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Individual character screen time per episode

Since I had all the screen times gathered, I decided to put them together in a separate graph per character, to show how their times fluctuate from one episode to the other. I tried to make the images big enough so that most details would show without necessarily zooming in, but it may work differently in different screens 😅

In any case, here are the three mains:

While Loid in the first season would usually cross the six minute mark, in the second season he actually got less screen time in comparison. Only the last two episodes give him a similar amount of screen time.

Anya's times had more variation, although her times are also smaller in the second season.

Surprisingly, the same applies to Yor. I think the Cruise Arc provided her with more stable screen times than more screen time overall, although she's the character with the most screen time in the second season alone.

Next we got Bond, who mostly gets background screen time, except for when he's got his own adventure focus in the episode.

Franky has his own fair share of appearances, with some small cameos but also four episodes where he gets a central role.

Something interesting I found between the times of Henderson and Handler is that overall Handler is very low on the screen time, but she appears in more episodes than Henderson does. So even though Henderson actually has more screen time, it's more rare for him to appear.

Next is Damian, who also seems to be getting smaller appearances outside episodes that give him or the class more focus.

Next is Becky, who despite scoring just two minutes before Damian in the overall screen time, she actually has more time in her smaller appearances, so she catches up.

Next is Yuri, who got a ton of screen time in the episode where he first visited the Forgers, and then actually balances between small appearances and a more central role.

Next is Nightfall, who despite her few appearances got a lot of time in the Campbelldon arc, to the point that her overall screen time is higher than Yuri's.

Finally, I made cards for the Cruise Arc characters.

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Screen Time Masterpost

Counting rules

Episodes:

Operation Strix

Secure a Wife

Prepare for the Interview

The Prestigious School's Interview

Will They Pass or Fail?

The Friendship Scheme

The Target's Second Son

The Counter-Secret Police Cover Operation

Show Off How in Love You Are

The Great Dodgeball Plan

Stella

Penguin Park

Project Apple

Disarm the Time Bomb

A New Family Member

Yor's Kitchen/The Informant's Great Romance Plan

Carry Out the Griffin Plan/Fullmetal Lady/Omelet Rice

Uncle the Private Tutor/Daybreak

A Revenge Plot Against Desmond/Mama Becomes The Wind

Investigate the General Hospital/Decipher the Perplexing Code

Nightfall/First Fit of Jealousy

The Underground Tennis Tournament: The Campbelldon

The Unwavering Path

The Role of a Mother and Wife/Shopping with Friends

First Contact

Follow Papa and Mama

Bond's Strategy to Stay Alive/Damian's Field Research Trip

Mission and Family/The Elegant Bondman/The Heart of a Child/Waking Up

The Pastry of Knowledge/The Informant's Great Romance Plan II

Plan to Cross the Border

The Fearsome Luxury Cruise Ship

Who Is This Mission For?

The Symphony Upon The Ship/Sister's Herbal Tea

The Hand That Connects to the Future

Enjoy the Resort to the Fullest/Bragging About Vacation

Berlint in Love/Nightfall's Daily Life

Part of the Family

Opening Credits: Season 1 | Season 2

Spy x Family Code: White screen time

Season 1 screen time progress

Anime seconds per Manga pages

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Spy x Family Code: White (Screen Time)

I ended up putting all of the characters in one card all together, since the smaller ones are still perfectly visible. I honestly expected at least one of the mains to cross one hour of screen time, and yet Loid is the first with just a little less than 37 minutes. Yor's time surprised me too, I thought she would be third in total, but the scenes of her searching through the airship and fighting Type F gave her more time than I'd anticipated.

For clarification, Luca is the bad guy with the short hair (whom Bond bit when he took Anya) and Dmitri is the bad guy with the long hair (the one who was into fortune telling). About 80% of their time was scenes where they were both on screen together, but I decided to count them separately too, as it was easy doing that after I'd gone through the entire film for the other characters.

Fiona, being the only secondary established character who had an active participation in the story, scores first among the rest, followed by Handler and Yuri (who also got extra screen time thanks to Yor's flashback). I counted Franky's post-credits scene too XD

So, yeah. This took a LONG time, it was more complicated than usual anime episodes because the animation was more detailed and there was more action in general, but I think it was worth it :)

Total character screen time: 01:24:24 (that's one hour, 24 minutes and 24 seconds)

P.S. If this is the first post you've seen from this blog, I have a FAQ that explains the rules by which I count each character's screen time.

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Nearly two thirds of the way done. Since now I reached the point after Twilight crashes the plane on the airship, I think it will be a little easier separating because for the most part it will be one or two characters in a scene together. I decided I won't count Type F's screen time cause it will be too little in comparison, and also because I already predict it's gonna be hard counting Yor's time for their fight, I gotta cut my losses XD

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Nearly halfway through with the counting. If I keep up at this pace, I will hopefully be done within a week or so.

It's a little harder than the usual anime episodes because the animation is more detailed and it requires more attention to do the counting properly. Although I am super unnecessarily detailed in the counting, so that takes up a lot more time, lol. But I thought, since no one else is doing it, and since it's taking long to do it anyway, might as well do it right!

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I've begun a slow process of counting the character screen times from the Code: White film. Since it's almost as much as much as five anime episodes it's going to take a while, so I'm doing it in parts, and I think I'm about 1/5 of the way through. Aside from all the established characters, main and secondary, I will also count screen times for Snidel, Dmitri and Luca. Maybe Type F too? We'll see.

However, since there's going to be a LOT of screen time for the three mains (and probably Bond too) in comparison to secondary characters, it's going to skew the overall results a lot if I add those times to the "overall" card I've made, so for now that screen time card will be a separate one from those for the series.

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Anime seconds per Manga pages

I was curious about the distribution of anime minutes dedicated for each chapter of the Spy x Family manga, and because it was much easier than counting the separate screen time each character has, I decided to just make a new count project, lol.

So here we have for each manga chapter, how many pages it has and how many minutes its respective anime episode dedicated in the adaptation. I'm including each chapter in the order in which it was shown in the anime, aside from the introductory three pages that were shown in the beginning of episode 3.

My rules for counting the screen time for each chapter:

Episode title cards do not count when they're separate from the action, when they're just a black screen, or a separate title screen (like the Dodgeball and Arts and Crafts/Griffin episodes). Only exception is for chapter 42, since the manga chapter has the same title card.

The end credits from the first episode where no main characters are visible don't count.

Episode recaps by a narrator don't count (the recap in episode 7 which is told by Twilight counts).

Repeated scenes from the end of an episode to the next (like episodes 8 to 9 or episodes 13 to 14) count.

In blue are the number of pages, while the light red are the minutes dedicated to the specific chapter.

Naturally, in the first half of season 1, episodes 3 and 6 have the smallest differences, since they have a lot of additional scenes that weren't in the manga. Taking the total seconds of each section and dividing them by the page numbers, we get this graph:

Which practically shows how many seconds per chapter page the episode dedicated. Not in a practical sense, but it gives a perspective, an average.

So we see that Chapter 6 (Castle Rescue Mission) has the highest rate, considering how many added scenes the episode had; showing the Forgers walk to the school, Anya having a "ritual dance", and of course, the whole expanded Loidman section. Quite far back is Chapter 3 (the Forgers going on their first outing together) which also has additional scenes; Yor arriving at the Forger house and being given a tour by Anya, Anya painting at the museum kids place, the family visiting the tailor shop, and going for a family photo. All that is still not enough to surpass the Loidman Spectacular, lol! Right behind it is Short Mission 4 (Henderson taking a jog) which while not exactly expanded, it had a lot of focus on each part. Right behind it is Chapter 15 (Dodgeball game) which also had a lot of additional scenes in the anime.

The rest of the chapters are pretty balanced in how much anime time they're given, though interestingly Chapter 13 (Twiyor failing to kiss and Yor sending Yuri flying across the room) is very tightly adapted, getting pretty much the same treatment as the very first chapter, which I personally find very perfectly balanced in how tightly it's adapted.

I also included the prologue, since it's given its own part, though you can see how quickly it goes by each image (it may be three pages long but it's only four images, lol)

On to the next cour!

Aside from a few short missions and the "omelet rice" extra part, the page numbers and minutes dedicated are pretty balanced. Here is the chart for second/page:

Aaaaaaand "Omelet Rice" has an absolute sweep! It's only a page long in the manga, but it takes an entire minute and a half of screen time, showing Yor's foods in (pixelated) detail, as well as poor Yuri's reactions to them, and actually shows him telling her she'll be a catch and Yor slapping him to another dimension in embarrassment, as well as a slightly prolonged scene of Yuri's captain telling him to be careful. It's actually so funny how much screen time that little page got, lol. It's the only part that surpasses a minute dedicated per page in the entire anime so far.

Next up is Short Mission 2 (Franky practicing dates with Twilight to woo Monica) which I actually hadn't noticed that it got that much detail. It doesn't even have any additional scenes, it just adapts each scene with a lot of detail.

The rest is pretty balanced, with Short Mission 3 (Bond ripping the penguin plushie) being the one that's the most tightly adapted.

Season 2!

The cruise arc was quite tightly adapted!

Chapters 44 to 56 are the Cruise Arc, and we can see those chapters have the lowest numbers in the season, each and every one getting fewer than 30 seconds per page, with Chapters 51 and 52 (beginning and action of the assassin fight on the top deck) being the most dense in screen time. Despite that, I don't think it was rushed at all! I think they managed a great balance showing all the action in it. Chapter 40 (Bond helping Twilight get the truth serum) also is quite tightly adapted. I think that shows in how it shows some of Bond's city adventures as still images; if they had more time for this part, they might have animated those too.

Chapters 57 (Anya lying to her classmates about the cruise) and Chapter 58 (Bond and Loid fire rescue) have an asterisk because I wasn't exactly sure how much time to count. For Chapter 57, I didn't count the scenes of Yor giving her coworkers their gifts, the flashback of the family buying them, Yuri telling his captain how excited he is to see Yor again, and Loid putting on the lovey-dovey bedsheets. I only started counting from the moment the scene changes to the school, since technically the scenes mentioned above are bonus scenes that are not connected to the chapter (aside from Yuri saying he can't wait to see Yor again, but still, it feels like a stretch). They're closer to the bonus parts of like, Yor bringing Anya her gym clothes, than an extended or expanded scene...

Like in the last episode of Season 2, where Loid announcing to the family he'll take Bond for a walk and Anya making origami stars are additional scenes, but they are intertwined with the chapter. I feel like it's a different case here... in any case, it doesn't make a huge difference, lol. The post-credits scene that shows each character separately was not counted for that.

And here are all the so-far adapted chapters, though since I couldn't make Excel change the order (and it would take too long to copy-paste each set on my own), it starts from the bottom going up.

It's literally so funny how Omelet Rice is towering over everything else, lmao. This makes it obvious that the most expanded chapter so far has been Chapter 6, and the tightest one is chapter 52, aside from the prologue.

(I forgot to change the order of chapters 58 and 59, oops. Oh well XD)

Big thanks to @yumeka-sxf for their Story Guide, which was a huge help in putting all of that info together!

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Mission 37: Part of the Family

Aaaaand we're done for the season! This episode was fairly easy to count because it was mostly Loid and Bond on screen, so I didn't have to spend too much time checking for other characters.

I kind of expected Bond to come on top of this one, but it seems that Loid only surpassed him for a meek 15 seconds. Per my rules, the flashback in the beginning of the episode counted for all characters' times.

Overall, Loid stands at around four hours of total screen time, Yor at around three, with Anya being almost exactly in the middle. The battle is still on about which secondary character will cross the hour mark first XD

In the end, I decided to make a separate card with the screen times from only the second season (click here to see the complete times from the Cruise Arc). It shows that despite Yor's third overall place and small screen time outside the Cruise Arc, her time during that arc got her significantly more screen time this season than any other character. We love that for her.

And now I, the anime only, shall wait 😅

Total character screen time: 16:12,36

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Mission 36: Berlint in Love | Nightfall's Daily Life

Becky sweeping over this one! It's not that often that one character crosses the ten minute mark per episode, and Becky wasn't even in the entire episode (though her part did take 2/3 of the episode).

Loid is almost at the four hour mark, and judging by how much time he'll have in the last episode he'll have more than an hour more screen time than Yor, probably around the difference they had at the end of the first season. And that's despite the whole of screen time Yor got in the Cruise Arc. Guess we'll just need more Yor next season, no? 👀

Total character went way up from the previous one. I'm guessing it's because there was fewer landscape views and guest characters only like there were in episode 35. Here there was barely a moment without a main or recurring character on screen.

Martha's screen time is too short, in general. But if she appears more in future episodes, I might go back and count her times.

Total character screen time: 18:43,30

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Mission 35: Enjoy the Resort to the Fullest | Bragging about Vacation

As I mentioned in my previous post, I only count the first part of this episode as part of the "Cruise Arc", since after that point the cruise is, well, over XD

Total character time went up in this one since the assassins that took up time in previous episodes are gone.

So we get the complete screen time for the whole of the cruise arc, with Yor getting a whooping 36 minutes and finally crossing the three hour mark in her overall screen time. I might need to make a separate card for the characters' overall times in season 2 alone, lol. At this point it would be just copy-and-pasting the times I already got into Excel and having it add all of them up. I'm mostly curious to see how it compares to the overall card of the previous season. Maybe I should do it by cour 1, cour 2, and season 2? We'll see.

(Reminder that I am anime only)

Total character screen time: 15:59,04

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Mission 34: The Hand that Connects to the Future

Been some time, but I'm back! I don't know when I'll do the next three episodes, but for now we have this.

There's a "previously on" part at the beginning of the episode, and I counted the screen times there. There's 2 seconds of Shopkeeper in that recap that I didn't include in the cards because it was too little. I added Yuri and Bond's times from that recap though, since they're more recurring characters.

I will only count half of the next episode as part of the "Cruise" arc, meaning that it will practically end at the scene after Twilight has his meeting with Handler and we see Yor and Anya asleep in the Forger living room.

Total character screen time: 13:29,44

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A quick update: I'm anime only, so I'll need lots of distractions during the anime hiatus. Because of that, I may delay counting the screen times of the episodes left, to give myself something to do that's connected to SxF 😅

It will be four episodes left to do once the season ends, so it probably won't take long to do them. I'll definitely do them, so don't worry if it takes a bit for that!

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Mission 33: The Symphony Upon the Ship | Sis's Herb Tea

Lots of action on this one! Unsurprisingly, Yor absolutely sweeps this one, and once again, Loid and Anya are pretty close to each other with Anya getting a little more screentime. Just for a second in this one, but hey, that says something too XD

I counted the extra mission separately, mostly because I wanted to show how Yuri's time in it was counted as not part of the Cruise Arc - similarly, Yor's time from that part is not added on her Cruise Arc time.

Total character screen time: 12:44,42 (both parts)

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Mission 32: Who is this Mission For?

Zeb ended up having more time than I anticipated! I went back and counted his screen time from the previous episodes, and realized he has way more time than McMahon does. I updated the previous posts to add his time in the cards.

I find it quite interesting that even though Anya doesn't get separated from Loid (despite her hard efforts XD), she already has an entire minute more on him for the Cruise Arc, and Olka has more time than him too. It's truly a girls sweep arc XD

Total character screen time: 16:27,36

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Mission 31: The Fearsome Luxury Cruise Ship

I ended up starting a separate card just for the Cruise Arc episodes. Depending on how it progresses, I may add other characters' screen times, (including Furseal's, or whatever his real name is, he might prove to be more of an important character than I anticipated) but for now this is what we get in the first two episodes of it.

Total character screen time: 13:55,30

Updated with Zeb's time.

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Mission 30: Plan to Cross the Border

Yor sweep!

Lots of characters in this one! As an anime only I have no idea how much time characters like McMahon or Olka will get, but as with other episodes I decided to count them since they have a considerable amount of screen time.

There's a slight chance I will do a separate "overall" card for only the cruise arc. I don't know a lot about it but I know it's kind of a continuous story for multiple episodes, so it might warrant making a card showing the characters' screen times for this arc only. It wouldn't be that hard to make, either way, just a lot of copy-paste-ing XD

Total character screen time: 17:08,22

Updated with Zeb's time.

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Mission 29: The Pastry of Knowledge | The Informant's Great Romance Plan II

It's to my great amusement to see Franky time just one (1) decimal of a second lower than Anya. They practically have no difference at all, even though their parts are completely separate and they don't appear on the screen together in this episode.

Anya crosses the three hour mark just as Loid crosses the three and a half hour mark! It looks like the first secondary character who will cross the hour mark will be Damian. Even though Henderson's and Handler's overall times are pretty low, they appear often enough that I think keeping them on the overall card is worth it. That's the opposite case with Camilla, who even though she appeared in this episode and I counted her time (45,06 seconds), she doesn't appear often enough for me to keep her in the overall card.

Total character screen time: 17:08,22

In regards to the Code: White film, I'm thinking of doing a similar count (once it's available on stream or a physical copy) for the characters' times there, but keeping it as a separate count. We see a lot of characters in the trailer but I doubt any of them will get as much screen time as Loid, Anya, Yor, and maybe even Bond will, so it may skew the perceptive of the screen time from the show. I'll think about it, but I'll certainly time them once I can get myself a copy.