Li'l Spider Girl (わすれなぐも)

"In ancient times, great arachnid beasts wrought havoc upon the Capital."

Um, translation, please?

It's coming! Ready your bow!

Lead Animator: Hideki Takahashi Assistant Lead Animator: Katsuya Yamada

Key Animators: Makoto Yamada Kazunori Akiyama Izumi Seguchi

Key Animators: Tomoyo Nakayama Miori Tsusaka Shingo Takenaka

Key Animators: Ryo Araki Hiroko Kasuga Akiko Murayama

Art Director: Akane Iwakuma Color Designer: Yoko Watanabe

Music: Yasuo Sugibayashi Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi

Producer: Hidekazu Terakawa

LI'L SPIDER GIRL

Used Books Kokumondo

Directed by Toshihisa Kaiya

I said, I don't care what's in it!

- Well, you disappoint me, Mizuki. - About what?

Is that the attitude of somebody who's devoted their life to ancient books?

I haven't devoted my life to anything.

And I'm just here to get the rent payment for my grandpa.

A book with a monster inside it, huh?

Wait, wipe your hands! Put some gloves on!

Hello. This is Suzuri from the Kokumondo bookstore.

Yes. Yes. The book you're looking for?

Yes.

Yes, it was difficult to find. I had to look everywhere.

By the way, regarding the book's condition...

Oh, not at all.

Yes. Yes.

Is it a cockroach? A cockroach?

Oh man. They were very upset, you know?

Something just popped out at me like WAAH!

What are you talking about?

T-There's something back there! Big and nasty! Go look!

Stop freaking out. It's probably just a rat or a big cricket.

A big cricket?

I've gotta clean this place up.

I heard something! It went squeak!

You're not worried about me?

What was back here?

A doll?

I don't remember this thing.

It moved! What is it?

What is that thing?

I don't know. How strange...

How cute.

Wha--?

It's a cute little girl! Beautiful! She's beautiful!

What's beautiful? How is she beautiful? She's tiny and weird!

Come here.

Ouch.

It's a monster!

The magician defeated the great arachnid with his craft.

Skulls and baby spider corpses spilled out from the hole in its belly.

But one baby spider was still alive, in the shape of a little girl.

The magician tried to kill her, but couldn't.

Was he some kind of perv?

He ignored the people's pleas and took her back with him.

He was a perv!

The magician raised the baby spider just like a human child.

But six months later, the men in the neighborhood started disappearing.

I've finally got you, Spider Monster! Give it up!

Spy-dar! Spider! Spi-dur!

That's what it says.

An interesting story.

Truth is more incredible than fiction.

So what does it say happened in the end?

I don't know.

You don't know? It doesn't say?

The pages are blank...

Normally the fate of the girl spider would be written here, but...

Spy-dar!

Mr. Suzuri, what do we do with that?

What can we do? Breaking the seal released her from the picture.

And I don't think asking, begging, or pleading is going to put her back.

And I can't sell an incomplete book. And I can't pay the rent I owe.

And so your grandpa won't give you your allowance. It's hopeless.

Why are you giving up this easily?

I'm just an antiquarian.

Do you think I can seal a monster back into a book?

But she--

She eats people! If she eats us...

That's just an old legend, right?

That "old legend" is sleeping ten feet from us!

It'll be fine.

She's so cute. She wouldn't do any harm.

Hey there. That's not your dinner.

Mr. Suzuri!

Did you find anything out about her?

I finally tracked down the man who got me started in this business.

He says he'll help.

Really?

She looks kind of lonely.

Mommy...