So it took me forever to finish Spice and Wolf but it wasn’t because it was mind numbingly dull like El Cazador de la Bruja or anything like that. It took me so long mainly because of lack of stability in my living situation and the fact that I’ve been hanging out with "The Lady" for a while now. So in any event I’m trying to play catch up with the blog in general, but even more so with my anime watching schedule. By the way I’m still having trouble getting through Suzuka. Should I ever finish it might not be the most positive review.
Anyway Spice and Wolf is based on a popular light novel series that only just reached its conclusion this past month (And the first few volumes have amazingly been translated into English). How many of these shows have I watched that turned out to be based on a light novel? Forty-seven? The anime was produced by Imagin, the studio also responsible for Eureka Seven, and aired in 2008. It was licensed by FUNimation in late 2009. In truth I have long since been aware of this show as FUNimtion trailers have been trying to trick me into watching it for a year but I finally decided to check it out since it was only thirteen episodes and I figured I could bang it out in a week (So much for that plan). So the question is whether this show was worth all the time it took to get through it.
Full review after the jump.
