Spice & Wolf: Service provider Meets the Sensible Wolf Anime Debuts April 1 – Information

The official web site for the brand new Ōkami to Kōshinryō: Service provider Meets the Sensible Wolf (Spice & Wolf: service provider meets the clever wolf) tv anime based mostly on creator Isuna Hasekura‘S Herb & Wolf gentle novel sequence revealed on Monday that the anime will debut on April 1. The anime debuts on TV Tokyo, TVOsakaAnd TV Aichi on April 1 at 10:30 PM (successfully April 2 at 1:30 AM). The present can also be broadcast BS TV Tokyo And AT-X.

The positioning additionally unveiled a brand new “cherry blossom” visible on March 1.

The anime might be a very new sequence, telling the story of Kraft Lawrence and his encounter with the wolf lady Holo. Jun Fukuyama returns as Kraft Lawrence, and Ami Koshimizu returns as Holo.

Takeo Takahashi returns to the franchise, this time as lead director. Hijiri Sanpei (Herb and Wolf II episode director) directs the anime within the studio Ardour. Kevin Penkin (Made within the abyss, Tower of God, The rise of the defend hero) composes the music. ENISHIYA produces the sequence.

Yen Press publishes the novels in English and describes the sequence:

The lifetime of a touring service provider is a lonely one, a truth with which Kraft Lawrence is properly acquainted. Wandering from city to city with solely his horse, cart, and no matter else he finds, the peddler has settled into his routine fairly properly—that’s, till the evening Lawrence finds a wolf goddess sleeping in his cart. Holo takes the shape of a beautiful lady with wolf ears and a tail and is uninterested in tending crops within the countryside. He makes a cope with the service provider to lend him the crafty of ‘Holo the Sensible Wolf’ to extend his income in trade for her becoming a member of him on his travels. What sort of businessman may flip down such a proposal? Nevertheless, Lawrence quickly discovers that having an historical goddess as a touring companion could be a combined blessing. Will this wolf lady show too wild to tame?

Hasekura launched the Herb and Wolf new sequence with illustrations of Ju Ayaku in 2006. The novels took a hiatus after the seventeenth quantity in 2011, returning with the 18th quantity in 2016. The twenty fourth and ultimate quantity shipped in January 2023. Yen Press printed the twenty fourth novel in North America in August and can also be publishing the manga adaptation. Hasekura began a spin-off sequence, Wolf & Parchment: New Principle Spice & WolfApril 2016. Yen Press additionally releases the spin-off sequence in English, in addition to its manga adaptation.

The novels additionally impressed two TV anime seasons from the director Takeo Takahashi and screenwriter Naruhisa Arakawa. The primary season aired in Japan from January to March 2008, and the second season (Herb and Wolf II) from July to September 2009. Funimation launched each seasons on dwelling video.

A digital actuality anime adopted the tv anime and debuted for Oculus Rift in June 2019, HTC VIVE and Oculus Go version. A sequel debuted in December 2020.

Sources: Ōkami to Kōshinryō: Service provider Meets the Sensible Wolf anime web site, Comedian Natalie