Solo Levelingis an incredibly popular manwha, or Korean comic, that already had a large audience worldwide before being adapted. The base story follows a low-level hunter, Sung Jin-woo, who becomes the protagnist after surviving a particularly harrowing dungeon.
Snowballing off of the manhwa’s success, A-1 Studios took it upon themselves to make the story into an anime. This is the same studio responsible forBlack Butler II,Sword Art Online, and evenKaguya-sama Love is War, so we knw it was going to be good. Here’s everything you should know about Solo Leveling.
Solo Leveling Release Date
The animation studio is handling Nier: Automata Ver1.1a as well, which is an anime adaptation based on the video game, and that also released in January, so the studio had a busy month
Despite many believing that the Solo Leveling voice cast would be Korean instead of Japanese, due to it being adapted from a Korean book, the voices so far have been in Japanese and English.
The Japanese cast is:
The English dub cast is:
Solo Leveling follows the hero Sung Jin-woo, an E-class hero who earns the ability to improve his powers after being saved from death in a mysterious dungeon. He’s the only one who has this ability, in a world where fantasy creatures are invading our universe through portals.
Korean manhwa has a trope of video gaming in real life, a little similar to the progression system present in the Isekai Japanese anime genre. But instead of being sent to another world, their original world is one where video game logic just kind of makes sense. And for Solo Leveling, they exist in a universe where these warriors are called hunters.
Solo Leveling has received a strongly positive reaction from fans and critics. The anime scored an 8.5 on iMDb and an 8.65 on MyAnimeList, indicating viewers have been consistently enjoying the show so far.
It’s not hard to see why: engrossing mythos, fascinating lead character, and some wicked gore. What more could you want from a great anime?
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Terry is a former Dexerto writer from South Korea. He spends his spare time grinding competitive team games, and loves creating content for a wide variety of games, especially Wild Rift and League of Legends.
