English Dub Review: So I’m a Spider, So What? “Earth Wyrm (Dragon), Bad News?”
Overview
The still yet-to-be-named Spider-Lady has evolved into a higher-ranking species, which also means acquiring new skills & better stats. As she skitters through the labyrinth with little competition, she goes a little too far and finds herself in the lower layers where vicious monsters wander in droves, encountering serious danger afoot…
Our Take
This episode is a mixed bag for me. The leveling up aspect of this Isekai universe excels along with some of the action and a healthy portion from both sides of the spectrum compared to the past two episodes but that’s not saying much. Our little Spider is definitely getting stronger and stronger with every monster it defeats, just like how it works in an Isekai. The CG looks fine in some places but sometimes it gets a little too much or weirder if I should say. Like Dragons, Snakes, and sometimes even our Spider too. Strangely enough, we’re not given a proper sense of scale for how big Spider-Lady is supposed to be. In episode 2, she was about the same size as the egg the human left behind, but when they came back for it, it was about as big as a person’s head? I was under the assumption she’d be tarantula-sized, but I guess not.
As for the human side of things, we got a full-on training session and an action scene. The show itself tries to connect this with the Spider-Lady in her past life by emphasizing that she shared an established history with the other classmates who were also reincarnated into this fantasy universe, yet there’s no backstory on the Spider-Lady’s classmates at all. We get your standard Anime JRPG-character archetypes but we still don’t know shit about their human past other than in the second episode where we learn that Fei was once a bully to her.
Overall, this was a passable episode. The human side of the plot was slightly compelling and added more depth to the human characters this time around even if we still don’t know shit about any of their histories outside of what we the audience are shown. I get that the story is just beginning, but hopefully, all of this will have a point later on…
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