I kind of hate the Middle Stratum magma-level stuff. We know she's not going to die here, so there's no tension at all with every battle she's in here being a deathtrap. Everything on this stratum can survive in magma, Kumoko can't. It's gotten really old, really fast.

The sooner the story leaves for another level, the better.

Any guesses at who the big titty goth vampire at the end of the last episode is in the Japan flashback? They could be telegraphing pretty hard with the gloomy student (who did have a fang too), but Katia used to be a boy, Fei used to be the bully girl who liked Shun. Both Wakaba and the gloomy student didn't say a word, nor did the other girls bullying Wakaba.