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'''''Spice and Wolf''''' is a light novel eventually made into an anime in 2008, with a second season, animated by a different studio, following a year later. The original name, "Ookami to Koushinryou", literally translates to "Wolf and Spice", but for some reason the official English title has it the other way.
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== A-E ==
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: During the Milone-Medioh arc, deliberately constructed as a hidden escape route.
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Holo can sometimes get a bit aggressive when Lawrence says or does something she disapproves of, occasionally resorting to stomping on his foot, punching him the ribs, or just generally being rough with him.▼
* [[All Myths Are True]]: Comes into play in the second season of the anime, where Holo's past is discussed.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Shepherds are feared by townsfolk, because their ability to "influence animals", even wolves, is assumed to have resulted from some sort of pagan pact.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Episode 4.
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: A section of one of the light novels is a novella following Norah after she parted with Lawrence and Holo ... and it's narrated by Norah's dog Enek.▼
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Played straight in the anime but averted in the manga, at least as far as Holo's nipples go, to the point that the English translation of the manga has an adult content warning on the cover.
* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]: Between Holo and Lawrence in the epilogue of Volume 17.}}
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In the anime written stuff is often in German, but the second season just uses gibberish.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Chloe.
* [[Bokukko]]: Eve goes by "''ore''". Justified, since she's a female merchant.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Chloe and the thugs with her in episode 6, who believe Holo is simply a demon possessed girl.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Upon entering the town of Kumersun, Lawrence gives Holo some feathers to stick in her hair and explains that it's a wordless signal nuns use to indicate that they're not going to preach their faith there. Later on, Holo uses feathers from Diana's place to subtly clue Lawrence in about her plan for the pyrite sale.
* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]: When Holo was captured by the Medio Company, which threatened to turn her over to the Church, Lawrence talked the Milone Company into sending some of their own bruisers — men skilled in using violence — to rescue her. She was furious that he didn't come to get her himself...especially since she gave the first rescuer through the door a big hug (and maybe, she implies, said something a bit intimate) before realizing he wasn't Lawrence.
* [[Contemptible Cover]], [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131225190559/http://yenpress.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/spicewolf_1.jpg The redone cover] for the first American release book got this complaint due to dropping the anime style Japanese cover for a pseudorealistic frontal shot of Holo running while naked (though mostly dark), drawing comparisons to a trashy romance novel cover. This was done in an attempt to reach out a more general audience at the insistence of distributors. For that first volume, they hastily released dust jackets of the original cover for the first volume to the distributors and in their magazine after the outcry. From volume two onward, that initial solution has been inverted; the original art is on the cover and the new art serves as the dust jacket (now depicting essentially the same scene as the Japanese version, but with Holo looking away), satisfying both distributor and fan demands as well as can be expected.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: The church hierarchy in the series is portrayed as greedy and oppressive, reminiscent of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church of the era it is emulating.
* [[Creator Thumbprint]]: Economics is obviously a passion for Isuna Hasekura. In fact, he took the prize money he won for the first Spice and Wolf novel to the stock market and is now writing a manga about day trading.
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** More than a few times Lawrence claims that Holo is his wife, and no one comments on it, even though her human form is specifically mentioned in-story and designed to look like a fifteen year old girl and Lawrence is in his mid-to-late twenties. In today's culture this would cause shock and dismay in a lot of people at ''best'', but in the time period portrayed, it was a given that a young girl, often as soon as she started her periods, would be married off to an older man who either has a business of his own, or is the heir of a wealthy family. Lawrence matches the former, but even so he may still be a little young, and his merchant business a little to tenuous, for when a man usually married.
** Worth noting is that many characters comment that it's odd for Lawrence to be travelling with a wife - but not because of her age, but because of the nature of his work.
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* [[End of an Age]]: Holo decides to leave because the villagers say that they don't need a harvest god anymore. While she initially helped them by making the crops grow, she occasionally had to do the opposite to prevent the growing village from being struck by the [[wikipedia:Tragedy of the commons|Tragedy of the Commons]], which grew the resentment among the villagers. At the time she left, she was portrayed in the village harvest festivities as an [[The Man Is Keeping Us Down|oppressive force]] and a thief instead of as a wise benefactor.
* [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes]]: Several tracks in the OST use them.
== F-J ==
* [[Face Palm]]
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: After she jokingly explaining to Lawrence why wolves attack humans, she realized he really was not amused, and explained more seriously why. It is implied that Holo has eaten humans in the past, and eats one of a group of thugs to save Lawrence's life, though she regurgitates him later.
* [[Immortal Immaturity]] : Holo is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], but is very fickle and impulsive.
* [[Internet
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: The basis of the story.
* [[In the Hood]]: Holo wears one (or a cap) to hide her ears and tail.
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* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Mark's apprentice Lant confesses to [[Precocious Crush|being in love]] with Holo, but still does everything in his power to help Lawrence win her back.
* [[I Will Protect Her]]: Lawrence invokes a form of this when he refuses to hand Holo over to Chloe.
== K-O ==
* [[Large Ham]]
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** Once he becomes comfortable around Holo, Lawrence gets in a few moments like this in response to Holo's teasing. Very self-aware, of course.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: As part of his pep talk to Lawrence, Mark says (paraphrased) "You are the main character of this story!" Of course, he means that figuratively.
* [[Light Novel]]
* [[Magnetic Girlfriend]]: In Season Two, Holo deliberately rubs her scent on Lawrence to "mark" him as her companion and chase a bar girl away. As said girl explains, it backfires and now that he has Holo's scent on him and has admitted that she's his "companion", he is instantly [[Chick Magnet|more desirable than usual]].
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Lawrence is a normal human with a normal lifespan, while Holo has lived for several hundred years and is implied to have several hundred more years ahead of her. As we see in the OVA, Holo is painfully aware of this.
* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: Subverted. The setting is clearly based on this, but is at the cusp of its own Renaissance.
* [[Moment of Weakness]]: In the second volume, after the last trading house he asks for a loan turns him down and insinuates that Holo's presence is the part of the reason it and others were so unhelpful, he verbally lashes out at Holo when she speaks. Subverted some, as Holo later confesses he should have been angrier.
* [[
* [[Naked First Impression]]: Lawrence finds Holo naked in his cart.
* [[Noodle Incident]]
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* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Of the inverse [[Wolf Man|Wolf Girl]] type. Needs a catalyst of wheat or blood to transform to or from a wolf the size of a bus and a small woman with a tail and wolf ears.
* [[Out-Gambitted]]: A regular part of the business intrigue.
== P-T ==
* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: Holo may not say it, but she ''means it.''
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* [[Road Trip Romance]]
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Well, they're both savvy, but Lawrence is the more pragmatic and stoic one, while Holo acts vivacious and indulgent.
* [[Seinen]]
* [[Serious Business]]
** Commodities trading. Of course, we all know that economics is serious business, but what really drives this point home is that at any point, when given the choice to show pictures of the cute wolf girl, or two men talking about money, the story will ALWAYS show the money.
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** Koume Keito doesn't miss an opportunity to show off Holo's body in the manga.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Look at the images that play when Eve discusses her marriage and her husband: They are all details from [[wikipedia:The Arnolfini Portrait|The Arnolfini Portrait]] by Dutch Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck, 1434.
** In Volume 12 of the manga, the region in which Holo's home Yoitsu is to be found is said to be named "[[J. R. R. Tolkien|
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Not only is the economic aspect of the anime, manga and novels very well done, but Isuna Hasekura bothered to research the types of food they ate in the Middle Ages, as Lawrence and Holo eat food appropriate to their class I.E. fresh fruit and ale, the potatoes would be a delicacy back then so saying that he paid a lot of money to the church was correct.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Holo sometimes makes unfavorable remarks about Lawrence's soft-heartedness, but his kindness is probably the main thing he has going for him. That said, she does cultivate him to be more assertive and outgoing to an extent. And she dislikes it when he holds back from risky business endeavors for her sake.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: A particularly brutal one in the last episode.
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* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]
** There was heavy debate centered on whether her name is Horo, as per alleged [[Word of God]] and fansubs, or Holo, which is used by [http://www.yenpress.com/2009/09/spice-and-wolf-unveiled/#comment-8088 Yen Press] for the official romanization and by other official sources as well. Also confusing was Craft vs. Kraft and what his western name order was.
** To make things more confusing, the English version of ''[[Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku]]'' (where she appears as a cameo) went with [https://web.archive.org/web/20131125201456/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/zhp/chars/snap311.jpg Horo].
** During the first arc of Season 2 of the anime she signs her name as "Holo".
** Almost every character. Diana/Dianna/Deanna, Marc/Mark, Lunt/Lant/Landt, Eve/Abe -- even the spellings of town names is uncertain!
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* [[There Is Only One Bed]]: In season 2 of the anime, Holo teases Lawrence about this. Lawrence is understandably flustered.
* [[They Walk Among Us]]: Over the course of the story, it's revealed that Holo isn't the only god in human form walking around.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]: Along with the odd case of the seventh episode being DVD exclusive. The second season had twelve episodes and an epilogue on the DVD.
* [[Title Drop]]: In the sixth episode of the anime, Marlheit, who knows Holo's secret and associates Lawrence with pepper, says "Spice and wolf sounds fitting to me."
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Holo's love of apples. She gets tired of them after trying to finish a cartload of fresh apples all by herself, but Lawrence's tales about (delicious) apple dishes makes her start craving for them once again.
* [[Tsundere]]: Holo displays this from time to time.
== U-Z ==
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: And keeps it throughout the series until the end.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Not a tic, necessarily, but Holo speaks rather uniquely - she uses a speech pattern based off of [[wikipedia:Oiran|oiran]] speech. So "I'm Holo the Wise Wolf" in normal Japanese would be ''watashi wa Kenrou Holo da'', but she says it ''wacchi ya Kenrou Holo ja''. In the English version, this comes out as a slightly more archaic speech pattern – certainly nothing like [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]], but noticeable nonetheless. In a possible reference to this, volume three of the manga has an [[Alternate Universe]] bonus story in which she '''is''' an oiran.
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Holo sounds the same as a giant wolf as in human form, though with a slight echoing effect. Her head seems to be purposefully kept out of frame as she speaks to avoid the issue of how she can produce normal sound with a wolf's head.
▲* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The Milone and Medioh Trading companies in Season 1 are unbelievable. They make economics seem awesome; it's the Assassin's Creed of supply and demand.
* [[Who Dares?]]: Holo's "You dare say I snore?!"
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Holo is over 400 years old, and hates being alone after the humans she knows die: "Loneliness is a sickness that leads to death." She's traveling back to her homeland where more of her kind exist, but we don't know whether it's survived the years.
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