Grandparents! Should have known we'd get grandparents in some form or another.
Spy X Family
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Now WHAT was this little mini-chapter implying?
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Hmm... hopefully this is the sign for a lore arc soon.
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ANIA is the acronym for the project
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With her somehow being good in ancient language (see the exam result chapter), my main prediction is that she's from a different country and she never had seen her name spelled in roman letters.
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Oooooh, it was a good, memorable one for the series.
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Definitely besties.
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As an anime watcher, I'll say that, while the second season started off kind of slow, I'm really digging this cruise ship arc.
Also, the opening and ending themes for this season go really hard.
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A good teacher can make SUCH a difference. Poor Anya's never had one, so far.
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Seriously, this whole series could just be about Anya's school career and it'd be great.
And I feel for you, Anya. Math was always my worst subject too.
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Finished up season 2 of the anime.
Did we really just go an entire season without advancing the main plot?
Well, the cruise ship arc was fun, at least.
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Okay, I'm quite new into it, with having watched the first like 20 episodes as well as having read up until the beginning of volume 7 where Loid finally met Donovan face to face for the first time. I shouldn't have looked into a spoiler thread I guess, silly me, but... there really hasn't happened that much, eh? So are we really still into Operation Strix with Anya trying to get all the Stella or properly befriend Damien? So it's just the same situation as it was all the time?
Also Yor feels quite somewhat disconnected regarding her assassination job. So I wonder... Will her assassination stuff ever become related to Operation Strix in some way? Like she kills someone who has a huge impact on the operation, be it positive or negative. I mean aside from protecting her family, that is, without even knowing that it's actually related to her family or Operation Strix at all. So, without going into too much detail, please just a short yes or no.
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I kinda just like the characters and the farcical situations they get into more than how well they’re doing at their mission.
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The series is less about the mission and more about the family.
As of so far Yor has not been involved with Operation Strix.
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@ARTEMlS said in Spy X Family:
So, without going into too much detail, please just a short yes or no.
I'll answer one like this:
So are we really still into Operation Strix with Anya trying to get all the Stella or properly befriend Damien?
There are the mini stories that feel like filler but overall I don't feel as though the reset button gets pressed often like Gintama does (to those unfamiliar, there's mini arcs that even the anime can shuffle around easily until the point of no return). It may feel like it but there's some progression in minor steps while having the usual world and character building.
Some examples:
So I think other than the usual wholesome moments, it feels like some pieces are falling together as a setup for something big to come.
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Oh, I see. Yeah, seems something bigger indeed is coming.
Also I wonder if there's some "surprise spy" with some other hidden agenda, maybe with some crazy method acting so that even Anya gets fooled. Maybe Mr. Henderson...? Well, I trust no one...
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This being a spy story, it could easily pull the "sleeper agent" card if we need someone who can get around Anya's ability.
The mangaka's subversion of the hyper-intelligent, hyper-prepared telepathic character continues to be the highlight of this manga! Anya is so delightfully dumb. But also tactical. But also also, she is dumb at being tactical, too. God, I love her! X-D
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I don’t think that Ania is dumb… maybe this is speculation (and I’m anime-only) but haven’t we gotten a lot of hints around her character that kind of explain why she struggles?
It sounds like:
- Ania is actually 4 years old instead of 6, meaning she’s actually advanced for her age.
- Ania’s good at “ancient language” because it’s her first language. The Ostanian language might be a second language for her.
- ANIA isn’t a name; it’s an acronym for the project that created her.
I think the series is really good at dropping big hints in slice-of-life moments and there’s always this looming sense of dread lurking even in some of the brightest moments. At the end of the day, this is a fake family created for a murder mission / imperial interests. The fuse on the powder keg was lit from the beginning… the wick is just REALLY long.
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Really watching eh- It's basically confirmed, Anya lied to Loid about her age to get adopted.
2-3 are speculations that I've seen from manga readers, if anime only can get those I means the adaptation is being good.
- It's basically confirmed, Anya lied to Loid about her age to get adopted.
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I expected that to go through 2 chapters, not done in one.
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I lost it when Anya read the murderer's mind. Of all the things I didn't expect a detective Conan homage. It could've been stretched into two chapters honestly.
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I would have loved for Yor to no-sell also an aspect of the genere, as Anya/Bond can just know everything and Lloyd do everything, I was a little annoyed that she didn’t spook a bear away that was dangerously close to the cabin or something.
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If it had been two chapters she would have, but in one there wasn't enough room.
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Lo! ’t is a gala night
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Cinderella's got nothing on Anya.
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LMAO, Anya is great
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Damian's minions really don't understand him as a person, only as a boss.
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My baby Bond!
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1020698If ANYTHING happens to Bond in this series it will be ruined. It'd be Where the Red Fern Grows all over again.
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Just got backing from seeing Code: White. It was about as good as a movie based on Spy x Family can be, which is to say it was really darn good. Charming, cute, funny, action-packed, all the things you can expect from Spy x Family are there.
As usual, Anya gets a lot of good laughs, but Loid and Yor had a scene that got the biggest laugh in the theater. And while the movie is only an hour and 50 minutes, it honestly feels even longer than that. And I mean that in the best possible way, in that it really sucks you into the world of the Forger family and this little adventure they go on, so that by the end you're quite satisfied with the amount of the time you've spent with them.
So yeah, easy recommendation for me.
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Good timing, I'm going to check out Code: White this weekend.
As for the manga itself, I recently caught up to the end of volume 11? It seems volume 13 was just released in Japan a month ago and volume 12 in English is coming out in August, so at least I'm not too behind now.
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oh it's just soooo good to know that the movie doesn't falls behind the mangá. I'll wait to watch it through streaming, though.
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Going to be one of the sweetest, and probably most bittersweet, flashbacks yet.
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We saw the movie in the theater this weekend, and it was great! It was a legitimate movie! Unlike most anime tie in movies that just feel like a filler, where it's just ten minutes of setup followed by a fight scene where the heroes lose, followed by a fight scene where they get a gratuitous one time power up to beat the villain of the week.... this one had a nearly two hour run time, and a small enough cast, to really breathe. The characters all got to have their own plots and drama, there was time to take in the scenery and do more than just action, when the action did come it really delivered, the comedy worked, the visuals in a few scenes were insane.... and everything being dependent on Anya doing THAT was hilarious.
Also, while almost all anime film tie ins completely rely on you already knowing the characters and story, this one does a really good job of introducing the setups and actually works as a standalone introduction, which is nice.
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Great to hear! Didn't get to watch with the gang since apparently our city isn't good enough to have it, but I was coping by telling myself that maybe it was going to be boring anyway... just gotta wait for the digital release later in the year.
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Definitely going to be bittersweet.
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Fantastic chapter
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Where's that box of tissues?
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Doing a very good job of encapsulating Not-WWI.
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I love the interaction between the Old Woman and Martha. It was simple, yet personal, never about wider politics or ideology. They both felt a certain way while holding on to their humanity.
