SPY x FAMILY - CODE: White
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A bit of background on "SPY x FAMILY" is probably needed. It is based on the popular Japanese magna series of the same title in which in order to maintain the state of peace between the rival nations of Westalis and Ostania, a Westalian agent code-named "Twilight" is tasked with spying on Donovan Desmond, leader of the National Unity Party within Ostania. Westalis and Ostania are alternate-world versions of West and East Germany, respectively. However, due to Desmond being notoriously reclusive, the only way Twilight can get close to him is to enroll a child in the same private school as Desmond's son, Damian, and pose as a fellow parent.
To accomplish this and present the image of a happy family, he creates the alias of Doctor Loid Forger, adopts a young orphan girl named Anya, and marries an Ostanian woman named Yor Briar. However, unbeknownst to him, Anya can read minds, and Yor is in fact a professional assassin. Yor also sought a marriage of cover, because single adult women draw suspects and attention in the paranoid Ostania. Neither Loid nor Yor are aware of each other's true identities or that Anya, thanks to her secret powers, knows their true professions. The family later takes in a dog with precognitive abilities named Bond. Despite these unknown factors and Twilight's occasional lapses of common sense due to years of being a spy, he must learn to play the role of the perfect father and husband to carry out his mission.
Naturally this is the perfect set-up for great comedy about a dysfunctional family put into uncanny situations that never pan out as planned due to their unique personalities.
In "SPY x FAMILY - CODE: White," Loid Forger successfully completes a mission for WISE and learns from his handler Sylvia Sherwood that he will be reassigned and replaced on Operation Strix due to orders from the higher officials, though he might be able to prevent this if he makes meaningful progress. While leaving the rendezvous point, Loid has an interaction with his fellow spy Fiona Frost, which is spotted from afar by his wife Yor, making her believe Loid kissed Fiona.
Loid learns from his daughter Anya that her class at Eden Academy will be having a cooking competition and the winner may receive a Stella star. Knowing that the judge is the principal and that his favorite dessert is Meremere (specifically a regional version found in the northern Ostanian city of Frigis), Loid decides to take the family to Frigis in order to try the dish and salvage Operation Strix by recreating it. While on the train ride there, Anya discovers a key and, after reading their Great Pyrenees pet Bond's precognitive mind, learns there is a treasure on board. Anya finds and opens the suitcase, which contains a chocolate that she inadvertently eats. The owners of the suitcase find and try to apprehend her, but Yor intervenes and knocks them out.
The Forgers arrive in Frigis and visit a restaurant to have its last Meremere, but Colonel Snidel, a military intelligence officer, barges his way in with his soldiers and takes the Meremere for himself, beating Loid in a competition for his further satisfaction. Due to the restaurant not having enough ingredients to make more of the dessert, Yor suggests finding them themselves, which the family agrees to. During their search, Yor becomes increasingly anxious, believing Loid intends to break up with her, even after Loid gives her lipstick as a gift. Yor ends up getting drunk and causes a scene. Reading Loid and Yor's troubles in her mind, Anya sets up a situation to put them on the ferris wheel, where they are able to clear their misunderstandings and reaffirm their feelings towards each other.
Meanwhile, Snidel regroups at his military base and are about to take off in their airship. It is revealed that the chocolate Anya ate contained a microfilm, which Snidel planned to use to instigate another war against Westalis. Snidel sends his underlings out to find Anya and the microform. Loid attempts to find the last ingredient for the Meremere, cherry liquor, but to no avail. Anya suggests helping, but feels depressed when Loid turns her down. Using her and Bond's powers, Anya figures out where to find the cherry liquor and sneaks out of their hotel with Bond to acquire it. Anya and Bond obtain the liquor, but she is captured by the underlings, while Bond is left behind.
Loid and Yor frantically search for Anya. Loid finds Bond, who bit off a military patch from the underlings, and deduces that they kidnapped Anya, but is unsure why. Fiona arrives and informs Loid about WISE's highest priority mission in retrieving the microfilm. Loid overhears through a military transmission that Anya ate the microfilm and, after learning that she is on the airship, hijacks a Bristol Beaufighter to rescue Anya. Yor discreetly tags along with Loid.
Loid makes a crash landing onto the airship after it fires anti-aircraft missiles at him, sneaking through the ship with his disguise techniques. At the same time, Yor goes in, and accidentally starts a fire that begins to spread. Meanwhile, Anya desperately forces herself to hold in her bowel movements, knowing that Snidel and the underlings intend to reclaim the microfilm through her excrements. She manages to temporarily escape during Yor's commotion, but is recaptured and hidden away in the cockpit by Snidel after relieving herself in a nearby toilet.
A disguised Loid orders to find Anya, but Snidel immediately realizes who he is due to his exceptional sense of smell, causing a shootout. Snidel attempts to use experimental gas on Loid, but Anya is able to break free of her restraints in time to accidentally open the windows, expelling the gas. Loid, now disguised as Snidel, incapacitates him and orders the men to abandon ship. Meanwhile, Yor faces off against a cyborg soldier called Type F, in which she wins the fight by setting Type F on fire using the lipstick which Loid gave her.
The Forgers reunite and are able to steer the airship so it crashes into the river, avoiding the city. Loid also finds the microfilm stuck in Anya's teeth. Back at home, Loid presents the retrieved microfilm to Sylvia, who is pleased and informs him that Operation Strix will remain under his care. Anya is about to start the cooking competition with her class, but due to an accident, the contest is delayed. Since the judge has been changed to the vice principal, Loid suggests another trip to investigate a new dessert, this time in a warmer region, which Bond's precognition shows will be a relaxing vacation.
Why "SPY x FAMILY" works is because each of the characters, while hiding secrets, truly love each other and go to great lengths to support each other and make each other happy, while willing to sacrifice for each other.
HIGHLY RECCOMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/SPY-FAMILY-COD...
A bit of background on "SPY x FAMILY" is probably needed. It is based on the popular Japanese magna series of the same title in which in order to maintain the state of peace between the rival nations of Westalis and Ostania, a Westalian agent code-named "Twilight" is tasked with spying on Donovan Desmond, leader of the National Unity Party within Ostania. Westalis and Ostania are alternate-world versions of West and East Germany, respectively. However, due to Desmond being notoriously reclusive, the only way Twilight can get close to him is to enroll a child in the same private school as Desmond's son, Damian, and pose as a fellow parent.
To accomplish this and present the image of a happy family, he creates the alias of Doctor Loid Forger, adopts a young orphan girl named Anya, and marries an Ostanian woman named Yor Briar. However, unbeknownst to him, Anya can read minds, and Yor is in fact a professional assassin. Yor also sought a marriage of cover, because single adult women draw suspects and attention in the paranoid Ostania. Neither Loid nor Yor are aware of each other's true identities or that Anya, thanks to her secret powers, knows their true professions. The family later takes in a dog with precognitive abilities named Bond. Despite these unknown factors and Twilight's occasional lapses of common sense due to years of being a spy, he must learn to play the role of the perfect father and husband to carry out his mission.
Naturally this is the perfect set-up for great comedy about a dysfunctional family put into uncanny situations that never pan out as planned due to their unique personalities.
In "SPY x FAMILY - CODE: White," Loid Forger successfully completes a mission for WISE and learns from his handler Sylvia Sherwood that he will be reassigned and replaced on Operation Strix due to orders from the higher officials, though he might be able to prevent this if he makes meaningful progress. While leaving the rendezvous point, Loid has an interaction with his fellow spy Fiona Frost, which is spotted from afar by his wife Yor, making her believe Loid kissed Fiona.
Loid learns from his daughter Anya that her class at Eden Academy will be having a cooking competition and the winner may receive a Stella star. Knowing that the judge is the principal and that his favorite dessert is Meremere (specifically a regional version found in the northern Ostanian city of Frigis), Loid decides to take the family to Frigis in order to try the dish and salvage Operation Strix by recreating it. While on the train ride there, Anya discovers a key and, after reading their Great Pyrenees pet Bond's precognitive mind, learns there is a treasure on board. Anya finds and opens the suitcase, which contains a chocolate that she inadvertently eats. The owners of the suitcase find and try to apprehend her, but Yor intervenes and knocks them out.
The Forgers arrive in Frigis and visit a restaurant to have its last Meremere, but Colonel Snidel, a military intelligence officer, barges his way in with his soldiers and takes the Meremere for himself, beating Loid in a competition for his further satisfaction. Due to the restaurant not having enough ingredients to make more of the dessert, Yor suggests finding them themselves, which the family agrees to. During their search, Yor becomes increasingly anxious, believing Loid intends to break up with her, even after Loid gives her lipstick as a gift. Yor ends up getting drunk and causes a scene. Reading Loid and Yor's troubles in her mind, Anya sets up a situation to put them on the ferris wheel, where they are able to clear their misunderstandings and reaffirm their feelings towards each other.
Meanwhile, Snidel regroups at his military base and are about to take off in their airship. It is revealed that the chocolate Anya ate contained a microfilm, which Snidel planned to use to instigate another war against Westalis. Snidel sends his underlings out to find Anya and the microform. Loid attempts to find the last ingredient for the Meremere, cherry liquor, but to no avail. Anya suggests helping, but feels depressed when Loid turns her down. Using her and Bond's powers, Anya figures out where to find the cherry liquor and sneaks out of their hotel with Bond to acquire it. Anya and Bond obtain the liquor, but she is captured by the underlings, while Bond is left behind.
Loid and Yor frantically search for Anya. Loid finds Bond, who bit off a military patch from the underlings, and deduces that they kidnapped Anya, but is unsure why. Fiona arrives and informs Loid about WISE's highest priority mission in retrieving the microfilm. Loid overhears through a military transmission that Anya ate the microfilm and, after learning that she is on the airship, hijacks a Bristol Beaufighter to rescue Anya. Yor discreetly tags along with Loid.
Loid makes a crash landing onto the airship after it fires anti-aircraft missiles at him, sneaking through the ship with his disguise techniques. At the same time, Yor goes in, and accidentally starts a fire that begins to spread. Meanwhile, Anya desperately forces herself to hold in her bowel movements, knowing that Snidel and the underlings intend to reclaim the microfilm through her excrements. She manages to temporarily escape during Yor's commotion, but is recaptured and hidden away in the cockpit by Snidel after relieving herself in a nearby toilet.
A disguised Loid orders to find Anya, but Snidel immediately realizes who he is due to his exceptional sense of smell, causing a shootout. Snidel attempts to use experimental gas on Loid, but Anya is able to break free of her restraints in time to accidentally open the windows, expelling the gas. Loid, now disguised as Snidel, incapacitates him and orders the men to abandon ship. Meanwhile, Yor faces off against a cyborg soldier called Type F, in which she wins the fight by setting Type F on fire using the lipstick which Loid gave her.
The Forgers reunite and are able to steer the airship so it crashes into the river, avoiding the city. Loid also finds the microfilm stuck in Anya's teeth. Back at home, Loid presents the retrieved microfilm to Sylvia, who is pleased and informs him that Operation Strix will remain under his care. Anya is about to start the cooking competition with her class, but due to an accident, the contest is delayed. Since the judge has been changed to the vice principal, Loid suggests another trip to investigate a new dessert, this time in a warmer region, which Bond's precognition shows will be a relaxing vacation.
Why "SPY x FAMILY" works is because each of the characters, while hiding secrets, truly love each other and go to great lengths to support each other and make each other happy, while willing to sacrifice for each other.
HIGHLY RECCOMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/SPY-FAMILY-COD...
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