Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
violetkei
I read the manga and was really excited that it was getting animated. The anime has a huge downfall: it keeps focussing on the humans. Who tf cares about the humans???? We read and follow the story to have fun watching MC be a spider and do dungeon things. Nobody cares about the humans in the story. Stop spending so much screen time on them. They are boring and annoying. Kumoko is the the best part of the whole story and she is the only reason we're here!! Idk if the directors didn't have the confidence that Kumoko could carry the series on her own and bailed, but it was the wrong choice. In the manga we never look much at the human characters at all and it's better that way. This weird focus left me wondering why tf were we spending so much time on these people - who even are they?? Give…
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I have a complicated relationship with this anime, it is hard for me to recommend this anime because it is objectively bad, and yet the things that are so good about it almost owe nothing to the anime, except the casting of Aoi Yuki
This is my second review of this series, I changed my opinion of many things since my first review but not my score, I knew that I disliked it but it wasn't until I rewatched it with a clear perspective that I was able to properly figure out why I disliked it, whereas last time I incorrectly attributed issues to things I thought were a problem when they actually weren't.
Also when I first watched it shortly after it came out, I didn't know anything about the source material, but now I have a better understanding of its source material which has inspired me to…
Read at the sourceYogadwi123
Dear Production Team,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am a passionate fan of “Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?” and I would like to share my sincere thoughts and suggestions regarding the continuation of this wonderful series.
Despite the criticism about the CGI used in the first season, I strongly believe that what truly matters in an anime is the strength of its story, world-building, and character development. Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? stands out with a unique and captivating plot that many fans, including myself, greatly appreciate.
Therefore, I kindly suggest that negative criticism about animation quality should not discourage the team from continuing this project. It’s okay to ignore harsh comments. Instead, please focus on constructive feedback and continue improving what truly matters…
Read at the sourceWrathborne
Waste of time.
Timelines are all over the place jumping between years without any notion whatsoever, badly interpreted intermissions.
Huge amounts of stuff missing/changed therefore a lot of story doesn't make sense. I get it makes some things mysterious, but at the very least stick to original story ffs.
Director was probably on drugs.
CGs are of extremely bad quality.
Just read the novels because this is show is literaly shitting on a masterpiece.
Overall not recommended to watch.
Supposedly I need more words for this review to go through, but sadly this show doesn't even deserve more than this.
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( Hood Review)
HEADS UP ! This is something you need to know before watching ! This story has TWO DIFFERENT TIMELINES HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME, IT CAN GET CONFUSING!!
The future: the reincarnations are older and start to gather around each other
The past: the main character is leveling up and learning the world
Honestly it was rough, the first 6 episodes felt like i was watching Dora the explorer. Even after, i still felt like this anime was made for a 13 year old.. the main character acts like a 8 year old so it’s hella annoying . But if you can push pass that, which is going to be tough for some people it’s pretty decent. The main character fights super bosses that could 1 hit kill them, almost every other episode . So it was giving Elden ring vibes pretty much. People were sayi…
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As far as isekai goes, while this one is already a few years old - it is still one of the best ones out there. The story is unique, the protagonist is strong but the story is not without actual struggle.
I scored 9 overall because - I loved the protagonist story: so much so it is 11/10, but then you have boring human side story that is ~25% of the screen time (-1 from total score) and the timeline is jumping back and forth which makes it somewhat hard to follow, I would rather like it to be in order of events (though I get that human story is so boring that you need to layer it with the good stuff, even thought that might be true, still -1).
Read at the sourceshinepwintaung
Could have been really good or something more I would say. The first few episodes were enjoyable regardless of me not really caring about the shun and other humans. The CGI was bearable at the start but does it goes downhill real fast, the last few fight scenes actually gave me eye cancer. The movements are so ass, the robots are turbo ass. The pacing is also absolute garbage. The original light novel has 16 volumes and by the end of 24 episodes we are almost at the ending already?? HUH??? I was so surprised when some endgame shit showed up like we didn't get to see shit. Terrible execution of a good source material overall. I am hoping this get a remake since I really enjoyed the light novels.
Overall : Enjoyable first few episodes, turbo ass as it progresses(especially the last parts o…
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There are two reasons as to why a lot of people are hating on this show and it's the CGI and confusing way the story is presented, Yes there is a lot of CGI in this anime and most fights are done in CGI and there are even moments where there is no fighting but somehow we still get CGI shots and I understand as to why some people might hate that but this isn't even one of the worst CGI's we've seen in anime there are some other Isekai shows that have it way way way worse than this one and to be completely honest despite the fuckton of CGI in this show it did not reduce the amount of enjoyment I got when I was watching it.
Now Let's talk about how the story starts off, Basically an explosion happened while the whole cast of students in japan we're in the middle of class and all of them got…
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Since the story itself isn't too deep, I won't spoil anything.
Tl;dr: Don't watch it, it's a MASSIVE waste of your time. Go watch Highschool DxD, story and visuals are way better.
Story: 3/10 | Getting reincarnated as a spider was something new, but the story itself was wayyyy too shallow.
Sound: 1/10 | Feels like at some point they just completly gave up on sounddesign, the fightscenes are flat, there's barely any sound. I kid you not. Imagine a dragon running through a cave, what do you expect to hear? Correct: Ton of bass, stomping, echoing, dust and rocks falling from the ceiling. But insted it just sounds as if your neighbours doggo runs through their yard.
Visuals: First 12 episodes 5/10, last 12 episodes 2/10 | Maybe it was due to corona, but the studio just switched to cheap looki…
Read at the sourceRektaur
TL;DR, Read the manga or light novel, both are significantly better.
I absolutely love the story of "蜘蛛ですが、なにか？", I have read both the light novel and the manga before the anime released; and both do a significantly better job portraying the story. The ONE saving grace of the entire anime is the spider side, Aoi Yuuki did an absolutely perfect job portraying Kumoko and I could sing her praises for her role in this show forever. It is a little strange at first that spider side is all in cg, but it looks significantly better than the human side all told. It really felt like the human side of the story suffered throughout the season.
Read at the sourceRebelPanda
Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? is two different anime paradoxically forced together. One is hideously ugly, and the other is mind-numbingly boring.
The hideously ugly plotline is led by an overly enthusiastic girl who was reincarnated as a spider. She must fight for her life in monster-infested caves. That explains the English name: "I'm a spider, so what?!" If that sounds intriguing, you will be disappointed. The title is misleading because the mind-numbingly boring half of the show is a bog-standard isekai plotline: A high school class gets reincarnated in a generic fantasy setting… How original.
The first plotline follows Kumoko, a high school girl who was reincarnated as the titular spider. It primarily takes place in caves where she first hatches. Wherever her journey takes her, she is iso…
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I re-watched the whole of Spider prior to writing a review and thoroughly enjoyed the whole 24 episode series in two extended sittings. I highly recommend this show, although it was marred somewhat by production issues.
First let's talk about the setup: our protagonist is reincarnated as a Spider in a fantasy world following an explosion during a classics lesson in her classroom in Japan. Now being reincarnated as a monster of some sort is not exactly Earth-shattering, but the fact that she has been reincarnated specifically as a spider is actually part of the plot, as is the explosion itself. So we're already a couple of points up on the standard Isekai trash. The author here actually cares about what is going on and why.
Two of the shows biggest strengths are made very clear from the v…
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The spider isekai is another case of trying to subvert a few things, only to fail in the longrun because you focus on the wrong things. One twist the anime went for was about having two storylines developing independently while at the same time feeding off each other. In one story you had the main heroine getting reincarnated as a spider and having to survive in a very dangerous cave, and in the other story it was about her fellow students reincarnating as various people and monsters in the human world where they are given proper upbringing and military training. The antithesis of seeing the spider having to fight hard in order to survive while the humans are having a mostly easy-going life was funny for a few episodes. Another twist in the second half of the show is the characters helping…
Read at the sourceErnacram
What a cursed period Winter 2021 was! In the same season, three awful anime series with horrible animation quality started airing. The worst was Ex-Arm, with a CGI animation so bad nobody could actually watch it. There was also Redo of Healer, a very badly animated rape fantasy targeted at incels. And lastly, there was Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?, or “So I'm a Spider, So What?” in Shakespeare’s language, the train wreck of an anime that I’m reviewing today.
--- The premise
This is yet again another “isekai” (or should I say, “shitsekai”), that is to say, an anime where the protagonist is transported to a parallel world. In that case it’s the whole classroom – teacher included – that are reincarnated as newborns, and the parallel world is a RPG-like fantasy world featuring elves, demons, mon…
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Spider represents a real dichotomy when it comes to anime. On one hand you have Studio Millepensee and director Itagaki Shin, creators of the excellent wacky comedy Teekyuu delivering much of the same with the Spider segments; on another you have Studio Millepensee and director Itagaki Shin, creators of the dreadful CG mess that is Berserk 2016 delivering much of the same with the Human segments.
It is a show of two distinct halves where one is clearly much better than the other. The Spider stuff with Kumoko is great, playing on the conventions of an Isekai with an intriguing plot and ends nicely, while the Human stuff is boring generic isekai shit with an admittedly interesting hook that is poorly executed and ends on a "Read the LN for More!" ending. Honestly, if they made a cut with so…
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So I’m a spider. Well, not really, but so what?
This is an anime that has been on my radar for some time now, mainly because it was originally slated for last year but got delayed due to production issues. Covid-19 must have not helped things there as well. But we did eventually get this year in the stacked winter 2021 and pretty much got overshadowed by Re:Zero season 2 part 2, Mushoku Tensei and Slime season 2. But I definitely thought to myself that I should not sleep on the spider isekai, especially as more episodes aired as time went on. And of course, I’m writing this review to tell you that you should also not sleep on the spider (mainly because you’ll squash it) but because it’s definitely one of the more interesting narratives that I have watched recently, even if it is burdened…
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This has got to be one of the most memorable shows I have ever seen. It had the biggest rating jumping between episodes I've ever witnessed. By episode 6 I had this at 1/1.5. By episode 12 it was at a 6. By 18, it back down to a 3. And finally, now at 24, it's at a 7. Seriously what the hell.
Its animation at times is absolutely atrocious. And I hate, hate, [b]hate[/b] the human side. It was just so dull and uninspiring. Typical shounen shit. Loved Kumeko though. It's such a conflicting show.
Would I recommend anyone watch this? I really, really can't say. If you followed the 3 episode drop rule, this show might not pan out. I don't drop, so it wasn't too much of an issue there.
The op is actually pretty nice, sonically at least. Visuals wise, it was pretty standard. The ED was pretty…
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For me, this season has two isekai masterpiece: Tensei slime and this.
I write review because this anime had been underrated. After watched 24 episodes, my score is 9 out of 10, but I give 10 because it is underrated.
Story:
1) Story of spider side is interesting.
2) Story of other human side is boring, I always hope the story turns back to spider side.
Art:
1) Story mode: 2D animation is good. 2) Fighting mode: 3D/CG animation is always not good for most anime.
Character:
1) Spider side has good characteristics. Spider is funny, brave, good resolved and helpful. Demon lord, vampires and villagers has their own good characteristics and charisma.
2) Characteristics of other human are not good. Younger hero boy and his mates are awkward, reckless and no charisma. Elves and kingdom people…
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This show is how an isekai should be made… but at the same time how an isekai should not be made.
Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka doesn’t look very promising at first glance, the premise is pretty much the same as your average isekai anime, with our main character dying and reincarnating in another world with RPG videogames terminology. Not even the fact she revives as a spider monster is something new or original at this point (but at least is more striking than a lame slime!). But what it lacks in originality, it makes up for in personality and self-awareness, while taking enough care of important things that other animes of the genre don’t bother to even show. Let’s address it by parts.
Our protagonist, simply and unofficially named Kumoko, was reborn as a spider monster, the weakest monster…
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We all have dreams about what we want to do or who we want to be when we grow up. In today's modern world, there are limitless possibilities. One dream I'm sure most people don't want to become a reality is being a spider. I mean, who actually wants to be a spider?
Announced back in 2018, there were some concerns about the production schedule of the series. Promotional material surfaced online but they caused some controversy with the amount of CGI content. It also didn't help that studio Millepensee helms the production. It's a studio that have produced mediocre projects and seems to specialize in CGI content. Don't believe me? Just check out their infamous Berserk project or Cop Craft. Watching this show at first glace gave me a feeling of uneasiness and it didn't take awhile until I re…
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