Spy x Family season 2 is another multi-part episode in the form of Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”. As you can guess from the titles, both parts are more slice-of-life comedy stories. The former features Anya and her school friends, while the latter features Franky and his neverending, quixotic quest to find love. They’re both nice bits of fluff to prepare us for the upcoming drama and action in the next episode, if the end of this episode and the preview are anything to go on.

Spy x Family Season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry Of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”: Details

Spy x Family season 2 NA key visual.
Just a bit of fluff before the fun starts.

Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II” is the fourth episode (you can read reviews of Ep. 1, Ep. 2, and Ep. 3 here) of the second and latest season of the anime series. Said anime is the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name by Tatsuya Endo. Wit Studio (Attack on Titan season 1-3, Ranking of Kings, The Ancient Magus’ Bride season 1) and Cloverworks (Horimiya, Wonder Egg Priority, My Dress-Up Darling) remain the animation studios behind this anime.

Yoshitsugu Hosokawa and Hiroyuki Tanaka are the directors of Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”, with Daishirou Tanimura and Ayumu Hisao as the writers, and Makoto Fuchigami doing the storyboard. Kazuhiro Furuhashi along with Takahiro Harada (starting with this season) are the directors of Spy x Family season 2. Ichirō Ōkouchi is the writer for season 2 of the anime this time, taking over from Furuhashi. (K)NoW_NAME is still the composer for the music you hear in the anime.

Voice Cast

Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II” features the voices of Atsumi Tanezaki (Megan Shipman in English dub) as Anya Forger, Natsumi Fujiwara (Caitlin Glass in English dub) as Damian Desmond, Hiroyuki Yoshino (Anthony Bowling in English dub) as Franky Franklin, and Saori Hayami (Natalie Van Sistine in English dub) as Yor Forger/Thorn Princess. Other notable voice roles for this episode include Emiri Katō (Dani Chambers in English dub) as Becky Blackwell, Hana Sato (Macy Anne Johnson in English dub) as Emile Elman, and Haruka Okamura (Michelle Rojas in English dub) as Ewen Egeburg.

When and Where to Watch

Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II” made its debut on October 28, 2023. You can currently watch this episode only on Crunchyroll. You can watch the previous season either on Crunchyroll as well, or on Hulu.

Spy x Family Season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry Of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”: Synopsis

And now we get to find out the context behind this thumbnail image.

Normally, this is where I give you all a spoiler-filled plot summary of Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”. However, this is the spoiler-free version of my usual reviews. Thus, you all will get the official synopsis from Crunchyroll instead. You can check that out below:

Eden’s legendary dessert finally appears! In order to obtain the macrons that supposedly can make you into an Imperial Scholar if eaten, Anya and her friends race to get to them first.

Spy x Family Season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry Of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”: The Good

Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 "The Pastry Of Knowledge / The Informant's Great Romance Plan II" Japanese visual.
Like Kakegurui, but if all the main characters are tiny kids.

As with the previous episode, Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II” is a multi-part episode. Unlike the previous episode though, there’s no dark and dramatic spy thriller going on in this episode. Both parts of Ep. 4 are equally as fluffy and as silly as each other. It’s just a matter of what kind of silly fluff you prefer. This is not negative critique on my part, to be clear. On the contrary, I’m a huge fan of well-written hilarious fluff like this. It’s something nice and relaxing to watch after a long, difficult day.

And yet in spite of all that silly fluff that seemingly has no relevance, there is a peculiar detail that gets attention in Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”. Specifically: it’s a detail about Anya. Without context: it’s revealed in the episode that she seems to know ancient languages. Is this foreshadowing about her backstory? Tatsuya Endo has thus far kept much of Anya’s backstory a complete mystery. Thus, this might very well be a clue about that mysterious backstory. Or it could be entirely possible that it’s a red herring. We won’t know for sure until Endo-sensei chooses to give us that info in the manga later…much later.

Spy x Family Season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry Of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II”: The Bad

Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 "The Pastry Of Knowledge / The Informant's Great Romance Plan II" screenshot showing the title art featuring Damian, Anya, and Becky as the King, Joker, and Queen suits.
Highly appropriate suits for each of the main characters in this episode aren’t bad at all.

Honestly, the only bad thing about Spy x Family season 2 Ep. 4 “The Pastry of Knowledge / The Informant’s Great Romance Plan II” is that it has virtually no drama or espionage work. It’s just silly fluff in both parts. If you don’t like silly fluff though, then why are you watching this anime up to season 2 anyways?