Fans are unsure if the first part will be adapted properly.
Summary:
- Mission: Yozakura Family has been announced for two cours.
- Fans are happy to see it being longer than just one cour.
- Some fans believe it will skip some of the slice-of-life parts, but there’s no evidence for that.
Mission: Yozakura Family (Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen) is an adaptation of a Weekly Shounen Jump manga. It follows a boy who marries his childhood friend — who comes from a family of spies. As such, he’s forced to enter the world of espionage and intrigue himself.
The anime for Mission: Yozakura Family was something fans expected for a while. It is finally going to air in the Spring 2024 season, and it has been announced to air for two consecutive cours. There are, however, still questions about what it is going to adapt, because the answer is not that simple.
Fans are happy about it being two cours
First of all, fans are definitely happy about the anime receiving a two-cour adaptation. For a manga that has over 200 chapters at this point, one cour would have adapted almost nothing — unless it rushed through the events, which is also not ideal.
Some believe that this is another sign of the return of two-cour anime. However, Yozakura Family being two cours isn’t actually a surprise. Shounen Jump manga has been consistently receiving two-cour adaptations — examples are Jujutsu Kaisen, Undead Unluck, and Fire Force (Enen no Shouboutai).
Will the anime skip some of the early chapters?
Two cours for Yozakura Family, however, don’t even mean that the anime will follow the manga 1:1. In fact, many fans don’t expect it to, saying that it will make sense for it to end the first season at the end of the first major arc.
That, however, will mean that a lot of content will have to be skipped. After all, there’s a long span of slice-of-life chapters in the first part of the manga, and cutting some of them would be inconsequential for the main story.
Fans are unhappy with this prospect. Many believe that the slice-of-life parts of Yozakura Family are the best parts — almost reverse to what is usually said about Spy x Family, another spy-themed manga. The plot-heavy arcs feel a bit generic, and skipping straight to them wouldn’t be a good idea.
Others believe that there’s no reason to believe that the anime will skip any chapters or arcs. We haven’t seen any official announcement regarding that. The anime adapting the first 50-60 chapters might feel a little low-stakes, but that’s fine — Spy x Family was popular for a while, and that’s basically a sitcom.