In the Cards?
Feb. 14th, 2026 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerBeing handed a pack of (small) Uno cards with Spy x Family theming got my attention. As I turned the pack over I spotted a McDonald’s logo. I did wonder if I had seen news of that particular promotion (surely involving “Happy Meals”) I was only just remembering now, but it was still a somehow familiar surprise for all that I tell myself every time I feel it “you’ve been aware of anime for so long that things have changed since your first days!”
It’s just possible part of the surprise came from the thought “the series is popular... but not that popular.” I went so far as to start the Netflix application on my iPad and note Spy x Family isn’t just on Crunchyroll. After that I did have to consider how I haven’t yet seen the latest block of episodes for all that a certain amount of “not what I was expecting from even an anime ‘1960s spy boom spoof’” disdain, shading into more measured comments about different varieties of “comedy” sort of competing in it, were countered by more positive summing-up comments.
It’s just possible part of the surprise came from the thought “the series is popular... but not that popular.” I went so far as to start the Netflix application on my iPad and note Spy x Family isn’t just on Crunchyroll. After that I did have to consider how I haven’t yet seen the latest block of episodes for all that a certain amount of “not what I was expecting from even an anime ‘1960s spy boom spoof’” disdain, shading into more measured comments about different varieties of “comedy” sort of competing in it, were countered by more positive summing-up comments.