Arachnid

Description

From Kirei Cake:

Alice is a senior high-school student who lives with an uncle that spends his time tormenting her everyday. One day, Alice witnesses the death of her uncle by the hands of an assassin called "Kumo" (Japanese for Arachnid). She then falls unconscious, and upon waking up, she finds out that she's in Kumo's house... Now, this Alice who no longer has any family and is being raised by the assassin herself.

Official English Release: MangaUp

Type

Manga

Related Series

Six Girls (?) in a Hot Spring (Side Story)

Caterpillar (Side Story)

Blattodea (Sequel)

Associated Names

Arachnid มือสังหารสายพันธุ์แมงมุม (SIC)

Arakunido

Арахнид

アラクニド

蜘蛛

아라크니드

Groups Scanlating

Kirei Cake

Latest Release(s)

v.14 c.Epilogue (end) by Kirei Cake 7 years ago

v.14 c.72 by Kirei Cake 7 years ago

v.14 c.71 by Kirei Cake 7 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

14 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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Forum

1 topics, 3 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.1 / 10.0 (441 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.05 / 10.0

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Last Updated

August 7th, 2024 2:03am PDT - 9 months ago

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Genre

Action Drama Ecchi Mature School Life Shoujo Ai Shounen Supernatural
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Square Enix

Serialized In (magazine)

Gangan Joker (Square Enix)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Manga Up! Global (72 Chapters + Epilogue - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #723

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Monthly Pos #1926 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3296

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6 Month Pos #4380

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Year Pos #5089

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List Stats

On 2291 reading lists

On 912 wish lists

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11 years ago

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Love it

by shilyte
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

this manga is simple. simple plot simple characters simply great. sometimes you just wanna read something that doesn't require logic or deep thoughts. that's why i love this manga. i like bloody, gory, implausible mangas like these. after death note and a few others that left me feeling like i missed the point because of all the insane illogical basic rambling, this was a refreshing change. who'd have thought learning about insects could be this entertaining and easy to understand outside of the discovery channel. it's like reading about some violent insect kingdom except all the insects are in the shape of people. FUN STUFF at least for me

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If you want something weird, this could be it.

by Dright
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

Since I'm bored of the typical character types present in most manga, I was glad to find this manga.

It's not great from the point of view that it follows the typical shounen battle manga cliches as some have pointed out, however despite the predictable plot it has so far shown a lot of fun characters.

Now the real reason I wrote this comment: The student council head looks like Alyosha from http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=54487
Paticularly the hair (notice how the bangs cross in the middle). She's not a character you meet right away though so don't skip ahead! =D

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retarded but okay

by Aikanaro
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

I thought it was dumb from the beginning, so I don't have the disappointed expectations that other people here have. It's fine if you realise that the whole premise of a spider-themed child assassin whose special power is magical-autism is stupid and take it from there. It's not good, but it's entertaining enough.

What I don't like though is the rape/sexual abuse fanservice. It's creepy.

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Lost potential

by imercenary
13 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Theres not much to say here. The story starts off great with child abuse, murder/hitmen/assassination and the seedy child usage of the underworld.

And then throws the main character into a cliche high school setting shounen style. Instead of being an ultra-rare, ultra-awesome child fighter/assassin, its revealed that there are countless other ultra-rare, ultra-awesome child fighters/assassins yet they live perfectly normal lives within human society... in high school of course.

The story gets progressively typical from there. Theres the manipulative president (who has superpowers of course), the jock with a deranged sense of justice (who has superpowers of course) and the over-the-top pure maiden who has to be protected by the main character.

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Can't take it seriously

by ForteAtrox
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

I read this and the beginning seemed really interesting then just at chapter 5 I started losing interest. I just can't take this whole 'assassin' thing seriously. And the whole arachnid thing is just kinda lame to me. I don't like the main girl because she seems so soulless, no personality really. ._. Bleh, had hopes but it was crushed~

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Wasted potential

by Pebble_
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

The beginning was very promising. Dark atmosphere, killers, apprentice surpassing her master, etc.
But then it steadily became more and more pointless fanservice and clichee. The 'roach' and the 'grasshopper' are gross clichee-characters with no real substance, there are no killings anymore (very inconsistent with the atmosphere in the beginning), no real dark ambience...
In a nutshell, this manga is headed towards crap ending at full speed. What a waste...

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Good start, getting more cliche.

by myopius
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

Volume 1 encompasses a strong plot arc. Assassins who are men with sneers or whose faces look like death, Alice experiencing good character development while being "raised" by Kumo, and a real sense of dramatic tension. And aside from the whole "no one cares about a poor cute orphan schoolgirl" noir setting, no obtrusively unrealistic parts.

But suddenly starting from the second chapter of volume 2, the assassins are hot young women who have some insane or fetishistic obsession with Alice / killing, who is constantly taking clothing damage, and as of the most recent chapter might be threatened into performing some fetish acts? With the irresistible (to mangaka) cliche of (spoiler for a plot development in early volume 2)

"bully becomes friend for seriously no apparent reason" (oh, but if that girl actually does die in the crossfire, all may be forgiven).

You could compare this manga to Karakuri Circus in many ways. The early conflicts are great, (spoiler for overall tone the series has started to take, roles characters play, and predictability)

but they had the effect of setting up the protagonist as capable of turning any fight around, and now it's starting to feel like a shounen battle manga with some fanservice elements.

Still, the first 6 chapters were gold, it's just the last 3 that have been mediocre. Anyway, this manga starts out quite awesome, and is still pretty good, but it's turning more and more into Cynthia the Mission, a bit hard to take seriously. But by volume 4 it at least hasn't gone downhill enough to be canceled, so I expect the story to not fall below a certain level of quality. I'm not dropping it when the next chapter promises to be the assassin version of Nana to Kaoru anyway...

... Last updated 14 years ago

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going downhill fast

by remi39
14 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

started out pretty good but as soon as the original kumo had his disciple kill him it got boring fast. disappointed but ill stay with it a little longer just in case it makes a rebound. it needs a male support character imo

update: definitely disappointing. i officially give up, it's just too stupid and boring.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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Cute

by Toto
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

Sugar plum fairies and puppy dog tails. That's what this cute, little, assassin story's made of.

Sure, little teenage girl is almost raped by her guardian uncle after her mother's suicide, gets taken in by said guardian's assassin, trained in the dark arts of... concentration, and subsequently mercy kills the paternal miyagi figure (all happens in the first volume... so, not really spoilers).
I just can't help read this as some sugary sweet shoujo expecting frilly flowers and star bursts to pop-up on the next panel... despite what occurred on the previous panel from a wailing lead character to attempted human meat mincing with the arachno-knife.

The series isn't bad... it's just a juxtaposed piece of sugary murder.

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Potential

by almosthere13
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

Interesting concept. I read on to the raws and this doesn't have any romance for those who may be looking out for it.

However, with only 4 chapters translated so far, it's a bit hard to judge how it's going to go.

For those who wish romance between the assassin and Alice, I do believe he dies. Not sure exactly why, but Alice shoots him :(

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