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burr-ell · 2 months

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What I love about Spy x Family's recent chapters concerning Martha and Henry—two secondary characters with little direct connection to the plot as we've known it—is that Endo's taking the opportunity to once again hammer home what the story's actual stakes are. The idea of potential conflict between Ostania and Westalis isn't just window dressing for a wacky wholesome badass family gimmick—the previous wars are real events that various characters lived through, and all of them are in some way affected by it and have good reasons to want to avoid another one. This is primarily an action-adventure/slice-of-life manga with a lot of sendups to spy movies and pop culture of the 60s, but I think those things hold much more weight with the thematic underpinning of the horrors of war and the ruin it leaves behind.

#spy x family #sxf meta #obviously we have twilight's origin story/yor and yuri's parents/the experiments on anya and bond #but there's also sylvia's loss of her family and franky's history and martha's trauma and millie's resentment of fathers who came back #it fucked up the desmonds too just in different ways—donovan being Like That is why melinda demetrius and damian have suffered #and the decisions made by people like donovan from behind a desk are catastrophic for people like twilight and franky in the trenches #endo consistently engages with the implications of his setting in really interesting ways #and using a fictionalized post-war central europe is a VERY resonant choice given the history behind the current geopolitical climate

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