So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1 by Okina Baba

There are several similarities between this and The Wandering Inn: Book 1: major alternating points of view are labeled with an initial and number, i.e. We don't worry about stuff like that when we're playing games-it's an ice cave, who cares if anything could survive in it in real life?-but in a book I wonder how it all fits together, or whether the author's put any consideration into their worldbuilding. There must be some way for air to circulate so its inhabitants can live. But what do the creatures on the very bottom of the food chain eat? Are there any plants, moss, etc.? This is a massive dungeon that spans underground under at least two continents. The ecosystem of the dungeon is centered entirely on monsters fighting and devouring each other. My impression was that Shun and the other humanoids reincarnated before the spider and Fei, but a couple of people I know who have watched the anime based on this book tell me that that isn't the case.Īside from the very obvious level and skill-ups, the spider's sections feel 'video gamey' in other ways. For example, an egg that the spider finds and eventually must abandon when she is attacked by some adventurers, ends up being the egg that Fei hatches from. There is some amount of bleedthrough between the two arcs. (Fei was a bully in her previous life and feels that her being a pet is a kind of penance for her actions in her previous life.) Katia, another reincarnation, is a duke's daughter who was a boy when she was a student in Japan. Fei, a baby earth dragon, ends up as a pet of a prince named Shun, and both are reincarnated students. The other arc of the story features a handful of characters from the class who reincarnated as humanoids.

It isn't long before she's cannily approaching danger, and defeating creatures using clever tactics and her spider skills like Thread Control and Venomous Bite. 'It intended to kill me, so I had no qualms about killing it' is her general attitude toward her situation.

She loses her squeamishness regarding food the first time she feels hungry, and after that has no reluctance to kill to survive. At first she freaks out and panics, and is disgusted at the idea of having to eat raw dead things, including a hapless sibling. It's through her point of view that we learn the major mechanics of leveling up and gaining skills. and leveling up.Īs one might expect from the title, the spider's story-her student alias is not yet revealed-is the major arc in the book. One of the students is reincarnated as a little spider who's just been born, and from very early on her life is full of danger, death. A classroom full of students, and their teacher, die when a mysterious rift opens up in the ceiling.

So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1 by Okina Baba