So I'm a Spider, So What?

My favorite new show of the season — absolutely delightful. Perfectly scratches the BOFURI itch.

This show shouldn’t be this good, but it is. Don’t skip this one..

I only gave this a high rating because of the light novel. Since I'm way ahead in the light novel, the anime was an awful experience for me all because of the pathetic CGI Animation.
I'd advice everyone to read the light novel instead of watching this piece of s**t.

Anime-only watcher. Show had its ups and downs. It's watchable to the end because it evens out. The pacing and Aoi Yuuki are what kept me watching. I'm glad I stuck it out because the story went in a completely different route than I had anticipated. Time to pick up the Light Novel!

My initial opinion of this show for around the 1st 8 episodes was meh. There was a lot of the same stuff going on with the spider, and the classroom portion was dull. Then around episode 9 the series started to hint around other things happening outside what we are shown, and the show starts to pick up from there slowly.

Weak start, but picks up quickly. Great mix of fun spirit, humor, action, fantasy, and mystery. Wish they’d have finished the show.

> Recommendation : ❌

# *Don't watch it, read the Light Novel!*
Too many problems in the anime: The CGI in combat is disastrous. The monster models aren't that great; where in the Light Novel, you get the impression that everything is epic, here you get the impression that everything is childish. Far too much content is skipped. Fei's introduction comes much too early, and goes against the timeline. Worst of all, we understand the protagonist's identity right from the start of the anime, whereas in the Light Novel we're misled.

> Extra : ❤

If you haven't started watching the anime yet, don't. Read the books, which have been completely translated into English and are easily found in paperback or digital.

Hmm. I get the premise, and I can sort of see the appeal. It's fine, the comedy is dark/parody of the isekai, RPG and reincarnation genre, and the protag/MC is unusual, if a little bit too glib/sarcastic for a spider. My Spider-Sense is tingling though, as this could be a 5/10 show, even with the high budget and decent art, decent voice acting, etc. There's LN/Manga 'vibes' and it's a bit ... mediocre if you've seen a few Isekai's or you watch seasonal anime and pick up the tropes/cliches.

They're not mistakes, but ... the setup does take away the unreality of waking up as a 'monster' if there's no maudlin / wallowing, Waking up as a cannibal monster with no hope or rendition towards regret, vanity, desire, wishes to return back, etc. The horror is glimpsed and tucked away. acid burns are 'ignored' etc.

but, time is money. Maybe the LN handles this, but Anime doesn't have the luxury to wallow unless there's gravity or consequences to explore either. So, I don't know if this is going to be good or not, given that it resembles AriFureta and Slime, but with a female POV. er, Apparently Female POV.

Second episode should settle the question for character development and writing, to see if it's gruelling to endure, mediocre or watchable. This can either become saccharine (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime), Insane wish fulfilment/Angst fantasy (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest), or it might try to straddle the line between cute and crazy and, yeah, Fake. The whiplash from waking up as a spider is irking, and the 'peer group' of school friends is more of an omen that the show has strong LN/manga roots, and i'm not confident that the show is good given the first episode.

My gut feeling is that there's going to be an Evolution from "cute" to "Hot" Spider-Monster half-spider/half-girl somewhere, because, Japan, with a final battle that evolves to turn nto a "spidergirl" human with a supernatural magic form. Perhaps after a season arc where she has to fight a former friend, sic.

If this turns out to be a spoiler, it wasn't intended, there's just signposts / lampshades in the art and Glib/Dark comedy. If there's a giant dragon in a Cave as the end-boss, or the Cave Arc ends up as a parody of Slime, etc.

If Kumo takes a more RPG-esque route, or the character improves i'll be impressed to give this better than a 6/10.

It's probably not intending to be Slime/AriFureta, or that the LN probably has a similar buildup, but the idea of a school group reincarnating outside of human 'vessels' or weren't "Born" anew is ... different. The CG looks like it took a lot of time, so perhaps it's going to develop past the 'comedy' in the premise.

Dropping this as I can't see myself lasting through a 2 cour of this. According to some previews this was supposed to be great but the back-loaded magic academy stuff is uninteresting and the spider segments while having at least some personality are just the same thing every episode.

I really enjoyed watching, Kumoko was a delight and so hilarious I love her so much. The bad thing about this show is the Hero, he's a loser, the human side in this story is boring.
there a few characters I'm into like Sophia and Wrath, I want to know more about them, and I still think the Hero and his party are dull and useless, [spoiler] and there's Potimas he was shady as hell from the get-go so I wasn't that surprised to find out he's the true villain. [/spoiler]

anyway, there's more to this story so I hope we get a second season soon.

My Score: very good
Been a while since I liked an Isekai show this much