wich talked about a true story of persons trafficking, and the girl was raped with a fucking pipe. A real story. So stop being a pussy and try to understand what this manga is trying to teach you: Rape is a terrible thing and you shouldn't do it. If this manga had no moral then Aoshika would have been excited on being raped while thinking "Oh, I shouldn't be liking it, Inugami, I'm sorry", but no, she hated it, she got traumatized forever and could barely talk to people after that. She went insane. That was not wrong, was reality, accept this. You don't have to enjoy this part of the story to make it good, of course I hated, but I was amazed because it was so well worked, because I saw the badass protagonist experiment a kind of loss he never did before. Maybe you can say "But he won the fight!", did he? The woman he loved was raped for a lot of guys, he's body was completely destroyed and he didn't even wanted this fight. That's a mature manga, and if you are a cute person wich only likes shoujo and the shounen "violence", wich is a lot different from a seinen violence, then you're just not the target audience for Wolf Guy. The manga had an open ending that destroyed all the readers, but thats cause Ookami no Monshou is an adaptation of a manga older than my mother, and the rest of the manga was just not adapted, but it exist. The art is a lot worse, but it's there, you just have to go after it, what can be quite hard. I couldn't find it online, I think I'll have to upload it.

Now, I'm gonna make a short review, since I talked so much
Story (8):
Considering just the adaptation, Ookami no Monshou lose points for having and somewhat open ending and, of course, for the unrealistic story. Yes, it's fantasy, but the characters (15 years old) look like adults, act like adults, think like adults, they're just too mature and too crazy for been teens. But, besides that, the story it's just amazing, just like everything about Wolf Guy. Akira is a werewolf, one of the last (he thinks he's the last) werewolf alive in the earth. All werewolves are really unlucky, maybe cursed, and because of that bad people always get involved with him, even if he's a good person at heart and hates fights. He's pacific, and he's really pride of the nobility of wolves. He sees humans as stupid and weak, egoistic creatures wich he has to endure, but of course, that's cause only bad people get involved with him. Since he attracts bad people, he needs to transfer schools, but no school wants him, so he goes to a school were all the worse delinquents go to, since they're not accepted by other schools. It was initially a good school, and has a lot of smart students, but they are all oppressed by dangerous delinquents, like Haguro, the son of a Yakuza leader. In this school that only cares about image, and little about it's students, he mets Aoshika, his extremely hot teacher, and with time they fall for each other. They're relationship is just perfect, you just cannot hate it. Alright, the story basically talks about Akira and the dark side of humanity he meets because of his bad luck. I wanted to detail every single arc of the story. I cannot say more because, if I did, I would stay the rest of my life here, but it's quite amazing.

Characters (10):
Wolf Guy has some of the most incredible characters I've ever seen. The mangaka somehow managed so that even the secondary characters were well worked.
Akira: He's the protagonist. It's just impossible to not love him, he's proudfull, sarcastic, and kinda funny. He's noble, just like the wolves. He keeps his cool even in the worst situation with a smirk on his face and has quite the ability to annoy arrogant people, since he proves without strength that he's above them. Tough, direct and fair, he's not interested in making people like him, saying what he think it's right and showing in his voice that if he's sure of what he says, but he doesn't say anything when it doesn't concern him or when his not pushed. He's quite kind hearted, though he tries to prove even for himself that he's not, since he thinks humans doesn't deserve help. Yes, he's quite a guy, my crush forever. He's quite obsessed with his own race and researches a lot about wolves and werewolves, even writing about it, not only because that makes him even more proudfull about being a werewolf but because everybody knows so little about it that he wants to write a book being loyal to the reality, and not the fantasy, about werewolves.
Aoshika: She's mature in the most part of the story and, as a teacher, she tries to be respectful (hard, since everything she wears looks quite inappropriate in her) and tough, but she can't, since her class has the worst delinquents and she can't do anything against them even though she tries her best. But sometimes, specially with our protagonist, she looks kinda immature and even dumb, wich can be really funny sometimes, specially because she's trying so hard to do things she's gonna be pride of. She's optimist and negative at the same time, since she recognizes she's very unlucky (and complains about it all the time) but she always think "this time, if I do it like that, I will be able to overcome this", and I like this part of her. Her bad luck is closely related to her astonishing body, wich seems to turn anyone in a potential raper. Poor woman.
Haguro: Psychopat, crazy, scary, monstrous Akira's classmate. This guy is just too much. Imagine someone that will rip your fingers without changing his expression. Before meeting Akira he didn't smiled at all, he was cold, patient, smart and was satisfied with his trone. But Haguro has a problem, he's so cool because he never met someone who could stand with him. He's just too strong. He's an undefeatable monster. But he's just a human. Akira is a werewolf. And when he find's out about it he got scared for the first time in his life and really excited because a rival had appeared. He "knew" since the beginning he could defeat Akira and become a full monster. After this, he became even more crazy, strange and started smiling (but his smile it's like the one of a really crazy person), because he was just so happy that he met such a strong monster to be his first challenge in life. His feelings abou Akira are like: I hate you so much that I love you, and I love you so much that I have to destroy you because just thinking about it get me so turned on. Yes, I said turned on. Killing Akira became his fetish. Strange? So much that it's funny, I couldn't stop laughing, astonished, when I founded it out. That's a spoiler? Well, not an important one, it's equally interesting even if you know about it.
Ryuuko: She's not even an important character, but she's just so amazing I had to talk about her. Ryuuko it's that side character your gonna love because of her interestingness. She's such a son of a bitch, she doesn't care about anyone, I guess even Haguro has more feelings than her. Oh, but she has feelings like: She just love interesting things, she likes to see the circus on fire, she likes seeing other people's misfortune. In other words, she's a huge sadistic and masochist (more the first one). She likes strong people, that's why she's Haguro's girl (though she's not actually loyal) and that's why she gets so interested in Akira, wich is as (more) strong as Haguro. She's just too interesting, you never know what she's gonna do and even after she do it you can't believe she did. She's a troll, I guess.

Enjoyment (9):
Of course, as I said, it has some things in this manga wich will not please you. He's violent, heavy, dark and it's objective it's not to make you feel happy and warm inside when it's over. I just went crazy when it ended in such and opened and unpleasant way, but I steel restarted to read it. Why? Because reading it is just too enjoyable. I get surprised even when I know what it's gonna happen. I'm the type of person that enjoys craziness and, man, everybody is crazy in this shit, I can't stop laughing with the crazy things they do. I mean, OMG, I can't believe it. What I want to say is, I'm not a normal person, so if you're like me then you're gonna love this manga. I don't understand, I usually can't se torture or people getting so hurt as they do in Wolf Guy, but this manga doesn't affect me. Don't ask me, I don't know what's going on. If you think, by this review, that you can stand this story, than try it out, because it's extremely amazing, but if you though it's too heavy, disgusting or that something like this shouldn't exist, then just go read another thing. I don't care if you dislike this, most people do, but don't say it's bad just because your too weak for the violence.

No Spoilers!

Generally i was super into this Manga and completed it in just under 2 days, and was thinking it was a solid 7 mby 8.

But holy damn it hits you with a curveball at the later stages of the read. It gives you some real nasty stuff to read for somewhat 10 chapters or close to 300 pages of the worst "character building" for the female lead that is way to grusom to even make sense....

I understand if they had toned it down a little bit and had more focus on the male leads fight at the end but my wish was not ... granted.
I understand that the mangaka wanted to make this so the reader would wrench in disgust while reading this. But it only skimmed my experience reading this.

With so amazing art and a good story at the start that gripped the reader for the first 50 chapters, that put me on the very edge of my seat. I'm baffled by how bad and muddy the story got at the end.

Clarification: English is my second language so I apologize for the grammar, the spelling and/or the incorrect usage of words.
First of all, this is not going to be a thorough review but more of a rant. Oh, and unexplicit spoilers ahead.
Violent dark story? Graphic depictions of horrible acts that make you want to look away? I have absolutely no problem with any of that, as some of my favorite manga include Berserk and Gantz.
So why is the biggest problem of this manga the graphic violence? Have I suddenly become a "snowflake"? No, simpler than that: here it is poorly, horribly done.
And ... I'm referring to something very specific here.
When you have a character brutally raped you are going to cause me an emotional pain of some degree. And I'm okay with that, as if I'm reading any story is because I expect to be emotionally invested and if something like that happens I'm gonna be hurt. Nothing wrong there.
Is the rape coherent with the world of the manga? Yes, it doesn't feel out of place and it's what you would expect from the grim reality of this fiction.
Is the rape motivated by something other than the tone of the story? Yes, it moves the main character to the final stage of the narrative by giving him a motivation, which is decent enough, although I wouldn't say necessary and some would even consider it untasteful/cheap to use it as a plot mechanism, but it's okay with me if it feels as if it was unavoidable in the world of the story.
Now, this manga makes the rape very explicit. I have no problem with that either; if the mangaka decided to depict it that way, I'm okay with it. There are other ways to make me understand much more closely what the characters are feeling, but I accept that explicity is the path you chose.
So everything is perfect by my book. You've made your point in depicting it the way you wanted it, the horrifying nature of what is happening is engraved in my mind and it served a purpose to the narrative.
But then you go on, and you go on, and you keep on going and I can't help but wonder, is this even "mature" content anymore or am I seeing porn?
Yes, at one point it became so unnecessary that it made me feel as if a rape scene was porn. "Am I supossed to be jerking off?" Is what I thought. You could say the artists were trying to be truthful to what was going on, but if that was the case, then the perspective was very wrong.
"Mature" my fucking ass. Rape can usually serve to stablish or reinforce the tone of a story or as a plot device, the specific case I'm referring to accomplishes the second (the tone needs no reinforcement at this point), as I previously said. But why does it keep on going for five chapters? For what fucking purpose?
Emotional exploitation, male power fantasy (of course her pain is seen countless times through the MC's eyes and he's eventually her savior), morbid fascination, and shock value. Those are the reasons why this rape porn fuckfest exist.
Being disgusting is besides the point, it's rape, it's supossed to be. But it's badly written, and what becomes disgusting is not only the act depicted in the manga, but the manga itself.
Also, rape is not necessarily deep nor mature, and if you think otherwise you're very clearly immature.

TLDR: Rape here very bad; they tried to be gritty and ended up making porn. Oh and y'all mentally 13 for thinking this is mature.