©遠藤達哉/集英社・SPY×FAMILY製作委員会
It’s easy to forget that SPY x FAMILY takes place in a dangerous world. Sure, we all know that Loid is a spy and Yor is an assassin, but the dangers of those professions often play out against the backdrop of good-natured buffalo herders and general Anya-ness . That’s not the case with this storyline, as this episode failed to show us. I think there might be more characters dying on screen here than in the entire last thirty episodes and that might be a bit of a shock.
However, it makes sense since this is the first time Yor has gotten an extended storyline of her own. Anya is just there as invisible support and Loid is relegated to the comic relief, although the fact that he notices all the bugs is probably going to be more important than it seems. His usual observation suggested. But this is Yor’s show, and that means her assassin skills need to be on top, because a lot of other assassins have also come on board and they’re all working against the mission. her guard.
There’s something almost Pratchettian about the assassins in this episode, especially the ones working against the Garden. Before things really started, they made an agreement to work together to destroy Shaty and Yor, and when one assassin offered to kill all the mothers with children on the ship, two others took him out. out and say they are assassins, not murderers. (Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre [Không giết người mà không trả tiền], as the Ankh-Morpork Assassins say.) That makes the ruthlessness of Yor and the Director stand out even more—not that they’re particularly vicious (the one who snatched the chain was, after all, the sickle in a crowded hallway), but because they’re clearly all playing by a hidden list of rules. Others aim to kill. Yor aims to stop them, possibly by killing them. It’s as simple as that.
This is an increasingly tense episode as the number of additional assassins on board becomes apparent. We see five individuals—the guy with the chain sickle, the fake room service guy, the two people at the carnival, and the person the director took down—but that’s only a small fraction of the possible killers. will wander around on the train. Since we haven’t seen any of the others take any action, it could imply that they’re even more talented than the three we’ve met so far; that they’re becoming increasingly capable even in the space of this episode supports that theory. Initially, both the sickle guy and the room service staff fooled Yor, which implies a very high level of competence because she spotted them both at the party immediately because of her bloodlust. that they exude. Yor is amazing, but is she amazing enough to keep Shaty, her fake husband, and her baby alive?
Anya isn’t entirely sure, but she has a tenuous grasp of the reality of the situation and seems to think that Loid would divorce Yor if she didn’t like frogs. (I love Anya Logic.) However, she does have her mother’s support and if that means tricking her father into potentially embarrassing situations (and really, dressing up as traps is a big deal). What else could the calendar be?), Well, that’s it. It’s fun to see Loid on the outside of his sanity when he’s overthinking parenthood, but there’s also something very real about it because as my mother used to tell us , children do not have instruction books. The real question is, was there an assassination? Because Yor will need every trick in the book to get out of this situation whole and with his clients alive.
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