Spy x Family Season 4: Where to Start Reading the Manga

You finished season 3 last winter, saw on Sunday that Spy x Family Season 4 and a second film are coming, and now you are wondering whether to wait for the anime. I would not. Start the manga at volume 13, read through volume 15, and stop there if you want the show to keep a few surprises. Volume 16 is where the story turns, and volume 13 (Missions 85 to 92) is where the anime's last episodes overlap with the manga, by Wikipedia's chapter range.

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Spy x Family

Tatsuya Endo

TL;DR: The official announcement says only "2027" for Spy x Family Season 4 and for film 2: no date, no channel, no cast. Japan has 18 volumes out and Viz has 16 in English. Volumes 13 to 15 hold the chapters fans expect season 4 to use.

What the Spy x Family Season 4 announcement leaves out

The official site posted on 8 November 2026 that the TV anime Season 4 and a second film are both decided for 2027, and told fans to wait for more news. That is the whole post. A second post the same day shows a teaser visual by character designer Satoshi Kadowaki. MyAnimeList's write-up of the Anime Extra Mission II event adds the staff: Yasuhiro Akamatsu directs, and MAL lists him as a season 3 episode director.

Official Spy x Family Season 4 teaser visual: Loid in a green suit holding his hat, Anya running with arms open, Yor in a pink coat and Bond the dog behind them, newspaper pages drifting across a cobbled street, "Season 4 2027" at the bottom Season 4 teaser visual. Image: official Spy x Family site, © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha, Spy x Family Production Committee.

Film 2 has even less: the official site shows a plate with the logo and "2027", and nothing about the story. Fans are already asking whether it will be a self-contained story again, in an r/SpyxFamily thread posted on 8 November titled "Will the movie be its own self contained story again?" I did not read its replies, and nobody official has answered. The first film, Code: White, opened in December 2023 and, according to the official site, grossed over 6.32 billion yen (MAL says over 6.2 billion yen).

Official plate for the second Spy x Family film: the logo on a grey-green background with the text "2nd film, release decided for 2027" in Japanese Film 2 announcement plate. Image: official Spy x Family site, © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha, Spy x Family Production Committee.

Where season 3 actually stopped

Season 3 ran 13 episodes, MISSION:38 to MISSION:50. Those are episode numbers, not manga chapters. Wikipedia says it adapts 26 main chapters of the manga, from Mission 60 to Mission 87, but 60 to 87 is 28 chapter numbers. Fans on r/SpyxFamily account for the missing two: they say the anime skipped chapters such as 68 and 78. One commenter wants "chapter 78" adapted soon, and another hopes season 4 will pick up "chapters season 3 had to skip over". The official pages I opened do not give chapter numbers, so treat the skipped pair as a fan claim.

The finale tells a plainer story. The official synopsis of MISSION:50 has Fiona meeting Wheeler in the sewer, dropping her gun because a near-dead Loid is his hostage, and then losing her temper when he taunts her. In the manga that fight is where volume 12 ends, and volume 13 opens with Winston Wheeler in custody. A viewer on the Reddit thread who had only watched the anime asked on 9 November, "Wait, the wheeler arc wasn’t finished?", then admitted "it felt complete when i watched it". The fan who had listed the arcs answered that chapters 88 and 89 "aren’t too related to the arc except some minor references", but that they "technically" still fall under it.

So the loose end is small. If Wikipedia's range is right, the first three chapters of volume 13 (85 to 87) are already in the anime, and the unadapted material starts at 88.

The volumes you need

Volume	Japan	Viz (English)	Missions	What is in it
13	4 Mar 2024	14 Jan 2025	85 to 92	Winston is arrested, Damian's gift of desserts to Anya, term finals prep
14	4 Sep 2024	5 Aug 2025	93 to 99	Exam results, the ski lodge, the end-of-term dance, the start of Martha and Henry's flashback
15	4 Mar 2025	2 Dec 2025	100 to 108	The flashback ends, the Desmond family dinner, Melinda as a fortuneteller
16	3 Oct 2025	1 Sep 2026	109 to 118	Melinda's session with Loid, the new term, a mission with Yor
17	3 Apr 2026	none yet	119 to 127	Japan only
18	4 Nov 2026	none yet	128 to 137	Japan only

Dates for Japan and the Mission ranges come from Wikipedia's chapter list. The Viz dates I checked on Viz's own product pages for volumes 13 to 16, and Wikipedia agrees. Viz's series page lists nothing past volume 16 as of 9 November, so English print is two volumes behind Japan.

The pace has changed. Viz put volume 14 out on 5 August 2025 and volume 15 on 2 December 2025, under four months apart. Volume 16 took nine months. If you are waiting for English print to catch up before you start, I would not count on speed.

Viz English cover of Spy x Family volume 15 Volume 15, English edition. Image: Viz Media, © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha.

Where fans think Spy x Family Season 4 ends

The teaser visual is covered in newspaper pages with drawn scenes on them. At the size the official file loads I can see newspapers and drawn figures, not chapter numbers, so the arc list below is the community's reading, not the studio's. In the thread posted on 8 November, u/Liliacfury read the pages as the end of the Wheeler arc, the term-finals dance, the Martha flashback and the Desmond family dinner. That matches the volume table above: the dance and the start of the flashback are in volume 14, and the flashback ends and the dinner happens in volume 15. Another commenter put it as "Volumes 13, 14 & 15."

They disagree on the end point. One commenter predicted "I think it will end on chapter 110", and u/Liliacfury said "I think they may adapt to the end of the Term Break to 111". Another doubted that this is enough material, since "Loid and Yor don't do much this season". The reply was that "Loid does a lot with Authen", and that Melinda's scenes before the Donovan reveal "would be a good ending".

That debate is the reason I draw the line at volume 15. The flashback straddles volumes 14 and 15, so stopping at the end of 14 cuts it in half. Viz's series page promises that in volume 16 "Loid makes a shocking discovery", and one fan in that thread calls ending before the Donovan reveal "a good ending". Read through 15 and you have every chapter the visual points at, with the reveal still unread.

One more fan worry is worth checking. On the same thread, u/Alert-Isopod-7310 wrote, "Wow, I didn't realize the anime had caught up with the manga this much already," and guessed the story is nearing its end. The count says otherwise. The collected volumes run to Mission 137, which is 50 chapters past Mission 87. If season 4 ends near chapter 110, 27 collected chapters (111 to 137) are still waiting, and another fan in the thread already mentions chapter 141. Their reply to the worry was that the gap between seasons will likely stay at two years. The last gap was two years: season 2 aired in autumn 2023 and season 3 in autumn 2025.

How I would read it

Buy or borrow volumes 13, 14 and 15 and read them in order. That is 24 chapters (85 to 108), and if Wikipedia's range is right the first three are a rewatch of what you saw. The English route is Viz print: its pages for volumes 13 and 15 are titled "Read a Free Preview", so you can sample before buying, and the guide to reading manhwa and manga free and legally covers where to look for more. If you like owning the books, the manga collecting guide covers printings and formats.

Don't start Spy x Family Season 4 prep at volume 16 just because it is the newest English volume. It opens on Melinda's session with Loid, which follows volume 15, where Yor talks her into seeing him, and you would be reading past the point where fans expect the season to stop. If you came from manhwa and want the other anime-adaptation news, our list of manhwa getting anime adaptations in 2026 is the companion, and manhwa that beat Shonen Jump is where I would go next.

Viz English cover of Spy x Family volume 16, the newest English volume Volume 16, English edition (1 September 2026). Image: Viz Media, © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha.

Crunchyroll streamed season 3 outside Asia, according to Wikipedia, and MAL says it carried subtitled and dubbed versions. No streaming partner has been named for season 4. Whatever Spy x Family Season 4 turns out to be, one fan on MAL put the mood of the announcement in one line: "Need to caught up with the manga!!"

What I couldn't pin down

The official site gives no season 4 date, no channel, no episode count and no cast, and the film's story is unannounced. I have only Wikipedia for the Mission 60 to 87 range and only fan comments for the two skipped chapters, so the exact start of season 4 is an estimate (Mission 88). The end point, chapter 110 or 111, is a fan guess based on a picture I cannot read at chapter level. I read one thread in full, and I did not read the manga itself. I did not check whether Shonen Jump+ or MANGA Plus offers an English route for these chapters, or which digital English editions exist, so Viz print is the only route I verified.

Checked on 9 November 2026: the official Spy x Family news posts and the season 3 finale synopsis, Viz pages for volumes 13 to 16, Wikipedia's chapter list, MAL's news page and one r/SpyxFamily thread. Last reviewed: November 9, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does Spy x Family Season 4 come out?

The official site only says 2027, in a post dated 8 November 2026. It gives no date, channel or episode count, and film 2 is also set for 2027.

Where did Spy x Family season 3 end in the manga?

Wikipedia says season 3 adapts Mission 60 to Mission 87. The finale synopsis ends on Fiona attacking Wheeler, and fans say chapters 88 and 89 were left over.

Which manga chapter will Spy x Family Season 4 start from?

Nobody official has said. The best estimate is Mission 88, from Wikipedia's range for season 3, so volume 13 (Missions 85 to 92) is the volume to open.

How many Spy x Family volumes are out in English?

Viz has published 16, with volume 16 on 1 September 2026. Japan has 18, with volume 18 on 4 November 2026.

Is there a second Spy x Family movie?

Yes. It was announced on 8 November 2026 for 2027, and the official site says nothing yet about its story. The first film, Code: White, opened in December 2023.