Line #6 Trivia/Arachnid


1	* CreatorCouple: The ''Manga/{{Watamote}}'' parody omake about Geji is drawn by Murata's wife Sato (''Manga/{{Fragtime}}'', ''Manga/LivingDead''), who also wrote the omake about a young Dinoponera in volume 11. They married around the time Geji was introduced in the series, and Murata, who seemed really into ''Watamote'' at the time, made the character share her anniversary date with Sato.
2	* InspirationForTheWork: While responding to a fan on Twitter about how he likes Captain America and Spider-Man, Murata mentioned the ''Spider-Man'' [[https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=61983367 fancomic]] [[https://twitter.com/jojojon/status/1535630983143522304 he once drew]] and [[https://twitter.com/jojojon/status/1536276519739609093 noted that]] ''Arachnid'' is a work that couldn't have existed without Marvel's web slinging hero.
3	* InvisibleAdvertising: ''Arachnid'' stands out as one of the Gangan JOKER series that have been there since the beginning but never got a cover page on the magazine (only ''Blattodea'' got one for its launch), an anime adaptation or much advertising in general. Even the official English translation for the Manga UP! app in 2022 just quietly popped up in there.
4	* LateExportForYou: ''Arachnid'' was only available outside of Japan since 2009 in a few asian countries, and in the West it only got published at France by Soleil. An official English translation only appeared in July 2022 for the online Manga UP! app, which notoriously has censored pages in both the Japanese and Global versions.
5	* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Murata [[http://jonjonjonjonjon.blog103.fc2.com/blog-entry-115.html once]] [[http://jonjonjonjonjon.blog103.fc2.com/blog-entry-154.html reviewed]] ''Orc Strike I'' and ''II'', two doujin porn games that had Gokiburi and then Alice in them. He unsurprisingly took them in stride, finding Alice reciting pi to cope with being raped to be ActuallyPrettyFunny. He also retweeted two hentai fancomics of ''Caterpillar'' that got published at Comiket and went on to create a borderline hentai spinoff of ''Manga/KillingBites'' which jokes about other series that placed [=R34=] bans upon their fans.
6	* ScheduleSlip: The ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}'' sequel was originally teased in a ''Manga/ChoubuNoShinobi'' volume released on December 2018 with a 2019 tentative release date, but on November 2019 it was confirmed on the final ''Choubu'' volume that it will begin in January 2020 instead.
7	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
8	** ''Arachnid'' started out as a 2001 one-shot named ''Turis'', which is [[http://jonjonjonjon.web.fc2.com/page142.html available on the author's website]]. It matches volume 1 of ''Arachnid'', with Kumo and a not bald Suzumebachi present, but it is a side-story to ''Jackals''. No biology lectures about bugs, either. Turis was introduced as a side antagonist in ''Manga/{{Jackals}}'' four years later, but her backstory was never shown in that story.
9	** [[http://jonjonjonjon.web.fc2.com/page153.html The second]] [[http://jonjonjonjon.web.fc2.com/page158.html set of sketches]] is much closer to the final version. Chapter 5 from this proto-volume 1 wasn't made publicly available on that site, but is on the author's [[https://www.pixiv.net/fanbox/creator/359145 Pixiv page]] behind a paywall.
10	** Chapter 18 [[RapeDiscretionShot cuts off]] as Kuramoto is about to get gangraped by a bunch of delinquents. The author [[http://jonjonjonjonjon.blog103.fc2.com/blog-entry-80.html wrote in his blog at the time]] that he did sketch a few pages for the rape scene that were rejected by the editor, and ultimately he felt like it was best left to the reader's imagination anyway. Ironically, when there was a short follow-up to the scene in a flashback later, it turned out [[spoiler:Kuramoto was actually in control of the orgy and brainwashing all the boys]].
11	** The later chapter sketches published on Pixiv Fanbox have no major changes in the chapters themselves, including the aforementioned chapter 18, but there are different versions of chapter covers and some artwork such as one that shows Sasori was envisioned with a messier hairstyle than she has in the story proper. One of the volumes includes a Hanakamakiri sketch even though he never appears in the story, and another includes a Dinoponera sketch that conspicuously specifies her, and only her, sex with a ♀ as if implying she had a male counterpart at some point.

Context Trivia / Arachnid