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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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* [[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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** 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.
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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.
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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.
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