S&W 1: Sleepy Holo

Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf episode 1 review

Lawrence is a human merchant who meets a girl named Holo, who has wolf ears and happens to be some sort of deity. Apparently it wasn’t against her programming to impersonate a deity. Anyway, to make a long story short, they start travelling together, because she apparently has the power to make him successful.

To be honest, coming into this show, I was expecting the male character to be the mischievous one, and the girl wolf to be, well, wise. Instead, you have the male character as the steady, stern one, and the wolf girl as the “spicy” one. Her character really is the difference between this show being as dull as Banished from the Hero’s Party to being quite good. Now, does this mean it’s won me over? Not yet. That three-episode rule I always talk about works both ways. Just because a series looks like it’s won me over after one episode, doesn’t mean it won’t bomb later and cause me to drop it. But it’s looking pretty good for the Wise Wolf.

Best girl of the episode: Holo, as if there was any other to choose from!

Episode rating: 7/10