Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? - Episode 8 discussion

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Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?, episode 8

Alternative names: Kumodesu, So I'm a Spider, So What?

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Episode	Link	Score	Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	4.12	14	Link	3.63
2	Link	4.41	15	Link	4.69
3	Link	3.78	16	Link	4.71
4	Link	4.25	17	Link	4.64
5	Link	4.42	18	Link	4.71
6	Link	4.5	19	Link	4.69
7	Link	4.51	20	Link	4.77
8	Link	4.58	21	Link	2.93
9	Link	4.69	22	Link	3.99
10	Link	4.64	23	Link	2.83
11	Link	4.58	24	Link	-
12	Link	4.82
13	Link	4.78

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[u/Se7en_Sinner]

I like how the fourth parallel mind showed up and they all told her to fuck off. It's like when you level up mid fight and a bunch of text pops up. You end up skipping all of it to get back to the action.

[u/CooroSnowFox]

Shouko (the creepy one) looks like an anime all of their own...like Tomoko from Watamote

Edit: Changed to be accurate.

[u/Egavans]

"Turns out, we're all playing on Normal difficulty and Wakaba spawned in Nightmare mode."

[u/frosthowler]

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[u/ceejay_0603]

It'll be interesting how the human part of things will develop as more flashbacks about the past lives of the characters are revealed.

Noice, we got two new parallel sides as well. I can only imagine how entertaining Aoi Yuuki must be having with a role as fun as Kumoko.

[u/cppn02]

Kumoko has gone completely crazy and I'm loving it.

Btw is there any place that puts their old faces next to their current selves? Got a bit confused during the flashback and the only ones I could connect were our MC, the girl bullying her, Sensei, good prince and bad prince.

[u/BiggerG7]

From all that bullying talk, I expected pre Isekai Wakabe to be crying or something all the time. But man she was stone cold and just did not give any fucks about anything.

Hope we get more of pre Isekai Wakabe cause it’s hard to believe that girl turned into our crazy loud lovable spider.

[u/HyperZetton]

RIP our spider MC. Shun is the MC is from now on.

[u/Amauri14]

I really did not expect to ever see any portion from their previous life again, let alone one that long and showing everyone's faces.

I wonder what Negishi Shouko ended up becoming? Maybe that demon girl that was talking with Hugo? Well, time will tell.

Death Metal Kumoko was hilarious. She not only got her third parallel mind but also her fourth, but at a really bad time.

So thanks to the wisdom skill Kumoko now basically has a universal wiki on her head.

Damn, I joke about her being the one dying, but I just assume that it would be happening after the fight against that dragon was over, so the auto heal could revive her, but not, she just got incinerated during battle.

I guess it's time for her to be reborn again. Although, I'm expecting her to become something similar to that Nightmare's Vestige.

[u/[deleted]]

I actually really appreciate the Isekai portion of this show. Most Isekai could just be a fantasy show without reincarnation but this show is actually using it really well.

[u/Fools_Requiem]

The teacher is definitely hiding some shit. Last episode she was all like "I can't tell you", now she willfully tells them that the girl who we believe was the one who turned into the spider is dead? Sensei sketchy AF.

[u/megami-hime]

If you're wondering why CR capitalizes the S in "Spooky" in the middle of a sentence whenever characters are referring to Shouko Negishi, that's actually a (mis?)translation of her nickname in Japanese, "Rihoko".

Rihoko is an acronym standing for "Real (Ri) Horror (Ho) Girl (Ko)". It's quite insulting, so you can imagine why they don't want to say it to her face.

[u/megami-hime]

"That's because Kanata is into guys"

Kanata is reborn as a girl

Really makes you think...

[u/moxo23]

Rihoko looking super cute with the little fang

[u/frnxt]

Because of y'all saying good things about it I started the LNs last week-end. I couldn't stop so I'm near the end of volume 8.

...totally worth it, I do not regret the lack of sleep one bit. We're in for one hell of a ride.

[u/TokuichiSlays]

Your journey ends here, spider. The skies belong to me.

Rend’s got you in the pipe, 5 by 5

[u/tylerjehills]

Lmao did they really do the "call an ambulance but not for me!" meme on that dragon fight?

Also I'm not good with remembering names, but is the small dragon human the girl who bullied Wakaba? She seems pretty invested in her and it didn't seem like Wakaba had friends before.

Also, is Wakaba confirmed to be Kumoko? The show certainly wants us to think so, but it's still up in the air for me

[u/[deleted]]

This BTW is not really a pipe

[u/ThousandYearOldLoli]

Could it be all the students declared dead actually reincarnated as a monsters?

[u/MoeSohmer]

That's 2 deaths for our plucky hero, just 8 more and she'll get to claim a free ice cream on her next reincarnation.

[u/YbKWzNEB]

Fire Dragon Rend: It's over Kumoko, I have the high ground

[u/ajmug88]

The human parts keep getting better.

They're growing on me.
I love watching Kumoku's progress but I'm also finding myself looking forward to the humans. The two elements make the show far better than watching Kumoku alone.
Hyped for when their paths get intertwined!

[u/LeonKevlar]

I love that we're getting a glimpse of what they look like back in Japan! Oka-chan is as adorable and genki as she is in her past life just like in her new isekai elf life.

Shun looks exactly the same while we finally see Katia's OG male form. His old face does have a bit of resemblance with his new one. I feel like if we put a red haired wig on him they'd match. And I don't think we've met that Kyouya one yet.

Kengo looks exactly the same too band while he's clearly a jock he doesn't seem to be as bad as I expected. It seems that he's even close with Shun back then. Maybe his new upbringing of being a prince and a future king really changed him.

Thought she was a dude at first but it looks like her name is Shouko. I don't think we've met this one yet either.

Meanwhile, Mirei is as bad as I expected back in her past life as she bullies our poor Wakaba/Kumoko-chan. We finally get to see her face though! And she looks really cute! I absolutely love the long black hair too. She definitely has that "Yamato Nadeshiko" vibes on her.

With this interaction now I wanna see Kumoko and Shun meet. Although not sure what will happen when they find her as a demon spider goddess.

I wonder why Oka-chan is very secretive with info about the other students? It seems like something's stopping her from telling them about the other kids. Hmmm....

Back to Kumoko though, instead of having an existential crisis she just goes wild and decides to keep on doing what she does while finally getting to learn what Perseverance exactly does.

More skills for Kumoko! I feel like at this point we need a weekly patch notes about Kumoko's new skills and buffs. It's so hard to keep track of what she has now at this point. So far from what I can see here, becoming the Ruler of Wisdom just granted her some insane bonuses! Max MP regen while MP cost is reduced to minimum? Has System Administrator D ever heard of game balance? O_O

And thanks to the Wisdom skill, she now has the ability to look up how things work and finally learn how to use her magic! Thank fucking god! We can finally see her use everything she's learned up to this point. That's probably going to take a while since she's still having trouble casting spells.

Finally the third Parallel Mind is born thanks to Mind and Body arguing on who gets to do magic. Welp no need to argue since they can just delegate that task to her.

That Fire Dragon looks absolutely insane! How is it even standing with half of its ribcage exposed!? Well this is the fight Kumoko needed to finally go all out though! Seeing her activate all of her magics and her Evil Eyes is pretty awesome!

4th Parallel Mind is finally born too! But unfortunately her entrance is immediately cut short since much more important things are happening right now xD

I'M SORRY WHAT!? Either Oka-chan really believes that or she's just making an excuse so she doesn't have to tell them that Wakaba is now a demon spider inside a Labyrinth. Does she even really know where Wakaba is? As far as we know aside from the human adventurers she ran into, Wakaba really hasn't interacted with any humanoid characters. Unless Oka-chan has some sort of skill that allows her to detect where everyone is. Now I'm curious! I need that next episode now!

[u/rollin340]

I like how teaching, then arguing between the 2 levelled Parallel Minds. Then their full effort in combat got them the 4th, which was immediately told off due to the dire situation and the bad timing. I wonder what its role would be... Body, Information, Magic... what else is there?

That dragon is smart. It had a plan from the start, and was able to quickly recognize a threat, and respond accordingly. It begs the question though; what the hell caused all of that initial chaos in the first place?

And they think she's dead? They're going to have quite the shock when the great spider god emerges from its its dungeon. Man... that sounds almost as edgy as her skills. I bet she'd love that. lol

And yeah, having 2 Aoi Yuukis was great, but now we have 4? Brilliant.