![]() ![]() Kumoko joins the fray and massacres many of the kingdom’s soldiers for that good ol’ human exp that monsters love, until the demon lord Ariel appears. After some envoys from the neighboring kingdom attack Kumoko, she kills them and the kingdom uses it as an excuse to go to war with Sophia’s small hometown. Meanwhile, tensions have been seething between Sophia’s hometown and a neighboring kingdom that wants to strongarm them for no real reason. After ignoring requests from the spider mother to return to the labyrinth, Kumoko is hunted by her and defeats her with knowledge and power one of Kumoko’s extra minds gathered. Kumoko meets the demon lord Ariel at a later point, but Ariel destroys her body in an instant and Kumoko escapes with only her head, literally, because of an immortality skill she gained earlier. She saves Sophia’s traveling party which leads to an alliance between her and Sophia’s human hometown later on. Kumoko meets Sophia, one of her previous classmates, in baby form and learns that Sophia reincarnated as a vampire. This moment motivates her, for the rest of the season, to become OP. She becomes committed to gaining enough power to save the world. Her dual perception evolves at two later points, giving her four individual minds total.Īfter leveling her taboo skill up to level 10, she sees a vision that the world is heading toward an apocalypse. ![]() They’re basically clones that exist within her mind. Dual perception gives her two individual minds to essentially focus on different functions. At one point, she evolves into a Zoa Ele, a creature humans fear as a harbinger of bad fortune, and gains dual perception. Kumoko spends a large amount of time grinding through different levels of the underground labyrinth where she was “born”. Wakaba, henceforth known as Kumoko, was reincarnated in a spider form, but the humans were reincarnated as newborns. RELATED: Marvel's Midnight Suns' Animated Shorts Can Show How Firaxis' Heroes Are Unique Kumoko’s Timeline, AKA the Good Part So, the story basically gives viewers whiplash jumping 15 years forward or backward every time it shifts from Kumoko to the students and vice versa. ![]() While all the events are presented to the viewer as if they all take place concurrently, the events that the students experience actually take place 15 years after the events that Kumoko experiences. Throughout the series, the focus shifts between two perspectives: Kumoko, and the other students. ![]() Viewers may have also been confused by the way the timeline is presented, for better or worse. The names in this series can be pretty confusing since each of the characters has their name from their original world, their name from the new world, and nicknames. Her classmates are fairly forgettable, except for Shun, Hugo, and their teacher, Oka-chan. Hiro Wakaba, also known as Kumoko, is the titular protagonist, moving the story along with meme humor and impeccable style. What sets this series apart from others is that the main protagonist is reincarnated as a spider while most of her classmates are reincarnated as humans instead. In comes So I’m a Spider, So What?, also known as Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka ? This Isekai series follows a class of typical students reincarnated in a magical world, as the standard isekai goes. Films like Memento or 500 Days of Summer are iconic examples of when it’s done well, but fans would be hard-pressed to find many examples in anime. When a series, anime or otherwise, presents the story in an untraditional way, it can be a double-edged sword. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |