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User Reviews for: So I'm a Spider, So What?

toliman
CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  4 years ago
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.
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