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'So I'm a Spider, So What?' Anime Casts Ryota Ohsaka, Daisuke Namikawa
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The official website for the television Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?) novels revealed two new cast on Friday. The newly announced cast includes:
The website also posted a video that recaps the anime's first eight episodes. Aoi Yūki, who voices the protagonist, narrates the video.
The anime premiered on January 8 on slated to premiere last year, but the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) greatly affected the anime's production schedule.
Crunchyroll describes the anime:
I, the protagonist, was just an ordinary high school girl, but suddenly I was reincarnated as a spider monster in a fantasy world. Not only that, but I awakened in a dungeon filled with vicious monsters. Armed with only my human knowledge and my overwhelming positivity, I'm forced to use spiderwebs and traps to defeat far stronger monsters just to stay alive... So begins the labyrinth survival story of a girl with incredible mental strength living as one of the lowest-ranked beasts!
Aoi Yūki stars in the anime as the unnamed protagonist. Other cast include:
- Shun Horie as Shun
- Nao Tōyama as Katia
- Kaito Ishikawa as Hugo
- Yui Ogura as Sue
- Fei
- Kaya Okuno as Filimøs
- Aimi Tanaka as Yuri
- Junya Enoki as Julius
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Hyrince Quarto
- Yūichirō Umehara as Balto Phthalo
- Sumire Uesaka as Demon Lord
- Ayana Taketatsu as Sophia Keren
Shūji Katayama is composing the music.
Riko Azuni is performing the opening theme song "keep weaving your spider way." The protagonist's voice actress Yūki is performing the ending theme song "Gambare! Kumoko-san" as well as the second ending theme. performing the anime's second opening theme song "Bursty Greedy Spider."
The novels take place in a world where the hero and the demon king are locked in a continuous dispute. Their grand magic crosses into another world, and ends up exploding in a classroom, killing the students inside. The students are then reincarnated into a fantasy world. The protagonist, who has the lowest position in the class, is reincarnated as a one-meter-long monster spider. But she accepts this fate and adapts to her new life and situation quickly. The story follows the protagonist as she survives in this new world.
Baba ranked #3 on the 2017 list.
Young Ace Up, and Kadokawa published the ninth compiled book volume on October 10. The manga and novels have a combined 1.2 million copies in print.
releasing the novels and the manga in English.
Sources: So I'm a Spider, So What? anime's website, Comic Natalie
