Type: Anime
Status: Ongoing? (2 seasons (24 episodes) complete)
Premise: Among the farmers of the south there is a legend of a spirit of the harvest; a great wolf known as Holo. In exchange for their annual festivals and offerings she would insure bountiful harvests year after year, but as time passed and old religions were replaced by new these old promises became mere traditions and eventually were forgotten. Kraft Lawrence is a travailing merchant who makes his living trading wheres from town to town with the hope of one day having his own shop to call home; on his way through the small village of Pastol an odd girl stows away on his cart and asks to travel with him back to her home Yoitsu in the north. Her name is Holo and Lawrence's life was forever changed.
Thoughts: This is not the kind of anime that I normally watch, but you know what? I LIKED IT. The characters and story were all excellent along with clean animations and lovely musical score. A lovely surprise to go with a great anime.
Prose: All around a well polished anime, it does what an anime should do (tell story) and does it extremely well without missing in any particular aspects. Well rounded and treat to watch.
Cons: Be prepared for the exciting life of a traveling merchant, wheeling and dealing, barter and trade. While it is far from boring there is vary little action in the typical sense; in the entire 24 episode series there is only 2 full fledged fight scenes and those are rather one sided. This anime is a battle of whits not of strength.
-Notes: Fully dubbed. What I mean by "Complete?" is that the end of season 2 is a SEASON finale not a SERIES finale. While nothing has been announced as far as a 3rd season as of yet the 2nd season only finished its dub this year so it is still a strong possibility that it will continue soon.
8.5/10 (Holo the wise/drunk wolf.)
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