Review:
The spy known as Twilight has been given his most difficult mission yet: get close to the leader of the National Unity Party, Donovan Desmond. Desmond's only public appearances are at the elite private school his son attends, so Twilight (now Loid Forger) has seven days to somehow acquire both a child and a wife.
The child is easy - all he has to do is find a terrible orphanage and get the brightest kid they have. A wife is harder, but he manages to find one of those as well. What Twilight/Loid doesn't realize is that his new wife, Yor, is an assassin (who needed a boyfriend in order to reassure her beloved brother) and his new child, Anya, is a telepath (who thinks her new parents are the coolest).
I pre-ordered this one because I'd heard it was really good and funny. Although it didn't make me laugh as much as I'd expected, I still enjoyed the humor. Most of it was centered on the fact that the only person in this little family who had any idea what was really going on was Anya, who not only knew that her new papa was a spy and her new mama was an assassin but who also considered those things to be a plus. Although Yor was extremely good at killing people, she tended to take people's statements at face value and believed Loid's paper thin lies about being a psychiatrist. Loid, meanwhile, was too happy to have found a good fake wife candidate to spend much time thinking about what her amazing athletic ability might mean.
They made a surprisingly sweet family, and I hope future volumes give them more quiet time together, even if Loid has to tell himself it's practice for his mission. I got a kick out of the fact that Anya was the one who arranged for Loid and Yor to find out how perfect they were for each other, and I wouldn't be surprised if Loid and Yor's relationship eventually morphs into romance.
A lot of comedy manga series start off with a nice premise but then struggle to keep things fresh for more than a couple volumes. I don't think that's going to be a problem here, because the comedy isn't the primary focus. All of the main characters have backstories that could be spun out into something interesting (Twilight and whatever event left him orphaned, Yor and her brother, Anya's escape from the people who experimented on her), so between that, their relationships with each other, and Twilight's mission, there's a lot of material here for the author to explore.
I definitely plan to read the next volume, and I look forward to seeing how this series progresses.
Extras:
A few full-color pages, a bonus manga in which Loid buys Anya a blind box toy, some behind-the-scenes sketches, and Twilight's redacted-to-the-point-of-uselessness character profile.
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