Reviews with content warning for Bullying - Spy x Family, Vol. 1

Beautifully drawn, hilarious and spectacularly entertaining first volume. Surprisingly heart-warming and emotional. I also loved the fact that despite her superpowers, Anya is still very much a small child. As much as this story is over the top, there are unexpected glimpses of almost raw realism.

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This was fun and hilarious! I cannot wait to read volume two.

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pedanther's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It's cute. It's funny; I laughed out loud multiple times. It's also very cartoony; the worldbuilding is barely sketched in, most of the characters are clearly defined types, and the situations are highly exaggerated. There are a lot of scenes where one of the leads inadvertently does something extremely suspicious, but manages to smooth things over with a flimsy excuse. (It's frankly a miracle that neither Loid nor Yor had sussed the other's secret out by the end of their first date, let alone by the end of the volume, and it continues to be a miracle that both are still regarded as normal and unsuspicious by the people around them.)
What won me over is that the emotional moments, when they happen, land well. Wacky shenanigans aside, it's a story about three people who are each, in their own ways, isolated from the world and yearning for a human connection that they've found in each other, and by the end of the volume I cared enough about them to want to see what happened next. (I don't know if I'm going to stick out the whole series, though; I suspect my tolerance for the wacky shenanigans may have its limits.)

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I've only read the first volume of this manga, but I'm already in love with it.

Spy x Family is a found family story about (you guessed it) a spy family. We follow the main character, a spy who goes by the moniker Twilight, as he finishes up one assignment and gets a new one. A more long-term assignment where he has to pose as a posh family to get close to his target. To do this, he has to take on a wife and a child, both things that he swore he would never do.

I don't want to go to far into detail and spoil it because the best parts of this manga are in the details. His new wife and child bring so much warmth and humor to the story, and there is so much more to them than I can say here without spoiling the plot.

I'm really not really much of a manga reader. I used to be when I was in middle/high school, but it's been many many years since I've picked up a manga and now I'm regretting it hard. This was absolutely fantastic. And it was great for this time of year because post-holiday depression hits me hard sometimes. This series was a nice little pick-me-up that reminded me not to take everything so seriously.

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