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  Review by Chris 🦑 ★★★★½

  yes its about a furry and her children and yes i cried my eyes out multiple times

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★½ 4

  Maybe it's just because I hadn't seen my kids in a week, but this totally wrecked me.

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  Review by Carol Grant ★★★★★ 7

  To my child,

  You may never exist. Or maybe, through some miracle, a partner will come along that will help bring you to the world. Either way, I want you to know some things.

  The first and most important is that I love you and will never stop loving you. Even if you never come to be, I will keep the idea of you alive in my heart and soul. Perhaps that's dramatic. I don't mind. I want you to exist, even in this increasingly hateful dystopia ravaged by climate change and greed. I would let you know first thing that my love for you will override that world. I would fight hell and back to make you feel safe,…

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★½ 10

  I was going to write about my rewatch of this this morning, but my kids wouldn't let me. The 2 1/2 year old would rather destroy her room than sleep, the 11 month old just wanted to cry for no reason. Monsters indeed. Maybe I'll get to write about it after they leave for college.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★ 1

  “i'm not crying, it’s just rain!” OKAY MOOD!!!! the furries made some valid points with this one

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  Review by adambolt ★★★★

  best anime mom of all time

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 1

  a movie that begins with a tokyo college girl having sex with a wolfman (while in wolf form) and then raising their two wolf kids after his untimely death soon relocates to the mountains and becomes a rather touching portrait of single parenthood. doesn't have sufficient ideas and pleasures to justify its pace, but Mamoru Hosada continues to churn out reasonably strong 2nd-tier anime features.

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  Review by BrandonS98 ★★★★½ 7

  This is my favorite film from Mamoru Hosoda. I love the emotional yet wholesome core of the movie. Its themes were told with such maturity that it creates a meaningful story that we can all relate to. I loved this movie and I wish I watched it earlier. 

  Thanks for the recommendation, Belle Estelle

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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★★★ 5

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  Cinema of utmost humanity. The significance of family, growing up and finding yourself becomes poetic to the strands of one single mother whose experiences are portraits of the absolute highs of parenting the inevitable emptiness, but pride that comes with knowing you did well. That final gracenote.....Have a good life....what a crushing sentiment, but beautiful notion that all parents at some point have to let go and it's over in the blink of an eye. And that's life. That's reality. The fleeting moments and snapshots and memories make us and this entire thing worth it all. That's what we hold onto. As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is the name of another film, but that statement is one of power and truth and I can't think of another phrase that would better describe life, family, motherhood.

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★ 35

  “Wolf Children” is a nature film that is an ode to family. Or - is it - a family film that is an ode to nature?

  Wavering of identity is a key theme in Mamoru Hosodoa’s fantasy fable. But the anime itself is never less than certain that the answers to all questions lie in love... in all of its many, many forms. 

  “Wolf Children” tells the story of a woman that falls in love with a werewolf (more or less), and has two half human/half wolf children with him. After he dies suddenly, she is left to raise the siblings alone. 

  Hosoda uses the - quite literally shifting - identities of the children as a metaphor for changing self-definition…

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  Review by oppie ★★★★ 2

  *cries in furries*

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 2

  As parents here will tell you, raising kids can be a laborous job. So you can imagine the burden and how difficult would be to raise werewolves children. This concept could easily go on so many different directions, from comedy to even horror, but Mamoru Hosoda chooses instead to go for a fantastical and very endearing tale of motherhood and identity.

  The animation does a great job capturing the tone of the film, picturing the wolves not like gruesome, horrible looking monsters but real-looking animals, with the little kids being overly cute that will make more than one go and say "awww." Another thing that caught my attention was the way it was animated, like it had this digital, almost…