New Spice and Wolf anime project Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf has announced that Mai Nakahara will reprise her role as Norah Arendt from the original anime. The new project is a reboot and will be animated by Passione. The main cast of the original anime will also return and the anime will premiere on April 1. Norah’s character image has been released.
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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.
Crunchyroll will air Spice and Wolf: the merchant meets the wise wolf as part of their Spring 2024 anime lineup, and they describe the story: Lawrence is a traveling merchant who sells various goods from a horse wagon. One day, he went to a village and met a beautiful girl with the ears and tail of an animal! Her name is Holo the Wisewolf and she brings bountiful harvests. She wishes to return to her homeland and Lawrence offers to take her. Now the once lonely merchant and the once wise wolf begin their journey north.
Source: Official website©️ 2022 Isuna Hasekura, Jyuu Ayakura/ KADOKAWA / Rowen Trading Guild