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Spy x Family Manga Sales Skyrockets Following Anime Debut


The rise of Spy x Family to fame continues in both television and print as the sales of the manga where the anime adaptation is based on skyrockets and reaches a new all-time high record because of the popularity that the series is having right now as it cements itself to be one of the best in this year’s line-up.

Weekly Shonen Jump recently updated the fans on Spy x Family’s circulation status and currently, the manga already has more or less 17 million copies out in the open and the sales of it can increase anytime soon. This is all due to the popularity being gained by the anime show which, even with just 3 episodes, already got the interest of many.

The anime show is based on the pages of the manga series of the same name with the words and illustrations of Tatsuya Endo published twice a week on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website. To date, it has eight tankōbon volumes.

Spy x Family revolves around a spy who tries to build a family in order to fulfill a mission but without realizing that his fake family is nothing near normal: his adopted daughter is a mind reader and his fake wife turns out to be an assassin.

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Spy x Family is produced by Wit Studio and Cloverworks with a creative team composed of Kazuhiro Furuhashi as director, Kazuaki Shimada as character designer, and [K]NoW_NAME as the music composer. The anime show has been confirmed to be a split cour which means that there would be a three-month break before the second part of the season airs again.

Crunchyroll secured the license to air the series outside of Asia and they offer the following premium subscription plans: FAN, an ad-free plan with unlimited access to Crunchyroll’s roster of shows available to stream an hour after the release of an episode for one device for $7.99 per month; and MEGA FAN, the same perks but this time, it has offline viewing and availability for four devices at a time for $9.99 per month pr $79.99 per year.

Spy x Family airs weekly on Crunchyroll.

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