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SPITZ Performs Spy×Family Anime Season 3's Opening Song
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for the anime of Tatsuya Endō's SPY×FAMILY manga announced on Sunday that the rock band SPITZ is performing the opening theme song "Hi o Mamoru" (Protect the Light) for the third season. Below is the clean opening animation sequence for the season without credits:
This is the first song that SPITZ has created specifically for a television anime. Shingo Natsume (Space Dandy, One-Punch Man, Sonny Boy) directed the sequence above. Streaming services in Japan will begin offering the song on October 6.
Past seasons' episode director Yukiko Imai is directing the third season at Wit Studio and CloverWorks, replacing second season directors Kazuhiro Furuhashi and Takahiro Harada. Yuki Takeuchi (Ishura, Witch Watch) and past seasons' episode art director Tomomi Sugimoto are now in charge of art setting, Keita Watanabe (Wind Breaker 3D director) is the CG director, and Rina Koguchi (Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc, YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master) is the third season's editor.
The new season will also have returning cast and staff.
Lilas Ikuta performs the ending theme song "Actor."
The first anime season's first half premiered in April 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the first half as it aired, and it also streamed an English dub. The anime's second half premiered in Japan in October 2022, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. The anime's second season premiered in October 2023 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll again streamed the series as it aired.
The SPY×FAMILY Code: White anime film opened in Japan in December 2023 and topped the Japanese box office in its first weekend. The film is an all-new work with an original story. Crunchyroll opened the film in North America in April 2024. The film debuted at #5 at the U.S. box office.
Viz Media is publishing Tatsuya Endō's original and ongoing 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!
Shueisha is simulpublishing the manga in English on its MANGA Plus service. 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.
The manga has also inspired a stage musical adaptation that ran in March-May 2023. The second stage musical runs from September to December this year.
Sources: SPY×FAMILY anime's website, Comic Natalie
