Let’s Watch is a weekly recap column where I follow an anime for the course of its entire runtime. Expect spoilers!

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Today, in its cour finale, Spy x Family circles back on its core strengths, those things that make it good in the first place. To wit; the series is an action comedy. There’s a lot of both in ” “. What more do you need?

Well, I don’t know about any of us, but Loid “Twilight” Forger really seems like he could use a few vacation days.

The opening minutes of this episode establish that, on top of the ongoing Operation Strix, Twilight has been picking up extra missions by the armful. (He blames a staff squeeze, and I see no reason to question his expertise.) He’s been getting home late often enough that the apartment complex’s local hens have started to notice, and some of the women in question even wonder aloud if he’s cheating on Yor. (He would never, and I’m vaguely offended at the notion.)

Determined to keep up the appearance of the Forgers being a normal family, Loid insists on taking them out for a weekend trip, suggesting the local aquarium. This proves to be a problem for two reasons. One; some of those local gossipy housewives are also at the aquarium. Two; Twilight’s agency happens to foist another mission on him as he enters the building, to retrieve a film roll smuggled into the country via penguin.

Things unfold as you might expect; Loid has to go undercover as a penguin handler in order to get close to That Specific Penguin, and in the process completely shows up the lead aquarist. He fights an enemy agent, who also wants to get his hands on that bird’s precious info. Said agent “kidnaps” Anya—by which I here mean that Anya clings to his shirt and shouts “I’m being kidnapped!”—and the predictable result is him getting his shit kicked in by Yor. Loid wins a giant penguin plushie for Anya.

It’s a good, solid, fun end to the series’ first half. A rounding-out as it closes the first cour. There’s also a pretty excellent post-script where Anya inducts her new “secret agent”—that is, the penguin plushie—to her spy agency. AKA, her apartment.

Spy x Family will apparently return with a 13-episode second cour in the fall season. Until we rendezvous once again; be seeing you, anime fans.

^{You are #006!}

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