I was watching Anime for a long time already, picked up a manga here and there but I didn’t really enjoy them. It felt like there was so little story and I could finish one in under an hour. So I gave up on Manga.
I watched So I’m a Spider, So What?/ Kumo desu ga, nani ka? when it started airing and it hooked me instantly. Her character. The world. The comedy. Everything. (Except the humans…).
Once it was over, I wanted more. And since everyone kept saying the Light Novel is way better, especially the human side, I bought the first 3 volumes.
It was amazing. I binge read them until I had to wait for the English releases. Right now I’m waiting for vol. 16 to be available again so I can finish this series.
I had been reading manga for a while and then, similar to you, ran into a series in which I could not wait to see what happened next. For me, that series was Eminence in Shadow which was my entry into LN/WN reading. I was surprised at how different the LN was from the manga in tone though, moreso than many other series I have since consumed both forms of media. It is a great example of the different storytelling modalities adapting the same story and ending up with three (LN, manga, anime), interesting for different reasons, pieces of media.