Half Moon Chronicles

Content warnings.:  Cartoon Blood and Gore, Physical Violence, Implied Death, Death, Abuse (Verbal, Emotional), Epilepsy Warning (Rapid Flashing Imagery. (Episode ten.)).

Overview
Half Moon Chronicles is an original animated series created by RobinRavenSky and released on Youtube in episode format. The series features a cast of feral wolf characters in a naturalistic setting. Backgrounds in the series often switch between being hand drawn and using actual photographs. Episodes of the series average between five to nine minutes in length. The longest episode of the series is episode five titled ‘Outsiders’ at just under ten minutes in length. The shortest episode of the series is episode two titled ‘Lost’ with a run time of five minutes twenty eight seconds.

The series was first released on August 29th 2009 with the episode titled ‘Prologue’. Episodes of Half Moon Chronicles continued to be released at semi regular intervals between summer of 2009 to summer of 2013. The series completed its first full season of twelve episodes on January 2nd 2013 and on June 15th 2013 the first episode of season two titled ‘A Friend in Need’ was released. This would be the final episode of the series.

On September 10th 2013, Robin uploaded a video titled ‘We Need to Talk about HMC [IMPORTANT PLEASE WATCH]’ and a journal on her DeviantART page with a title of a similar nature. In both Robin explained that she would not only be stopping Half Moon Chronicles but animating entirely. Robin explained that while this was an extremely difficult decision for her to make she felt it was very necessary. While she was very thankful for all the support received over the years the production. The series had ultimately gone from being a fun hobby to a stressful commitment. The stress she’d felt over Half Moon Chronicles teamed with being diagnosed with social and generalized anxiety had severely impacted her mental and emotional health and regretfully felt it was best to cancel the series.

Plot
After venturing off despite their caretaker Lazura’s warnings, wolf pups Thralia and Karrom are separated. After playing on a frozen river, Thralia finds herself on the opposite side in an unfamiliar territory after the ice unexpectedly breaks. Meanwhile her brother Karrom is dragged by the river far beyond Thralia’s view while their caretaker Lazura finds herself being chased from her territory by a group of mysterious and aggressive wolves. Thralia chases after Karrom in an attempt to find where the river might have taken him. Soon she runs into a group of wolves and is led to their pack. There she learns of another pack of wolves called Dark Night. A pack of absolutely vicious and evil wolves but strangely as Thralia’s new friends describe the pack, Thralia finds herself feeling as if she’s not only seen but experienced this pack before.

Characters
The main character of Half Moon Chronicles appears to be Thralia. However the story does contain a larger cast of characters such as Lazura, Karrom, Ruva, Cody, Flint, Tira, Ryker, Misty, Fura, Scree, Sorn, and Kiatara.

Links
Youtube.