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#Spice and wolf manga series#

When he was twelve, he became an apprentice to a merchant relative, and set out on his own at eighteen. Michael Tatum (English) Kraft Lawrence, who chiefly goes by 'Lawrence', is a 25-year-old traveling merchant who goes from town to town buying and selling various things in order to make a living. As they travel, her wisdom helps increase his profits, but at the same time, her true nature draws unwanted attention from the Church.Ĭharacters Kraft Lawrence ( クラフト・ロレンス, Kurafuto Rorensu) Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese) J. She manages to bargain her way out of the village by making a deal with Lawrence to take her with him. Holo also wants to travel to see how the world has changed while she has remained in one place for many years. Because of these changes, she wants to go back to her homeland in the north called Yoitsu she believes the people have already forsaken her and that she has kept her promise to maintain the good harvests. She is especially hurt at their forgetting of the promise made between her and a farmer when she arrived in the village and their criticism of her as a 'fickle god' for needing to replenish the soil with smaller harvests. Holo has experienced increasing isolation and disillusionment at the townpeople's move away from her protection towards their own methods of increasing the harvest.

She introduces herself as the town's goddess of harvest, who has kept it blessed with good harvests of wheat for many years. She takes the form of a 15-year-old girl, except for a wolf's tail and ears. One night when stopped at the town of Pasloe, he finds in his wagon a wolf-deity named Holo who is over 600 years old.

His main goal in life is to gather enough money to start his own shop, and he already has been traveling for seven years while gaining experience in the trade. Spice and Wolf's story revolves around Kraft Lawrence, a 25-year-old traveling merchant who peddles various goods from town to town to make a living in a stylized, fictional world, with a historical setting with European influences.

#Spice and wolf manga series#

A new anime television series adaptation is set to premiere in 2024. Two visual novels based on the series for the Nintendo DS were released by ASCII Media Works in June 2008 and September 2009. Both anime seasons were released in English by Kadokawa Pictures USA and Funimation. A second OVA was released in April 2009 as a prequel to the second anime season Spice and Wolf II, which aired 12 episodes between July and September 2009.

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A 12-episode anime adaptation aired between January and March 2008, plus a single original video animation (OVA) episode released in May 2008. The manga was licensed by Yen Press, which has begun releasing the volumes in English. ASCII Media Works has published five volumes of a spin-off light novel series titled Wolf and Parchment since September 2016.Ī manga adaptation illustrated by Keito Koume began serialization in the November 2007 issue of ASCII Media Works' seinen manga magazine Dengeki Maoh.

Yen Press licensed the light novels and is releasing them in English in North America. The series has been called a 'unique fantasy' by Mainichi Shimbun due to the plot focusing on economics, trade, and peddling rather than the typical staples of fantasy such as swords and magic. ASCII Media Works reported that as of October 2008, over 2.2 million copies of the first nine novels have been sold in Japan. ASCII Media Works has published 24 novels since February 2006 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. Spice and Wolf ( 狼と香辛料, Ōkami to Kōshinryō) is a Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura, with illustrations by Jū Ayakura.

Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf