What Makes Spy x Family So Popular?

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Spy X Family has become the most popular anime in the spring 2022 season. What's more, at the time of writing this article Spy X Family is the tenth-highest ranking anime of all time on MyAnimeList, a website in which users can log anime they've seen and rank them on a scale from one to ten. With over 750,000 members having logged the anime in their own lists before the first season has concluded, the sudden fanfare over the series has been overwhelming, to say the least.

Spy X Family is a comedy slice-of-life spy anime, adapted from a manga written by Tatsuya Endo and is currently serialized in Shounen Jump. It features the daily adventures of a spy using the alias Loid Forger, who in order to blend in during an important mission must pretend to have a family. He accomplishes this by adopting a young girl named Anya, who is secretly an esper, and by swiftly marrying Yor Briar, a city hall clerk who is a professional assassin at night. Everyone's identities are hidden from each other, except for from Anya, who can read minds and therefore knows everyone's true thoughts. In a world dominated by shounen and isekai anime, how did an unassuming anime such as Spy X Family surge into the mainstream? The manga was well-received, but how did Spy X Family balloon over the rankings of all but one season of Attack on Titan, and other popular series such as Cowboy Bebop, the original Gintama, and Code Geass, among others?

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First, there seems to be a shift in trending anime in the Spring 2022 anime season. By looking through MyAnimeList's user rankings and popularity, which is measured by how many users have logged the anime onto their own personal list, Spy X Family is the highest-rated and the most