Ookami to Koushinryou
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Synonyms: Okami to Koshinryo, Spice and Wolf
Japanese: 狼と香辛料
English: Spice & Wolf
French: Spice & Wolf
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Type: Light Novel
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Feb 10, 2006 to ?
Genres: Adventure Adventure, Drama Drama, Fantasy Fantasy, Romance Romance, Supernatural Supernatural
Themes: Adult Cast Adult Cast, Historical Historical
Serialization: None
Authors: Hasekura, Isuna (Story), Ayakura, Juu (Art)

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Score: 8.811 (scored by 1727517,275 users)
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Ranked: #422
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Popularity: #252
Members: 70,707
Favorites: 4,255

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A young traveling merchant, Kraft Lawrence, has become accustomed to days of roaming and trading with few companions. Or so it was until one peculiar day when the trader finds a young, naked, wolf-like girl asleep in his wagon.

The beautiful girl, calling herself Holo, claims to be a local wolf deity worshipped by locals as the God of Good Harvest. Year after year, she ensured they would reap a good harvest, but she has since grown tired of fulfilling the wishes of the ungrateful locals.

Holo ends up striking a deal with Lawrence: if he helps her escape the villagers, she will gladly help him in his merchant endeavors. Together, they roam from town to town in search of business, and Lawrence realizes both the ups and downs of traveling with a haughty and shrewd wolf goddess.

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Background

Ookami to Koushinryou placed first in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! for the Best Light Novel category in 2007.

Ookami to Koushinryou: Spring Log, a short stories sequel to the main series written on the 10th anniversary since Hasekura Isuna's debut, is the first part of the Ookami to Koushinryou & Hasekura Isuna 10th Anniversary project.

The series was published in English as Spice & Wolf by Yen Press from December 15, 2009, to April 19, 2016. A complete Anniversary Collector's Edition omnibus compiling the first 17 volumes was released on October 4, 2016. It has also been published in Russian by Istari Comics since June 2017.
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Dec 10, 2025
spicewo
Recommended
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Spice and Wolf is, without a doubt, one of the most brilliant and unique light novels written in recent decades. From the very first volume, Isuna Hasekura achieves something that seemed impossible: turning a medieval economics treatise disguised as fantasy into one of the most beautiful, profound, and moving romances in the genre.The premise is as simple as it is genius: Kraft Lawrence, a 25-year-old traveling merchant, and Holo, the centuries-old wolf goddess of the harvest, set off together on a journey through a world inspired by medieval Europe. What could have been a typical fantasy adventure quickly transforms into a delicate dance of wit, ...
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Nov 10, 2025
Desmascarado
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Preliminary (1/? eps)
Overview: Spice and Wolf is a magnificent light novel in what it sets out to do. It has a well-developed dynamic about economics in the medieval period and a wonderfully captivating dynamic between the main characters.

Story: The story is fantastically beautiful and simple. A merchant who carries a wolf goddess with him, and together, amidst situations of profit and loss, their romance is as warm as wine and as light as wheat carried by the wind. He is as attractive as a good piece of meat or as succulent as an apple, but without being frivolous in his mannerisms, as a certain wise she-wolf once ...
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Jul 6, 2025
B-sideFunk
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Preliminary (1/? eps)
This story follows the adventure of Kraft Lawrence, a traveling merchant who dreams of one day owning a shop of his own. We follow him as he journeys from town to town, trading goods and earning coin through a variety of clever economic schemes.

But life is never easy for a merchant on the road. Lawrence soon finds himself entangled in mysteries, double-crosses, and more than a few unfortunate predicaments.

I find the attention to detail in regards to motives, drives, and environmental storytelling very alluring and wonderful. The author really put work into creating a believable world with many moving parts.

Oh, and I guess he’s ...
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