Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf has been renewed for season 2. The key visual for the announcement shows Holo pulling on Lawrence’s hand while the text at the side reads that their journey will continue.
There is virtually no information on Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf season 2, as production likely just started. However, this means that the new Spice and Wolf will finally adapt content that’s new for anime-only fans. The first season already did so. After following along with the original 2008 anime for most of its run, it deviated to adapt Volume 4 of the original light novels. The 2008 version skipped that one. If Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf continues to follow along the light novels, then it’ll be a definitive anime adaptation of the original series.
Back when Spice and Wolf first aired, fillers in anime were a lot more common than today. Fillers were necessary not only to pad out time for the mangaka to create more content to adapt, but also to end shows when the manga was still going. Soul Eater and Fullmetal Alchemist come to mind. Anime adaptations could also be much more derivative, like with the first Hunter x Hunter and Shaman King shows, compared to today. The 2008 version of Spice and Wolf was in a similar boat. Which type of adaptation people prefer is completely up to personal taste.
Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf season 2 is in production. You can catch the first season on Crunchyroll.
Published: Sep 23, 2024 06:30 pm