Spy Kyoushitsu (Spy Classroom)

After a gruesome war wreaked havoc on the general populace, the governments of the world turned to a more elusive tactic to further their agendas—a war fought in the shadows.

Lily, a beautiful girl with white locks, is a student in one of the many institutions that train youths into becoming capable spies. Unfortunately, despite scoring well in the written exams, she only manages to barely pass her practicals. With no real world skills to speak of, her hopes of graduating are dismal—until she is offered an opportunity to join the mysterious team "Tomoshibi" and partake in an Impassable Mission.

Excited by the prospect of working with the elite, Lily enthusiastically accepts. However, she is struck dumb when she arrives at Kagerou Palace and the true purpose of Tomoshibi and its hopeless situation comes into light. Joined by other problematic female spies along with a mysterious young man spearheading the operation, Lily realizes that this is not the ideal escapade she had pictured.

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Lily

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Amamiya, Sora
Japanese

Monika

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Yuuki, Aoi
Japanese

Erna

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Minase, Inori
Japanese

Thea

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Uesaka, Sumire
Japanese

Annett

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Kusunoki, Tomori
Japanese

Grete

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Itou, Miku
Japanese

Sibylla

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Touyama, Nao
Japanese

Klaus

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Umehara, Yuuichirou
Japanese

Sara

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Sakura, Ayane
Japanese

Eve

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Sugiyama, Riho
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Sotokawa, Akihiro

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Motonaga, Satoshi

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Kawaguchi, Keiichirou

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Naya, Ryousuke

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"Tomoshibi (灯火)" by nonoc

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"Secret Code" by Konomi Suzuki

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Jan 19, 2023

HyroSan

Not Recommended

Funny

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

Well, this anime is a disappointment...

Seeing the previews made me think that this show was going about proper spy work, teamwork and nice gimmicks. Character designs and animation look decent and the cast seemed to be fun (though are architecture of clichés).

All of it to be thrown away by the pacing. It is so bad. All the previous mentioned points were not mentioned in the anime at all and the plot was racing at mach speed. The past 3 episodes were like this:

Episode 1 was introduction of the cast (normal) to solely focusing on 1 character (why?)
Episode 2 was basic training (ok) to ...

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Jan 19, 2023

SuperAdventure

Mixed Feelings

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Well-written

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

CGDCT: A genre that is about watching cute anime girls and picking a favorite. The only thing you have to decide is what color hair to give each generic girl; and figure out what the T is going to be in your show.
In this case, “Let’s make them spies”
The only problem is to come up with a justification for why there must be cute girls doing the Thing in question. And in this case apparently, wars became too bloody and so now spies do all the fighting- and this show seems to think spies are the same exact thing as assassins… Somehow I ... doubt wars are ever going to be fought by a bunch of teenage girls playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who gets stuck carrying the backpack on a mission, but I digress…

This anime puts a group of cute girls, all who are apparently war orphans, into a nice Edwardian house to be trained for a supposedly ‘Impossible Mission’ by Klaus, a longhaired bishounen who claims to be the world’s greatest spy, and who is constantly making abstract paintings with blood red colors…
But what starts out as Cute Girls Doing Spy Things in a classroom quickly turns into a competition between Klaus and Lily; the more outspoken girl, to see which one of them can take the other out. This turns into a lesson where he tasks the girls with making him ‘surrender’, setting up a students-need-to-beat-teacher challenge that some are comparing to Assassination Classroom. Well that was unexpected. It works pretty well to keep you interested, but there are a few problems.
First, we only really get to know two of the characters: Klaus and Lily, while all the rest of the girls are just cardboard cutouts who dress in their own signature style. It relies way too heavily on exposition; having characters talk about what they just tried to do and reveal their sneaky attempts with dialogue rather than showing them actually fighting- which would require much more animation than this has. It also means it has this Scooby Doo tendency to reveal all secrets to the enemy the moment BEFORE he’s defeated, which just made me laugh out loud.

The show cashes in all its chips on the Impossible Mission pretty quickly, suggesting it will have an arc style of storytelling- which is fine. But it doesn’t justify having so many characters, each who are supposed to have a Unique Talent. It seems we will find out what each girl’s talent is- mostly through exposition in each future mission featuring all the girls working together as a team- which for some reason has been given the name Lamplight. It's a kind of formulaic type of storytelling that will restrict this anime's ability to make a lasting impression- but then again it could pull another surprise move to keep you guessing, hard to tell right now.
Since this is a Preliminary Review and it’s early, I’d say anyone might like it, it just depends on your taste. I find it very enjoyable, in spite of its weaknesses. I am wishing for more characterization and a lot better world-building than it has; but it’s fun and cute and the dialogue is not bad. I will definitely watch it to the end- 6/10 so far.

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Jan 19, 2023

JustANormie123

Mixed Feelings

Funny

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

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I actually believe this anime is not too bad, the animation is nice, excluding Spy x Family, I feel as though not many spy animes have been released so this is a nice change of pace. The "main character" (Lily, or aka Code name Flower Garden) is not very much to my liking, to be honest all the spy girls are just alright, their sensei is cool at least, but mostly because he's strong.

But something that should be mentioned about this anime is that it feels as though it's already finished? 3 episodes into the anime and they have already completed their main goal, ...

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