Audience reviews
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Bordeone
Great dissapoinment, there is no plot, every character feels like an NPC, not sure what even all the hype is about, basically a trash isekai with godly animation. One thing for sure is, if you want a story you could self insert to, this is for you, it is meant for people with miserable life, the dumber you are, and the much more egos you have, the better this feels. Nothing worth of mentioning besides how the production managed to turn this ass into this fame with the animation and direction, salute to A-1.
Have tried reading the source, since the rating is kind of high on several sites, and ofc it originated from the trash source... marvel comic level of arts, but some elementary kids level of story. Just have to speeed run the entire last 50 chapters in like an hour, patiently waiting f…
Read at the sourceLolicoens
Better than frieren, deserved anime of the year. Unique story, definitely recommend for everyone.
Goated art and animation, and music and score. I love the character, especially sun Jin woo, so much aura. He start of weak but his journey and character development is top tier. There might be some flaw with the story pacing, but it is negligible.
Solo Leveling is one of the best anime I’ve ever seen. From the stunning animation to the epic soundtrack, everything pulls you into its world from the very first episode. The fights are intense, the pacing is fast, and every moment feels important.
What really makes it special is Sung Jin-Woo’s journey. Watching him grow from the weakest hunter into one of the most powerful beings in the world is both exciting and inspiring. He doesn’t just get…
Read at the sourceNana_ano
This anime only exits to serve a typical straight male fantasy- underdog becomes an overpowered character and shows everyone who's the boss; every woman who lays eyes on him gets her panties in a twist; protagonist is oh so cool and calm in the face of danger; video game mechanics allowing him
to level up- need I say more?
The characters are bleak with absolutely no development whatsoever other than the completely unbelievable transformation of the main character from a meek guy to gigachad in the span of 4 episodes The storyline is all over the place and all other characters are only stepping stones for the protagonist.
They really could have done so much more with this- show more of the internal conflict the protagonist would feel when killing someone for the first time, losing his to…
Read at the sourcehardrodsquirter
Solo Leveling is proof that if you throw in enough overpowered characters, flashy fight scenes, and shallow revenge plots, fans will eat it up regardless of how abysmally written it is. Sitting at a baffling 8.2 rating, it’s clear that standards for storytelling in this medium have hit an all-time low.
The show is written like a middle schooler’s power fantasy gone wrong. Our protagonist, Jinwoo, starts as a laughably weak hunter who—surprise, surprise—gains overpowered abilities overnight. Character depth? Forget it. Jinwoo’s personality is as flat as the screen you're watching him on. His only defining trait is being ridiculously strong, but with no real challenge nor stakes, everything he encounter felt more like a chore than a genuinely exciting moment.
Plot? What plot? It’s just a r…
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I can say "I really don't know why it is really popular" but thats a lie. This anime using a formula which is very effective and proven tens of times. That formula created of predecessor of SOLO Leveling, "SWORD ART ONLINE". Weak shy protogonist unfairly rising the ranks and every female around him dropping their panties left and right. But why I don't think this is a bad anime? Trash anime doesn't mean its bad, some of them like SAO is perfectly fun anime. They are like michael bay movies, fun but forgetable in five minutes. Though this one has a killer soundtrack. People like this anime right now but in five years these people will think this anime in same class with SAO.
Read at the sourceSwoozyD
I watched some anime that werent perfect but its uncomparable to this.
Solo leveling has 0 redeeming qualities animation is soulless, they made me question sawano with that horrible opening song.
Even horrible animes i dont like have some soul or meaning. This is like AI generated and im angry someone wasted their time to do it / watch it when here is better stuff out there.
You are better of watching pretty much anything else than this just roll the dice
If you want to hate watch it go for it but its waste of time its most overhyped anime 2023-2024
Read at the sourceRoving
Solo Leveling is basically a typical shounen anime with a isekai twist. The pacing is super fast, the plot is all over the place, and the characters are one-dimensionally designed and dull. The animation is acceptable, but not as great as it should've been. Another issue for me personally is the opening theme song really didn't do it for me. It didn't hype me before watching an episode and felt like a bad mid-2000's anime opening. The worst part, however, is the main character. He is just the typical, boring, overpowered character with the same protagonist mentality that is common with shounen anime.
If Solo Leveling had released in the 2000's then it would have been amazing, but unfortunately we have seen this generic shounen anime story time and time again and for that reason I'm probab…
Read at the sourceVxerix
Hello Everyone!
I knew this title was coming out way back in the last year of 2023; this is when I was reading the manhwa because everyone in the East Asian Media fandom was giving their highest approval to this Manhwa called solo leveling! Everyone was saying this manhwa was out of this world because it was cool and had a compelling story. I was duped into reading it, and it became one of the worst and biggest time-wasters I've dived into. You can check out my Manhwa review if you are inclined.
I had very little hope of the anime, which I thought would be somewhat of an improvement, but nope, it wasn't. It had the SAME FUCKING PROBLEMS as the manhwa. Such as making Jin Woo the center of the whole story with no regard for expanding the already useless characters found in the Manhwa. They…
Read at the sourceJustinJangles
Target audience matters. and I am just outside the target audience. Younger me would have loved this, it's high energy, power fantasy, gory, and the protag is edgy. However, older me has developed new tastes (which I will not claim to be superior, simply different), and subsequently I struggled to feel invested.
Things I can praise:
- Animation. It's high quality stuff for the action scenes. They are bombastic and top notch
- Joohee. The only person who feels realistically portrayed in this show. Can't say much about why without spoiling events. I only wish she had a bit more time on screen in order to give her a bit more development and give the audience more time to build an attachment.
- Use of violence. While gore is generally not a selling point for me, this show used violence in suc…
Read at the sourcesvendrik
Solo Leveling came into 2024 as one of the most anticipated anime adaptations and after watching the entire first season its hype is totally uncalled for, Solo Leveling is a traditional power fantasy that way to often dips its hand into established generic tropes from the Shonen and fantasy genre such as zero to hero character progression, traditional fantasy elements, and video game mechanics, while simultaneously never once putting forward a original or creative idea. The series is so creatively bankrupt it fails to do a single original thing to separate itself from the oversaturated fantasy/isekai genre. With world building so lazy almost always shying away from a creative element to instead explain and build its world with video game mechanics while simultaneously pretending its not ju…
Read at the sourcejahver
(NOTE: THIS IS AN EDITED VERSION OF MY PREVIOUS SUBMISSION WHICH WAS THE HIGHEST-RATED REVIEW FOR THE SERIES UNTIL IT WAS REMOVED)
Solo Leveling might be one of the most embarrassing, confused amalgam of power fantasy tropes and self-insert garbage to ever come out of South Korea. It’s a completely worthless experience that even the most uncultured viewer will get absolutely nothing out of. The question of the day is why A-1 Pictures expended so much of their time and resources into essentially polishing a turd; every second of top-notch storyboarding and animation would’ve been better spent enhancing a more competently written and directed series. Perhaps the blame lies on its slavish cult following - despite its severe failings as a story, as some people (and presumably AI-generated soci…
Read at the sourceBadGuyBoog
I feel like most of these anime are written by teenagers. So many are catered around immature (or even toxic) depictions of love, power fantasies, shallow themes/characters and/or edgy ‘maturity’. Jinwoo has no depth and is just a teenager's image of what being badass is. The other characters have one character trait that they play off as being thematically deep like ‘she’s scared of dying’ or ‘he’s caring but knows it’s dangerous’. If you can describe an entire character’s conflict with one sentence then that character needs work. I feel like people only think this show is mature because there are government policies, business jargon, blood and killing, people being afraid to die (which should be a no brainer), no sexualization (it’s there but very subtle), the main character loses every…
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Ah yes, the timeless tale of a down on his luck regular guy who stumbles upon an encounter with eldritch gods, only to be imbued with the power of - you guessed it - video games!
Solo Leveling takes every element of storytelling and replaces it with literal RPG-esque pop-ups telling you that something happened or that a number went up, rather than ever giving you anything meaningful to earn character development or progression in what could hardly be called a plot. You realize this quickly as our downtrodden hero encounters his first enemies on his own - a couple of unassuming goblins. But it's not enough that there are goblins on screen - there's text above their head that says GOBLIN, just in case you were utterly lost without it. But do not fret, for they are level 1 punk goblins, the…
Read at the sourceBafflees
Do you enjoy decently animated fighting scenes and don't care about anything else? Then I highly recommend you stop reading this and start watching already!
Still there? Great. Apart from the fluid animation during fights, this anime has no redeeming qualities at all.
The characters are all unbelievably bleak. Of course, it's called SOLO Leveling - still, after watching all 12 episodes during the last three months, not a single character of this anime lingered in my mind for even a second. Jin-Woo goes from a timid, weak dude to a cold-hearted Gigachad with a flat, deep voice in the matter of about 4 episodes. That's all the character development there is - he carries his husky tone and ice-cold mannerisms all the way through the finish line. His sister, like all the other characters, see…
Read at the sourceMrZentase
A pile a hot steaming garbage would be more enjoyable to feast upon than this show. The lack of creativity and pure laziness that surrounds this show is obvious to any who watch. You can tell the creator wanted to make an isekai, but didn't want the isekai tag. From simply making the armour "Invisible" (the creator didn't want to have to draw something so didn't) to turning it all into a real life game.. From seemingly nowhere, you already had a regurgitated formula, with random dungeons spawning. Something I'm sure we've all seen about a thousand times by now. Yet you still wanted to be even less creative? If anything I'm impressed with how lazy you can be.
You somehow even managed to make high octane, adrenaline fueled fights simply nauseating. Let me break down every. Single. Fight. I…
Read at the sourceAlkimia
I really tried to keep an open mind while watching this show, but I don't get it. It's just another wish fulfillment power fantasy where this useless scrawny dude gets ridiculously overpowered, and now that I've watched the series through, I still find myself wondering what exactly people were so hyped about. If you're here because of all the hype surrounding this show, drop that hype and draw your own conclusion instead, or you may end up disappointed.
Starting with the story it's nothing special. It can be so predictable and just so bland. It somehow takes ideas from similar shows and somehow makes them worse here. Obviously not going to say much about it here, but if you've seen other shows similar to this like "Sword Art Online" and "I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unr…
Read at the sourceBartTheDrake
I can only say that this show fails so hard to deliver. This show was a mawha that was super hyped, and very good as a mawha, because it was drawn so good, but the animation fails to deliver. The story of the show have nothing good to offer, and because that they have only used mid level animation, it fails do deliver.
the story is your usual, geek gets op, and now he can get the girls, with no supstance, nothing unique. Just a power fantasy story for the geek that cant get a girlfriend.
characters is very boring, specially the main character. actually all the character is boring, they have no personalities, no dept to them.
this show score will fall with time, because as of this writing, the hardcore fans watches this, giving it an unrealistic score because of their love for the mawha…
Read at the sourceleyaf
One of the worst anime I have seen lately. It is a very slow and boring series. The plot here you will not experience anime is literally about nothing. The main character as it happens in badly made shonen can overcome anything as long as the will to fight does not leave him. The results of the fights are therefore obvious. Apart from the fights in this anime you will find nothing but unnecessary and poorly conducted dialogues. The worst is the change of the protagonist into a completely different person at the start which I hate. I do not recommend.
Read at the sourceStark700
Solo Leveling, the series that took the world by storm back in 2018. No less than a few years later, we are graced a with a 12-episode adaptation that appears to be one of the most hyped series in 2024. It's on a lot of wishlists and for good reasons: stunning visuals, a wish fuflling premise, a diverse cast, and through word of mouth. Korean webnovel anime adaptations have been gaining mainstream popularity in recent years, with Tower of God being another recent example. Solo Leveling tries to set its own example as well.
I want to preface and mention, this review is based from an anime viewer's perspective. I have not read the original source so everything here is based on what's shown in the anime without comparsion to the manhwa. With its promotional material, there was still no doubt…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
The recent trend of Korean manhwa being adapted into Japanese anime has finally brought us to this point. Arguably the biggest manhwa of all time, Solo Leveling has finally got an anime and is a meathead action fan’s biggest dream come true. Delivering some of the best action scenes you’ll see this year, an amazing Sawano OST and a solid power fantasy, this one was a fun watch.
For the last several years, I’ve heard a ton of hype about Solo Leveling and I honestly didn’t think too much of it. Shonen esque battle series are just pretty meh to me at this stage in life, so I never picked up the novels or manhwa. But I have to say I was blown away by the anime. A-1 gave us an absolute visual spectacle with some amazing fights, but I also found the concept of hunters, dungeons and portals into…
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