The official website for the Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (Spice & Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf) television anime revealed on Thursday additional staff, returning additional cast, and the third promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere on April 2 at 1:30 a.m. on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, and TV Aichi, followed by BS TV Tokyo and AT-X.

Mai Nakahara (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni), Houchuu Ootsuka (Golden Kamuy), Hozumi Gouda (Vampire Knight), and Daisuke Namikawa (Haikyuu!!) returns to voice their characters from the previous anime series.

Staff
Character Design: Kouji Haneda (Saihate no Paladin)
Color Design: Tomoko Koyama (Assassins Pride)
Art Design: Kaoru Aoki (Isekai Ojisan), Toshiki Amada (Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen), Ryouji Obata (Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero)
Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou)
Director of Photography: Kouji Hayashi (Renai Flops)
Editing: Ayako Tan (Mieruko-chan)
Sound Director: Tomohiro Yoshida (Strike Witches)

Singer-songwriter Hana Hope (Hametsu no Oukoku) is performing the opening theme "Tabi no Yukue" and ClariS (Hataraku Saibou) performs the ending theme "Andante." Both songs are previewed in the promotional video below.

Hijiri Sanpei (Joshikousei no Mudazukai is directing the anime at Passione with chief director Takeo Takahashi (Ookami to Koushinryou director). Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss, Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) is composing the music.

The series adapts Isuna Hasekura's fantasy romance light novel which was originally submitted at the Dengeki Novel Prize in 2005 and won the Silver Prize. Media Works (later ASCII Media Works, now Kadokawa) began publishing the series through its Dengeki Bunko label in February 2006, featuring illustrations by Juu Ayakura. Kadokawa shipped the 24th volume in January 2023.

Hasekura launched the spin-off light novel Shinsetsu Ookami to Koushinryou: Ookami to Youhishi (Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf) in September 2016. The ninth volume was released in July 2023.

Yen Press licensed both light novels in English. The 24th volume of the main series released in August 2023 and the eighth volume of the spin-off will release on May 21.

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Source: Comic Natalie