Spy × Family

I do like how there's no fanservice in Yozakura Family — makes for a refreshing change of pace.

Also, the love interest isn't a Tsundere in the slightest degree — she loves and cares for the protagonist just as he loves and cares for her. If she wasn't, it would really strain credibility that he would go through so much hell for her, I think.

I like Yozakura a lot, but last I heard it's just barely dodging the axe? Sx F is fantastically successful, by comparison. And I actually disagree about the tone — Sx F is so much more grounded (yes we just had an underground tennis deathmatch with rich teenagers packing rocket rackets, but still) that the stakes are more real and the drama more realistic. Yozakura's more over-the-top setting is more suited for slapstick and comedic sociopathy and the like. I mean, the last dramatic arc was concluded by the tiny eldest sister dispatching an army of a thousand supersoldiers with a tornado uppercut, somehow. Sx F's setting makes plots like having to foil an attempt on the prime minister's life by extremist college students in order o reignite diplomatic hostilities believable, even if there's a prophetic dog in the mix.

Yozakura’s definitely more focused on over-the-top action and absurdism, which suits it well. And yeah, its situation in the magazine still seems precarious (although it survived to its first anniversary, which is a good sign).

Yokazura Family does however actually put its protagonist in dangerous situations and lets him get roughed up badly. And when it gets dark, it gets dark - as in "young girl killed by a bomb meant for her father and dies in his arms" dark.

In Spy X Family by contrast, the only time we really get a sense that the protagonists were in danger was in that arc with the extremists. And even then, it got foiled by a little girl and a dog.

Edited by M84 on Sep 24th 2020 at 9:27:49 PM

Of course, Mission: Yozakura Family has no need for fanservice, given that the leads are a married couple. They can have sex whenever they want, so there's no point in teasing anything; they just haven't consummated the marriage yet because they aren't ready for kids.

Also, they're 16. And got married so the wife's crazy older brother didn't murder the husband out of jealousy.

Edited by Ninety on Sep 24th 2020 at 5:41:28 AM

Also, fanservice is there to titulate the reader, not the characters. There's plenty of manga with tons of fanservice, regardless of the character's ages, so it's a welcome change to see a manga with very little of any.

My point is that if the leads can just jump in their marriage bed at their convenience, teasing it makes no sense.

The two works are ultimately pretty different.

Next chapter comes out tomorrow.

Edited by Cortez on Oct 3rd 2020 at 11:26:48 AM

Oh, good. We can stop pretending this is a thread for a different manga, then.

I love that Yor and Nightfall both think there will somehow be any actual consequences for a tennis match, much to Anya's complete and utter confusion.

Edited by ashlay on Oct 4th 2020 at 7:30:24 AM

Though given Yor's ability to serve a tennis ball fast enough to kill somebody, the notion of serious consequences turns out to be Right for the Wrong Reasons.

Edited by mythbuster on Oct 4th 2020 at 6:17:37 AM

Nightfall just had her first brush with a proper apex predator. God alone knows what she'll be like when she comes back.

Did not expect that the big secret in the painting is that the guy was in deep idol starlet hell.

Yor is the best gorilla-woman. Sorry Nightfall.

Edited by fillerdude on Oct 4th 2020 at 7:02:34 AM

At this point, Lloyd should probably notice there's something up with the perfectly average housewife being able to outmuscle a borderline-superhuman spy.

Unfortunately for our master spy, love is blind.

That one-two-punch gag with the first ball was masterful.

I can’t remember though, has Loid already witnessed Yor’s Perfectly Normal strength? Seems like he knew exactly how this would turn out…

He probably knew a little about her skills when she helped him beat up thugs before he "proposed". Maybe being a superhuman himself, he sort of thinks that's normal?

Oof… Loid acts a little bit scummy for a second. =[ Though his "analysis" is probably not wrong.

Hey, he's a spy. Gotta focus on the job, though we all know how that's gonna go.

Yor is really cute.

Have no problems with Loid trying to exploit Yor’s feelings, it’s what he does, and it just makes the inevitable Becoming the Mask worth it.

... did I trope that right

Edited by fillerdude on Oct 18th 2020 at 8:11:31 AM

https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1007915

Well, this was adorable. Just two girls having fun shopping together, and the author having an excuse to draw them in cute clothes.

Yeah, those clothes were actually pretty rad. I can believe they’re frickin’ expensive.

Well, there is the Troubling Unchildlike Behavior of first graders coming up with a honey trap.

Edited by mythbuster on Nov 1st 2020 at 10:58:33 AM

There's no honey trap. Becky sees Anya observing Damian and wanting to get closer, and assumes that it's because she likes him. Anya tells her that it's not a romance thing, and doesn't get how clothes will make her closer to him, and goes along with the fashion stuff because it's fun.