Recap / SPY×FAMILY

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Manga:

List of Arcs

• "Introduction Arc" (Missions 1-2): As part of "Operation Strix," WISE agent Twilight has to pose as an affluent family man named "Loid Forger" to keep the peace between Westalis and Ostania.
• "Family Interview Arc" (Missions 3-6): Loid, his new wife Yor (AKA the assassin "Thorn Princess"), and their adopted daughter Anya try to pass as an upper-class family while trying to infiltrate Eden Academy.
• "Eden Beginnings Arc"(Missions 7-10): Anya makes friends at Eden Academy, and attempts to befriend Damian Desmond, the younger son of a powerful Ostanian official.
• "Secret Police Arc"(Missions 11-14): Yuri Briar, Yor's brother in the State Security Sevice, pays Loid and Yor a visit upon hearing about their marriage.
• "Stella Star Arc" (Missions 15-17): Anya and her classmates strive to obtain awards known as "Stella Stars" in the hopes of eventually becoming "Imperial Scholars".
• "Inu-san Crisis Arc" (Missions 18-23): A rag-tag group of Isolationist Terrorists try to assassinate Foreign Minister Brantz in the hopes of starting a war. Anya meets the soon-to-be family dog, who the isolationist leader hopes to detonate as part of the assassination plot.
• "Midterm Exams Arc"(Missions 24-28): Anya tries to avoid obtaining the penalties known as "Tonitrus Bolts" while taking four exams.
• "Campbelldon Tennis Arc" (Missions 29-35): Loid must pose with his former protégée as spouses in order to enter a tennis competition and recover a dossier which is supposed to have major ramifications for Ostania and Westalis.
• "Imperial Scholars Mixer Arc" (Missions 36-42): Loid engineers a meeting between himself and the reclusive Donovan Desmond.
• "Great Cruise Adventure Arc" (Missions 43-57): The Forgers go on a cruise, where Yor protects a member of a mob family, encountering several assassins and wiretaps along the way.
• "WISE Arc" (Missions 58-63): Loid's troubled past is examined.
• "Friendship Schemes Arc" (Missions 64-69): Yor meets the Desmond family matriarch, while Anya tries to have a better friendship with Damian.
• "Red Circus Arc" (Missions 70-78): An Eden Academy class trip is taken hostage by a terrorist group called the Red Circus.
• "Mole Hunt Arc" (Missions 79-89): As Yor wonders if her married life with Loid might be too perfect without any gripes, Twilight must battle all hesitations to help WISE stop a crafty and powerful mole before the SSS can secure him and the stolen intel—including, among others, blueprints of Operation Strix.
• "Term Finals Arc" (Missions 90-93) Anya's term finals are looming, along with the prospect of separating from the others if her grades don't go up. Luckily, the Forger's new neighbors might be able to help...
• "Gala Arc" (Missions 94-) The first-years are having a class dance before the next term begins.

Anime

Season 1

Season 1 Part 1

1. "Operation Strix": WISE agent Twilight must pose as a family man to prevent a war between his own nation Westalis and the neighboring Ostania.
2. "Secure a Wife": Posing as a psychiatrist named "Loid Forger", Twilight tries to find a wife for the purpose of his charade, having already adopted an orphan by the name of Anya. Loid meets civil servant (and clandestine assassin) Yor Briar (AKA "Thorn Princess").
3. "Prepare for the Interview": Loid prepares Anya and Yor for the interview at Eden Academy.
4. "The Prestigious School's Interview": The Forgers attend the interview at Eden Academy, but the strict faculty are assessing their actions from the very get-go, with housemaster Henry Henderson focusing on "elegance" in particular.
5. "Will They Pass or Fail": Anya is accepted into Eden Academy due to the events that occurred during the interview, and during the celebration, a drunken Franky suggests that Loid recreate a scene from Anya's favorite television show, Spy Wars.
6. "The Friendship Scheme": Anya begins attending Eden Academy, and Loid arranges for her to be in the same class as Damian Desmond, his target's second son, to see if they can become friends. Unfortunately, things go awry when he attempts to bully her.
7. "The Target's Second Son": Loid pressures Anya to apologize to Damian for punching him. When Damian rejects her apology, Loid turns to the original plan of achieving Imperial Scholar status through studying.
8. "The Counter-Secret Police Cover Operation": Yuri, Yor's younger brother, learns about her sister's marriage. Yor invites him to dinner so he can meet Loid - not knowing that Yuri is a State Security Service agent who intends to find out if there's something he can arrest Loid for.
9. "Show Off How in Love You Are": Dinner ends with Yuri unwilling to accept the marriage but backing off. Loid runs a plan to find out if Yor knows her brother's true job, while Yor battles with her insecurities about being a wife and mother.
10. "The Great Dodgeball Plan": Anya hears a rumor that the best player in the upcoming dodgeball tournament will earn a Stella Star. With Yor's help, she trains for the game.
11. "Stella": Loid learns that Stella Stars can be granted through community service, and brings Anya to the hospital to achieve this.
12. "Penguin Park": The Forger's neighbors are gossiping about Loid's hours, so he takes the family to the local aquarium - where he is forced to undertake a mission to retrieve a microfilm that contains chemical weapon plans.

Season 1 Part 2

1. "Project Apple": As Anya's reward for earning a Stella Star, the Forger go to buy a dog. Meanwhile, a terrorist group plans to assassinate the visiting Westalian Foreign Minister in an attempt to restart the war.
2. "Disarm the Time Bomb": The terrorist leader manages to escape Yor, and Anya learns the future from Doggy: unless something is done, Loid will die in an explosion and the war will be restarted.
3. "A New Family Member": With Keith's bomber attack foiled, Anya convinces Loid and Sylvia to let her keep her new dog so can continue her Friendship Scheme.
4. "Yor's Kitchen: The Informant's Great Romance Plan": Yor convinces her coworker "friend" Camila to teach her how to be a better chef for her family. Meanwhile, Franky asks for Loid's help in securing a potential date.
5. "Carry Out the Griffin Plan: Full Metal Lady: Omelet Rice ♡": Anya tries to help Damian with an in-class art project with flimsy results. On the adult side of things, Sylvia makes her way through town to discuss business matters with Agent Twilight. Oh, and there's a flashback where Yor nearly killed her little brother with her cooking.
6. "Uncle the Private Tutor: Daybreak: Midterm season approaches leaving Anya in desperate need to study. To do so, she gets the assistance of her Uncle Yuri who isn't too eager to help his rival niece. And afterward, Agent Twilight decides to break into the Academy to rewrite his daughter's test scores for the better.
7. "A Revenge Plot Against Desmond: Mama Becomes the Wind": Anya, Damian and their friends have a bizarre encounter with a reclusive boy named George who's out for revenge against Damian. After that debacle, Yor becomes the wind as she rushes to deliver her daughter's forgotten P.E. uniform.
8. "Investigate the General Hospital: Decipher the Perplexing Code": Headmaster Henderson assigns his pupils to do a career-themed research paper, so Anya follows Loid to his workplace at the general hospital. Once that's wrapped up, she gets the idea to create her own secret code after watching her spy cartoon. Now if only there was someone who could crack it.
9. "Nightfall: First Fit of Jealousy": Agent Nightfall aka Fiona Frost visits the Forger household to inform her coworker crush Twilight about an upcoming mission while taking notes on her rival Yor. The theme of jealousy carries over in the next skit as Bond gets annoyed with Anya spending more time with Mr. Penguin.
10. "The Underground Tennis Tournament: The Campbelldon": Twilight and Nightfall participate in an underground tennis tournament with the objective of winning a valuable portrait containing vital war information. Though Nightfall is more interested in winning Twilight's heart with her athletic abilities.
11. "The Unwavering Path": The spy duo continue their final match against the Campbell Siblings while overcoming every cheap shot they throw at them. But soon afterward, Fiona orders a surprise showdown from Yor to prove her worth as Twilight's wife.
12. "The Role of a Mother and Wife: Shopping with Friends": Loid takes his depressed wife on a romantic outing to raise her spirits after the Nightfall debacle. And on the kids' side of the story, Becky invites Anya on a fancy shopping adventure.
13. "The First Contact": Anya tries to convince Damian to meet with his father Donovan which may give her father Twilight a golden opportunity to encounter his grim target in person.

Season 2

Season 2

1. "Follow Papa and Mama": After Yor, as the Thorn Princess, takes out the Red Circus terrorists, she gets home in pain, and Loid assumes she's mad at him, and takes her out on a date.
2. "Bond's Strategy to Stay Alive - Damian's Field Research Trip": The episode centers on Bond and Damian. First, Bond fearing that Yor's cooking will kill him, runs out of the apartment to help Loid on his mission so that he'll get home soon and make dinner instead. Then, stressed out from studying so hard, Damian becomes exhausted, and Mr. Green takes him, Emile, and Ewen on a camping trip.
3. "Mission and Family/The Elegant Bondman/The Heart of a Child/Waking Up": Yuri is tasked with arresting a dissident that's been selling anti-Ostanian propaganda to the West, and discovers its a disgraced former reporter that uses his current job as a postman to smuggle his articles. Then, Bondman's attempt at forming a harem go awry. Finally, the Forgers go to a department store, and the local public pool, and Anya doesn't wake up in time and is late for school.
4. "The Pastry of Knowledge/The Informant's Great Romance Plan Ⅱ": The kids overhear about a Legendary Pastry that can turn them into Imperial Scholars. So they play a game of Old Maid with each other to see who among them will get the macarons of knowledge. And on the adult side of the story, Franky goes cat hunting in the hopes of cheering up his new crush who's upset for her missing cat; he even receives Yor's assistance.
5. "Plan to Cross the Border": Yor, as the Thorn Princess, is called to a personal meeting with the Garden's director for an important assignment: escort the surviving members of the Gretchen Crime family as they escape the country. Meanwhile, Loid and Anya tag along on Yor's mission after Anya wins passes to the cruise where Yor and her assignment are traveling on.
6. "The Fearsome Luxury Cruise Ship": As the voyage to get the surviving Gretchers out of Ostania is underway, the Director discovers that Leonardo Hapoon, the Gretcher Crime Family's main rival, hired several assassins to kill the Gretchers, and Yor has to escort the Gretchers from their original cabin to a new one while secretly taking out those that stand in her way. Meanwhile, Anya finds Yor escorting her clients, and has to keep Loid from finding out Yor is on bodyguard detail.
7. "Who is this Mission For?": After Yor confronts the chain and wielding assassin, she escorts the Gretchers to their new cabin, where Yor asks herself why she's still an assassin since she doesn't need the extra money to support Yuri. Meanwhile, Anya keeps Loid distracted so he doesn't find out Yor is an assassin. On the third day of the cruise, the Director and Yor make the final preparations so that the Grecthcers can escape with their rendezvous.
8. "The Symphony Upon the Ship/Sis' Herb Tea": As Yor escorts the Gretchers to their escape, they are ambushed by a mob of assassins, and she's forced to fight them off while the Director cleans up the bodies, and Anya and Loid enjoy a fireworks show. Once most of the assassins are dispatched, Yor tells the assassin leader to walk away, but when she's knocked down by a katana-wielding assassin, she's offered a cut of the profits if she lets them kill the Gretchers, only for Yor to refuse, and gets ready to face off against the assassins. Meanwhile, Yuri gets sick while working a case, and as his captain nurses him, Yuri remembers Yor getting hurt while foraging in the forest near their childhood home when he got sick.
9. "The Hand That Connects the Future": While Yor finishes her battle against the remaining assassins, Loid overhears about several bombs that have been planted around the cruise ship that can endanger everyone onboard. So he goes off to deactivate them giving Anya a golden opportunity to run off and help her mom.
10. "Enjoy the Resort to the Fullest/ Bragging About Vacation": After Yor eliminates the enemy assassins, and Loid defuses the bombs on the cruise ship, the Forgers enjoy a much-needed vacation on the resort town where the ship docks. Back in school, Anya tries to tell her classmates how she helped take down some "bad guys," only to be made a fool because no one believes her outlandish tale.
11. "Berlint in Love/ Nightfall's Daily Life": After watching the latest episode of "Berlint in Love," Becky invites herself to the Forger household to convince Loid to marry her, while Anya roots for her. Also, while Twilight is on the Lorelai cruise ship as Loid Forger, Nightfall takes extra missions to improve her chances of impressing Twilight and becoming the new Mrs. Forger.
12. "Part of the Family": An average walk around the town between Loid and Bond takes several drastic detours as the Forger Dog is plagued by several distressing prophecies. As this happens, Anya tries her hand at origami and is soon joined by her mother.

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