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English Dub Review: Spy X Family “Austin’s Trouble; A Normal Mixer”

By David Kaldor

December 21, 2025

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Loid treats a teacher who is supposedly still feeling trauma from the busjacking incident. Later, Yor goes for drinks with her co-workers and tries to make her marriage seem as normal as theirs.OUR TAKEWith the busjacking arc over and done with, we still have a handful of episodes left in the season, so now we’re back to two segment slice of life stuff that doesn’t really add to much. Well, I say two, but there is TECHNICALLY a third one at the end in a post credit scene, but it is also a small comedy bit that has no connection to either of the other ones. It is kind of neat to see Loid, Yor, and Anya get their own little stories all within the same episode, and they’re all perfectly fine segments in their own right, but I can’t help but wish they were all connected by a theme or a framing device or something. It does seem a bit unfair to be criticizing this episode for not having something it didn’t mean to have, but to go from the dramatic (and even comedic) heights of the last few episodes to just come back down to interspersed episodic stuff just sort of undercuts the strengths of these episodes, whatever those may be. Loid’s story actually shows us him at his fake doctor job again, meeting with one of Anya’s teachers who is apparently still feeling restless after the busjacking, however it turns out his stress is actually caused by his wife having been mean to him for quite some time for some inconsiderate things he did awhile ago. And while it takes awhile for the teacher to come to terms with it, he does, and Loid suggests he…just be nicer to his wife, which completely takes the responsibility off her to be nicer to her husband. And no check in to see if any of that worked so Loid may have just sent him back to enable his abuser, so that sucks.Yor’s story is definitely the stronger one by far, with her going out for drinks with her coworkers who are noticeably jealous about her seemingly perfect marriage with Loid, not knowing it’s a sham and both of them are rival assassins, but then again neither Loid or Yor know that last part either. It’s nice to see that Yor is continuing to make friends with her coworkers, and even with all of the falsities in the marriage, she does have a genuinely good relationship with Loid, though I fear we are a long way off from them admitting it or ever finding out about their links to their respective enemies. Still, it’s a nice, wholesome, and funny segment. Lastly, there’s a small bit of Anya and her schoolmates talking about space travel being cool and that’s it. Next week seems to be something more serious and tense, so fingers crossed it makes good use of the remaining three episodes.