Arachnid

Overall it was a great manga and sadly we won't be able to read about the whole story, rest in piece author-san. I recommend reading the Spin-Off "Caterpillar" first. Story - Quite an interesting plot, the whole story was based off of people or these assassins, incorporating these insects as a pillar for their distinctive way of killing. One thing I do have to complain about is the lack of the background story being built in the initial stages of the story, though i do understand that, that was for the best in the later stages. going along with that, i was confused at certain partssince i wasnt able to grasp the, why, they were doing what they were doing. In general, some parts could've been more detailed, but eh it was still good. I do hve to say that i really did love the mix of Slice-of-life, horror, josei. Art - For the most part the art was very well done. I do have to say that the individual characters indeed need a distinctive feature incorporated, since differentiating between them all was sort of difficult. Characters - The characters though i do like them, especially the main protagonist, they were in a way generic in some aspects of them all. And though i said that they were sort of generic, somehow the author brought forth a personality, a individuality to them even with the genericness Enjoyment - I loved reading it and I wanna read more of it in the future but sadly most likely not going to happen considering the author Murata Shinya died. I liked the manga and I'm going to keep it in my favorites, as well as giving it an overall rating of 10. Hope you decide to check it out and that you end up enjoying it.

To be frankly, if I would go way more in depth on the rating, I would probably go for a 6, but I have my reason. and I will compare this manga with the author's other work Killing Bites. My anime list is raising to almost 300 but I still am not good at judging what a good or bad anime/manga is, but I think I will become better when writing more in depth reviews (reason: I like Fairy Tail, while a lot hate it, because it was my first encounter towards anime). Story: 5 Has a crappy story if you look at it normally, but thisis just a manga about insects. The reason it is crappy is because, there is no point in the story. We follow or heroin who is put in a battle royal, because yea assassins probably don't have anything else to do. If it was not for the variety of insects and the variety of spiders. this would not have worked. This makes the story a bit better. Because of all those different kind of spiders, we learn and see some decent battles where the heroin can adapt to it. This is just the point of the story. What would happen if all the kind of insects in the world were put in battle royal although it doesn't make sense that the heroin has the ability of more than one spider. Overal the story for the battles are just like Killing Bite the thing that shines in this crappy story. It is well though and doesn't give us the usually sword, fists, magic or EXPLOSION!!! where everything has to go as planned and where the main character is supper strong but has to be beaten a few times before he/she can pull it of somehow barely. while this story has the favor on or heroin, I didn't really had that feeling when reading this. I knew she would survive, but it gives a reason why she will be able to survive. and makes the battles more ballanced. art: 10 The thing most people will say when reading this manga. while the story failes the art shines and pulls you further in the crappy story. maybe Killing bites would look better with this artist. character: 7 We know little about all the characters and the protagonist has a brief history, but how the characters are presented makes it good. Not like Killing bites, these characters use tools that make this story more realistic than Killing bites and almost every character has this little story that links there behaviour with that of there insect. result: Although the story is crappy, it is one of the more enjoyable manga I ever read. The different insects make the story, not the plot.

So Arachnid, a action, horror, dark story about our main protagonist Alice Fuji, a high school student which gets bullied at school and suffers from her uncles abuse at home all changes in a blink of a moment. A professional assassin, which was to kill her uncle takes her with him and teaches her the ways and methods of becoming an assassin herself. The entire manga has a quite darker and tense feeling with it. At first when I started reading it I just read about 10 chapters and left it on hold but after getting back and reading the entire set in a couplesessions I would like to give my opinion on this manga. The main and also best executed part of this manga lays in the great artwork. Not only are the characters in each panel well drawn and designed, but also the background and all the shadows are artistically great. The main character has also good character development from starting of by being the weak, shy, bullied innocent girl becoming a strong person capable of making changes. Additionally there's a lot of great action scenes. While reading the story the reader is left in suspense. Moreover there are often unexpected scenes and actions I myself did not expect. What I really found fascinating in Arachnid was the entire power system, with all the different insects and there strengths, which is a really cool idea. While reading I learned quite a bit about different insect and bug species I previously have not known about. Each character in the story represents a different insect species which makes fighting scenes, as well as combat the more better. The only things I did not really like about this manga were the fact that every single character lacks in background information or generally in meaning. It would have been better to add more information, then the reader could understand the different characters better and maybe even identify himself/herself with them. And if there was any background info, it was quite fast paced and not well explained. Sometimes I could not really understand the entire situation. Another fact I didn't like that much, was that the story was short, but also many side characters are not important for the story in fact the story almost only revolves around our main character. But there were also rather slow and considerably boring parts, as well as not fully explained in the manga. Overall I quite enjoyed reading this manga and has a really cool and unique idea, with really clean artwork, but really lacks in story and characters.

I love this manga, it's is definitly one of my favoite mangas but it is definitly not the best. This manga has some really great moments and pretty good characters. There is alot of characters so there are many good ones but alot of bad ones but i do think that the good ones outway the bad ones. The absolute best parts of this series is of course the fights, they look really good and they often cought me off guard. The plot is pobably the weakest in this series, its pretty bland and unoriginal, but it does still make you want to know whats gonna happen. I would recommendthis manga to you if you dont care about the story that much and just want to see some cool characters fight bad guys.