So I'm a Spider, So What?

## So I'm a Spider, So What? The Daily Lives of the Kumoko Sisters

***So I'm a Spider, So What?*** (蜘蛛ですが、なにか？, Kumo Desu ga, Nanika?) is a Japanese light novel isekai series written by Okina Baba and illustrated by Tsukasa Kiryu. The story follows a class that is killed in a mysterious explosion and reincarnated into another world with one girl reincarnated as a dungeon spider. The spider evolves and ends up having a significant influence on the world, becoming one of its most powerful creatures, while the students and their teacher deal with the fallout from her actions and those of other armies. The series has received a manga adaptation, and an anime television series adaptation produced by Millepensee aired from January to July 2021.

## Synopsis

The last thing that a high school girl remembers is a strange explosion ripping through her classroom. In the aftermath of the tragedy, she finds herself reborn as a lowly spider hatchling, one amongst thousands in a vast cave. Furthermore, the world she is reincarnated into is a point-based skill system, prompting her to level up as quickly as possible if she is to survive the treacherous environment and persevere in the face of insurmountable odds.

Thus begins a little spider's journey of clawing, biting, and plotting her way to the top. Forced to confront the powerful beings that reign over the Great Elroe Labyrinth and beyond, she will gradually uncover the truth behind the mysterious fantasy world and the explosion that sent her there.

## List of Published Books

### *Novel*

Okina Baba originally serialized the series as a web novel on the user-generated content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō starting on May 27, 2015. Fujimi Shobo acquired the series for print publication, and published the first light novel, with illustrations by Tsukasa Kiryu, in December 2015. Yen Press announced during their panel at Sakura-Con on April 15, 2017, that they had licensed the series. The series' main story ended with its 16th volume released on January 8, 2022.

* Includes setting materials collection, store bonus SS collection, and author interview.

LN Vol. 1「Limited 1」LN Vol. 2「Limited 2」LN Vol. 3LN Vol. 4LN Vol. 5LN Vol. 6LN Vol. 7LN Vol. 8LN Vol. 9LN Vol. 10LN Vol. 11LN Vol. 12LN Vol. 13「EX 1」LN Vol. 14「DRAMA CD」LN Vol. 15「LN Illustration Book」「LN Vol. 16「Short Story」「EX 2」
### *Manga*

Asahiro Kakashi launched a manga adaptation of the web novels on the Kadokawa Shoten's *Young Ace Up* manga website on December 22, 2015. The manga is also licensed by Yen Press.

Manga Vol. 1Manga Vol. 2Manga Vol. 3Manga Vol. 4Manga Vol. 5Manga Vol. 6Manga Vol. 7Manga Vol. 8Manga Vol. 9Manga Vol. 10Manga Vol. 11Manga Vol. 12
In addition, a spin-off manga by Gratin Tori, "***Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?: Kumoko Sisters no Nichijou*** (蜘蛛ですが、なにか? 蜘蛛子四姉妹〈シスターズ〉の日常, So I'm a Spider, So What? The Daily Lives of the Kumoko Sisters)” will start serialization in the same magazine from July 18, 2019  . It's a what-if story in which parallel intentions including the main character split into four bodies, but unlike the main story, it's a complete gag story that also involves the enemy characters.

1. Released on March 3, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-04-109230-9
2. Released on October 10, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-04-109469-3
3. Released January 9, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-04-110921-2
4. Released on April 9, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-04-110924-3
5. Released on November 9, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-04-112016-3
6. Released January 10, 2023 - ISBN 978-4-04-113053-7

Manga Vol. 1Manga Vol. 2Manga Vol. 3Manga Vol. 4Manga Vol. 5Manga Vol. 6

## Style

The perspective of the main story side centered on "I" reincarnated as the main character, Sophia (blood), Lars (demon) and others, and the human side centered on "Shun (S)" starting from the future time axis. An ensemble drama in which the two seemingly unrelated viewpoints, which alternate alternately, turn out to be in fact closely related. The basic settings of the web version and the book version are the same, but there are minor differences and differences in development.

The comicalized version conforms to the book version, but with some exceptions, it is developed only from the main character's point of view. By the way, in the comicalized version, the character design of Kiryuji cannot be reproduced and it is not suitable for manga expression.

The author started reading "*Shōsetsuka ni Narō*" one year before he started writing, and was particularly influenced by "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime". Started serialization of this work that falls under the genre called. In constructing the work, he deliberately removed the conventions that were popular on the site at the time. Also, in an interview with Asahiro Kakashi, the person in charge of comicalization, he said that he was a fan of the game "Monster Hunter" and was influenced by the main character's fighting style. It is said that the main character was set to be a spider because that day he happened to have a dream of being chased by a huge spider.

As the volume progressed, as a result of correcting the trajectory of the development from the web version, one-third of the whole in volume 1, more than half in volumes 2 and 3 were revised, and from volume 6 onwards, all the text was newly written.

## Character

### Aliases:

**Kumoko**:* Phantom Spider
* Nightmare of the Labyrinth
* Lady White
* Divine Beast

**Shiraori**:

* White/Shiro (白)
* Lady White
* Master (by Sophia)
* Wakaba Hiiro (若葉姫色)
* Kumoko
* Classroom Spider

### Affiliation:

* Demon Country
* Gods <Administrator>

### Allied:

* Sophia *(Protégé)*
* Merazophis "Mera" *(Companion)*

## 「Biographical Information」

### Traits:

Reincarnated, Goddess, Non-human Protagonist. Anti-Villain, Threat to Humanity, Anti Magus

### Relatives:

* D *(Soul Fragment)*
* Potimas *(Great-Grandfather)*
* Ariel *(Grandmother)*
* Filimøs *(Great-Aunt)*
* Reise *(Great-Uncle)*
* Queen Taratect *(Mother †)*
* Puppet Taratects *(Aunts)*
* Other Queen Taratects *(Aunts)*
* Horo Neia *(Offspring)*
* Sasajima Kyouya [Wrath] *(Love Interest, †)*

### Occupation:

* Tenth Demon Army Commander
* Administrator <Ruler of Sins>

## 「Voice Actor」

### Japan VA:

* Aoi Yūki(anime)
* Sumire Uesaka (PV & CM)

### English VA:

Brianna Knickerbocker

She high school girl was reincarnated as a spider monster in another world and desperately tries to survive. His favorite phrase is "no". His official nickname is Kumoko, which is also used in related goods such as figures. Initially implied to be the reincarnation of the classmate Hiiro Wakaba, she is later revealed to have actually been the class' pet spider and was implanted with the *real* Wakaba's memories. Following the revelation that the planet is dying, she forms a plan to save it by destroying the RPG system and using the freed-up energy to heal the world, indifferent that half of humanity would die from the backlash.

Although he was born into the lowest race in the great labyrinth where he was reincarnated in, he was blessed with human knowledge and intellect, as well as the status-enhancing skill "Idaten" as a reincarnation privilege, so he made full use of traps and strategies. Survive the survival competition where life and death are a fine line. When four intentions lived together with the skill "parallel intentions", he played the role of "in charge of information". At first, it was nothing more than a spider, although there were differences, but after repeated evolution, it became one of the best races in the other world, "*Arachne*", and although it was only the upper body, it acquired the appearance of the previous life.

His personality is extremely optimistic, and even if he reflects on himself, he doesn't back down and is inspired by a sense of humiliation. On the other hand, according to her memories of her previous life, she had no place in her family and was in a lonely position where she was left behind in class, and her self-esteem was quite low. For that reason, he cherishes his own place, "My Home," which he was able to obtain for the first time after her reincarnation, and is proud of it. By the way, maybe because she started out in an environment where she only had poisons and bad things to eat, she has a strong attachment to food and delicious things. It serves as both respect for the person he killed and preparation in case of an emergency, and basically sticks to the principle of eating everything even after his eating habits have improved to some extent.

In addition, although he himself is not aware of it, he is surprisingly good-natured and carefree, and even when he encounters a few humans inside and outside the labyrinth, he defeats monsters and thieves that attack him and saves those in danger, free of charge to an unspecified number of people. He did good deeds such as giving treatment. On the other hand, there was a time when humans could only be seen as experience points due to the disadvantages of the ruler skill "*Arrogance*". The person in question really hates having his ego violated, and the main reason he became hostile to Mother was to notice her control and get out of it. Naturally, she expresses disgust when she receives mental interference from other third parties. On the flip side, he is kind to others who act with their own pride and determination, and responds to them with her own respect.

Possibly due to memories from his previous life, he has a self- proclaimed communication disorder and lacks interpersonal experience. Even though he is talkative and talkative in his inner voice, he tends to have trouble when dealing with people, and his inherent expressionlessness and taciturnity make it difficult for others to understand what he is thinking. On the other hand, he has a bad drinking habit. While occasionally performing eccentric behavior that is unique to drunkenness, he also naturally gives accurate advice based on his observations, but perhaps because he is drunk, he has no memory of what happened during this time.

* The only time her speech is clear is when she is in shock,  or drunk. Most other times, she speaks in broken phrases that are *just* enough to get her message across. It is also important to note that she cannot hold her liquor and blacks out almost instantly. During this time, she behaves in outrageous ways, and her extraordinary power makes it impossible to contain any situation she may find herself in.
* It takes a while, but Shiraori eventually warms up enough to Ariel to be able to speak to her like a normal person. This occurs after she has a “change of heart” and decides to fully commit herself to help the Demon Lord with her goals. This is not the case with others, though; she still ends up relying on her mannerisms or others that are close to her such as Ariel, Sophia, Merazophis, or Wrath to relay her thoughts and goals.
* Although she rarely speaks, she likes to write. Since realizing that verbal communication is too difficult, she prefers to communicate with others through writing instead. She ends up writing several books worth of information about the System, her plans, and the state of the world.
* As the teacher of Sophia and Wrath, she drills into them the idea that stats aren't everything, and that strong individuals should never underestimate those below them.
* As stated by her, Shiraori herself has shown to be fiercely independent and somewhat selfish. As admitted by her, she cannot fathom nor understand the way of thinking of people like Sariel, who continuously and recklessly strives to save humanity despite their incredibly foolish actions that ended up endangering their planet, even if ends up sacrificing herself in the process. Shiraori believes that one should always strive to do what one wishes and live freely, with her truthfully and honestly not caring what other people have to say about it or do. In her opinion, the only important thing is what one wishes to do. Shiroari herself admitted that she was perfectly fine with trampling over complete strangers in order to accomplish her goals and do what she wants.
* This self-centered personality traits has been noted by Güliedistodiez to make Shiraori very similar to D who similarly does not care about other people while doing whatever she pleases.

### Abilities

> "*But the title "Heroes that save the world"... ehehe!! doesn't sound cool.*"
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Kumoko was initially the weakest reincarnated, being reborn as a Small Lesser Taratect; the "lowest-difficulty monster". Due to her low stats, she was initially forced to rely on her human ingenuity and creative use of her limited move set just to survive. However, Taratects jump in power with each evolution, causing her continuous struggles for survival gradually turn her into not just the strongest reincarnation but one of the most powerful beings on the planet. Furthermore, while most of her kind rely solely on size and brute strength, she adopted a fighting style focused on magic, webs, and agility.

 `**TRAITS:**`* Automatic Repair
* Rot Attribute
* Dark Attribute

Kumoko's stat's varied greatly throughout her time in the Great Elroe Labyrinth. Initially, she was so weak that any directly attack against her opponents were utterly ineffective, forcing her to rely on ambushes and setting traps. The only thing of note was her speed, which was boosted by **Skanda**. As she evolved, though, her stats naturally increased. Particularly, she began to focus on developing her magic after acquiring **Height of Occultism**.

* **n% I = W:** A unique skill shared by all reincarnations; it restores her HP, MP, and SP upon leveling up. However, there is a limit to how much, only partially recovering after her stats became too high.
* **Appraisal:** Allows her to see the target's information. While only giving the name on lower levels, on higher levels it also reveals the target's status values, titles, and skills.
	+ **Wisdom:** The evolution of ***Appraisal*** created by D after overhearing Kumoko complain about it not having an evolution; it grants encyclopedic knowledge of all non-restricted information in the System and a constantly updating map of all places she has visited as well as the ability to mark targets, appraise fellow Rulers, and perceive magic power.
		- **Height of Occultism:** Granted with ***Wisdom***; allows her to cast magic without having the associated skill and add extra MP to a spell to increase its power.
			* **Heretic Magic:** Gained when she cannibalized a Taratect's corpse but was unable to use it until she acquired ***Height of Occultism***; it allows her to create illusions.
			* **Dark Magic:** Allows her to summon and control darkness.
			* **Spatial Magic:** Allows her to create portals and teleport herself to previously visited locations.
			* **Earth Magic:** Copied from Earth Dragon Araba; allows her to control the earth.
			* **Wind Magic:** Copied from a Kirekock; allows her to control the air.
			* **Water Magic:** Copied from a Suiten; allows her to summon and control water.
			* **Fire Magic:** Allows her to summon and control fire.
			* **Light Magic:** Allows her to summon and control light.
			* **Healing Magic:** Allows her to heal herself and others.
			* **Poison Magic:** Allows her to summon and control poisoned liquid. However, she does not use it in preference for her ***Poison Synthesis*** skill.
* **Pride:** Greatly increases her EXP and proficiency gain as well as increasing her skill capacity. However, it can also potentially affect her mind to the where she considers others to be just EXP sources.
	+ **Abyss Magic:** Allows her to convert everything in its radius into MA Energy and give it to the System. However, it is an incredibly difficult magic power to use, so very few beings, including Kumoko, are said to have wielded it.
* **Perseverance:** Allows her to use her MP as HP once the latter runs out.
	+ **Evil Eyes:** Gained with ***Perseverance***; allows her to inflict ailments on her target just by looking at them. Furthermore, due to having eight eyes, she can either use multiple different ones at the same time or use a single one through multiple eyes.
		- **Jinx Evil Eye:** Drains the HP, MP, and SP of the target and adds it to her own.
		- **Inert Evil Eye:** Freezes the target in time.
		- **Petrifying Evil Eye:** Blocks the target's senses.
		- **Repellent Evil Eye:** Pushes the target away or toward herself and vice-versa.
		- **Annihilating Evil Eye:** Gained following her evolution into an Ede Saine; turns the target to dust at the cost of the eye using it.
		- **Sealing Evil Eye:** Seals the target's Skills.
		- **Anti-Magic Evil Eye:** Disrupts the target's magic.
		- **Warped Evil Eye:** Twists space around the target to crush them.
		- **Future Sight:** Analyzes the current situation to accurately predict the future.
		- **Telescopic Vision:** Allows her to see further and through objects, this is incompatible with her Evil Eyes.
* **Sloth:** Drastically increases enemy HP, MP, and SP costs in the surroundings.
	+ **Exhaustion Nullification:** Gained with ***Sloth***; prevents her from feeling tired, as well as allowing her to stay awake as long as she wants without getting any ill-effect due to the lack of sleep.
* **Charity:** Drastically increases HP recovery of those around her that she perceives as allies.
* **Spider Thread:** A Taratect skill that allows her to produce spider thread.
	+ **Thread Control:** Allows her to telepathically control her thread and alter its shape to create all sorts of contraptions.
		- **Divine Thread Weaving:** Allows her to control her thread on a molecular level.
* **Poison Attack:** A skill that allows her to poison her target upon physical contact.
* **Rot Attack:** Gained following her evolution into a Zoa Ele; allows her to turn her target to dust upon contact with one of her scythe-like forelimbs at the cost of said limb.
* **Poison Synthesis:** This Allows her to conjure poisonous liquid by consuming MP. As it is not magic but a skill, using it does not require **Height of Occultism** and she actually prefers it over **Poison Magic**.
	+ **Psychokinesis:** Allows her to move objects with her mind by consuming MP. She often uses **Poison Synthesis** to control the poisonous liquid she produces.
* **Medicine Synthesis:** Allows her to conjure medicine by consuming MP, which served as her primary method of recovery before acquiring healing magic.
* **Resistances:** Despite having no inborn defenses, being exposed to all kinds of attacks naturally raised her resistances, resulting in her gaining the ability to cancel any low to mid-level attack just by contacting it.
	+ **Cutting Resistance:** Cancels cutting attacks.
	+ **Piercing Resistance:** Cancels piercing attacks.
	+ **Shock Resistance:** Cancels shock attacks.
	+ **Flame Resistance:** Cancels fire magic and grants heat resistance; gained by enduring the heat of the Great Elroe Labyrinth's middle stratum.
	+ **Water Resistance:** Cancels water magic.
	+ **Wind Resistance:** Cancels wind magic.
	+ **Earth Resistance:** Cancels earth magic aimed directly at her; gained by continuously throwing rocks at herself.
	+ **Light Resistance:** Cancels light magic.
	+ **Dark Resistance:** Cancels dark magic.
	+ **Heavy Resistance:** Cancels gravity magic.
	+ **Status Condition Nullification:** Immunity against debuffs.
	+ **Acid Resistance:** Cancels acidic attacks.
	+ **Rot Resistance:** Lessens the recoil damage from rot attacks; gained by eating an Elroe Gastruch.
	+ **Heresy Nullification:** Immunity against illusions and mental attacks against the soul.
	+ **Pain Nullification:** Allows her to not feel pain, but can still be aware of The damage her body takes and how severe they are.
	+ **Dragon Barrier:** Weakens low-level magic in her surroundings.
* **Parallel Minds**: Allows her to make mental clones of herself that effectively give her multiple personalities. By having each of these other selves take over a specific body function or task, she can effectively lessen her mental load.
	+ ***Soul Consumption***: She can send her parallel minds through psychic connections she has with others to eat away at their souls, weakening them while absorbing their strength as her own. According to D, she invented this new skill on her own without any aid from the System, which is considered a god-level feat.
* **Immortality:** Gained following her evolution into a Zana Horowa; it makes her impossible to kill within the confines of the system, except by using attacks that directly attack the soul, like Heresy and Abyss Magic.
* **Egg Laying**: Gained after absorbing “Mother's” power; it allows her to produce clones by laying eggs. However, it will take some time for the offspring to hatch, and they will initially be in a weakened state, as they are just newborns.
	+ **Egg Revival**: Similar to ***Soul Consumption***, using her psychic connection with her clones, she can move her soul into an egg and take over her unborn offspring's body, as it does not have a soul of its own yet. However, after being reborn, she will initially be in a weakened state, as her body would be that of an infant.

However, her biggest increase came when she absorbed "Mother's" stats, giving her strength on-par with a legendary-class monster. After evolving into an Arachne, Kumoko possesses the second highest stats within the System, surpassed only by Ariel.

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* Gods that manage the System are called Administrators.

* **Physical Strength beyond the System**: As a god, Shiraori's stats are above the System's limit. Damage inflicted by her also ignores physical resistances, causing even those with a pain resistance skill to feel hurt.
* **Fluoroscopy:** An ability that allows Shiraori to see with closed eyes. It also grants her vision in 360 degrees, through and around walls, and more. She has no blind spots.
* **Transformation:** Shiraori can freely switch between a human form and her previous Arachne form with just a thought.
* **Thread Manipulation:** Due to her spider heritage, Shiraori can produce and manipulate spider threads. Her threads are so durable that even Ariel, with her, nearly maxed strength, cannot break them with brute force. Their only vulnerability was to fire — and even then only high-ranking fire magic. However, with time, she overcame even this weakness; *Dimensional Magecraft*.
* **Immortality & Regeneration:** As a god, Shiraori is immortal. She will never die of old age. Destroying her body is meaningless because the true form of a god is its soul, even destroying the head will only cause her to momentarily lose the ability to think. In this sense, their bodies are simply vessels for their souls. There are only two ways to kill a god. The first is to wear them down until they lack the energy for regeneration. The second is to use magecraft to directly destroy their soul. Even if one has soul-destroying magecraft this isn't easy; according to Ariel it would require hundreds of users of Soul Break to affect Güliedistodiez, alluding to the immense godly durability that Shiraori also possesses.
* **Barriers:** Shiraori can create magical and physical barriers around herself and others.
* **Foresight:** Even after becoming a god, Shiraori can still use the equivalent of this skill as a God. It strengthens the user’s predictive abilities. Furthermore, it allows the user to see the possible outcomes of the immediate future.
* **Soul Sight:** As a god, Shiraori has the ability to see other people's souls.
* **Evil Eyes:** Shiraori developed new versions of her Evil Eye Skills after becoming a god. The ten eyes of her Arachne form were turned into ten pupils in her human form, five for each eye. Due to her having multiple pupils within her eyes thanks to her spider heritage, she can use all of them at once and due to her vision-enhancing Skills she can effectively use them in any direction thanks to *Fluoroscopy*.
	+ **Evil Eye of Analysis:** An Evil Eye which analyzes the energy of an opponent's soul, giving a rough estimate of their strength.
	+ **Evil Eye of Grudge:** Shiraori has developed a Magecraft version of this Evil Eye. It continually weakens all the recipient’s stats while damaging their HP, MP, and SP, it also adds the drained HP, MP and SP to herself.
	+ **Evil Eye of Panic:** Strikes Fear into the enemies in her view. The only people who were proven to be able to resist this are Güllie and Ariel, so it even works against high-grade fear resistance. By reversing the effects of the Evil Eye of Panic. Shiraori can grant the target serenity instead of fear.
	+ **Evil Eye of Static:** Paralyzes the opponent, making them completely unable to move. The skill doesn't only paralyze the body, but also shuts down the mind, making the opponent unable to remember what happened while paralyzed. Shiraori once described it as “King Crimson! Not quite the same, though”.
	+ **Evil Eye of Attraction and Repulsion:** An Evil Eye that automatically repels and eliminates any attack in her field of view.
	+ **Evil Eye of Extinction:** A Rot Attribute Evil Eye, that instantly disintegrates the target.
	+ **Evil Eye of Gluttony:** An Evil Eye inspired by the Gluttony ruler skill. Using this, Shiraori can decompose and absorb the energy of any magic within her field of view. This way, she can even decompose and absorb the power of Anti-Magic Fields.
	+ **Evil Eye of Past Sight:** An Evil Eye that lets Shiraori see the past; noted to be comparable to detective vision.
* **Hacking the System:** Shiraori can hack the System through clones sent to Sariel. Of course, she could do it herself as well, but she has better things to do. By interfering with the System, she can change various things. For example, she attempted to eradicate the Hero title this way. Shiraori wants to eventually reach the point of being able to destroy the System.
	+ **Soul Shelter:** Shiraori has control over the System's Soul Shelter, which allows her to temporarily remove souls from the cycle of reincarnation, resulting in protection in case of System collapse.
	+ **Regenerating the Soul:** Shiraori demonstrated being able to heal a soul that is about to be destroyed. This requires System access.
	+ **Message Overview**: While she can no longer receive messages from the system due to no longer being a user, she can directly search and review the logs
* **Resurrecting the Dead:** Shiraori can resurrect the dead. However, this is only possible in a world within the System.
* **Dimensional Magecraft:** Shiraori specializes in dimensional magecraft and its many capabilities. She can use an enhanced version of teleport that allows her to teleport anywhere she wants, even to other worlds. Furthermore, she can sense and interfere with the teleportation of others to make them teleport to unintended areas. Shiraori can create vast pocket dimensions and can manipulate the flow of time within them to a certain degree. She can teleport entire armies and uses this at times to teleport opponents into her pocket dimensions. Touching is not required for teleportation. To aim the dimensional magecraft one can either aim at a certain place, like normal, or also just designate the person one wishes to affect, in which case knowledge of the location of the target is unnecessary.
	+ **Threads:** Shiraori's spider threads are laced with space. More specifically, every thread is also a pocket dimension of its own, making them practically indestructible unless one can destroy space itself.
	+ **Dimensional Fissures:** Shiraori can create dimensional fissures. She uses them to defend against attacks by opening up a portal into a different dimension and then redirecting the attack with a second portal. She also hides her clones in pocket dimensions, opening up portals in a web-like pattern to attack with her custom Evil Eyes.
* **Division:** Shiraori's aptitude for splitting her consciousness into multiple bodies emerges as one of her most subtle, yet powerful, Skills in the form of *division*. By creating innumerable tiny spider clones implanted with her consciousness, she has nearly super-computer levels of multitasking ability. Shiraori uses this immense ability to partition her effort into researching new abilities and hacking the System, as well as gathering information by sending out her spider-clones to track key individuals and locations throughout the world. It is, in fact, this massive information network that she has created that is one of the most instrumental assets in her arsenal. She currently has over ten thousand clones all over the world and in various pocket dimensions. Should her main body die, she can simply transfer her soul into one of the clones, making them all extra lives. Her clones can vary in size depending on how much of her energy, or how much organic material, she uses in making them, with Shiraori once making a spider clone equivalent in power and size to a Queen Taratect. Her clones generally have the same skills as herself, though their base abilities are reduced.
	+ **Mind Control:** Shiraori can mind control people by having a small clone crawl into their ear and connect to their brain.
	+ **Exponential Spider Summoning:** Shiraori can summon a considerable number of clones from her shadow. Each clone can then summon even more clones, resulting in an exponential number of spiders appearing.
* **Magic Manipulation:** Shiraori can manipulate magic around her. She can manipulate the magic power in other people to make them activate Skills they don't have. Additionally, she can interfere with the magic construction of others to completely negate a spell.
* **Recognition Obstruction:** Shiraori makes it so that people do not recognize her, instead remembering the color white. This works by planting the concept of white directly in the consciousness of the surrounding people.
* **Telepathy:** Shiraori can use telepathy, and eavesdrop on other people's telepathic communication.
* **Absorbing External Energy:** Shiraori has a talent for absorbing external energies, being easily able to drain any power source she comes across.
* **Hologram Creation**: Shiraori can create Holograms to illustrate what she is explaining.
* **Boundary Field:** A realm created by a god, that is somewhat like being inside the god. Güliedistodiez demonstrated that a god can even change the laws of physics inside its zone. Being inside a god's zone is advantageous for the god and disadvantageous for everyone else. The zone will dull the movements of opponents and nobody, except the owner, can properly use their power within it, although some internal magecraft such as healing and setting up barriers over the skin is possible. Shiraori not only has such a zone, but she can also use space magic to turn a space into her zone and, in turn, cancel the zone of others. This requires her to summon a massive number of clones into her opponent's zone.
* **Shapeshifting:** Due to her spider heritage, Shiraori can freely transform any part of her into the body part of a spider.
* **Curse Casting:** Shiraori can place curses on others; for example, she placed one on Sophia that forces her to refer to her as “master” and makes her kneel whenever she defies her orders.

## Opening Theme

### OP Title:

* Keep weaving your spider way
* Bursty Greedy Spider

### OP Composer:

* Riko Azuna
* Konomi Suzuki

## Ending Theme

### ED Title:

* Ganbare! Kumoko-san's Theme (がんばれ！蜘蛛子さんのテーマ)
* Genjitsu Totsugeki Hierarchy (現実凸撃ヒエラルキー)

### ED Composer:

* Watashi / Kumoko (Aoi Yuuki)

It was reported on July 6, 2018, that the series would receive an anime adaptation, according to an early look at the wraparound jacket band on the fifth volume of the manga adaptation. The report was confirmed at Kadokawa's booth at Anime Expo later that day, and it was announced that the adaptation would be a television series. Originally set to premiere in 2020, it was rescheduled to premiere in January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two-cour (24 episode) series was animated by Millepensee and directed by Shin Itagaki, with Okina Baba and Yūichirō Momose overseeing the series' scripts, and Kii Tanaka designing the characters, Shūji Katayama composing the series' music, and Jōtarō Ishigami producing the series. The series aired from January 8 to July 3, 2021, on AT-X and other channels. The first opening theme song is "keep weaving your spider way" performed by Riko Azuna, while the first ending theme song is "Do Your Best! Kumoko-san's Theme" (がんばれ！蜘蛛子さんのテーマ, *Ganbare! Kumoko-san no Tēma*) performed by I (Aoi Yūki). The second opening theme is "Bursty Greedy Spider" performed by Konomi Suzuki, while the second ending theme is "Reality Convex Hierarchy" (現実凸撃ヒエラルキー, *Genjitsu Totsugeki Hierarchy*) by Yūki. It is licensed by Crunchyroll outside Asia.

* ***Staff***
	+ Original story/scenario supervision - Okina Baba
	+ Original illustration - Kiryuji
	+ Director - Shin Itagaki
	+ Assistant director - Shinichiro Ueda
	+ Series composition - Okina Baba, Yuichiro Momose
	+ Character Design - Nori Tanaka
	+ Monster Design - Masahiko Suzuki, Ryo Hirata, Hiromi Kimura
	+ Main animator - Tomohiro Yoshida
	+ Art director/art setting-Shinji Nagaoka, Koichi Ejima (from the middle)
	+ Color design - Chieko Hibi
	+ Cinematographer - Hideki Imaizumi
	+ Editing - Takashi Sakurai
	+ CG Director - Kazuo Yamaguchi
	+ CG production - Exsa
	+ Acoustic Director -Yuichi Imaizumi, Shin Itagaki
	+ Music - Shuji Katayama
	+ Music Producer - Go Wakabayashi
	+ Music production - KADOKAWA
	+ Producers - Chiaki Kurakane, Takuya Yoshioka, Yureia Wakayama, Nobuhiko Kurosu, Kenichi Tokumura, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Toyokazu Middle East, Mitsuhiro Ogata, Toritomo Isotani
	+ Animation Producers - Naoko Shiraishi, Takashi Sakurai
	+ Animation Production - Milpansee
	+ Crafting - *So I'm a Spider, So What?* Production Committee

Medialink has licensed the series in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and is streaming it on their Ani-One YouTube channel and Bilibili. The final episode was delayed due to production issues and aired one week later on July 3, 2021.

## Reception

The light novels and manga had a combined 1.2 million copies in print as of July 2018. The light novels ranked third in the *tankōbon* category in the *Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!* 2017 rankings, and second in the 2018 rankings.

## External Links

* *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?* ─ Web novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
* *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?* ─ Official light novel website (in Japanese)
	+ *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?* - Series information | Kadokawa BOOKS
* *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?* ─ Official manga website (in Japanese)
* *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?: Kumoko Sisters no Nichijou* ─ Official manga website (in Japanese)
* *TV Anime "Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?"* Official Website (in Japanese)
* *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?* Official (@kumoko\_anime) - Twitter
* *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?* ─ Wikipedia **JP**
* *Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?* ─ Wikipedia **EN**