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“Orphaned Alice is taken in by the assassin who killed her abusive uncle.”
Arachnid
アラクニド
6.98
9,974 rank · 21,016 readers · 298 favorites
Shounen
Action
Drama
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Synopsis
Orphaned Alice is taken in by the assassin who killed her abusive uncle.
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 is being raised by the assassin himself..! (Source: Kirei Cake)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 7 sampled reviews
7.1
/10
What 7 readers settled on.
71%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 3.14
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.14 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.5 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.5
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No
Score over time
↓ 1.86
Running avg · Jul 2012 → Aug 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I love this manga, it's is definitly one of my favoite mangas but it is definitly not the best. This manga has some really great moments and pretty good characters. There is alot of characters so...”
- 9 “This manga is so freaken amazing. To tell you the truth this was the first manga have every read with no romance. I just wanna say that if you haven't read this you should you will not be...”
- 10 “Overall it was a great manga and sadly we won't be able to read about the whole story, rest in piece author-san. I recommend reading the Spin-Off "Caterpillar" first. Story - Quite an interesting...”
Verbosity
Short · 29%
Medium · 57%
Long · 14%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 73 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 9h 44m approx
- Published Nov 2009 – Dec 2015
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M13311 catalog