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Apr 14, 9:17 PM
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Fresh off a series binge session I find that I am left utterly confused about the order of events in which things happen.

The thing that most confuses me is the apparent inconsistency between the MC's evolutions and Sophia's age.



What am I missing here?
Apr 14, 9:30 PM
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They are showing two different time lines where the spidey for example, is training and evolving from the age of a baby and the humans "also known as useless Schlain and the gang" couldn't since they where only toddlers. When Schlain and the others were teenagers, or like middle school age, started training up skills and what not, our friendly spidey was already a powerful arachne or something similar.
Schlain the the others are/were toddlers and had their childhood peaceful and normal, while our friendly Spidey fought for her life in the dungeon since the age of a few minutes.

It's like 15 years time gap between the scenes where our friendly spidey doing whatever in the dungeon vs the useless Schlain and the others going to school or whatever.


It can be a bit confusing since the timeline jump constantly between the characters. Whenever the human parts shows, it's like 15 years into the future.
Not to mention, my explanation is probably not that good.

Regarding Elf village war.
AzuchiApr 14, 9:45 PM
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Apr 14, 10:08 PM
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They are showing two different time lines where the spidey for example, is training and evolving from the age of a baby and the humans "also known as useless Schlain and the gang" couldn't since they where only toddlers. When Schlain and the others were teenagers, or like middle school age, started training up skills and what not, our friendly spidey was already a powerful arachne or something similar.
Schlain the the others are/were toddlers and had their childhood peaceful and normal, while our friendly Spidey fought for her life in the dungeon since the age of a few minutes.

It's like 15 years time gap between the scenes where our friendly spidey doing whatever in the dungeon vs the useless Schlain and the others going to school or whatever.


It can be a bit confusing since the timeline jump constantly between the characters. Whenever the human parts shows, it's like 15 years into the future.
Not to mention, my explanation is probably not that good.

Regarding Elf village war.
@Azuchi I appreciate the help, but I'm still confused here. I got the 15-year gap thing, and that the scenes keep jumping all over the timeline. That wasn't an issue per se, but once it overlaps with the human-story timeline nothing seems to make chronological sense anymore.



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Apr 14, 10:52 PM
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@Azuchi I appreciate the help, but I'm still confused here. I got the 15-year gap thing, and that the scenes keep jumping all over the timeline. That wasn't an issue per se, but once it overlaps with the human-story timeline nothing seems to make chronological sense anymore.



@TrashWaifuHater

Well if I remember correctly myself here:

Regarding elf village war



Kumokos evolution chart: MAJOR SPOILER unless you've finished the anime series. (For other readers here)
Found this online in case you wonder about the evolutions of Kumoko.
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Apr 14, 10:57 PM
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I just came here to say this was goated and needs a s2
Apr 14, 11:18 PM
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@TrashWaifuHater

Well if I remember correctly myself here:

Regarding elf village war



Kumokos evolution chart: MAJOR SPOILER unless you've finished the anime series. (For other readers here)
Found this online in case you wonder about the evolutions of Kumoko.
@Azuchi episode 22, timestamp 15:44



They really messed up the last few episodes of this show didn't they?
Apr 14, 11:19 PM
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everything will fall to place when the second season arrives.
Apr 14, 11:23 PM
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everything will fall to place when the second season arrives.
@Har2ppy22 so, never? I'm looking around and it seems like the consensus is that S2 will never be made
Apr 14, 11:27 PM
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TrashWaifuHater said:
@Azuchi I appreciate the help, but I'm still confused here. I got the 15-year gap thing, and that the scenes keep jumping all over the timeline. That wasn't an issue per se, but once it overlaps with the human-story timeline nothing seems to make chronological sense anymore.




Did you actually finish the entire season?
Its pretty much covered in the last 3-4 episodes that
Apr 14, 11:35 PM
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TrashWaifuHater said:
@Azuchi I appreciate the help, but I'm still confused here. I got the 15-year gap thing, and that the scenes keep jumping all over the timeline. That wasn't an issue per se, but once it overlaps with the human-story timeline nothing seems to make chronological sense anymore.




Did you actually finish the entire season?
Its pretty much covered in the last 3-4 episodes that
@V1P3R0P yeah I'm fresh off binging the whole season over the weekend

come episode 22 it seemed everything turned into complete incoherent spaghetti

I missed that they ID'd the young hero as Julius in text, just saw that when reviewing ep 22 - he looks exactly like Schlaine and it went by so fast I missed that it wasn't him.

There's two battle scenes that I now (thanks guys) understand were happening 15 years apart, but the way it appears in the show it looks like the same battle, there's not even a cut scene or fade-to-black to indicate otherwise.
Apr 14, 11:37 PM
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@Azuchi episode 22, timestamp 15:44



They really messed up the last few episodes of this show didn't they?
@TrashWaifuHater Yup,


I didn't care much for the time skipping constantly. It is way more entertaining to read the light novels. Which I can recommend you to do now that you've finished the series.
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there is quite a bit of going back and forth in time
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@TrashWaifuHater Yup,


I didn't care much for the time skipping constantly. It is way more entertaining to read the light novels. Which I can recommend you to do now that you've finished the series.
@Azuchi it's not so much the time skips that were the problem, it's the way they merged battle scenes in ep22 so that two entirely separate battles 15 years apart appeared to be the same battle, and if you missed the name Julius appearing on the screen for less than a second there was absolutely no other indication that it wasn't one continuous battle that was being shown. ~18 min in it just shifts to the later event without any pause at all; even the environment looks the exact same.

Until you clued me in, I had no idea that there was a different war 15 years earlier. There's no other mention of it anywhere in the series, no background, context, nothing.
Apr 15, 12:28 AM

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Yeah, they’re switching back and forth between the two timelines, because a spider’s metabolism is higher than that of a human, which is why Kumoko developed way faster than the rest. It is confusing, but it’s intentional (not a plot hole).
Apr 15, 12:35 AM
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I got tired of trying to figure this all out so I just went to the Wiki and spoiled everything for myself and after reading about all the details of everything I am totally fine with that.

The anime was a fun, if confusing, watch, but it seems in the big picture the entire plot and story world is one mega dumpster fire where everything exists to patch a plot hole created by something else.
Apr 15, 10:16 AM
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TrashWaifuHater said:
Fresh off a series binge session I find that I am left utterly confused about the order of events in which things happen.

The thing that most confuses me is the apparent inconsistency between the MC's evolutions and Sophia's age.



What am I missing here?

Nightmare's vestiges are offspring of Kumoko, not she herself. It's in the name.

If that's what you're talking about anyways.
Apr 16, 8:08 AM
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Uhh, you need to remember Shiraori is a spider monster. Sophia is human that turned into a vampire. Julius is just human.

So their growth rate biologically and magically different.
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For those curious about a s2, I really enjoyed the show so i tried to read the manga and i can say there is a good reason theres no s2. After s1 content ends, the story essentially stops making any sense and goes straight down the toilet. It goes from a 9.5/10 to a generous 1/10
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cornbutter said:
For those curious about a s2, I really enjoyed the show so i tried to read the manga and i can say there is a good reason theres no s2. After s1 content ends, the story essentially stops making any sense and goes straight down the toilet. It goes from a 9.5/10 to a generous 1/10

The manga sucks and it literally isn't the source material

And you're wrong
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TrashWaifuHater said:
Fresh off a series binge session I find that I am left utterly confused about the order of events in which things happen.

The thing that most confuses me is the apparent inconsistency between the MC's evolutions and Sophia's age.



There's one scene where MC's partial-human form is protecting baby Sophia. Yet another scene appears to occur during a battle where Sophia is already an adult, yet MC hasn't yet evolved into the part-human form. These appear to be irreconcilably inconsistent, as the battle where MC is levelling up to evolve into the part-human form has an adult Sophia as a main participant.

What am I missing here? Is there some sort of time travel element involved, that hasn't been introduced yet, that might explain why the part-human form appears many years before the battle that leads to her evolution into that form?

There's a similar timeline inconsistency regarding the death of the original hero Julius. The show strongly implies that it's a fully-human MC who annihilates him and his party, so that would have to be a later evolution past the part-human one, right? But this event leads to the secondary protag Schlain becoming the hero... but Schlain, already the hero, shows up to a three-way face-off with the still-spider-form MC and Ariel.

Trying to review this in my head and everything goes bonkers. Spider-form MC levels up during the big battle for elf village, and during this battle Sophia is an adult and Schlain is already the hero. So how can post-spider-form MC be already evolved to save baby Sophia, and post-post-spider-form MC have killed Julius to make Schlain the hero?


What am I missing here?


For simplicity sake, I'll use the year 841 (Shun's birth year) to describe the year the class reincarnate.

Long story short
- MC is reincarnated 15 years earlier than the Shun and the others
- MC in spider form = from year 826 to 841
- MC evolving into half-spider/human form and saving Sophia = year 841
- MC in half-spider/human and later human form = year 841 onwards
- Elf village fight / Shun's inheritance of the Hero title after Julius's death = year 856

So, to answer your questions
- Sophia is saved by MC
- The spiders you see Sophia kill are probably the offspring of the MC
- Julius is killed by MC after evolving into a human form
- Any spider you see the class members kill are most likely the MC's offspring

The MC's whole "training arc" in the dungeon is before Shun and the other's reincarnation.
So whenever you see the story focusing on Shun and the others, it's already year(s) after the MC evolved into a half-spider/human form.

There's no time travel element to the series (none that I'm aware of), just a time shift between two periods.

I'm not going rewatch all 24 episodes to find the specific scenes you're referring to...but I hope what I stated out above helped clear your mind

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