Wolf Girl and Black (Sadist) Prince?!

Bells
1 may 2015
3 Min. de lectura

I recently finished Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji, also known as Wolf Girl and Black Prince. A school romcom and shoujo (as the title says), it follows the story of pathological liar Erika Shinohara, a 16-year-old that struggles to make friends at the beginning of high school. She claims that she has a handsome boyfriend in order to befriend two girls, but it backfires on her when she shows them a photo of schoolmate and school prince Kyouya Sata. Erika asks him to be her fake boyfriend, but seemingly sweet Sata reveals his "ultra-black-hearted sadist[ic]" nature and takes advantage of Erika's situation to treat her like his personal pet dog.

This anime had me debating internally with myself for the whole 12 episodes, but I'll get into that later. The show is typical shoujo - the moe moe flowers, shinning eyes, flushed faces, etc. The main protagonists are relatively well built, but the secondary characters are lacking - a lot.

The Characters

Erika, the brown-haired cutie in the picture, is easily relatable - who hasn't lied a little in order to make friends? - and nice enough to feel sympathy for her. She lacks will power and self-love, however, which is part of her downfall in the story. I was internally and externally yelling at her for her mistakes, and while she is flawed, I feel in the story her flaws were over-played. Couldn't she just win one time?!

Kyouya Sata, on the other hand, I pretty much hated right off the bat. His sadist schemes made me incredibly mad - but it was part of what got me hooked on the anime. Also, there has to be something about the name Kyouya - I mean, there are two many similarities between this Kyouya and Ouran's Host Club Kyouya!

San and the others are pretty easy to forget. They're just there to keep the chain of events going. They weren't even overly quirky, or had that something that made them different. Nope. They were just plain old background-worthy characters. /Sweatdrops

The Review

I'll give this anime a 6 out of 10. The visuals I liked a lot, and despite the theme of the anime the plot was interesting and made me want to know what would happen. The main characters were okay - not overly profound, but interesting enough to keep the anime from being horribly boring. That being said, on the whole, I don't agree with this being marketed to girls between 10 and 18 (it is a 'shoujo'): this simply makes young girls think that abusive relationships are okay if the guy is handsome, because he'll 'change'. BS. I was utterly horrified how easily swayed Erika was, and it had my mini nazi-feminist raging at me to quit watching the anime.

I won't say that if you're younger than 18 you shouldn't watch it, although part of me wants to. However, if you do watch it, remember that being abused is NOT okay and you shouldn't just accept it because you love someone. It can become something so much worse than just hurtful words easily.

(And yes, people, I know this relationship structure is common in Japan, but why do you think that is? Hmm? Exactly. Because they're brainwashing their girls with this kind of stuff!)

Recommendations

Some other animes that follow similar patterns are:

- My Little Monster, where the situation is kind of reversed (and a strong-willed, not easily swayed, totally right-to-be-like-that main female character? Heck yes!).

- [More to be added soon]

If you want to watch Wolf Girl and Black Prince, you can watch the first episode below, or follow this link to a playlist of the full 12 episodes.