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+ Spice and Wolf
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+:CreationDate: 2012-09-23 19:40:21
+:Id: anime/review/spice-wolf
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/spice-and-wolf-seasons-1-2
+
+What happen to deities when people stop believing in them? Even worse,
+what happens when people stop needing them?
+
+Holo is a wolf goddess who used to encourage and protect the harvest
+in a generic-European-looking valley (think southern Germany). With
+the advent of modern (the setting looks like the early 16th century)
+agricultural techniques, and of a monotheistic religion and associated
+church, the people who used to worship and thank Holo have decided
+that they don't need her anymore. She seem to think the same of them:
+when travelling merchant Kraft Lawrence comes again to the main
+village, she stows away in his waggon, and asks for help to leave the
+place and go back to her place of origin in the North.  Lawrence is
+pretty surprised when he finds a naked young girl in his waggon, but
+he's too good at heart not to help her; Holo, on the other hand,
+doesn't have many problems proving that she's a god (just in case the
+furry ears and tail were not enough of a giveaway) and that she can be
+useful, having a few centuries of experience in dealing with humans.
+
+They set off for a series of "adventures", although probably not the
+kind you'd expect: no big fights, no big evil, no world-changing
+events; mostly buying, selling, bartering, debts, loans, repayments…
+Lawrence is a business man, and there's commerce everywhere they
+go. The biggest obstacles in their travels are provided by the church,
+which, as any other expanding, exclusivist religious organisation, has
+declared any other divine or supernatural manifestation to be evil
+witchcraft, to be hunted down and burned. It's not obvious if Holo
+could, in fact, be captured, but I'm pretty sure it would be a blood
+bath (very little of it hers); she and Lawrence try to avoid direct
+confrontations by keeping a low profile and hiding her non-human
+appearance.
+
+Their closeness and complicity soon grows into affection and love, and
+here again you may not get what you expect: their feelings are clearly
+present, but very understated, and they both avoid making a big show
+of it. I'm not completely clear on how a god-human relationship could
+work out; I mean, she's essentially immortal, six centuries old, and
+he's going to live maybe forty more years. I'm pretty sure she knows
+that she's setting herself up for much pain in the future…
+
+Anyway, this is a character-driven story, set in a complex and
+realistic environment; credit to the authors for not letting the
+fantastical / supernatural elements take over the plot. You'll like it
+if you like well-paced storytelling, and think that "action packed"
+should be considered a pejorative :)