2022 Score 8.42 12 eps Red Analogous MAL ↗IMDb ↗ Wit Studio CloverWorks Action Award Winning Comedy

Spy x Family

Pixel Slice — 1px center crop per frame
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Smooth Average — mean color per frame
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Rank Mosaic — columns sorted by luminance
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Circle / Radial — polar transform
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Edit Pace — frame-to-frame color delta (bright = fast cuts)
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Color Temperature — warm (gold) vs cool (teal) per frame
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Frame Density Comparison — every 2nd vs every 4th frame
Slice · 15s
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Slice · 30s
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On the surface, a comedy about a fake family — but the frame-level data tells a different story. Spy x Family’s palette is anchored in warm Red and Red-Orange, yes, but those hues are buried under a heavy layer of desaturated grays (#201E1E, #605B57) that never fully lift. The dark ending arc is the giveaway: opening and middle brightness hover near 0.53, only to slump to 0.46 in the closing act. That last dip is not a gradual nightfall; it’s a tonal rupture. Wit Studio and CloverWorks, under

Brightness Arc (episode progression)

Hue Distribution

Act Breakdown

Opening
0.527
Middle
0.532
Closing
0.459
Avg Brightness
0.453
Avg Saturation
0.212
Warmth
0.555

Color Palette

#201E1E
#605B57
#A4A09A
#ECE5DA
#D9AE9E
#926D63
#E0CEAD
#4E352F

3-Act Color Story

Opening
Middle
Closing
Color Twins
Perceptually nearest palettes — measured in OKLab space, not RGB
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Spy x Family Part 2
Red
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2010
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Red
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2014
Ping Pong the Animation
Red-Orange
One Piece
1999
One Piece
Red
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
2005
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Red
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