Spy x Family Reveals Major Weakness to Anya's Power

Spy x Family is continuing through the second half of its debut anime season, and the newest episode of the series has revealed a surprise weakness to Anya Forger's mind reading powers! Tatsuya Endo's original manga series is now making its way through a new slate of anime episodes this Fall, and fans have gotten to see much more of Anya's time in school. She continues to struggle, but her mind reading ability has come in handy to give her a much needed edge over the course of the episodes thus far. That is until she couldn't use them in the newest episode.

Anya's powers are one of the more curious elements of the series as a whole. While fans have been teased about her past and the amount of experiments done on her to give her these powers, the newest episode of the series revealed that these come with a surprise weakness. As Anya explains in the newest episode, her powers actually go away during a major event and thus she is unable to read the other kids' minds when she needs to take a very important midterm. 

What is Anya's Major Weakness? 

Episode 18 of Spy x Family tasks Anya with taking her midterms which not only can help her earn Stella Stars, but a poor score will be punished by a Tonitrus Bolt. She wants to use her mind reading powers, but explains that the adults had told her that during an eclipse she is no longer able to use her powers. Every month when the moon disappears in this way, she also loses her power. It ends up being on the same day as the tests, and thus pushes her to study more. 

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It's an interesting wrinkle to Anya's powers as it not only raises questions about the kinds of experiments she went under to get these abilities, but whether Bond is affected by the same kind of weakness. There are so many more questions about how Espers work in the series overall, so hopefully that is something that gets further looked into as the episodes continue. 

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