The latest monthly visuals of the new Spice and Wolf anime have been released to celebrate the upcoming Christmas season in December. The anime is scheduled to air in 2024.
The image shows Holo dressed as Santa Claus riding a sleigh and reindeer at night.
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Takeo Takahashi (Spice and Wolf Season 1 and 2) is the series’ main director, with Hijiri Sanpei (Yuri is My Job!) serving as series director, and Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss) composing the music. . Passione is in charge of producing the animation.
Ami Koshimizu and Jun Fukuyama will take on the roles of Holo and Kraft Lawrence in the new Spice and Wolf anime.
The anime is based on the light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura and illustrated by Juu Ayakura, which was first published under Kadokawa’s Dengeki Bunko imprint on February 10, 2006. A total of 24 volumes were released in form on In January 2023, Yen Press released both the light novel and manga adaptation in English.
A sequel to the light novel series titled Wolf and Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf, focusing on Holo and Lawrence’s daughter Myuri, was published on September 10, 2016. Nine volumes have been released. as of July 2023 A manga adaptation of Hidori’s spinoff series launched in 2019. Yen Press also published both series in English.
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The previous anime adaptation aired its first season in 2008, with a second season following in 2009.
Crunchyroll has licensed the series and will stream it under the title Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf. It briefly describes it as follows:
Lawrence was a traveling merchant selling various goods from a horse-drawn carriage. 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 merchant and the once wise wolf began their journey north.