It was like a fever dream when I first read and watched Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji back in 2015 or so. It was at that time that I was in a phase of reading and watching shoujo anime, mainly Nana and Itazura na Kiss. All three of them hold a special place in my heart. But after finally catching up the last chapters that weren’t available to me back in 2015 for Wolf Girl and Black Prince, it really makes me wonder what was so charming to it. It probably was due to the “freshness” that I was exposed to. I was never a huge fan of romance/Shoujo, so these few series that I read and watched ended up being my first exposure to the genre, and I think this novelty of discovering something new made me hooked onto each of these series; Looking back, especially at Wolf Girl and Black Prince, and reading these last few chapters, those were rose colored days. The conclusion was just what I expected: come on, it’s a shoujo romance manga. It wasn’t anything unique, but it served as a closure to a series I had come to like.

Now, I don’t particularly think that judging this manga for the concluding chapters is very fair, when the bulk of the story and charm is from the beginning chapters. I can’t help but look back on the series with some nostalgia. There have been a lot more different romance shows and shoujo that I have read and watched, but none of it comes close to the feelings that I had when reading this particular series. Something about it makes it a lot more special than other series. It doesn’t have a super unique plot and characters, but it has it’s polish that few shoujo have. I think it could have been just the fact that the execution of events seemed a lot more natural than any other series I read, and as a result, I felt more invested in the characters. Being exposed to the female lead’s feelings and how the story panned out made me want to cheer her on. I was hoping she would get what she wanted, after all the setbacks that she went through, and that was something that I hadn’t experienced in other shoujo works before. There’s some unnecessary drama, but that’s all part of the shoujo experience in the first place. It’s a classic romance formula done well.