SPY×FAMILY CODE: WHITE

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ANIME ActionSPY×FAMILY Season 2
SPECIAL ActionStreet Fighter 6 × SPY×FAMILY CODE: White

REVIEWS

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  ThyMrMan

  80/100
  Very good movie that makes positive changes to the current trend of the series.

  Decided to go to the local AMC to catch Code White in theaters. And it was really good and did exactly what I wanted from the series for once. Sure I’ve enjoyed the Spy x Family series over time, but despite really enjoying it the whole time I’ve always felt it just wasn’t reaching it’s full potential at all. And honestly I blame how popular it got for that.

  Nearly 5 years after this series first started in the manga, we still haven’t made much progress at all in anything. And sure I’ve enjoyed everything along the way, I love the characters and their interactions and the atmosphere of it all. But what happened to the interest concept of this super spy, super assassin, mind reading girl, and future predicting dog living together and being a family. All the interesting and great moments that could have been built with this group, getting involved with crazy missions and events all the time trying to keep their individual secrets. And along the way they would grow closer and become a real family and all that. And yet in nearly 5 years, most of what we have gotten now is Aya slice of life stuff, with an occasional arc for Loid or Yor that just doesn’t feel like it moves things forward at all. In 5 years the relationship between these characters has barely moved, and I just feel disappointment at what could have been with this series. But I feel it exploded in popularity, everyone noticed, and now it needs to go forever so they can sell Aya spin-off games and merch for all time.

  But this movie switches things up a whole bunch. And really does exactly what I wanted from the series. It puts the family in a situation in which everyone’s unique abilities get shown off. And are useful and help progress the plot and relationship in the family. Along with finally showing more of the serious side of this world that really should exist, and puts it in the proper context. This is a universe with two powerful enemy countries locked in a cold war, the threats should be big and the possible consequences of failure should feel important.

  Now I didn’t love everything about the movie. It has moments that feel very unnecessary, along with a major plot point I just didn’t love. It was an attempt to merge the silly side that the manga/anime have embraced more with a very serious story. And at times that silliness just ruins a moment that should have been powerful and emotional, just to get a laugh out of the audience I feel. In general though, I feel it worked well enough.

  I have to also mention the movie looks really good, with the visuals and animation in general just being great. They had some amazing action scenes that are better than anything we have seen in the anime thus far. And you can tell this isn’t just a couple episodes from the show, or an extended OVA, and instead a real movie with a decent budget behind it for making it look really good. And I am glad we are getting more anime movies that seem to have a good budget to look good, even if I wish it released faster.

  In the end, I have to recommend the movie if you are a fan of the anime/manga. I think it is worth going to see if you get the chance in theaters to support bringing more anime movies to western theaters. But even if not it is well worth the time, and I think everyone will be satisfied with the story and characters in the movie.

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  0IIch0ps

  75/100
  A definitely flawed film but a really fun watch all the same

  I've read the manga twice so I'd say I'm a big fan, though I never bothered to watch the anime, on a whim I watched this with some of my friends because why not and honestly this was really good.

  As a fan of the series, again my review is that it's pretty good, pretty funny and animation is really good, especially in some of the fight scenes, and very specfically a fight scene with Yor near the endish of the film was animated really well and defintley made it worth seeing in a actual cinema. Defintley a good adapation and just a fun time for fans of the series, so if the anime is similar to this quality then maybe I'll give it a shot.

  One of my friends that came to see it with me had zero knoweldge of Spy X Family (and also doesn't really watch anime in general) and from their point of view they also kinda enjoyed it, so the movie does a somewhat good job at being enjoyable for both fans and non fans, though they also hated Anya, though I guess that not the movies fault.

  Plot is what you'd expect from Spy X Family, though for being a movie it kinda feels directionless for a while and the ending kinda feels unfinished, though it's really enjoyable throughout, and it just kinda advances in stupidity until the end but that's why it's good. The ending especially is really enjoyable so you just kinda forget how silly the plot gets (and also that it just kinda abruptly ends) but for a anime orignal plot that can't have any impact on the main series, it's pretty good.

  I did want to say a little bit that's basically just spoilers so feel free to skip this bit:
  I feel they kinda push it a bit with the hiding of Yor & Loid's secret, because I know the whole point is Yor is super gullable etc, but Loid straight up flys a plane avoiding numerous missiles etc with Yor in the plane (sure Yor couldn't techincally see that but she isn't that stupid) and she doesn't question he can do that? or that he just crashes a plane on the warship? I don't think the series has ever pushed it quite that far... but still the stuff on the warship are still great though so I can forgive it but still kinda felt like pushing it a bit. Also final spoilery bit is that Yor & Loid run towards bulletts way too much, Yor straight up runs towards a anti aircraft gun and she's fine, though this is mostly nitpicking if I'm being honest.

  If I had any major complaints it was that there's a good 5 - 10 minutes of this film dedicated soley to Anya not needing to shit and it really very very much was not needed and not something I wanted to see on the big cinema screen.... there is like a kinda cool scene that comes from it but like I don't really care for humour that's just about shitting. and if I'm being honest that was the only part of the film I didn't like.

  Loid & Yor have some pretty cute moments, and they both have some cool fight scenes. It's a pretty funny film, though there were only a few times I really had a actual out loud laugh, it's more of a frequent smile kinda funny. But if I'm being honest I did laugh quite hard when the film started and the cinema I was at just cut off the subtitles becuase they had it set to the wrong aspect ratio, so all of the explanation of the basic plot for people who hadn't seen the series was just gone, so my friend who knew nothing of the series had to go through 50% of the film without actually knowing anything about what was happening.

  Overall, really fun watch, well animated etc, worth seeing in the cinema if you can.

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  sadkey

  55/100
  Code White is unimpressive as a movie, but indispensable as a way to fill out a Spy X Family bingo card

  Let me briefly get you up to speed. Spy x Family is an action-comedy anime/manga about an impossibly skilled spy, Loid, having to adopt a kid in order to infiltrate a prestigious high class school. The child he adopts, Anya, is a survivor of an unknown lab’s experiments – experiments that gave her the power to read minds – so consequentially Anya knows Loid’s secret. Anya is ecstatic to be adopted by a spy, though – in her mind, spys are incredibly exciting. In order to not draw suspicions, Loid meets and proposes a fake marriage to a woman named Yor. Yor agrees -- unbeknownst to Loid, Yor is an impossibly skilled assassin, who needs a family to dodge the government’s scrutiny. After Anya does well in her classes, Loid and Yor decide to let her adopt a dog – and of course, the dog turns out to be capable of seeing the future. Anya, Loid, Yor, and even the dog have reasons to keep their professions secret from the rest of the family – and so with that premise, Spy x Family has so far delivered two seasons (season 1 being a two-cour affair) to immense buzz and both critical and commercial success. So it’s natural that a highly popular anime would eventually receive a feature film.

  With any popular anime, there typically is a companion film of some kind. These can fall into three main categories – recap films, adaptions of canon material, and non-canon movies that effectively serve as their own self-contained story arcs. Spy x Family falls into the third category: namely, a non-canon self contained story arc. It’s genuinely exciting to see a series go from a manga, to two anime seasons, to a video game, and now to a movie. Regardless of the movie’s quality, it feels like a rite of passage for a series like this to get a movie. Tatsuya Endo can sleep soundly knowing his series has finally “made it.” Doubly so knowing that Spy x Family: Code White is as unambitious as it is, TRULY meeting the standards of an anime companion movie.

  Spy x Family: Code White feels like it’s filling out a checklist, trying to hit all the most popular notes of the main series: Anya remarks that something is “so exciting,” (WAKU WAKU!!), Yor gets drunk, a romantic moment between Yor and Loid is interrupted by a violent slap from an embarrassed Yor, Yuri remarks about how much he loves his sister, Nightfall gets her anguished and fruitless declaration of love to Loid, and Bond predicts a future where Yor cooks a horrible meal. I have to give the directors credit, though; they did manage to keep the peanut references to a minimum. It’s not that these elements are a negative in and of itself, but the aggressive prevalence of them (especially in the first half) definitely lends to a feeling of being phoned in. It feels like it was designed to fill out a Spy x Family themed bingo card, it's kind of ridiculous. How is everything ELSE, though?

  The answer is mostly good. The story follows the Forger families weekend vacation to a foreign country in order to taste-test and eventually bake a specific foreign desert for the school’s principal in order to win a Stella. So, right off the bat you’re aware that they will not be successful in this goal – can’t have the movie interrupting canon! Somewhere along the line, Anya unwittingly gets herself involved with a criminal conspiracy and becomes a target for the bad guys, so naturally Yor and Loid have to protect Anya while attempting to foil the enemy plot and all the while keeping their identity a secret from each other. It is truly just another Spy x Family arc.

  One minor complaint I have is in the form of a question: who is this movie for, really? There is an overly long poop joke that is – for whatever reason – VERY well animated and stylistically different from the rest of the movie’s animation. It’s most similar to Anya’s iconic dodgeball throw in Season 1, except it’s dedicated to a joke that just isn’t all that funny and is incredibly juvenile. Which is fine, generally speaking. The movie is a family movie, for the most part. Except, well, is it? At the beginning of the movie, Yor violently slashes a man’s throat and blood dramatically spurts out of his wound as he dies, which would suggest this isn’t a movie for all ages – and then the remaining runtime’s violence is mostly bloodless and often non-lethal. At several points in the movie, though, Anya is in danger of being brutally murdered – which, to be fair, is not ground untouched by Spy x Family – but all of this together does put it in an odd place where it’s both too blatantly uninspired and juvenile for older audiences and too adult for younger audiences. You could make this argument for the series as a whole, but I oddly don’t have much of a problem with that range in the main series -- so maybe my issue lies solely with the humor in question being toilet humor. Either way, this tonal dissonance isn’t going to be a problem for those familiar with the main series (which I assume will be everyone watching this – with the notably hilarious exception of participants in a recent AMC Film Unseen event that was met with a massive number of walkouts). If you know what you’re in for, there will be no surprises here.

  ...and to be clear, I mean exactly that. There are no surprises here. If you expect anything out of a Spy x Family arc, it will be in this movie. There are extremely well choreographed fights that Yor and Loid participate in – as an aside, there’s one exceptionally well animated Yor fight between her and a masked and armored machine gun wielding mystery man. At one point the mask comes off and dramatically reveals that the man under the mask was...some guy. I adore this. I’ve seen it happen in Yakuza, too – we need more unmaskings that reveal that we don’t even know that guy. Nothing more than a confirmation that the guy has facial features. I mean it, no surprises to a silly degree. The Loid fights in here are also very fun and well animated – fun uses of color as well. Loid and Yor are both comically busted characters and as long as you promise not to give a damn it’s pretty much purely inoffensive fun.

  It’s hard for me to feel like this movie wasn’t a bit of a missed opportunity. Spy x Family’s recent run of chapters have shown nothing but reluctance toward the notion of shaking up the series’ status quo. With the success of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, The First Slam Dunk, and the highly anticipated Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc movie, I would suggest that adapting canon content may be the most surefire way for a shonen anime film to be successful, but considering the lack of meaningful progress in the manga as of the time of writing I can completely understand the decision to go with an original here. It’s such a shame that they did so little with it. I feel like Spy x Family has never had particularly engaging antagonists and I feel like Code White would’ve been an excellent opportunity to create anything other than an archetypal “bad guy” for the Forgers to fight. There was definitely room for something special here – but what we got was a respectable throwaway film from Wit Studio and Cloverworks. It’s okay. Good job.

  55/100

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