Spy x Family Officially Announces New Season and Movie Coming Soon

2027 will be Spy x Family's year

One of the best anime series in recent years is coming with a new season and a feature film. Spy x Family, the comedy-action manga created by Tatsuya Endo and published by Shueisha, is getting a fourth anime season and a new movie, both coming in 2027.

The announcement, shared on Oct. 8 at the Spy x Family Anime Extra Mission II special event and on the official Spy x Family website, came as a pleasant surprise for fans. Season 3 of the anime aired from October to December 2025, exactly two years after season 2 ended. If the timeframe remains consistent, fans can expect season 4 to air at the end of 2027. The franchise's second movie will come out in the same year, following the success of Spy x Family's first outing in cinemas, Spy x Family Code: White, released in 2023.

Spy x Family will make you laugh and cry

Spy x Family is a deceptively lighthearted story set in a fictional country resembling Cold War-era East Germany. The two countries of Ostania and Westalis maintain a fragile peace after years of conflict. Westalis' intelligence agency, WISE, sends its top agent, codename Twilight, to Ostania's capital, Berlint, to spy on Donovan Desmond, the country's top politician and former prime minister during the war years. To do so, Twilight has to build a fake family and use his "daughter" to approach Desmond's son in the prestigious Eden Academy. However, Twilight, now posing as esteemed doctor Loid Forger, doesn't know that the child he adopts from an orphanage, Anya, is secretly a telepath, and the woman he convinces to take the role of his wife is Ostania's best assassin, the "Thorn Princess" Yor Briar.

The series' comedy stems from three people living together while hiding their true identities. Airheaded Anya is one of the most adorable characters in anime, while Loid and Yor's marriage of convenience is slowly (too slowly!) developing into a real romance. Seeing this dynamic built on lies grow into a real found family is truly heartwarming, but Spy x Family hides a much more serious side. The themes of war and violence are never treated dismissively, and the series has delivered some of the best reflections on the topic seen in the medium.

An anime series coproduced by Wit Studio and Cloverworks debuted in 2022 to critical acclaim. The two animation companies also produced the movie Spy x Family Code: White, an original story not adapted from the manga, which sees the Forger family going on an unexpected adventure in a northern town. The movie grossed $95.7 million worldwide, which isn't surprising, considering the series' popularity. The Spy x Family manga has sold over 42 million copies.

Spy x Family is the rare series that can provoke a whole range of emotions in its fans. Wit and Cloverworks have done a great job with the animated adaptations, and it's great to see that they will be coming back for season 4 and, most likely, for the new movie, too. Yasuhiro Akamatsu will replace Yukiko Imai as the season's director, while Aya Takaha will handle the series' composition, and Kazuaki Shimada and will return for character designs.