The new Spice and Wolf anime project has revealed its second trailer ahead of its April 2024 release date. The new project is a reboot and will be animated by Passione. The main cast of the original anime will return and will premiere in 2024. Check out the new trailer below:
Spice and Wolf: businessman meets wise wolf – 2nd trailer New anime
The full name of the new project is Spice and Wolf: the merchant meets the wise wolf. Takeo Takahashi is the main director, Hijiri Sanpei directs, Kevin Penkin is in charge of music.
The first Spice and Wolf anime was animated by studio Imagin and aired during the Winter 2008 anime season with 12 episodes. It received an OVA episode in May of the same year. The second OVA was released in May 2009, and the studio’s 12-episode second season Marvy Jack and Brain’s Base aired that summer.
Spice and Wolf is based on the Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura and illustrated by Jyuu Ayakura. ASCII Media Works published it from 2006 to 2019. The light novel has a total of 22 volumes. A manga adaptation by Keito Koume ran from September 2007 to December 2017. A sequel novel titled Wolf and Parchment written by Hasekura and illustrated by Hidori is in the works. Yen Press licensed both the original series and the sequel and they describe the story:
The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is all too familiar. Wandering from town to town with only his horse, cart and whatever brought him, the peddler had settled into his routine pretty well – that is, until the night Lawrence found a The wolf goddess is sleeping in her car. Taking the form of a seductive girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo grew tired of harvesting in the countryside and made a deal with the merchant to lend him the cunning of “Holo the Wisewolf” to increase his profits in exchange. Take her along on your trip. What kind of businessman can refuse such an offer? However, Lawrence soon realizes that having an ancient goddess as his companion may be a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl become too wild to be tamed?
Nguồn: TOHO Animation YouTube©️ 2022 Isuna Hasekura, Jyuu Ayakura/ KADOKAWA / Rowen Trading Guild
