Ookami to Koushinryou
Novel
狼と香辛料
2006/02/10
Character count2,615,983
Word count1,201,049
Unique words25,212
Words (1-occurrence)8,350
Unique kanji2,754
Kanji (1-occurrence)205
Average sentence length25.2
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue23.9%
Volumes24
Duration 187 h

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? (Source: Yen Press)

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Volume 1
Character count128,981
Word count59,663
Unique words6,502
Words (1-occurrence)3,118
Unique kanji1,659
Kanji (1-occurrence)324
Average sentence length24.4
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue25.7%
Duration 9 h
Volume 2
Character count158,311
Word count72,472
Unique words7,497
Words (1-occurrence)3,539
Unique kanji1,779
Kanji (1-occurrence)314
Average sentence length25.5
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue21.4%
Duration 11 h
Volume 3
Character count131,107
Word count59,768
Unique words6,711
Words (1-occurrence)3,191
Unique kanji1,661
Kanji (1-occurrence)278
Average sentence length25.7
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue24.5%
Duration 9 h
Volume 4
Character count127,106
Word count58,255
Unique words6,390
Words (1-occurrence)3,071
Unique kanji1,615
Kanji (1-occurrence)301
Average sentence length24.1
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue28.9%
Duration 9 h
Volume 5
Character count87,122
Word count40,195
Unique words5,352
Words (1-occurrence)2,725
Unique kanji1,529
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length25.1
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue24.4%
Duration 6 h
Volume 6
Character count115,021
Word count52,715
Unique words6,199
Words (1-occurrence)3,062
Unique kanji1,669
Kanji (1-occurrence)343
Average sentence length23.8
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue23.0%
Duration 8 h
Volume 7
Character count102,527
Word count46,964
Unique words5,501
Words (1-occurrence)2,646
Unique kanji1,527
Kanji (1-occurrence)316
Average sentence length23.4
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue18.7%
Duration 7 h
Volume 8
Character count97,556
Word count44,879
Unique words5,675
Words (1-occurrence)2,823
Unique kanji1,609
Kanji (1-occurrence)319
Average sentence length26.8
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue24.9%
Duration 7 h
Volume 9
Character count111,607
Word count51,115
Unique words6,304
Words (1-occurrence)3,103
Unique kanji1,694
Kanji (1-occurrence)324
Average sentence length26.2
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue21.7%
Duration 8 h
Volume 10
Character count136,813
Word count62,962
Unique words7,235
Words (1-occurrence)3,546
Unique kanji1,804
Kanji (1-occurrence)334
Average sentence length24.0
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue28.6%
Duration 10 h
Volume 11
Character count104,810
Word count47,926
Unique words6,116
Words (1-occurrence)3,017
Unique kanji1,658
Kanji (1-occurrence)329
Average sentence length24.2
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue23.0%
Duration 7 h
Volume 12
Character count103,975
Word count47,943
Unique words5,973
Words (1-occurrence)2,978
Unique kanji1,666
Kanji (1-occurrence)346
Average sentence length23.6
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue27.0%
Duration 7 h
Volume 13
Character count109,980
Word count51,421
Unique words6,472
Words (1-occurrence)3,217
Unique kanji1,685
Kanji (1-occurrence)320
Average sentence length26.4
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue16.1%
Duration 8 h
Volume 14
Character count131,939
Word count59,603
Unique words6,886
Words (1-occurrence)3,422
Unique kanji1,736
Kanji (1-occurrence)321
Average sentence length25.2
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue21.5%
Duration 9 h
Volume 15
Character count120,778
Word count54,900
Unique words6,469
Words (1-occurrence)3,229
Unique kanji1,709
Kanji (1-occurrence)335
Average sentence length26.4
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue20.0%
Duration 9 h
Volume 16
Character count152,389
Word count68,641
Unique words7,337
Words (1-occurrence)3,538
Unique kanji1,770
Kanji (1-occurrence)330
Average sentence length23.3
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue21.9%
Duration 11 h
Volume 17
Character count100,814
Word count46,730
Unique words6,277
Words (1-occurrence)3,165
Unique kanji1,694
Kanji (1-occurrence)322
Average sentence length26.1
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue19.0%
Duration 7 h
Volume 18
Character count124,567
Word count57,491
Unique words7,116
Words (1-occurrence)3,532
Unique kanji1,782
Kanji (1-occurrence)328
Average sentence length23.8
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue24.9%
Duration 9 h
Volume 19
Character count58,431
Word count26,547
Unique words4,709
Words (1-occurrence)2,616
Unique kanji1,525
Kanji (1-occurrence)363
Average sentence length23.8
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue22.7%
Duration 4 h
Volume 20
Character count95,087
Word count44,654
Unique words6,288
Words (1-occurrence)3,315
Unique kanji1,747
Kanji (1-occurrence)358
Average sentence length25.0
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue24.3%
Duration 7 h
Volume 21
Character count72,213
Word count33,585
Unique words5,116
Words (1-occurrence)2,736
Unique kanji1,599
Kanji (1-occurrence)377
Average sentence length24.8
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue27.0%
Duration 5 h
Volume 22
Character count11,362
Word count5,283
Unique words1,669
Words (1-occurrence)1,110
Unique kanji838
Kanji (1-occurrence)339
Average sentence length31.2
Difficulty beta Very hard
Dialogue28.5%
Duration 1 h
Volume 23
Character count110,047
Word count50,810
Unique words6,414
Words (1-occurrence)3,190
Unique kanji1,720
Kanji (1-occurrence)326
Average sentence length28.7
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue26.8%
Duration 8 h
Volume 24
Character count123,440
Word count56,527
Unique words6,721
Words (1-occurrence)3,382
Unique kanji1,753
Kanji (1-occurrence)317
Average sentence length30.6
Difficulty beta Moderate
Dialogue29.6%
Duration 9 h