It’s happening!
The official Japanese website of the Spice and Wolf franchise has confirmed that a second television anime season has been green-lit. Director Takeo Takahashi and screenplay writer Naruhisa Arakawa will return for Spice and Wolf II. However, Toshimitsu Kobayashi (El Hazard: The Alternative World, Fate/stay night) will replace Kazuya Kuroda as the character designer and chief animation director. Likewise, the Brain’s Base studio (MazinKaiser, The Boy Who Saw the Wind) will be animating instead of IMAGIN. The anime adapts Isuna Hasekura and Jū Ayakura’s acclaimed novel series that …

-first of all Yen Press has licensed SPICE AND WOLF novels yeah! yeah! yeah!
-Viz will have new japanese SF novels line . “It’s a Japanese science fiction imprint that is spearheaded by one of our editors here and is a wholly separate imprint. The name Haikasoru is a kind of Japanified version of ‘high castle.’ It’s a veiled homage to Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle which is set in an alternate world where Japan colonizes the west coast of the U.S. It’s pretty traditional science fiction. …

Spice and Wolf began it’s life as a series of Light Novels written by Isuna Hasekura and illustrated by Jū Ayakura. The first volume won Silver Prize in Dengeki Annual Novel Contest.

story synopsis
Spice and Wolf’s story revolves around Craft Lawrence, a young traveling merchant, who dedicated his life to a dream of one day saving up enough money to open up his own shop. That is until he meets Horo; a 600 years old wolf deity, who for centuries blessed harvests of wheat in local village. Since she feels no …