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Spy x Family Ep 3 - Manga to Anime Adaptation Notes

Not here to point out *all* the places where manga and anime differ, but much more noting where adaptation and directing choices add to the story. Will start breaking these up into several posts...

Episode 3: 'Prepare For the Interview'- Manga chapter 3

The first episode where the anime added new material - a credit to them because it actually feels seamless! The slower moments where seemingly not much happens actually do a *lot* in terms of worldbuilding and character work. It is ruthlessly efficient in that way.

Meet the *other* Forger Family member - their apartment 

The anime introduces us to the Forger’s home, not something we ever really got in the manga, and as we’ve seen in ‘Comedy’ and ‘Color’ EDs, a character in its own right. My favourite thing is that apart from getting a good view of their home’s layout, we also see 

1) Anya being a smol bean - we see her on tip-toes, we see her head bobbing around at the bottom of the shot

2) Anya being super excited about having a mama and doing what kids do when they’re excited - show them the toilet. We've never seen the bathroom AFAIK in the manga. But I guess we need to know where Loid takes a long time to... well, you know

3) Twilight having gone full Dad mode and bought Anya not just a little pink chair for her to do homework on at the coffee table (not in the manga)...

but also a stool to stand on in the bathroom so she can wash her face by herself (not in the manga)...

and what looks like pink sheets on top of a pinkish rug with pink chest of drawers in a room with pink wallpaper, all decked out with toys and books (not this pink and cute in the manga). It's all for the mission.

This is a very lived-in home, and suggests Anya and her papa probably have been living together for a little while. If Yor thinks Loid looks like the perfect doting father, it’s because he clearly actually is.

I fell in love right there how can Yuki possibly not do too, I completely get you girl, he is a catch 😭

Unmei no Hito ni Deau Hanashi

We love and stan Becky Blackbell in this household

Becky is the only character in SxF who stans every member of the Forger family which makes her the best character in SxF

I just feel that deep down handler/ Sylvia wants him to love this fake family and if even for a bit to feel the warmth of a real family of which he was stripped off and denied the luxury of at such a young age as a result of the war

The look of a woman who realises her best agent is completely compromised, but who feels happy for him nonetheless

You'll need to learn a lot of things, too...

Like how to feed him...

...praise him...

...scold him...

...et cetera...

...et cetera...

...et cetera...

...et cetera...

Damn what a wonderful mother she is

❤ IN A MOMENT BE 🥰😳 AND NEXT SEC BE 😡 ❤