Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to dive back into Spy x Family, and see what further madness Anya gets up to now that she’s acquired a precognitive steed. The limiting factor on Anya’s capacity for mischief has always been her tiny legs, so now that her mobility is improved by a factor of one big floofy dog, I imagine some profound chaos is in order.

Last episode seemed to mark the end of this dedicated Bond arc, so I’m guessing we’ll be returning to Anya’s school drama in force this time, and once again attempting to secure Damian’s friendship. The relatively open canvas of the school setting makes it an easy venue for episodic larks like the dodgeball episode, but I’d also be happy to dig more deeply into Damian’s situation, and give Anya some clues regarding his home life. It appears they’re setting up Damian’s home life as the inverse of Anya’s: while Anya lives with an allegedly fake family that actually love each other, Damian lives with an allegedly real family that’s utterly lacking in familial love. You all likely know I’m a sucker for that “family is who we choose to love” theme, so I’d be happy to either pick at those intricacies or just marvel at some hilarious episodic madness. Let’s get to it!

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we return to Spy x Family in a moment of crisis, as Loid faces off with a bomb-laden dog in a dark alley! Is this the end for Loid, or perhaps just for this poor pooch? How will we resolve this encroaching calamity!?

Well, I’m guessing Spy x Family isn’t the sort of story to either shoot or explode a dog, so I imagine we’re in for some quick thinking and dazzling acrobatics from our resident Bondman. Either way, I’m eager to reach the climax of this arc, which has so far served as the fulfillment of one of Spy x Family’s most alluring promises: the entire family in battle array, employing their powers in unison to accomplish some grand objective. Anya’s certainly settling into this mode well; the acquisition of a big floofy dog has vastly enhanced her reconnaissance abilities, not only through its apparent precognitive powers, but perhaps more importantly through its ability to move much faster than Anya’s tiny little legs. Seeing the whole family in action has been a delight, and I’m eager to see how we turn this attempted bombing into some improbable bonding exercise. Let’s get to it!

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re diving right back into the drama of Spy x Family, in the midst of a high-stakes adventure involving psychic children, future-sighted dogs, and an attempted political assassination! The show is certainly wasting no time in its second cour, and appears to currently be charging towards the fulfillment of one of its most tantalizing promises: the whole Forger family in full battle array, coordinating their powers to solve some grand political crises.

This lever was pulled only once before, during that purse-snatching incident near the beginning of the series, but it’s looking like preventing this assassination will require all hands on deck once again. The key staff also look quite strong for this one; episode director Takahiro Harada has credits ranging from Idolmaster to Birdy the Mighty, while storyboarder Takahiro Miura appears to be something of an action specialist, with regular Ufotable credits on Demon Slayer and the various Fate adaptations. Given Spy x Family’s split studio production, I imagine the team has been afforded plentiful time and resources for what is essentially a “second premiere” of the second cour. Let’s see what they’ve got on offer!

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Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am eager to return to the ongoing drama of the Forger clan, and see what new troubles await in the wake of Loid’s successful Penguin Operation. The show seems to have arrived at a comfortable narrative neutral at this point, with Anya’s successful integration into school life leaving time for ambitious larks like the dodgeball episode or aforementioned penguin shenanigans. That’s fine by me; I’m interested to see how this story develops, but Spy x Family is most fundamentally feel-good comfort food, elevated not by the wild twists of its narrative, but by the skill and polish with which it executes comedy beats and family moments. A tale’s intrigue is largely defined by the facilities of its teller, and between the strong base material and exceptional adaptation, this production is a tale-teller I have come to trust. Let’s see what nonsense our makeshift family’s been getting up to!

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we have the privilege of bearing witness to a key moment in alternate European history, as the Forger clan cement their alliance through the conscription of their final family member. That’s right, Anya wants a dog, and I doubt your usual mundane mutt will do. Considering the secrets that define the Forgers’ existing family members, I’m fully expecting their pet to transform into a giant robot, or at the very least shoot plasma rays out of its eyes.

Given both the ominous conclusion to the last episode, as well as Spy x Family’s consistent focus on the legitimacy and poignancy of found families, I’m expecting this episode will involve some sort of rescue from an animal testing facility, or perhaps a daring breakout staged by the dog in question. But regardless of the narrative details, I’m sure the execution will be a delight; Cloverworks’ preceding dodgeball episode was both one of the funniest and most impressively executed episodes so far, leaving me eager to see what they’ve been cooking up since. Let’s get on with it then, and find these Forgers their perfect pet!

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Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to return to the preposterous drama of Spy x Family, which most recently blessed us with its funniest goddamn episode so far. Anya’s high-stakes volleyball game was a symphony of playful animation and outrageous punchlines, elevating the manga’s excellent comedic fundamentals with generous visual embellishments at every turn. It was intelligent in its pursuit of humor in ways both subtle and obvious; sometimes a joke would emerge simply from the camera’s framing relative to Bill Watkins, and sometimes it would stem from the luxurious executed anticlimax of an incredible power-up animation leading into a super-deformed faceplant.

The episode was so funny that I didn’t even mind that it was only funny, with no real family drama to speak of. I often struggle to maintain interest in pure gag comedies, and tend to require some sympathetic human element to supplement the appeal of a comedy-centered production. For twenty minutes of lunacy, Spy x Family’s last episode proved the exception to that rule, and if this is a sign of Tatsuya Endo gaining more confidence in his writing, I can only imagine what madness lies ahead. Let’s dive back into Spy x Family!

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It’s currently a bleak and drizzly day outside, so I’m thinking we disperse these clouds with a sunny slice of Spy x Family. I have to admit I’ve been getting quite fond of the Forger clan over the course of these adventures. Spy x Family possesses just the right balance of deadpan comedy and character intimacy to appeal to me, with its initial hook of “look at these wacky characters in this outrageous scenario” swiftly making way for the firmer, lasting allure of people you know well doing their best by each other (while still screwing up plenty in the process). And with the last several episodes offering a closer perspective on Yor’s feelings, it’s finally starting to feel like all three of our Forgers are equal partners in this grand fabrication, collectively weaving a fantasy of the life that their circumstances have denied them. With Yor’s fears hopefully assuaged and the family closer than ever, let’s get back to Spy x Family!

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Hello everyone, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. You folks ready for some Spy x Family? I’ve personally been eager to get back the Forgers’ preposterous family drama, and doubly excited given we’re squaring off with a fresh Studio WIT episode. That’s not to say that Cloverworks’ episodes have been bad in any way, but merely that WIT seem regularly determined to overachieve relative to their assignments, pulling off wildly ambitious feats of staging and anime-original sequences like that castle raid just because they can. Even for a more mundane episode like Anya’s entrance at school, dynamic layouts and choice flourishes of animation have helped to elevate Spy x Family’s already-excellent base material.

As for our narrative trajectory, we finished the last episode on one of the show’s first genuine cliffhangers, with Yuri demanding our newlyweds prove just how in love they are. Loid and Yor’s mutual discomfort with lovey-dovey stuff is more than a little improbable, but as long as it keeps facilitating hilarious moments of mutual awkwardness and strained gestures of affection, I’m happy to accept they possess the romantic chops of a pair of middle schoolers. Without further ado, let’s get back to Spy x Family!

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Hello everyone, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to get back to Spy x Family, which most recently offered some clear strides in precisely the direction I was hoping for. My persistent complaint from the start of this production has been a relative lack of Yor interiority or agency, and episode seven provided exactly that, as Yor’s experiences with her brother informed her current advice on Loid’s parenting. Unlike Loid, Yor actually has some personal experience dealing with a young family member, and her words helped Loid realize he’d been treating Anya more as a faulty machine than a living daughter. That in turn led to Loid affirming Yor’s place in the family, as he told her to stop considering herself an outsider relative to him and Anya.

I’m very much hoping Yor follows that advice, and continues to loudly assert her own perspective. But either way, I imagine we’re in for some delightful chaos at Eden Academy, with Damien’s infatuation likely to cause even more problems than his prior anger. Spy x Family is continuing to find seemingly limitless lodes of comedy within its conceptual framework, and I’m eager to see whatever nonsense comes next. Let’s get to it!

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’d like to check back in on the Forger family’s continuing theatrics, as we return to Spy x Family. Last episode saw Anya doing her best to prove herself in her first day at school, only to be assigned the black mark of a Tonitrus Bolt for her efforts. In your average school, Anya’s righteous smackdown of the despised Damian would gain her a slap on the wrist and a lofty position in the social pecking order; here, it brings her one step closer to dissolving this family altogether.

That episode also demonstrated that there’s no need to fear this show will lose its spark when the Loid family is separated. In fact, Anya’s attempts to manipulate her schoolmates was one of the show’s funniest sequences so far; whereas her family interactions have largely settled into routine punctuated by occasional shock at Loid’s secret thoughts, offering a whole class worth of new characters provided all sorts of opportunities to riff on both her psychic powers and generally goofy personality. With her parents now aware of the fault lines in her social group, I imagine she’ll return to school equipped with a fresh set of well-intentioned but self-defeating tactics, and make some implausible new mess of things. Let’s find out how!

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