It’s hard to go wrong with a storyline centered around Anya. Despite knowing about Luid’s troubled past and seeing Yul thrust into the spotlight, Anya remains one of them. Spy×FamilyThe most lovable character is also the one most likely to generate interesting plots. She is the ultimate wild card, a young child who thinks and acts like a child, but who also understands the thoughts of adults, which she filters through her own unique worldview. We know what Loyd and Joel might do in any given situation. For Anya, there were few certainties.
This unpredictability forms the backbone of Volume Eleven’s main story. Anya already feels that her role in the family may be threatened now that Yul has become friends with Damian’s mother, making her less eager to win Damian’s favor. (At least in her own mind.) This means she feels like she has to step up her game without even realizing she’s already She was trying to capture the prickly little boy’s heart, assuming she hadn’t captured his heart already, and he just couldn’t bring himself to admit it. (By volume 12, this is looking increasingly likely as he fully becomes Domyoji, the character Endo says was his inspiration.) When disaster strikes, she seems to slip into her usual ‘s “Just Don’t Get It” model: Two school buses of first-graders are hijacked by a terrorist group while on a field trip, including Anya and Damian’s classes.
While most of Anya’s plans play out in hilarious fashion, it’s her time to shine. Armed with knowledge gleaned from her favorite cartoons and her father’s thoughts, Anya get ready With great support from Becky, Damian and big boy Bill Watkins in the dodgeball storyline, we rise to the occasion. The result is an intoxicating mix of drama and absurdity, with just enough pathos to balance things out, so to speak. Spy×FamilyAn exclusive combination of story elements. It also shows how smart these kids are: Sure, a favorite distraction tactic might be to loudly announce to the hijackers that they need to pee, but when one kid does that, Becky is stuffing a candy jar out of Her student ID card was taped to the window that alerted authorities. While everyone panics, Bill calmly tells everyone what to do, and of course Anya is reading the bad guys’ minds to figure out what they’re doing. real In progress. Anya is the most proactive of the kids because of this skill, but it makes it even more impressive for Damian to step up and help her because he No Know what they’re thinking and work on getting them out of it because Anya is giving it her all. It shows how Anya, Damian and Betsy play off each other, and how the kids can confuse and then impress the adults.
Meanwhile, Becky’s notes let the adult world know what’s going on, mobilizing Blackbell, the police, WISE, and the National Security Agency. this family portrait The novel shows how Yuri as a character has transcended his creepy lesbian roots, and this storyline does him a lot of good in that regard. As an SSS agent, he’s more than capable of helping save the world, and even when he’s sidelined (ie: tied to a post) to prevent him from falling by the wayside, he’s thinking about Anya and how to save her. Yes, he was mostly thinking about how sad her death would make Joel feel, but ultimately, he did want to save two buses full of kids because it was the right thing to do and a part of him did care about his niece , although you’d never know that from his chore competition with Luid in the previous chapter. All the groups – the SSS, Blackbell, the police, WISE and the children – must come together to save the world, which isn’t something we’ve really seen before in this series. Lloyd and Yul are more or less sidelined this time around, but that seems intentional; after all, if they had superhuman powers, there wouldn’t be anything anyone else could do.
The end of this storyline ends in volume eleven and dates back to Spy×FamilyDuring the emotional part, the children immediately burst into tears the moment their family members showed up. This is especially important for Damian; we know throughout much of the series that his family seems to view him as “less than”, and there’s a sense that he doesn’t want either of his parents to pick him up. His mother did, but based on Anya’s reading of her thoughts, there was something off about the whole situation. Damian’s home life is clearly more fraught than we thought, which even shocks Anya, who has a profound understanding of what it means to be a child at the mercy of adults whose motives are not always clear. It brings us back to a theme that’s been present on and off throughout the series, which is that kids need to have adults they can trust and rely on, because it sure seems like Damian doesn’t have that something that could be just as damaging. Anya’s early life was the same for her.
We see an expansion of this in Chapter 1 of Book 12, which deals with the consequences. Anya is finding newfound popularity for her role in the escapades, while Damian is struggling with some very difficult emotions. As Becky astutely points out, one of the issues is the fear of Anya being taken away from him, but he’s still trying to deal with his relationship with his mother. She’s clearly very ambivalent about her relationship with her youngest son, which, as a first-year student, is hard for Damian to understand. He may be arrogant, but he’s still a little boy who wants to be loved by his mother, and the complicated messages she sends him may be part of what draws him to Anya, who is always as forthright as possible, even when she thinks she isn’t.
The idea of hiding your true self is an integral part of any spy story, and Volume 12 expands on this, with a brief chapter on Sylvia Sherwood (aka Handler) and a longer The beginning of a spy-based storyline. Sylvia’s chapter is very bittersweet because it confirms what we’ve suspected all along: her daughter is no longer with her. While we still don’t know if the child died or was simply with her father somewhere else in the living world, I feel more inclined that her husband and child were deceased. Sylvia’s messy apartment, which she’s too lazy to clean, seems to be a sign of depression, although she can’t help but do things like adopt Aaron, the German shepherd from the original Bond storyline canine, but she also appears to live solely for work. Like Twilight, she may have been drawn to the profession when something terrible happened during the war, which helps explain her role not only as a spymaster, but as a person, to Strix Action investment.
Volume 12’s main storyline refocuses on a mole who steals sensitive documents and prepares to hand them over to the Special Security Service. Since SSS knows WISE is fully aware of the situation, things quickly escalate into an all-out espionage war, bringing the series back to its roots. This is the most intense of the spy plots, because now Twilight has something to lose – namely, his life as the Loid Forger and the people that come with it. But those people also complicate things in different ways, as Twilight will have to confront Yuri directly. Yuri may not be a great character, but this line highlights why he is an important one: he is Twilight’s hardest problem to overcome, because if Yuri dies (if Twilight kills him), then It will have an impact on You. Even without knowing he was an Assassin, the loss of Luid’s wife to her brother could change Operation Strix in a number of ways, complicating Twilight’s work. Endo, as always, does an excellent job handling this issue, and the book ends on a vicious cliffhanger.
While the other shorter stories in these volumes are good, and even though they bring about Fiona’s unwelcome return, she’s largely kept under control, with the kidnapping and spy stories being the strongest. They do a great job of utilizing the series’ thematic elements, including the Hijackers and Yuri, and broadening the world of the story by showing all of the most powerful elements working together, or at least at the same time. Along with some new Anya faces, the only thing missing here is more Bond. These are good entries that show Endo TatsuyaThere are even twelve volumes.