The halls of Otogi Academy are populated with students who all resemble, however distantly, figures out of fairy tales and mythology. The Big Bad Wolf, for instance: she's the Okami-san of the show's title, a two-fisted girl with zero tolerance for bad boys. That means trouble when a boy ends up with a crush on her, and he's enlisted into the "Otogi Bank" where she also works.
The Otogi Bank is the school's underground welfare organization that helps out students in need, albeit at a cost. With a hapless new recruit under their belt, and Okami dishing out punches left and right, there's no telling what might happen.
Okami-san is not the first show to put a spin on, or re-use, mythological or fairy-tale archetypes. Two others come to mind that don't get enough attention. One is Otogi-zoshi, which uses a number of historical and mythological figures from Japan's distant past in a vast and complicated adventure story. The other is Requiem from the Darkness, which uses the yokai -- the spooky monsters of Japanese folklore, each with a story attached to it -- for inspiration.
Read our review of Okami-san to see how this show spins classic fairy tales into new, modern territory.
Image: Okami-san and her Seven Companions. Image courtesy Pricegrabber.
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