For any not familiar: Spice and Wolf follows the story of Kraft Lawrence, a traveling merchant looking to make his fortune in business, and Holo the Wise Wolf, a great wolf from an unnamed region in the "far north" who has spent the last several centuries as the local God of the Harvest for a village that Lawrence buys grain from. Holo has decided it's time she returned home, and Lawrence and his cart provide the perfect opportunity both to escape her village, and maybe have a traveling companion along the way.

It's a very generic medieval setting, with a lean towards Italian influences in things like names of places and the like. The story is mostly very chill, though "the Church" is a major player in the shadows and Lawrence -is- traveling with a "pagan deity", so it's not all slice-of-medieval-life and economics lesson.

The original show went two seasons back in `08 and `09, before just abruptly ending. They released a movie as well, but it was set in the middle of the second season and so there was never any closure. This remake involves almost the entire same cast of main voice talent, as well as the original director. The plan is to fully finish and complete the story this time; apparently a major plot thread was left out of the original two-season run in addition to it never getting a proper ending.

I loved the original, disappointing ending and all, and so far the remake is even better.

-Droken