Spice and Wolf

Can't think....

Sooo fluffy....

NO! FOCUS!

So anyway, Spice and Wolf is an anime show. I have just watched the first season, which consists of 13 episodes. It has been renewed for a second season, which is supposed to air this Summer in Japan. We English speaking folks can expect subtitled versions sometime after that. Probably not too long.

So anyway, the show follows a merchant named Craft Lawrence, who travels all over the place messing with people in order to make money. One night, he finds a naked girl sleeping among the furs in the back of his wagon.

Now, why he objects to this is completely beyond me, but he does, and as he tries to wake her, he notices she has ears and a tail. A big fluffy, huggable tail that I want to stick my face in.

NO! FOCUS!

This girl turns out to be Horo, the Wise Wolf, who is the goddess of the harvest, or the wheat, or something. Honestly, I was distracted by the tail, and might have missed a few lines of dialogue. After she steals some of his jerky and eats it, he asks to see her real form, and then I'm not even sure what happens, but he gets knocked out or something. Horo appears naked in the show many times, but its never explicit, and she doesn't have any nipples.

So anyway, some more stuff happens, and she ends up accompanying him on his journeys to sell stuff. And he finds that a cute girl is a good way to throw shopkeepers off guard and get them to sell things unreasonably cheap.

The show is undeniably slow paced, and yet, for some reason, incredibly riveting. The tail is certainly part of it, but it alone cannot explain why I found myself so glued to the show, episode after episode. There are moments of intense action and conflict, but honestly, they are few and far between, and much of the show is driven by dialogue.

Twice in the first season, Horo turns into a huge fucking red wolf and kicks total ass, which more than makes up for the overall slow pace of the show.

The Bottom Line: Excellent anime, but I'm not sure why its so good. And be careful if you Google it. There are a lot of Horo pronz out there on the interwebs.