The announcement of Spy x Family’s anime adaptation was not a surprise to anime fans, but an incredibly welcome one nonetheless. Within the anime fandom, Spy x Family has garnered immense praise from manga-readers of the series.
However, manga is not the same as anime, so it raises the question, ‘Why should you watch Spy x Family’. Here are a couple of reasons why anime fans should be excited about this unique slice-of-life series.
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Spy x Family is a comedic slice-of-life-style anime series that follows three individuals with exceptional abilities and some dark secrets. Loid, who plays the father, is a talented spy who is sent on a mission to ‘buddy-up’ with Donovan Desmond, a high-ranking political figure. In order to do so, Loid must create a ‘false’ family to infiltrate the same school as Desmond’s children to get close to him.
In order for Loid to construct his fake family, he has to find a gifted child to enroll in the prestigious Eden Academy. Visiting an orphanage, Loid comes across a child named Anya, who secretly has the power to read minds, making her a perfect fit.
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Along the way, Loid searches for a wife in order to round out his pretend family. Conveniently, Loid comes across Yor who is also searching for a husband in order to cover up her job as an assassin.
The catch of the whole series is that each member of the family is hiding their secrets from one another. This adds tension to normal everyday scenes as each character tries their best to put on the mask of being a happy ordinary family.
Spy x Family was originally published biweekly as a web manga in March 2019 and quickly gained notoriety. It managed to
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