TV Series · 2003 · TV Series · 2000s
Wolf's Rain
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
In a dying future world where wolves are believed to have been extinct for two centuries, a white wolf called Kiba arrives in the slum of Freeze City, drawn by the scent of the lunar flower. Wolves have in fact survived by cloaking themselves in human form, and Kiba falls in with three others: the scarred loner Tsume, the easygoing Hige and the young Toboe. They search for Cheza, a girl grown from lunar flowers who is said to open the way to Paradise, while the old wolf hunter Quent Yaiden and the noble Darcia pursue her for their own ends. This science-fantasy anime series from Studio Bones, written by Keiko Nobumoto and scored by Yoko Kanno, follows the pack across frozen wastes and decaying cities.
Wolf's Rain is a 2003 action, adventure and animation television series. Episodes run about 24m. Its country of origin is listed as Japan. It plays in Japanese. Its certificate is TV-14.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2 of whom clear the calibration test. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 29 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 29 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Wolf's Rain lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 29.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
