Also coming to us at the cinema is SPY x FAMILY CODE: White, based on the anime TV series and manga by Tatsuya Endo. If you’re tired of the usual spy stories, you’ll find one here that’s out of the norm and… out of your mind. Our review.
Twilight is one of the secret agents best in the world. Yor it’s a hitwoman. Anya it’s a’orphan able to read minds. Together they are a fake family, i Forger, with the little girl enrolled in an exclusive boarding school. The reason for the staging is that only the most deserving girls and boys will be able to approach the dictator of Ostaniathat the rival nation Westalia wants to keep an eye on, through this mission”Operation Strix” managed by Twilight. In one of the tests that Anya absolutely must pass with flying colors, it is necessary to obtain the recipe of a dish to prepare in class: Twilight, Yor and Anya then leave for a sort of White weekin order to taste a special dessert. On the road, Anya comes across an object that puts her in serious danger…
A delirium. For those who aren’t used to the grotesque nonchalance of anime, this SPY it could turn out to be an indigestible pastiche. But it would be worth addressing it, to understand how much theanimation make the collision of registers enormously more naturaland above all be able to give vigor to now overused entertainment stereotypesgiving us back the pure and simple fun. The original manga by Tatsuya Endo started in 2019, later becoming one anime tv series from 2022, with a combined signature WitStudio / Cloverworks: This first feature film for the big screen is directed by Takashi Katagiri, already active on the series. As always in these cases, the comics-TV-cinema production synergy it is strategically conceived seamlessly, so the film follows the second season of the series and is the same in style. The screenplay by Ichirō Ōkouchi however he makes sure to create a story understandable to everyoneeven if this requires some explanation: we still appreciate the thought, because then it is not necessary to be an encyclopedic fan of the characters to appreciate what SPY X FAMILY CODE: White delivers.
While real-life cinema does somersaults to make it still fresh and interesting 007 And Mission: ImpossibleEndo and his men do not have to submit to the pseudo-realistic rules of the spy genre: with a family dog equipped with a bow tie and not baptized at all”Bond“, you know you have to expect everything, and everything promptly happens. I’m there bloodthirsty generals who are experts in cooking. Yor can overcome enemy war machines, but he cannot avoid hysterics love panic attacks for her fake husband. Twilight assumes someone else’s identity (complete with mask) DURING a fight. Anya meets the God of Pupu (and for those who are turning up their noses, at that point the artistic direction even changes for the occasion, to live up to the contact with the divinity!). The most valuable result is that i continuous register changesinstead of weakening involvement, they give a infantile and contagious vitality to the protagonists, both superheroic and emotionally delicate: theempathyand what in real life would be forced or at most a parody, becomes playful identity (it’s the magic of animation) and you root for this dysfunctional de facto family.
Nothing artistically ambitious like a Hayao Miyazaki or a Satoshi Konand we say this for cinephiles who perhaps don’t frequent specialized platforms like Crunchyroll, and who should approach a product of this kind appreciating above all thecheerfulness. The fact remains that Marvel and the other Hollywood studios could never dare so much with their genre cinema (with James Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy being the only one to be able to come even remotely close to this anarchy).
