So I'm a Spider, So What? (light novel)
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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 |
| oh nice! Kumoko is now level 10! she should evolve already instead of getting roast by lava! 5/5. |
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| Does this anime get better ?? I don't want to judge 24 episode anime from just 4 episodes but so far this anime feel average. Also, the part the focus on the spider is boring. Noting happened in this episode other than spider leveling up. No story so far |
| Looks like stealth is the only option available for our cute mc. Damm must be tough finding out that you're in a ultra high level area at such a low level. Using a school to showcase the new monsters as a gang sure was pretty creative. Those snails sure were a nasty surprise. But at least she got luck in the next encounter that finally allowed her to gain magic. That monkey fight though was pretty amusing. But man the attack of the monkeys after sure was a unexpected trial and introducing a rare siege as well. Though a long gruelling fight the mc's tenacity really served to allow her to achieve a impressive victory against the horde of monkeys. Overall a pretty action packed ep that combined excellent and brutal combat with excellent tension in the form of the monkey siege and allowing her to level up once more. Looks like next stage is a lava stage for her though. |
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| This episode was pretty metal, I liked it a lot. The CGI didn't bother me as much as it did last episode. I think it was alright. |
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| Awesome episode, it was intense watching her fighting the monkeys. Especially the 3 evolved looking ones, those were nutty. |
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| She's basically an one woman army, attagirl. |
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 Poison puddle makes a little spider happy |
igiem said: The manga was great and is in fact one of my favourites to read, however, this anime does not even come close to doing its source material justice. It betrays its source material, adds a completely unnecessary magic school element, and utilizes the equivalent of a poor man's CGI style. (3/10 show at best) the manga doesn't do the source material justice. nearly half of volumes 1-6 are not told from Kumoko's pov, 1-5 being from Shun's and 6 being from another character's. |
| Kumoko is one unlucky spider. |
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| EX-Arm aside, this must be the show with the absolute worst CG of the season. Hell, the CG on these monsters is at least as bad as the infamous Berserk 2016, if not worse. And when half your anime is based on survival fight scenes against these CG monstrosities, it does a considerable job of ruining the show. The generally poor directing and comically poor writing does the rest of the job there, though. I regret the time I spent watching this shitty isekai, and I don't know why I ever expected anything else from it than that. |
| Gaddamn holy shit, that episode was intense. A whole episode of Kumoko just surviving, very nice. Taking advantage of levelling up is pretty smart, I am assuming the next evolution is going to be that spiky spider we see in the ED and I assume it's going to be resistant to the lava and stuff. Looking forward to the next episode, |
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| Man if Aoi Yuuki was not carrying this whole shitty show on her back I would have dropped it by now. |
igiem said: They waste time developing that weird "magic school" angle which is not only highly unnecessary but detracts time that could be used to show the Spider Girl's growth and battle skills I feel so bad for those poor manga readers that will never understand the importance of the student side. In other hand, I guess this was expected from the manga readers. I still remember how most of you almost had a mental breakdown when you didn't had your dosage of cute Spider for 3 chapters. |
Zimzky said: Can this studio draw ANYTHING by hand? Yes, they can. The human side (lol)  Really close to dropping this now and just read the manga as it's just jarring to watch Good luck with the manga. The pace is so slow that the anime will overtake it around the middle of the second half. |
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