With the animated adaptation already a crowd pleaser and the manga selling millions of copies, Spy x family is currently one of Shueisha's most successful series. The author Tatsuya Endo is at the peak of his career and his name is now known all over the world, like his colleagues Gege Akutami or Kohei Horikoshi.

In 2022, the top-grossing series was Spy x Family manga. The work continues to break sales records by releasing amazing numbers. In addition, the adaptation of Spy x Family, produced by WIT Studio and CloverWorks, also won Best Anime of 2022.
What a lot of people don't know is that Spy x Family was Tatsuya Endo's last chance, who would otherwise have to say goodbye to his dream. For the mangaka, the counterfeiters were therefore a real lifeline.

Before Spy x Family, The author failed several times to see that his series is in progress. Endo, had even earned the nickname "Axeman". Between 2000 and 2004, the author worked on a few one-shots, but none of them were ever made into a series, except for his first one, which appeared in Jump Next! has been published.

From 2007 to 2008 Endo worked on tista, a nine chapter series published in Jump SQ. Packed with mystery and action, the story takes place in New York and follows the story of the eponymous protagonist, a moonlight killer. Due to the small readership, the Series has been discontinued.

Endo then wrote Gekka Bijin, a Japanese folklore-based action comedy that ran for two years, and from 2014 to 2017 he signed several other one-shots that were never released. there The breakthrough came with ISpy, the prototype that lays the foundation for Spy x Family. This one-shot gained enough popularity to get serialized on Shonen Jump+.

there The story of Tatsuya Endo teaches never to give upan example that many artists should not follow.

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