Kiku-chan to Ookami
Status: Completed
Released: 2008
Type: Special
Alternative Name:
Kiku and the Wolf, Sensou Douwa 8, '08戦争童話 キクちゃんとオオカミ
Kiku and the Wolf, Sensou Douwa 8, '08戦争童話 キクちゃんとオオカミ
"Kiku-chan to Okami" is an adaptation of "Grave of the Fireflies" author Akiyuki Nosaka’s short story "Toshi-Oi Mesu-Okami to Onna no Ko no Hanashi" (The Story of the Old Mother Wolf and the Girl), which follows a girl and the wolf in the fields of WWII Manchuria who watches over her like a mother.