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Apparently the x is not even pronounced. What's up with that? From
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_%C3%97_Family):

> Spy × Family (stylized as SPY×FAMILY; pronounced "Spy Family") is a Japanese
> manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo.


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What is up with the 'x' in Spy x Family?


It follows Hunter x Hunter. See
[here](https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/web_pages/263/).

> Lin: I just slapped a placeholder name on it at the draft submission stage.
> Endo-sensei sent in this draft for a serialization without deciding on the
> title, so we just worked with the title “Spy Family” written in Japanese
> characters for the time being. And then, when it was actually going to
> become a real thing, we decided we’d better have a proper name for it. It
> took us forever to decide on anything! (laughs) I thought “Spy Family”
> written in Japanese was just fine, but Endo-sensei was worried it was a
> little too... straight-forward. I swear, he came up with over a hundred
> names and we went over all of them together. And at the end of it all, we
> just took the name we had and put it in English characters, with a cross
> between the words. We talked about how the title of “HUNTER x HUNTER” is
> super simple, and it how it has the same thing going on.


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