8.022 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestAs night falls, Evan summons the rest of the Wild Hunt as they prepare to return home. Wanting to bring Gabriel with him to free him from his frail body, Evan hypnotizes Gabriel into riding with him, intending to take him to their realm. Chise and Elias give chase, but have trouble getting close to the Wild Hunt due to their aura. Gabriel tells Evan that while he does value their friendship, he does want to return home. Evan allows him to dismount and return to the human world. The Wild Hunt return to their own realm, and Elias and Chise take Gabriel back to his home. Chise receives her new school uniform, and she wonders what the College is like.
Gabriel, an ordinary boy who has just moved from London to the countryside, is bored and misses the friends he left behind. He gazed out the window, as if wanting to escape from it all... until something strange caught his attention: mysterious smoke rising from the woods near his house. As he follows it to investigate, his world becomes intertwined with the hidden world of mages.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a storybook illustration breathed to life
Score
Junichi Matsumoto's strings will wreck you gently
Writing
Kore Yamazaki understands lonely children with painful precision
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The OVA adapts a manga side story but was produced with original anime-only scenes to deepen Gabriel and Evan's relationship, reflecting how BL-adjacent subtext has become more explicit in modern shounen-adjacent works.
Evan's design deliberately echoes classic Victorian fairy paintings — particularly the 'fairy funeral' motif — foreshadowing his fate before he even speaks.
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