{"id":112141,"date":"2024-04-07T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T01:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alltheanime.com\/?p=31020"},"modified":"2024-04-07T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T01:11:17","slug":"music-spy-x-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/music-spy-x-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: Spy x Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Osmond.<\/p>\n

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A spy, an assassin and a telepathic tot walk into a story. That\u2019s the set-up for Spy x Family<\/a><\/em>, but it\u2019s pretty much the show\u2019s punchline, too, repeated over and again. And we still love it. In particular, the anime\u2019s opening and closing titles are YouTube-friendly masterworks, visions of domestic family bliss that you thought vanished with 1950s advertising.<\/p>\n

These titles are accompanied by multiple songs. Arguably the biggest earworm is the peppy \u201cSouvenir\u201d by Bump of Chicken, which was the opening song for the second half of the first season. It was quickly embedded in Tokyo\u2019s piped music soundscape, where it sometimes felt as ubiquitous as Frozen<\/em>\u2019s \u201cLet it Go.\u201d But if you find it too slickly controlled, you may prefer the jazzily madcap \u201cMixed Nuts\u201d \u2013 that opened the show\u2019s first episodes, created by the group Official Hige Dandism. More recently, the show\u2019s second season opened to the unmistakeable tones of the singer Ado, following up her epic stint on One Piece Film: Red<\/em> with another swerving, swaggering barnstormer, \u201cKura Kura.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Then don\u2019t forget Spy x Family<\/em>\u2019s end songs \u2013 the soft but funky \u201cKigeki\u201d (or \u201cComedy\u201d) by Gen Hoshino which closed out the first episodes; the perky \u201cShikisai\u201d (or \u201cColor\u201d) by the singer yama which closed out the season\u2019s second half; and the relaxed soaring of season two\u2019s end song, \u201cTodome no Ichigeki\u201d (\u201cFinishing Strike\u201d) by Vaundy \u2013 he also wrote the outro to Chainsaw Man<\/em>, \u201cChainsaw Blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like the best blockbusters, Spy x Family<\/em> would have been impossible to make with an \u201cIf you liked this\u2026\u201d algorithm. It has explosive action and moe<\/em> cuteness, but remixed quite unexpectedly. It feels essentially left-field, like something that grew from a shaggy dog story. Maybe that\u2019s why a dog wanders in later.<\/p>\n

As its name implies, Spy x Family<\/em> crashes the spy action-thriller into a heartwarming comedy about family bonds, even if each family member is reading a very different script from the others. There\u2019s a superspy dad, an assassin mum and a button-cute tot who happens to be a telepath. Mum and dad only know their <\/em>bits of the story. They each think they\u2019re the only one who has secrets, and that the people they share a household with are all normal. It\u2019s like if Superman worked at a newspaper where everyone<\/em> had a secret cape and went around flying at night. The mind-reading daughter knows everything, but she\u2019s only six, so her comprehension\u2019s a bit limited.<\/p>\n

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Spy x Family<\/em> wears its own disguise. The anime starts by chucking us into a slightly-fictional Cold War, where the countries are called Westalis and Ostanis, and the capital is called Berlint. (We hope there\u2019s a Parisd and a Londonk, and a Tokyop). The first scene shows an assassination; later that episode, a crook is shot in front of a googly-eyed little girl who knows she\u2019s not in an Enid Blyton story. \u201cA pistol with a silencer!\u201d we hear her think (a lot of her dialogue is internal). \u201cA real bad guy!\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily, rescue is on the way from the girl\u2019s new daddy, who\u2019s a kind of James Bond. (Well, not really, but we\u2019ll discuss that later.) His codename is Twilight, though he soon changes that to Loid. He\u2019s slender, dapper and dashing, and he\u2019s a top agent for Westalis, changing his name and identity at the drop of a hat. He\u2019s been given a mission to spy on an Ostanis dignitary because\u2026 frankly, that\u2019s not important. What is<\/em> important is he needs to create a fake family as cover, including acquiring a child who can befriend his target\u2019s<\/em> child at a super-elite school, and let Twilight get into the social circles of the higher-ups. Yes, a school parents\u2019 evening could help win the Cold Wat.<\/p>\n

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The first move of Loid (as we\u2019ll call him from now on) is to adopt the little girl mentioned earlier, who\u2019s called Anya. He finds her in a shady orphanage. Unknown to him, Anya is telepathic, and that\u2019s a great joke straight off. Here is Loid the superspy<\/em>, and the show puts him instantly in the dark about what kind<\/em> of story he\u2019s in. Loid sees Anya as the way to get to his target, but actually she\u2019s the infiltrator, giving us<\/em> a way into the story. She\u2019s a moe<\/em> (super-adorable) character; practically all the show\u2019s opening and end title sequences revolve round her, as do many of the episodes. But, unusually, much of the humour revolves around Anya being so out of place, both in action scenes and in ordinary interactions.<\/p>\n

For example, when Anya first meets Loid at the orphanage, she impresses him by solving a crossword puzzle that\u2019s way too old for her. But what Loid doesn\u2019t know is she\u2019s just read the answers in his mind, which makes her seem much smarter than she is. This causes Anya no end of problems later, when her new dad expects her to pass gruelling tests to get into her target\u2019s elite school!<\/p>\n

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Later, when (mild spoiler), Anya does get<\/em> into the school, there\u2019s some adorable comedies of errors and confusions with the other kids, and especially with Damian, the boy Loid needs Anya to befriend. Damian acts like some snobby monster, with shades of Draco from Harry Potter<\/em>, but\u2026 Well, there\u2019s more to him than that, though he won\u2019t admit it. What\u2019s really funny is that Anya is oblivious to these complexities. She can read minds, but that\u2019s not the same as understanding feelings. It\u2019s rare for an anime character to be so precocious and<\/em> so age-appropriately dim at the same time. Another implicit joke is that while Anya can\u2019t understand a little boy, she can<\/em> understand her daddy behind his lies. Grown-ups can be much simpler than kids.<\/p>\n

That leaves the mother, Yor, who\u2019s an assassin. Her character\u2019s well established in her first set-piece, when she comes to a hotel dressed up like Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>, slaughters a roomful of men and then frets her dress is all bloody and what will she wear for her party date? Actually, the date is with Loid; Yor has no idea who he is really, but she needs a companion for the evening, and Anya helps introduce them. (She\u2019d just love <\/em>an assassin as her new mum.) How Yor and Loid actually pair off is the stuff of grand farce, culminating in them both being caught in a shoot-out while frantically trying to hide the fact that they\u2019re both combat veterans. It\u2019s romcom heaven.<\/p>\n

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While Loid\u2019s relationship with Anya is cemented from the start, his relation with Yor is more of a slow-burner, with comic diversions like Yor\u2019s struggles to cook non-lethally, and the introduction of her hyper-possessive kid brother. Although Loid and Yor are adults, and they\u2019re officially married, they feel like two hyper-shy teenagers \u2013 one episode cliffhanger has them realise to their horror that they\u2019ll have to kiss<\/em>. Even in later episodes, the characters are effectively still dating. There\u2019s a disastrous restaurant heart-to-heart scene that starts with their drunken confessions and ends with a literal foot-in-mouth.<\/p>\n

From the moe <\/em>Anya to her \u201cshy teen\u201d type parents, Spy x Family<\/em> is peppered with anime tropes. There are James Bond jokes \u2013 Anya\u2019s secret name is \u201cSubject 007\u201d and a character called<\/em> Bond joins the show later on \u2013 but it\u2019s not<\/em> really a Bond spoof. Earlier I mentioned 1950s advertising. James Bond was <\/em>the ultimate 1950s men\u2019s lifestyle advertisement, a package of travel, fine dining, and women on tap. In Japan, Monkey Punch drew on that dream to create his super-thief Lupin the Third. But Spy x Family<\/em> has quite different values: it\u2019s shyer, sillier and much less macho.<\/p>\n

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One unusual thing about Spy x Family<\/em> is that it is, after all, an anime about a family. For Western fans, a lot of Spy x Family<\/em>\u2019s appeal may be precisely that its family framework feels so different from most anime fare. At the same time, it offers familiar anime pleasures; the comfort of slice of life series about young friends living together, interspersed with action stories of ticking bombs and deadly tennis (yes, seriously<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Japanese viewers might see it differently, though. In Japan, there are some very<\/em> long-running series \u2013 longer than One Piece<\/em>! \u2013 which are also centred on families. It\u2019s just that these are series that were seldom shown in the West, and certainly never with success.  At the genteel end, there\u2019s Sazae-san<\/em>, a Sunday afternoon series that shows the small slices of life of a happy Tokyo family. It\u2019s been going fifty-four years<\/em> and more than two thousand episodes, making it part of anime\u2019s bedrock.<\/p>\n

Like Sazae-San<\/em>, Spy x Family<\/em>\u2019s cosiness <\/em>that puts it at the opposite end of the scale from the weird, dysfunctional, deranged families of The Simpsons<\/em>, Family Guy<\/em> or Japan\u2019s Crayon Shin-chan<\/em>. Even loveable cartoon families \u2013 those in Bob\u2019s Burgers<\/em>, The Incredibles<\/em> and, The Flintstones <\/em>\u2013 are often driven by frustrations, worries and grudges, in a way that feels foreign to Spy x Family<\/em>. Even if you can\u2019t accept that Spy x Family <\/em>is really Sazae-san<\/em> with extra bombs and shootings, then Spy x Family<\/em> still has a deep layer of mellowness, of underlying calm, what anime fans call iyashikei<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films<\/a><\/em>. Spy x Family<\/em> is currently streaming on Prime Video<\/a>; the soundtrack is available for pre-order from Anime Limited<\/a> and the movie Code: White<\/em> is screening in cinemas<\/a> across the UK and Ireland on 26th April.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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