Ranked #2388

Arachnid (Manga)

Having the whole world against you, what would it feel like? In Arachnid, this is exactly the situation. The main heroine, Alice, is a simple high school girl with an uncle who is not the type of people you would want to live with and one day, that uncle was killed by an assassin. Is it salvation for Alice? You decide.

Moving on, as you have probably read the summary, Alice was trained to be an assassin by Kumo, the man who killed her uncle. As you would have predicted, she will probably have some kind of special skills or something, being the heroine of an action manga.

Alice have a mental ailment called Congenital Excessive Concentration, or C.E.C for short, which allow her to amplify her concentration on a single thing, and this will eventually decide her fighting style. Every assassin in this story have ability which is the embodiment of the special feature of an insect or in some cases, an arachnid. Example would be the arm of a praying mantis, the web of the spider and the needle of the bee.

This manga allow you to gain some knowledge about insect and arachnid, as due to the ability of the assassin which parallel that of the behavior and feature of the insect/arachnid they are supposed to personify, the author will use some page to talk about the behavior of the different species of e.g spiders, like how certain spider can survive underwater, how some of them can jump at great height.

The battle scene are generally well done, most of them being battle of wits and technique. As I mentioned above, each assassin have unique ability similar to an insect/arachnid, so you could it as a battle between insect/arachnid in human form, like Spider VS Cricket. As you know, there is bound to be difference in power, like how some insect are just bigger than the other, thus, the fighter have to depend on their personal skills and strategy to try and gain the upper hand.

Now, on to the main heroine, Alice. Alice is a natural killer, being able to react to threat in any situation, usually with violence, that is after she met Kumo, who awoken that side of her. Before that, she is the type of girl who is usually discriminated against in class due to her personality, being silent and too quiet. After meeting Kumo and certain events happening, she start being more independent and as her life is always in danger, she always try to outwit her would-be killer by setting up trap and preparing them before anything happens. Thus, you could say she is a master of survival.

I will not talk about other character as those would result in spoiler. Back to the first sentence of this review, "having the whole world against you". Imagine, the only person you can trust is yourself and your classmate, teacher, neighbor or even a simple deliveryman could be assassin would are aiming for your life, how would you survive, what would you do when you find out they are your enemy?

If you enjoy a good action manga, then this is for you. This manga have a dark story so you know what to expect, and yes, it have its fair share of deranged character. This end my review read more

This manga is so freaken amazing. To tell you the truth this was the first manga have every read with no romance. I just wanna say that if you haven't read this you should you will not be disappointed by the manga the only bad thing is that it update once a month. This story is about a girl who fights to keep her name and to keep on living she must kill.

Story : 8 pionts because it's not common plot like those dinosaurs coming after people.

Art: 8 points. I like that details and how they drew the bugs and people.

Character: 8 points. I like how the main character grew smarter and stronger to help protect herself and people.

Enjoyment: 9 points. Like i said you will not be disapointed.I always wonder how sh will deal with theeole coming after her and how she can save herself.

Overall: 9 points. I just want to say..... stop reading this already and start reading Arachnid gosh you missing out a manga that you will not be mad about but the update. read more