(CR) Spy X Family

[Last Sinner]

It was reasonable. The art turned out better than I thought it would, given certain moments in the manga gave me issues. The VA for our dear spy guy feels like he had barely moved on from Hachiman, suiting the clinical nature of the character. Anya having to feign what she really is has some amusement.

A couple of things irked me though during this and by the end of the ep, it occurred to me. How much this scenario has been done ever since The Professional. The spy/assassin taking on a girl that somewhat humanises them. Heck, I even remember a manga from a few years back with a blind assassin and a girl that could foresee the future. In the end, the main/unique hook is Anya. She will win over the hearts of many and be a merch boon (heck, there were already pre-orders for figures of her before the first ep aired).

You will have to be constantly into her making Loid's life hard and keeping up the premise of what she really is. Probably helping him live at some point. It will mainly be about the spoofs and less about the spying. Heck, when they switched back to an action scene late that episode, it almost feel out of place. Then I realised why. I was bored. And I don't think that flat jazz playing all episode helped.

It's an easily digestible pill that's very marketable and will win people over relatively easily. But it feels like a lot of empty calories. I'd rather have the sour-tasting pill with a burning sensation after that leaves me fulfilled.

Good luck to it but I won't be continuing with it. Not that it needs it - this is a shallow season.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by James Rye

"How should I make a child in 7 days?!"
Seriously that agency is messed up to give Twilight such a short-notice task. XD
Without Franky stealing the questions there is no way Anya would have gotten in, just look how many candidates there were. No wonder Twilight dropped dead after that was done. Really cute how Anya cuddled with her papa on the couch. <3

Vibrant colors, fluid movement, amazing voice acting, all around very great first episode. You can see that they put a lot of money and care into the series.

Loid didn't count on law of dramatic irony hitting him so soon .

I love how they way he said it made it sound like he was thinking of doing it in the...organic way .

Originally Posted by Kanon

Anya is even cuter animated! The way she actually speaks in Japanese makes her sound more childish than the English translation does. I was a bit surprised as a long time manga reader.

Atsumi Tanezaki is great .

[bakato]

Originally Posted by James Rye

"How should I make a child in 7 days?!"
Seriously that agency is messed up to give Twilight such a short-notice task. XD
Without Franky stealing the questions there is no way Anya would have gotten in, just look how many candidates there were. No wonder Twilight dropped dead after that was done. Really cute how Anya cuddled with her papa on the couch. <3

Vibrant colors, fluid movement, amazing voice acting, all around very great first episode. You can see that they put a lot of money and care into the series.

What's messed up is that the agency to support the agent. If this mission is so important they would've screened and provided a candidate child themselves rather than tell Lloyd at the last minute.

[Wandering Soul]

Excellent first episode to an anime of a great manga. Everything was pretty much perfect. Hell, Anya was even cuter than in the manga

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

Cloverworks + Wit Studio, right?
Yeah, I saw the industry really pushing this manga and you can tell they went overkill to get both of these companies together to work on a comedy series (though I guess there are a few spy parts that do get the benefit?)

And yeah, Tanezaki can voice everything, as always.

As for the episode itself, I guess it was fine, but so far, I don't feel the need to push this manga like hell yet. I guess still unique enough, though it kinda reminds me of Hinamatsuri with the father protagonist and daughter having special powers causing trouble with it, as well as the overall silly nature of everything

Though despite being such an incredible guy, it only takes "Get a daughter" to make him shout out in public and he rips off his mask before everything is done because... cool...?

[HandofFate]

I like that even though she can read minds, she is still mentally, just a child

[Marcus H.]

Error 404: Mother Not Found.

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by HandofFate

I like that even though she can read minds, she is still mentally, just a child

It is kind of refreshing. She's a kid with telepathy. Not simply a telepath that happens to be a child. Lets her be childish while also having a useful ability that can impact events.

[Nachtwandler]

Originally Posted by bakato

What's messed up is that the agency to support the agent. If this mission is so important they would've screened and provided a candidate child themselves rather than tell Lloyd at the last minute.

It was not explained yet, but the agency is heavily understaffed because Ostanian counterpart caught a lot of their agents recently. It should be addressed later at least regarding the wife candidate.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by HandofFate

I like that even though she can read minds, she is still mentally, just a child

She's not even all that smart, really - not dumb, but kind of a normal kid in intellectual terms. And I do think that's a key component of why she works as a character.

[James Rye]

Originally Posted by grecefar

It looks very promising, it was funny, has action, fluffy family even if papa is a liar lol.

Anya is a treasure and her faces were so funny. It looks like the next chapter is going to be even more funny.

Originally Posted by Frontier

Loid didn't count on law of dramatic irony hitting him so soon .

I love how they way he said it made it sound like he was thinking of doing it in the...organic way .

Atsumi Tanezaki is great .

Anya's expressions are one of the best things, maybe even the best thing, in the manga series. Whenever there is a new chapter release, people online crop all the Anya expressions they can find. Like there was even an official poll for best Anya expression with huge numbers of participation.

Originally Posted by bakato

What's messed up is that the agency to support the agent. If this mission is so important they would've screened and provided a candidate child themselves rather than tell Lloyd at the last minute.

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

It was not explained yet, but the agency is heavily understaffed because Ostanian counterpart caught a lot of their agents recently. It should be addressed later at least regarding the wife candidate.

Yeah, the spy message in the news paper could have explained that in 1-2 sentences as that they got no female agent and no child ready for this mission because too many agents got busted, so he has to deal with all that himself and good luck with that. xD

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

She's not even all that smart, really - not dumb, but kind of a normal kid in intellectual terms. And I do think that's a key component of why she works as a character.

Her brain is peanut-shaped for a reason. But it is not her intellect I like but her hyper and sensitive personality. We already saw her vulnerable side with her memory of her past as test/experiment subject and how much she years for a family and adventure. And ofc how much stock she puts into her power just to realize in the test itself that it is useless to read other children minds if they don't know anything either. But good thing her memory worked well enough after that obviously harsh training by Twilight/Loid.^^

[ryllharu]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

She's not even all that smart, really - not dumb, but kind of a normal kid in intellectual terms. And I do think that's a key component of why she works as a character.

Yes, her age-appropriate intellect paired with her personality is a nice deviation from the "Esper and also a genius" trope. There's also the fact that she's almost certainly lying about her age. Twilight thought she looked like she was four or at most five, and they mostly established that he's very good with details like that.

But in order to get adopted, Anya immediately lied to him that she was six.

[magnuskn]

Damn, this was good. So far easily my favorite "anime which is not a sequel" of this season. And I didn't even planned to watch it initially.

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by James Rye

Yeah, the spy message in the news paper could have explained that in 1-2 sentences as that they got no female agent and no child ready for this mission because too many agents got busted, so he has to deal with all that himself and good luck with that. xD

Don't know about that. He is ace spy, so he probably aware about agency situation and that secret message was unecessary long already. It should be better wait for more appropriate and natural opportunity for exposition.

[frodonk]

One banger after another, I'm very tempted to pick this up right now, but I'm waiting until we get the mother

[Nachtwandler]

Have you watched the preview? She will be there next ep. Also, one of the most memorable manga scenes incoming.

[frodonk]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

Have you watched the preview?

I have now

[frubam]

Really enjoyed this premiere =03. I've been reading Shounen no Abyss, and after reading such a quality story, none of the comedic/semi-comedic shows have been doing it for me this season, but this hit home in just the right way. Ofc spy Hachiman is good, but I just love Anya's personality. It's great when little girls/boys act like their age, but I guess its fun even if they try to act like adults. I'm still fresh off of Kotaro Lives Alone(need to watch the last 3 eps D0=), so that feeling of adults interacting with a kid is still fresh. Glad I get a weekly version of that now . Hopefully the mother can have the same level of charisma as Loid and Anya did in this episode.

[Dextro]

Outstanding first episode. Great production values and the voice casting seems to be spot on so far. Anya's VA is reaching WMD levels of cuteness with her performance (as are the animators and the rest of the staff).

I'm really looking forward to next week so we can finally meet the mom as well. So far it seems like this show might just live up to the hype. Fingers crossed on that one.

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

Rollin Hand (Martin Landau) provided technical assistance on mask creation for this show.



I'm probably the only one here old enough to have watched the original Mission Impossible TV series as it aired. Appointment viewing in our house at the time.

Plus Landau had the very good fortune to be married to Barbara Bain (who played femme fatale Cinnamon in the show).

I may not be old enough to have watched it at release but I did grow up with the re-runs and am still a big fan today. So at least you've for one person here who also did the same immediate connection

[frodonk]

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

Rollin Hand (Martin Landau) provided technical assistance on mask creation for this show.

I'm probably the only one here old enough to have watched the original Mission Impossible TV series as it aired. Appointment viewing in our house at the time.

Plus Landau had the very good fortune to be married to Barbara Bain (who played femme fatale Cinnamon in the show).

Good afternoon Mr. Phelps

I intentionally downloaded full seasons of this show years back when I saw an episode of it on a local cable channel. I might not have seen it when it originally ran since I wasn't born yet but I just want you to know that you're not the only one on here who's a fan of the show

This message will self-destruct in 10 seconds, good luck Jim