The first season of the anime aired in 2024.
The 2024 fantasy anime series “Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF” has revealed that the show’s second season will air sometime in 2027. A new teaser visual has been released as well.
Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF Season 2
Premiere window: 2027
Animation studio: Passione
Streaming platform: Crunchyroll
What do we know about Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF Season 2 so far?
The second season of the anime will air in 2027, three years after the first season premiered.
Takeo Takahashi and Hijiri Sanpei are the chief directors of Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF Season 2. Nobuyoshi Nagayama and Takahiro Majima are directing the anime at studio Passione. Koji Haneda and Rina Sugimoto will be designing the characters while Kevin Penkin returns to compose the music.
Other staff members for the second season includes:
- Colour Design: Tomoko Koyama
- Art Setting: Morihito Ōhara
- Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue
- Director of Photography: Yuki Okada
- Editor: Ayako Tan
Jun Fukuyama and Ami Koshimizu will return to their main roles as Lawrence and Holo.
Crunchyroll streamed the first season of the anime and describes the story as:
Lawrence is a traveling merchant selling various goods from a horse-drawn cart. One day, he arrives at a village and meets 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-lonely wisewolf begin their journey north.
What is Spice and Wolf about?
The anime is based on the Spice and Wolf light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura and illustrated by Jū Ayakura. It began publishing in 2006 by ASCII Media Works and has 24 volumes so far. The 25th volume will ship on 9 October. It also has a manga adaptation by Kaito Koume. The series also received an anime adaptation in 2008, making the 2024 series a readaptation.
Yen Press publishes the light novel series in English and describes the story as:
The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine—that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of “Holo the Wisewolf” to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame?