One of the most popular and beloved anime in 2022 is the fun and thrilling Spy x Family. This series charmed us with its lovable characters, entertained us with its funny antics, and thrilled us with its exciting action sequences. It doesn’t take a long time for it to become a fan-favorite among the other great anime in 2022.
As it turns out, there’s another similar anime to Spy x Family that we’ll get to see in 2023. It’s called Spy Classroom, and it promises to present lots of fun and exciting moments to us. Spy Classroom is based on a light novel by the same name, written by Takemachi. It has been adapted into a manga before, and now we’ll get to see its anime adaptation in Winter 2023. So here’s everything that you need to know about Spy Classroom.
The Story
The world has been engulfed in war for a long time, and there are countless casualties on every side. So now, as if agreeing to the same thing for the first time in a while, every nation involved in the war has started to slowly abandon the machines of war and began to rely on covert operations instead. And thus, the age of deceptions, betrayals, and spies has officially begun.
The small country of Din Republic pride itself in its reliable spy network, however, there’s always room for improvement. So a decision was made to form a classroom consisting of promising yet oddball candidates that will be taught the knowledge of spycraft by one of the best spies in the country, a dashing yet scatterbrained man named Klaus. And the first mission that he gave to his students is to defeat him. No matter when. No matter where. No matter how.
Assassination Classroom + Spy x Family
As you might’ve probably surmised from reading the summary above, Spy Classroom feels like a combination between the Assassination Classroom and Spy x Family. We get a nation involved in a game of shadows with its enemies, and the spies from each side are ready to infiltrate, sabotage, and even assassinate their target without fail. And at the center of one of the nations involved in this spy war, is a class full of promising yet oddball spy candidates who are tasked to defeat their instructor. That is practically the combined promise of Assassination Classroom and Spy x Family.
That being said, Spy Classroom is not just a cheap version of those two iconic anime. On the contrary, the more we dive into the series, the more thrilling and complex the story becomes. In a way, the premise is pretty much the only similar things about this series and Assassination Classroom and Spy x Family. Just a couple of episodes into the story, and you’ll soon realize that it has its own unique things to offer to the spy genre.
The Characters
Every student of this particular classroom are girls who are deemed to be wash-outs, weirdos, and misfits. It’s not that they are weak per se, on the contrary, each of them possess a unique skill that is extremely useful for their future job as a spy. Every single one of them has the skill to execute any kind of job, but their abilities truly shine when they work together as a team.
There’s Lily “Codename: Flower Garden”, the Poison Specialist. Sybilla “Codename: Pandemonium”, a Pickpocket. Grete “Codename: Daughter Dearest”, the Master of Disguise. Sara “Codename: Meadow”, the Beast Tamer. Monica “Codename: Glint”, the Jack of all Trade. Thea “Codename: Dreamspeaker”, the Charmer. Annette “Codename: Forgetter”, the Engineer. And finally, Erna “Codename: Fool”, the Unknown. Standing on top as their instructor is none other than Klaus, the best spy of the Din Republic.
The Staff
Spy Classroom is produced by a Japanese animation studio called Feel. They are responsible for some of the most popular anime in recent years, such as My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too!, Dagashi Kashi and Hinamatsuri, just to name a few. For Spy Classroom, the one that was appointed to be the director for this series is Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Hayate The Combat Butler, Higurashi: When They Cry - Gou). Other notable people are the Art Director Yoshimi Umino (Blade of the Immortal, Laid-Back Camp), and also Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, A Place Further Than The Universe) who is responsible for the Music.
Release Date
Spy Classroom is scheduled to be released on January 5. For international viewers, this series will be broadcast simultaneously through HIDIVE. This will be one of several Winter 2023 anime that you can see on this streaming platform. The other ones being Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible, My Life As Inukai-san’s Dog, Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, and Tsurune: The Linking Shot.