![]() ![]() Although Lawrence rarely shows different facial expressions, he truly cares for Holo. As the series progresses, both Lawrence and Holo demonstrate a growing affection toward each other. She helps him by providing her wisdom which helps to increase his profits and get him out of jams. He meets Holo one night and eventually agrees to her traveling with him. His goal in life is to gather enough money to start his own shop, and he has already been traveling for seven years while gaining experience in the trade. 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 his surname, is a 25-year-old traveling merchant who goes from town to town buying and selling various things in order to make a living. Kraft Lawrence ( クラフト・ロレンス Kurafuto Rorensu ?) Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), J. As they travel, her wisdom helps increase his profits, but at the same time, her true nature draws unwanted attention from the church. She manages to bargain her way out of the village by making a deal with Lawrence to take her with him. Holo wants also to travel to see how the world has changed while she has remained in one place for years. Despite her responsibility to watch over the town, 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 introduces herself as the town's goddess of harvest, who has kept it blessed with good harvests of wheat for many years. She appears to be 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 pagan wolf-deity girl 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 historical setting with European influences. Two visual novels based on the series for the Nintendo DS were released by ASCII Media Works in June 2008 and September 2009. ![]() The first anime season was released in English by Kadokawa Pictures USA and Funimation, which will also release the second series. ![]() 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. 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. 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 are 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. The first novel was released in February 2006, and as of September 2010, 15 volumes have been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. Wolf and Spice) is a Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura, with illustrations by Jū Ayakura. Spice and Wolf ( 狼と香辛料 Ōkami to Kōshinryō ?, lit. ![]()
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