Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

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The world where the Hero and the Demon King continue to oppose each other. The grand magic from the Hero and the Demon King cross over worlds and exploded in the classroom of a certain high school.

The students who died in the explosion will be reincarnated in a different world. The protagonist, who had the lowest reputation in the class, was reincarnated into a spider. Nevertheless, she adapted quickly to the present condition with strong willpower.

This is a story of she who has become a spider trying whatever she can to live.

Associated Names
One entry per line
I'm a Spider, So What?
So I'm a Spider, So What?
Tôi là nhện đấy, có sao không?
蜘蛛ですが、なにか?
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Demon Noble Girl ~Story of a Careless Demon~ (10)
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Recommendation Lists
  1. Have reread
  2. japan
  3. enjoyed my time
  4. My next 5 out of 5 !!!
  5. Strong FMC/strong female characters

Latest Release

Date Group Release
01/30/22 Raising the Dead epilogue (end)
01/30/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part23
01/30/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part22
01/16/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part21
01/15/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part20
01/11/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part19
01/09/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part18
01/07/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part17
01/06/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part16
01/05/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part15
01/05/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part14
01/03/22 Raising the Dead ss 41 part13
02/12/21 Raising the Dead ss 41 part12
02/11/21 Raising the Dead ss 41 part11
02/08/21 Raising the Dead ss 41 part10
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Lipuz
Lipuz rated it
February 9, 2021
Status: c122
This is honestly a pretty great novel. The MC is truly hilarious and she's what saves the entire novel. Some side stories are fine, some are less fine, but overall a very entertaining read. From chapter 1 to 122, I've read the amazing translation blastron did, in his tumblr, but he dropped it at 122. It's going to be hard turning to turbo's machine translated one, as it's very painful to read. I might drop the novel, but it's been a fun ride.
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WIzGiz
WIzGiz rated it
February 4, 2021
Status: c331
9.5/10

The plot and flow of the novel are really good and easy to read.

The power scale and ability system are good and it doesn't openly give the MC an unbeatable advantage over the other power characters on her level. Even though she does become blatantly OP in the later chapters.

Spoiler

She literally becomes a god.

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Overall my only complaint is that it put a little to much attention on some of the side characters even though they were completely irrelevant to the main plot.
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Uzi30
Uzi30 rated it
August 24, 2020
Status: v8
Based on other reviews, they seem to like the part of when spider MC is leveling up during dungeon arc and then think it declines afterwords. For me, it was the other way around. Before reading the LN, I had read the manga which covers up to vol 4 (but only spider MC perspective with no side story). Manga felt better overall if I only focus on the spider MC perspective. But I do like the side stories the are included in LN. For me, it got better after dungeon... more>> arc since it began to flesh out other characters better.

first 4 volumes are the dungeon arc where the spider MC figures out how to level up and get stronger. Its pretty interesting as she doesn't just OP for no reason. She does get some abilities that make it easier for her to improve, but for the most part she still must put in effort into what she is doing and learn different battle tactics. Side stories in this part are a bit jarring as their character take a long time to be developed.

Also, the story isn't linear so you have pay attention to where in the timeline you are. Their is also no omniscient narrator which is part of the fun. Each chapter is from the perspective of a different character and each learn different things. It is up to you to determine what the big picture is using the info each character learns.

After volume 4, it is less about trying to level up and more about fleshing out more of the characters. Since I like character development, I really liked this more compared to the initial chapters. After vol 4, author decides to focus on certain characters which I do think worked out well. I loved the character interactions after this volume of the spider MC with other characters. It does becomes more of a slice of life, which is why some people might have been put off by it since it was initially more of a dungeon crawler. The abrupt change doesn't bother me much since I like slice of life and timeline begins to make more sense after this volume.

I would certainly recommend this if you want to read about a reincarnated spider just trying to live after being thrown in into a pit of monsters. <<less
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SwiftWinter
SwiftWinter rated it
June 28, 2020
Status: v8
As recommended by other readers, I went back and read the light novels from the beginning after getting up to date with the manga.

Takeaway Thoughts
In short, it's fun, self-aware, and not afraid to throw in some curve balls here and there.
It's important to keep in mind what purpose the 'side stories' serve, which is to provide context about the events outside the labyrinth. However, those events are not necessarily chronologically consistent, so it's a clever way to lead the reader to keep in mind certain plot points that... more>> have yet to happen. Though this can be understandably jarring in the first few volumes, especially when the reader wants to see the MC progress.

Would you enjoy this?
If you're ok with inner monologues that sometimes take a whole page (LN), and like being gradually fed information about key plot points, then this would be for you. In other words, it's slow.
A common complaint that's raised by reviewers is that the early focus on procuring and leveling new skills isn't as important later in the series. To add my own take on this, I feel that it's just the author further emphasizing how taken for granted skills are in this world.

To conclude, it's been a solid read. In a genre mostly filled with power creep, revenge stories, and s*ave harems, it has been simply refreshing to have a story mostly centered on a lovable and quirky spider who simply acts on her whims. <<less
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etherealbao
etherealbao rated it
June 11, 2019
Status: --
One of my best novel tbh

while the idea itself is fresh not like other isekai stories, it started off simple and cute. But the whole storyline itself is huge and a bit complicated. I also like that the MC is not op from the very start.

And I skipped some of the side stories, and the past arc :p I know it is important, but sometimes the author dragged the story for too long. While it is good for details, I don't find the scenes with potimas interesting enough sadly.
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cleesus
cleesus rated it
December 14, 2018
Status: c330
I have read 4 volumes of the light novel and all of the current chapters of the web novel. That being said so far the LN is much better at telling the story than the WN. The translations, explanations, names, everything is better.

id give the LN a 4 so far and the wn a 3 1/2.

Moving past that there are some problems that I have overall with the series but are bigger problems in the wn. That is the fact that the author repeats and rephrases the same info in... more>> different ways back to back over multiple paragraphs or pages for no reason. You will literally get the same information repeated to you in a different way, much like I'm doing now but more annoying.

This is one of my three major problems with this wn/ln and light novels in general. You do not need to spend a whole page reintroducing a character's quirks that we have been aware of for the last 300 chapters. We got it bruh move the hell on and tell the story.

I already know the MC is a jackass who has problems communicating, I don't need you telling me that again after reading 1000 pages of you already telling me that 500 times.

My second problem is the chronology of the story. I was hoping that the reason for structuring the order of the chapters would reveal itself later on but in all honesty, it really hasnot. The story and timeline is all over the place and it even switches for each character. The same character can have chapters in the past and future while the other character is in the present, then the past, the future, and present. Nah this isn't a compelling storytelling element but you tried it, author.

My third problem which isn't as big as the other two is very minimal growth in the main character (s). I like kumo overall but the way she goes about abusing certain characters, and the way she gets when she drinks is supposed to be funny. Unfortunately its not written well enough to come off as funny and seems forced and unneeded.

Still, this is better than most light novels <<less
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kane2929
kane2929 rated it
November 12, 2018
Status: c330
i love this series and especially the characters. I'm not sure how everyone else feels but to me the action, comedy and the weak to strong were all amazing throughout the series except a few little hiccups but we can ignore those. The comedy in some parts were great!

i know in some parts it may drag a little but at least I can clearly imagine what the author is trying to convey and I like how this novel feels like it's a 2 in 1 for me when it changes... more>> at around chapter 200. The story (around chapter 300) & the plot all start to pull together as you get through the series & starts to make complete sense. The one thing I love about the characters the most is my feelings towards them keep on changing as the story gets told.

all in all, this is a 5/5 novel and I would recommend it to anyone unless they don't understand the game mechanics. This would be within my top 5 favourite novels throughout my life.

BTW I was playing dark souls remastered and met Quelaag's Sister while nearing chapter 300 in I'm A Spider, So What. So yeah I was fawning over Arachne at that time even though I'm scared of spiders. <<less
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KlausVonWunderbeard
KlausVonWunderbeard rated it
May 28, 2018
Status: c316.
Has this series been dropped?

amazing series with interesting plot developments, a fun and charismatic MC. Having read a ton of crap isekai web novels over the years, this particular novel is definitely a notch above the rest.

My biggest problem with the novel is the really long dungeon crawling arc in the beginning. It’s good for kinda pacing the MCs power crawl and establishing the MCs character, BUT because the dungeon arc is so long, there is very little world building and barely a plot to speak of and the... more>> WALLS of skills text gets really tiring really fast. Worst of all, for an arc that focuses mainly on combat, most of the combat is really repetitive and the MC almost always relies on the “Deus Ex level up” crap to pull her out of an impassable pinch.

However, I still greatly recommend that you keep reading because the author really shifts gears toward the end of the arc and introduces new interesting plot developments, the combats get improved and it really is satisfying to se the results of kumos long power crawl.

if you’re worried of the boring process of having to read through the first arc, don’t be. Despite the bad things I listed up about the first arc, it really is an enjoyable read nonetheless, mostly because of Kumos precence and personalities (yes, plural). And the lack of world building is subverted slightly by the occasional side chapters.

After the first arc the rest of the novel is gold. Lots of entertaining characters and the plot twists keep on coming. 5/5

ps, I’m not a fan of the whole elf arc tho. <<less
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captain crunch
captain crunch rated it
May 26, 2018
Status: v2
Rating: 3, Translation: 5

[Rating/Translation scale: 5 = almost all readers may enjoy / infrequent minor errors. 4 = large majority of readers may enjoy / frequent minor errors or infrequent major errors, no difficulty to read. 3 = 50% of readers may enjoy / frequent major errors, unable to understand some sentences or a paragraph in a chapter. 2 = niche audience may enjoy / unable to understand moderate portion of a chapter. 1 = portion of niche audience may enjoy / unable to understand most of a chapter.]

I have... more>> read through volume 2 of the Yen Press LN translation, NOT the WN.

Summary: Japanese high school class gets killed in a magic explosion and everyone reincarnates to another world. The MC reincarnates as a spider in a dungeon and struggles to survive. Everyone else appears to reincarnate above-ground where there is an ongoing conflict between humans and demons.

Good: Has the staples of isekai. Has potential. Is a variation of non-human reincarnation isekai, which is a little less common. The author does give the MC a challenge, as she starts off with barely any power and skills. She has to use her intelligence to overcome stronger enemies. Not all reincarnators follow the goody-2-shoes trope. Some larger events appear to be happening in the background.

Bad: 2 main problems. First is I'm not sure if there's an MC. Half the chapters are about the spider girl, and half are about a guy who was reincarnated as a prince. The chronology doesn't make much sense (time skips years for the prince, but the spider doesn't have time skips and feels like only weeks or months have passed). Therefore I'm not sure who is the MC, and there's no strong focus on the storytelling. The 2nd problem is all of it is POV, and the majority is inner monologue. The monologue is rambling and feels like filler. I fell asleep several times reading the monologues that last entire chapters.

Overall: Variation of the typical isekai story. Has potential, not bad. Main problem is not a lot of focus, no strong MC to follow, and I think some readers will get bored of the monologues. <<less
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XXXXX
XXXXX rated it
May 20, 2018
Status: c316
this is a great novel I rate it 5/5

this is a typical reincarnation story with a few twists such as being reincarnated into a spider instead of a human

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Spoiler

turns out MC is actually a spider with a humans memories tho... well I say human but more like an evil god who for some reason goes to school.

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Pros
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you get a great deal of side stories which show you the story from other's perspective, both other reincarnaters and a few specific natives. important to realise that some side stories are on different timelines and do not match up to mc's current time.

(If you completely skip side stories you miss out on a lot, even if you dont want to read it while reading the main story you should then read it afterwards to fill in the blanks)

great world building

interesting characters

Spoiler

the mc's personality never really changes much even though she has the memories of a high school student. so she might sometimes seem weird compared to others but she is after all a spider that has only lived for a short while before reincarnation.

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Cons
a big part of this novel is about getting stronger and you get a lot of "status" updates which I end up skipping most of the time as its kinda annoying with the amount of skills MC has... but this is just a minor annoyance...

there are no more chapters even though the story is not finished... so thats kinda sad...

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ZeroUm
ZeroUm rated it
March 31, 2018
Status: c316
A truly amazing series. I seriously thought I'd hate to read about yet another reincarnation isekai rpg-like world with levels and stats, and perhaps I would if not for the change of pace which happens after chapter ~150 and ~200, when the author starts deconstructing the world piecemeal over a yet much greater amount of chapters.

While I found most characters really fun, they aren't really developed. Even the author lampshades that in his fourth wall chapters.

On the other hand, and the main reason for this score, the world building is... more>> excellent. The author really thought about everything, and I love everything about it. <<less
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swordsman
swordsman rated it
March 23, 2018
Status: c200
Originally I started with the Light Novel then the Manga and then the Light Novel gives a strong impression of how much I enjoyed it already. There are quite a few of these sent to other world as monster now but what makes this stand out?

Female MC, a smart MC who uses her intel as a human to her advantage in every fight. She is someone who starts off as a level 1 weak spider with crappy stats and 1 ability, a struggle just to survive. The enemy fights are... more>> done amazingly well and you can really picture the struggle the MC is going through. This is a Novel about someone who becomes strong by her own power. For those reading the manga there is a significant portion of skipped content.

Currently looking forward to volume 2 of LN at time of posting. <<less
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Hawkgan
Hawkgan
March 2, 2018
Status: c257
I personally greatly enjoy this novel so far. In the beginning a lot of the world situation seems ambiguous but then all makes sense later on. I personally find this story interesting and the MC funny.
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niconico100
niconico100 rated it
December 21, 2017
Status: --
This is freaking AMAZING!! I've read the manga first and I'm rereading the novel since it's much updated...

Okay so this is the first time I've seen a Japanese novel that doesn't have romance and harem (I hate this genre the most-it has the most senseless reason I'd ever seen). The story have a good plot like most male-concentrated novels, minus the ones I mentioned and most of all the protagonist is female. It's just so refreshing to read especially when the protagonist is leveling up step-by-step, she thinks more logically... more>> and gets so happy when she accomplish small things because the past her doesn't really achieve anything (since she's a shut in).

I also love each evolution and the way she acquires her abilities. It's just frustrating how much she gets into a lot of near to death experience, but it's understandable since it promotes her growth and the place is a dungeon, swarming with predators.

I recommend everyone to read this, but it's also okay if you don't.......... your lose ("-3-) <<less
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ieh
ieh rated it
November 28, 2017
Status: --
I keep hearing how amazing this LN is and how great the story is. I've tried quite a few times trying to read Blastron (best English translation) version but can never really make it that far. I just don't find the MC very interesting or her internal monologue very compelling. I had a far better time reading the manga version because the comedy and energy really come through the drawing.

I really wish I could read the 150 chapters or so where she's just grinding to where the story takes off... more>> and becomes more but I just don't want to read 150 chapters of dull grinding to get to the real meat of the story. I just wish I could see a point or a plot to compel me to be invested in the LN in the beginning. I personally think the manga is a much better version because they concentrated the story and action but each chapter comes out at such a slow pace. <<less
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GoldSweeper
GoldSweeper rated it
June 29, 2017
Status: past arc 12
Really enjoyed this novel, won't say its unique or anything like that but in the sense that the MC is reincarnated as a spider is pretty unique. Its a hilarious WN and I would recommend that you read it. Here are some things that are bad about the novel tho:

  1. The 1st downside to this is that the author really takes his time in explaining things and there are many things which you will not understand immediately.
  2. Secondly, due to the constant view swapping, it would actually be advisable to read the main story 1st? Before going into all the view swaps or maybe even re-reading the other POVs after reading the whole thing to get a better grasp of the story.
  3. It gets quite messy half way through the story with the skills and so on and sometimes it just turns into 1 entire chapter being a side story just to clarify what has been updated ETC.
  4. Minor qualm the chapters are too short in my opinion
If you are ok with those kind of things then by all means, its a good read.
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Demonic Reader lv 451F
Demonic Reader lv 451F rated it
December 26, 2016
Status: insane oni
Edit addendum 07/2022. This novel is great. It's now animated.

:hr:

What's good is good. But what's good to most people may be bad for some people. This novel is the BEST example. It's best for many, but nor for everyone.

... more>> First, the plot. It is new/unique. Not like 99.9% of other novels. It's so jumpy that if you are skip reading some chapters, you'll end up being confused, upset and getting bored, and soon will leave this novel.

So, my uncovered spoiling suggestion : The MAIN story is not the main. The jumping SIDE story is.

REPEAT. THE ULTRA BORING SIDE STORY IS THE MAIN PLOT.

If you follow the above suggestion, you'll finally able to taste the roast elf meat.

However, if your usual reading habit is "linear", ie : have to be told everything in advance, better leave this story. This novel is very convoluted, goal-less, plot-less, until ch.160-170 or the second half. If you are unable to read novel this style, stop here

Don't show your incompetency like those 1-3 stars reviewers who doesnot/cannot read pass ch.100th before boastfully reviewing. Whole story in 2 sentences.

Spoiler

1. The story of the MC who was accidentaly killed by the idiotic act of two hero reincarnated as the lowest class beast before idiotly turned into the most powerful idiot god from its overt, no ending, hunger.

2. After it realized the truth, it tried hard to destroy all living creatures, friends, elf, d3mon, human, WORLD included, to free the dead people and a particular insanely idiot angel it never met.

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The very problem of this world setting and the real plot is revealed at about 250th chapter. That means you have to read all the side stories again.

Not many reader can withstand this mal-treatment. That's why 10% of the reviewers give 1-2 stars despite 90% give 4-5 stars.

Next from convulated plot. Let's review the characters. Summary : all of them have roles. Even the least significant side chars from the very beginning of the story, if not die first, would later play big role in the late stage. As plot progress, they developed themselves too. Some did it boastfully, some silently. For example, the coward, low class clown magician.

BTW, don't expect much from
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those splendid strong heroes and heroines who were transmigrated at the same time. Most of they were just side chars.

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Wish you're survive the lyrinth to enjoy this novel. <<less
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Zek
HOMOSENSEI rated it
September 24, 2016
Status: c272
This story have the same premise with any other reincarnation related novels out there, with an exception, the protagonist was reborn as a spider in a game-like world. The pacing is decent but you won't find any interactions with intelligible creatures until post chapter 60+, which was my first problem I stumbled upon with the novel. However, the real story starts when you have advanced beyond that point, and it gets even more exciting. Plus, the author takes his time to build-up characters by taking each's perspective into account, and... more>> uses it to expand the plot further.

This is a mix of both fluffy and dark, good to read if you're taking a break from romance and other related genres. <<less
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comradeprozac
comradeprozac rated it
June 2, 2016
Status: --
Spoiler

If you are reading this hoping to get a cute Arachne let me save you a couple of hours: yes she does becomes an Arachne, it last two chapters and them the story takes a noise dive.

I didn't cared about the side sorry that much and for the longest time I actually thought those were running in parallel with the main story, thinking the main character had lost her sense of time. Nope! The main story takes place years before the meat and bones of the side story.

Before the apotheosis I just wanted for the MC to explore the world and for her to try to seduce the Men she liked but that didn't happened, after it I just wanted for her to tell the goods to shove it but nope, she couldn't because of some revelation that the reader can get, which is one of the problems that plague the story

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tl;dr: If you want monster girls you aren't going to find them here, go to /monster/ or anonkun

Edit: So there is a manga adaptation of this now, hopefully the manga will fix some of the problems of the original text
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Liquid Ice
Liquid Ice rated it
February 25, 2016
Status: --
I don't understand why there's so many 5/5 ratings. There's a few comments saying how the story has large segments that are slow, confusing, or boring, but the rating is still 5/5?

I admit, I mostly tried this story because of the positive reviews and made it to chapter 60 or so before I got a migraine. Now I'm usually pretty open to reincarnation stories, considering they almost all start out the same way, but this story just feels so... bland. I can't really put it into words, but it was... more>> so boring that it inspired me to make an account just to comment.

In an attempt to explain what I mean, I'll be using a part of nwms8's review: the story has a huge lack of emotional and scenic detail, and focuses more on the mc's perspective. This might be fine as a stylistic choice, except for the fact that the MC is quite dull. It's like having the boring guy play dungeon master in D&D. Even for the "action-y" scenes, you never really feel a sense of anticipation or excitement. I'm not sure whether it's due to the writing style or the translation, but the MC seems to be more of a self-insert protagonist. The story is pretty standard, and there's really nothing eye-catching about it, but that might be due to me stopping where I did.

Well that said, the headache inducing feeling reminded me of SAO, so if you liked Kirito, you'll probably like this story, but I really can't stand it. <<less
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