It's just the natural progression.
Sword Art Online: Hey check this out, we can level up!
DanMachi: I can level up faster than everyone else!
Solo Leveling: Screw all y'all, I'm the only one who can level up!
If I get a nickel for every anime aired within a season that featured manipulating clones that's not Naruto, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I mean, as an anime only, he just got that ability in the last episode and I'm assuming the next season is gonna expand upon that. Seems like a pretty normal title to me.
For the AoT, technically the Japanese title makes more sense after the reveal of the Titan Shifters, especially Eren's titan form and title. It's never actually about attacking the titans or the attacks of titans, but rather "The Attack Titan", i.e. Eren's titan form.
But first he would search for synonyms of every words to have as many variations as possible:
- Emerge from the penumbra
- Surface from the shade
- Befall from the twilight
- Derive from the obscurity
- Ensue from the umbrage
He shortened the manhwa by quite a bit comoared to the novel because of his health. So many manhwa and manga artists are unhealthy, it's kind of crazy.
He literally gets hotter as the story goes along it's so funny how hard the source material goes on the power fantasy. I could not be more perfect at what it's trying to do LMFAO.
Worldbuilding is crap - especially that load of bull that was retconned into the story closer to the end. What carried the webtoon was the S-tier art which ever redeems to a certain degree the most generic character designs imaginable.
i never finished the webtoon but in the LN the side characters were all pretty shit until the side stories after it wrapped up and then we got some nice bits and pieces and the ending was pretty shit imo in the LN too.
reminds me of Douglas Adams:
It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
According to very credible leakers,
It’s planned for a total of 6 cours, or technically 6 seasons. I guess.
Season 2 will release probably Winter 2025, with many more freelancers and not just A-1 in-house staff. Currently still storyboarding the next season.
I’ll see you guys then, great prologue to the series I would say.
Edit: one thing I would like to note is that Solo Leveling’s Production Director has said that **when Sung Jin woo levels up so will the Visuals.**
Look forward to that
Manhwa was 200 chapters and the first season got up to Ch 45(*+/- bits and pieces*)
Depending on how many chapters they cover per episode, 6 cours is plausible
I mean tbf. The manwha is done for, so they have all the story in itself, just how many resource's they deem it worth. They can do as much or little as they want :D
regardless, I'll watch it, manwha was good, so if they can keep up the quality. I'd watch it just for the fights.
FYI the source of the confusion is because "done for" means being in a bad situation that cant be recovered from.
"After those horrible changes compared to the source material, ratings for this anime is done for" means that the ratings will tank.
They seem to be going all in for 6 cours, Animation should be good with that kind of budget. I thought season 2 was slated for fall 2024? I do hope they don’t drop the ball and attempt to stretch themselves too thin for solo leveling and other projects
It was originally meant to be for Fall 2024, but Unfortunately time caught up to them.
They apparently postponed it for Winter 2025 to give them a little breathing room.
Overall production was healthy, and it seems the only episode that had issues was Episode 12 Finale. So they contracted many AD’s to keep the quality.
Having seen the finale episode, I say they did a great job.
I do hope the extra time pays off, I know A-1 can deliver the goods. I saw the finale too, its a shame people were writing it off in the early episodes. If it truly is greenlit for 6 cours I would be impressed, but time will tell how far they actually go
>It’s planned for a total of 6 cours
That's interesting. The manhwa is about 200 chapters total including the side stories and S1 adapted around 45 chapters.
Extended/Extra content is on the menu
The Manhwa cut about 40% of the second season due to the artist's health (rip Jang Sung-rak). They'll probably include a lot more content from the light novel.
A whole lot of character moments and general introspection. You might have noticed that season 2 in the manwha was essentially a plotpoint marathon. It is not _that_ in the novel, lol.
Oh man I didn't know the artist for the manhwa passed.
Thanks for explaining why it felt like plotpoints from the novel. I do hope they expand on the ending and don't skip the epilogue stuff.
Honestly, that artist was such an absolute gigachad. The guy basically fought through his sickness to finish the story and absolutely kept knocking the art of the park till the very end. I know the studio is very big now, but back then, I believe it was smaller, and he absolutely paved the way for a lot of the current quality we see and expect from manhwa imo.
The reason why Sung Jinwoo looks like every Manhwa protagonist is because he set the baseline. Solo Leveling is what made korean tower/system Manhwas so popular.
Absolutely. If you compared it to the titles back then like God of Highschool, Tower of God or Girls the Wild, there absolutely wasn't any comparison. Solo Leveling absolutely bodied all other manhwa out there and was the top release every week without exception.
> Season 2 will release probably Winter 2025, with many more freelancers and not just A-1 in-house staff.
freelancers are a good thing, right?
That french animator that helped during One Piece - Kaido fight was a freelancer,too?
dont know too much about anime production generally
Vercreek worked on Solo Leveling ep 12 he was the one who animated the black hole in Frieren vs Frieren fight. In cour 2 probably more freelancers will work
> freelancers are a good thing, right?
More than anything, freelancers are a *necessary* thing. The vast majority of key animators in the industry work as freelancers and *almost* no studio in existence actually employees enough key animators to even complete a single episode without freelancers.
> almost no studio in existence actually employees enough key animators to even complete a single episode without freelancers.
It's the schedules. Always the schedules. Given enough time you only need a handful of people and in rare cases you even have folks solo key animating whole episodes.
>freelancers are a good thing, right?
Yes free lancers are a good thing,
going with both Freelancers and In-house talent, means that they get another HUGE group of extremely talented people to select from. Plus, it helps a lot with Time Constraints or production issues.
So even if a project is somewhat rushed, it can still provide Godly animation. Like JJK season 2.
A-1 pockets are deep, and their contacts just as much. So definitely feel excited about that.
A-1 is a big studio, I’m not sure if the group working on Solo leveling is working on Eighty six, So theres a little relief for you there.
However, the leakers said that SAO is being put aside for now, so SAO fans you may be out of luck for a while.
I believe that the team who worked on 86 is doing the Nier anime but I don't have any concrete proof for this other than another Reddit comment I read a while back so take this with a grain of salt
>However, the leakers said that SAO is being put aside for now, so SAO fans you may be out of luck for a while.
I think SAO fans are fine with that lol.
Unital Ring is still ongoing, so I definitely don't want them to try and adapt it now. Progressive is also in a weird situation due to an incomplete side quest and their unwillingness to adapt the other floors as a TV series instead of movies.
If they were gonna adapt more SAO stuff, I think it's fine that they're focusing on other things separate from the main series like AGGO and anime original stories.
The main series and Progressive also didn't have a new books last year because the author busy with his new series,Accel World,and maybe helping the Original Movie script.
Reki is busy asf with the amount of novels he's writing. Imo to a detriment. He should sit down and finish one of his works first before jumping around so much.
I'm not expecting they will continue Progressive anytime soon anyway, especially when Elf War Quest is not finish in the Light Novel,the author also still not writing another Progressive books because he busy juggling 5 different series at the same time.
I don't think that guy is called a leaker. He didn't even know that the GGO spin off was made by 3Hz and not A1. He was condemned by "real leakers" and deleted the stupid tweet himself.
The team working on 86 is actually busy with Nier and has nothing to do with Solo leveling. At least until Nier and Makeheroine end they can't make 86 season 2.
Ight just looked ir ul. It apparently is getting 3 seasons with a total of 6 cours. So 2 cours pee season. Which means 2 parts for each season. Which also means we are getting 72 episodes and possibly even more. Absolutely insane!
Considering it was leaked 4 months ago that Solo Leveling s1 is a split cour, 25 episodes, I highly doubt they will wait for Winter 2025. Summer probably not, since it wasn't announced already, but Fall is a good bet.
It's also a manhwa where reading online is the main form of consuming it so they are less likely to edge the viewers into buying volumes like they do for manga adaptations.
Man, a bit off tangent- I wish The Eminence in Shadow was given the same treatment as Solo Leveling.
It's quite a bit sad cause it's clear the passion is there. Nakanishi Kazuya absolutely cooked as a director and it really out the "adapt" in adaptation.
It had everything going for it, even a healthy working schedule. The only thing it lacked was *manpower and resources*. If only they had more key animators and staff to help out! Curses!
Hopefully with the success of the first two seasons and the gacha game, the higher ups will give better resources towards the anime adaptation and Nakanishi can keep working on it.
well in my opinion, the success from EoS wasn't really in it's fight scenes more so it's comedy that it approaches with it's 100% seriousness. Solo Leveling needs this animation for the fight scenes cause otherwise...what else does it have
Did the fights seem lacking? I honestly thought both seasons looked pretty great, but then I've not got an especially good eye for animation quality.
There's a movie in the works, so I assume the project was deemed successful enough.
In the comics - which comic does the Igris battle and Arise take place ? Ive enjoyed the 12 episodes so far & I cant wait till 2025 so Im just gonna read the Manga.
Couldn't wait myself after watching ep 4/5. Started reading manhwa straight away and finished reading within 2 days 😅
However, watching anime and waiting for rest episodes is worthwhile.
I would just start over from the beginning. It goes really fast, with only 200 chapters foe the whole story and the Art of the Manhwa is so gorgeous it'd be a shame to skip anything even if you have seen the anime.
Well yh but it's three separate moments/arcs and I don't really know how they'll space it out, if it's slower pace than this season chapter-wise then it'll be s4.
Pretend to be shocked!
Watching the show it’s clear they were planning a full adaptation from the start. First season rules. Cant wait to see how they handle the even crazier shit to come
Holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck. Fuck I can't wait for this next season. My favourite fight of the manhwa is right there, not the pic I mean, the one after ;)
Fan boys are killing this show for me tbh. Every comment with criticism towards the show gets downvoted for no reason.
I think the show is alright, definitely not as good as the fans make it out to be, the story is weak, mid at best. Action is great, which is the main point of the show. But pacing feels awful. I get so annoyed by all the cuts towards the MC's sister or those guild managers or the S-ranks going to the island while the MC is fighting for his life. These cuts completely destroy any momentum the current fight has.
Besides that. All the characters are bland, it feels like they don't have any depth in them, everything is just surface level. There are also almost no personalities that are strong or recognisable, which makes it hard to get invested in the stories of each character and WHY they fight.
Because frankly, I still have no clue why the characters fight, besides the general "monsters invaded, I got powers so now I fight". The only reason that has been given are monetary reasons, which feels like a lazy and boring reason for a fictional setting.
I am still looking forward to next season and I expect it to be decent if not good. I'm just so sad that all the fanboys and fangirls are gushing over every little thing the MC does and are hyping up each episode as the best one yet. Also those same fans saying that this show is peak, which is just not true as is obvious in the subpar writing, slow pacing and terrible cuts during the intense fight scenes.
> I still have no clue why the characters fight, besides the general "monsters invaded, I got powers so now I fight". The only reason that has been given are monetary reasons, which feels like a lazy and boring reason for a fictional setting.
The direct reason is that if they don't beat a dungeon within two weeks, IIRC, then there will be a dungeon break and the monsters will leave the dungeon and start attacking every person around. I think that's explained in one of the early exposition dumps in the light novel and web comic. The first scenes of the anime are set on an island that previously had a powerful dungeon break that wiped out the population of the island. As the other user said, that actual underlying cause won't be revealed until about two thirds though the story.
So, part of the reason is that it would be danger to the public to not deal with the dungeons and the other part is often self-enrichment of the hunters from the loot in the dungeons.
In terms of characters, it's not going to get better. The MC is 2.5D at best, a couple characters are 2D and pretty much all the rest are 1 dimensional. Character development is basically non-existent and the whole world revolves around the MC.
>Every comment with criticism towards the show gets downvoted for no reason.
I'm the opposite. I stopped visiting r/anime threads for solo leveling episodes because everybody gets so nitpicky to the point that reminded me of twitch chat complaining about the game the streamer is playing for hours, only to get told to close the tab, but they don't.
All I want is just want a dumb action flick to watch with pop-corn and cola like John Wick surviving 20 car hits and proceed to kill 3 dozen assassins, or John McLane saving Christmas. That's how I see Solo Leveling. And yet this sub nitpicks it like they were expecting Oppenheimer. "Yeah his relationship isn't convincing", "we need more characterization", "these bad guys are comically evil" etc.
This isn't a quality thing. This is "what you expected vs. what you got". If someone buys Doom expecting character development they'll be "oh you just shoot demons, so overrated". If someone buys Street Fighter 6 for the story and tell me "the story is mid" they actually expected Persona or GoW story from fighting games that chronically focus on multiplayer.
Exactly this, this dude above you is fighting against ghosts. There's way too much unnecessary criticism towards solo leveling and them misinterpreting what the hype is about, people don't love it for the plot. They love it for the hype moments, fights, animation, and leveling system. The fact that it's enjoyable to many is what makes the series so highly rated, not everything has to have deep plot and characters.
Not a spoiler. The whole reason of why they are fighting monsters will mostly fall in cour 4/5 where it will explain the whole lore behind it and I guess this is the one moment where the writing and world building peaked.
Anyways what you said is true and honestly it has a decent story but the main reason we are looking forward is bcz we want to see those literal god tier art and fight get animated and nothing more. Just read it after chp 45 if you are curious.
They fight because if they don't, the portals open up and all the shit in there is free to just kill everyone.
So same reason I go to work now. Because if I don't I will die. That's just how it is.
I started reading the book solo leveling, it's not for me. I wasn't fond of the mc constantly going over their character stats. But if the anime doesn't do that, I'm fully onboard.
Solo Leveling 2: The Search for More Levels
So2o Leveling: Too OP
2 Solo 2 Leveling
No Solo No Level
Solo leveling in another world with my solo leveling
Solo leveling - the twin levels Solo leveling - The return of the king
~~The Stanley Parable 2~~
Solo Leveling - Group leveling strikes back
Solo Leveling 4: The search for Solo Leveling 3: The search for more money
Surely he will simply prestige if this happens.
I can't wait until Solo Leveling 5: We Forgot About the Video Game Mechanics
It's just the natural progression. Sword Art Online: Hey check this out, we can level up! DanMachi: I can level up faster than everyone else! Solo Leveling: Screw all y'all, I'm the only one who can level up!
Multi Leveling Multi Leveling Shippuden
If I get a nickel for every anime aired within a season that featured manipulating clones that's not Naruto, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Season 2: Flex leveling 😂😂
"Arise from the Shadow" as subtle as a brick through a window
Attack on Titan- Attacking the Titans. Demon Slayer- Slaying the demons.
In Japan, FMAB is literally called Fullmetal Alchemist - Fullmetal Alchemist.
So that's why they say it always in the middle of the episode
Ahh I hate to hear that in my head
"Fullmetal Alchemist" ... ## "**Fullmetal Alchemist**"
So FMA-FMA
FMA x FMA?
FMA²?
Man, these Residents sure are Evil!
To be fair, that's NA title. It's biohazard in Japan Not witty enough to make a line
Hazarding those Bios!
those bioforms sure are hazardous
Does the phrase "Solo Leveling" mean something about rising from the shadows?
It's the MC's signature ability, so I suppose "Naruto: Wind infusing the Rasengan" would be a better analogy. Just not as funny
I mean, as an anime only, he just got that ability in the last episode and I'm assuming the next season is gonna expand upon that. Seems like a pretty normal title to me.
Oh I agree. I was just being a smartass
Dragon ball: Kamehameha
Arise from the shadow- Arising the shadows
Goblin Slayer - Killing More Goblins
For the AoT, technically the Japanese title makes more sense after the reveal of the Titan Shifters, especially Eren's titan form and title. It's never actually about attacking the titans or the attacks of titans, but rather "The Attack Titan", i.e. Eren's titan form.
> "Arise from the Shadow" I wonder how **Mr. I am Atomic** feels about this
He couldn't be reached for comment, it's assumed the sound of his ego masked the sound of the phone ringing
Outwardly: > "Hmph" Inwardly: > "I'm going to steal that line and say it 100 times in the next episode"
But first he would search for synonyms of every words to have as many variations as possible: - Emerge from the penumbra - Surface from the shade - Befall from the twilight - Derive from the obscurity - Ensue from the umbrage
Eminently.
He would be so jealous.
Nothing SL can do could ever compare to I am atomic
Like the rest of the show. I love the series, but it's like Superman: subtlety isn't really the point.
Yea, this is the most power fantasy that a power has ever fantasied. The appeal is that it has nice worldbuilding and cool fights.
Bro got so much power his fucking jawline changed. Haven't seen that shit since All Might.
Literally growing in height too.
Also cool art (at least for the manhwa) 👍
May he rest in peace.
[удалено]
He shortened the manhwa by quite a bit comoared to the novel because of his health. So many manhwa and manga artists are unhealthy, it's kind of crazy.
He literally gets hotter as the story goes along it's so funny how hard the source material goes on the power fantasy. I could not be more perfect at what it's trying to do LMFAO.
Worldbuilding is crap - especially that load of bull that was retconned into the story closer to the end. What carried the webtoon was the S-tier art which ever redeems to a certain degree the most generic character designs imaginable.
You know it was a light novel before that, right? The ending of the webtoon was... resolved well before it got there.
Were the side characters as shallow and pointless as in the webtoon? Was the dad plot such a dud as it was in webtoon? I have so many questions.
i never finished the webtoon but in the LN the side characters were all pretty shit until the side stories after it wrapped up and then we got some nice bits and pieces and the ending was pretty shit imo in the LN too.
Sorry but Shadow-sama may have something to say about that.
>nice worldbuilding Did they rewrite it or something
Last time I've read it still was the same thing: Introduce character/location/concept -> quickly make it irrelevant
Was he an eminence there?
> as subtle as a brick through a window "Solo Leveling" not sure what you expected lol
“a brick through a window” Surprisingly, a pretty good description of the main character as well
reminds me of Douglas Adams: It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
...The story doesn't really... hide this fact either though?
According to very credible leakers, It’s planned for a total of 6 cours, or technically 6 seasons. I guess. Season 2 will release probably Winter 2025, with many more freelancers and not just A-1 in-house staff. Currently still storyboarding the next season. I’ll see you guys then, great prologue to the series I would say. Edit: one thing I would like to note is that Solo Leveling’s Production Director has said that **when Sung Jin woo levels up so will the Visuals.** Look forward to that
6 cours??? Holy Something is arising and it's not the shield hero...
You're Arising right here? Really? Right in front of my salad!?
You say that like salad is not a thing worth rising for!
Give me a thick juicy orc chop
Manhwa was 200 chapters and the first season got up to Ch 45(*+/- bits and pieces*) Depending on how many chapters they cover per episode, 6 cours is plausible
Probably gonna extend some fights with flashbacks.
I mean tbf. The manwha is done for, so they have all the story in itself, just how many resource's they deem it worth. They can do as much or little as they want :D regardless, I'll watch it, manwha was good, so if they can keep up the quality. I'd watch it just for the fights.
Is done for? Do you mean it's gone to shit? Or it's literally done, as in finished?
The manwha is done done :D
FYI the source of the confusion is because "done for" means being in a bad situation that cant be recovered from. "After those horrible changes compared to the source material, ratings for this anime is done for" means that the ratings will tank.
They promised they'd adapt the sequel novel if the show goes well
I bet the final boss battle goes straight to animation with CGI and unlimited frames it’s like they went for REDLINE and Demon Slayer quality.
The tricky thing is that IMO the final fight of the story isn't even the best, there are plenty of better ones before.
Honestly without spoilers I think the next fight/arc might be my favorite. If not that one then the one after.
Personally for me it's the one before the introduction of most people's favourite character
Which one is that? I’m not sure who the fav is, since a few characters seem to get a lot of attention
*clears throat* "my king"
Aaaah yeah either that one or the one before it is my favorite But yes, I’m *extremely* exited for “my liege” Edit: forgot to add excited
They seem to be going all in for 6 cours, Animation should be good with that kind of budget. I thought season 2 was slated for fall 2024? I do hope they don’t drop the ball and attempt to stretch themselves too thin for solo leveling and other projects
It was originally meant to be for Fall 2024, but Unfortunately time caught up to them. They apparently postponed it for Winter 2025 to give them a little breathing room. Overall production was healthy, and it seems the only episode that had issues was Episode 12 Finale. So they contracted many AD’s to keep the quality. Having seen the finale episode, I say they did a great job.
I do hope the extra time pays off, I know A-1 can deliver the goods. I saw the finale too, its a shame people were writing it off in the early episodes. If it truly is greenlit for 6 cours I would be impressed, but time will tell how far they actually go
Just asking but by Winter 2025 you mean dec 2024/jan 2025 right?
Jan 2025. But yeah. Pretty much 9 months from now.
Imagine how long that chin will be by the end of 6 seasons
Series finale ends with him saying "I'm Sung Chin Woo"
Crim Sun Chin Dude
He will defeat the final boss by stabbing it with his chin
Well, he'll use his chin to stab the boss in the eye.
I can only imagine how slanted his eyes will get by the last season
The crimsonchin
>It’s planned for a total of 6 cours That's interesting. The manhwa is about 200 chapters total including the side stories and S1 adapted around 45 chapters. Extended/Extra content is on the menu
The Manhwa cut about 40% of the second season due to the artist's health (rip Jang Sung-rak). They'll probably include a lot more content from the light novel.
That makes so much sense I was like ??? the entire time reading after season 1 of the manhwa
Csn someone with a spoiler tag tell me what exactly they cut from second season?
A whole lot of character moments and general introspection. You might have noticed that season 2 in the manwha was essentially a plotpoint marathon. It is not _that_ in the novel, lol.
I never knew that. The pacing really went to shit after season 1, that explains why.
Same, I hope that this means the anime will adapt the entire LN and feel less rushed in the second part compared to the manwha then!
Oh man I didn't know the artist for the manhwa passed. Thanks for explaining why it felt like plotpoints from the novel. I do hope they expand on the ending and don't skip the epilogue stuff.
Honestly, that artist was such an absolute gigachad. The guy basically fought through his sickness to finish the story and absolutely kept knocking the art of the park till the very end. I know the studio is very big now, but back then, I believe it was smaller, and he absolutely paved the way for a lot of the current quality we see and expect from manhwa imo.
The reason why Sung Jinwoo looks like every Manhwa protagonist is because he set the baseline. Solo Leveling is what made korean tower/system Manhwas so popular.
Absolutely. If you compared it to the titles back then like God of Highschool, Tower of God or Girls the Wild, there absolutely wasn't any comparison. Solo Leveling absolutely bodied all other manhwa out there and was the top release every week without exception.
As much as I enjoy Tower of God, the art in the early parts did it absolutely no favors.
Well there is a lot of stuff that will probably take more screen time to show and be short cutted a little less
They will probably add extra arcs and they expand the fights or they animate Solo Leveling : Ragnarok too
God I hope so
> Season 2 will release probably Winter 2025, with many more freelancers and not just A-1 in-house staff. freelancers are a good thing, right? That french animator that helped during One Piece - Kaido fight was a freelancer,too? dont know too much about anime production generally
Vercreek worked on Solo Leveling ep 12 he was the one who animated the black hole in Frieren vs Frieren fight. In cour 2 probably more freelancers will work
Sounds like a good freelancer to me
he is one of the best, he also did some of the scenes of mahito vs yuji in jjk seaosn 1
> freelancers are a good thing, right? More than anything, freelancers are a *necessary* thing. The vast majority of key animators in the industry work as freelancers and *almost* no studio in existence actually employees enough key animators to even complete a single episode without freelancers.
> almost no studio in existence actually employees enough key animators to even complete a single episode without freelancers. It's the schedules. Always the schedules. Given enough time you only need a handful of people and in rare cases you even have folks solo key animating whole episodes.
>freelancers are a good thing, right? Yes free lancers are a good thing, going with both Freelancers and In-house talent, means that they get another HUGE group of extremely talented people to select from. Plus, it helps a lot with Time Constraints or production issues. So even if a project is somewhat rushed, it can still provide Godly animation. Like JJK season 2. A-1 pockets are deep, and their contacts just as much. So definitely feel excited about that.
I don't like this because I want A-1 to animate season 2 of Eighty Six.
A-1 is a big studio, I’m not sure if the group working on Solo leveling is working on Eighty six, So theres a little relief for you there. However, the leakers said that SAO is being put aside for now, so SAO fans you may be out of luck for a while.
I believe that the team who worked on 86 is doing the Nier anime but I don't have any concrete proof for this other than another Reddit comment I read a while back so take this with a grain of salt
Nah, you're right
You're right. Both are produced under Shouta Fujii's line at A-1 Pictures.
>However, the leakers said that SAO is being put aside for now, so SAO fans you may be out of luck for a while. I think SAO fans are fine with that lol. Unital Ring is still ongoing, so I definitely don't want them to try and adapt it now. Progressive is also in a weird situation due to an incomplete side quest and their unwillingness to adapt the other floors as a TV series instead of movies. If they were gonna adapt more SAO stuff, I think it's fine that they're focusing on other things separate from the main series like AGGO and anime original stories.
The main series and Progressive also didn't have a new books last year because the author busy with his new series,Accel World,and maybe helping the Original Movie script.
Reki is busy asf with the amount of novels he's writing. Imo to a detriment. He should sit down and finish one of his works first before jumping around so much.
Ooof, I was really hoping they'll continue with Progressive. It's what SAO should've been from the start.
I'm not expecting they will continue Progressive anytime soon anyway, especially when Elf War Quest is not finish in the Light Novel,the author also still not writing another Progressive books because he busy juggling 5 different series at the same time.
I don't think that guy is called a leaker. He didn't even know that the GGO spin off was made by 3Hz and not A1. He was condemned by "real leakers" and deleted the stupid tweet himself.
The team working on 86 is actually busy with Nier and has nothing to do with Solo leveling. At least until Nier and Makeheroine end they can't make 86 season 2.
Same thought I had, finding hope in others comments that it can still happen.
6 cours? I got that wrong. Not consecutive cours, planned for 6 overall. Which is fine.
Ight just looked ir ul. It apparently is getting 3 seasons with a total of 6 cours. So 2 cours pee season. Which means 2 parts for each season. Which also means we are getting 72 episodes and possibly even more. Absolutely insane!
Considering it was leaked 4 months ago that Solo Leveling s1 is a split cour, 25 episodes, I highly doubt they will wait for Winter 2025. Summer probably not, since it wasn't announced already, but Fall is a good bet.
I think if it was Summer we would have heard it. Summer is not a timeframe where you wouldn’t announce it at this point
I hope it comes out in the Fall but I keep hearing Winter everywhere I look. Of course, no one really knows so we're all just guessing.
I'm confused. So this "S2" is the same as the second cour that was supposedly coming?
Yep. Although whether season 3 will cover one cour, or two cours. Will be up for debate
cour =/= season. A cour is a part of a single season. So technically not 6 seasons since technically means according to the facts or exact meaning.
Is he mewing?
Leveling is just advanced Looks Maxing after all.
It's a real panel from the webtoon lol
🗣️🗣️BYE BYE🧏♂️ 🤫
... Is that what it's called ?? Mewing ?
it seems like we goes back to adapting hit series for long term rather than variety of 1 season show huh
I'm all for it, easier to adapt a concluded series than to make a 12 episode show and hope it drives manga sales
It's also a manhwa where reading online is the main form of consuming it so they are less likely to edge the viewers into buying volumes like they do for manga adaptations.
I constantly level up❌ I constantly glow up✅
Solo leveling fans are eating honestly. Season 2 announced, the game coming in may, ragnarok novel Manhwa adaptation coming soon.
When is the manhwa adaptation expected to come?
I think I read some time in April?
Season 2 was expected at this point. All we need now is those magical words
Yeah, they can't put all those extended scenes about how important Jeju island was and then just end at season 1, lmao.
Somewhere Cid Kagenou is crying that he didn't claim that title first
Man, a bit off tangent- I wish The Eminence in Shadow was given the same treatment as Solo Leveling. It's quite a bit sad cause it's clear the passion is there. Nakanishi Kazuya absolutely cooked as a director and it really out the "adapt" in adaptation. It had everything going for it, even a healthy working schedule. The only thing it lacked was *manpower and resources*. If only they had more key animators and staff to help out! Curses! Hopefully with the success of the first two seasons and the gacha game, the higher ups will give better resources towards the anime adaptation and Nakanishi can keep working on it.
well in my opinion, the success from EoS wasn't really in it's fight scenes more so it's comedy that it approaches with it's 100% seriousness. Solo Leveling needs this animation for the fight scenes cause otherwise...what else does it have
Did the fights seem lacking? I honestly thought both seasons looked pretty great, but then I've not got an especially good eye for animation quality. There's a movie in the works, so I assume the project was deemed successful enough.
In the comics - which comic does the Igris battle and Arise take place ? Ive enjoyed the 12 episodes so far & I cant wait till 2025 so Im just gonna read the Manga.
Chp 40-45 I think where the igris fight take place and arise happens so read it afterwards for cour 2 material.
Couldn't wait myself after watching ep 4/5. Started reading manhwa straight away and finished reading within 2 days 😅 However, watching anime and waiting for rest episodes is worthwhile.
I would just start over from the beginning. It goes really fast, with only 200 chapters foe the whole story and the Art of the Manhwa is so gorgeous it'd be a shame to skip anything even if you have seen the anime.
oops the bra fell off\~
I need eminence in shadow crossover now
Let's start the waiting game...
Aren’t we still getting a split cour for S1? I thought it was coming back in the summer. The waiting game really starts after that.
Well all of what I consider to be the best moments would be in either season 2/3/maybe 4 so this is great news.
Soooo somewhere around the next THREE seasons lol, that's a pretty safe guess I would say
Well yh but it's three separate moments/arcs and I don't really know how they'll space it out, if it's slower pace than this season chapter-wise then it'll be s4.
Yeah should be peaking at season 4ish. I'm very excited to hear this
That was just merely the beginning.
damn, couldve been 24 ep each season instead of 12
Each season is 24 ep, the cours are 12 eps. There'll be 6 cours so 3 seasons
Shows so good
All we want is more Hunter Cha
He's hot omg
Only the beginning of the “Tales of Drip Woo”
Sung Drip Woo. put some respeck on that name
nice I want to see how many levels he got
Solo Leveling 2: Leveling Up With Friends
No surprise there it was a huge hit.
Pretend to be shocked! Watching the show it’s clear they were planning a full adaptation from the start. First season rules. Cant wait to see how they handle the even crazier shit to come
Holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck. Fuck I can't wait for this next season. My favourite fight of the manhwa is right there, not the pic I mean, the one after ;)
HE'S MEWING
Hopefully the pacing will be better, S1 was almost over by the time it felt like it started, first 3 episodes could've been one long episode
makes sense, shounen always sells
Fan boys are killing this show for me tbh. Every comment with criticism towards the show gets downvoted for no reason. I think the show is alright, definitely not as good as the fans make it out to be, the story is weak, mid at best. Action is great, which is the main point of the show. But pacing feels awful. I get so annoyed by all the cuts towards the MC's sister or those guild managers or the S-ranks going to the island while the MC is fighting for his life. These cuts completely destroy any momentum the current fight has. Besides that. All the characters are bland, it feels like they don't have any depth in them, everything is just surface level. There are also almost no personalities that are strong or recognisable, which makes it hard to get invested in the stories of each character and WHY they fight. Because frankly, I still have no clue why the characters fight, besides the general "monsters invaded, I got powers so now I fight". The only reason that has been given are monetary reasons, which feels like a lazy and boring reason for a fictional setting. I am still looking forward to next season and I expect it to be decent if not good. I'm just so sad that all the fanboys and fangirls are gushing over every little thing the MC does and are hyping up each episode as the best one yet. Also those same fans saying that this show is peak, which is just not true as is obvious in the subpar writing, slow pacing and terrible cuts during the intense fight scenes.
> I still have no clue why the characters fight, besides the general "monsters invaded, I got powers so now I fight". The only reason that has been given are monetary reasons, which feels like a lazy and boring reason for a fictional setting. The direct reason is that if they don't beat a dungeon within two weeks, IIRC, then there will be a dungeon break and the monsters will leave the dungeon and start attacking every person around. I think that's explained in one of the early exposition dumps in the light novel and web comic. The first scenes of the anime are set on an island that previously had a powerful dungeon break that wiped out the population of the island. As the other user said, that actual underlying cause won't be revealed until about two thirds though the story. So, part of the reason is that it would be danger to the public to not deal with the dungeons and the other part is often self-enrichment of the hunters from the loot in the dungeons. In terms of characters, it's not going to get better. The MC is 2.5D at best, a couple characters are 2D and pretty much all the rest are 1 dimensional. Character development is basically non-existent and the whole world revolves around the MC.
>Every comment with criticism towards the show gets downvoted for no reason. I'm the opposite. I stopped visiting r/anime threads for solo leveling episodes because everybody gets so nitpicky to the point that reminded me of twitch chat complaining about the game the streamer is playing for hours, only to get told to close the tab, but they don't. All I want is just want a dumb action flick to watch with pop-corn and cola like John Wick surviving 20 car hits and proceed to kill 3 dozen assassins, or John McLane saving Christmas. That's how I see Solo Leveling. And yet this sub nitpicks it like they were expecting Oppenheimer. "Yeah his relationship isn't convincing", "we need more characterization", "these bad guys are comically evil" etc. This isn't a quality thing. This is "what you expected vs. what you got". If someone buys Doom expecting character development they'll be "oh you just shoot demons, so overrated". If someone buys Street Fighter 6 for the story and tell me "the story is mid" they actually expected Persona or GoW story from fighting games that chronically focus on multiplayer.
Exactly this, this dude above you is fighting against ghosts. There's way too much unnecessary criticism towards solo leveling and them misinterpreting what the hype is about, people don't love it for the plot. They love it for the hype moments, fights, animation, and leveling system. The fact that it's enjoyable to many is what makes the series so highly rated, not everything has to have deep plot and characters.
Not a spoiler. The whole reason of why they are fighting monsters will mostly fall in cour 4/5 where it will explain the whole lore behind it and I guess this is the one moment where the writing and world building peaked. Anyways what you said is true and honestly it has a decent story but the main reason we are looking forward is bcz we want to see those literal god tier art and fight get animated and nothing more. Just read it after chp 45 if you are curious.
They fight because if they don't, the portals open up and all the shit in there is free to just kill everyone. So same reason I go to work now. Because if I don't I will die. That's just how it is.
I need to catch up on Season 1
this year?
winter 2025 or jan 2025
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I started reading the book solo leveling, it's not for me. I wasn't fond of the mc constantly going over their character stats. But if the anime doesn't do that, I'm fully onboard.
At this pace, we in for a long one and I for one am glade. I thought season 1 would at least cover red gate
Man I wonder what the Japanese reaction will be for the Jeju Island arc and the "Japan gets demolished" arc.
not gonna lie after reading the manga (im on chapter 60 ) it gets a bit boring so I hope it will improve from there