@Betony the town doesn't worship a spider goddess, rather the goddess they worship has a spider as a Divine Beast. Which clearly reminds Kumoko of someone...
@Badwolfe Mangadex isn't behind. Rather, the entire manga is behind the source material of the series: the light novel. That's where the spoilers come from (to put in perspective, the light novel is around 4 times ahead of the manga in terms of content in official english releases alone...
@Yan3242 To be fair even the author has acknowledged that the dungeon arc is only the prologue of the story, which mainly serves to showcase her growth not only in power but in personality. A big theme concerning the story is how your life situation affects you, and Kumoko's life in the...
@respwn You won't find them in the manga (aside from 4 bonus chapters that are only included in the physical releases). Basically, the anime is based on the light novel which is the source material for this series while the manga skipped almost all the parts involving the other characters (even...
@Sec Volume 5, but it's also the volume where a big climax of the story happens involving both sides of the story, so unless you want to be confused during half of the book it's recommended to start from the beginning at Volume 1.
@Azuciel Ideally, you should start from the beginning. The manga has cut nearly all parts with the classmates which make roughly 40% of the first volumes, and if you jump to where the spider is now you'll likely be very confused as to what's happening during half of the book (let's just say it's...
@Kabeidon You do realize that the manga is not the source material, right? Also the "advanced stuff" in manga is just paternned walls with motifs. They don't even look like they were made of web, the manga probably just added that to avoid making a white background. At least the sound alarms are...
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It's book 5 actually, but yeah like Pulse said if you start there, you'll be in the middle of the parallel story that the manga skipped and likely be very confused as to what's going on.
@vangoz To be fair they weren't entirely removed as there's a few chapters with them, but for an even more obscure reason they made those only available in physical copies of the manga. Meaning that anyone who only reads this online wouldn't known about it. But even then, there's only 4 of said...
@vangoz It's very far behind in two ways.
For one, the light novel is (obviously) ahead of the manga by several volumes. But on top of that, the novels covers the classmates since it's first book while the manga skipped them.
Meaning that, on top of being behind, the manga is currently missing...