The Forger family is coming back in a big way. Spy×Family is getting a fourth anime season and a brand-new film, both in 2027, the staff announced on Sunday 8 November, as Anime News Network reported. I've watched the first few seasons and dipped into the manga, and I adore this show, so this is a lovely bit of Sunday news.

What's been announced

  • Season 4: premieres in 2027, according to the new teaser visual from Toho. No month or exact date yet.
  • The film: opens in cinemas in Japan in 2027. There's no title or plot yet, and CBR says it's too early to tell whether it will be an original story or adapt the manga.
  • The teaser: Loid, Yor, Anya and their dog Bond are out and about in the city, with newspaper pages flying through the sky around them.

There's no word on a UK release for either one yet. I'll update this as soon as there is.

New to Spy×Family? Here's the premise

Westalis and Ostania are two rival nations holding on to an uneasy peace. Twilight, Westalis's best spy, gets his hardest mission yet: to get close to his target, he has to build a family and get a child into Eden Academy, an elite private school. So he marries a woman and adopts a little girl, without realising his new wife is an assassin and his daughter can read minds.

Every one of them is hiding something from the others, and watching the three of them work so hard at being a perfectly "normal" family is an absolute treat. It's funny and light most of the time, then catches you off guard with a moment that really tugs at you.

Manga art of Loid holding a pistol and Yor holding a blade, standing back to back behind a wide-eyed Anya
Spy×Family manga art by Tatsuya Endo. Image Credit: © Tatsuya Endo / Shueisha, via VIZ Media

Meet the Forgers (spoiler-free)

  • Loid Forger: the spy codenamed Twilight, posing as a psychiatrist.
  • Yor Forger: a city hall clerk who agrees to marry Loid partly as cover for her own secret: she's an assassin.
  • Anya Forger: their adopted daughter, a telepath who keeps her mind-reading to herself.
  • Bond Forger: the family's huge, fluffy Great Pyrenees.

Where the series is up to

For longtime fans, here's the run so far. The anime began in April 2022, with a second half that October. Season 2 followed in October 2023 with 12 episodes, and Season 3 arrived in October 2025 with 13, finishing on 27 December 2025. CBR counts 50 episodes streaming on Crunchyroll.

This will be the second film. Spy×Family Code: White, an original story supervised by creator Tatsuya Endo, topped the Japanese box office in its first weekend in December 2023.

The manga is still going too. Endo's series launched on Shonen Jump+ in March 2019, its 18th volume came out in Japan on 4 November, and it had more than 42 million copies in circulation as of April 2026. In English, VIZ Media publishes it, and new chapters land free on MANGA Plus at the same time as Japan.

Spy×Family isn't the only anime with a big 2027 at the cinema, either: Bocchi the Rock is getting its own film that year too.

I've still got Season 3 to catch up on, which works out nicely with a whole year before the Forgers return. Are you watching the anime, or already ahead in the manga?