It was revealed last Wednesday that Spy x Family Part 2 went on to become the highest-rated television program in Japan between the dates of July 1 and October 2. The info was shared on Twitter by journalist Tadashi Sudo after he conducted an interview with the president of TV Toko stating that Spy x Family Part 2 ranked “best among all programs on all stations for the July 2022 season.” The series set a record time shift rating for TV Tokyo of 6%, which basically calculates the number of people who record the episodes on TV and watched them later. This comes as a surprise seeing as how the average audience rating is 1.8%, meaning that the current time slot for new episodes of Spy x Family Part 2 (Saturdays at 11:26 pm JST) could undergo a change.
Spy x Family Part 2
Spy x Family is currently in Part 2 of its first season (split-cour) and it covers the Doggy Crisis Arc of the manga, which starts in chapter 18 and ends in chapter 23 of Volume 4. With Part 1 of the anime covering the first five arcs of the series, with either two or three episodes for each, fans can anticipate Part 2 will be adapting the Midterm Exam Arc and the Campbelldon Tennis Arc. Spy x Family Part 1 ran for 12 episodes in the Spring 2022 anime season while Spy x Family Part 2 will run for 13 episodes in the current Fall 2022 season.
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Spy x Family has become one of the biggest anime since the start of the new decade. Dominating charts on multiple websites and even the rating boards of other websites, Spy x Family has become a hit anime series that has captivated fans of any genre of anime. With a perfect mix of action, comedy, and wholesomeness, along with some of the best openings and endings we’ve seen in recent years, Spy x Family will continue to go on as one of the best anime of the current decade. And the best of the series has yet to come for you anime-only fans so be sure to stay tuned each week!
Spy x Family is an anime adaptation of the original manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo which began publishing in 2019 in Shonen Jump+. Spy x Family is directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and is co-animated by both CloverWorks and WIT Studio (as mentioned before). Takahiro Miura directed and storyboarded episode 14 while Yūsuke Kubo did the same for episode 13 (which started Part 2 of the current first season). Kazuaki Shimada is the chief animation director for the series and handles the character designs as well. And [K]NoW_NAME handles the music production. The original cast for the series has reprised the same roles from Part 1 of the current first season.
Source: Tadashi Sudo Official Twitter
