Spy×Family Is Getting Season 4 and a Second Movie — Both in 2027

SPY×FAMILY doubled its plans on Sunday. At the ANIME EXTRA MISSION II event in Tokyo, the production announced that Season 4 of the TV anime will air in 2027 — and that a second theatrical film will open in Japan the same year. Two projects, one announcement, and a franchise that is plainly not slowing down.

The news broke at Bellesalle Takadanobaba, at a fan event built around the series, and went straight onto the official website and the anime's official X account. The X post had passed 2.2 million views by Sunday evening, with about 84,000 likes and 27,000 reposts. Numbers like that are why this was staged as an event instead of slipped out in a press release.

One picture, and it has to carry everything

The only new art is the Season 4 teaser visual, drawn for the announcement by character designer Satoshi Kadowaki. Loid tips his hat in his green suit. Yor walks beside him in a long coat. Anya runs out front in her Eden Academy uniform, and Bond trots alongside with his bow tie on. Giant SPY×FAMILY lettering runs under their feet across a European-style street, and newspapers spin through the air around them.

Those flying pages are not decoration. The production says the newspapers and flyers scattered through the visual carry hints about the story Season 4 will tell. For now, that is the only plot information anyone is getting.

What nobody said

There is no premiere month for the season. The film has no title. No streaming partner has been announced for either project outside Japan, and the movie's story is undisclosed — nobody has said whether it adapts the manga or tells an original story, the way CODE: White did. The announcement confirmed that both projects exist, and the year they land. Everything else is promised for later.

The staff picture is clearer. Famitsu's listing for Season 4 has Yasuhiro Akamatsu directing, taking over from Yukiko Imai, with Aya Takaba on series composition. Animation stays with WIT STUDIO and CloverWorks, the two studios that have made the series from the beginning.

How the Forgers got this big

Tatsuya Endo's manga has run on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ since March 2019 and has passed 42 million copies in circulation. The premise still fits in one breath: a master spy builds a fake family for a mission, unaware that his adopted daughter reads minds and his wife kills for a living. The fake family keeps becoming a real one. That gap — between the mission and the home it accidentally built — is the whole engine, and it has never needed more than that.

It also travels. Ask somebody who does not follow anime to name a current character and Anya Forger is one of the few answers that comes back, pink hair and all. The Forgers are built out of pieces anyone can read in one image: the suited dad, the elegant mom, the chaotic kid, the enormous dog. Season 4's teaser works precisely because no caption is required.

The anime moved fast once it started. Season 1 aired in two parts across April and October 2022. Season 2 followed in October 2023, and Season 3 ran from October to December 2025, premiering October 4 on TV Tokyo — 50 episodes in all, by the official site's count. Crunchyroll streams the three seasons outside Asia, so the audience waiting on Season 4 already knows where it has been watching.

No Season 4 footage exists yet. The latest official look at the series in motion is still the Season 3 trailer, from TOHO animation:

The movie that proved the point

The first film, SPY×FAMILY CODE: White, opened in Japan on December 22, 2023, and earned more than ¥6.26 billion at home — about $95.7 million worldwide, per Anime News Network's reporting. An original story, released in the middle of the TV run, played like an event. Those numbers are why a second film is not a gamble: the theatrical audience is proven, and the franchise has been treated as a movie property ever since.

So 2027 stacks up as the biggest year this franchise has had: a fourth season, a second film, and a manga still running underneath both. The details will arrive in pieces — a premiere month, a film title, a first trailer — the same way this announcement arrived with a single picture. For now the picture is enough. All four Forgers, mid-stride, coming back.