Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka?

I really don't think it would work. That's just way too many episodes without any dialogue.

wdym by that though

I mean that for at least half a dozen episodes there is only one character and no one to talk to. It works as a niche series but I don't think it would get mainstream popularity. Especially when the MC isn't even humanoid.

Uh, speaking of, it is, in fact, getting an anime

Yep :P Wonder who would animate the show though haha

How are they even going to handle the voice casting though. It's one thing to have a manga adaptation following just Kumoko, but an anime adaptation would mean that whoever the fuck voices Kumoko will be literally talking to herself in an otherwise empty room for probably 80 to 90% of one cour.

Seems like an awful waste of a studio rental really.

Well, good luck to them. I honestly hope it goes well but I really don't think it will. I suppose after a few episodes of our favorite spider being a munchkin they'll switch to one episode of Shun getting his shit kicked in and then back to spider, then maybe end with dead brother?

Talented, versatile voice actresses aren't actually in that short supply. The tricky part is going to be voice direction

I think it's going to be just as hard to keep things visually interesting since that's one way to make up for the rather unfocused story early on. I mean, I kinda don't expect them to hog wild animating the dragons.

I'm not worried about talent. It just sounds awfully lonely and kind of a waste of the rental fee booking a studio just for one person.

It's also pretty much unheard of for the most part I think. o.o

As long as they get all the lines they need, they'll have their money's worth out of the studio rental. It's not like they can record multiple lines simultaneously in a single studio. So whether there's, say, seventy lines being recorded by a single actress, or by four actors shouldn't matter one bit.

Oh, didn't see there was a new manga chapter. Seems like it may be time to start skipping around with those side stories. Ariel looks different than I expected.

(Manga) volume 5 is coming out in a few days, so I'll likely pick it up on release.

I'm at a bit of a loss, though. If the manga really is sidelining as much important stuff as it sounds like (not to mention the glacial release pace), I really should just read the novels - but boy, do Japanese novels make my eyes hurt.

Ariel's on the cover of one of the LN volumes, so it was no surprise to me. XD

It was like that for me too. Gotta get used to it I guess, or read it bits at a time.

^ To be honest, her described appearance doesn't match my mental image of her anyway. For some reason in my head she's weirdly close to a cat girl. With a tail. No, I have absolutely no idea as to why. Hopefully the manga will kill off that picture in my head.

By the way, I kind of like how everyone has different interpretations of the other characters. Like how Shiraori being socially hopeless comes across even in how she judges Ariel with only a kind of vague understanding that her bottomless hatred probably fucked with her own head through the link between them and played a part in the coming rampage. All she sees is wacky NEET grandma. And the fact that Shiraori's quirky loser failure to communicate is actually an incredibly serious flaw.

^^ As for what the manga is leaving out I suspect it's going to go through all that in a brief cut from the actions of our favorite arachnid. From what I can tell the manga is an adaptation of the light novels, not the web novel, so I think soon we're going to be getting some stuff I've only heard about from the trope page. As such I'll be getting to read some new stuff too. Like that egg was definitely not in the web novel, so I assume it'll be coming back into the story in one form or another, but I don't know when.

If you do decide to read the webnovel, just two quick things. One, there's no cute art to distract from it taking a billion chapters to get to the first spoken word in the story. Two, all three translations have issues. I suggest you read Turbo's stuff only when necessary and stick with Blastron as long as possible.

Edit: Oh yeah, the light novels. I'm tempted to buy those to support the series but I remember how much I hated the translation that Hataraku Maou Sama got. Actually, it turned out that the anime was a lot better than the light novels.

Edited by Arha on Jul 8th 2018 at 3:33:03 AM

It's easier for me to access the Japanese ones, and I'd prefer to read those (I'm iffy toward relying on other translators, especially when the flaws are as visible as in the current manga translator or webnovel translations), but as I said, reading Japanese novels is still enough of a pain that it feels like a busman's holiday, and not really good for relaxing.

The egg does nothing in Kumoko's story, it's set-up for someone else's story. XD

Considering that the egg was left in the burning nest, you should be able to guess what happened to it if you've read the WN (no, it doesn't get cooked).

Oh, it hatches into a beautiful water bird, right?

I didn't say I don't know what happens with the egg. I just don't know when, nor do I know the specifics.

Edited by Arha on Jul 11th 2018 at 4:07:50 AM

Oh, S34 out. Well, I guess this is one more case of D being a dick and preventing communication cause both options will have a massive human body count if I'm understanding things correctly. But instead she's pretending that only Shiraori's plan will cause a lot of death.

I'm thinking about something... I said this in Fall 2018 thread and I say his again: Which one is the perfect studio that could animate this LN/Manga?

I'm not really sure, honestly.

• Trigger does high-octane action and wackiness well, but typically does better with original anime.
• Dogakobo usually does light and fluffy stuff. And looking at what they've done, it's extremely unlikely that they'll pick this up.
• Silver Link does both dialogue and action somewhat well, but only if it's a big show. They tend to cut corners if the show's not a high-profile one, it feels like.
• Shaft has proven that they can make pure dialogue interesting, but I'm not sure how well they'll handle action. I don't doubt that the action will look presentable, I just don't think that it'll look as good as it could.
• Kinema Citrus did an excellent job on Made in Abyss, and I think that tone and animation could carry over well. However, that studio really only worked on Made in Abyss because they're huge fans of it, so I can't expect them to pick this one up too.
• BONES is another strong contender, but they probably already have a lot on their plate right now.
• Kyo Ani - nope, not happening. They don't seem to adapt stuff like this.
• Madhouse - not happening either, probably. Too much of a heavyweight for a title like this...
• I hope to God neither DEEN nor J.C.Staff will pick this up. The former produces consistently Off-Model works with low-quality art, and the latter totally butchered Danmachi (and the spin-off, which are both light novels).

EDIT: Looking at what studios have handled adaptations for previous Kadokawa properties doesn't help. It doesn't seem like they have any real preference. Incidentally, Death March is a Kadokawa light novel also under the Kadokawa Books line, and that adaptation was handled by Silver Link and Connect. It's also the only other work under "Kadokawa Books" that has had an anime adaptation so far.

Edited by HanabiraKage on Aug 6th 2018 at 9:46:55 PM

Huh...So choosing a studio is a rather hard choice for Kumo Desu Ga. This is interesting.

You are aware that the important part is the staff, not the studio, right? Most studios are basically interchangeable

Oh yeah...You do have a point. The better the staff is the better the work is.