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This is a 7/10 show. the people giving it 10s and 1s or 2s either have no idea how review scores work, or are just trying to schew the rating one way or another.

Why isnt it a 10 out of 10 show? well i'll tell ya. the pacing is a mess, the stark contrast between kumoko's side of the story and the magic school kids side is like night and day. The magic school kids ares SOOO boring that i literally fastforward through thier parts in every ... episode except finally for episode 19(this is the only anime i've ever done that with). thats 19 episodes of boring trash.

Imagine the generic boring cliche characters from goblin slayer, now give them exclusive episode time for like half the episode. Thats how the this show is. The only reason you dont hate them in goblin slayer is that they interact directly with the MC. so they are a foil for his character. Im not sure what the director of spider isekai was thinking when they split the episodes and told both stories in parallel like they did.

What they should have done was tell kumokos story until episode 7 or 8 then introduce the magic school kids around the point they are in episode 12 or some, then delve into the back story later on when you know who they are and understand WHY they are important to the story.

How they did do it was have this robin williams sized personality character, then cut to characters with the personality of styrofoam for half the episode, completely ruining any momentum the story was trying to build. what you got was basically a 10 minute episode that was good and a nearly unwatchable 10 minute episode of the worst filler arc by a writer who's given up on life.

And kumoko's side of the story isnt without fault either. her constant txt walls of powerups for instance is almost nausea inducing. as someone whos watched anime for like 20+ years now, im brain is trained to read everything on the screen, so when the text walls(which happen A LOT) get thrown up, i try to read it, but its basically meaningless rpg powerups.

kumoko's constant talking to herself gets really annoying at times. for instance, rimiru from slime isekai talks to himself quite a bit, but the difference is that his monologues are broken up with narration by rimiru. Kumoko has none of that, she literally talking non stop for entire episodes. I guess the author has never heard of the concept of show dont tell.

also kumoko's constant fighting and leveling up JUST as shes about to die happens WAY too often. like every fight it happens. really. she just happens to level up at the exact moment shes going to die every single time? I'd rather she outsmart an opponent then rely on plot armor thicker then narutos.

and fighting, man, kumoko is literally fighitng battle after battle for 11 or 12 episodes. We get it, have you ever heard of pacing man.

Thankfully by about episode 13 the world opens up and the story improves by A LOT.

And by improve i mean it becomes a 7/10 story. maybe a 7.5/10 story. but for the first 10 episodes at least this show is definitely no more then a 5/10.

so if you dont know if you want to watch this, definitely give it a watch, but know that you are going to have to slog through the first 10-12 episodes of poorly paced and boring episodes before you get to the good stuff.