Tsume

is a fictitious character of the Anime and Manga Wolf' S Rain .

It is one of the first main characters to be appeared in the series and will accompany the pack all length, in order to reach the paradise of the Wolves, Rakuen. It is as nimble and precis as a Griffe, from which it draws its name. He lives downtown, in company of the other human ones, covering same appearance as the latter in order to melt themselves in the mass and not to point out themselves. At the beginning, he is even the chief of a band of plunderers which attack the convoys to survive. There is oldest of the pack and remains skeptic with respect to Rakuen and that this destination remains field of the Légende, since nobody reached it forever. It seems cold and distant, but appears more complex than that. Tsume appears to be wisest (more tested) of the pack and makes profitable this wisdom to protect it. It is doubled by Kenta Miyake (Japanese version) and by Tony Joudrier (French version).

Appearance and Symbolic system

Under its human form, Tsume has cut grey hair short to which a braid is added. Two eyes ambers appear under its fine eyebrows. It is equipped with a whole in black Cuir which could be a recall of its nature of wolf and which lets show through the scar which marks its chest. A loop of gilded ear encloses its left lobe and it carries from there two other rounds of the same color to each ears. Tsume is a gray wolf which preserves its human characteristics, there included/understood the gash in the shape of cross on its breast piece. It could be comparable with a Loup of Eurasia or with a Loup of the tundra.

The name of Tsume becomes symbolic system when, under its human form, it attacks with a frayed scraping-knife which points out a claw. This illusory weapon replaces its claws, and let us discover we it for the first time when Tsume slices the head of a robot. The blade is made for given a significance in the name of Tsume, literally translated by " griffe" in Japanese

Passed

Tsume belonged to a pack. This one was done attacked by the troops of Jagara which tracked the Wolves. The friends of Tsume were made massacre by the firearms of the enemies and instead of fighting, he flees, giving up to them his and betraying his pack to ensure his own survival. The chief and the few survivors did not forgive him and banished it, by leaving him the " mark of sound péché" on the chest: a gash in the shape of cross made by hooks. Toboe will be the only one to which Tsume will entrust on this history.

As from this moment there, Tsume was folded up on itself and traversed the world before stopping its steps with Freeze City, the city where remained the Girl-Fleur, Cheza. He becomes the chief of a band of plunderers and at their head attacked trains and convoys of food. It was however not integrated into humanity, always keeping a cold distance between its henchmen and itself. It protected them and made use of them to nourish itself, but their relation stopped there. It places its independence at the top of all, and refuses any bonds of friendship. Nevertheless, Kiba, Hige and especially Toboe will convince it to join their pack.

Introduction of Tsume

Tsume is one of the main characters of the history, as well by the place as it occupies than by the successive roles than it assumes. It is the first on which the history leans, as a chief of a band the human ones. That makes it possible to establish the opposition which links Tsume and Kiba: one is despite everything links with the men, while the other flees them. This competition continues throughout Animates, since Tsume appears unable to believe it for what it fights, namely the existence of the paradise.

Tsume appears as of the first episode of the Anime, with the head of its henchmen. A powerful train slips by to sharp pace right in front of through snow, when an explosion occurs on the level of the motor coach. It is an attack of plunderers, and Tsume is posted as being their chief at the wheel of a kind of Jeep. It approaches the train in order to make it possible its additives to take foot on this last. If the men of Tsume act in this way, it is to adapt one of the resources which the people pauper miss more: food. This attack is the symbol of the despair of the poor classes, and thus gives information on the rules which govern the world of Wolf' S Rain and on the economic situation. To nourish itself, it is necessary to fight, and it is a point on which the character of Tsume insists. The government is with the service of Noble and the people suffer from poverty, it must fight to hope to have what to remain. This disaster reality shows that the world is on the decline and that it moves slowly towards the end. The future is represented like a civilized company (or rather, several civilized important cities), but ineluctably wild, and that by need. In this violence, the characters of the Wolves are not strange, and Tsume is not dépaysé.

The band of Tsume is spread on the train, and it does not test a state of heart to put the life of its men concerned: it is a hunting and he is the chief, his objective is to nourish itself. The Gehl, youngest of the troop (it is only one child), is propelled of a kick in this warlike world, in spite of the danger of such a gesture. It is caught up with rambarde. Nevertheless, a robot leaves the armor-plated door and opens fire on its enemies. Gehl is terrified in front of the power of the machine and firm the eyes, fearing for its life. Abruptly, the shots cease and the light disappears. Gehl reopens the eyes, presenting Tsume (under human form) on the machine, holding in a hand a slightly bent scraping-knife and in the other the head of the robot-like sentinel. Gehl calls it and Tsume grants only one glance to him, without its features not being untied. It throws the metal carcass with ground, and this one will be crushed against the remainder of the convoy, creating a new explosion and stopping the whole of the train.

Nothing indicates at this stage that Tsume is a Wolf and that it would want to change its lifestyle. But Tsume cannot be judged on what it lets show through, because it precisely puts all its art nothing to be filtered. He flees simply all that can point out its last errors.

After the plundering of the train, the troop of Tsume crosses Freeze City. Quent Yaiden has just arrived downtown and drinks glass in a bar. Blue is attached outside. It raises the eyes, attracted by the noise of the men of Tsume before seeing this last. It stops, and turns to it. They are disfigured, Blue grogne and springs ahead, drawing on its leaves while barking. Quent is alerted, it leaves weapon to the fist and precipitates in the street. In the middle of the human steps traces of legs of wolves, printed are in snow.

While turning over to their hiding-place, the men of Tsume fall on what they think of being a large white dog. Tsume sees the animal and immediately, it knows that it is not a question of a simple dog, but well of one of its similar. They want to eat it, but when Tsume affirms very high what he thought, they turn all worms him, surprised. The two men closest to the animal will touch the Wolf which awakes and kills them both with its hooks. Gehl is held in front of the animal, trembling, when abruptly Tsume pushes it. It holds its scraping-knife in the right hand. It moves away, after having expressed its interest and flees towards the roofs, followed by the animal. Up there, they are found face to face. The camera approaches the white wolf and turns to reveal Tsume, from now on in its shape of wolf, its clearly visible scar on its breast piece. Tsume comments on the attitude of Kiba, although he does not know his name yet. The white wolf does not leave its animal form, and affirms that it nothing but did be protected by killing the two men. Tsume does not seem in anger, or surprised by the death of those, simply curious - and perhaps disturbed - owing to the fact that Kiba can kill also naturally, without putting questions. Tsume calls upon the rules which govern each city and which must be respected, which it makes itself only in the theory: it flies and plunders for its own use and it kills out of the soldiers during its attacks, though in this case there, its attacks are especially turned against the Noble ones. Kiba counteracts by criticizing the lifestyle of Tsume, its way of being surrounded by human shadies and of rejecting its pride by not taking its animal form more but while remaining human with the eyes of all. The fact that one criticizes his pride is what really mad Tsume, one distinguishes his teeth as sharpened as those from a wolf. That a go-getter as Kiba can disparage his way of surviving is not for him not bearable, because since it does not have any more pack, it lives while following its own instinct. But it forever rejected its condition of wolf and if it preserves an human form, it is to make use of the men, like it says it itself.

The two wolves fight, of blood is poured, and it is what will awake Cheza. When that Gehl arrives on the roof, he sees two wolves exchanging blows. He shakes the head and Tsume recovers its human form. It stops the combat, by agitating its weapon and Kiba from goes away, after a last glance towards Tsume.

Tsume will finally affirm in Gehl that it is not his friend, that they are too different to be it.

Personality

Tsume, change

Tsume and Toboe

The paradise of Tsume

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