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Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf Season 2 Anime Reveals Teaser Promo Video, More Cast – News
Kadokawa revealed at the “Dengeki Bunko Aki no Saiten Online 2026″ livestream event on Saturday a teaser promotional video for the second season of the Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf anime.
The event also revealed Romi Park is joining the cast as Eve Bolan.

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The anime will debut in 2027.
Takeo Takahashi returns as chief director with Hijiri Sanpei, who directed the first season. Nobuyoshi Nagayama (Smile Down the Runway) and Takahiro Majima (episode director for Interspecies Reviewers) are directing the second season at Passione. Koji Haneda (The Faraway Paladin) returns to design the characters with Rina Sugimoto. Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss, Tower of God, The Rising of The Shield Hero) is again composing the music.
Additional staff includes:
The anime’s first season debuted in April 2024, and aired for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year). Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and also streamed an English dub.
The anime is a completely new series, which tells the story of Kraft Lawrence and his meeting with the wolf girl Holo. Jun Fukuyama returned as Kraft Lawrence, and Ami Koshimizu returned as Holo. Mai Nakahara also returned in the series as Norah Arendt.
Yen Press publishes the novels in English, and it describes the series:
The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine—that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of “Holo the Wisewolf” to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame?
Isuna Hasekura launched the Spice and Wolf novel series with illustrations by Jū Ayakura in 2006. The novels took a break after the 17th volume in 2011, and returned with the 18th volume in 2016. The 25th and latest volume will ship on October 9. Yen Press published the 24th novel in North America in August 2023, and is also publishing the manga adaptation. Hasekura began a spinoff series, Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf, in April 2016. Yen Press is also releasing the spinoff series in English.
The novels also inspired two TV anime seasons from director Takeo Takahashi and scriptwriter Naruhisa Arakawa. The first season aired in Japan from January to March 2008, and the second season (Spice and Wolf II) from July to September 2009. Funimation released both seasons on home video.
A virtual reality anime followed the television anime and debuted in June 2019 for Oculus Rift, HTC VIVE, and Oculus Go Edition. A sequel debuted in December 2020.
Source: Dengeki Bunko Aki no Saiten Online 2026 livestream
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‘Charisma’ Announces Additional Staff – MyAnimeList.net
The special livestream presentation for the television anime adaptation of the Charisma House mixed-media project revealed additional staff and a key visual (pictured) on Sunday. The anime series will premiere on TBS affiliate networks in January 2027.
Staff
Character Design: Haru Watanabe (Kawagoe Boys Sing)
Chief Animation Director: Haru Watanabe, Han Seungah (ēlDLIVE)
Art Director: Seiki Tamura (Nippon Sangoku)
Color Design: Yukiko Kakita (Ranma ½ (2024))
Director of Photography: Susumu Fukushi (Osomatsu-san)
Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto (Boku no Hero Academia)
Music: Gesshoku Kaigi (Back Street Girls: Gokudolls)
Music Production: Evil Line Records
Sound Director: Kyoko Wada, Shu Matsubara
Sound Production: Rakuonsha
Producer: Kotaro Sudo, Soichiro Hidano, Yoshihiro Tominaga (Akudama Drive)
Jouji Furuta (Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Legend Star) is directing the anime at Pierrot Films, with Shuu Matsubara (Osomatsu-san) handling the series composition and script. Shuu Matsubara is in charge of the original story, while Ebimo (Let’s Play: Quest-darake no My Life) is providing the original character designs.
King Records launched the Charisma House multimedia project under its Evil Line Records label in August 2021. The project includes manga adaptations, music releases, audio dramas, and stage plays.
Rin Manda and Iori Irino serialized a manga adaptation titled Charisma: Kyou mo Heiwa desu in Dessert magazine from January 2023 to December 2024. The second volume went on sale on March 13 last year.
Sou Tobita launched a spin-off manga titled Charisma: Charisma na Karera wa Charisma House de Karizumai-chu in the Comic DAYS magazine, which ran from February 2023 to December 2023. The second volume was released in February 2024.
Source: animate Times
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Darkroom Streams Angel Densetsu Anime – News

Streaming platform Darkroom began streaming the OAV (original anime video) based on Norihiro Yagi‘s Angel Densetsu manga on Friday.
The two-part OAV originally debuted in September 1996.
Darkroom describes the OAV:
Upon transferring to Hekikuu High School, Kitano soon discovers that his pale skin, sharp features, and awkward social skills make everyone assume he is a vicious delinquent or drug addict. This is compounded by his horrible luck and awkward social skills, which only cause more hijinks. Polite attempts to be friendly or helpful are constantly misinterpreted as threats or brutal acts of violence by students and local thugs.
Through pure coincidence, Kitano accidentally knocks out the school’s top fighters and is crowned the supreme head thug and “School Guardian,” despite remaining completely oblivious to his terrifying reputation. The comedic situations intensify as he tries to reconcile his fierce erroneous reputation with his true self.
Yukio Kaizawa (Digimon Frontier, Maple Town Monogatari) directed the anime at Toei Video Co., Ltd. Naoyuki Sakai (Musashi) wrote the scripts. Ryūichi Katsumata (Initial D, The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz) and Tsuyoshi Itō (Master of Torque) composed the music.
Yagi launched the manga in Shueisha‘s Monthly Shonen Jump in February 1993. The company shipped the 15th and final volume of the manga in April 2000.
Darkroom is a subsidiary of distribution company Synergetic Films, which describes the service as “a portal for treasures of world cinema, perhaps not easily found on other platforms. Something like Criterion, but with more recent discoveries.”
Source: Press release
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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend Film Streams 1st 4 Minutes – News
The staff for Seishun Buta Yarō wa Dear Friend no Yume o Minai (Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend) film, the latest anime of Hajime Kamoshida‘s Rascal Does Not Dream (Seishun Buta Yarō or Aobuta) novel series, began streaming the film’s first four minutes and posted a “finale visual” on Sunday.

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©2025 鴨志田 一/KADOKAWA/青ブタ Project
The new film is teased as taking the story towards its finale. (The film shares the same name as the 15th and final novel volume.)
The film’s returning cast includes:
Sōichi Masui returns to direct the film at CloverWorks. Masahiro Yokotani is also back to oversee and write the script, and Satomi Tamura is again designing the characters. The band fox capture plan also returns to compose the music. Aniplex is once again distributing the film.
Tōko Kirishima performs the song “Turn the World Upside Down” in the film and the theme song “Suihei-sen wa Boku no Furukizu finale” (The Horizon Is My Old Wound: Finale).
The film will open in theaters in Japan on October 16. The film’s advance screening was held at the Shinjuku Wald 9 theater in Tokyo on Sunday.
Fans who see the film in the first week of release will receive a bonus new text story written by Kamoshida titled Seishun Buta Yarō wa Tea Garden no Yume o Miru (Rascal Does Dream of a Tea Garden). The short story follows Sakuta, Mai and Shoko after a shopping trip. Keeji Mizoguchi illustrates the short story.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai (Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai), the first television anime based on the light novel series, premiered in Japan in October 2018 and aired for 13 episodes. The anime adapts the story up to the fifth novel volume. Aniplex of America streamed the series on Crunchyroll, Funimation, and other services.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (Seishun Buta Yarō wa Yume-Miru Shōjo no Yume wo Minai), the anime film that adapts the the sixth and seventh light novel volumes in the franchise, opened in Japan in June 2019. Aniplex of America and Funimation Films screened the anime in the United States. Crunchyroll began streaming the film in June 2025 with both English subtitles and dub.
The film Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out opened in Japan in June 2023. The film sold 118,108 tickets in its first three days and earned 175,648,924 yen (about US$1.28 million) to rank #4 in its opening weekend. The Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid film opened in Japan in December 2023, and ranked at #4 in its opening weekend. The film sold 119,000 tickets and earned 164,594,554 yen (about US$1.11 million) in its first three days.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus (Seishun Buta Yarō wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai), the television anime adapting the light novel series’ “University Student Arc,” debuted in July 2025. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and is also streaming an English dub.
The original novel series has over 3 million copies in circulation. The Yen On imprint of Yen Press publishes the novel series, and Yen Press publishes Tsugumi Nanamiya‘s manga adaptation. Yen On published the Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend novel volume on January 6.
Sources: Aniplex‘s YouTube channel, Rascal Does Not Dream anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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