#Spice and Wolf To Premiere in April

The new Spice and Wolf anime will begin airing in Japan in April 2024. The announcement was accompanied by the release of a New Year visual of Holo, which is part of a monthly series of season-themed visuals  that began in August 2023.

Spice and Wolf is based on the Dengeki Bunko light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura and illustrated by Juu Ayakura. The books began in 2006 and have 24 volumes as of January 2023. Amazon describes the plot 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?

The previous anime adaptation of Spice and Wolf premiered in 2008 and was followed by a second season in 2009.

• Chief director: Takeo Takahashi (Spice and Wolf Season 1 and 2 director)
• Director: Hijiri Sanpei (Yuri is My Job!)
• Music composer: Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss) 
• Animation production: Passione

Cast

• Ami Koshimizu as Holo
•Jun Fukuyama as Kraft Lawrence