Last year, I wrote a number of reviews of up-and-coming anime… in exactly 106 words. Well, I guess this makes them more synopses than reviews, but in the majority of cases it’s for the first episode of a series as soon as it hits the ‘net. That being said, since I’m kind of in a dead spot for gaming (still trying to finish Revenant Wings, even though I want to throw my DS in the Mon every time I pick that game up anymore…) I’ll keep writing just to keep the blood flowing. (Or I buy a PSP and document that extensively. The temptation continues.)

So! Without further ado… the Review in 106 of Spice and Wolf. (I think that preamble is longer than the piece itself…)

We’ve heard it all before: technology is destroying older culture, monotheistic religions are bastards, and furries are pervading damn near everything. That being said, this Scrapped-Princess-meets-Okami tale certainly felt good to watch. Lawrence, traveling merchant, visits a farming town whose prosperity is owed to cunning allegiances and more efficient agricultural practices… meaning they have no use for the wolf-god-spirit-thing that -used- to safeguard their wheat. Now said spirit (manifest as a naked chick) is bored and wants to hitch a ride to her homelands back north. However, leave it to the church to cock things up. (This is the cost of having a tail in public.)