The official website for the Oukami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (Spice & Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf) TV anime confirmed this week that the show will get a second season. A new visual was also released in celebration of the news.

Oukami to Koushinryou- Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf Second Season Teaser Visual

Sanpei Hijiri will direct the anime’s second season at Passione studio, and Takahashi Takeo will act as chief director.

The anime’s first season premiered in April 2024, and the anime’s 25th and final episode aired this week on September 23rd. All 25 episodes can be streamed on Crunchyroll.

While the anime tells a completely new story, it is based on the Oukami to Koushinryou (Spice & Wolf) light novel series by Hasekura Isuna and Ayakura Juu. The first novel in the series, written by Hasekura and illustrated by Ayakura, was published in February 2006, and the latest novel, number 24, was released in January 2023.

Oukami to Koushinryou Novel Cover One

Hasekura also began a spinoff novel series in April 2016 titled Shinsetsu Oukami to Koushinryou Oukami to Youhishi (Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf ). Yen Press released both the original novel series and its spinoff in English.

The novels also inspired a manga adaptation by Koume Keito in 2007 and a TV anime series that premiered in March 2008, along with a second season in September 2009.  A virtual reality anime was also released in June 2019, and a sequel was released in December 2020.
Oukami to Koushinryou Novel Cover 24
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?