Spy X Family is everything we wanted it to be

I’ve spent much of the past few months watching depressing shonen anime in which a lot of people die. Needless to say, I’ve needed something lighthearted, adorable, and, most importantly, very funny. I was ready for something like Spy x FamilyI have incorporated, a comic-action anime about an agent who has to assemble and keep a fake family into my life.

However, I found something more than just feel-good fluff during the first episode. I met a new girl.

Twilight is an enigmatic spy, who has to raise a fake family. She’s also very beautiful, very cool, and very distant. Expert fighter, master of espionage and with enough compassion to adopt Anya the telepathic orphan.

The second episode, airing on Saturday, promises that Twilight, aka Loid Forger, will marry a woman to continue his comedy. This will make this episode even more juicy. “This will introduce a Cold War-era Mr. & Mrs. Smith angle to the series,” Kambole Campbell wrote at Polygon, “as a constant game of deception and espionage plays out within their mirage of domestic bliss.” I can’t wait.

While I’m here, I want to recommend another anime that blends the stakes of love and war, albeit on a less global scale. Kaguya Sama: Love Is WarTwo high-achieving students from high school, Shirogane class president and Kaguya vice president respectively, follow their adventures. After some fellow students suggest they’d make a good couple, the two decide to play a game to get the OthersFirst, confess your romantic feelings. Whoever caves loses, and they’re each pretty confident that they won’t fall for the other.

Unfortunately that’s exactly what happens. The two refuse to admit any attraction lest their pride and lose their game. But they still go the extra mile to convince the other party to cave. They aren’t sure if the two feel the exact same way. It’s a dynamic back-and-forth, fueled by colorful — and blissfully unaware — side characters. Kaguya Sama: Love Is War makes full use of its hysterical premise, and also captures the feeling of being a teenager and having a stupid, ginormous, all-encompassing, absolutely embarrassing crush — and I mean that in the very best way possible.

Season 3 of Kaguya Sama: Love Is WarThe first episode of Season 3 was released last Friday. It’s just as funny as the other seasons. Crunchyroll has both shows available right now —Petrana Radulovic

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