Spy x Family
Summary
Japanese
名門校潜入のために「家族」を作れと命じられた凄腕スパイの〈黄昏〉。だが、彼が出会った“娘”は心を読む超能力者！ “妻”は暗殺者で!? 互いに正体を隠した仮初め家族が、受験と世界の危機に立ち向かう痛快ホームコメディ!!
English
In order to maintain the state of peace between the rival nations of Westalis and Ostania, a Westalis agent codenamed “Twilight” is tasked with spying on Donovan Desmond, the leader of an extremist political party within Ostania. However, due to Desmond being notoriously reclusive, the only way Twilight can get close to him is to enroll a child in the same private school as Desmond’s son and pose as their father. To accomplish this, he creates the alias of Lloyd Forger, adopts a young orphan girl named Anya, and marries a woman named Yor Briar, to create the image of a happy family. However, Yor is in fact a professional assassin, with neither her nor Lloyd being aware of each other’s true identities. Both of them are also unaware that Anya can read minds, and knows their true professions. Despite these unknown factors, Lloyd must learn to play the role of the perfect father and husband in order to carry out his mission. (wikipedia)
Availability
Physical: Amazon | CD Japan
Digital: Kindle | Bookwalker
Personal Opinion
This has been blowing up all over the internet because of the anime that is currently airing. It is honestly super hillarious, esepcially the daughter Anya has some of the best reaction faces in any manga I have read.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Popular so hopefully a lot of participants
- Has an anime so one could read/watch both (to get that sweet listening practice)
- Furigana
- Funny & interesting story
Cons
- Pretty hard according to learn natively it is level 30 so just below Death note
- Also pretty dense
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Additional Pages
Bookwalker preview: https://viewer.bookwalker.jp/03/19/viewer.html?cid=f21b74ef-1857-48d4-90b3-0b9600b92d5d
Difficulty Poll
How much effort would you need to read this book?
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- 4 - Substantial effort
- 5 - So much effort my head might explode
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I originally posted this in the beginner book club, but after some discussion I moved it up to here!