Nirasaki ( 韮崎の旦那さん, Nirasaki no danna-san) Grandpa Nirasaki ( 韮崎のおじいちゃん, Nirasaki no ojii-chan) Hana, now living alone, reflects that raising her wolf children was like a fairy tale, and feels proud of the way she raised them. Ame's wolf howls are heard far and wide in the forest. One year later, Yuki leaves home to move into a middle school dormitory. Realizing he has found his own path, she happily but tearfully accepts his goodbye. She awakens to see him fully transform into an adult wolf and run off into the mountains. Ame finds Hana and carries her to safety. She sees a vision of the children's father telling her that Yuki and Ame will find their own paths in life, and that she raised them well. While searching for Ame, Hana slips and falls off a cliff. He tells her he already knew, and promises to keep her secret. Yuki reveals her ability to Sōhei and confesses that it was really her who attacked him.

As Hana is about to leave to retrieve her, Ame disappears into the forest to help his dying fox teacher, and Hana follows him. Two years later, Yuki's school is let out early due to treacherous weather. They argue over whether they should attempt to adapt to human society or embrace their nature as wolves. Yuki tries to encourage Ame to begin attending school, which he refuses. At the meeting with their parents and teachers, Sōhei claims a wolf attacked him, absolving Yuki of the blame, and the two become friends. When he pursues the matter by cornering her, Yuki gets increasingly angry, leading her to transform into a wolf and inadvertently injuring his ear.

In fourth grade, Yuki's class receives a new transfer student, Sōhei, who realizes something is unusual about her. Meanwhile, Ame often skips school and becomes more interested in the forest and takes lessons from an elderly fox about survival in the wild. Yuki soon makes friends at school while Ame is bullied by his school peers. Yuki begs her mother to enroll her in a public school, and Hana accepts on the condition that Yuki keeps her wolf nature secret. Yuki rescues him, and Ame becomes more confident in his wolf abilities. One day, Ame almost drowns in a river while trying to hunt a kingfisher. With help from a strict old man named Nirasaki, she learns to farm sufficiently and befriends some of the locals. She works hard to repair a dilapidated house, but struggles to sustain the family on their own crops. After she receives noise complaints and a visit from social workers concerned that the children have not had vaccinations, Hana moves the family to the countryside away from prying neighbors. Hana's life as a single mother is difficult she has to hide the children as they constantly switch between their human and wolf forms, and they often get into fights.

Soon after Ame is born, their father is killed in an accident while hunting for food. They later have two children, a daughter named Yuki and a son named Ame. In Tokyo, college student Hana falls in love with an enigmatic man, who eventually reveals himself to be a werewolf. Funimation licenses the film for North America and Manga Entertainment handles UK rights. Wolf Children had its world premiere in Paris on June 25, 2012, and was released theatrically on July 21, 2012, in Japan. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995), designed the characters. Hosoda established Studio Chizu for production. The story's central theme is 'parent and child', depicting 13 years in the life of a young woman, Hana, who falls in love with a werewolf while in college, and following his death must raise the resulting half-wolf half-human siblings, Ame and Yuki, who grow and find their own paths in life. The second original feature film directed by Hosoda and the first work written by him, the film stars the voices of Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa and Haru Kuroki. 'Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki') is a 2012 Japanese anime drama film directed and co-written by Mamoru Hosoda. Wolf Children ( Japanese: おおかみこどもの雨と雪, Hepburn: Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki, lit.

Kid wolf movie