#but i didn't have an awakening for the horse therianthropy. i just woke up one day and was Like This.

[equine-altar]

For real, Wolf Children truly is set apart as a 'kin awakening movie because the movie feels inherently OTHERKIN or kin-coded in nature in a way other animal movies just aren't. I saw Princess Mononoke about a year before WC released, and whilst Mononoke definitely Did Something to me, but WC was the first time I *really* felt represented. Just like you said, it really made something "click" on a fundamental level for me. This movie wasn't ABOUT animals that made me want to be an animal. It wasn't about a human that grew up around animals and needed to return to human society. It was about other children who were animals and also people in a mixed, messy, fluctuating state. The question presented by the film was "human or wolf?" but the reality of it is "human AND wolf," in a way.

I think it's quite fascinating that a lot of alterhumans awakened through specific movies!

But one movie I basically never see mentioned is "Wolf Children" and I don't get that at all?

I remember being 14 years old when I watched that thing? I've always felt animalistic, but that movie just made something click. The inner struggle... Which side do you want to embrace? Human or wolf?

I remember balling my eyes out at the end not necessarily because it was sad, but because I just felt something... Something so intense, so special.

I remember going to the forest the next day, doing quads, just hoping that it would finally make me feel like the animal I knew I was. It would take me two more years to actually awaken as a therian, but that movie definitely lit the spark that would eventually turn into a full on inferno.