Synopsis- Spice and Wolf is a romance anime about a traveling merchant or ends up traveling with the pagan god holo (the wise wolf and god of the harvest). She makes a deal with him to pay her own way and help him were possible and he will take her back to her home town.
I did not really like this anime, nothing against the characters they were both likable, nothing against the quality of the anime e.g. artwork, music, dubbing. It was the most integral part of the anime the story line and pace.
Characters- I am going to review the two main characters being lawrence and Holo.
Lawrence- He is the traveling merchant, he is a likable character. caring, mostly calm. He is like a reflection of the anime itself in a character. He is dubbed excellently and portrayed all in all very well.
Holo- the pagan god. As a god, she does not come across godlike at all. She is silly, mischievous and greedy. But that makes you love her more. They portray her story line very well, almost justifying her character traits through the sounds of her youth (despite being far longer than a humans) and being in isolation from her people. she is also dubbed very well and no complaints and to her character.
There are a few other characters in the anime but not many of them re-occur but they are important in the fact that it portrays in attitudes in the time the anime set very well. something in which this anime does perfectly. you have the shepherd who is being used/tricked by the church, the female merchant who dresses as a man in order to help her trade etc.
art- the artwork is sort of average, quite bright mostly sort of reflecting the mood of the overall anime, but overall very pretty and nicely done.
music I cant really remember which means either it was not bad enough to scar me and annoy, but it was not good enough to be like I actually like this song.
overall I think the anime execute many aspects very well, characters, art. historical troubles of economy, and many to do the aspect surrounding religion very well as they showed the corruption of the church but with out villianising it completely. and portrayed the persecution of paganism, and did not portray it as you typical witchcraft or satanic religion with its negative connations. They had done their research in other words.
but I would not re-watch this anime, it was far too slow. it seem that they traveled from town to town with the same thing occurring each time with a different face. the story was not complete, so the ending was a complete let down. if you have some time and you watch to chill with out getting to into an anime recommended but there are far better anime out there. admittedly i enjoyed it while watching it and kept wanting to watch the next episode but the opinion i stated here is upon reflection.
have a good day, any recommendations comment and ill watch and review them :)
music for today is- arch enemy, under black flags we march
art work for today is anything done by Victoria Francis who does gothic art work, nearly all women and mostly vampires.
ET :)
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