Oh, and it’s never explicitly stated that Holo ate people, because reasons? This is where the author has Lawrence begging for money for an entire day, then hatches a plan to smuggle gold INTO the town from another random town, all so that Lawrence won’t be sold into indentured servitude/physically have limbs/execution (it’s never explicitly stated what the punishment for the “stealing” would be), and after finding out that the associate sent along with them from said debt owner had betrayed them, Holo pulls a Deus Ex Machina and just scares the guy into fainting/breaking his cheekbones/something, Lawrence ends up tying the guy that cheated him most recently (which never happened before, he’s never forced a person to do anything by physical compulsion so far in 12 episodes), forcing him to sign a new contract (again, never happened before, Lawrence is a ridiculously patient pacifist) and the show ends. In a poorly explained conversation, we “find out” that because this random shady guy just HAPPENS to SOMEHOW “buy” the debt that Lawrence was going to sell before Lawrence could sell the associated goods, that Lawrence has to pay up within 2 days (because apparently this new debt owner is an asshole, and arbitrary as hell), and then that starts the last arc(?) of the show. Oh and around ep 9/10/11 (I forget, and I don’t reall care), there’s the last town of the show where apparently everyone is a religious crank and Lawrence, whose trading advantage over the other mostly idiotic merchants that you meet (usually briefly for most of the rando 3 minute characters) is that he trades via debt/contracts over delivery of goods instead of actually moving goods back and forth. ![]() It is a show, in order of appearance, about basic bartering, currency minting with respect to silver purity, currency speculation, guilds working with the Church, the (implied Catholic church) implying (but never stating) that Holo is a demon and therefore her traveling companion, Lawrence, the main character, should never be trusted when they go to the final town of the show, and there's a shoehorned in section about transferring debt and essentially debt collectors that comes out of nowhere.Īmong the random subplots that never go anywhere, you've got the pepper weighing, Holo can turn into a 20 foot tall wolf, the Holo festival from like episode 1-3, Chloe somehow working(?) for the Church, the sewers in the random town in ep 4 through 6 that are all relatively well lit and literally 20+ people go running around in them, the 3+ guilds that all either backstab or sell out Lawrence and Holo to the church, the entire Nora subplot, the random ass giant 20+ wolf that Holo might know in the forest, the gold smuggling for Church stamp/tax reasons, the countries/counties that get mentioned, etc. It is a show that is confusingly paced, with confusing subplots that turn into arcs? Either this anime was not adapted properly (apparently Akame ga Kill had an anime only ending, and this being before 2013, I would not be surprised if this was the case, apparently “make it and ship it, screw the source material” was the way anime was made before SAO or something, I dunno), or the anime adapter/author didn’t know what to do and just threw things together. I think basically whoever was the art director of a particular episode just winged whatever they wanted to do for the building design for that episode/town, and nobody cared about accuracy/consistency between time periods/medieval dress. Basically every town has the standard mortar/wood beam/brick facades with the italian ceramic styled or wood roofs, despite different languages NEVER being mentioned, and it would’ve been impossible for towns to afford to be clad in literally 300+ different years of architectural stylings like it appears in the show. The landscapes/backgrounds have basically nothing to do with the show, with the exception of maybe 2 chase sequences, a forest chase scene in ep 12(?), and the sewer chase in ep 4(?). ![]() AD), that exposits 99% of the “details” of the world. It is basically a pseudointellectual medieval slice of life show that doesn’t care about any realities of medieval Europe (I’m thinking 400-1600 ![]() It is NOT a show about modern economics in any sense. ![]() I had to choose between giving it a 6 or a 7, and I would've given it a 6.5, but I'm not rounding up. I distinctly remember this guy on /r/animemes with a profile dedicated to Holo, and the references of "if you like economics, you'll love Spice and Wolf!" After about 10 years of hearing about Spice and Wolf, I finally decided to finish the first season.
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