![]() When I first saw this film I had a really hard time describing my views on the film’s looks and animation, because for an anime film it’s nothing I’ve really seen before. The film was released on December 10 th 2005 to national acclaim, and later became one of the nominees of the Japanese Academy Award’s first Animation of the Year Award in 2007. Japanese Television Broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting Systems Network (TBS) obtained the film rights to the books and worked alongside animation studio Group TAC to create an anime film based on all six books, with Gisaburo Sugii as director. It ended up becoming popular enough to be published in Japanese textbooks. ![]() Originally intended to be a single children’s book, the popularity of the children’s book Arashi No Yoru Ni in Japan encouraged author Yuichi Kimura to turn it into a whole series and wrote five more books. Can both a goat and a wolf live peacefully as friends, or will they have to accept their roles in nature as enemies? However, Gabu’s pack is on the hunt for them both. Both Mei and Gabu are encouraged to act as spies, but the two decide to leave together and go to a place where they can remain friends without the confrontations. ![]() ![]() The only problem is that both sides strictly oppose each other for their own reasons, and once word goes around about this mutual friendship, neither side takes it well. However, when a goat named Mei and a wolf named Gabu both take shelter from a storm in an abandoned barn, they realise that the animals they are, and they share a lot in common and slowly build a good friendship. In the case of this tale, there are wolves, carnivores and predators that live on the Bakubaku Valley, and goats, herbivores and prey that live on the Sawasawa Mountains, both enemies of each other. In nature, every creature knows their enemies and their means of survival. ![]()
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