Like several good sitcom, “Spy x Household” is as a lot in regards to the characters as it’s in regards to the shenanigans they get into. Positive, it is enjoyable to see Loid beat up some folks or infiltrate a secret facility. What’s funnier and extra healthful is seeing this chilly spy go combat a bunch of fellow spies in an elaborate reenactment of Anya’s favourite cartoon to have a good time her getting accepted into faculty.
Loid’s story is slowly realizing that parenting is kind of arduous and that he form of does care about his faux household. In the meantime, Yor could also be a terrific killer, however she can also be extraordinarily gullible and naive, and seeing her slowly (very slowly) overcome that as she realizes she truly needs to be a mom to Anya is cute as hell. Nonetheless, their jobs by no means finish, and it’s somewhat relatable how “Spy x Household” portrays the infinite annoyance over your work bleeding into your private life.
Although that is very a lot a comedy, it does indicate somewhat darkish and nuanced topics. Take Loid and Yor’s obliviousness. Regardless of each being extraordinarily good at their jobs, each of them are utterly blind to the opposite’s secret — as a result of they don’t have any sense of what regular persons are like. For Yor, this is because of her being compelled to work as an murderer from an early age to help her brother. In the meantime, Loid is an orphan who grew up in the midst of a struggle, and his changing into a spy was to create a world the place youngsters do not need to cry. The present does not actually spend an excessive amount of time on emotional stuff or on darker topics — there are zero message-of-the-week or “very particular episodes” right here — however it’s moments like these that make the story and characters extra lived-in.