Spy x Family released a new trailer.
The latest preview for the highly anticipated anime adaptation offers a more in-depth look at the series' central three characters. The trailer details the backstories of each member of the Forger family and highlights the moments when Anya, a young girl with psychic powers, realizes that her new adoptive parents are not what they seem. The clip also features the new anime's opening theme, "Mixed Nuts," which is performed by Japanese pop group Official Hige Dandism, who previously contributed music to Tokyo Revengers. The show's closing theme, "Kigeki," is performed by singer and voice actor Gen Hoshino, who previously starred in The Night is Short, Walk on Girl and the Academy Award-nominated Mirai.
The series tells the story of a world-renowned super-spy, codenamed Twilight, who accepts a new mission that requires him to pretend to be an average family man in order to get close to his next target. Taking on the alias Loid Forger, Twilight adopts a seemingly normal little girl, Anya, and quickly enters into a hasty marriage with Yor, an office worker. However, Twilight isn't the only one in the family with a secret: his new wife lives a double life as the world's deadliest assassin, and his new daughter is actually an escaped government experiment with psychic abilities.
The anime is being produced as a collaboration between two of Japan's most well-known animation studios: Wit Studio and CloverWorks. Wit is best known for producing the first three seasons of the Attack on Titan anime, as well as last season's critically acclaimed sleeper hit, Ranking of Kings. CloverWorks was previously best known for shows such as Wonder Egg Priority and Horimiya, but the studio recently found a new hit in My Dress-Up Darling, which has been the breakout anime of the winter 2022 anime season. The Spy X Family anime is being directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, who previously worked on shows such as Le Chevalier D'eonand Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.
Spy X Family was originally created by writer and artist Tatsuya Endo in 2019. The series was originally released exclusively through Shonen Jump+, the digital manga spinoff of publisher Shueisha's popular Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The series has since been released in print and has become one of the biggest successes to emerge from Shueisha's digital platform, achieving a global circulation of over 12 million copies. Endo's espionage comedy has been a hit with critics as well, with praise being directed at its lovable cast of characters and sense of humor. In 2021, the manga was nominated for an Eisner Award.
Endo's manga is available in English from VIZ Media. The anime series is set to premiere in Japan on April 9. Crunchyroll has confirmed that it will stream the series.
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