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Spice and Wolf is a light novel written by Isuna Hasekura, illustrated by Juu Ayakura. Kraft Lawrence, a 25-year-old traveling merchant who peddles various goods from town to town to make a living. He travels with Holo, a wolf-deity girl.

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Spice and Wolf is a Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura, with illustrations by Juu Ayakura. The story revolves around Kraft Lawrence, a 25-year-old traveling merchant who peddles various goods from town to town to make a living in a stylized historical setting with European influences. One night, he finds in his wagon a pagan wolf-deity girl named Holo who claims to be over 600 years old and the town's goddess of harvest.

For more information, see the Wikipedia page or the Spice and Wolf wiki.

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Which is Kraft Lawrence's familiar name, and which his surname?

Regarding the character of Kraft Lawrence from Spice and Wolf, I've often wondered whether Kraft was supposed to be his familiar name or his surname. Kraft sounds more like a surname to me, but Lawrence could be either. I'm aware that in Japan, the…
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The deal that Lawrence makes with the Milone Trading Company and their whole scheme don't make sense to me

Plot spanning S01E04-S01E06 of "Spice and Wolf" doesn't make much sense to me. Lawrence and Holo are accosted by a stranger who tells them that Trenni silver coins are going to appreciate. Lawrence and Holo later learn that the opposite is true: the…
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Is Holo different from other nonhumans?

It seems to me that the introduction of nonhumans who aren't wolves introduced a break from the initial premise, and additionally it seems that all other nonhumans don't clearly have all of the attributes Holo and Myuri have, so I'd like some…
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