Image: Isuna Hasekura, KADOKAWA/Rowen Trading Guild
AMBot | 08/31/2026 | Reading Time: 3 Min.
The TV adaptation "Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf" will receive a second season, which is scheduled to air in 2027. The production team announced this at the end of August and simultaneously released the second teaser visual for the continuation. The announcement comes from the animation label TOHO animation, which is responsible for the new adaptation of the popular material.
The new image shows a scene in a room: The traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and the wolf Holo sit at a dining table, while another person stands in the background in the shadows. This is Eve Bolan, a mysterious merchant who will appear for the first time in the second season. Her appearance lends the otherwise familiar setting a subtle tension. The accompanying slogan reads: "A new ambition creeps up on the merchant and the wolf."
In the first season of the new adaptation, which ran from April to September 2024 with 25 episodes, Lawrence and Holo traveled with a horse-drawn cart through a medieval-looking world. In the second season, the two leave the land route and board a ship to continue their journey in a new region. The first teaser visual from November 2025 already hinted at the journey on water; now, with Eve Bolan, a new character takes center stage, whose intentions remain unclear for the time being.
The source material comes from Isuna Hasekura and is published with illustrations by Jyuu Ayakura by KADOKAWA. The first light novel volume was awarded the Silver Prize at the 12th Dengeki Novel Prize in 2006; in 2021, the series celebrated its 15th anniversary. The series has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. The material was first adapted as an anime in 2008 and 2009; the current new adaptation is the first adaptation in about 15 years. It also contains plot material that was never shown in the original anime.
For the second season, Studio Passione returns, which already produced the first season of the new adaptation. The overall direction is handled by Takeo Takahashi and Hijiri Sanpei, with direction by Nobuyoshi Nagayama and Takahiro Majima. The character design is by Rina Sugimoto and Koji Haneda, and the music is composed by Kevin Penkin. In the main roles, Jun Fukuyama as Kraft Lawrence and Ami Koshimizu as Holo can still be heard. An exact start date within 2027 has not yet been announced. The first season of the new adaptation is available for streaming on Crunchyroll, among others.
The new image shows a scene in a room: The traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and the wolf Holo sit at a dining table, while another person stands in the background in the shadows. This is Eve Bolan, a mysterious merchant who will appear for the first time in the second season. Her appearance lends the otherwise familiar setting a subtle tension. The accompanying slogan reads: "A new ambition creeps up on the merchant and the wolf."
In the first season of the new adaptation, which ran from April to September 2024 with 25 episodes, Lawrence and Holo traveled with a horse-drawn cart through a medieval-looking world. In the second season, the two leave the land route and board a ship to continue their journey in a new region. The first teaser visual from November 2025 already hinted at the journey on water; now, with Eve Bolan, a new character takes center stage, whose intentions remain unclear for the time being.
The source material comes from Isuna Hasekura and is published with illustrations by Jyuu Ayakura by KADOKAWA. The first light novel volume was awarded the Silver Prize at the 12th Dengeki Novel Prize in 2006; in 2021, the series celebrated its 15th anniversary. The series has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. The material was first adapted as an anime in 2008 and 2009; the current new adaptation is the first adaptation in about 15 years. It also contains plot material that was never shown in the original anime.
For the second season, Studio Passione returns, which already produced the first season of the new adaptation. The overall direction is handled by Takeo Takahashi and Hijiri Sanpei, with direction by Nobuyoshi Nagayama and Takahiro Majima. The character design is by Rina Sugimoto and Koji Haneda, and the music is composed by Kevin Penkin. In the main roles, Jun Fukuyama as Kraft Lawrence and Ami Koshimizu as Holo can still be heard. An exact start date within 2027 has not yet been announced. The first season of the new adaptation is available for streaming on Crunchyroll, among others.
This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical support and editorially reviewed before publication.
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