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So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 13 (light novel) (So I'm a Spider, So What? (light novel), 13) Paperback – January 18, 2022

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THIS SYSTEM IS RIGGED...

Man…whoever thought being a god would make life easy needs a serious reality check. I mean, I offed humanity’s champion, then I hacked into the world’s System to literally erase the pesky Hero title once and for all, but I still can’t catch a break. Now Yamada’s inherited his brother’s title, and it looks like he and the other reincarnations are on their way to the elf village juuust when the demon army is looking to conquer it. Ugh, this is becoming way too big a headache...Time for plan B. I think I’ll have a little “chat” with Sariel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yen On (January 18, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1975339851
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1975339852
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches

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Dakota B.

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2023

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Learning what goes on to events of the final scene in the anime is interesting. Plus, the curse of Vampy made me laugh in happiness. Please keep up the good work

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2022

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At long last, the story is back on track, following our favorite spider once more. Although there is very little action in this title, the meandering, whimsical thoughts of White are just as charming as ever, and the stage is set for a grand conclusion.

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Creeping forward at sub-spider speed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2022

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This volume, unlike the previous two, does return to the main plot, and our lovable Spider is once again leading the narration after a long absence. However, advancement is relative and a significant portion of this volume involves retelling events already previously revealed from White's perspective instead. The result is extremely setup heavy, with a lot of exposition regarding what is really going on and why, and a lot less actually happening. The net impact is rather like narrator commentary, very good and fun commentary, but still commentary.

In many ways inevitable changes in character stats and status have rendered it impossible for the series to retain the incredible manic energy that drove it during the early volumes, and something has been lost as a result. While the restoration of the titular spider to the post of primary narrator is still superior to having basically any other character's perspective used, it's no longer possible for her to get as close to the action as she once did, as demonstrated in the lengthy action sequence that fills much of the back half of this volume. This volume also fails to advance to the long-teased massive battle to come, which is a disappointment especially because at least some of the backstory presented here is unnecessary.

Still, it's an upgrade over Vol. 12, and clears the way for a major explosion during Vol. 14.

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Dissatisfied with the director's decisions and animation of the anime, I was convinced by a certain essay-length comment writer to check out the light novel of the series "So I'm a Spider, So What?". I do not regret that decision. The series starts off strong with cohesive world-building, great narrative pay-offs (especially these), and strong writing that conveys the points-of-views of several characters such as White, Dustin, Wrath, and many others incredibly well. The translation does a surprisingly good job of using colloquialisms to smoothly convey White's humor, especially as relevant to Japanese social norms and online memes. If anyone here enjoys the comedy light novel series known as "Overlord", I imagine you would find there to be much in common with how both of the main characters of those stories are constantly being mistakenly exalted by those around them while simultaneously being more talented than what they give themselves credit for.

That could be considered a short review of the series, which I would give a 4/5.

This book is a 3/5, or possibly lower. I am disappointed with how this book and a few past books were handled, given that I was so enthused by its beginnings that I bought and read all of the light novels back-to-back within 1 day. I have not read the web novel, as the light novel diverges from it, so I would prefer both to not spoil myself or make any lore assumptions on pretenses that could be changed later.

Structurally speaking, the series as a whole and this book especially suffers heavily from padding. For those of you familiar with the anime, its 24 episodes cover everything up to and including the 5th light novel. As mentioned above, the anime has some directorial and animation issues, but almost none of it or the novels that it adapted consisted of filler (unless you consider the human story to be filler). 8 entries later, this book is still providing recaps from different PoVs on events that occurred in the 5th light novel or earlier.

To provide material evidence, the book's table of contents is as follows:
1). White's gang is power-leveling on legendary monsters. Exposition dump on how the system programs monsters. New material.
2). Recap on the previous book + why Julius the Hero had to die + why the coup in Analeit needed to happen. Exposition dump.
3). Sophia PoV on the Analeit coup. Past event.
4). Oka PoV (but nothing really happens). Past event.
5). PoV on when Sophia and Katia corner Shun and the gang but Fei flies them away. Past event.
6). Meeting with Dustin to get him to declare Hugo the new Hero. New material, but was implied as a past event.
7). Wrath PoV of Demon Lord meeting + Dustin meeting. New material, but Wrath is still a one-note character of "sunk cost fallacy" and is vastly worse than how his backstory played out from the previous light novel installments (where he had 2 books that fleshed him out).
8). White PoV of puppeting all of the Renxandt empire + the plot to get Shun to use Mercy 4 times + the reveal that Hyrince is Guli. New material, but crossed with expo-dump and past events.
9). Pontiff and Guli have a chat. New material.
10). White PoV of spying on Shun & co. going through the Elroe labyrinth. Past event.
11). Sue PoV on Hugo/Sophia as they ride towards the Elf village. Past event, also doesn't contribute much to story advancement (we already know she's yandere for Shun), similar to Oka's PoV or Sophia's PoV above.
12). Exposition dump on Ruler authority, keys, and the system override. Expo dump.
13). Ariel PoV. New material, short, similar to Pontiff & Guli chat. It's cute.
14). Fight with the system shadow guardians while trying to lockpick the Ruler keys. New event + lead up into the end of the 5th novel.

While these PoVs do give us White's humorous perspective on the events that unfolded, there are a few problems with these PoVs.

Firstly, several characters have simply lacked personal agency because so much of the novels have been recaps or alternate PoVs of past events. Oka never gets a chance to reconsider her impersonal alliance with Potimas, Katia doesn't get to act on her feelings for Shun. I always thought Fei would be a tritagonist character with her own training arc, sort of like Kumoko but on the human side, since their origins were intertwined. But she hasn't done anything for 8 books. Hugo has served as the front-man for White's plans for so long, but his contribution ended up being pathetic. He could have been so more... interesting if he had been the one to puppet the Sword-king instead of White, if we had some PoV of him thinking of the friend he lost, etc. But nope, he doesn't get to do anything either. Sophia, Wrath, and the adventurer reincarnation duo are the only other reincarnations who get to do anything over the past eight novels, and they get mixed results.

Secondly, since so much literary real estate is occupied by these recaps, nothing new ever really happens. As shown by the summary of the table of contents above, maybe half of the book consists of PoVs on past events or exposition dumps, a quarter consists of short interlude conversations between a few characters to flesh them out, and the rest is new material. I have no problem with the fact that there needed to be some catch-up between the spider plotline (15 years ago) and the human plotline. In fact, I really liked novels 11 and 12 because they boldly showed off Julius' PoV as a true hero (and showing how his actions affected those around him), giving him all the character development that Shun never had. In this book, in his conversation with Guli, Dustin makes a comment about how the world has been stagnant, but I find this more appropriate as a barbed criticism of the past 8 out of 13 of the light novel's installments, since this book still hasn't even moved on from the 5th light novel.

Furthermore, the PoVs show off a logical consequence of the worldbuilding tearing at the seams. Namely, White is overpowered. I'll elaborate on that in a moment. The original forces of the world are clearly defined and differentiated: Ariel is individually strong, Dustin has built an organization that holds sway over most sentient living humans, Potimas has ancient tech and kin control (a middle ground between the two), and so forth. The latter two also have information networks as a result of their specializations. There is a separation of powers that contributes to character identity; Potimas is entirely unsympathetic, Dustin is a big-picture guy (sympathetic goals, unsympathetic means), and Ariel is individually sympathetic (to White, Mera, Sophia, even to her spider kin) but has to put on a cruel face as the Demon Lord. White brings informational & transportation capabilities to Ariel who despite having kin control, five Queen taratects, and all their kin to work with + an originally cautious personality, never thought to do what White does.

But then White goes further beyond. Do you realize that, in this story, White is not only behind everything that occurred in the first five novels but also a direct witness to those things because of her information network? Did we really need White's PoV of Shun going through the labyrinth, or that PoV on Shun using Mercy on the four people Cylis had executed? Is it not enough for the plans to be laid and executed or did we really need a color commentary on things that already happened? It isn't just padding, it's just annoyingly overpowered. With this level of information control, why doesn't White try to sneak any spiders into Potimas' secret base, to figure out how to counteract whatever he might throw at them in the upcoming offensive? Why did the Renxandt Empire need to be puppeted by White instead of Hugo (again, the latter would have served as character development)? Couldn't the other reincarnations (Yuri & Katia) simply have been Appraised for Ruler skills instead of being brainwashed by Hugo's Lust? Why does White need to lock-pick the system instead of just having her work with the current and future Rulers to agree to their system? The latter would be so much more interesting in terms of character interaction. White's role in the story simultaneously creates too many plotholes while steering the story in uninteresting directions because other characters are made obsolete by her presence. Ever since her deification, character capabilities have been poorly handled and character interactions have slowly gotten worse because of White's power creep.

The culminating chapter and "big fight" of this light novel is the cornerstone of this flaw that I talked about. Rather than White or anyone else facing off with actual characters, she's fighting a team of shadow constructs called up for self-defense by the system. The book even jokingly calls attention to how the fight is drawn out for multiple pages (and days, apparently) since White can't land a lethal hit with Spatial Manipulation on the coordinated efforts of Legendary-level enemies. But then she pulls out her scythe and one-shots them all consecutively. What a trite anti-climax. It was a fight that happened for basically no good story reason, that had no real progression (outside of explaining the synergy between the shadow constructs), and it ended poorly.

I took it as funny and cute back when White unlocked all of her powers post-deification simply by going on a drunk bender, similar to how White's origins (volume 9) ended up being a sort of cosmic joke (and also one of the best narrative pay-offs of the series), but the constant contrivance and lack of story progression / character interaction is driving me up the wall. The fact that the best character development is in short interlude set-pieces between characters (example: Dustin & Gulidistodiez) is a damning commentary on the rest of the light novel's contents, as well as the contents of the past eight light novels + where the series is going in the future.

Consequently, I would basically say that this installment in the light novel series is so poor that it could basically be skipped and nothing of value would really be lost. Furthermore, the author should seriously reconsider how they want to handle their character interactions and the overarching story threads. Maybe I should lower my rating of this book to a 2/5, with that 2 only reflecting the few redeeming aspects of this light novel (the stylistic consistency mostly).

I find it truly regrettable to say this about something that I just paid over $100 to binge-read the entirety of within 24 hours, but I hope that this review tells you something of substance about this light novel and about the series as a whole.

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Jason S

Story gets wider not longer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2022

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I agree with Daniel’s review this story is not continuing the story much at all it is just adding more background info of something it explained in earlier volumes. It feels like some people complained about plot holes or were asking questions and instead of clearing those up while continuing the story the author decided to write the past 3 volumes. These volumes would have felt better if condensed into a single super volume that was 1.5x the normal size.

Don’t get me wrong tho the story is still just as well written but after three volumes of teasing on what is to come, something that was building at a breakneck pace in the first third of the story, then slow burning for the second part to really build the tension and motivation has reached this final push to the end that has slowed to a crawl.

This volume should have been a side story added after the story ended than right before the big battle. What is next are we going to get a whole volume from the view of Potimas and the elves?

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It's ok

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2022

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Ehh underwhelming after the farce the last 2 books were its passable, time skipping is still annoying, n the author still can't stick to one name or the other I just want white to kill everyone at this point come hell or high water

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Zgerken

An excellent volume

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 22, 2022

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I do enjoy reading this series and it's fun to see all the plot threads come together and to see other characters view on what happens at set points, honestly can't wait to read the next volume.

Lee Bingham

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2022

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Very good series

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Is this book 12?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2022

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A recap of events in book 12, from Whites perspective.
Feels like watching a re-run but with commentary that repeats itself every chapter.

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Thomas Still

Want more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 13, 2022

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Ah too soon to finish and we want more. A nice comical presentation to the woes of our favourite spider,but you can't help and feel a last minute disaster is on the horizon curtsey of the hero.

Confused fan

Stop rehashing the first 4 volumes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 25, 2022

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This book and the one before it cover very little ground and hhavent even caught up with the present. Argh

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