49 Fun Facts About Spy X Family

Where does Loid Forger first meet Anya, the girl he takes in as his daughter?

An orphanage. Several families had already adopted Anya and sent her back before Loid took her home for his mission.

Where has Shueisha serialized Spy x Family since March 2019?

Shōnen Jump+. It is a digital platform rather than a print magazine, and the author went there to follow his long-time editor, who had been moved over from Jump Square.

In which town near the Ostanian border did the spy Twilight grow up?

Luwen. He was a boy there when war broke out, and he went on to enlist in the army, where Westalian intelligence recruited him as a spy.

What does Anya's school award to students for outstanding achievement?

Stella Stars. Anya earned her first one not through schoolwork but by diving into a hospital pool to save a drowning boy.

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

Operation Strix. Its target is so reclusive that the only way in is to enrol a child at the private school his son Damian attends.

Donovan Desmond leads which Ostanian political organisation?

National Unity Party. Desmond once served as prime minister, and he now appears in public so rarely that Twilight has to reach him through his sons' school.

What profession does Loid Forger pretend to have?

Psychiatrist. The cover puts Twilight at Berlint General Hospital, where a second undercover agent has been planted on the staff to back up his story.

What is Yor Forger's day job?

City hall clerk. Staying single at 27 risked drawing suspicion in paranoid Ostania, so Yor agreed to a marriage of convenience as cover.

What is Yor's assassin nickname?

Thorn Princess. Yor took up killing for hire while still young to support her little brother after their parents died, and he has no idea.

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

Garden. Many Ostanians think the group is only an urban legend, and its leader, known simply as the Shopkeeper, is usually shown pruning his plants.

What secret ability does Anya have?

Telepathy. Anya hides it for fear of being sent away again, and it stops working altogether whenever there is a new moon.

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

Subject 007. She later told Loid she was six to suit his plans, though he guessed she was only four or five.

Which breed does the Forgers' big white dog, Bond, most resemble?

Great Pyrenees. Bond enters the story as part of a terrorist bomb plot, and his flashes of the future end up saving Loid's life.

Which secret research program was Bond originally part of?

Project Apple. Bond was its canine Subject 8, and Anya trailed him from an adoption fair into a bombers' hideout before she learned he could glimpse the future.

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

Spy Wars. Its hero, Bondman, wears black gloves and shoes, and Anya thought the white dog's black paws looked just like them.

What is the name of the prestigious school Anya attends?

Eden Academy. Applicants must pass a written exam and then an interview with both parents present, which is why Twilight needs a wife as well as a child.

Anya's housemaster, Henry Henderson, judges students and parents alike by which quality?

Elegance. Henderson was demoted to teaching first-graders after he struck a fellow housemaster who had insulted the Forgers at their admission interview.

Who is Anya's best friend at school?

Becky Blackbell. The arms-maker's daughter took to Anya after Anya stood up to Damian Desmond at the very start of their first term.

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

Tonitrus Bolts. Eight of them mean automatic expulsion, and Anya picked up her first at orientation for punching Damian Desmond.

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

Imperial Scholars. Their parents are invited to an exclusive school party, the one event where the reclusive Donovan Desmond reliably appears.

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

Emile and Ewen. The pair back Damian in every schoolyard feud with Anya, though Ewen has a dream of his own: becoming a cosmonaut.

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

WISE. The letters stand for Westalis Intelligence Services' Eastern-Focused Division, the branch set up to stop the cold war with Ostania from turning hot.

What code name does Twilight's commanding officer, Sylvia Sherwood, go by?

Handler. Her agents also know her as the Fullmetal Lady, while in public she poses as a mild secretary at the Westalian embassy.

What code name does agent Fiona Frost use?

Nightfall. Trained by Twilight to hide every emotion, Fiona keeps a blank face even while nursing a fierce secret crush on him.

Yor's brother Yuri secretly works for which organisation?

State Security Service. Yuri tells Yor he is a Foreign Ministry diplomat, but he is really a secret police lieutenant hunting the spy Twilight, who is his own brother-in-law.

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

Scruffy. Far from minding the jab at his mop of curly hair, Franky likes the nickname enough to use it as an alias of his own.

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

Wit Studio and CloverWorks. The two studios shared the work on the TV seasons and teamed up again for the 2023 film Code: White.

Yor guards a fleeing mother and son aboard what?

Cruise ship. Anya wins tickets for the same sailing in a raffle, so Yor has to fend off a string of assassins without her holidaying family noticing.

Which streaming service licensed the anime outside Asia?

Crunchyroll. It announced an English dub two days after the premiere and showed the first dubbed episode early on its Twitch channel, a day before the dub went up on the service.

Who voices Anya in the Japanese anime?

Atsumi Tanezaki. Creator Tatsuya Endo says the sheer range of her acting at the audition took him by surprise and won her the part.

Who voices Yor Forger in Japanese?

Saori Hayami. She first read the manga to prepare for her audition and found it so hard to put down that she forgot she was reading it for work.

When Loid and Yor agree to a marriage of convenience, what does Loid use as her wedding ring?

A grenade pin. With his pursuers closing in, he pulls it from a grenade and offers it to Yor in place of a ring, pledging his vows in the middle of the fight.

Which band performed "Mixed Nuts", the first opening theme of the Spy x Family anime?

Official Hige Dandism. Singer Satoshi Fujihara wrote it after learning that peanuts, Anya's favourite snack, only look like true nuts, which reminded him of the fake Forger family.

In Code: White, Anya accidentally swallows a chocolate that is hiding what?

A microfilm. An Ostanian colonel means to use it to start a war, so his soldiers spend the rest of the film hunting one small girl.

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

Meremere. It is the favourite sweet of the principal judging Anya's class cooking contest, so Loid takes the family to the region it comes from to taste the real thing and copy it.

In Code: White, the Forgers take a train north to which part of Ostania?

Frigis. At a restaurant there, Colonel Snidel pulls rank to claim the last serving of the dish the Forgers came for, so they set out to gather the ingredients themselves.

In the climax of Code: White, Loid and Yor rescue Anya from what kind of military craft?

An airship. Loid crash-lands a plane on it to reach Anya, and the reunited family has to steer the burning craft down themselves before it causes a disaster.

The cross in the title Spy × Family was borrowed from Hunter × Hunter, a hit manga by which creator?

Yoshihiro Togashi. Endo drafted over a hundred titles, then kept his plain working title, switched it to English and added a cross between the words, as Togashi's series does.

What does Yor's doting brother Yuri demand she and Loid do to prove their marriage is real?

Kiss in front of him. Yor gulps down a drink for courage, but when Yuri has second thoughts and tries to stop them, she slaps him instead.

Which company publishes the Spy x Family manga in English in North America?

Viz Media. Shueisha itself put English chapters on Manga Plus from the day the series launched in Japan, and Viz added it to its own app in September 2019 before moving into print.

To reward Anya for getting into school, Loid rents out what entire venue so she can act out her favourite cartoon?

A castle. She wants a rescue scene, so Loid drafts his fellow agents as extras and has to fight his way past a very drunk Yor to reach her.

How did the Spy x Family stage musical cast Anya?

Four girls took turns. An open audition picked the child actresses, who rotated through the run, while the roles of Loid and Yor were each shared by two performers.

Which 2023 video game has players photographing Anya's outings to fill a picture diary for school?

Spy × Anya: Operation Memories. In Japan it is titled Operation Diary, after the homework at its heart: Anya has to complete a photo diary, so players snap pictures of her days out.

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

Universal Studios Japan. Visitors played rookie spies, cracking codes hidden around the Osaka park to earn entry to a live show starring Loid, Yor and Anya.

A Code: White tie-in with Street Fighter 6 pitted Yor against which fighter in an animated short?

Chun-Li. One of the anime's own studios animated their duel as a promotional short, and players could dress their avatars as Yor or Loid during the January 2024 event.

Which Japanese manga ranking put Spy x Family first for male readers in its 2020 edition?

Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Its voters put the newcomer top of the list, ahead of Chainsaw Man in fourth place and Demon Slayer in sixth.

Yor coaches Anya in a killer throw before her class faces the hulking Bill Watkins at which sport?

Dodgeball. Bill wipes out almost the whole class, Damian takes a hit to shield Anya, and her big moment arrives: the secret throw Yor taught her flops, and the match is lost.

At a major 2023 anime awards show, Anya won Best Supporting Character and which other prize?

Must Protect at All Costs. The prize honours the character viewers most want to shield, and Anya's supporting win came at the expense of her own adoptive mother, Yor, a fellow nominee.

Shibuya 109 marked the release of Code: White with a statue echoing which Tokyo landmark?

Hachikō. The store cast the Forgers' pet Bond as Shibuya's famously faithful dog and inscribed the statue 'Loyal Dog Bond', borrowing the title the real one carries.