Spice & Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf Season 2 Teaser Drops with 2027 Premiere Window

TOHO Animation has officially confirmed that Spice & Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf Season 2 will premiere in 2027, releasing a brand-new teaser trailer to celebrate the announcement. Animated once again by studio Passione, the upcoming season continues the story of traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and the harvest deity Holo.

You can watch the official first season and future streaming releases directly on Crunchyroll.

Key Information

• Anime Title: Spice & Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (Season 2)
• Original Author: Isuna Hasekura (Light Novel Illustrated by Jū Ayakura)
• Animation Studio: Studio Passione
• Main Production Company / Distributor: TOHO Animation
• Genre: Fantasy, Economics, Romance, Historical Adventure
• Cast: Jun Fukuyama (Kraft Lawrence), Ami Koshimizu (Holo)
• Release Window: 2027
• Official Website: spice-and-wolf.com
• Official X (Twitter): @Spicy_Wolf_Prj

What Is the Spice and Wolf Season 2 Release Date?

TOHO Animation confirmed that Spice & Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf Season 2 will debut on television screens in 2027. The announcement came alongside a fresh teaser trailer and visual, giving fans their first look at the continuation of Lawrence and Holo’s journey north toward Yoitsu.

The production team features key returning creative leads:

• Chief Director: Takeo Takahashi
• Director: Hijiri Sanpei
• Music Composer: Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss, Tower of God, The Rising of the Shield Hero)
• Lead Voice Cast: Jun Fukuyama as Kraft Lawrence and Ami Koshimizu as Holo the Wisewolf

What Is Spice and Wolf About?

The core narrative follows Kraft Lawrence, a 25-year-old itinerant trader traveling from town to town in a European-inspired setting. Lawrence accumulates coin through bartering, hoping to earn enough capital to open his own brick-and-mortar shop.

His solitary routine shifts dramatically in the village of Pasloe when he discovers Holo, a 600-year-old wolf deity, resting in his merchant wagon. Holo usually appears as a young human girl with wolf ears and a bushy tail, though her true form is a massive wolf deity.

Feeling abandoned by locals who no longer rely on her harvest blessings, Holo strikes a trade deal with Lawrence: in exchange for taking her to her northern homeland of Yoitsu, she uses her sharp instincts and clever economic insights to help expand his commercial trading profits.

How Did the Spice and Wolf Franchise Originate?

Isuna Hasekura launched the original Spice and Wolf light novel series in 2006 with artwork by Jū Ayakura. The novels took a hiatus after volume 17 in 2011 before resuming in 2016. The main story reached its conclusion with volume 23 in September 2021.

Hasekura expanded the universe in April 2016 with the spin-off light novel series, Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf.

The original media adaptations spanned several mediums prior to the Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf reboot:

• Original Anime Adaptation: Two TV seasons directed by Takeo Takahashi aired in 2008 and 2009.
• Virtual Reality Experiences: Spice and Wolf VR debuted in June 2019 for Oculus Rift, HTC VIVE, and Oculus Go, followed by a VR sequel in December 2020.