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NEWS: Spice & Wolf Fantasy Novels Get New Anime

Banking on this being another Fruits Basket and being a full adaptation from the start.

The final line does say something like, "Shall we embark on a journey again?" but it has connotations of starting fresh. So I'm more inclined to think this is a full remake, like Fruits Basket.

7jaws7 wrote:

Quote: "Holo the Wisewolf and Lawrence the Merchant's story continues." Doesn't sound like a remake to me!

Actually, if you look at the Japanese in the trailer, I don't see that tagline anywhere.

Again, my problem is that it seems anime producers have boarded the same nostalgia train as western entertainment, reviving and rebooting old, "safe" properties, and it's a little frustrating, knowing how many great stories are out there that could be adapted instead (to say nothing about oh, original works...)

Sadly this is unlikely as [Sekirei] is no longer available for streaming, which means either interest is nowadays minimal or it "fell outside of [FUNimation's] standards"

Now where's the ancient magus bride announcement.....

I've not seen the original, but this is hype nonetheless. As such, I'm not sure how the original series left off, but I think I'd be cool both with a sequel show or a reboot. I kind of hope for the former though, simply because of the Fruits Basket situation, where the original works perfectly fine and doesn't divert from the source but is now completely redundant thanks to its reboot.

I think I recognize only Teppu out of the manga you mentioned, ... Basically it seems to me you want them to go for barely known old manga or books,

And if you read what I wrote more closely, I wasn't saying that there were only reboots and revivals getting made. I was lamenting the creeping trend of nostalgia train/old & popular franchise reboots. Yes, there's anime based on newer works, or original stuff getting made, too - but I'd like to see even more of that, and even more adaptations of works that aren't paint-by-the-numbers whatever-is-the-current-trend genre stuff. And not revivals and reboots of old franchises that already had their runs and were popular enough at the time. That is simply my opinion, no-one is obligated to agree.

And if you read what I wrote more closely, I wasn't saying that there were only reboots and revivals getting made. I was lamenting the creeping trend of nostalgia train/old & popular franchise reboots. Yes, there's anime based on newer works, or original stuff getting made, too - but I'd like to see even more of that, and even more adaptations of works that aren't paint-by-the-numbers whatever-is-the-current-trend genre stuff. And not revivals and reboots of old franchises that already had their runs and were popular enough at the time. That is simply my opinion, no-one is obligated to agree.

SHD wrote:

And if you read what I wrote more closely, I wasn't saying that there were only reboots and revivals getting made. I was lamenting the creeping trend of nostalgia train/old & popular franchise reboots. Yes, there's anime based on newer works, or original stuff getting made, too - but I'd like to see even more of that, and even more adaptations of works that aren't paint-by-the-numbers whatever-is-the-current-trend genre stuff. And not revivals and reboots of old franchises that already had their runs and were popular enough at the time. That is simply my opinion, no-one is obligated to agree.

I personally don't consider these the same situations as Hollywood reboots and remakes. Most American reboots and remakes have little to no resemblance to the properties they're remaking. For example, the recent Bel Air remake bares zero comparability to the original Fresh Prince of Bel Air show and I agree are lazy and don't need to exist. But anime remakes are generally done because there's more content still left to adapt. Spice & Wolf has material from the light-novel that the original anime never covered, so I don't
see it as bad to continue or make a new adaption or continue the old anime adaption of it.