Fans of the Isuna Hasekura's Spice and Wolf novel series and anime are in luck! A new anime project for the novel series has been announced. The announcement from publishing imprint Dengeki Bunko comes just as the series celebrates its 15th anniversary. The series' creators have also released a visual and a teaser. Writer Isuna Hasekura originally submitted the novel at the Dengeki Novel Prize in 2005, winning him the Silver Prize.
ASCII Media Works has published 23 novels since February 2006 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint, featuring illustrations by Juu Ayakura. Ookami to Koushinryou AKA Spice and Wolf has a cumulative 5 million copies of its volumes in print. Hasekura launched the spin-off light novel Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf (Shinsetsu Ookami to Koushinryou: Ookami to Youhishi) in September 2016. The sixth volume shipped last March
Check out the latest visual for the upcoming anime project and more information about the project below:
The first anime adaptation of the Spice and Wolf novel series, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered in Winter 2008. An original video anime followed the series in April. Furthermore, Brain's Base and Marvy Jack produced a second anime season in Summer 2009. Take a look at a teaser visual and the plot for the series below.
My Anime List describes the Spice and Wolf series as:
"A young traveling merchant, Kraft Lawrence has become accustomed to days of roaming and trading, with few companions. Or so it was until one peculiar day where the trader finds a young, naked, wolf-like girl asleep in his wagon.
The beautiful girl, calling herself Holo, claims to be a local wolf deity worshipped by locals as the God of Good Harvest. Year after year, she ensured they would reap a good harvest, but she has since grown tired of fulfilling the wishes of the ungrateful locals.
Holo ends up striking a deal with Kraft: if he helps her escape the villagers, she will gladly help him in his merchant endeavors. Together, they roam from town to town in search of business, and Kraft realizes both the ups and downs of traveling with a haughty and shrewd wolf goddess."
Check out a teaser visual for Spice and Wolf below:
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