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Wolf Girl and Black Prince (オオカミ少女と黒王子, Ōkami Shōjo to Kuro Ōji) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written by Ayuko Hatta. It was adapted into a drama CD in 2013.[1] In 2014, the May issue of Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine announced that an anime television had been green-lit.[2] The anime aired from October 5 to December 21, 2014. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series.[3] The anime stares with Erika falling in love with her fake boyfriend, Black Prince Kyoya and must deal with him refusing to accept his feelings for her.
Wolf Girl and Black Prince | |
![]() Cover of the first manga volume | |
オオカミ少女と黒王子 (Ōkami Shōjo to Kuro Ōji) | |
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Genre | Romantic comedy |
Manga | |
Written by | Ayuko Hatta |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Bessatsu Margaret |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | October 25, 2011 – May 13, 2016 |
Volumes | 16 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Ken'ichi Kasai |
Produced by | Shunsuke Nara Hiroyuki Kiyōno Yūji Kikukawa Shūichi Kitada Fumihiko Kimura Akinori Omata |
Written by | Sawako Hirabayashi |
Music by | Go Sakabe |
Studio | TYO Animations |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, ytv, BS11, CTV |
Original run | October 5, 2014 – December 21, 2014 |
Episodes | 12 + OVA |
Live-action film | |
Directed by | Ryūichi Hiroki |
Produced by | Shinzō Matsuhashi Tadaaki Kitajima |
Written by | Yukiko Manabe |
Music by | Hiroko Sebu |
Studio | Plus D |
Released | May 28, 2016 |
Runtime | 116 minutes |
Erika Shinohara is a high school student who desperately wants to fit in a clique so she would not become lonely. However, because her clique consists of girls who have boyfriends, she has to resort to tell lies about having one herself. To make them more authentic, Erika takes a photo of a random guy in the street. Unfortunately, the guy, Kyoya Sata, turns out to be the most popular boy from her school. Erika asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend, which he agrees to under one condition: that she become his "Wolf Girl" by acting like a pet to him.
To her dismay, Erika discovers that Kyoya is far more dark-hearted than the "princely" personality he feigns towards others; he frequently gives snarks, insults, and generally has a cynical view of the world. Despite this, Erika is slowly attracted and eventually falls in love with him. Kyoya in turn softens and finds out that he is attracted to her as well, something that is cemented when Erika quits being the Wolf Girl after a misunderstanding, which he responds by "promoting" her to become his actual girlfriend.
Erika and Kyoya go through their high school years as a couple while having to face many challenges, including love rivals for each other, misunderstandings, and jealousy. They also learn to understand and change for the benefit of each other. In the process, they befriend three people who form a part of a group: Erika's self-reliant best friend, Ayumi Sanda; Kyoya's hot-blooded best friend, Takeru Hibiya; and the flamboyant Nozomi Kamiya, who becomes their classmate during their second year. Near the end of the series, the couple also have to face the truth of a long-distance relationship when Erika has to move to Kyoto to attend a vocational school for glass making; the two ultimately decide on working it out somehow.
Seven years after graduation, the group have attained each of their preferred professions, with Erika herself becoming a glass maker. She has also married Kyoya, with whom she has a daughter, Yuina.
Written and illustrated by Ayuko Hatta, Wolf Girl and Black Prince was serialized in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine from October 25, 2011, to May 13, 2016. The series' chapters were collected in sixteen tankōbon volumes.[4]
At New York Comic Con 2022, Viz Media announced that they licensed the series for English publication.[5]
An anime television series adaptation aired in Japan between October 5, 2014, and December 21, 2014. Produced by Shueisha, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, VAP, TYO Animations and Yomiuri-TV Enterprise, the series is directed by Ken'ichi Kasai, with Sawako Hirabayashi handling series composition, Maki Fujioka designing the characters and Gō Sakabe composing the music. The opening theme is "LOVE GOOD TIME" by SpecialThanks and the ending theme is "Wolf Heart" (オオカミハート) by Oresama. It ran for 12 episodes.[32]
Crunchyroll streamed the series,[33] while Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series.[3] After the acquisition of Crunchyroll by Sony Pictures Television, Wolf Girl and Black Prince, among several Sentai Filmworks titles, was dropped from the Crunchyroll streaming service on March 31, 2022.[34]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date[35] | |
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1 | "Caught in Her Own Trap -Liar-" Transliteration: "Jijō jibaku -Liar-" (Japanese: 自縄自縛 -Liar-) | Daisuke Tsukushi | Sawako Hirabayashi | October 5, 2014 | |
Shinohara Erika tries to fit in at her new high school. She finds that her new friends; Marin and Tezuka only want to talk about their boyfriends, so Erika follows suit and makes one up. Her new friends start to believe she's lying about it, so Erika takes a picture of a good looking guy to convince her friends that she has one. It just happens that the boy she took the picture of was none other than Sata Kyouya, the prince of class 8. Erika tries to convince Kyouya to be her pretend boyfriend. He accepts with one condition: she must be his pet. | |||||
2 | "A Rash and Blind Act -First love-" Transliteration: "Keikyo mōdō -First love-" (Japanese: 軽挙妄動 -First love-) | Taiji Kawanishi | Junko Kōmura | October 12, 2014 | |
Had enough with Kyouya's frequent orders, Erika thinks about finding love and going out with someone for real. She finds herself being bullied by the back of a school building by some of Kyouya's fans. Just as it starts to get violent, Kimura, a kind boy, stops the girls from hurting Erika. After being bullied again, Kimura asks Erika to go out on the weekend while he cleans her wound in the nurse's office. Erika and Kimura meet on the weekend, but it turns out he only wanted to go out with her because she's Kyouya's girlfriend. | |||||
3 | "A Precipitous Drop -Fall in-" Transliteration: "Kyūten chokka -Fall in-" (Japanese: 急転直下 -Fall in-) | Kenichirō Komaya | Sawako Hirabayashi | October 19, 2014 | |
Erika is depressed because she hasn't heard from Kyouya during summer break. The next day she learns from her friend Ayumi that Kyouya had caught a cold and has been at home the whole time. Concerned about his cold Erika visits his apartment to deliver handouts where she finds out that he's the only one home. Kyouya at first rejects her attempts to take care of him, but relents after realizing that she really wants to care for him. During the time she spends taking care of him, Erika begins to admit that she has feelings for Kyouya and decides to confess but is having difficulty expressing them. One day when she goes to Kyouya's house to deliver some apple-pears she sees a woman come out of his door which pushes her to confess to him. After hearing her confession Kyouya is surprised but then brushes it off telling her that she's only imagining her love due to their situation. The rejection leaves Erika hurt where she shoves the apple-pears at him and runs off in tears. | |||||
4 | "Daily Anguish -Love attack-" Transliteration: "Hibi monmon -Love attack-" (Japanese: 日々悶々-Love attack-) | Shin Katagai | Sawako Hirabayashi | October 26, 2014 | |
The woman leaving Kyouya's apartment reveals to Erika that Kyouya actually told her to leave saying he doesn't want to fool around with girls anymore because he got a new dog. When Erika reaffirms her love for Kyouya and asks if he likes her, he tells her to anguish over whether or not he does. Erika meets Kyouya's friend, Hibiya Takeru, and he decides to help Erika win over Kyouya by quizzing Kyouya about his preferences and having Erika enact them. When their plans fail, Takeru calls out Kyouya and Erika and confesses his love to Erika to make Kyouya take action. Kyouya is apathetic and Erika runs away crying. Kyouya then tells Takeru that he should stop scheming with Erika because he plans to fall in love with Erika in his own way. | |||||
5 | "An Impregnable Defense -Christmas eve-" Transliteration: "Nankō furaku -Christmas eve-" (Japanese: 難攻不落 -Christmas eve-) | Shigeru Kimiya | Ayumi Sekine | November 2, 2014 | |
It is Christmas break and Erika's classmates, Marin Tachibana and Aki Tezuka make a promise with her to share selfies of how they spent Christmas with their boyfriends. Erika tells Kyouya that they have to take a selfie as proof. Kyouya complies, however grudgingly so. Erika learns of Kyouya's dislike about Christmas and stresses out so much that she gets a stomachache. Kyouya takes her to the nearest restaurant before going to the pharmacy for stomach medication. When Kyouya "confesses" his feeling to her, Erika becomes ecstatic. However, Kyouya crushes those feelings by asking her how long he has to keep up this monkey business. Erika throws water at him and storms out. Kyouya sits in shock. When Christmas rolls around, Erika is still depressed and saddened over Kyouya. Kyouya makes a surprise visit and gives her a "dog collar", a pretty golden heart necklace pendant. They take new selfies. | |||||
6 | "Preparing for Battle -Valentine day-" Transliteration: "Rinsen taisei -Valentine day-" (Japanese: 臨戦態勢 -Valentine day-) | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Junko Kōmura | November 9, 2014 | |
Erika laments the fact that after Christmas Eve, she and Kyouya did not spend any time together. At school, she sees him and when he teases her about being lonely she says it doesn't bother her because the necklace he gave her is proof of his love, but Kyouya tells her he can "throw her away" at any point. For Valentine's Day Erika makes Kyouya coffee-flavored cupcakes because he tells her that he hates sweet things. Erika gets to know her shy classmate, Kusakabe, when he forgets his wallet at the grocery store. She covers his bill and encourages him to be more confident. The next day she runs into Kusakabe again and when she finds out that his family gives him a hard time for not having a girlfriend, she gives him one of the cupcakes she made for Kyouya. Kyouya finds out and refuses to receive any of her cupcakes. Later Kusakabe confronts Kyouya about being a cruel boyfriend. Kyouya declares that Erika doesn't mean anything to him and that he just uses her to waste time. At the end of the episode it is revealed that Erika is at the bottom of the stairs and she heard Kyouya's declaration. | |||||
7 | "Mutual Love -White day-" Transliteration: "Rakka ryūsui -White day-" (Japanese: 落花流水 -White day-) | Sumito Sasaki | Sawako Hirabayashi | November 16, 2014 | |
After hearing Kyouya say he didn't care about her at all, Erika ends her relationship with him and deepens her friendship with Kusakabe. After going on an outing with Kusakabe and her friend Ayumi Sanda, Kusakabe asks Erika on a real date on White Day. Erika agrees but she can't decide her true feelings towards him. At the end of the date, she realizes that Kusakabe is truly in love with her and she can't return his feelings, telling him that she is still in love with Kyouya. Kyouya appears and says he is taking Erika back. He grudgingly admits that he is in love with her in earnest and passionately kisses her. | |||||
8 | "Self-contradiction -Spring storm-" Transliteration: "Niritsu haihan -Spring storm-" (Japanese: 二律背反 -Spring storm-) | Ryōta Miyazawa | Junko Kōmura | November 23, 2014 | |
Kyouya and Erika go to view the cherry blossoms over spring break. Erika thought that finally going out with Kyouya for real would be paradise, but Kyouya hates it and he refuses to participate in any of the romantic activities she had planned. It seems like Kyouya will give no quarter, leaving Erika to admit defeat but at the end of the date Kyouya softens up and asks her to feed him some takoyaki. In the second half of the episode a new character named Nozomi Kamiya is introduced who is a stereotypical teenage playboy. Nozomi Kamiya sees the two and wonders why a good looking guy like Kyouya would date a boring normal girl like Erika. He mistakes Kyouya to be his type. He tries to flirt with Erika but then he learns that she's serious about Kyouya. He asks Kyouya why he's with Erika and says obscene things about her which makes Kyouya furious. | |||||
9 | "Honeyed Words -Wake up-" Transliteration: "Shuren tekuda -Wake up-" (Japanese: 手練手管 -Wake up-) | Shin Katagai | Junko Kōmura | November 30, 2014 | |
Kyouya and Erika are going on a two-day trip along with the rest of their class. Nozomi sees this as the perfect chance to "wake Kyouya up". During the orienteering event, Nozomi tries in vain to get Kyouya to become a playboy like himself. Kyouya tells Nozomi that there is hope for him still, because before he met Erika, he was just like Nozomi. | |||||
10 | "Wasted Effort -Happy birthday-" Transliteration: "Tō bō-da-sei -Happy birthday-" (Japanese: 掉棒打星 -Happy birthday-) | Taiji Kawanishi | Ayumi Sekine | December 7, 2014 | |
At school, Erika tells Kyouya that her birthday is coming up (June 23). He asks her what she wants. She wants love. Later that night Kyouya asks Nozomi and Takeru what love is, since it is such an abstract concept for him. He asks what he should get her. Nozomi says to compliment her outfit while Takeru says to take her out to a restaurant. However later the next day, Kyouya eavesdropped on Erika while she was talking to San. Erika wants Kyouya to say "i love you" to her. On her birthday, they go to a restaurant, watch a movie, window shop and later take a nighttime boat cruise. Throughout all of this Kyouya is trying to say "i love you" but every time becomes flustered and makes some excuse. At the end of their date, while a car passes by, Kyouya says "I love you". Erika says that this has been the best birthday ever. | |||||
11 | "A Critical Situation -Judgement-" Transliteration: "Isshoku sokuhatsu -Judgement-" (Japanese: 一触即発 -Judgement-) | Sumito Sasaki | Sawako Hirabayashi | December 14, 2014 | |
Kyouya's older sister Reika, randomly drops into town surprising both Kyouya and Erika. She reveals herself to be just as much as a sadist as her brother, except she tortures Kyouya as well. After hearing that Erika was his serious girlfriend, Reika decides to test her since her brother has never showed any interest in romance. Offended on Kyouya's behalf when his sister insults him behind his back, Erika stands up for Kyouya and says he has truly changed, challenging Reika. Reika calls Kyouya to a building, where they hear Erika sick in the bathroom as the aftermath of a dessert eating contest. She finally accepts Erika and calls her family after seeing how worried Kyouya was about her. | |||||
12 | "A Pressing Appeal -I love you-" Transliteration: "Ai oyobi-ya karasu -I love you-" (Japanese: 愛及屋烏 -I love you-) | Shin Katagai Yūki Arie | Sawako Hirabayashi | December 21, 2014 | |
Finally arriving at Kobe, Kyouya's mom is revealed to be a normal, doting middle-aged woman, much to Erika's relief. After spending some time with her at the dinner table, Erika finds out a little more about the kind of mom she is, as well as her closed relationship with Kyouya. While washing dishes afterwards, Kyouya's sister Reika reveals the details behind Kyouya's suspicion of love and his mother after she divorced his father, and believes herself to be the cause of why he is the way he is. That night, they try on yukatas in preparation for the summer festival they are attending. Before leaving the next day, Kyouya agrees to tag along after having a change of heart. During the festival, Reika reminisces of all the childhood memories that the various foods and attractions remind her of, with Erika trying to get Kyouya to participate in them, but to no avail. After a small argument in which she pretends to be mad at Kyouya, she walks off to call his mother to set up a plan to get them to meet, but is knocked down by the crowd with her necklace falling off and breaking in the process. After Kyouya and Reika frantically search for her, their mother comes and assists them, finding Erika by the dumpster looking for her necklace. As the fireworks go off, her mother finds the necklace and they all go home. At home, Kyouya and his mother reconcile before he returns to Tokyo with Erika. On the train, he finds Erika looking at childhood pictures and he comes to terms with his memory of the snowman. | |||||
OAD | "Jumping at Shadows -Happening kiss-" Transliteration: "Gishin anki -Happening kiss-" (Japanese: 疑心暗鬼 -Happening kiss-) | Shin Katagai | Ayumi Sekine | April 24, 2015 | |
At school, Kyouya's birthday is coming. Erika enlists Ayumi's help to restrain Kyouya first so that Erika can decorate Kyouya's apartment for her birthday surprise, but she sees Kyouya fall and accidentally kisses Ayumi on the lips after Kyouya steps on a dog stick. As a result, Erika's behavior and feelings are getting weirder all the time. The next day, Ayumi explains to Erika that a kiss from Kyouya was not Ayumi's first kiss, much to Erika's relief, but Erika is jealous because she wants to get a kiss from Kyouya. Knowing that, Kyouya chases Erika after school and kisses her on the lips, making Erika happy. |
A live-action film adaptation directed by Ryūichi Hiroki premiered in Japanese theaters on May 28, 2016.[36] It grossed US$10,639,039 at Japan box office.[37]
The manga has sold over 2.4 million copies as of April 2014.[38] The 7th volume reached the number four place on the Oricon weekly manga chart in the week of September 23–29, 2013, with 102,872 copies sold.[39]
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