Horrible pacing

I kinda wish you watched that interview on Crunchyroll explaining that the original Author of the light Novel is behind the way the show is being paced. The Jeju Island was a focal point of how damaging of an experience it was to those hunters because they lost a lot. Also they trying to not necessarily grow the side characters but make them fit the narrative and how they’ll help the mc grow and how the story flows. But then again, for the entirety of this season, it’s been full of complaints and comparisons and it seems the show won’t catch a break. The Manhwa is very different from the light novel by the way, less details and more fights plus the artist was battling with health issues till he passed on so a lot of things he skipped are being added in the anime.

Stop complaining

the pacing isn't that horrible honestly, I just feel like the story needs to solidify beyond Jinwoo. If this pacing is justified for a better story in the coming seasons, I'm personally okay with it.

But it makes sense if you are going to split the season into 2 cours. Without the filler which honestly is needed world building they could do the job change quest in one episode and then would either have episode 12 all filler or go right into the Red Gate Incident. The Red Gate Incident is probably going to be 3 or 4 episodes so pushing all of that to the second cour makes better sense in storytelling and commercially because you have a major event to start from.

i feel like you are hating for hating , althought i agree that the sister and mother thing was not necessary , but the other things with the president and choi are important for the next part since they will adapt jeju island , just stop complaining ...

The pacing is sooo horrible, the story in the anime intrigued me and I went to read the manhwa around ep4 cus I couldn't handle the pacing and god it was so much better. The fight with igris is probably the biggest sin so far cus aside from milking the show for every extra minute and adding useless filler they've now decided to do it mid fight like just do it at the start.

I disagree I really enjoy the cut aways to other characters instead of the whole episode just being SJW fighting. I feel like it adds more substance that the manwha really lacks.
I can definitely understand why people wouldn’t like the pacing though

People when anime isnt 100% identical to source material even tho the original author likes how the anime has done it :crying_emoji:

I feel like it would have been better if Jinwoo got out of this dungeon and then, along with the viewers, found about the raid on the ant island. Would have been more of a surprise and wouldn't hurt the point they are trying to make about how important the whole deal with the island is.

I still loved it tho and just get annoyed when the episode is finished. Knowing what is going to happen I just can't bloody wait to see it animated!!!

idk I like the pacing here actually, the cutscenes aren't that out of place and add some context, plus they didn't cut away during the fight but rather when they stopped fist trading for a sec

i feel bad for kids with outburst for attention. here is my donation.

It's called world building!
Not everything revolves around the MC.
Also the interruptions are there to give a sense of how time flies. Jinwoo has been in the dungeon for HOURS! And this is going to be important in the next episode.

If the whole fight was nothing but action, THAT would be horrible pacing. People would literally go brain-afk and miss half the fight due to either their bad attention span or sensory overload.

Solution: Watch less short videos and train the attention span

I wish y'all would actually learn what the word filler means before using it in a statement where it doesn't even make sense.

Y’all actually care about Solo Leveling’s story?

Oh no, they ruined my manhwa about one guy just doing everything by adding more character to side characters, how could they make side characters better like that, so unwatchable

Idk bro, pacing seems fine to me. Just that nothing SUPER exciting happens for a while. I’d be totally fine with a second season like this. Been forever since I’ve read the manhwa, but I’m enjoying the hell outta seeing it being animated.

@amazingjoe The manhwa is trash, and I say that as I've read all of it
The anime fixes a lot of issues I had with the plot, though I wish it fixed more of them

The Manhwa is just around the MC, there's no world building or deepness into all of the other characters. The anime would be better if it focused even less on the MC, though this adaptation is way better than the source material, so I'll take it

I am very dissatisfied by the pace of the anime and it is sad to see that a lot of things happen way too slowly however imo they need to extend the things to make it a season. For example if they kept the normal pacing then igris fight would ended episode 8 or 9 and then last 3 episodes would been useless cause they are now developing the next arc. Honestly though I am happy they are taking a slow approach and thank goodness that it isnt butchered like tower of god was with a lot of chapters being adapted at once.

it's just not paced for TV and it's painfully obvious

The pacing is perfectly fine for anime. The way you read the manhwa is just way too fast because you are reading from illegal websites.

they don't add to the fight, but to the anime, without the pacing and treatment they are giving it now it would be a mid anime in it's real meaning

The pacing is and was okay. Stop complaining

Agreed. Pacing is ok but they aren’t giving important moments the longer time they need and deserve . Igris fight shouldn’t be shorter or the same length as the fight with the snake.

Cutaways should NOT take away from key moments and fights. Move it to side episodes.

And anyone who says otherwise just doesn’t know which are key moments yet 🤷🏼‍♀️ But that’s on the studio for not showing that through time spent.

It’s sad to think that they will see positive feedback from the people that haven’t read it and think they’re doing constantly brilliantly … when in fact they messed up the Igris fight.

Bruh, it's the other way around. The anime improved on the original, adding depth to the side characters and giving them more screen time. It seems to me you just don't understand what is called good writing, it's not just having non-stop action. And what TF you mean that the subplots are going to be abandoned? The side characters will only become irrelevant after they play their parts, everything so far is for Jeju Island arc. And we can't be sure how anime will develop further, the second half of webnovel / comics was kind of all over the place, most likely the author will improve upon it tremendously if he's taking a big part in the adaptation.

The fact that people can get an episode like this with absolute brilliant action storyboards and excellent animation all around and say it "messed up the fight" is prove weebs cannot be satisfied with anything and should not get anything good.

@Vedrun But what you're saying ? If every time they interrupted the action to show me secondary characters doing useless things, it seemed like every 5 minutes a commercial would pass, an unpleasant experience not to mention how viewers would have a low attention span to only watch fight? This is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard

I've been enjoying it so far. The pacing mostly hasn't bothered me. A lot of the characters that aren't Jinwoo don't get enough developement, and feel like they are just kind of abandoned in the manwha. They will show up, feel like they are going to be important, and then get dropped without enough build up, or proper send off. The Anime has been adding a lot to those characters, and I really like that. I can't go back and remove my memories of what it was like before I read it, so my feelings are based on following the manwha as it was coming out, and despite liking the story overall, being disappointed that almost no one besides Jinwoo got barely any closure. I understand being annoyed that the main cool guy that you came for isn't getting 100% of the screen time, but having read the manwha, I think the overall story will be much better for it by the end. Could they have done a better job integrating it? Probably. But I also feel like a lot of you are making a bigger deal out of this than it deserves. But then again, that just means you like the story, want it be even better.

Manga readers are never satisfied with pacing, smh always have to have something to complain about

The pacing is completely fine. Some of you just need to accept that maybe you're not cut out to be seasonal watchers.

Wait for it to finish and then binge it.

Honestly for me it's the perfect pacing

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For me this season could've ended in the moment when Sung Jin-woo establishes the guild. We don't need the really fast pacing because Igris was a big fight in manhwa, so I believe if the season was longer then this fight would've been cutted or made shorter. I don't understand where is your problem in the "breaking the fight" between Igris and Sung, his sister is an important character for Sung like his mother and lots of anime does the same trick in a really close fight between characters. Overall this pacing of this season is great and I think if we got more in only 12 episodes we would suffer lots of moments being cut or shorten so they could fit more. Just my opinion tho so if you don't agree then it's okay, everyone has his own opinion.

@Leon888 Just because YOU are not interested in the side scenes doesn't mean they're useless. They give insight and build up to bigger events.

@saikyozero No, they simply did a mediocre job here, if it were me I would have made the first episode an hour and then I would have sped up until I got to the arch of the snow elf gate so as to have a busier season, but alas it wasn't like that, and even saying that the pacing is perfect for anime is ridiculous since they waste time pointlessly by not showing you anything, also I bought the leveling Solo manhwa lol, maybe you're the one who actually reads it on illegal sites

@SkyhighCFC Yes, because it's very useful to see the sister studying, the 3 girls going to the bar to have a coffee, Chae running, Baek Yohno training... but because people like you don't think before writing

@Leaf_It What did the anime add to these characters?

so in the LN there is more content than manhwa...i see,yeah i agree with you and for me it's not horrible

@Carmelodube I don't care much about the crunchyroll interview, but certainly the secondary characters won't help the protagonist, if you've read the manhwa you'll know that the protagonist solves all the situations by himself he doesn't need anyone, furthermore an adaptation between Manhwa and novel is very different, I know that in the 2nd season of the manhwa it was very rushed, but in the 1st season he did an excellent job in representing everything to you, here in the anime it seems many times that they waste time unnecessarily to show you secondary characters that you don't need know for the moment (even the expedition to the island of Jeju, what use will it be if Goto takes care of solving everything partially?)