Somewhere in Westalis, a handler has signed off the budget. The Forgers are coming back twice in 2027: a fourth TV season of Spy x Family and a second theatrical film, both announced on Sunday 8 November at the Spy x Family Anime Extra Mission II event at Belle Salle Takadanobaba in Tokyo. As surprises go, it ranked roughly alongside Anya guessing what you’re thinking, but fans had been made to sweat for it. Season 3 ended in December 2025 with no renewal, and everyone assumed the news was being saved for this event. The previous Extra Mission, in June 2024, was where Season 3 had been announced. Agent Twilight would call that a pattern.
What we actually have is a year and a picture. The new teaser visual was drawn for the occasion by character designer Satoshi Kadowaki and lines up Loid, Anya, Yor and Bond on a city street. According to Oricon, the newspapers and flyers scattered around the scene carry hints about the story Season 4 will tell, so expect a great many people to spend this week zooming in on fictional newsprint. Given the show’s premise, that is more or less what Loid does for a living. WIT Studio and CloverWorks, who have animated all three seasons so far, are reported to be returning. Dates, story and platforms for both projects are promised later, and the official account, never knowingly understated, has declared 2027 “the year of Spy x Family”.
The film is the more intriguing of the pair. Spy x Family Code: White, released in Japan in December 2023, was an original story rather than a chunk of the manga, with Tatsuya Endo supplying the story and character designs, and it topped the Japanese box office on its opening weekend. Nobody has said whether the second film will take the same route, though with the manga still running on Shonen Jump+, another original caper looks the safe bet. It also leaves open the question of whether we finally get a whole film’s worth of Bond, the only member of the household whose superpower is knowing in advance exactly how badly the plan is going to go.
Here at SFcrowsnest, we have a soft spot for the series’ central joke: a spy, an assassin and a telepath pretending to be a normal family, each terrified the others will find out, while a cold war ticks away in the background like a bomb nobody has had time to defuse. Le Carré’s spies never had to survive a school entrance interview. The show has kept that joke going for three seasons and a film without letting the espionage fade into wallpaper, and Season 3’s darker digging into Loid’s childhood suggested there is still somewhere for it to go.
The first three seasons are on Crunchyroll in the UK, and Code: White reached Western cinemas a few months after its Japanese release, so the same lag for the new film would be no great shock. That’s our guess, mind, not an announcement. Until the next briefing, Operation Strix remains officially in progress, which is where it has been since the manga began in 2019, and where, if the merchandising department has any say, it will stay for a very long time indeed.
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