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Spy×Family Anime Reveals More Staff, April 9 Premiere, Visual

The official website for the television anime of Tatsuya Endō's SPY×FAMILY manga posted more staff members, the April 9 premiere, and a concept visual from the anime on Monday. The visual shows the outward and hidden sides of the Forger family:

The newly announced staff members are:

• Chief Animation Directors: Kazuaki Shimada, Kyoji Asano
• Assistant Directors: Takashi Katagiri. Norihito Takahashi, Takahiro Harada
• Color Key Artist: Ken Hashimoto
• Art Setting: Yuuho Taniuchi, Tomomi Sugimoto, Kazushige Kanehira
• Art Directors: Kazuo Nagai, Kushiro Usui
• 3D CG Directors: Kana Imagaki
• Compositing Director of Photography: Akane Fushihara
• Assistant Compositing Director of Photography: Yūya Sakuma
• Editing: Akari Saitō
• Sound Director: Shōko Hata
• Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo
• Music Producer: (K)NoW_NAME

The anime will premiere on the TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ Kyuushuu channels on April 9 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. EDT), and it will also runn on Niigata TV 21, TV Shizuoka, RCC Chugoku Broadcasting, and BS TV Tokyo. The anime will run for two separate cours (quarters of a year).

Viz Media is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment—get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!

Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn't know is that the wife he's chosen is an assassin and the child he's adopted is a telepath!

Takuya Eguchi will star in the anime as Loid Forger. Saori Hayami plays Yor Forger, and Atsumi Tanezaki plays Anya Forger.

Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Rurouni Kenshin, Getbackers, 2019 Dororo) is directing the anime at Wit Studio and CloverWorks. Kazuaki Shimada (The Promised Neverland) is designing the characters, and [K]NoW_NAME (Fairy gone, Dorohedoro, Sakura Quest) is the music producer.

Crunchyroll will stream the anime.

Endō launched the manga in Japan on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service in March 2019. Shueisha began offering the manga in English on its MANGA Plus service on the same day. Viz Media added the manga to its app as part of its Shonen Jump subscription in September 2019. The company is also publishing the manga in print.

Source: Comic Natalie