Spy X Family Episode 1 Review

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The first episode of an anime series is hugely important, even when there's a significant fan community awaiting its release. The exciting thing is, that thousands of newcomers are going to drop in on Spy x Family and find their new favorite series from the first episode alone.

Spy x Family comes from the mind of Tatsuya Endo, previously best known for Gekka Bijin, and the manga has become a huge success. The anime is directed by Kazuhiro Furuhasi, who previously worked on the 1999 Hunter x Hunter series and the vastly underrated Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. The characters have undergone an anime redesign, courtesy of Kazuaki Shimada, of The Promised Neverland fame.

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Spy x Family is the tale of a staggeringly talented super-spy codenamed Twilight. The series is set in a world in which a pair of fictional nations are in a consistent state of cold war, leading to some 60s-style information warfare between the competing nations. Twilight is tasked with investigating the behavior of a reclusive diplomat and given a strategy to do so. The stoic and typically taciturn spy must put together a convincing fake family, get his newfound child into a high-tier school, and make his way into a social gathering, all within one week. To pull this off, he takes on the name Loid Forger and swiftly adopts the smartest kid at the local orphanage. Little does he know, his precocious new daughter Anya is a powerful mind-reader. The spy and the psychic are a fantastic duo from their first moments, and the show has established a beautiful status quo.

Spy x Family has comfortably snuck its way into a few genres with excellent results. It's a spy thriller first, an odd-couple family comedy second,