So I'm a Spider, So What? (light novel)
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| Kumoko farming those lvls! The art of the monkeys looked pretty lazy tho. |
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| I can't believe we are at episode 4 and still doing boring RPG jerking instead of starting the plot. Also WTF is wrong with the comments above, the CGI is shit, this barely reaches what we could do 20 years ago. |
| On one hand it was fun, on the other the CG is pretty crappy outside of Kumoko, Jesus. This is also the first episode without the humans.... It helped that it was pretty packed for the spider. |
| The monkeys’ cg was hilarious. Kumo was going to die but she leveled up. Reject humanity, return to monke. |
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| I liked this anime and it is really fun but there are two things I want to know if they are going to be adapted or where I can find the information. 1 How do reincarnated people meet and find each other? 2 Will she meet her classmates in these 24 episodes? If these two things are likely to be adapted let me know, please. |
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| I hated the CGI today with the monkeys but I know I’ll be in the minority on that. Overall, the episode was still really fun. I think this series shines brightest when it’s kumoko taking on the dungeon and fighting for her life. I like the school kids a lot too, but they need some more development before we dedicate whole episodes to them. Really ingenious and crafty way to deal with the enemies today. Good job kumoko! |
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| I enjoyed this episode a lot more since there were no bits with the other students, so much better when it is 20 mins full of Aoi Yuuk and her struggles as a spider. |
| This was my favorite episode because it didn't waste any time on the boring students. Though the action looks mediocre, I love Spider-Girl and how she fought off the monkey monsters. Her voice acting really sold how much danger she was in. |
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| This show is one good reason to look forward to Fridays. Its great fun! |
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HoloKill said: Beatrice-KF said: How is the cgi shit, I'm not saying it's good but there's cgi in other anime that are 100x worseI can't believe we are at episode 4 and still doing boring RPG jerking instead of starting the plot. Also WTF is wrong with the comments above, the CGI is shit, this barely reaches what we could do 20 years ago. I can't look at your anime list to see if you have anything comparable to this, but if you want at least similar single pass low-polygon phong stuff (that is, among the bottom of the barrel, you only learn this kind of rendering as part of introductory courses at school and to get you to learn the tools before learning more interesting stuff) you can go watch the more recent Berserk animes (actually they were done by the same studio), Arifureta (most notable is the dragon/hydra scene). Ex-Arm (current season, at least in this one, not everything looks like plastic). Of course a lot of animes are frequently inserting cheap CGI shots nowadays but at least they have the decency of not going full retard like this. |
| Thank god they didn’t mess up the monkey fight. Probably one of my favorites from the LN. CGI was bearable this time. The dragon tho... Middle layer arc starts now. Good, my favorite arc from the LN Pretty good episode |
| Now that's what's Kumo desu ga is about, hardcore survival. Though I gotta ask, was the monkey fight like that on the LN? she spent DAYS fighting those guys in the WN... edit: just reread and it just felt like days, the fight was 1:1 with the WN, my bad |
Primo_ItokoJan 29, 2021 5:09 PM
| I was mostly disappointed. If you ask why, they didn't portray . There were quite many things Kumoko thought of in the Manga, many dialogues that would make you truly understand how her character works but wasn't animated or even given meaning to her actions. Its like a slapdash animation and this was . Its ruining the full potential of the story. mcbignuts said: Let's not beat around the bush, the CG was fucking terrible. Now I have not read that far in the LN but I have caught up with the manga. Now you are free to disagree with me here but the adaptation seems to be missing the point of this kind of story. This is progression fantasy, where the driving element of the narrative is the acquisition of power through things like level-ups and new abilities. I didn't enjoy the story because of how quirky Kumoko is or the promise of having a plot at some point but because I wanted to see her gain new abilities and takedown new enemies. The anime seems to be speedrunning these aspects in favor of getting to what I assume is the plot later on. The problem is that if you disregard the power acquisition aspect of the story, you aren't really left with much. There is barely any worldbuilding with substance, we got a cave on one end and a school on the other, characters are about as deep as a thimble, and the plot is still hiding. Now as LN readers will probably point out, all these things are probably introduced later, but coming from a pure anime perspective, having gone 4 episodes and still having this little to show for it is pretty weak. Even ignoring all the technical issues around the animation and directing itself, right now all that is left is a progression fantasy where we skip over all the actual progression. There might be a plot later on that redeems all this but for now, it just feels kinda pointless. I totally agree. On the part of story telling the progress of power acquisition was ignored. I am deeply disappointed on the project at this point. |
ASinfulPersonageJan 29, 2021 10:34 AM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| As anime only viewer, this is the best ep. so far. CGi could have been better but since the fight is very enjoyable and fun to watch, I easily can forgive them. To Manga/Novel readers: from my perspective as anime only viewer, this ep. perfectly present Kumoko's hardship and her strong will to survive through her face expression, her body language and inner dialogue. And when she got any new skill, the anime made sure to make me understand the reason why she got those skill. At this point, I don't feel anything in the story is missing or there is anything that need extra explanation from the source material to understand. So don't worry, the anime version doesn't bad as you think (at least from my view point). And I am sure if get to read the source material one day in the future, I will like it even more. |
| Damn the cgi was bad, usually its alright but this time holy shit. |
| It's nice to see Kumoko actually get beat up, losing a leg and then half her body was pretty rough but we knew leveling would bring her back. Sucks that we as viewers know that when she does take heavy damage leveling up heals her. But at least they put a lot of effort into her fight which does make it better. Pretty decent episode. Still waiting to see if she meets up with her Classmates. Also curious is she can talk to humans AND why doesn't she just look to leave the dungeon. |
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| It really sucks how bad the 3D monsters look. The camerawork for the fights is dynamic and engaging, but the poor CGI single-handedly imposes a low ceiling for this anime. It’s a shame because I think the world and progression system are both interesting. |
mcbignuts said: I disagree, mostly because an anime about getting skills like the manga (and especially the light novel ) would probably not work. Mostly because it would have been far slower paced and that would not work in an anime, dont get me wrong, its already very fast paced, but if they went and showed every single thing she did to gain those skills, it would have been FAR more tedious. And although i can see why people would like this because of the gaining skills aspect, and i actually mostly like it because of kumoko, although im mostly in the minority.Let's not beat around the bush, the CG was fucking terrible. Now I have not read that far in the LN but I have caught up with the manga. Now you are free to disagree with me here but the adaptation seems to be missing the point of this kind of story. This is progression fantasy, where the driving element of the narrative is the acquisition of power through things like level-ups and new abilities. I didn't enjoy the story because of how quirky Kumoko is or the promise of having a plot at some point but because I wanted to see her gain new abilities and takedown new enemies. The anime seems to be speedrunning these aspects in favor of getting to what I assume is the plot later on. The problem is that if you disregard the power acquisition aspect of the story, you aren't really left with much. There is barely any worldbuilding with substance, we got a cave on one end and a school on the other, characters are about as deep as a thimble, and the plot is still hiding. Now as LN readers will probably point out, all these things are probably introduced later, but coming from a pure anime perspective, having gone 4 episodes and still having this little to show for it is pretty weak. Even ignoring all the technical issues around the animation and directing itself, right now all that is left is a progression fantasy where we skip over all the actual progression. There might be a plot later on that redeems all this but for now, it just feels kinda pointless. |
| I am starting to realise why LN readers like this anime |
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| This was my favourite episode. This fight was one of the ones i liked the most in original material and it was adapted fine i guess, the best part was honestly the music, very underappreciated. The cgi on the other hand was uhhhh, not that great, espcially the models, but they move pretty decently so there is that at least. One thing i need to say tho, is that itadaki is doing a good job, people will hate me for this, but he certainly knows how to animate the 3d models and how camera (mostly) works. He does sometimes get a bit too ambitious, but its very clear he tries his best and really grew up after berserk. Beatrice-KF said: Yea, i really think you are stretching it there ahah, this CG is nowhere near as bad as those abominations, thats for sure, the models here are bad but not that bad jesus. And the animation itself and direction truly dont even compare with the others.HoloKill said: How is the cgi shit, I'm not saying it's good but there's cgi in other anime that are 100x worse I can't look at your anime list to see if you have anything comparable to this, but if you want at least similar single pass low-polygon phong stuff (that is, among the bottom of the barrel, you only learn this kind of rendering as part of introductory courses at school and to get you to learn the tools before learning more interesting stuff) you can go watch the more recent Berserk animes (actually they were done by the same studio), Arifureta (most notable is the dragon/hydra scene). Ex-Arm (current season, at least in this one, not everything looks like plastic). Of course a lot of animes are frequently inserting cheap CGI shots nowadays but at least they have the decency of not going full retard like this. |
| Really cool battle, dragged down by CGI. I wish those level ups didn't time so well with her injuries. It'd be much more fun (and feel less cheap) if she was seriously wounded and looked for easy kill just to quickly level up, or something like that. On the other hand, I'm happy whole episode was about spider. Other classmates are kinda boring and waste of screentime. |
Jakeyzor2 said: Yes, I agree. I have read the LN.TheDeedsOfMen said: Good action scene and decent CGI, but I am still waiting for the interesting story developments. Judging by the pacing, it should take a few more episodes. Maybe in the episode 6-8 range we will get somewhere. Possibly. In terms of 'story' Kumoko is gonna be doing what she's been for another 2-3 episodes. Most of the plot revelations are gonna happen on the human Reincarnation sides. |
| Such a good episode. Spider only! I don't know if it was just me, but the monkeys looked really weird. |
| Probably the worst episode so far thanks to the horrendous CGI. The monkeys look straight out of those budget PS2 game graphics and the fights were a mess. The lousy FPS when the camera is moving whenever there are CGI were also horrible to watch through. Like what the fuck is shit 10fps shit like I'm stuck playing AAA games with pentium 2 integrated graphic cards? 1.5/5 episode |
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mcbignuts said: You said in the other thread that you have read the first 3 volumes of the LN, so you should know what is coming up. We won't get past that point for a while.VP2003boi said: I disagree, mostly because an anime about getting skills like the manga (and especially the light novel ) would probably not work. Mostly because it would have been far slower paced and that would not work in an anime, dont get me wrong, its already very fast paced, but if they went and showed every single thing she did to gain those skills, it would have been FAR more tedious. And although i can see why people would like this because of the gaining skills aspect, and i actually mostly like it because of kumoko, although im mostly in the minority. No, I totally agree with you on that it would not be very slow going if the pacing was the same as in the LN/Manga. The problem I have is that without the skill acquisition the story just feels empty, they stripped the only redeeming quality it had this early. Now according to the LN readers, there should be some plot coming up soon, so hopefully, it will change. |
astralkill00 said: I was mostly disappointed. If you ask why, they didn't portray . There were quite many things Kumoko thought of in the Manga, many dialogues that would make you truly understand how her character works but wasn't animated or even given meaning to her actions. Its like a slapdash animation and this was . Its ruining the full potential of the story. mcbignuts said: Let's not beat around the bush, the CG was fucking terrible. Now I have not read that far in the LN but I have caught up with the manga. Now you are free to disagree with me here but the adaptation seems to be missing the point of this kind of story. This is progression fantasy, where the driving element of the narrative is the acquisition of power through things like level-ups and new abilities. I didn't enjoy the story because of how quirky Kumoko is or the promise of having a plot at some point but because I wanted to see her gain new abilities and takedown new enemies. The anime seems to be speedrunning these aspects in favor of getting to what I assume is the plot later on. The problem is that if you disregard the power acquisition aspect of the story, you aren't really left with much. There is barely any worldbuilding with substance, we got a cave on one end and a school on the other, characters are about as deep as a thimble, and the plot is still hiding. Now as LN readers will probably point out, all these things are probably introduced later, but coming from a pure anime perspective, having gone 4 episodes and still having this little to show for it is pretty weak. Even ignoring all the technical issues around the animation and directing itself, right now all that is left is a progression fantasy where we skip over all the actual progression. There might be a plot later on that redeems all this but for now, it just feels kinda pointless. I totally agree. On the part of story telling the progress of power acquisition was ignored. I am deeply disappointed on the project at this point. This episode was boring as hell and the show keeps pissing me off it's just basically her episode after episode lucking into killing things or lucking into getting a level up just before she dies! I mean hell she almost died 3 times in EP 4 and if it wasn't for her accidentally pulling a cave wall down to smash monkeys......SHE'D BE DEAD. Also she has all these magic skills and other skills and doesn't even try use them...."hey I got poison magic meh fuck it, lets forget about it"....huh you could at least try to use it what's the fucking harm and it might save your life! Then I read your comment about how in the manga and stuff they actually show her brilliance and her working out how she's able to use her imagination and smarts to figure everything out and fight and survive.......damn maybe I should just read manga then. And if anything, they have made the other reincarnated humans and stuff more interesting than her. I thought this show was about her, like half the show has been about them and there leveling up and back story. and their stuff has actually been kind of interesting like fighting dragons and going to school and training. With her it's just like lucked into accidentally shooting a frog with web and it died before I did weeee! Lucked into the thing that was about to kill me get eaten by another thing! Lucked into the thing that was about to kill me didn't kill me cuz I leveled up right at that moment! The other guy made Good points about the world building and character building and The show's progression. At this point I could give a shit about this spider and whatever fucking cave she is in. I've gotten more out of the side characters and what they're going through. I have one reincarnated chick that's going crazy thinking God's talking to her, I have one reincarnated dude that's in a woman's body, how the hell did he deal with that drastic change. I have one asshole reincarnated guy turn into a crown prince so now he's become an asshole on an ego trip. I have an adult female teacher that's now a loli elf. I have a bully bitch who's now a dragon. I have a brocon sister. I have a reincarnated MC with a yandere sister he needs to bang, who also needs to bang his best friend who's in a chick's body, while banging a former gyaru Earth dragon and former sensei loli elf! Just give me their story, that's how I feel now after seeing four episodes so far cut out the spider I wasn't going to watch this in the first place when I saw the previews before this season started because it looked and sounded stoop. But I gave it a chance and now I think should have listened to my gut and just skipped this. |
Collins89Jan 29, 2021 1:06 PM
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HoloKill said: Collins89 said: 1. She didn't "accidently" pull down the webs on the cave wall down, she did it on purpose.This episode was boring as hell and the show keeps pissing me off it's just basically her episode after episode lucking into killing things or lucking into getting a level up just before she dies! I mean hell she almost died 3 times in EP 4 and if it wasn't for her accidentally pulling a cave wall down to smash monkeys......SHE'D BE DEAD. Also she has all these magic skills and other skills and doesn't even try use them...."hey I got poison magic meh fuck it, lets forget about it"....huh you could at least try to use it what's the fucking harm and it might save your life! Then I read your comment about how in the manga and stuff they actually show her brilliance and her working out how she's able to use her imagination and smarts to figure everything out and fight and survive.......damn maybe I should just read manga then. And if anything, they have made the other reincarnated humans and stuff more interesting than her. I thought this show was about her, like half the show has been about them and there leveling up and back story. and their stuff has actually been kind of interesting like fighting dragons and going to school and training. With her it's just like lucked into accidentally shooting a frog with web and it died before I did weeee! Lucked into the thing that was about to kill me get eaten by another thing! Lucked into the thing that was about to kill me didn't kill me cuz I leveled up right at that moment! I wasn't going to watch this in the first place when I saw the previews before this season started because it looked and sounded stoop. But I gave it a chance and now I think should have listened to my gut and just skipped this. 2. She doesn't know how to use the magic and she even tried to. 3. Read the light novels not the manga, the manga skips like 40% of the story (including the classmates perspectives and several other things important to the plot) See I went back and am looking at it now, and this is probably my problem with the show. It doesn't give any real hint that she's doing this stuff on purpose. So #1 she did it on purpose, all it has in this anime I'm looking at right now. Is her shooting across the wall with web a couple monkeys jump up that get hit with her web and she gets flung around the rock which the monkeys get tied to with her web and as she's falling down she yells Fall! So besides her yelling fall, hoping it will. There's really no hint that that was her intention purpose or anything other than dumb luck. Now #2 Yeah it showed her trying to use taboo magic in the first episode she gave it one try by just doing some stupid magical girl moves...ok not really a lot of effort. And even if I say yes she tried taboo magic and it didn't work..... This is poison magic could be completely different magics as far as I know, this show doesn't give much in terms of depth. So if it was me and I tried taboo magic like she did and it didn't work, I would still try using poison magic just in case I was able to get that to work since she's a poisonous spider. Which taboo magic might require something completely different. #3 thanks for the info, I'll do a little research into both and see which one sounds more for me. But I like the feed back! |
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| Yuuki Aoi does this show by herself, she's a top tier seiyuu, love her. By the way this series is very fascinating, I can't wait for the next episode! |
| Kong the Army vs. Kumo-chan lol ... Those monkeys were vengeful, did kumo-chan kill the boss's son or why so much hatred for her? Too vengeful for a single spider, she already said it ... The level ups ... as far as I know much of the beginning in the LN is based on kumo fighting monsters, it would be great if something like "I have been locked in this cave for 3 months fighting against all kinds of monsters "or something like that to emphasize the time and effort, it is obvious that you cannot spend the entire anime killing monsters and leveling up but you should not skip the details, hopefully they improve that aspect, so far this anime is going well My opinion, Yui is giving it her all! |
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| That's some weird ass looking monkeys. Atleast the upgraded ones looked better. |
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| really enjoyed the fight. Levelling up just in time to survive. Scary monkeys. time for the lava area. Looking forward to next week! :) sweet, no isekai'd teenagers this time. without saying spoilers.. Currently on chapter 238+ of the novel. And my impression on Shun and friends still has not changed, always the boring angsty isekai'd teenagers. Always feels like I'm getting eyes tired reading chapters dedicated to them, for no payoff at all. Enjoyment is subjective.. some people may find Shun and friends entertaining, and I don't object to that. |
| Everything looked so great in the novels.. who in their right mind would think these abominations were a good idea?! I disliked the CGI look of Kumoko at first. But given some time I can get used to it. However, these monkeys are just too awful to look at. They remind me of those clapping monkey toys. Hopefully the monster designs don't go further down hill from here. But we must've hit CGI rock bottom by now right? Perhaps they could spend a little more time on the next monsters instead of Shun & Co. I'm still happy the story was turned into an anime. But the CGI is really starting to ruin it for me. |
| Pretty good adaptation of the monkey fight, wish they had shown more of kumoko's status during the fight to bring more immersion into the fight. |
| I really don't see why people think this CG is so bad. feels like a case of "CG is bad because it's CG." |
| I don't really care about how the CGI looked,since I'm watching this for the story,and for Kumoko,and so far it hasn't really disappointed me at all. I mean,the CGI in Overlord Season 3 was a lot worse,and I still enjoyed it. EX-Arms though,thats another story :) And I can't remember if I've said it before,but the music in this show is top notch.At first I wasn't too sure about the OP/ED themes,but hell,they've grown on me a lot! |
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| Tbh I actually prefer the students over kumoko so I thought this was meh. The horrible cgi didn't help my experience at all either. |
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Whoa! She really defeated a pack of monkeys! Her fighting spirit is superb! lol |
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