If I had to describe this manga volume in one word, it'd be adorable!

The main hero, Twilight, likes to think he's a cold, emotionless, typical action hero but he's not. He's a gooey marshmallow, who considers abandoning his mission the moment it puts the child in danger. The child who is adorable by the way! I love Anya and I want her family to stay together forever! Yor, the heroine, is similar to Twilight in the way she thinks she doesn't personally need love or affection (except for her brother) but just to take care of her brother and the world. This first volume sets up a great, storyline I would love to follow!

This manga combines three of favorite things, found family, a marriage of convenience, and spies. If either of those three are things you're interested in I recommend this manga!

This has to be one of the most funny manga I've read. I found it also to be intriguing and multi-layered and heartfelt. The art style was interesting and reminded of another manga I enjoyed, Black Exorcist. I thought it was a combination of something like 'Mission: Impossible' and 'Deathnote' along with another. I would totally recommend this to anyone who enjoys 'Deathnote.'

This is genuinely the perfect balance of cute and intense and I love it to hell and back.

Loid is your typical cold, calculating spy who has a solid policy of never letting emotions interfere with his work. His code name is Twilight and he's known to be a man of many faces, who's recruited to go on a mission in which he must infiltrate this elite school in order to get close to one of the world's leaders and stop a war from breaking out. Only, in order to do that, he needs two things: a child to send to the school and a wife to pose as her mother.

What I adore so much about Spy x Family is just how precious the characters are. Loid becomes so attached to his adoptive daughter, Anya, and his new wife, Yor, and their little strange family bond is just so adorable to see. And the fact that Anya can read minds and very well knows the secrets that both her adoptive mother and father are hiding and how hard she tries to make sure that she doesn't fail on the mission so that they don't get split up just warms my heart.

I'd highly, highly recommend this to anyone. It's so cute, and I swear it's worth your time. Can't wait to see where the story goes from here!

This was amazing!! It was so funny, I laughed out loud. A spy, and assassin, and a telepath disguised as a family to uncover state secrets by having the young girl enroll in a prestigious private school.
This has everything, action, drama, romance, mystery, and intrigue. I fell in love with this and I can’t wait to see what happens next. A brilliant storyline and lovely artwork.

The best spy in Westalis suddenly finds himself in need of a wife and child in order to complete his new mission, so he does it expeditiously by adopting a random child from an orphanage and asking a stranger to marry him. The best thing is that he doesn't know that the little girl is psychic and the woman is an assassin. This is where the writing pays off handsomely with fantastic pacing and tons of laugh-out-loud moments. It's a fun mix of serious Bond-like intrigue and slice of life antics that entertains from page one. Endo's comedic timing is as perfect as their plot pacing and it shows in how smoothly every page flows.
Endo's art is both detailed and simplistic as needed and it plays up the funny elements and moments brilliantly. It also adds depth to the scenes that require a more serious outlook while not deviating at all from the general art style of the series. It's a difficult line to tread, but Spy x Family does it beautifully.
Overall, I'm prepared to hype this series like crazy and ready to back it up. It's fun, different, and incredibly original. Definitely one of my favorite things Viz/Shonen Jump has published lately.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Viz for the early peek.

Thanks to VIZ Media and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo is my first foray into manga. It took me a bit to get into it and read the panels in the correct order. I liked the little girl Anya who is a telepath. This first book seems to be building the background of the series. Looking forward to future books in the series. 3.5 stars.

Spy x Family, Vol. 1, by Tatsuya Endo, was one of the most entertaining manga books (or any type of book) I have ever read. A humorous, action-packed, sarcastic, ironic satire on the cold war, elite schools, spies, assassins, orphanages, families, the rich, and much, much more.

Two countries, one East and one West, are waging a cold war through their spy services, risking life and limb for things such as pictures proving a minister wears a toupee….. the top spy in the West is Twilight, who gets tasked with an impossible (for him) mission – get a family together and infiltrate an elite boarding school. What’s a spy to do? Head to the local shady orphanage and pick up a child (who happens to be a telepath), steal the files of single women working in the civil service and pick a likely candidate to pretend (or maybe not just pretend?) to be his wife (who happens to be an assassin looking for a boyfriend as part of her cover). Can they do enough to pass the entrance exams and interviews?

Mr. Endo does a superb job not only writing the story, but also illustrating the book. In particular, the expressions of the girl Anya are absolutely wonderful as she tries to keep her telepathy a secret while her dad fumes about his secret life. This is definitely a family (and a series) that I will be returning to as soon as I can. My only complaint is that this is too short – Mr. Endo leaves us at a cliffhanger and wanting more!

I requested and received a free advanced electronic copy from VIZ Media via NetGalley. Thank you!

I LOVED this comic!!! I can't wait until the next one in the series. It tells the story of a lone wolf spy who it would seem that his identity is a complete secret as he is the master of disguise. He receives an assignment that requires he have a wife and child because he needs to have his child be enrolled into an elite school. The school is the focus of where he will be investigating and of course the best cover would be to have a child there.

So you're thinking, okay this is a mystery of thriller.

Well, yes kinda. But actually, it's HILARIOUS. It is quite comical how the spy, Twilight, goes about getting a fake daughter and fake wife and their rough and tumble experiences they go through in an attempt to get the child, Anya, into the elite school. It was so unexpectedly funny for a spy story and I am here for it. A must read!

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Please note: I received a digital ARC of this book (via NetGalley) from its publisher in exchange for an honest and fair review.

Spy X Family Vol 1 by Tatsuya Endo is the first magna in the Spy X Family Series. This was my first Magna and I enjoyed it immensely. It was such a fresh and fun read that I devoured it in one sitting! What originally pulled me in was the cover art. The cover is sleek and modern, it makes me want to know more about what the character is planning. The entire storyline is unique and the characters interaction with each other was great; even darn right funny at times. We follow the story of world class spy Twilight who, in order to complete his latest assignment must acquire a wife and child, but of course his chosen "targets" are not normal. The child Anya ends up being a telepath, and the mom Yuri is an assassin.

The artwork is superb. I felt the style is well suited to the story and very clean and crisp. This was a nice departure from everything else I am currently reading and wholly unique. I will definitely continue on with the series.

Published by VIZ Media, Spy X Family is will release June 2, 2020 and is available for preorder from all major booksellers. I give Spy X Family 5 out of 5 gems. I'm looking forward to reading the next installment in this great series.

Spy x Family is a graphic novel about a spy named Twilight who’s newest mission involves him setting up a family, what he ends up getting is an assasin for a wife, and a telepathic child. Volume 1 has us being introduced to the character and them trying to get the child into an exclusive school. I don't typically read graphic novels but this was had such an interesting synopsis that I had to jump in and read it. I enjoyed it and look forward to reading more in the series.

I was provided with an electronic ARC through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

The famous spy called Twilight decides he needs a cover, so he decides to recruit an orphan ( secret power telepathy) and a woman (notorious assassin) to be his wife. No one knows the other secret except the orphan daughter. I'm interested in reading the next volumes.

This is a great manga! I was entertained the whole way through and it also has plenty of humor! If you want to read a manga but don't know what you want to read this is for you. If you want to read a manga and want to read something exciting this is for you. This novel is about a spy (a single man) who is given a mission to acquire a family in order to get close to his latest target; but this is not just any family! It is enjoyable seeing how it all comes together and the secrets that each member of the family is hiding from each other. You won't be disappointed!

First of all, I would like to thank Netgalley, the author and the publisher for granting my request to read and give an honest review of this eARC.

I REALLY enjoyed this! When I first started reading this, I thought it would be a solid 4 star read. Now, that I've finished, I am intruigued, wanting to know where I can purchase a physical copy and giving this read a 5 star rating!

I definitely reccommend!

A top spy of a fictional country has a new assignment that necessitates him acquiring a wife and a child. What has made him a successful spy in the past has been his skill at disappearing when necessary; involving two other people would be disastrous for him, and dangerous for them, wouldn't it?

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So this story really intrigued me, just so you know I am a sucker for fake relationship turned real when it comes to romance, and while this seems more action-packed and may not turn into romance at all (I wouldn't mind it even if it's just a friendship). The way Twilight gets introduced is pretty clever and I knew from that moment I would love this.

As the summary suggests it is filled with action which I love, and it is done really well. Twilight is great, a loner who is dedicated to his career and is damn good at it. He seems ruthless and cold-hearted but as the story develops you do see more sides to Twilight that opens him up as a character.

Next, you meet Anya who is so cute and childish (and a telepath), that I couldn't help just love her as soon as she was introduced. Since Anya is a telepath she knows Twilight's secret (and Yor's who is the assassin) and since she just wants to be loved and have a family she is determined to help Twilight achieve his goal. Since she is a child though and doesn't have the full understanding of what's going on she does let things slip which causes situations that are pretty funny.

Last, but not least you have Yor who, despite her caring and shy nature, is an assassin. Yor just wants to fit in and not make her younger brother worry about her so she 'marries' Twilight because not being married at the age of 29 is worrisome apparently. Her social awkwardness also leads to some comical situations.

All of these situations require Twilight's adaptation and quick thinking to come into play showing just how capable he is at being a spy, even if he doesn't really know how to be a father and husband. I really like this and will read the next one as soon as it is out in English!

This is a wonderfully cute and funny manga, I love the whole premise of a spy an assassin and a telepath all living together, with the only one knowing anything about the others is the telepathic child who loves that her new parents have secret identities with all the comedy of errors that ensues with this set up. I am looking forward to where the author takes this series, they definitely have found a new reader in this one.

Not for me. I was a bit bored by the story in the first third. James Bond was better. I originally thought it was going to be one of those creepy stories that Japan seems to be quite fond of with an older man who adopts a young girl who eventually has romantic feelings for him. It got a little more interesting when "the wife" came in the second third.

Thanks to netgalley and Viz Media for the ARC!

A super-spy known as Twilight, his citizen alias during most of the story is Loid Forger, requires a child and a wife to complete an important mission. Of course, fate would have him end up with an adorable, telepathic daughter and a sweet, yet slightly sadistic assassin for a wife. The first volume mainly follows Twilight as he gains his island -of-misfit- family-members, and it does an excellent job of fleshing each character enough to make them sympathetic and endearing, but keeps the tension going that you are compelled to follow this unique family onto the next volume.

The art is perfect, the action scenes are punchy and just violent enough, and the humor is cheeky. I personally appreciated the lack of fan service-y scenes. You will never think of the word "elegant" the same way again, or at least I won't.

I highly recommend!

A Goodreads friend of mine read this recently and gave it a great review so I was excited to see it on NetGalley. I've been struggling to keep my mind focused what with everything that is going on in the world right now and this graphic novel was just the ticket.

This is a fun and entertaining read. The story is about a spy who is given an assignment which requires him to have a wife and a child. Volume 1 tells the story of how he goes about acquiring said family. They are not your 'normal' family. Not only is the 'dad' a spy, but 'mum' is an assassin and their 'daughter' is a telepath. I really enjoyed the dynamics between the characters and how everything unfolded. The artwork is really good too. I've read a number of graphic novels before but this is the first manga one and I really liked the style.

I highly recommend it and I will definitely be carrying on with the series.

A *seriously* ridiculously comedic manga about ... literally, see the title. While there are some serious bits and pieces that include things like violence and espionage, there are other more wholesome bits of the story that makes this a fun subversion of the typical spy story. The nice thing is that the story doesn't drag on and on about getting the family together -- nope! thank you very much -- and goes into the fun, wholesome, juicy bits. There are some parts that are uncomfortable to read, but it makes for a good manga. Would definitely recommend.