Spider-Man: Octopus Girl
Spider-Man: Octo-Girl

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This manga is somewhat strange. I'd think I was reading a quirky fan made doujin if I wasn't seeing Shounen Jump+ listed as the company serializing it.

So this story revolves around Otto pulling stunts in a last ditch effort to save his life after a mishap during a fight with Spider-Man in New York, and in the process he ends up sending his consciousness into the body of a girl. A middle schooler. In Japan. This is basically isekai no matter how you stretch it. And a lot about this manga won't make sense so you should probably view this manga with the same ... mindset as a gag anime.

Spider-Man (Peter Parker) & Otto's normal personalities are dialed down and parodied a bit in order to make this anime spidey fantasy work. The girl Otto is sharing a body with (Otoha) is as nice as can be, so Otoha's good & Otto's bad personality often clash when deciding to to deal with elements of Otoha's life such the bullying as well as clashing with villains & various alternate variations of known figures in Spider-Man's mythos.

Side characters consist of the girls who bully Otoha as well as introducing a new Spider figure said to be from another universe. Hasn't brrn too mich to write home about so far, but I want to hope this new Spider figure gets fleshed out more by the end of this story's run.

It doesn't feel like must-read material, but it's somewhat interesting enough for me to want to keep following it. And as I mentioned, you shouldn't go into this expecting a fully serious Spider-Man story. It's silly similarly to an OK comedy movie, but it still has time to concoct a decent enough narrative. I'll update this review again once it's completed.