Howl of Gray Wolf

HoGW
Title	Howl of Gray Wolf
Genre	Fanfiction, Fantasy
Starting Date	1999 - 2000; 2009
Chapters	(1st ver) 14 (2nd ver) Ongoing

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Howl of Gray Wolf, abbreviated as HoGW, is MGW's first Monster Rancher fanfiction and the first story in her "Hero Mon Series".

Production

About Game

In the year of 1997, the video game series 'Monster Rancher' (Monster Farm in Japan, モンスターファー; Monsutā Fāmu), also MR or MF, began on Playstation.

'Monster Rancher' (Monster Farm in Japan, モンスターファー; Monsutā Fāmu), also called MR or MF, is a series of life simulation video games created by TECMO. The first game was released for the Playstation in 1997. In the game, the player takes the role of a licensed monster tamer tasked to live on a ranch, raise various monster races to participate in tournaments, and raise trainer rank.

The monsters vary in character, from peaceful and tolerate towards their trainers, to violent in nature and difficult to raise. Raising routines differ and trainers can either spoil their monster friend or abuse them up to the point where they won't listen to you. Also, there are some unlockables or secret monsters (ie: Centuar, Dragon, Henger, Phoinex etc). Couple years later after the first game, the sequel AND the animated series came out.

Story and Revision

Inspired by the anime, MGW began her fanfic series with "Howl of Gray Wolf" in 1999. She had little contemplation when it came to storyline. The plot was very linear, mostly about vengeance, battle, and tight friendships. The characters differed but their goals were similar: To unite and kill the main antagonist and those who stood by him. In 2009, MGW decided to remake Howl of the Gray Wolf.

Story & Characters

Angry GW in the MR anime.

Main article: List of chapters of Howl of Gray Wolf

Main article: List of Hero Mon Series characters

The story starts in the year of 804 AP or After Pangaea. The main character Gray Wolf, a Tiger superbreed, is the leader of a wild pack who is searching for disk stones to expand his family. Sometime after finding one, he and his pack are chased into a mountain shrine by a group of dinos. They manage to shake the dinos and unlock the disk stone, which contained a cheerful purebreed Tiger. Before they could make a clear escape, the pack encountered a dragon, a former champion of the Breeder League, who commanded the dinos to destroy the pack and take the Tiger stone. Gray Wolf try to hold him off while the others escape with Tiger, but ultimately the entire pack are caught up and forced into a difficult battle. Gray's packmates are killed and Gray, unforgiving towards the dragon and hearing rumors about how monsters are going insane across the world, sets out on a journey for revenge.

Characters from Monster Rancher 1 and 2, and the Advance games appear in the story. Majority of the monsters would contain their names from Monster Rancher 2.

Setting

Main article: FIMBA & IMa

Howl of Gray Wolf is set on a world similar to Earth but with two continents each with an established monster breeder association.

See Also

• Tiger of Freedom (Sequel)
• Master Gray Wolf (Author)

External Links/References

• Monster Rancher Metropolis
• Tecmo.jp: Monster FARM Channel (Japanese)
• MR2: Monster List & Description
• Monster Rancher Advance 1: Monsters (Japanese)
• Monster Rancher Advance 2: Monsters (Japanese)
• MR keywords on NicoDouga (Japanese)
• モンスターファーム2@まとめwiki (Japanese)