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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50] (ani.social)

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Next up was one that I noticed back when it was first shown, but had since forgotten about and just happened to stumble across a couple of weeks ago - Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? I thoroughly enjoyed it and especially liked the way they expanded such a simple concept into such an enormous and convoluted plot, but that enormous and convoluted plot was, as I began to suspect about halfway through, sort of a problem. It’s one of those light novel series adaptations that takes the route of telling its story in detail rather than condensing it, and that meant that it didn’t really manage to finish anything before it ran out of episodes. It even ended on multiple cliffhangers. I’m tempted to read the LN, just because I really did like the story and the worldbuilding, but unfortunately it’s probably more likely that I’ll just forget about it again.

I've read part of it—not to the end, but well past the point that the anime got to. It just gets more convoluted, and the focus shifts away from Everyone's Favourite Spider to a more ensemble-y situation, or at least that was my impression at the time. (We do find out why she ended up as a spider, specifically, though—it wasn't random.)

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It's been a while, but I think this was the story where a bunch of the characters were fighting an elf in a mecha at the point I left off, if that gives you some idea of the level of insanity involved.

[–] Rottcodd@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe I will have to track it down.

I was fairly certain that things were happening for mostly unrevealed reasons - that the characters didn't just happen into that world, but were deliberately brought there and deliberately slotted into specific roles in order to fulfill some greater purpose - and I do still want to know what those reasons and that purpose are...