ホロは俺の嫁だ!! (Holo is my waifu!!)

That's a goddess worthy of worshipping. Yes, I know the yukata might not be really appropriate, with the Spice and Wolf world being based on medieval Europe, but I don't own a tuxedo (or the medieval counterpart) so it'll have to do ^^;

Unfortunately I have no place to put her up permanently - she's too wide for the closet door above and I can't do any damage to what little wall space I have - so I'll have to keep her in storage until I move back home next year. Sigh, tiny Japanese apartments suck...

What? Of course I have to kiss the bride, isn't that required?

A shot without me in the way. Gorgeous, isn't she?

She was bundled with the pre-order of the limited edition of 狼と香辛料 ボクとホロの一年 (Spice and Wolf: Holo's and My One Year) for the Nintendo DS released back in 2008. I bought the game a while back, but I never thought I'd find the poster. And she only cost 1575 yen!

I wanna play with her ears...

I also picked up the special editions of volumes 1 and 3 of the manga - the bottom two. The only difference is the cover though, but hey, a special edition is a special edition, right?

And a shot of the collection so far. Still missing a few of the light novels, but I still haven't read all the ones I own yet, so I'll pick them up later. Luckily I had one doujinshi that I could put on top without censoring^^

The rye (I think it is, it's too bristly to be wheat) has a story of it's own. There's an international friendship association in town that holds Japanese lessons a couple of times per month - the whole thing is run by volunteers, so it's pretty much just an opportunity to meet and practice conversation with locals. Anyway, one day I talked to a man there and mentioned Spice and Wolf kind of in passing when talking about books and stuff. The next meeting he shows up and has not only bought and read halfway through the first light novel, but also, on his way there, found a small bundle of rye on the road. Proclaiming it to be a good omen, drawing connections to Holo as a goddess of harvest, he then proceeds to give me half of it. Yeah, he's a funny guy. He's nearly twice my age, but looks almost younger and behaves not wholly unlike a college student.