Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料, Ōkami to Kōshinryō) is a Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura and illustrated by Juu Ayakura. The series has also been adapted into a Manga series, two anime series—one adapted in 2008 and one in 2024, and multiple games.
The pivotal characters of the series are Kraft Lawrence, a Traveling Merchant, and Holo, a wolf incarnate worshiped as the small village Pasloe's harvest goddess.
The title of the series is derived from Gold and Spices[1], a book regarding medieval merchants and economics Isuna Hasekura read, which can be alternatively translated as Spice and Gold. Lawrence choosing spice as a means of payment following the Medio Trading Company Scheme[2] was likely envisioned by Hasekura to connect the plot to the title of the series.
On some occasions, especially in early media adaptations[3] and Merchandise[4], the title is translated as Merchant meats spicy wolf. This seeming mistranslation has been vaguely addressed by Hasekura [5] and does not appear in media or merchandise for the 2024 adaptation.
This page serves to concisely organise all series information related to Spice and Wolf. The original 2006 light novel series by Isuna Hasekura and every subsequent series, noting the differences between each, and linking to the correlating page.
Plot should also be summarised here.
This is user-facing page, for the more technical equivalent see Category:Series or Category:Media
- ↑ A 2007 interview with Isuna Hasekura titled 「特集 狼と香辛料」
- ↑ Need a page/plot point made somewhere regarding this
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- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080112084315/http://blog.mediaworks.co.jp/spicy-wolf/2008/01/tv.html