Spy x Family

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Mar 25, 2019 to ?

Genres: Action, Comedy

Theme: Childcare

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump+

Authors: Endou, Tatsuya (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.45¹ (scored by 142,299 users)

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Ranked: #213²

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Popularity: #18

Members: 341,476

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Ranked #213Popularity #18Members 341,476

MangaShounen Jump+Endou, Tatsuya (Story & Art)

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For the agent known as "Twilight," no order is too tall if it is for the sake of peace. Operating as Westalis' master spy, Twilight works tirelessly to prevent extremists from sparking a war with neighboring country Ostania. For his latest mission, he must investigate Ostanian politician Donovan Desmond by infiltrating his son's school: the prestigious Eden Academy. Thus, the agent faces the most difficult task of his career: get married, have a child, and play family.

Twilight, or "Loid Forger," quickly adopts the unassuming orphan Anya to play the role of a six-year-old daughter and prospective Eden Academy student. For a wife, he comes across Yor Briar, an absent-minded office worker who needs a pretend partner of her own to impress her friends. However, Loid is not the only one with a hidden nature. Yor moonlights as the lethal assassin "Thorn Princess." For her, marrying Loid creates the perfect cover. Meanwhile, Anya is not the ordinary girl she appears to be; she is an esper, the product of secret experiments that allow her to read minds. Although she uncovers their true identities, Anya is thrilled that her new parents are cool secret agents! She would never tell them, of course. That would ruin the fun.

Under the guise of "The Forgers," the spy, the assassin, and the esper must act as a family while carrying out their own agendas. Although these liars and misfits are only playing parts, they soon find that family is about far more than blood relations.

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Spy x Family ranked first in the 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division. It was nominated for the 13th Manga Taisho Award in 2020 and placed second in the final ranking. In the same year, it was also nominated for the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category. In 2021, the manga was nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho Award and placed 10th in the final ranking. In 2023, it won the Grand Prize in the Comic Division at the 52nd Japan Cartoonists Association Awards.

The series has been simulpub in English through MANGA Plus. It has been published physically in English by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint since June 2, 2020. The manga has also been released in Polish by Waneko since April 30, 2020; in Spanish by Editorial Ivrea since June 11, 2020; in Brazilian Portuguese and Italian by Panini Comics since September 15, 2020, and November 5, 2020, respectively; and in German by Kazé Deutschland since October 1, 2020.

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Apr 24, 2019

Faerie888

Recommended

Preliminary (3/? eps)

Mangaka: "You guys want a Spy story?"
Otakus: "Ughhhh, really? Bet it's going to be digustingly cliched."
Mangaka: "Well, let's reverse the personality roles."
Otakus: "Okay? Let's go home guys."
Mangaka: "You sure? I have an esper loli to spare. Oh! I also have an ultra-sexy hitman and a guy tsundere."
Otakus: "You what???"
Mangaka: "Wait, there's more. Did I mention this also sets in Cold War era with many bullshit shenanigans?"
(Weebs have entered the chat)
Weebs: "Give me that!"
(Mangaka offers this)
...

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Jun 2, 2022

Panda_Roll

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (62/? eps)

There is so much hype surrounding the anime from episode one that, when I didn't get it, I turned to the manga.

62 chapters in and here is my tally.

Number of completed missions = 2 (boat mission, Tennis mission)

Number of character arcs completed = 2 (The dog got an arc, the boy's sidekicks got a character moment)

Number of side missions completed = 1 (Nightfall got some leads)

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Oct 19, 2024

Shironasu

Not Recommended

Preliminary (30/? eps)

This might be the most brutal manga review I've ever done.

Now, if you are a fan of this series then please skip my review because I will be criticizing it as someone who hates this series with a burning passion or you don't

I believe in the media industry there is something called "popularity syndrome", when something becomes popular or sells well, its quality decreases instead of improving, because the creators or people responsible have less incentive to improve their work, or maybe they just drag it out as long as possible just to milk it and make endless money, which makes things worse. This is ...

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