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“Spider-Man villain Doctor Octopus wakes up as a Japanese middle school girl, navigating unexpected school life.”
Spider-Man: Octo-Girl
スパイダーマン：オクトパスガール
6.77
13,548 rank · 1,144 readers · 2 favorites
Action
Sci-Fi
Shounen
Super Power
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Synopsis
Spider-Man villain Doctor Octopus wakes up as a Japanese middle school girl, navigating unexpected school life.
Spider-Man rogue Doctor Octopus faces his biggest challenge yet—living life as a middle school girl in Japan! After a battle with Spider-Man, the evil genius scientist Doctor Octopus falls into a coma. When he wakes up, his consciousness is in the body of Otoha Okutamiya, a middle school girl in Tokyo! Thus begins the strange school life of Spider-Man's biggest rival...as a normal Japanese girl! (Source: VIZ Media)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
6.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 5
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 5.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↑ 0.33
Running avg · Oct 2023 → Feb 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “DISCLAIMER: While overall I recommend this manga, the biggest issue by far is that it relies on the reader being somewhat familiar with comic book lore for Doctor Octopus. If you've never heard of...”
- 6 “This manga is somewhat strange. I'd think I was reading a quirky fan made doujin if I wasn't seeing Shounen Jump+ listed as the company serializing it. So this story revolves around Otto pulling...”
- 5 “This is a manga series serving as a Spiderverse spinoff, I believe. It follows Doc Ock getting isekai'd into the body of a Japanese schoolgirl, making a split personality type of thing. Sadly, the...”
Verbosity
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Medium · 100%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 34 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 32m approx
- Published Jun 2023 – Jan 2025
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M69683 catalog