Two-cour season is wonderful news.
Summary:
- The Spice and Wolf remake has started airing.
- Season 1 digital copies announced; the season is listed for 25 episodes.
- The missing story part in the original anime will be animated this year.
Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf) has just started airing, and there’s already some exciting news. The remake is going to have a two-cour season, as it’s listed for 25 episodes.
Twenty Five Episodes
The official website for the anime adaptation announced Season 1 Blu-ray/DVD copies of the remake. The digital release is scheduled for December 18, 2024, in Japan. And it’s been officially confirmed that the season will have 25 episodes.
The original anime had 13 episodes for Season 1 and 12 episodes for Season 2, so this time it’ll take just one season to cover this much of the story.
However, the original adaptation skipped Volume 4 of the light novels, and the remake has promised to fix this mistake, that’s why fans are hoping to see this part of the story animated this year.
Full Adaptation?
The beginning of Episode 1 of the Spice and Wolf remake makes fans think that this time the entire story will be adapted into anime, that’s why it’s fair to suggest that Volume 4 will indeed get animated. There’s a certain character that was introduced in this part of the story that will be important later.
On top of that, a lot of fans say that Volume 4 is one of their favorites, so they’re very eager to finally see it in the remake this year. The only bad news is that viewers are predicting that the season will end with this volume, so there’ll be some waiting before we see Volume 5 animated again.
The news of Spice and Wolf having two cours is nothing but exciting because fans needed an anime to fill the void Frieren left in their hearts, and the remake looks exactly like the series to do that.
25 Episodes mean that the series will finish airing at the end of the summer (if there aren’t any breaks), so you may sleep well knowing that the anime will be around for a long time.
Whether we’ll have Season 2 or not depends on the fans entirely because series need to be successful for the sequels to come out. That’s why fans of the original anime think it’s so important to pre-order or buy Blu-ray/DVD copies.
The Spice and Wolf remake is the hope that the fandom has been so eagerly waiting for. It’s the chance for the series to finally get a proper and full anime adaptation, and everyone wants that.
That’s why the Spice and Wolf veterans are ready to fight for the series and make Season 2 (and possibly more) a reality.