Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?

The day is as normal as it can be in high school as the students peacefully go about their everyday activities until an unprecedented catastrophe strikes the school, killing every person in its wake. Guided by what seems to be a miracle, a handful of students are fortunate enough to be reincarnated into another world as nobles, princes, and other kinds of people with prestigious backgrounds.

One girl, however, is not so lucky. Being reborn as a spider of the weakest kind, she immediately experiences the hardships of her dire situation. Even so, she must press on to survive the numerous threats that endanger her life. Discovering that her new world has a system like that of an RPG, she tries her best to hunt prey and defeat monsters to level up and evolve. As she gradually grows stronger, she hopes one day her efforts will be rewarded, and that she will be granted a better life.

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Kumoko Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Shiraori Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Ariel Supporting

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Feirune Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Keren, Sophia Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

D Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Wrath Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Anabald, Karnatia Seri Supporting

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Harrifenas, Filimøs Supporting

Okuno, Kaya Japanese

Harrifenas, Potimas Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Ogata, Mitsuhiro Producer

Tokumura, Kenichi Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Kurakane, Chiaki Producer

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Dec 19, 2023

OIvar

Recommended

Every turn this anime takes is a left, yet you never end up where you think it would go, but not in a bad way.

The premise is interesting and it's fun when it's being executed but there are some lulls in the story. The magic/power system is also inconsistent and kinda hand-wavy.

Overall I would say the plot is a 7/10, some good plot twists and revelations.

The animation is a 5/10, middle of the road, the 3d models are pretty good looking and the fights are well choregraphed but the inconsistency in the lighting and the stiffness of the character's movements and expressions ... leaves some things to be desired.

The dialog is a 6.5/10, the MC's dialog is always good for a laugh but the last episodes have a little to much dialog from the secondary characters that takes away from the fights.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 27, 2024

Snaiy

Mixed Feelings

I think this anime is the prime example of reaching for too much.
It tries to make this attack on titan-esque stroy about good guys actually (mostly unknowingly) being the bad guys, bad guys being the good guys (nobody ever tried to just talk to the other party involved by the way), and try to subvert a lot of other tropes, but usually it just does it by doing the opposite of the trope hoping itt wil be enough to shift the experience, instead of cleverly subverting the tropes (refer to good guys being bad and vice versa above).
The world building is non existent, we get ... some info dumps from characters and about characters, but we never even see a map or some bullhit about the world, we only see a very limited number of background places (mostly the cave with various environments and the school the heroes are at).
Ah, on that note, the characters. Well, another miss. The only interesting character is our Female main character who gets reincarnated as a spider, while the other students and a teacher from her class gets reincarnated as either humans or demons, with a very small number (2 other than our main lead if I remember correctly) as monsters, but those monsters are actually with mostly our human reincarnated, so they also belong to that story. And to be fair, this is their whole personality, our fmc has the best personality in the whole show, but it is just not enough.
Except the hyped boss fights most of the monsters, especially during fihht scenes are badly done cgi, and the other animated scenes also look bad to mr, so the art department probably did not worth its money.
The worat thing in this, is the story.
As I mentioned, they tried to subvert the typical isekai tropes, but they tried to do it with such a stupendously misconstructed mysteryesque story that in the end it was funny, just seeing how everything began to fell apart with the story, instead of enjoying the story. At least in the start the story was engaging, but thats kinda it, after a while I think even the writers got confused as to what is going on with the characters and the story, and the characters drowned in this swamp of a story, even or fmc by the end.
Music is okay, op and ed are mediocre, not bad but not outstanding, I enjoyed them so probably a 7/10.
For another summary to describe why the story and the execution is at least bad, maybe horrible please refer to the other 5-6 score comments, they can describe it better than I could and Im literally too lazy to list everything that went wrong with this (even if we just talk about the story, not to mention the characters and others, there are a lot).
So all in all, TLDR, this anime is a failed (in multiple and hard ways), confusing story with some okay, and some blatantly bland characters and at times very bad art.
If you order Attack on Titan from wish, bit its actually a bootleg chinese spider documentary where the spider is good hearted, then yoi get this. Or give a lot of cocaine to someone with a per tarantula and give them a pen and pencil after. Either way works.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 22, 2024

shinepwintaung

Not Recommended

Could have been really good or something more I would say. The first few episodes were enjoyable regardless of me not really caring about the shun and other humans. The CGI was bearable at the start but does it goes downhill real fast, the last few fight scenes actually gave me eye cancer. The movements are so ass, the robots are turbo ass. The pacing is also absolute garbage. The original light novel has 16 volumes and by the end of 24 episodes we are almost at the ending already?? HUH??? I was so surprised when some endgame shit showed up like we didn't get ... to see shit. Terrible execution of a good source material overall. I am hoping this get a remake since I really enjoyed the light novels.

Overall : Enjoyable first few episodes, turbo ass as it progresses(especially the last parts oh boy, this shit is comparable to berserks 2016 level: note ofc they are by the same studio LMFAO). Terrible pacing, if you are interested in the story or just have some level of respect to the author just read the light novels.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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