Is The Solo Leveling Anime Any Good?

The “Solo Leveling” anime, also known as “Ore dake Level Up na Ken” is one of the most anticipated anime of this year. It already has a hype train rolling due to some well animated fight scenes, well directed Opening & Ending and the overall quality.

First Impressions on Solo Leveling

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The anime starts off with slow pacing, mostly introducing the world, the premise, and the main character Jin-Woo Sung. It continues as it’s just another day for the hunters and Jin-Woo being a laughingstock since he’s known as the weakest hunter of all time. But he’s used to it, as implied by the episode title and tries his best but becomes a liability for the team. He and his group embark on the exploration of a dungeon and discovers a hidden area revealed on their way back. Upon deciding to check it out, things go wrong, but Jin-Woo proves himself in such situation thanks his to his near-death experiences. Half the team is wiped out, the rest survives as Jin-Woo figures out a way out and stays behind for his close friend to escape. A perilous situation but that made the story all the more interesting, although we saw it coming from a mile away. Jin-Woo miraculously survives, receives a sort of UI or video game interface, giving him daily missions, showing him his status and gets him to level up, despite the mana reading not showing any changes. and he continues as it instructs.

Now, what I found interesting about it is how it carries the MC as well as the audience along with the narrative: giving us information about the world, how things work, different guilds, classes, and agendas. We are leveling up as well along with the MC. The pacing is just right if I might add. The anime doesn’t try to jam your face into that “yeah, it’s really hype and insane”. It’s subtle, doesn’t try to fall into the cringe, and doesn’t waste any moment. For me, it took a while to get to the hype part of the anime, but it’s better that way since it builds up from low to high. It’s not mind blowing or overhyped with the plot or fights, maybe we haven’t gotten to that part yet, but it manages to intrigue the audience.

Solo Leveling Review

The Solo Leveling anime is being produced by A-1 Pictures in Japan, so it has Japanese localized names. But the interesting part is the Japanese voice over is recorded twice, one with the Japanese names and other with the Korean names. But the dumb part is that they are aired in 2 separate platforms: Amazon & Crunchyroll respectively. So that’s a minus point in the review. Try looking for a fan release that added both audio track if you want to check out both or missing out on the one you want to experience. As for production, with Shunsuke Nakashige (known for Sword Art Online and Re: Zero) at helm, Noboru Kimura writing the scripts, Tomoko Sudo designing the characters, and Hiroyuki Sawano composing the music, it’s pretty solid. The animation, fight scenes, music timing, Opening & Ending, and voice acting is pretty good. Some people were going on about the animation being average from the trailer, but I’d say it’s up the standard. All in all, the anime is an 8 out of 10.

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First Impressions on Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling Review

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