Spy x Family Author Spares Everyone

‘Spy x Family’ Author Tatsuya Endo on why he kills almost no one in the series: "I’m a huge coward. Every time I think about killing a character, I start crying at my desk. My editor just pats my head and says, ‘It’s okay, leave them alive.’" (Source: Jump Festa 2023 stage interview) There, there, It’s okay.

Tatsuya Endo is shown beside Anya Forger from Spy x Family, with Anya comforting him and saying, “There, there, It’s okay.” The joke is that the author supposedly avoids killing characters because he is too emotionally soft, turning Anya into the comforting parent figure. It is used as a humorous reaction to stories where characters survive because the creator cannot bear to kill them.

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