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Backstory Can Be Relevant, Who Knew

Spy X Family vols. 14-15 by Tatsuya Endo

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Turns out that sometimes backstory time can be both interesting and maybe even relevant. Spy x Family is essentially an action-comedy where a spy has to create a family to get close to his mark; the gal he marries is secretly an assassin, the daughter he adopts is secretly a telepath (but she’s 6, meaning she understanding things not the conventional way a lot), and the family dog has some kind of foretelling (but is also a dog, and thus cannot speak people). For most […]

Found Family with Spies, Killers, and Secrets but It’s Cozy

Spy X Family Family Portrait by Aya Yajima, Tatsuya Endo

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For some reason I really needed a cozy read not long ago; I’m part way through something that sounded like it should have but is turning out to not be that. I put down book #1, and went for option 2: manga. Or to be more precise, a series of short stories based on the manga (and also now anime) Spy X Family titled Spy X Family: Family Portrait. If you know the series it helps but it’s not totally mandatory as there is a […]

The master spy, the assassin, the telepathic daughter and their clairvoyant doggy

Spy x Family, vol 1 by Tatsuya Endo

Spy x Family, vol 2 by Tatsuya Endo

Spy x Family, vol 3 by Tatsuya Endo

Spy x Family, vol 4 by Tatsuya Endo

Spy x Family, vol 5 by Tatsuya Endo

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Agent Twilight is the best spy in the business and he’s willing to do absolutely anything to protect his country. For his latest mission, Operation Strix, he needs to get close to high-ranking politician Desmond Donovan. To do this, he needs to be married and have a child and said child needs to be admitted to the prestigious Eden Academy, where Desmond Donovan’s son Damien is a pupil. Agent Twilight creates the alias Loid Forger, a clinical psychiatrist, to complete the mission. Since he has […]

Momma’s Turn to Kick Butt

Spy X Family vol 8 by Tatsuya Endo

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Manga parents are usually either absent or flat stereotypes; is some ways Loid and Yor’s relationship in Spy X Family goes that way; they are not absent parents to Anya, but they do play into the “I think I like you but I can’t possibly say that out loud” trope. Their marriage was faked because Yor needed a man in her life to draw attention away from herself (she’s an assassin) and Loid needed a wife to complete his fake family that he needs for […]

When the only person who knows all the secrets is six

Spy x Family vol 5 by Tatsuya Endo

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Bingo 13: Self Care I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned in previous reviews that I tend to turn to manga and comics for comfort reading. One of my current favorite series is Spy X Family, in which a husband, wife, and daughter are gathered and have to present an ideal picture to the world, but things can get awkward at home since everyone has a major secret: Dad is a spy, Mom’s an assassin, Bond the dog who gets premonitions of the future, and daughter is […]

Fun with Family Secrets

Spy x Family vol 4 by Tatsuya Endo

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So far in Spy X Family, the Forger family consists of dad Loid (real identity: master spy Twilight), mom Yor (real identity master assassin Thorn Princess), and daughter Anya (a telepath). None of them knows the others’ secrets, except for Anya, except that she’s about 6 and thus misunderstands a lot of what she catches her adoptive parents thinking. Loid and Yor marry sort of out of convenience; he needs a family for a mission (she doesn’t know that) and she needs a family to […]



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