Have you heard of the wildly popular novel "So I'm a Spider, So What?"? Its shocking storyline about a high school girl who is reincarnated as a spider has garnered a lot of attention, but the intricate details of its setting have also garnered a lot of buzz. One of the key characters in the story is Wakaba Hiiro. This article will explore her in detail, including spoilers.
Who is Wakaba Hiiro?
The story begins with the introduction of a high school girl named Wakaba Hiiro, who originally lived on Earth. While attending classes at an ordinary Japanese high school, Wakaba Himeiro was affected by a powerful spell that occurred during a battle between a hero and a demon king in another world. She was killed along with all the students and teachers in her class, and they were all reincarnated into that world. During this time, Wakaba Himeiro was reincarnated as a Small Lesser Taratect, a spider monster, and began her second life as a spider. In this work, "So I'm a Spider, So What?", spiders, who are supposed to be the weakest creatures in the other world, survive in the survival world with human intelligence, resourcefulness, and natural optimism.
What was Wakaba Himeiro like as a high school girl before her reincarnation?
Before her reincarnation, Wakaba Himeiro was a recluse outside of school, spending her days engrossed in online games and video games. She rarely saw her parents, and felt isolated and out of place at school.
It was thanks to her gaming background that she was able to utilize her knowledge as a gamer, improve her combat abilities, and fight her way through the other world.
She Looks Like a Beautiful Girl
Although she was isolated and didn't interact with anyone in her class, some of her classmates sometimes showed her almost adoration due to her beautiful appearance. She is recognized as the protagonist's previous life, but she is also a mysterious character with many inconsistencies.
Why? Wakaba Himeiro's name cannot be identified.
As mentioned above, the protagonist's spider recognizes her name from her previous life as "Wakaba Himeiro." However, there are some mysteries surrounding this. For example, even when examining the spider using the Kan'ei Skill, its individual name is listed as "None." There are many other reincarnations, and when you use "Appraisal" on all of them, their previous and current names appear simultaneously. This leaves us wondering why Kumo's name isn't displayed, even though her previous name was "Wakaba Hiiro."
Spoiler! The Mystery of Wakaba Hiiro
This section is deeply related to the core of the story, and contains some major spoilers. The protagonist's previous life name has always been set as a high school girl named "Wakaba Hiiro." However, it is later revealed that this setting, which has been carried over from the beginning, was a major misleading one. So, what exactly is Wakaba Himeiro's true identity? She's the one responsible for reincarnating an entire class of students who died in a Japanese high school classroom into another world. In other words, the shocking truth is revealed: Wakaba Himeiro is the evil god D, who constantly interferes with the protagonist, Kumo.
It was all for the purpose of eliminating Wakaba Himeiro.
Originally, the explanation given for the reincarnation of an entire Japanese high school class into another world was that a war in the other world had expanded so much that it crossed the dimensional barrier, but this is also not true. Originally, the evil god D had abandoned her duties as a god to enjoy life as a high school girl under the name Wakaba Hiiro, leading to a plan to eliminate her. To carry out this plan, the previous hero and demon king unleashed a magnificent spell on a high school classroom.
However, evil god D remained unharmed.
It was reported that all the students and teachers in the classroom were killed, but this was also incorrect. Amazingly, evil god D was unharmed. Then, half-jokingly, he reincarnated her into another world, taking responsibility for the students and teachers who were killed as collateral damage.
What is the relationship between Wakaba Hiiro and spiders?
This means that Wakaba Himeiro is the evil god D, not the spider. So why does the spider think its name in its previous life was Wakaba Himeiro, and why is it reincarnated in another world with its classmates? Wakaba Himeiro believed that if the number of deaths and reincarnations were not the same, her subordinates would be able to identify her location. So, she implanted her "Wakaba Himeiro" personality into the spider that happened to be building a web in the corner of the classroom and was involved in an accident, and reincarnated it with its classmates to make the numbers add up.
Is the protagonist just a spider?
In other words, it turns out that the protagonist was just an ordinary spider who built a web in the classroom. The story had been presented as a high school girl reincarnated as a spider in another world, but in fact, that wasn't the case. The protagonist was an ordinary spider who continued to believe she was a high school girl in her previous life. The misleading premise from the beginning of the story was quite surprising, but in fact, she wasn't a high school girl who had been reincarnated or anything like that. The protagonist also thought there were many mysteries surrounding her origins, and had a vague feeling that something was suspicious, but she was taken aback when she learned that the evil god D was reincarnating her so that she could continue to slack off at work, and decided to live freely and comfortably as a spider.
[So I'm a Spider, So What? 】Summary of Wakaba Hiiro
That concludes Wakaba Hiiro, a character from "So I'm a Spider, So What?". She's a mysterious character to begin with, so it's surprising to learn that there was a major misleading explanation in the story. It turns out that Wakaba Hiiro is the evil god D, and the protagonist's spider is just a regular spider. I'm really looking forward to seeing the relationship between Wakaba Hiiro and the protagonist, and how they'll be portrayed in the anime!
