Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? Episode 18 Discussion

antipurefaith said:
guessing this is based off the manga then it had the comedy tag but all that 15yrs in the future shit wasn't in the manga or maybe the animes is its own thing

linkhuesitos said:

You're asking something imposible, even in the novel Kumoko's POV only sums around 60% of all the chapters.
Yes, Kumoko is the main POV of the story, but the story has never been about a "cute" spider doing cute things. One of the main points of the story is about how this new world changed the students (and their struggle for these changes), how the students changed the world and how they affected the life of others with or without knowing.
Here's your cute spider doing cute things (spoiler chart)


Sometimes we even have cases like this: (this is volume 6)



20+ chapters and only 5 are from Kumoko's POV.... Or in even more rare cases, no Kumoko's POV in the entire volume.

Muzan2020 said:
The future is just not as exciting as the past imo, maybe bc they have introduce a lot of characters in the future and gets abandoned without any progress, idk.

linkhuesitos said:

This is something that the anime did.
In the novel we have a bunch of chapter from Ronandt's (the mage from episode 10) POV in the future, like how was his relation with Julius (who was his student), how his dead hit him and even a fight between Shun and Ronandt that the anime skipped.
In the novel Leston (Shun's cooler brother) was captured and Shun & Co needed to attack the capital city to rescue Leston. Here's where they need to fight against Ronandt who obviously mopped the floor with them but at the end let them escape only this time as his last gift to Julius.

The anime also cut all the identity crisis that Katia suffers due to her change of gender. This clash between her male mind and the female mind was so big that she ended obtaining the "Parallel Mind" Skill
Anna also has more screentime in the novel because she's basically Shun's Mother along with another maid named Klevea. She even goes to the academy as Shun's personal maid, meanwhile Klevea is Sue's maid.
In general most characters have more screentime in the novel, even some that are background characters like Shun's father. In the novel we see how he's full of regrets for not being able to spend more time with Shun and Sue for being the youngest one and how he sees himself as a failed father for allowing Julius to got to battles and war.

Also, Shun story start similar to Moshoku with Shun's birth but unlike Mushoku, this story portrays being a baby with full grown mind as a experience full of fear and anxiety. Imagine being trapped inside your own body, not being able to move or talk and surrounded by strangers that you can't understand for months or even years, and the only thing your able to do is think. Shun described this situation as totaly hopeless and he only was able to let those feeling go when he noticed how all the people around him truly loved.
This is a situation that all the human reincarnations lived and exactly why Yuri (the religious girl) went totaly nuts.
For god's know what reason, the studio decided to jump directly into Shun's academy days instead of showing us his childhood days and the hardships he lived to adapt to this new life.