by Since Anya and the Forger family were never what Tatsuya Endo wanted to draw—rather, they were what the public wanted to see—he acknowledges that he has no emotional affinity with them.
We assumed that everyone was smitten with Anya, but it appears that this is not the case—the Forger family’s founder appears to be the only individual who does not approve of them. The manga creator of Spy x Family, Tatsuya Endo, has acknowledged that he has no emotional connection to the main characters in his most well-known work.
“I gave up on what I originally wanted to draw and drew what the world wants to see, not myself, so I have no attachment to the characters.” Endo acknowledges that he made an effort to win over his editor, who insisted on reminding him that the successful manga paired “cute” and “cool” characters. As a result, Endo repeatedly altered Loid and Anya’s designs until he was satisfied.
In a few of his works (Ishi ni Usubeni or Tetsu ni Hoshi, for instance), the mangaka had already given his favorite style free rein, but none of them had ever really caught on with readers. The exact reverse occurred with Spy x Family; it was simple to give in to the mainstream.
Even if Endo says he takes everything in stride, it still seems to be eating him up on the inside. He has previously said that, while he does not especially enjoy espionage either, he finds the excitement of “having a hidden identity” to be appealing and he clings to it.
Tatsuya Endo clarifies that his profession had thrown him into a despair that he combats by working on Forger Family, whose popularity inspires him to keep going. “Spy x Family is a rehabilitation work for me to revive as a mangaka when I fell into a slump,” Endo says.
Would you recommend Spy x Family?
The story of Twilight, the best spy in Westalis, is told in Spy x Family. Twilight, also known as Loid Forger, is assigned the trickiest task in his career during these unsettling times: to begin a family. In order for him to register his daughter for an exclusive school, pick her up from the institution, and then make friends with a parent whose child attends the school. Approaching the mission objective in any other way is not an option. Of course, Loid’s seven-day window to find a wife and daughter presents a challenge. A need that will ultimately lead him to Anya, a weird orphan with telepathic abilities, and unintentionally marry Yor, a professional assassin (also known as the Thorn Princess). Thus, the… perfect family?
Starting from that premise, Spy x Family (the anime as well as the manga) creates a comedy of manners in which Loid, in contrast to Tatsuya Endo, progressively grows attached to his “fake” family. The only person who truly knows Twilight and Yor’s identities is Anya, the mind-reader who will do everything in her power to keep them together. Every family’s daily routine, which includes physical education lessons, zoo excursions, admissions interviews, and other events, contains humor.
