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Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?
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600 WN Chapters (Completed)
- 331 Regular Chapters
- 269 Extra Chapters
16 LN Volumes (Completed)
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Completely Translated
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Weekly Rank: #258
Monthly Rank: #332
All Time Rank: #55
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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.

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I'm a Spider, So What?
So I'm a Spider, So What?
เกิดใหม่เป็นแมงมุมแล้วงัย
蜘蛛ですが、なにか?
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Tyizor
Tyizor rated it
November 27, 2017
Status: c305
Kumo Desu is one of the earliest isekai-style novels that I've read, and I'm writing this review quite late into the process.

The novel begins rather interesting (high school girl gets reincarnated into a relatively weak spider-monster's body and she has to deal with a high-level dungeon environment as she finds a way to escape), but it gradually begins to suffer as things become repetitive (kill, level up, get confident, almost die, rinse and repeat). Despite this flaw, it kept my interest for quite awhile. The novel is heavily character-driven, and... more>> Shiro's personality is quite fun to watch. She's portrayed as a bit of a klutzy, cutesy idiot, that's extremely prideful and has an unreliable perception of herself. Her POV is quite a ide, and it's 90% of the reason that I've read up to this point.

Past the dungeon arc (can you call it an arc at, like, 200 chapters? Season?), the novel takes a drastic turn as the character is suddenly info-dumped the truth of the world. She becomes more ruthless, less carefree, and begins to actively try to save the world. This part didn't settle too well with me since shiro is largely self-centered, and while she does have *some* degree of reason to save the world, it feels very contrived. The plot becomes erratic, and stakes escalate a bit too much for my tastes. Despite all of this however, the author does a good job with the gags, and the characters keep it entertaining (well, most of the characters). <<less
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FSGInsainity
FSGInsainity rated it
September 24, 2017
Status: elf village 1
It's a nice light-hearted comedy. For future Readers: Read up to wherever blastron is since he captures her the best, and then continue where you left off with turbo's translation. Also, she is NOT the protagonist. She is the personification of side character development.
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Moepop
Moepop rated it
June 24, 2017
Status: --
I personally enjoyed this Web Novel, however their are some shortcomings that might turn people away from it that should be revealed beforehand;

Unnecessarily Long

Not Everything is Explained?

Confusing To Follow (Near End)

But truly it is one of my favorite light novels and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I hope that anyone who reads this will give it a read.
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fir537
fir537 rated it
May 10, 2017
Status: c300
It is an interesting story to read. You see crossworld reincarnation MC becoming a spider and view the story by 'her' viewpoint. There are also main story and some side stories that explain stuff happening with a different viewpoint. The manga version felt like adaptation of the Light Novel version, thus the egg appearing although in the Web Novel version there was no egg.

For the side story, it does gets a bit tiresome at times, but best way to read the side stories is grouping the few of them together,... more>> and reading the rest along with the main story since they are practically the main story via other characters POV. In case you dont like to read it along, the various chapters of other reincarnators and a few sub characters can be safely skipped/passed over until Kumoko exits the Labyrinth. At that point you can either read it or not and it wont matter at all since the story in them are explained via Kumoko's POV at some point afterward. Since this isnt a spoiler I hope nobody gets mad at this detail (if you read the main story and side story at the same time you will understand).

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Aside from that, D and everything else makes some sort of sense to me in understanding the state of the world they are in. A modern or maybe advanced world considering they have robots that arent slow moving and is practically a modern Earth in some sense. Destroyed, possibly due to Pontimas disturbing the Dragons (highly probably he uses force). Dragons flee the world that is collapsing, D thinking she found something interesting, Sariel decided not to leave the world and try to save it, and probably Gyuri chosing to stay with her. Meeting D and asking her to help, and she probably told Sariel it would require her god level energy to save the world, and thus creating the System to maintain the world balance. Souls of those who die are returned to the world System and reincarnates. D inserting her preferences turning the world into a pseudo game themed world. Demon King and Hero System that was created, possibly Demon King was just a strong Demon, and D deciding to add a Hero to kill the Demon King, making it gamelike. Sariel possibly choosing to add them into the System. As another possibility, D could actually do things differently and without the System at all, but it is highly probably she just want to reduce the number of souls she has to manage in the Underworld. D is highly likely short for Death, and she calls herself the Strongest Evil God.

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NPC
NPC rated it
February 26, 2017
Status: c295
I read the manga first, and got hooked. So, to the ones who are deciding whether to read it or not, try reading the manga first (although there are some minor differences between the two). The main character is adorable (despite being a spider), extremely clumsy, socially awkward, and got over the top but hilarious reactions. Its a nice break from the load of serious male protagonist light novels I was reading prior. While this is not a serious story, it not a dumb one. The plot of the whole... more>> story seems to be set from the get-go. The story revolves around the spider stuck in the dungeon while giving glimpse of the outside world though "side" chapters. That being said, DON'T SKIP the side chapters. Confusing at first but totally all clicks together.

The side chapters is one of the reasons I gave this a 5/5. It provided multiple perspective on the story, and really brings the world together. I personally liked this way of story telling.

The confusing parts all eventually get explained (so far anyways). If you get stuck wondering why the heck did/didn't she do this and that.. You either need sympathize with an extreme introvert, remember shes a super klutz, or it gets explained later in the story. <<less
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B055Y
B055Y rated it
January 2, 2017
Status: past arc
I just re-made my review and there was a lot, I lost internet connection when I was saving it so I had to copy the text and reload the page. I went to paste but instead copied my old crappy review... so yeah.

this is all you get:

Read if you want a story that will develop in the long run and you like foreshadowing. The latest chapters pretty much have everything explained, so you can binge it. Great novel, well written.
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darkseven
darkseven rated it
December 18, 2016
Status: c284
This is well written but Turb0's translation is poor quality. I suggest you look around (several translators have done alternate translations of the earlier chapters).

The perspective of a girl-turned-spider is unique and refreshing. The constant build in power is extremely fun to follow.

I would note that the story changes directions very drastically after she leaves the cave she starts in. At this point the plot becomes kind of muddy for ten or twenty chapters but then it really starts to clear up and everything starts to make sense again. Definitely... more>> worth it for readers to push through! <<less
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slay_mithos
slay_mithos rated it
December 12, 2016
Status: --
This one is interesting, especially within the very crowded reincarnation genre from Japan.

For starters, there is very little "japan has the best culture and makes you OP" (and exactly no culture at all for the whole beginning, as it's just a monster in a den of monsters).

The main character is not one of those "I need to hide what I can do", and frequently gets overconfident in her abilities (usually only getting saved because she is the main character, so plot armour/luck plays a role), which is a nice bit... more>> of fresh for the genre.

The overall world is fairly well built and it is quite evident that it was thought of before starting, only giving us knowledge along with the main character for narrative reasons, as it doesn't really feel like major points are taken out of nowhere at some random point in the novel.

It is definitely not without faults, with the start being a lot of exposition with little else, and the pacing a bit inconsistent here and there. Most of the characters are also barely developed and fairly flat, making them less interesting than it seemed to intend at first.

The writing seems to be fairly good, but it's not award winning, especially since it's a lot of raw thoughts of the main character mixed with first person narration, with plenty of exclamations.

On the translation front, I would recommend starting with blastron's version, as it is higher quality overall, and if you feel that 1 chapter a week is too slow, switch to raising the dead afterwards. Raising the dead follows the terms that turb0 used, so switching will make you wonder about a few expressions, like "nay wa" that is translated as "no way" (proper english) by blastron, but is used as the catch phrase as is by the others.

Overall, a fairly good reincarnation novel with a few twists, the most notable being that the protagonist throws away her humanity for the most part (even monster reincarnations usually have the protagonist try very hard to stay human inside). Also, the main might be a female in gender, but it makes very little difference and you could consider her a genderless monster for most of the story. <<less
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simmon
simmon rated it
September 27, 2016
Status: c250
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Quite good for OP MC, another world, and reincarnated style LN. The catch it is that the MC is really weak at beginning then slowly develop. She get fair amount of hardship, then become extremely OP latter on. There are many good and boring moments, which make the story acceptable and fun enough to keep reading. Still... it is another one of those LN fantasy where everything is become too cliché at some point. If you get enough of those cliché story, you will not be impress. If you still have enough room for those kind, it is quite good for certain degree.

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SuzyKay
SuzyKay rated it
September 26, 2016
Status: c111
Ehhh, It's alright. I would've given it a 3.5 rating... But there's no half.

I read this because people said it's like tensei shitara slime, but so not correct. At least not in the 100 chapters I've read so far!

I've been reading this with 80% boredom and 20% interest. The reason is because the story is very descriptive of the MCs journey from a hatching to lvling up. Talks a lot about her decisions, her meals, her skills, and how she uses it, what she kills and where she's... more>> going. EVERYTHING. Thus, I've been skimming a LOT. There's just so much descriptions where I just want to read about the general story plot and where it's heading... From time to time there's side stories of another guy character classmates point of view and life.

Up to Ch 70ish is when it gets a bit more interesting with the other characters story. Just a little. It's pretty suffering to read every single thing about her life style for over 70 chapters.

Around Ch. 100 is I guess when the author finally jumps the story forward confusing and disappointing the hell outta me. I guess its to keep readers entertained but my views on the MC kinda dropped. <<less
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insaneteacup
insaneteacup
August 21, 2016
Status: c265
Believe all the good reviews. The first arc is slow, it's all about grinding levels, but hang in there! After the boring grinding, action picks up, and then a twist presents itself very very subtly... (or, not so subtly hahahahaha!) And then the plot just picks up from there.

The writing is genius. This has 349 people voting 5 star for a reason! Nai waaaaa!!!
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Hantosh
Hantosh rated it
February 29, 2016
Status: --
I love reading RPG stories where you get to see the characters grow stronger instead of starting out as OP. This series started off with daily updates too, which added to its popularity. The MC also has an amusing, unique personality.

Unfortunately though, there comes a point where they inevitably become OP and every stat display becomes a massive pointless info dump where many of the skills aren’t even used in the story. At this point the MC achieves apotheosis, and the RPG hijinks end.

Similar to Afureta after the 1st labyrinth,... more>> the story takes a bit of a dive as it heads in a new direction. The side-stories start to feel repetitive as they relay the same story twice from another character’s perspective without adding very much. It’s hard to care much for the parallel world or the side-characters that briefly pop up, despite there being an implied overarching apocalyptic threat that has yet to be fully explained.

WN has been on hiatus since mid-Feb 2016. <<less
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Liu
Liu rated it
February 23, 2016
Status: --
Start is a bit shaky but the writing and story improve along the way, you get a sense of the character and the bigger picture as you continue reading. I would recommend this to any RPG fans as it has a lot of game elements but you would have to be patient with the plot because at the begining it is very similar to any other novel reincarnation novel and doesn’t differentiate until around 80+ (but the chapters are quite short so it isn’t a problem).

So, yeah, give it ago.... more>> It’s not one of my absolute favourites but it is entertaining. <<less
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Lyanah
Lyanah rated it
January 22, 2016
Status: --
Awesome story, and Turb0 really did an amazing job translating all those chapters, almost catching up to the author by himself! I am very grateful for his work, and extremely happy a new team has picked up this story where he stopped.

The story is very refreshing in the genre, the main character nicknamed “Kumoko” by most readers is very creative with the little she has, and thought she is silent her inner thoughts are hiralious. Especially when talking about/to her own skills, I absolutely love her relationship with her Appraisal.... more>> Now the story can be a little confusing with the side chapters, which are focused on other reincarnated classmates. The thing to know about those is that the side stories and the main Kumoko story aren’t in the same time period at first. But they are still very important to the plot and world building, especially when the main story is catching up to the side stories. So, bear with them xD

All in all, this is definitely a favorite of mine, I highly recommend it. <<less
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khanh
khanh rated it
January 11, 2016
Status: --
it was good at first were the spider is fighting for survival every day, and think of ways to improve her efficiency. But once she enter god mode the author seem like he run out of idea for the MC, well a least he start focusing on the other character, I wish he do a full arc for every characters or classmate. Im tired of point of view every10 chapters
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charioles
charioles
October 20, 2015
Status: --
I can't believe many people rated this 5stars. I like Re:Monster and I like slime tensei even more, but this... this is just a pile of RPG backlog. At start it was awfully boring, but since each chapter is short, I resolute myself to read a few dozen chapters more, but the story was barely going nowhere. This series is literally like watching a gamer streaming his gameplay but instead of watching with visual and sound, you read tons of lines of commentary and logs. If anyone said it was... more>> good, please tell me at which chapter it becomes good because 40 chapter in I still find it hard to be satisfying. <<less
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SaberWolf
SaberWolf rated it
August 24, 2015
Status: --
Absolutely love this series! Pretty much the main novel I look forward to. Turb0 Trans updates daily, and though the chapters are really short, upto 3 chapters are released per day.
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vbcherukuri
vbcherukuri
May 6, 2024
Status: Completed
The series does seem to swing around a lot. The beginning is mostly the spider going through video-game style leveling up and fighting with side chapters showing other classmates in the future. This goes from volumes 1-5

The middle is then kind of slow. There is a bunch of foreshadowing about the world and coming war, but it takes several volumes to actually tell us what is happening. Plus, because the future side chapters are done by volume 5, we are left waiting on a cliffhanger. Video game elements are minimized... more>> in this part, and the focus is more on plot.

The end then has a lot of action and actual resolution. It does get fairly epic. Main reason I'm dropping a star is the very ending. The author kind of skips the Falling Action phase. I have no problems with the final boss fight, or even the ending of the main character, but how that is shown is way too abrupt. It goes from max tension to zero in an instant. And we only get a brief paragraph showing what happened to all the other characters. We don't really get to see them and their reactions, or what they will do in a world that did go through near destruction. And the Main Character is going through all of this to save a certain character, but that character doesn't even get any lines at the end! The only information we are given is that she died sometime later... <<less
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Amoki
Amoki rated it
January 8, 2024
Status: --
The title gives you exactly what to expect. However, your expectations may be subverted just like mine were if you think there isn't more to this story. There are typical isekai game-mechanic elements which make it feel very familiar but the story is crafted in such a way where you are never bored. There aren't many pieces of fiction that have genuinely shocked me. I'm a Spider, So What was one that did just that and opened my eyes to this medium. Without this novel I would have likely not... more>> even gotten into reading light novels in the first place and for that I'm extremely thankful. It's a highly addictive read and I could not recommend it more or praise it enough. Please read it and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. <<less
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Autumn Grace
Autumn Grace rated it
October 7, 2022
Status: v13
A fun and enjoyable isekai story that quickly diverges into multiple storylines at different points of time, from different character's POV. Naturally as you would expect, this would cause a lot of confusion and whiplash, but the author is quite good at giving key details that keeps you engaged and up to date with what is happening and what has happened. Not much criticisms from me as it would be more nitpicking that actual glaring issues, hence a 4.5/5 (If only this website did.5 stars...)
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