A decade ago, mankind witnessed the deadly potential of weapons caused by the Great War. To avoid another catastrophe, governments worldwide have resorted to espionage to fulfill their agendas.
In the Din Republic, Lily is an enthusiastic young girl who aspires to become a spy and serve her nation. However, she begins to doubt her abilities, as she struggles to perform well academically. Lily's passion is reignited when she is offered provisional graduation by joining the spy team Lamplight, which she eagerly accepts despite the enigmatic nature of the opportunity.
Upon arriving at her destination, Lily is surprised to find six other girls waiting there, all of whom have faced their own academic difficulties as well. A mysterious man named Klaus soon appears and reveals they must complete an "Impossible Mission": to infiltrate the Galgad Empire after just one month of training. Although skeptical, the girls eventually agree to work together under Klaus' guidance—as this might be their only chance to prove their worth as spies.
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Mcsuper
This show had the potential to be decent, but ended up being the massive disappointment of the season. The first three episodes basically doomed it, and even though the second half was comparatively better, my interest had already waned too much. It had the makings for a decent series, but the adaptation of the first volume of the light novel (first seven episodes) was just baffling, because they showed all their cards in Episode 3, and they did flashbacks for character development after the supposed climax, which felt so out of place. Without this poor structure in the first arc, I would definitely have enjoyedit more, but here we are.
The show revolves around a spy group called Team Lamplight, a group of seven (?) girls, and their teacher, Klaus. At first, they seemed like a disoriented bunch of fools not knowing what to do, and at the outset, the plot was revolving around the girls attempting to kill Klaus, which in the end, really went nowhere, and got repetitive very quickly. The spy missions themselves weren’t all that great either, especially in the first half. They were just simple and extremely contrived short missions with irrelevant villains that just were there to get killed. It also relies way too heavily or plot twists and shock value, which is not the best formula. It lacks an identity, it’s not funny like Spy X Family, and it certainly isn’t Assassination Classroom either, so what is it really? I don’t know if I have an answer.
The characters were all very gimmicky, and lacked real personality or growth in general. I can barely remember all their names to be honest. A lot of them felt overly sexualized, and it felt like being horny was their only attribute. A little perverseness doesn’t doom a show at all, but for this show, it really obstructed the plot and character development. It just feels like extremely lazy writing, when the writer ran out of ideas, so maybe they thought a bit of fan service will satisfy the viewers instead. I suppose some of them got better in the second half, but it’s just faint praise, really.
The animation and designs are alright, not anything special, but not bad either. As for the music, the soundtrack wasn’t all that special, but the OP and EDs were probably one of the more well done and creative aspects in the entire show.
Overall, while having an acceptable second half, the first arc’s structure just killed it entirely in my opinion. It showed its hand way too early, simple as that. Even so, the writing in general was not great, to put it lightly, and relied too much on shock value and fan service to keep the audience engaged. With better pacing, this show could have been a little better, but not by much. Even the stacked cast of voice actors couldn’t save this. A shame, really, since I heard good things about the light novels, and even though I haven’t read them, they probably didn’t do them justice at all.
Marinate1016
Spyroom is sadly yet another example of a really good Light Novel series that gets a subpar anime adaptation intended to push sales of the source material, rather than actually doing the story justice. Given it was studio Feel, I was always apprehensive about the Spyroom adaptation and had my doubts, but I tried to be as optimistic as possible. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The pacing and direction of this show were just awful. Even if you take out the adaptation aspect, it’s painfully obvious that the show breezes over important details and omits content. On top of that, the studio made the decisionto adapt side story volumes which feel like filler in the middle of the show instead of adapting the main story properly. They feel out of place as they take place prior to the events of the end of volume 1, and they also don’t match the tone of the story. Those 2-3 episodes just felt really off and I don’t understand the choice.
They did start to improve things in the second half of the show when they faithfully adapted volume 2, but by that time I’d totally lost interest in the anime and couldn’t really bring myself to care. It’s really a shame because this is a solid light novel story that’s basically cute girls doing cute things with a spy thriller/military backdrop, but the anime fails to capture any of that magic. Instead it feels like a generic soulless cash-grab that might do well enough to sell a few risqué waifu figures, but I can’t imagine it did well enough to really justify the means.
The art style is good, animation is ok for the most part. The direction is very bad as I mentioned the pacing is awful and the show expects us to care about characters without giving them proper attention and care.
I’d advise against watching the anime and just suggest you to check out the LN series. If you are at all interested in the world of Spyroom that is the ideal manner of consumption because this anime is simply not it.
Spyroom gets 4 out of 10
verbinflection
'Spy Classroom' is a simple, competent, consistently enjoyable light action comedy about cute girls learning how to be spies. The high-stakes first arc is particularly engrossing, but the fun cast of characters makes even the mid-season filler episodes quite watchable. The show feels solid from start to finish because it never overreaches: we were promised cute girls learning how to be spies, and we got exactly that. It's spy fiction as light action comedy rather than military thriller, but it still delivers reasonably clever spy-like twists: gadgets, disguises, shadowy figures, double- and triple-crosses, assorted brinkmanship. The tone is well balanced because, again, it doesn't overreach. The girlsare cute and silly, and the deadpan teacher complements them perfectly; the spy missions are exciting, even when the stakes are low; and the tragic backstories, when they come up, give the story a bit of heart without wallowing in sadness. Overall, it's about as cozy as spy fiction gets.
The season is actually fairly well paced: three main characters, including the teacher, are well developed, and what I called the filler episodes typically focus on developing one side character each, largely through enjoyable albeit low-stakes action and comedy. The voice acting is charming, the animation is serviceable, and the subtitles are acceptable.
I remember once slogging through an episode of some romantic comedy I won't name, trying to force myself to enjoy it. I gave up eventually and put on 'My First Girlfriend Is a Gal', of all things, a less than beloved franchise. My relief was immediate and overwhelming, because finally I was watching a show that actually tries to deliver on the core appeal of its genre. I feel the same way about 'Spy Classroom' now. It's a minor, quiet success. It doesn't shout at you. It's not trying to seem important. It doesn't even demand your full attention in every scene. But if you find yourself slogging through the latest "revolutionary achievement for the medium," consider a simple story about cute spy girls instead.
LuisSV23
Lots of plot twists xd Personally I don't think the anime is bad, it just may not be able to make the leap in quality that it could have to be remarkable, but that doesn't mean it can't be entertaining to watch. As for the plot, it is interesting, a good dynamic but its narrative is (in my opinion) a bit abrupt, there are many flashbacks that can really add little or nothing to the plot, it could be a bit desperate. Continuing with the beginning, it is because of this exaggerated amount of flashbacks that many plot twists are included so that the plot has a convenientending, I'm not saying it's wrong, maybe doing it a couple of times and that's it, but it's literally the same in every episode ._.
I like the dynamics of the characters, it's good, each one has an ability and is explored to a certain extent with a bit of depth, in addition to giving the protagonist a lot of background; they get along well and their interactions are good, I really think it's the highlight of the anime.
The soundtrack is somewhat forgettable, the op is good, but other than that it doesn't really stand out.
In conclusion: don't really expect an action/romance/comedy piece with great depth, impressive developments and a compelling story, as there isn't one here; but if you just want to have a good time then it would be fine to just relax and watch it without overthinking things.
jus7aguy
I feel the dislike people show for this is from being thrown off by the episode format. The first arc is resolved super-fast then there is flashback character development to flesh out interactions for awhile before moving on to the next arc. If you're watching week by week this is probably a bad format. HOWEVER if you are watching back to back this works fine. If you need character personalities to hit you over the head with a tonne of bricks you'll miss a lot in this series, while some stuff IS spelled out in capital letters, other parts are moreon the implied front. The only thing I will say is I think the term "agent" rather than spy might have been more applicable.
I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did given all the negative reviews and mixed feelings people seem to have about it, but I found it a pleasant gem, that got better as it went on.
Your personal mileage may vary, but come into it with an open mind.
Latooq
This is the first anime I have such complicated relationship with. My impression of this show had been changing even before I started watching it. First off, I fell in love with the character design. Then I saw a clip on Reddit, which made me believe this would be an ecchi. My opinion changed during the show as well. But having watched few episodes I abandoned the anime for a week. When I picked it up my opinion changed again, and I can definitely say that the 3 episode rule doesn't work here. The first 3 episodes represent the first 3 episodes, not the whole show.Here we have the post war world where, for some reason, the most efficient weapon is spies. This is quite the world building you can get as an anime only. No further explanations, no depiction of culture differences between those 2 nations, aside from the fact that one of the countries looks like German. In this country several spies were recruited to carry out so-called Mission Impossible ( got the reference? ). And the name of that mission stems from a sole failed attempt to accomplish it. On top of that, the lineup is composed of washouts, who should be trained specifically for that mission.
The student cast of 7 girls at this point is pretty forgettable. It will be a miracle if you remember at least one of the girls. Their teacher is your typical taciturn, lacking of social skills, but extremely op mc with a trauma in the past. The only memorable thing about him is author's attempts to show how cool he is, but in reality it feels totally ludicrous. He can't explain how to use lock picks, nor design a proper curriculum. He isn't cut out to train them, but nevertheless the mission is still due. During this mission some awkward twists happen out of nowhere i.g. actually, there weren't seven but eight girl, or their HQ was bugged but, of course, our mc had known this from the beginning and took the respective measures.
At this point many viewers call it a day and drop the show. But the anime makes a turnaround and slightly changes in the details. In the first episodes it had grim atmosphere that the girls would die during the mission. But now it turns into a lighthearted episodic slice of life with with espionage aspect akin to Spy x Family. And this is a real game changer. Every episode dedicated to one girl, mc's properties that were irksome and ridiculous before are fit for the comedic vibe now. There is no need to come up with a compelling story, slapstick style of writing does its job pretty well. Maybe it's not perfect, but it significantly better than the first 3 episodes. But there is a catch I'll talk about later.
Unfortunately, the good part doesn't last too long. If I understood correctly, the first three episodes is the adaptation of the first volume, the next four are the adaptation of mini stories, and the rest belongs to the second volume. The latest episodes have the same issues that the early: stupid twists, boring characters that appears during this arc, and lack of character development comparing to the SoL episodes. In addition, there is a romantic sub plot that feels out of line and is executed pretty clumsy. I don't believe I'm saying this, but I would definitely prefer the studio to rewrite the script and simply make SoL show with spies.
I can't decide what is worse: the plot or the technical aspect. The word anime originates from animation. Therefore, I can hardly call it anime, because there are not much animation. Most of the time when some action happens, aside from walking and talking, there is either powerpoint level of "animation" or the camera slightly moves aside and you can see only a background and hear noises of the activity. The action-packed opening scene from the first episodes repeats later in the third one. And the worst adapted episodes, of course, are SoL episodes. Maybe they decided to adapt the side stories to save the budget and still have the whole one cour. Meanwhile, the show has 5 or 6 different endings and sometimes doesn't insert OP and/or ED to shorten the amount of frames to draw. It simply doesn't line up. The ost is forgettable except the main theme.
Without doubt it is definitely a bad anime, which were saved exclusively by those four SoL episodes. It is, for sure, impossible to recommend. However, sometimes you can genuinely laugh out of poor quality of the show. But I want to finish the review with a quote from the show: "Was it all for noting? All that work we did?" No. It was about the spies we trained along the way.
AliceNick
In my opinion,there are two types of storytelling that can truly irritate audiences: Either the authors(or anime production teams) have no clue what they are doing, or they try to tell the story in the way they aren't capable of and, predictably, it fail miserably. In the case of spy classroom, It reach both of the "irritation standards" in one single work. Which is kind of impressive (but in the wrong way). From the beginning of the story, you can already see that the production team have lost their direction. First they try to convince you that this is a serious story about spy girls savingthe world. But on the second half of first episode where the plot twist comes out , the story suddenly changes its tone and turns into a goofy comedy(Maybe it's because even the crew understood all the plot twist are either illogical or just straight out stupid). After that, the show just keep on trapping In this atrocious cycle (trying to tell you that this is a serious spy action anime -> change their mind and start making comedy ->second attempt on " spy action"-> fail again and turn into complete chaos). And even if you look closely on "spy thriller" and "slice of life( a little bit of love) comedy" part individually, Both of them are still terribly written. None of the spy trickeries shown in this anime are convincing. And each girl's unique ability doesn't make the story interesting, but more like an excuse when author doesn't know how to continue the story. Sometimes the production team don't even bother to explain what's happening on the screen, letting the audience just awkwardly sit there and think "what the hell is going on ". And don't let me start with the comedy sequence, which I think is the worst part of spy classroom. Everything they do is just so cringe, it makes a 24-minute episode feel like one hour. Not to mention that all these "trainings"( if you think saving bakery from closure and cooking competition can be called training) and romance storyline can't let you understand more about the character. Instead, it only makes the story become more boring. All these desperate attempts only turn spy classroom into an absolute trainwreck.
Some people might think this review is way too negative.but the truth is that there is nothing positive I can say about spy classroom (character design and visual style are mid but far from good). In the end, I think whoever wants to learn how to write a screenplay should watch this show, as it shows all the mistakes you shouldn't make. Though I wouldn't say spy classroom is the worst anime this year(It's only the first season this year ), watching it is still just like torture. And I don't know where they get the money to make season two, but please stop, just, stop.
EDOSHINRATENSEI
When this anime is introduced, I thought it’s gonna be like Assassination classroom, where a teacher teaches his students by having the students attack him. This is mostly true with one major difference: Spy Classroom showed the end-result and then showed the process leading up to it. This just didn’t work because the anime felt like a filler. Each girl was mostly boring except for Grete. The teacher character was actually pretty cool and had potential, but he wasn’t dived into much, only when he’s with Grete. Overall, each episode alone was pretty decent, but as a whole it didn’t build up to anything like whatthe anime set out to do at the beginning. 5-5.5/10
Moehiza
maybe you could say this anime is too boring for me, the conflict presented does not give any impression. they have 9 heroines but only a few are highlighted, makes me wonder why you put in so many women but only a few are highlighted. plus the back and forth storyline made me a little annoyed, I was expecting an exciting conflict, but because the plot goes back and forth so I didn't feel anything exciting. this anime often focuses on the daily life of a spy rather than the conflict of a spy agent. but I still give appreciation for this anime because wellI enjoy it a bit in my spare time.
RobbyRob
This show is pretty frustrating IMO. Spy Classroom is about how warfare was exchanged for espionage in a fictional war. There exists a type of assignment known as an "impossible mission" which can often be seen as potentially life-threatening. We follow the spy Klaus who was previously a member of a spy group called Inferno. But things did not go well. He is tasked with taking seven flunkies and one of their first tasks is trying to capture him. The show is structured weirdly. The first half of the anime is the girls preparing to embark on their "impossible mission" with the other half being the buildingup to them entering enemy territory. In some ways, it makes sense because the show actually introduces a character who was behind the scenes from the beginning. But by doing so, the show is not something that can easily be digested.
Despite it being a show about spies, it can actually get boring even with the stakes because you know the characters will be fine due to foregone conclusion. That also goes into the girls' attempts at getting the drop on Klaus but he always turns the tables on him.
Seriously not since Talentless Nana have I seen something so contrived. Klaus does so many acts, it begs the question if he is even human. That whole "he is a great spy" can only go so far as an excuse until you have to accept that the show works in his favor.
As for the other characters, aside from Lily, the other girls are underdeveloped or could be summed up with the "ability" they wield. The first half of the anime has them gearing up for the mission but not really interacting outside of trying to catch Klaus. Even with the flashbacks, there is still so little that we know of the girls aside from their brief mentions of their backstories which doesn't really make you feel for the characters because you know they would be fine.
The animation, at the least, is nice to look at. But writing-wise, it is a very generic show.
