Spice and Wolf Review

     After 4 hours of television watching and 9 cups of black tea, I am ready to write a blog post at 6:30 AM. Anyways, Spice and Wolf is a pretty darn dope animu about Kraft Lawrence, a traveling merchant in a fictionalized Renaissance era  Europe who meets a pagan wolf goddess named Holo that he promises to bring to her home in the far north. Along the way, they try to make fat stacks of dank bank, lose a few of those stacks, gain some more, make bad business deals with sketchy muthafuckas, and meet a few friendly, non-sketchy people too.
     At its core, this is a romantic story, although if I had to give it a specific silly made-up genre, I would call it "business fiction." Unlike many romance shows, the tension between the 2 protagonists builds gradually over time instead of rushing into sappy shit in the first few episodes. I enjoyed this greatly because it feels much more realistic. Another thing that added a lot to the realism was the dialogue. The show was very well-scripted and the interactions between characters were exceptionally natural. This series did away with the common cornyness of romance animes and replaced it with a well thought out, elaborate love story.
     Something that made Spice and Wolf especially interesting was all the fancy business and financial talk. Believe or not, I actually feel like I learned a few things about old world economics from this show. I can tell that the writers put a lot of effort into making all the things about trading and banking and all that jazz accurate, which I appreciate very much.
     All in all, this show is fuckin' dank so watch it. SEASON 1 EPISODE 1