Wait, what? Shonen Mowgli?!

In 1989 an anime tv show entitled Shonen Mowgli was created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_J.....989_TV_series)

In the english version Bunto was named Grizzle

Huh, you can really learn something new everyday =O

We really do^^
And to give you an impression how the original Grizzle/Bunto looked like:

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Thank you very much. I have been discovering a bunch of new wolves and see familiar faces with your series =D

You are welcome.

Footpaw wraaaaps.

Because the costume design was a little bit inspired by those of the Breath of Fire franchise

S-Seems Breath of Fire is to thank for more explicit footpaw wrap design, or footpaw wear design somewhat. Besides other things.

hahaha this guy has a terrific angry expressiom I love XD

thanks much, sir.
Maybe he just saw how a fellow prisoner was receiving a chin scratch for being a good boy^^

With Akela from Shonen Mowgli being the first wolf to start the series, it's nice to see another wolf from the anime series making it to the list. Though he's a more villainous wolf he does have a sort of charm to him with his scarring and the missing ear. It seems like he's another whom became embittered and vengeful, wanting to be a part of the pack again after being outcast.

I imagine here that Mowgli after Bunto had declared he wouldn't give up had perhaps in that moment made a decision, striking him on the head with the stone knocking him unconscious rather than stabbing him in the throat. Bunto has regained consciousness now and seeing Mowgli is still defiant and angry, perhaps growling through his gag that Mowgli will regret not killing him.

Perhaps his own words would be spoken back to him, that his life had been spared and that while he's imprisoned for his crimes he does now have a chance to reflect, perhaps rediscover whom he once was. If he can then it could be that one day he will be freed and that if he's truly found it in him to reform, it's always possible he could find a place in the pack if others can forgive him.

I somehow have got a natural sense to like characters the most, who often find a tragic or grim end.
I like to imagine that if I capture them, they at least can keep their lives. Because as long as there is life, there is still some little hope for reformation.

Fun fact: Bunto´s german voice actor later on performed Tuk, the giant Grizzly in Disney´s Brother Bear and a little later he was the german voice of Darth Vader in the game series The force unleashed^^

Maybe Bunto would find that he received semiregular visits from Mowgli whom had considered for himself that with his decision to have spared Bunto had something of a responsibility for the wolf, maybe seeing if he could help him let go off the anger. If it took a few minutes of just showing no fear and more or less ignoring the snarls and growls and the bluster. Then being careful to avoid where they'd be the painful scar tissue, gently stroke the wolf under the chin or behind the ear, just for a minute. A gentle touch and a small show of affection might over time subdue Bunto's anger and maybe one day, Mowgli would see Bunto's tail just twitch slightly in the start of a wag.

that would be a future to look forward to^^

Bunto's end did seem a bit sad even with him having been a villain, so if all things are true in imagination and in Eternal's realm I'd imagine that was the fate for this version. Eventually though it might be a long time Bunto would have found inner peace and not be considered a threat, so he'd be free and just quietly live out the rest of his days at the edge of the pack's territory but when he did pass away he'd be buried alongside his ancestors.

That I would wish for him

I remember him ^^

A real charmer^^

Indeed ^^

There was very little reason to trust the intent of the mysterious and sinister rat, certainly not to believe that his intentions were in any way good. Captured, bound and placed in a dungeon apparently as part of some collection for a time, though supposedly he'd be released at some point. Naturally then he snarled in disbelief and anger at the mockery of the rat, that seemingly there was a magic in this place that could in time heal scars.

Physical scars not so much maybe, though the angry scar tissue pained him a little less and that phantom itch of his missing ear would bother him a little less. Seemingly though the anger and the hate might fade a little every day, once he began to begrudgingly accept each day feel the ruffling of fur under his chin, have his neck and chest fluffed and carefully stroked between his ears and hear the words 'good boy'.

As one of his fellow wolf captives had tried to warn him, those two words could have a powerful effect on even the most vicious of wolves.

a touch was never meant to be a luxury, it is a basic need.