Tatsuya Endo's "Spy x Family" receives two anime projects: A fourth season of the anime series and a second anime film in 2027.


The official website of Tatsuya Endo's "Spy x Family" announced that the anime project is getting 2 new anime projects at the Extra Mission event, including the fourth season of the anime series and the second anime film to be released in 2027.

The cast from the previous three seasons of the anime series that aired in April 2022, and the first anime film released in December 2023, is expected to reprise their roles for the new anime, including Takuya Eguchi as Loid Forger, an undercover spy who can protect whatever personality is necessary for his mission, though his true personality is rather cold and methodical, doing whatever it takes to complete the mission. Saori Hayami as Yor Forger, an assassin who is remarkably collected and able to keep her composure during combat and incredibly polite to the point of asking her assassination targets for the honor of taking lives.

Atsumi Tanezaki as Anya Forger, a telepath who is very impressionable towards the people around her, and she has a telepathic ability that ostracizes her from people. Kenichiro Matsuda as Bond Forger, a pet dog from the Forger family who used them to gain recognition abilities to help others who find themselves in danger in his visions.

Yasuhiro Akamatsu and Hiroki Shinagawa are directing the fourth season, and animation studios Wit Studio and CloverWorks are returning to produce for the new season. Together with Aya Takaha and Yoko Yonaiyama are writing the series scripts, Satoshi Kadowaki and Kazuaki Shimada are designing the characters, Akari Saito is editing, and Shoji Hata is the sound director.

The manga series was published in Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ in March 2019, and released in 18 manga volumes. It also received achievements, including the Grand Prize winner at the 52nd Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2023, winner of the Book of the Year at the 22nd Da Vinci Annual Book of the Year, winner for Best Shonen Manga at the 28th Manga Barcelona Awards, and Daruma d'or at the Japan Expo Awards in 2022, and first place in Takarajimasha's This Manga is Amazing guidebook for Male Readers, winner for Best Shonen Manga at the Apple Books Awards, and first place in the Web Manga category at the 5th Next Manga Awards in 2019.

Viz Media licensed the series and released it in English, with the first manga volume released in June 2020.

It was adapted into three seasons of the anime series, including the first season in April 2022, the second season in October 2023, and the third season in October 2025, during which the series won Best New Anime Series at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2023, and a 4-time Must Protect at All Costs Character for Anya Forger from 2023 to 2026.

It was also adapted into an anime film that was released in December 2023.
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Source:
- "Spy x Family" anime website - https://spy-family.net/news/?p=2342
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Photo:
- © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha • Spy x Family Production Committee.
 

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