Wolf's Rain (2003–2004)

Mamoru Miyano: Kiba

Quotes 

• Kiba : They say there's no such place... as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that... Why am I so driven to find it? A voice calls to me... It says, "Search for Paradise."

• Kiba : Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.

• Hige : [talking to Kiba, who is being held in a cage]  Man, you really screwed up. I mean, I've seen one of us get hurt before, but never this badly. And you're caught, too.

  Kiba : I can get out of here whenever I feel like it.

  Hige : Uh-huh. So, then, why are you in there?

  Kiba : I just needed a place to rest for a while, that's all.

  Hige : I'm Hige. It's nice to meetcha.

  Kiba : So, why are you in here, anyways?

  Hige : No reason. It smelled like something interesting was going to happen, and I just followed my nose, you know? Besides, I've got nowhere else to go.

  Kiba : That's not your true form. Why do you hide yourself?

  Hige : So that I don't end up where you are. These people are terrified of us, so, you know, if we look like them, they pretty much leave us alone.

  Kiba : You're lying to yourself, just so you can live a miserable life and die a miserable death in this city?

  Hige : You gotta do what you can to survive. Keep looking like that, and you'll be back here in no time at all. It draws too much attention.

  Kiba : Have you give up your pride as a wolf?

  Hige : You're a strange one, all right. But having pride doesn't count for much if you're dead, you know?

• Cheza : The ice is spreading fast now, the world will freeze over. Soon, this one will disappear, this one is a forged hanabito, this is not this one's true form.

  Kiba : Your true form?

  Cheza : Now this one can become...

  Kiba : Cheza...

  Cheza : The world will close up for a while, and we will be apart from one another.

  Kiba : What should I do? I don't have anything left to protect.

  Cheza : We would not have met, and the flowers will protect you. Kiba, because you protected this one, the flowers will return and bloom once more. So when the world is reborn, and Paradise opens, we will meet again. This one will be waiting for you. Find this one. And this time, the Paradise you hoped for will be...

• Kiba : Everyone's gonna die, it's a natural part of life. But if life has no purpose, you're dead already.

• Kiba : [after Darcia jumps off the cliff after Cheza; goes back to Tsume]  Tsume! Are you all right?

  Tsume : I'm just a little tired. Go already!

  Kiba : Tsume...

  Tsume : I finished Hige offf. I don't want to move any more either. I knew it from the beginning, I knew it somewhere in my heart. That's why I led a spontaneous life. I was confident after having met you... that I wasn't the one who would open Paradise.

  [groans] 

  Tsume : Go.

  Kiba : Hang in there.

  Tsume : If you don't go...

  Kiba : Hold on to me...

  Tsume : Go already!

  [Kiba runs after Darcia] 

  Tsume : Let's meet up again in Paradise.

  [howls, slumps down] 

• Tsume : That was quite a stunt you pulled back there.

  Kiba : I was protecting myself, that's all.

  Tsume : You shouldn't be so quick to kill.

  Kiba : What's wrong with killing?

  Tsume : I don't know what mountain you came down from, but you're in the city now. There are rules here.

  Kiba : Rules? Is running around with a pack of idiots one of the rules?

  Tsume : I'm only usin' them.

  Kiba : Your rules stink like this city! What's the point of living if it means throwing away your pride?

  Tsume : You've got a big mouth for someone's that half-dead.

• Hige : Come on, we're friends now, right?

  Kiba : Coming from you, that sounds kind of fishy.

• Darcia : Wolves . . . You have my gratitude, for it was you who awoke her.

  Hige : What?

  Kiba : Who the Hell are you?

  Darcia : The Flower Maiden is mine.

  Hige : The Flower Maiden? Is that . . . Cheza?

  Darcia : We'll meet in Paradise. If we meet again, that is.

• Hige : Your wounds . . . Are they healed, yet?

  Kiba : Yeah. After all, tonight is a full moon.

  Hige : So, why'd you come to this crummy town, anyways?

  Kiba : I smelled something: The scent of a Lunar Flower. It was coming from this city.

  Hige : Yeah, I know. My nose can tell when a dogs takin' a dump ten kilometers away.

  Kiba : Yeah? That must really stink.

  Hige : It sure does!

  Kiba : So, why did you escape with me?

  Hige : I don't know. I just felt like it, I guess. Besides, you seem kinda interesting. So, what's next? Where are you headed?

  Kiba : To Paradise. There isn't any moonlight in this place.

  Hige : Paradise, huh? Sounds like fun.

  Kiba : My name is . . . Kiba.