50 Fun Facts About Spy X Family

Who writes and illustrates Spy x Family?

His editor Shihei Lin also worked on his first series, Tista, back in 2007.

On which Shueisha app and website has the manga been serialized since March 2019?

Chapters arrive biweekly, every other Monday, and are simultaneously published in English on Manga Plus.

Where did Twilight grow up before the war, according to the manga?

He lost his mother and friends when the war began, enlisted, and was recruited by Westalian intelligence to train under Sylvia Sherwood.

What are the two rival nations in Spy x Family?

Reviewers have noted the setting is a recognisable parody of post-war Berlin.

What is the name of Twilight's mission to get close to Donovan Desmond?

Desmond is so reclusive that the only route is enrolling a child at the same school as his son Damian.

Donovan Desmond leads which Ostanian political organisation?

He is a former prime minister who appears in public only at the annual party for Eden's Imperial Scholars.

What profession does Loid Forger pretend to have?

He works undercover at Berlint General Hospital, where fellow agent Fiona Frost is a clerk.

What is Yor Forger's day job?

She wanted a cover marriage because single adult women draw suspicion in paranoid Ostania.

What is Yor's assassin nickname?

She joined the assassin group Garden young to support her brother Yuri after their parents died.

What is the name of the assassin organisation Yor works for?

Many Ostanians consider it an urban legend; its leader, the Shopkeeper, is always seen pruning plants.

What secret ability does Anya have?

She is the only family member who knows everyone's true profession, and keeps quiet for fear of being abandoned.

What was Anya's designation in the lab where she was experimented on?

She claims to be six, though Loid reckons she is closer to four or five.

What breed is the Forgers' dog, Bond?

He can glimpse the future, a fact only Anya knows thanks to her telepathy.

Which secret research program was Bond originally part of?

He was its canine test subject, "Subject 8", before meeting Anya during a terrorist bomb plot.

Bond is named after the hero of which in-universe cartoon Anya loves?

Its star, Bondman, wears a yellow hat and coat and fights the League of Evil.

What is the name of the prestigious school Anya attends?

It teaches about 2,500 students from age 6 to 19 and is located in Berlint, Ostania.

Which dormitory house are Anya, Damian and Becky in?

Their housemaster is history teacher Henry Henderson, demoted to first-graders after defending the Forgers.

Who is Anya's best friend at school?

Her father runs Blackbell Heavy Industries, a major military manufacturer, and she is cared for by her butler Martha.

What are the penalty marks handed out at Anya's school called?

One disciplinary-committee teacher enjoys issuing them so much students call her Old Lady Tonitrus.

Damian's overachieving older brother belongs to which elite student group?

Demetrius reportedly made only a single mistake in his midterm exams.

What are the names of Damian's two constant followers?

Ewen dreams of becoming a cosmonaut; Emile loves sweets.

What is the name of the Westalian spy agency Twilight works for?

It stands for the Westalis Intelligence Services' Eastern-Focused Division.

What is Sylvia Sherwood's code name at WISE?

Her agents call her the "Fullmetal Lady"; her cover is a post at the Westalian embassy.

What code name does agent Fiona Frost use?

Trained by Twilight, she hides all emotion and works undercover as a clerk at Berlint General Hospital.

Yor's brother Yuri secretly works for which organisation?

Ostensibly a Foreign Ministry official, he is a second lieutenant in the secret police tasked with hunting Twilight.

What does Anya call Franky Franklin, Twilight's informant?

Franky runs a tobacco shop by day, invents gadgets in his spare time and first met Twilight as an enemy soldier.

Which two studios co-produced the Spy x Family anime?

The first season ran as two split cours in 2022, directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi.

In which year did the anime's first season premiere?

The first cour ran from April 9 to June 25 and the second from October 1 to December 24.

Who directed the first season of the anime?

Kazuaki Shimada handled character designs and (K)now Name composed the music.

Which streaming service licensed the anime outside Asia?

Muse Communication handled Taiwan and South and Southeast Asia; the English dub premiered in April 2022.

Who voices Anya in the Japanese anime?

Endo wanted a voice like Chibi Maruko-chan's rather than a generic cute-girl pitch, and was surprised by her range.

Who voices Yor Forger in Japanese?

Natalie Van Sistine voices her in the English dub.

Who voices Loid Forger in Japanese?

Alex Organ voices him in English; Kensho Ono voices Yuri and Hiroyuki Yoshino voices Franky.

Which band performed the first season's opening theme, "Mixed Nuts"?

Gen Hoshino sang the first ending theme; both are interviewed in the Mission Report guidebook.

Who directed the 2023 anime film Code: White?

Ichirō Ōkouchi wrote the screenplay and Tatsuya Endo supervised and supplied original character designs.

In Code: White, what dessert does the family travel north to find?

Loid wants to recreate the principal's favourite treat so Anya can win a cooking contest and a Stella star.

What is the name of the northern city the Forgers visit in Code: White?

There, Colonel Snidel seizes the city's last Meremere and plots to use microfilm to spark a war.

Roughly how much did Code: White gross worldwide?

It was the fourth highest-grossing Japanese film of 2024, with $41.2 million of its total coming from Japan.

Which manga's title inspired the "×" in Spy × Family?

Endo considered over 100 titles before keeping the working title in English with a cross added.

Which Endo one-shot inspired the character of Anya?

Her extrasensory perception was decided early on for its comedic potential.

Which company publishes the manga in English in North America?

Casey Loe translates it; the first print volume arrived on June 2, 2020.

What was the title of the 2021 light novel written by Aya Yajima?

Written by Aya Yajima, it became the first Jump J-Books light novel to get an audiobook release.

Where did the Spy x Family musical premiere in March 2023?

Win Morisaki and Hiroki Suzuki shared the role of Loid; four child actresses alternated as Anya.

What is the title of the 2023 Nintendo Switch game based on the series?

Developed by Groove Box Japan for Bandai Namco, it lets players collect photos for Anya's diary.

Which theme park hosted the Spy x Family Secret Mission attraction in 2023?

Visitors played rookie WISE agents solving hidden codes before a live Forger family show.

Which fighting game ran a Code: White collaboration featuring Yor against Chun-Li?

Players could unlock avatar costumes based on Yor's Thorn Princess dress and Loid's dark cyan suit.

Which guidebook named the series best for male readers in its 2020 edition?

It also topped Honya Club's bookstore-employee recommendations for 2020.

Which volume's first print run topped 1,000,000 copies, a Jump+ first?

By its release in December 2020 the series had over 8 million copies in circulation.

At the 45th Anime Grand Prix, Anya won which award?

Her voice actress finished second for Best Voice Actor at the same event.

What did Shibuya 109 place beside Hachikō for the film's release?

It bore the words "Chūken Bondo", or Loyal Dog Bond, echoing Hachikō's famous title.