“I’d kiss you right here if you were a good lover” - Horo to Lawrence (17:30)
Translated in one word: REJECTED!  O_O

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Wolf and young pack

A most conspicuous looking party gathers at dawn in front of the gate of Rubinheigen ready to begin the gold smuggling quest. Lawrence the merchant, Horo the wolf, Nora the Shepherd and random NPC character Martin Liebert are accompanied by a herd of cloned sheep as they head on a three day journey to the next town.

Lawrence is playing his get out of jail free card, as he pins all hope on making a massive profit out of the smuggling run, unfortunately it’s a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. The path they take is inhabited by badly drawn 4 legged creatures with luminous yellow eyes which I think are supposed to be wolves.

To put it nicely the drawings, animation and perspective angles weren’t up to par. Perhaps the high number of different scenes and action sequences in this episode became overwhelming for a project drawing to a close.

To put it better; the animation was terrible. This episode is the ugly lovechild of Princess Mononoke and Captain Scarlet. While I really loved the scenery, especially the sunsetting over the cornfields, it would be more enjoyable if the characters and their puppet-like bobbing and invisible rain (no mud!?) wasn’t overlayed onto the backgrounds.

Compounding this sense of disillusionment is the escalating preposterousness of the storyline. Spice and Wolf was no good at the economics and it is equally poor with plot. Plot holes like the Sheep (which would just run off a cliff in real life), the betrayal of the Romerio company (they need Nora’s co-oporation to succeed) and the leaving Lawrence to ‘die’ at the end (he won’t, big mistake; hasn’t everyone seen James Bond?). It’s real strength is Horo and unfortunately she was saddled with the matchmaker role this week.

Well, at least there is only one more episode to get through and it should be all about Horo. She did promise she’d be back and remember, she told Lawrence that she might be cold, wet and naked!

~Teeif

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