Crunchyroll has announced that SPY x FAMILY, the anime adaptation of the popular Shonen Jump+ series by Tatsuyo Endo, will premiere and begin streaming tomorrow (April 9th, 2022) at 8:30am PST. It will be available in the following territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS They've released a new poster to celebrate the upcoming premiere, so make sure and check it out below!
The anime series is directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Hunter x Hunter) with WIT Studio and CloverWorks animating. The original manga designs are being adapted by Kazuaki Shimada and the music for the series is being produced by (K)NoW_NAME.
The voice cast includes Takuya Eguchi (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) as Loid Forger, Atsumi Tanezaki (Vivy: Flourite Eye's Song) as Anya Forger and Saori Hayami (One Piece) as Yor Forger.
The opening song "Mixed Nuts" is performed by Official Hige Dandism, and the ending theme song "Kigeki" is performed by Gen Hoshino.
The anime is an adaptation of the bi-weekly Shonen Jump+ manga of the same name. The SPY x FAMILY Japanese manga series is written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo and follows a spy who must build a family to execute his mission, not realizing that the girl he adopts as a daughter, and the woman who agrees to a false marriage, are a mind reader and an assassin, respectively.
The title has been serialized bi-weekly in Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ website and app since March 25th 2019. Its chapters, which are released every other Monday, have been collected and published into physical tankobon volumes as of this month (April 2022). Shueisha also publishes the series in English for free through the Manga Plus app and website. The English licensing rights for North America are heald by Viz Media.
SPY x FAMILY Synopsis:
Everyone has a part of themselves they cannot show to anyone else.
At a time when all nations of the world were involved in a fierce war of information happening behind closed doors, Ostania and Westalis had been in a state of cold war against one another for decades.
The Westalis Intelligence Services' Eastern-Focused Division (WISE) sends their most talented spy, "Twilight," on a top-secret mission to investigate the movements of Donovan Desmond, the chairman of Ostania's National Unity Party, who is threatening peace efforts between the two nations.
This mission is known as "Operation Strix."
It consists of "putting together a family in one week in order to infiltrate social gatherings organized by the elite school that Desmond's son attends."
"Twilight" takes on the identity of psychiatrist Loid Forger and starts looking for family members. But Anya, the daughter he adopts, turns out to have the ability to read people's minds, while his wife, Yor, is an assassin! With it being in each of their own interests to keep these facts hidden, they start living together while concealing their true identities from one another.
World peace is now in the hands of this brand-new family as they embark on an adventure full of surprises.