Ore dake Level Up na Ken Episode 4 Discussion

Jinwoo's first real fight as he starts leveling up on his own.

Venturing into an instance dungeon with the subway station as its entrance, Jinwoo defeats monsters one after another, leveling up along the way. As he progresses, a long staircase leading deeper underground appears in Jinwoo's path. Stepping down to the lower level, Jinwoo arrives at a decrepit and rusted platform. There, a colossal serpent awaits him, towering above. To leave the dungeon, he must defeat the colossal serpent, and so the showdown between him and the serpent begins.

It still bugs me, even in the anime, that Jinwoo went off to prioritize dungeon crawling instead of, you know, checking up on his traumatized healer friend first, or even his own mother. We're getting more Joohee content, which is great because, if I recall correctly, we don't see much of her after the first dungeon for a while. But man, A-1 really nailed this episode. I always had my worries about Solo Leveling getting an adaptation, considering how Japan handles Manhwas, but A-1 seems to genuinely care. From the animation to the soundtrack, everything was perfect. Even the mini golem "fight" was well done. Thank you, A-1. This is everything I could have wished for.

Back then, Jinwoo couldn't even beat a boss, and now he's defeated two in one day.

Yeah, after ep4 I think it's safe to drop this show now since there's no interesting plot left for the show , because it'd follow a super predictable plotline from here.

Our mc, Kirito at home, master Jinwoo has shown to become this op competent guy now in a spam of 1 day combat and a few days of training cuz he has higher stat now :>
All his past harsh experience of failing to fight a Goblin is only because he lacks the stat, not because he never use his brain or hone his combat skill.
It's all because he lacks the stat that he failed so miserably in the past :>

Anyway, kinda lose interest in the story already. Wish those who stay enjoy the animation.

Yeah, after ep4 I think it's safe to drop this show now since there's no interesting plot left for the show , because it'd follow a super predictable plotline from here.

Our mc, Kirito at home, master Jinwoo has shown to become this op competent guy now in a spam of 1 day combat and a few days of training cuz he has higher stat now :>
All his past harsh experience of failing to fight a Goblin is only because he lacks the stat, not because he never use his brain or hone his combat skill.
It's all because he lacks the stat that he failed so miserably in the past :>

Anyway, kinda lose interest in the story already. Wish those who stay enjoy the animation.

all these people writing/typing essays while im just gonna say "its the best anime this season"

While the action was great I thought Jin-Woo defeating the snake with his bare hands was a bit anti-climatic as I thought he would've found and used something else. At least with the golem fight he threw the broken sword at it and then left it there. I initially thought he should've used the new dagger he got from the snake but changed my mind once I realized he wasn't going to use the broken sword again.

Hopefully he'll check on Joo-Hee, his mom, and sister before progressing through future dungeons, and I take it he's around level 18 which I'm guessing could be D-rank.

Again, more tutorial-esque episode. It's like watching a video game playthrough.
Generic monsters, generic fights, absolutely nothing at stake, no sense of danger, not worried for characters, nothing to lose, cheap pseudo-cliffhangers just to push people to buy the source material.
Disappointing so far. Surely overhyped...
Here we go again with the "just wait for next episode" with promise of the story really taking off next week... they say that every week :/
If at least the S-class guys in the first episode had done something impressive/catchy... but if this was supposed to be a teasing for the top hunters... yikes.

I'm not officially giving a rating to a show until episode 12, so I'll wait, but so far, it's between a 4/10 and 5/10 with essentially no potential for rewatch. Sorry to break it to you.

So he goes from not being able to beat 1 wolf, to being able to just beat 2, to being able to beat 20, then being able to solo a boss unarmed that is stronger than the boss on the street that a full team with gear couldn't beat.

You know how Force Awakens sucked in part because Rey was a Mary Sue who could beat a Sith Lord trained by Luke Skywalker despite having never used a sword before?

This guy is 100x worse.

Also the fight scenes were pretty terrible.

Oh well, wasn't expecting much but this is well below.

While the action was great I thought Jin-Woo defeating the snake with his bare hands was a bit anti-climatic as I thought he would've found and used something else. At least with the golem fight he threw the broken sword at it and then left it there. I initially thought he should've used the new dagger he got from the snake but changed my mind once I realized he wasn't going to use the broken sword again.

Hopefully he'll check on Joo-Hee, his mom, and sister before progressing through future dungeons, and I take it he's around level 18 which I'm guessing could be D-rank.