The Hunters Guild: Red Hood Review

Everyone know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and everyone may even know the tale of Stubbe Peter, an early werewolf. Both of those are brought together here in this title from one of Kohei Horikoshi (of My Hero Academia fame)’s former assistants – The Hunters’ Guild: Red Hood is a shounen action series rooted in werewolf lore and the fairy tale known as ATU333.

It’s certainly a combination that makes sense – over the years, Red’s story has evolved and been tinkered with to make her a much more active (and at times less active) character, and the earliest European variants make it clear that the wolf is, in fact, a werewolf. Both werewolves and LRRH also lend themselves surprisingly easily to the shounen action formula.

The use of folklore – and one excellent last page plot twist – help this to stand on its own two feet. If you don’t care for shounen action, this still may not work for you, but between the Seussian werewolf designs and the nods to various fairy tales, this is an interesting start to a series that could be a lot of fun. Props to Viz Media for the review copy.