Alpha and Omega Fandom - Wolfaboos with a love for shitty direct-to-video sequels.

[NARPASSWORD]

You seem to underestimate the power of furrys latching onto something that would make them cream, just look at aggretsuko with Haida

Or Sheep & Wolves.

 

[Reynard]

Or Sheep & Wolves.

I wanted to see that out of curiosity (I have a thing for watching shitty/obscure animated films), but it has a fandom?

 

[NARPASSWORD]

I wanted to see that out of curiosity (I have a thing for watching shitty/obscure animated films), but it has a fandom?

Out of curiosity, I typed in "Sheep and Wolves" on deviantart, and immediately found disappointment (in other words, I found unironic fan art).

 

[Trilby]

Or Sheep & Wolves.

The Russian studio certainly didn't see that one coming (or they did and just didn't want to tell anyone).

Out of curiosity, I typed in "Sheep and Wolves" on deviantart, and immediately found disappointment (in other words, I found unironic fan art).

Just like "One Stormy Night" (Arashi no Yoru Ni), which is a shame as I did enjoy that film.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arashi_no_Yoru_ni

I'll have to check out Sheep & Wolves soon but I doubt I'll find it an enjoyable experience.

 

[Jangarango]

I have no idea but here's some more posters that had the humans in them:

Spoiler: big ol images

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I’m still losing it a little bit over the sheer reuse of the one female wolf’s face in literally EVERY bit of promotional material.

What, can’t have the female lead not looking demure and sexy? She’s a fucking wolf, and reusing the face pose makes them look lazier than they already do.

Like, idk about you guys, but if I were doing something like sliding down a river on a log for fun, I probably wouldn’t be looking back at my boyfriend with a sideways glance with bedroom eyes.

 

[Trilby]

I’m still losing it a little bit over the sheer reuse of the one female wolf’s face in literally EVERY bit of promotional material.

Easy-ass work day, really.

What, can’t have the female lead not looking demure and sexy? She’s a fucking wolf, and reusing the face pose makes them look lazier than they already do.

As lazy as the reused humans in those sequels!

Like, idk about you guys, but if I were doing something like sliding down a river on a log for fun, I probably wouldn’t be looking back at my boyfriend with a sideways glance with bedroom eyes.

Nope, though I do wonder whenever they make these posters, do they think she's meant to have it all well-on-hand like that? It's all about playing up the sex appeal in the end.

 

[Vatred]

Just like "One Stormy Night" (Arashi no Yoru Ni), which is a shame as I did enjoy that film.

I enjoyed One Stormy Night. Granted, last I saw it was years ago, but I remember the animation being really impressive for the time.

I'm really surprised it's not more popular with the furry folk, as it's got the perfect recipe for a cancerous fandom-- wolves, talking animals, Japanese, gay undertones....

 

[Trilby]

I enjoyed One Stormy Night. Granted, last I saw it was years ago, but I remember the animation being really impressive for the time.

I'm really surprised it's not more popular with the furry folk, as it's got the perfect recipe for a cancerous fandom-- wolves, talking animals, Japanese, gay undertones....

True. I sorta wonder if Kaiketsu Zorori took away most of it's thunder like that. That was a series with over a hundred episodes and a number of animated movies that far outweigh what One Stormy Night could do for almost 2 hours. The Zorori fanart was just too much!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiketsu_Zorori

At the time the show came out, I remember saying to someone I thought this was up 4KIDS' alley since it looked dumb enough to come over here but it didn't. I suppose we ought to be glad it didn't anyway though it was pretty easy for something like this to take off stateside with the right marketing.

 

[Vatred]

At the time the show came out, I remember saying to someone I thought this was up 4KIDS' alley since it looked dumb enough to come over here but it didn't. I suppose we ought to be glad it didn't anyway though it was pretty easy for something like this to take off stateside with the right marketing.

Very true. They'd have a ton of material to work with too. Zorori (for now) seems to be a fairly obscure fandom. Looking on Tumblr, it seems most of the art is done by young children or fetish artists.

(Also, don't check the Tumblr tag unless you want to see the poor guy getting dicked down by another character. That shit is like on the second page.)

 

[Trilby]

Very true. They'd have a ton of material to work with too. Zorori (for now) seems to be a fairly obscure fandom. Looking on Tumblr, it seems most of the art is done by young children or fetish artists.

The show certainly was more than ripe when it came to stuff like this...

Spoiler

(Also, don't check the Tumblr tag unless you want to see the poor guy getting dicked down by another character. That shit is like on the second page.)

Yeah, I know they really loved the shit out of that Gaon fellow as well.

EDIT: This did get into a lot of countries though.

There was even a movie that came out last year (apparently a fourth one), so obvious someone still cares for this, even if the fandom has died down quite a lot.

 

[Monolith]

Today's the day where we watch the whole series (in theory). I'll add some commentary on the movies every so often. Wish me luck.

The people here at the start are me and 4 guys I'm calling Alpha, Beta, Kappa, and Epsilon, just to fit the naming scheme.

Spoiler: Movie 1

Edit: Three minutes in, and Epsilon already hates how he remembers that the wolves were childhood friends before they started hating each other from watching this 8 years ago.
Edit 2: 7 minutes in, and Alpha's considering suicide, Beta's looking up Rule 34 fanart.
Edit 3: Mu arrives at 10 minutes in, bringing board games for if we get bored.
Edit 4: Everyone actually started paying attention for the howling musical number. Epsilon wants to write an essay comparing this to college power structures.
Edit 5: They doubled down on it, especially Kappa, when the main characters got tranqued.
Edit 6: Alpha is giving an extended story about how his brain cells are staging a coup.
Edit 7: Kappa and Epsilon decided that everything in this movie is a metaphor, and that Kate's dad is trying to screw her by proxy of another alpha. Alpha (the viewer) decided that this is about Exodus, and Kate's mother is the Pharaoh.
Edit 8: At 43 minutes in, when Humphrey does a rain dance, I realized that all of the humor is either random-access or completely unintentional. Beta and Epsilon decided that the movie's actually a metaphor for Kappa's life now.
Edit 9: It's the Trail of Tears now.
Edit 10: At edit 10, just after they fell off a cliff, sledded down a mountain, and landed safely on a train back to Canada, everyone knows that it's a sex scene but the writers are pretending it isn't. Also Kappa noted that it looks like Humphrey is hypnotizing Kate, and all of the animation is horribly off again.
Edit 11: The vegans chanting "Stop the insanity, go organic!" broke the movie (shut off the console), and Mu claimed that he can say "nigga" because he watches DMX.
Edit 12: The quality just dropped, but that may be the wifi. Everyone's zoned out.
Edit 13: Going by the logic of howling = sex, the entire pack just gangbanged Kate while she was unconscious to revive her at the end of the first movie. Epsilon still thinks it's a college metaphor.

Spoiler: Movie 2

Edit 14: I'm missing the start of the second movie because I had to use the bathroom.
Edit 15: And Kappa, Epsilon, Mu, and Gamma (not watching) are in a debate over Secret Hitler instead of the movie.
Edit 16: Shading just broke.
Edit 17: I still can't tell what this movie has to do with the holidays, even though this is taking forever to buffer.
Edit 18: The animation got even worse during the third two-wolves-swinging-on-a-vine-with-the-female-one-hanging-off-of-the-male-one's-tail scene.
Edit 19: They're stealing music from The Matrix now.
Edit 20: They used the Leo the Lion running animation. Also we have a running joke where Mu spills a drink ALL OVER THE GODDAMN FLOOR, and he just spilled water ALL OVER MY GODDAMN LEGS.
Edit 21: The bear cub that they rescued (the dictator) said that the wolves he wanted killed were "bear game."
Edit 22: I just realized that all the wolf pups sounded like adults, and also they just used the sled again.
Edit 23: End of movie 2: They just snuck into shotgun dude's house, ate his dog's food, and went to sleep under the christmas tree, without actually making it back to the pack.

Spoiler: Movie 3

Edit 24: In the title card, a bear jumped off of a porcupine in horrible agony, jumped off, and jumped right back on.
Edit 25: The animation got better, it's even more uncanny valley now.
Edit 26: 5th sled. Kappa pointed out that the sledding was a ripoff of Back to the Barnyard.
Edit 27: The porcupine took off by running too fast, and had to be dragged back to the ground by the bear.
Edit 28: One of the wolves just stunned a bear by spitting a living bird into it's mouth.
Edit 29: Alpha's mental coup has been locked in a shootout for the last 2 hours, as he just informed me.
Edit 30: Everything has the same running animation.
Edit 31:

Edit 32: Epsilon memorized the race scene from when his sister watched this.
Edit 33: The video quality just shot up. You can now see each individual hair. I have no idea what's happening since everyone's talking.
Edit 34: They now look more like really scrawny MLP ponies than wolves. Also there was just a 5 second long shot of one of the wolf pups jumping in front of the sky smiling creepily and not moving.
Edit 35: The game ended in a tie, so no one is sad. Also they used a stock cheering sound. We're taking a break before watching the 4th one.

Spoiler: Movie 4

Edit 36: We're watching #4 on a screen on a screen because copyright, and I don't want to pay them. Mu is going home to get some game controllers for if these nerds get bored again.
Edit 37: There's a wolf spirit. I think I can tell why this has an audience instead of all of the other shitty kids animal movies now.
Edit 38: They're talking about cryptics, which is now at least tangentially related to the movies. I still can't believe they're trying to make A&Ω a horror movie.
Edit 39: The pups are now casually jogging away from the ghost wolf chasing them at a walking pace.
Edit 40: They didn't use a vine when one was hanging off the cliff this time.
Edit 41: I'm just gonna stop editing since no one's paying attention anymore.

Spoiler: Movie 5

Edit 42: Omega just entered. At the start of the 5th movie, it started with a scene captioned "65 million years ago," two identical men digging up a dinosaur, and the dinosaur reanimating as soon as it touches air.
Edit 43: They moved to a golf course. Only the kid realized. Also accd. Epsilon they seem both over and underanimated now.
Edit 44: The ducks are giving the wolves golf lessons now.
Edit 45: A wolf just discovered the dinosaur by walking up a tree. Wolves are completely immune to fall damage.
Edit 46: Humphrey's now a biped, and I can tell why furries are obsessed with this.
Edit 47: The dinosaur's named Amy, and she's the only purple dinosaur.
Edit 48: The wolf puppies just stole a truck to distract the miners from the dinosaur because if they dig up the other dinosaur it'll destroy everything and not just get shot.
Edit 49: Duck dance number that takes up half the movie's budget, and the quality dropped to abysmal levels.
Edit 50: I forgot to point this out before, but everyone decided that the middle wolf pup looks and acts like Amy Schumer.
Edit 51: Howling=sex, therefore the wolf pups all just gangbanged the dinosaur.
Edit 52: Beta's quote of the night: "Do a dino dab!"
Edit 53: There's a tornado coming out of the hole around the t-rex. Also everything always runs at the same speed as what's chasing them.
Edit 54: We are now having the same dance number with the dinosaurs, and they're being carried by the water. Alpha finally had his aneurysm.
Edit 55: It did nothing. Also Amy said that "her spirit will eventually perish" if she's outside the Sacred Burial Ground™.
Edit 56: Animation crapped out again, and the miners then started refilling the Sacred Burial Ground™ as a natural aesop or something.

Spoiler: Movie 6

Edit 57: It's called Family Vacation. The pups are talking about dating. They still look like toddlers. We realized that they just can't afford to update the models.
Edit 58: When Kate realized she was always pulling needles out of the pups, Kappa replied "Where did you think they were coming from, the heroin?!" Better than any joke in the movies. Also the whole thing so far is a flashback montage using footage from the last movies.
Edit 59: They're not only recycling the animation from the first one, but also the plot. They're trying to take the wolves across the country again.
Edit 60: They're reusing the log asset, this time as a Solid Snake box.
Edit 61: They reused the models for the miners as hunters. Also the wolves are somehow throwing up a smokescreen to escape the hunters, and Omega thinks that this one was made on a PS1.
Edit 62: Humphrey just bit a hunter in the butt, and I just realized that the two main characters never had a single disagreement since the first movie.
Edit 63: They're using the train again too.
Edit 64: They're now showing the bear pissing off of a train while singing.
Edit 65: With everyone singing.
Edit 66: The vine's back, with the porcupines this time.
Edit 67: We realized that they're just trying to sell the first movie again.
Edit 68: The librarian pulled a shotgun on the bear, then passed out, and woke up saying "that feels good" when the wolves licked her awake.
Edit 69: Nice.
Edit 70: She also perfectly guessed what Humphrey pantomimed when he wanted her to drive all of them to Idaho.
Edit 71: They just outright killed the hunters. End of movie 6.

Spoiler: Movie 7

Edit 72: They're killing a squirrel that they befriended for food at the start of movie 7. It did a superhero landing while running away.
Edit 73: While searching for their parents, they found a T-posing snow polar bear that they thought ate their bear friend. This is either playing to the fan's vore fetishes, or what inspired them.
Edit 74: Gamma, who mostly doesn't follow cringe culture, realized that he knows what "Yiff" means. Omega suggested using "Uwu" as a code word.
Edit 75: This chase scene, the bear just fell in a hole, and the puppies had to distract the chasers again.
Edit 76: There was a new animation! Puppy stuck out it's tongue at another wolf.
Edit 77: They played the Sonic spin dash sound when the porcupine spin dashed.
Edit 78: This time, they used the sled to escape the bears!
Edit 79: I zoned out for most of the rest of this but then the storyline of them needing food was never resolved.

Spoiler: Movie 8

Edit 80: Epsilon speculates that this last one will have animation since it's on Netflix.
Edit 81: It's not an actual journey to the bear kingdom at the start, it's the kids putting on a play, then the Queen Bear (not the Bearon) visiting them.
Edit 82: The bluebirds aren't just copy-pasted models, they move in sync.
Edit 83: The bear queen is the only nonasshole bear in the entire series.
Edit 84: There has so far been even less plot in this movie than usual, just animals showing off to the bear queen.
Edit 85: The bears are only moving on at most 2 joints at a time.
Edit 86: They all did the simultaneous spin dodge to make shit fly over their heads again. Also Claudette quipped "Another one bites the dust" when the chasers fell.
Edit 87: Beta, Epsilon, and Kappa snapped and started shrieking "Wings on my Penis."
Edit 88: Squirrels latched onto wolves' legs to divert them.
Edit 89: Kate just "howled" to raise morale before a fight.
Edit 90: Geese are now making bagpipe noises.
Edit 91: At the very end, the wolves and bears now share a kingdom with overdetailed area geometry, an underdetailed sky, and horribly animated inhabitants.
Edit 92: Humphrey is now horribly dressing as a trap bear, and everyone is buying it.
Edit 93: He's now doing a musical number to seduce a bear.

And the series ends with yet another dance number.

That was fun. Alpha hates me now. Epsilon insists that we watch Princess Mononoke.

 

[Doctor Stan]

Today's the day where we watch the whole series (in theory). I'll add some commentary on the movies every so often. Wish me luck.

The people here at the start are me, Alpha, Beta, Kappa, and Epsilon, just to fit the theme.

Edit: Three minutes in, and Epsilon already hates how he remembers that the wolves were childhood friends before they started hating each other from watching this 8 years ago.
Edit 2: 7 minutes in, and Alpha's considering suicide, Beta's looking up Rule 34 fanart.
Edit 3: Mu arrives at 10 minutes in, bringing board games for if we get bored.
Edit 4: Everyone actually started paying attention for the howling musical number. Epsilon wants to write an essay comparing this to college power structures.
Edit 5: They doubled down on it, especially Kappa, when the main characters got tranqued.
Edit 6: Alpha is giving an extended story about how his brain cells are staging a coup.
Edit 7: Kappa and Epsilon decided that everything in this movie is a metaphor, and that Kate's dad is trying to screw her by proxy of another alpha. Alpha (the viewer) decided that this is about Exodus, and Kate's mother is the Pharaoh.
Edit 8: At 43 minutes in, when Humphrey does a rain dance, I realized that all of the humor is either random-access or completely unintentional. Beta and Epsilon decided that the movie's actually a metaphor for Kappa's life now.
Edit 9: It's the Trail of Tears now.
Edit 10: At edit 10, just after they fell off a cliff, sledded down a mountain, and landed safely on a train back to Canada, everyone knows that it's a sex scene but the writers are pretending it isn't. Also Kappa noted that it looks like Humphrey is hypnotizing Kate, and all of the animation is horribly off again.
Edit 11: The vegans chanting "Stop the insanity, go organic!" broke the movie (shut off the console), and Mu claimed that he can say "nigga" because he watches DMX.
Edit 12: The quality just dropped, but that may be the wifi. Everyone's zoned out.
Edit 13: Going by the logic of howling = sex, the entire pack just gangbanged Kate while she was unconscious to revive her at the end of the first movie. Epsilon still thinks it's a college metaphor.

Edit 14: I'm missing the start of the second movie because I had to use the bathroom.
Edit 15: And Kappa, Epsilon, Mu, and Gamma (not watching) are in a debate over Secret Hitler instead of the movie.
Edit 16: Shading just broke.
Edit 17: I still can't tell what this movie has to do with the holidays, even though this is taking forever to buffer.
Edit 18: The animation got even worse during the third two-wolves-swinging-on-a-vine-with-the-female-one-hanging-off-of-the-male-one's-tail scene.

Well at least someone is having fun with this, what board games do you have?

 

[Monolith]

Well at least someone is having fun with this, what board games do you have?

Secret Hitler and Scythe.

 

[Doctor Stan]

Secret Hitler and Scythe.

Oh nice, scythe looks fun. Hope it's better than watching these films

 

[Yes Man]

In a sense I envy the people that can take so much joy out of a franchise like this, like baleen whales sifting through seas of garbage straining dopamine from swill and pollutants. These people probably don't think about much. They know what they want and they go for it. Simplistic happiness can be found anywhere if enough of your frontal lobe is numbed, if your goals and desires are small and passionately fulfilled by talking wolf cartoons.

No thought even for a moment is given to how it might frame them so many things. Juvenile, obsessed, creepy, tasteless, and in some cases, perverse, twisted, socially isolated.
It doesn't matter, none of it matters, they will cram their faces with human sewage until the day they die, and do so with a smile on their faces and fake tails strapped to their asses.
Live long and shameless, you merry souls. Slam your furious joy in the form of crayola Humphrey farting in Kate's face ruthlessly against your opposition. Blessed be.

 

[Vatred]

In a sense I envy the people that can take so much joy out of a franchise like this, like baleen whales sifting through seas of garbage straining dopamine from swill and pollutants.

Not to powerlevel, but I can completely understand this. I'm an animation sperg who gets an unusual amount of joy from a couple of shitty cartoons. I guess the difference between me and them is that I know what I like is garbage. It's just a distraction.

 

[Yes Man]

Not to powerlevel, but I can completely understand this. I'm an animation sperg who gets an unusual amount of joy from a couple of shitty cartoons. I guess the difference between me and them is that I know what I like is garbage. It's just a distraction.

I get your drift, one animation sperg to another. I would kill a man for James Baxter, and the hours I've spent binging B rate cartoons would probably be questionable at best.

I guess what I'm trying to describe is that there is a very different energy with the wolfaboo community, a whole new level of devotion I can only understand from behind caution tape. It's less of a hobby and more like a religious devotion, they're getting something out of it my worldly mind can't grasp as it is.

 

[Trans-istor]

I'm convinced this fandom died out in 2012 because I can't otherwise rationalize this much emo-haired-sparkledog imagery.

 

[Trilby]

I'm convinced this fandom died out in 2012 because I can't otherwise rationalize this much emo-haired-sparkledog imagery.

Hard do say with the continued sequels it has gotten.

 

[Reynard]

I'm convinced this fandom died out in 2012 because I can't otherwise rationalize this much emo-haired-sparkledog imagery.

The final movie came out in 2016 or 2017, so it’s still a thing.