Spy x Family is going back to the big screen. The anime’s official site announced on November 8 that a second theatrical film and a fourth television season are both coming in 2027, and the first movie’s $246.3 million worldwide gross explains why nobody is waiting long.
The news page carries the plain line that Season 4 and the second film are set for 2027, while banners on the home page mark the film’s release year as decided. A teaser visual for the new season went up the same day. The reveal came at the Spy x Family Anime Extra Mission II fan event, and the film is set for release in Japan.
Beyond the year, the official pages offer almost nothing. There is no title, no plot, no month and no word yet on a release outside Japan.
What the first movie did
Spy x Family Code: White opened in Japan on December 22, 2023, with Toho distributing, and it sold 866,436 tickets in its first three days. It held the top spot at the Japanese box office through its third weekend, ending at ¥6.32 billion there, roughly $40 million, and landing as the fourth highest-grossing Japanese film of 2024.
The bigger surprise is where the rest of the money came from. Of the $246.3 million worldwide total, only about one dollar in six was earned in Japan. The other $200 million or so came from overseas, an unusual split for a domestic-market anime film and the strongest argument for a wider international rollout this time. In North America, where Crunchyroll licensed it, the film opened to $4.9 million from 2,009 theaters in April 2024, fifth for that weekend.
The official site does not name a distributor. A report shared on film forums this weekend says Toho has set the feature, and that is the only place we saw the claim, so it stays a report for now.
A quick guide for newcomers
Tatsuya Endo’s manga began on the Shonen Jump+ app in March 2019. A spy code-named Twilight fakes a family to reach a reclusive politician, adopting a girl named Anya who can secretly read minds and marrying a city clerk named Yor who is secretly an assassin. Neither adult knows the other’s real job. It is a comedy first, with Cold War-style tension behind it, and the manga had passed 42 million copies in circulation by April 2026.
The television run so far looks like this:
- Season 1: two parts, April to June and October to December 2022.
- Season 2: October to December 2023.
- Season 3: October to December 2025.
- Season 4: 2027, with Yasuhiro Akamatsu taking over as director from Yukiko Imai.
That pattern matters for anyone trying to guess the calendar. Each of the last two seasons premiered in October, and Code: White landed in December, so a late-2027 pairing would fit the franchise’s habits. That is our inference from past scheduling, and neither date has been announced.
For now the only firm entry on the official news page is the year: 2027.
Further reading
Illustrative image. Image: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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