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‘Spy x Family Code: White’ Review: Espionage and Culinary Adventure Collide in an Amusing Anime Spinoff


Takashi Katagiri, who directed season 2, continues the characters' journey with some inconsequential fun in first feature 'Spy x Family Code: White.'

The lead trio in this “Three’s Company” dynamic — papa spy Loid Forger (Takuya Eguchi), his secret assassin wife Yor (Saori Hayami) and their adopted telepathic four-year-old Anya (Atsumi Tanezaki) — have been pretending to be a family for so long that the ruse has begun to feel real. The show’s first episode (available on Crunchyroll) lays this out pretty well, but the movie has enough expository voiceover to explain that Loid’s long-term target has a son at an elite private school, and part of his plan involves adopting a child and enrolling her at that same institution. Before long, an overtly fascist military leader crosses paths with the family and not only steals their fancy dessert, but secretly threatens to plunge the world into war — two consequences the movie treats with equal weight and urgency.

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