Spy x Family Gives Dragon Ball Shout Out With Surprising Easter Egg

By Nick Valdez

Spy x Family is powering through the final episodes of its debut cour of episodes, and the latest release has snuck in a surprising Easter Egg giving a shout out to Dragon Ball's long Namek saga in a pretty surprising way! The newest episode of the series has rejoined Anya's time in Eden Academy after spending a few weeks with Loid and Yor, and it was revealed that she had an opportunity to potentially get a Stella Star as part of a dodgeball exercise. The only problem was that each of the other students felt like they had the same close chance.  

The newest episode of the series saw Anya and the rest of her classmates revving themselves up for an upcoming dodgeball game as they heard a rumor that the MVP of the game would be awarded with a Stella Star. This had Anya training as best as she could, and it was the same for her other classmates...especially Damien Desmond. Damien was training so hard that he imagined the tough situations he was in, such as a one that looked particularly like he was blocking one of Frieza's blasts on Namek during Dragon Ball. Check it out below as noted by @DbsHype on Twitter: 

Episode 10 of Spy x Family challenged Anya with a new dodgeball game, and like many of the other situations we have seen over the course of the anime so far, this smaller game turned into something huge with potentially intense consequences. It was a fairly action packed take on the schoolyard game, and Damien and his friends had been training especially hard in order to take out the six year old kid who has the body and voice of an adult. Thus they pushed themselves beyond their respective limits. 

The particular Dragon Ball Easter Egg comes in when he tries some resistance training and imagines himself catching a particularly heavy ki blast before it's revealed that he was trying to push back against a tire swing. It's just one of the many fake outs seen in the episode, and why fans are so in love with the series as it comes to an end. But what do you think of this Dragon Ball shout out?  How are you liking Spy x Family's anime run so far? Let us know all of your thoughts about it in the comments! You can even reach out to me directly about all things animated and other cool stuff @Valdezology on Twitter!

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