Solo Leveling

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Synonyms: Na Honjaman Level Up, I Level Up Alone

Japanese: 나 혼자만 레벨업

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: 201

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 4, 2018 to May 31, 2023

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Theme: Adult Cast

Serialization: KakaoPage

Authors: Chugong (Story), Jang, Sung-rak (Art), Disciples (Art)

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Score: 8.68¹ (scored by 298,817 users)

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Ranked: #60²

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Popularity: #6

Members: 505,336

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Ten years ago, "the Gate" appeared and connected the real world with the realm of magic and monsters. To combat these vile beasts, ordinary people received superhuman powers and became known as "Hunters." Twenty-year-old Sung Jin-Woo is one such Hunter, but he is known as the "World's Weakest," owing to his pathetic power compared to even a measly E-Rank. Still, he hunts monsters tirelessly in low-rank Gates to pay for his mother's medical bills.

However, this miserable lifestyle changes when Jin-Woo—believing himself to be the only one left to die in a mission gone terribly wrong—awakens in a hospital three days later to find a mysterious screen floating in front of him. This "Quest Log" demands that Jin-Woo completes an unrealistic and intense training program, or face an appropriate penalty. Initially reluctant to comply because of the quest's rigor, Jin-Woo soon finds that it may just transform him into one of the world's most fearsome Hunters.

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Solo Leveling is a webtoon series which has been officially published in book format by D&C Media (디앤씨미디어) since September 26, 2019. It originally ended with 179 chapters on December 29, 2021, and side stories began serialization on January 20, 2023. The side stories are drawn by Disciples after the death of original artist Sung-rak Jang.

The series has been published digitally in English by Tappytoon since June 4, 2020, and in print by Yen Press since March 2, 2021. It has also been published in French by Delcourt since April 7, 2021.

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May 6, 2024

WimblerWonker

Recommended

anybody who said this is just decorated pieces of trash (spectre999), your opinion doesn't matter and you don't know how to spell correctly. Solo Leveling will now remain one of my all-time favorite manhwas because of how complex and entertaining everything about it is.

The art has been and remains 1000/10 forever, I wish jang sung-rak (the artist) could've lived longer. The art is fluent, beautiful, detailed and unique.
The plot follows the whole portal trope that has popped up more frequently recently, but the execution of the trope and plot mixed together is just 😘🤌. there's no other way to describe it except pure ...

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May 6, 2024

cgevil

Mixed Feelings

It was the first manhwa I read. The art is simply incredible, it feels like I'm watching an animation, and you end up getting so caught up in the reading and the action parts that you end up not even watching time pass.

I found the story a little intriguing, it makes me curious to know how it will end, but the way it all unfolds is a little boring, I know the idea is for the character to be the OverPower guy, but everything always ends very easily for the protagonist .

And there are so many other characters that I wanted to see ...

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May 23, 2024

APJin

Not Recommended

I wanted to like Solo Leveling. I'm Korean; I genuinely want to see manhwas succeed and stamp their place within the Animanga industry, but I finished reading and regretfully my first and only thought about Solo Leveling, without pulling punches, was that it was utter garbage. It's completely devoid of creativity, it's painfully predictable, the characters all suck (not that anybody other than the MC mattered in the first place), and because of these numerous faults it made for a very boring and unengaging reading experience.

When I think of how one could still manage to write an interesting story in which the protagonist is ... dumb overpowered, I look to One Punch Man and how well Murata managed such a difficult task with Saitama. Saitama is untouchable in the OPM world, every reader knows this, we know Saitama can never lose yet OPM is still so special because it does everything else so well. The side cast is excellent, characters like King, Genos, Garou, and others each exhibit their own charm and display a belonging within the story. Of course, whenever Saitama is in action the outcome is an obvious victory for our MC, but this never feels like a problem because we as readers are cognizant of this fact; it's because Saitama's opponent is always presented as the challenger rather than the other way around that makes for such an interesting element, like a Souls game, except in this instance our protagonist is the seemingly impossible boss fight. This is why such a heavy emphasis is placed on the side cast, as One Punch Man is ultimately a story about our stupidly overpowered protagonist in search of his equal, and therefore to make such a thing happen the side characters must be more important than even the main character.

On the contrary, Solo Leveling failed to compensate for its overpowered MC in every possible fashion. Sung Jin Woo begins the story in the abyss of powerlessness, just but an ant at the very bottom of the food chain. Jin Woo then receives a massive power-up, as expected from any story like this, and gradually scales his way up the food chain but at a certain point in what was still the infancy stage of the story he gains quick access to completely busted monsters that eventually work under him as slaves. From this point on it really was a cake-walk for Jin Woo, as nobody and nothing stood a chance to him. None of the side characters are worth a single penny within Solo Leveling; all of them are utterly powerless and rendered useless before Jin Woo and it certainly does not help their case when not one of them possesses any traits that make for a good character. Instead of using the side cast to augment and give some more depth to the overall story like any good writer would, the creator of Solo Leveling would rather treat these side characters as throwaways to further increase the gap in power between Jin Woo and everybody else. What is the point of a ranking system when nobody other than Jin Woo is worth a damn? Almost like Naruto and how everything in between Genin and Jonin ultimately meant nothing. The story is disgustingly unoriginal which goes without saying: the typical zero to hero. There is no depth whatsoever, just a linear path without any obstacles from one enemy to the next until we finally arrive at the last one. Whatever type of half-assed effort of world-building was immediately vanquished when Jin Woo went from the strongest hunter in South Korea to immediately the strongest in the world. Just an absolute sh*t show.

I'm just not understanding where this Solo Leveling hype stems from. Is it because it's in color and you all view it as a novelty? Or is it because you enjoy a story even an average 3rd grader is capable of writing? I'm not a fan and wouldn't recommend to anyone with any type of standards.

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