A new promotional video for the upcoming SpyxFamily anime adaptation was released during the recent Jump Festa event. The video revealed the series main cast alongside an April 2022 premiere.
The series will air for two separate cours, with the first running during the Spring 2022 season and the second half set to premier sometime after.
Takuya Eguchi will star as Loid Forger with Saori Hayami and Atsumi Tanezaki set to play Yor and Anya Forger respectively. Eguchi is best known for his roles as Hachiman Hikigaya in My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, and Takeo Gouda in My Love Story!!. Hayami voiced Yukino Yukinoshita in My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, and Shinobu Kochou in Demon Slayer, while Tanezaki is best known for playing Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai’s Rio Futaba and The Ancient Magus' Bride’s Chise Hatori.
Both Wit Studio and CloverWorks will produce the anime. The former is best known for the first three seasons of the highly popular Attack on Titan anime, while the latter most recently worked on Horiyama, Wonder Egg Priority, and Shadow House.
Veteran director Kazuhiro Furuhashi will spearhead the series, and the music will be done by musical group [K]NoW_NAME. Furuhashi has been active in the industry since 1981, and has worked on classic series like Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma ½, and more. He’s best known for directing the 1999 HunterxHunter anime and 2019s Dororo.
[K]NoW_NAME have worked on a handful of anime projects, doing the music and theme songs for Dorohedoro, Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions, Sakura Quest, and Fairy Gone.
Tatsuya Endo’s SpyxFamily manga is serialized in Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ magazine, under the Jump Comics+ imprint. The series began its run in 2019 and has amassed 8 collected volumes so far.
VIZ Media licenses the manga in English, and Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs.
Source: Anime News Network