FIR# 12
Title: Wolf Guy-Wolfen Crest(comic book/manga)
Author/Artist: Tabata Yoshiaki
Date read: Sept. 1
Chapters read: 15 chapters
You know them as half-men/women, half-wolves, right? Whether they are the bad furry, overly-muscular guys(or seducers in the women's part!)in the whole story, or the anti-heroes/heroines who are almost always ruining the fun of the real front-lining protagonists, or just teenage werewolves(just like this one that I just read)who just wants some peace of mind, a normal and danger-free life--which is improbable, since we know werewolves attract trouble or have someone else getting them trouble--we love them and/or hate them...
Or at least the media is always coming up with new ideas to revive old-school horror and, in this time and age, angsty, love-triangle romance to give them the attention they used to have.
Summary of the chapters read.
The comic book that I read online is titled as Wolf Guy-Wolfen Crest. The whole story revolves around the (wolf)life of the teenage tragic hero, Akira Inugami, and his constant search of who he really is(why was he a werewolf in the first place, why is misfortune coming at him all the time, etc.)while trying to make normalcy out of his already misfortunate, bizarre life(e.g., he constantly changes schools just so he can avoid school gangsters whom he somehow gets into a scuffle with. Now how can he ever have a 'normal' life if he gets into fights more often than not?).
The whole comic starts off with an under-appreciated middle-school teacher, Ms. Aoshika, who tries to go home drunk one late night and becomes the witness of a street gang killing of a middle-school student--who happens to be Inugami! Fainting from what she saw, she didn't witness, though, the transformation of the supposedly dead Inugami into a giant, hulking werewolf, thrashing about the same street and killing the street gang in one bloody go!
The following day, Ms. Aoshika--escorted by the police who are investigating the massacre in the same street she fainted yesterday--comes to school on time only to see the 'dead' middle-schooler--Inugami--alive! And as her new transfer student!
Unable to comprehend that this was the same middle-schooler who got killed last night by a gang and is still alive, Ms. Aoshika becomes curious to Inugami, whilst he, in turn, tries not to provoke the bullies in the new school he's in to avoid himself transferring to another school again.
As the days went by, numerous secondary characters realizes the mysterious past of Inugami. At one point-of-view of the principal of the school, he says that Inugami keeps changing schools because every previous schools he's ever been had one incident involving him and a few getting killed in the process, usually from intimidating or fighting Inugami. Though the police could not get him to court because no evidence can ever testify him ever killing those students who are threatening him, as there are usually eye-witnesses to the situations he's in and using video cameras or cellphones to estify that he's innocent. Another is that Ms. Aoshika meets a man whom he introduces himself to be a journalist and seems to know about Inugami(and the mystery of the Werewolf clan and there sudden disappearance)and why misfortune is always tailing him behind.
In the latest chapter, Ms. Aoshika--so curious and(somewhat)infatuated with Inugami--goes so far as to break inside Inugami's apartment room, just to find out why he doesn't have any parents and perhaps know more about who he is.
Insights
This is clearly actually a very psycholoical comic book, as it deals with the angsty, ever-so arrogant Inugami and his pride on being a werewolf while constantly trying to hide it to 'the inferior humans', as he would say.
Although I actually feel more for the secondary characters(especially Ms. Aoshika) as they try to unmask Inugami, I can see that Inugami is just very lonely, and his views of mankind have become narrow, to the point that he sees mankind as cruel, inferior and savage beasts, monsters in their own way, while failing to admit that there are exceptions to the perspective he has made on mankind.
Perhaps if I read on, there would development in his character...
Maybe he should start by avoiding conflicts with classmates and shutting his egotistical, clever mouth!
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