by There are also expectations for parts that should have been depicted in previous anime.
Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf, which finished airing on September 24th, has announced that a sequel will be produced at the same time as the final episode. The series is based on the light novel of the same name by Isuna Hasekura and depicts the journey of traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence (CV: Jun Fukuyama) and wise wolf Holo (CV: Ami Koshimizu).
The series was also made into an anime in 2008 as Spice and Wolf, and a sequel, Spice and Wolf II was produced in 2009. The old series skipped volume 4 of the original and made the story from volumes 1 to 5 into a film with some changes. In contrast, the work broadcast this time is a new anime version that restarts from volume 1 of the original and depicts a story that is more faithful to the original, including volume 4, which was skipped in the old series.
However, the remade story up to the third volume of the original has many parts that overlap with the old series, so viewers’ opinions were divided. The sequel to the new anime version is expected to continue the story from the fifth volume of the original, which was not depicted in the old series. Viewers have expressed their expectations for the story that has not been shown in the anime, saying, “I’m happy to see a story I don’t know,” and “If there is no sequel, there is no point in remaking it.”
In the C part of the final episode, a brown-haired woman who speaks in a tone similar to Holo recounts the journey that has been depicted as a folk tale to a silver-haired girl. The girl’s appearance is reminiscent of Holo, who appears in the sequel to the original novel, “Spice and Wolf: Wolf and Parchment,” and Lawrence’s only daughter, “Myuri.”
Voices hope that the sequel, “Parchment,” will be made into a movie in the second season of the new anime version, not only up to the final volume of the original work. Other sequels announced for the summer anime include “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” and “Kinnikuman: The Perfect Superhuman Ancestor Arc.” Although the broadcast dates for some of the works have yet to be revealed, we are looking forward to seeing what kind of stories will be depicted.
