#endo tatsuya

[theloneliestblackgirlblog]

chapters like today really emphasize the fact that Spy x Family is about war and all of it’s consequences

[wondrousmay]

Endo-sensei’s day out! (Source)

[ambafaerie]

Anya taking care of her parents!

[mj-ackerman]

Translation of Tatsuya Endo's Interview with Katsumaru: (You can read the original here X)

Katsumaru: My wife and child are both big fans of "Spy x Family", so they were both excited for me to be able to meet you today. Why did you choose the theme "Spy" in the first place?

Endo: I didn't have any particular desire to draw a spy story or something like that, but I had always liked military kinds of things and was interested in war related things, so when I combined those aspects with the theme of "lies", it naturally ended up as a spy story. However, I haven't seen many spy movies, and for movies like "007", I've only seen one or two of them.

Katsumaru: What? Really? The information about spies that appears in the story, even for someone like me who's been an avid follower of the genre, gives an impression that it's very well thought out. How on earth did you acquire such knowledge?

Endo: Most of it is from books. And then some of it is from documentary films and the likes. There was an old movie called "Shiri" (This is a 1999 Korean film), it's about the battle between North Korean Special Operation Forces and South Korean Intelligence Agency. I liked that very much.

Katsumaru: The setting, in which the husband, Loid, is a spy and the wife, Yor, is an assassin, reminded me of the movie "Mr & Mrs Smith"

Endo: When the series was just starting, I see that title being mentioned a lot in the comments, but to be honest I've never seen it before....(Laughs). I didn't have much time to prepare for the serialization, and since it's a comedy, I thought I didn't have to be that particular about the settings as I drew it. I incorporated the knowledge I had gained from books, but since it's still a manga, I kept the "No way, that's impossible" aspects to it.

Katsumaru: I think it has a really good balance between realistic depiction and entertainment. Spies are part of everyday life, and some of them even established a "fake family" as in "SPY X FAMILY". In reality, there are cases where married couples had been living together without realizing that their husbands are spies.

Endo: That balance is what I pay the most attention to. I guess you can say it's a process of determining the "minimum level of reality" in each scene.

Katsumaru: How concerned are you about the difference between "reality and manga", Endo-sensei?

Endo: This one is difficult. It's a case by case basis, but in manga, there are many parts where I can just go "let's fake the reality at this part for the time being". When you're working alone, you don't have time to do research about this or that fact. However, in anime, you have to create much more detailed settings, so there isn't much room to put on tricks. When the anime team would ask me "What would happen in this part?" I would often reply with "I'm sorry but I haven't thought about it yet...." (Laughs).

Katsumaru: Have you not strictly defined the scene or time period the story is set in yet?

Endo: I had the image of the period setting somewhere between the 1960s and 1970s. I'm trying to explore what I can do with the technologies in this era thinking "This technology might be possible". I also have softened the reality of things, such as the political form. The cold war between the East and West is also part of the motif, but if you just tell the readers that "it's a conflict of ideologies" , it won't make sense to them. So, I put it into a form that is easy to understand as a manga, there are also some parts that I, myself don't know about after all. Similarly, in the real world, for example, spies probably have very few horizontal connections, right? Like for security reasons. However, as a manga, in order to develop the story, it was necessary for me to depict conversations between spies. All the more that this is a comedy story, so it wouldn't work without conversation. It's difficult to find the right flavor between the two.

Katsumaru: It's pretty unique that you came up with the name "Dalc" which is similar to the name of the currency "Mark" (It's Deutsche Mark which is no longer in use since 2002) used in Germany.

Endo: It's actually a combination of "Mark" and "Dollar". I often use names of places and buildings that actually exist in real life. However, I have a pretty bad memory, so I often ask myself later "Where did I get the name of this place again?" (Laughs)

Katsumaru: Is there any expert historical research or supervision of intelligence agencies involved in this?

Endo: I basically think about all the detailed settings all by myself.

Katsumaru: Since the real-life aspects are well-constructed, I thought an expert in international politics was involved in supervising this.

Endo: There are also some readers who read too deep into the historical situation, but I didn't actually put much thought into the details in writing the story. This is just a fictional country called "Westalis and Ostania" after all.

Katsumaru: In "Spy x Family", there are some Russian-speaking names such as "Anya" and "Yuri" that appears, but spies in that country uses more analog method. For example, "flash contact", in which documents are handed over to another person as they pass each other, or a "drop dead", in which documents are hidden in an agreed-upon location and later picked up by a colleague. There is also a method for communication. Although this method is considered extremely inefficient, it is sometimes considered to be highly secure because it prevents interception of communications.

Endo: So there's still that kind of analogs even now huh? Now that technology has developed and everything is digitalized, I certainly think it's much safer now. In other countries, there are organization such as M16 (United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service) and CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency), Japan also has organizations with such characteristics.

Katsumaru: The "Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau (Public Safety)", where I worked, is the counterintelligence arm of Japan. In "VIVANT" (It's a 2023 Japanese Drama), which I supervised, Hiroshi Abe and Ryo Ryusei are playing roles with these type of characters. We have obtained as collaborators people who have a lot of information and people who are in position to meet various people such as reporter.

The only problem was that we didn't have enough people. The CIA has a large number of subordinates under it's station chief, and a large budget. When I was temporary transfered to a Japanese embassy overseas, I was alone, my budget was limited, and I was also reponsible for issuing passports, so there is no doubt that working at an intelligence agency overseas with better environment had allowed me to concentrate more on my mission.

Endo: Do you hire locals overseas?

Katsumaru: There are times when we ask locals to work with us by paying them a reward. Or, we can ask them to connect us with people who has information. The Public Safety is very good at finding and training people who can bring good quality information and can do good work.

[marauderstiltheend]

Loid: I don't understand women... (well, its only Yor, his wife)

Says the spy who is known to have an arsenal of "Honey-pot" strategies.

The Yor x Loid slow burn is amazing that it upends everything Twilight knew and trained for Honeypot missions.

Their relationship progress and development is slowly letting him learn the hard work of romance that he hadn't known and experience before.

And to Yor, she's learning serious love relationships for the first time ever.

They're both learning romance together. For the first time.

Awwwwwww so sweet. Endo Tatsuya writes impeccably.

[naarinn]

It's so beautiful! Endo ate this

[hee-hee-hoo-ho]

Very much in love with Tatsuya Endo's Spy x Family. He's a great writer and mangaka. He write the plot beautifully and with substance. He manages to always flesh out each character and make them not just a 2 dimensional flatboard.

It's just that it's amusing to see how much people analyze and dissect every single thing and there's probably just thing that are: intentional, not intentional but subconsciously done for the plot, or not even intended at all and the like that people later will mention in their analysis and Endo will just be like "guys...??". Anyway, I like how he creates sxf. love that guy

[animehouse-moe]

Spy x Family Volume 11: Make With The Cake

Having now reached into the double digits of manga volumes, there's really not a world of things to say about Spy x Family. It's great, so much so that it's still going strong, but the majority of praise comes from the sensibility and distance Endo approaches the series with.

Keeping that space has allowed the series to truly thrive, and this volume shows just how much that means in terms of success and enjoyment- even letting Endo explore more of their penchant for darker narrative elements. So, there might not be much to chat about, but if you're interested in a more detailed breakdown of how this volume exemplifies Endo's approach with the series as a whole, you can read the full review on Animehouse.

[shysheeperz]

[betweenthegutters]

source: Spy x Family. Endo Tatsuya. “Mission 64″

[celestialmega]

Spy Family, SPY x FAMILY, スパイファミリー, 間諜過家家 by Endo tatsuya.

[theloneliestblackgirlblog]

Endo successfully gagged me I cannot lie, praying this leads to an Anya backstory

[wondrousmay]

Endo-sensei shared these illustrations on Twitter/X! Seems like he went for a walk! Hoped he had a good and relaxing time!

Source

[ambafaerie]

There is going to be a Spy x Family Movie on Dec 22!

[Left: Anime Visual Right: Endo sensei’s drawing of the visual]

[origami-teacup]

spy x family volume 10 cover.. no fancy or funky chair just loid sitting on rubble in the aftermath of war and devastation with a blank look in his eyes and palm resting on a toy rifle............. endo is so sick for this actually

[mr-legoman]

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