Review of Spy x Family Season 2
Spy x Family picks up where the previous season left off and continues showcasing the lives of Anya, Loid, and Yor. Each of them is still keeping their ‘true’ selves secret, but despite that they’re still coming closer together as a family. The highlight this season is a single arc that spans episodes 5 to 10. My biggest complaint with the previous season was the lack of fleshing out Yor, and this arc fixes that in a big way by not only having a Yor focused arc, but giving her the best arc so far. It has great character development in her where she reflectson her motivations and reconciles both of her selves. On top of that, this arc flows incredibly well with good pacing and a good balance between it’s plot threads. It has great action too and the climax involves a fight that’s a genuinely amazing spectacle.
Outside of that however, this season for better or worse doesn’t really do anything new. It’s just more of the same of what the previous season had. It doesn’t really introduce any new major characters. Nor does it really flesh out anyone other than Yor to any significant degree. There are episodes that focus on Bond, Franky, Yuri, and Desmond, but they’re more just the standard fare and don’t really do anything that the previous season didn’t already do to some degree. It’s all still handled pretty well and thus enjoyable from start to finish and it hasn’t quite gotten to the point that it’s started to get stale. However, as things seem to be reaching a sort of status quo and not really deviating from it much, this season doesn’t really have as much of a wow factor as the previous season did.
The art and animation are really good, with the big fight scene with Yor being the obvious highlight. There’s nothing particularly new or interesting in terms of designs. The OP and ED are interesting, but I’m not all that fond of them in terms of the song or visuals. The soundtrack is also great and has more variety this season.
tl;dr: A season with a really great Yor focused arc, but that is otherwise more of the same.