My dad din't grow up on anime but he did record a shitload of gundam wing episodes to black spines back when they were airing on toonami. He also sat down to watch blue sub #6 with me and my friend when we rented it from the local blockbuster.
You're breaking my kokoro.
The game calls him out on it. Though the 360 game didn't really give a good resolution of whether it was correct or not. In general I don't think I remember a jrpg where you beat a human boss and he is actually dead the next cutscene, maybe dying at best. And jrpg's have you blow up the moon or some shit in attacks, so how much "fatal" an attack is doesn't really come into an effect.
The simple reason is that we just ignore the discrepancies in games because we know it helps the gameplay. And it's hard to ignore Kumoko killing people when every time we see the human side the people are shown to be regular humans. It's a case where the writer can't decide the tone so it just flip flops between "I'm an npc with an history who'll help the hero party despite being hilariously underleveled" to "lol let's kill bandits for exp".
Again, Violet literally eats her opponents (her arm absorbs them and nourishes her with the energy it gains). Then you also have stuff like Shadow Hearts where you'd accumulate malice from fights and collect the souls of the fallen enemies. There's also Suikoden that occasionally give you the choice to execute characters (i.e. Kwanda), not to mention the giant wars you take place in.
I just see it like any typical video game: named characters / NPCs = important and you should care about them; nameless bandits = fodder. If this were a more complex show that was trying to explore in-depth how an iseki world would actually work and what Shun's tax policy is I'd probably agree with you. For now its about a spider girl leveling-up and trying to find the tastiest food. For me, outside of the yet again boring human parts, I was fine with the episode.
The only reason it could be considered "bad", is the fact the people being killed weren't black.
Mine were hands off too, mostly because I like to powerlvl here rather than them. Anyway, did watch the whole walkthrough of the DRAMAtical Murder vn on youtube, before they had to censor it all. Fucking loved it, and the Noiz bad ending. Where Aoba is tortured eternally. I actually find it kind of beautiful. This was when I was under 18, so woops.
I'll just point out that there is an actual story reason for why Kumoko enjoys a good killing that may be covered in the anime. Don't know how far the anime is going to go and I forget when they bring it up in the LN but it might be by the final episode. Not a huge reveal, but interesting. The Pride title explicitly makes you more likely to view people as walking xp, so getting it is not recommended by people who actually know what it does
All the anime I watched growing up was either on Cartoon Network or Fox kids and the like so I never got any hassle for what I saw since they were deemed kid friendly by default.
Would make sense that she was called Spooky and in general bullied. Dark bitches tends to turn yandere.
lol what is even this line of thought
ask them if they think anything drawn is kids shit, and then watch felidae as a feelgood disney movie afterwards.
inb4 she get's hooked on full on shoujo before she learns about yaoi.
Yeah, in the manga she often wonders if the taboo skills and her mental connection to the mother spider has altered how she thinks and acts, though I can't remember if the anime touches on this much. Also, from what I've read about the light novel that's far, far ahead of everything else, there's also the matter of her true origin.
I guess I'm just weirdly autistic about this thing happening in shows. Probably not the only thing I overthink about. Though I need to say that in Suikoden executing a character is never a smart decision (at least from what I remember).
I think it's legitimate. One Youtuber dropped that comment on Clownfishtv vlog about this who gived me some chuckles.
