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In the movie **Wolf Children** , Yuki is one of the two wolf children who's
very temperamental and kind of a tomboy. When they move out to the rural
village Hana, the mother, makes her kids promise not to change into a wolf in
front of other people. But shortly after there is a scene when there were
guests from the village over and Yuki keeps changing between a little girl and
a dog in front of the guests:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sAFE2.png)

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpPpj.png)

This happened right in front of the two guests but they didn't say anything.
Did the townspeople already know that Yuki and Ami were wolves but didn't say
anything to be nice?

> Souhei from school was able to figure it out. Saying that she smelled of an
> animal.


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Did all the townsfolk know that Yuki is a wolf?


Probably no.

Nothing in the movie tells us that the people knew but decided to say nothing.
If this was the case, I think there would be more details in the movie telling
it.

Furthermore, if you imagine normal people, thinking that someone can transform
into a wolf is not the first idea you will get. So even if you see a dog with
some cloth just after seeing a little girl with similar clothes, you are not
going to think "hey, the girl transformed into a dog/wolf !" or if you
think/say it, it's only to make a joke, because you cannot imagine it to be
true.

The goal of this scene is to give the spectator this feeling of "it was so
close, the townsfolk nearly discovered the truth" which makes it a funny
scene. Also, it explains that being the mother of such children is no easy,
because there are probably many times when someone was nearly about to
discover the truth.


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