Manga 'Spy x Family' Gets TV Anime Adaptation for 2022

TOHO animation opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Tatsuya Endou's Spy x Family manga on Monday, revealing the main staff, lead cast, two teaser visuals (pictured), and first promotional video. The anime series is scheduled for a 2022 premiere.

Staff
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Dororo, Hunter x Hunter)
Character Design: Kazuaki Shimada (Yakusoku no Neverland, Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara.)
Music: (K)NoW_NAME (Dorohedoro, Hai to Gensou no Grimgar)
Studio: Wit Studio, CloverWorks

Takuya Eguchi (91 Days, Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken) is starring as the lead character Loid Forger.

Synopsis
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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Drawing inspiration from his past one-shots—Rengoku no Ashe (Ashe of Purgatory), Ishi ni Usubeni, Tetsu ni Hoshi (Rose in Rock, Star in Steel), and I Spy—Endou launched the action comedy manga in Shounen Jump+ web magazine in March 2019. Shueisha will publish the eighth volume on Thursday. Spy x Family has a cumulative 11 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

VIZ Media began publishing the manga in English on its new Shounen Jump platform in September 2019 and released the sixth volume on October 5. The seventh volume is planned for an April 5 release next year. Shueisha's Manga Plus service also began simulpublishing the manga in English in March 2019.

Spy x Family won first place in the 2019 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings in the male readers' division, fifth Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taisho's web manga category, and 15th edition of Recommended Comics Selected by Japanese Bookstore Employees. The manga was also nominated for the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, 13th Manga Taisho awards, and 44th Kodansha Manga Awards.

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Official site: http://spy-family.net/
Official Twitter: @spyfamily_anime
Manga official page: https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/10834108156648240735
Official Blog: https://shonenjumpplus.com/spyfamily_oshirase/
Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spyfamily_official/

Source: Comic Natalie

Spy x Family on MAL