The second of Fall 2023’s kaiju trio returns with a pretty characteristic episode. But what do we call it? I hate to obsess over it but the official title card says “Episode 26”, so in theory one should go with that. Problem is, I feel like as a resource I’m doing my readers a disservice by not differentiating when this was clearly pitched as “Season 2”. And “Spy x Family Season 2 – 26″ makes no sense and is even more confusing. So I’m going with the above and damn the torpedoes.
I like SxF the best among that trio, but that’s not to say it’s an unconditional love affair. There’a a yawning gap between this show’s best material and its worst, and we don’t see the former as often as I’d like. Maybe it’s a product of a mangaka who by his own admission is writing outside his comfort zone because that’s what sells. This episode is at neither extreme. It’s a perfectly amusing and pleasant lark which gives ample screen time to all three main characters and doesn’t impact the larger story much either way. Which is perfectly fine for a season premiere.
In fact, this entire episode is premised on Yor getting shot in the ass while on a job. And of course for her a “job” means murdering people, which is something Spy x Family studiously avoids confronting head-on for obvious reasons. Getting shot would seem to be an occupational hazard with being an assassin, so she really has no call for complaint. It does present a sizable inconvenience to be sure, given the challenges of hiding it from her fake family. If she knew the truth about Anya at least Yor wouldn’t have to stress about that, and it would probably have been best to claim she pulled a gluteus maximus while lifting a box or something. But Yor as presented is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so her response is in-character.
This is not exactly Algonquin Round Table stuff here, but as dumb humor goes it’s pretty funny. Loid, naturally, has no idea why his fake wife seems so grouchy so he does the worst possible thing, invite her out on a date. He gets (bribes) Franky to babysit Anya, but the latter is obviously worried about her fake parents and talks him (it wasn’t hard) into tailing them. Her disguise is basically Jackie O., which feels contemporaneous but doesn’t quite look natural on a five year-old. These hijinks are pretty low-hanging fruit for SxF, but the series knows how to play up what it knows works.
The climax of all this is a dinner at a Fugu restaurant (I’m sure those were all the rage in cold war Europe), where one of the terrorists who survived Yor’s attack has gotten a job after deciding to go straight. The convenience factor of all this is off the charts, especially when he tries to poison Yor with fugu venom and winds up giving her pain relief (well, it is a neurotoxin). And even with her esper abilities Anya being able to build a bomb (in about two minutes, yet) is quite a stretch. But hey, we’re not in this for the realism.
Again, it’s all very sasuga and safe. The most striking element of the premiere in fact is the Yuasa Masaaki OP – when you have budgets like Spy x Family has you can do that sort of thing – which is pretty rad. In fact it looks as if he could have done the ED too, though I haven’t seen it attributed to him anywhere. By the looks of the preview next week’s episode could be much more interesting, so I’ll look forward to that.
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