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Confused_100 said: Ahaaa, sure. Someone leaving with every bone in your body broken there, isn’t a kind of torture, bruh. Like really what are you doing rn? You didn’t answer that
If you pass out.... then Idk if you know that but you won't feel anything. The whole point of torture to make the other party suffer. If the person doesn't suffer due to unconsciousness, that's not torture.
"Like really what are you doing rn? You didn’t answer that"
What does it have to do with anything? I am answering comments since every 3 minutes I get a notification that I triggered a fan. Then I am on discord, talking, then on my other monitor watching the world first race in World Of warcraft.
Oh nice cool… I was asking here not in general lol
You do know the fights were all done in seconds though, anime time and all that. So she didn’t even have the chance until he left.
while its obvious that the production schedule caught up to the studio, damn was it not hitting as much as it should have in the manhwa. Prolly a 9 compared to the 9.5 that last ep was imo. expecting next ep to be better than even the igris fight. i have sum HIGH expectations, so lets hope A1 pulls thru
"Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki
amazing amazing amazing fight and my fav part was when beru was talking and they used byguon's head like a puppet i know its not in the manga but bloody hell was that fun, CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT EPI ITS DEF LIVING UP TO MANGA BY MY STANDARDS, lets hope they keep it like this for the last 2 episodes
Huge rant and wall of text. Spoiled it to not bloat the forums.
Welcome to the Hawk Tuah Slopinator 3000!! McDiddy Chad-Woo has so much skibidi rizz aura on god for real!!! Like previous commenters have pointed out, it does seem like the author's nationalistic rageboner was the main driver behind this episode's pathos. Did you like this character's design or presentation?? BOOM, instantly beheaded!! Are you shocked yet, reader? Such a ridiculous shock value technique is fit for the product of a hack author, one such as Solo Leveling; moreover, it keeps Solo Leveling's tendency for anticlimactic drivel and useless deaths. Gigachad Sigmalord does an FMAB exchange in this episode: "so ummm, many hunters will be beheaded so I can aurafarm some more, yes, AND I'll also get to do le epic entrance, add that to the contract, yes thank you. what do you mean that it loses all impact and grandiosity the millionth time it is done? that doesnt matter" Ooooh, one dude feels Bootleg Meruem's nen aura and goes berserk, thats so spooky... except the aura thing means nothing by now. I can't emphasize just how boring and lame it is to see these established S-hunters, more powerful than the korean hunters, be instantly beheaded and speedblitzed by a faceless, personalityless and vaguely animated villain in less than a second, imagine if Meruem just went insane and started to go full-on Jason Voorhees on the HxH hunters without a single bit of nuance, without Togashi's cool talent and without HxH's development, that would be very lame! Well, it happens here. It's like a gross mixture between the overindulgence of Shibuya Incident and a bootleg Royal Palace Infiltration all concentrated in a single and disgusting cocktail, everyone fucking dies and its bland, nothing matters because its obviously yet another scenario made for Jin-Woo to thrive, and it was OBVIOUS since the beginning. The japanese hunters were insanely cucked, while the koreans take all the triumph, gall, etc; there is not ever a showcase or nugget of nuance that could make us care about Japan in this scenario, and you're telling me that the nations of this world wouldn't see such a global threat and coalescence into an alliance to annihilate it and keep the status quo? It's like: "yeah so theres the fucking Crimson Axis "but its mutant ants" version, creatures which threaten to expand and invade the world, but we are not gonna do anything about it. let the koreans and japanese take care lul it's on their territory" HOLY SHIT IT'S... Bootleg Meruem, except he's 100 times more generic and 100 times less threatening, and this is the supposed peak of the series, bootleg Chimera Ant arc. He decided to change his method of execution now because he's dealing with the koreans now, and we cant instakill them all, now! I'm surprised that healer dude isn't getting PTSD flashback'd to hell and back now that his teammates are getting flailed around by bootleg Meruem... aaand he's dead.
I'll drop the jokes here. There is no tension or drama whatsoever in this arc because of these reasons, although this applies to the entire show as a whole:
1. We don't get to know these characters enough, and the characterization we know is tremendously archetypical and one-dimensional.
2. This show's past shenanigans leads me to believe that this is just another scenario for Jin-Woo to flourish and kill the bad guy of the moment. Extremely predictable.
3. The animation has been downgraded, I really cant take it seriously when Hae-In is just spinned around like a JPEG when she gets decked by the Ant King, or when the battle feels more like a clunky turn-based game rather than a dynamic fight.
4. There is no build up to this villain. The Queen just spits his brethren to the world and he is instantly off on a killing spree. Very lame.
5. The japanese hunters got handled really badly by the author. In every way.
6. The battles are weak and clunky. There is no meaningful interaction whatsoever between the characters and the King. It'd be interesting if we get to see him talk a lot of shit to the hunters but he just cleans them and does a funny thing with Healer Dude's head. Instant decapitaitions are boring, unless you do it well! Solo Leveling does not.
7. Not only is the Ant King tremendously under-built, but his design and characterization are also barebones.
8. As we've seen, the author is incapable of writing proper drama, it instead hits as a melodramatic attempt at such since there is no proper try at doing everything needed for a dramatic piece to succeed.
9. Who cares about these characters? I know this sounds rough, but really who cares?
10. Not only are the S-hunters UTTERLY cleaned, but it also ends with more Jin-Woo glaze, is it not enough by now? Even Goto compares the fucking Ant King, who ANNIHILATED many S-ranked hunters, to Sung Jin-Woo, the glaze is almost lovecraftian at this point.
11. The build up to this arc makes no sense. We are led to believe in an insanely contrived situation for all of this to happen.
12. Seriously? I mean, the author paints the Japanese as absolutely egotistical and manipulative, and the United States as an alienating metropolis represented by a narcissistic korean immigrant—who later on gets beaten by Korean ubermensch—all incapable of proper teamwork and international organization. Theres no subtleness about the obvious and insufferable nationalism in this work. Reminds me of Baki and why I've avoided it.
13. Goto will obviously be badly injured or outright die and Jin-Woo will notice the reaction of his shadow upon this event, thus he will go to save the day once again against the Ant King—obviously, after cleaning the entire row of Ants that were about to swarm the Korean hunters. Being predictable and bland is this show's bread and butter at this point.
14. Are we supposed to like or be content with the MC and his irrational, stupid decisions?
15. For as hard it tries to be visceral and brutal, it feels more like a children throwing toys together and feigning big explosions & death. There is no passion or genuinity.
16. The King suddenly changes his execution method from "speedblitz beheading" to "smacking down everyone" AND THEN killing healer dude for more shock value. Weird and inconsistent.
17. HORRIBLE vertical powerscaling, the author shot himself in the foot with his own decisions. Some stuff should be kept in drafts! Solo Leveling is like Dragon Ball Super but without the added nostalgia of "hey, at least it is Dragon Ball, even if its dogshit." and, due to this, when a new powerful bad guy shows up, it's due for Jin-Woo to beat him and no one else.
18. The reactions to the Ant Queen dying are very weak. Mainly the reactions by the populace.
19. Quite weird how Healer Dude didnt get instadeleted after Hae-In was spun around in JPEG mode. Ant King has been shown to have intelligence, detect people in stealth and combat awareness yet doesnt target him straight out of the bat. Also, this dude has clear PTSD yet shows no sign of being triggered in such a situation. I dont expect nuanced representation of such a complex mental issue in Slop Leveling though.
Solo Leveling is one of the most creatively bankrupt and derivative things I've ever seen. Sunken cost fallacy mayhaps, but its fun to see the sunken ship.
i kinda wish these guys had a cool fight against properly strong characters, the ants were really just fodder, the only real threat is the king an he washed all these S hunters, anyways still entertaining to an extent, now we get to the final battle of the season
The Korean S Hunters manage to destroy the nest and kill the queen. Cha Haein delivers the final blow, showing how fast and flashy she is. The celebrations are cut short as the secret boss comes in and one shots everyone somehow. Most other Japanese hunters are also getting killed, including Goto. I don't get why the author introduces so many S-rank Japanese hunters only to have them killed easily by the secret boss. The boss likes killing healers, they really need extra protection despite being S-rank. Jinwoo finally swaps with the shadows that he had hidden in the Korean S-ranks. I don't get why he comes in so late after watching the live broadcast of the battle. That cliffhanger like last week is illegal.
The Korean S Hunters manage to destroy the nest and kill the queen. Cha Haein delivers the final blow, showing how fast and flashy she is. The celebrations are cut short as the secret boss comes in and one shots everyone somehow. Most other Japanese hunters are also getting killed, including Goto. I don't get why the author introduces so many S-rank Japanese hunters only to have them killed easily by the secret boss. The boss likes killing healers, they really need extra protection despite being S-rank. Jinwoo finally swaps with the shadows that he had hidden in the Korean S-ranks. I don't get why he comes in so late after watching the live broadcast of the battle. That cliffhanger like last week is illegal.
LuffyHammock94 said: I don't get why he comes in so late after watching the live broadcast of the battle.
Huge rant and wall of text. Spoiled it to not bloat the forums.
Welcome to the Hawk Tuah Slopinator 3000!! McDiddy Chad-Woo has so much skibidi rizz aura on god for real!!! Like previous commenters have pointed out, it does seem like the author's nationalistic rageboner was the main driver behind this episode's pathos. Did you like this character's design or presentation?? BOOM, instantly beheaded!! Are you shocked yet, reader? Such a ridiculous shock value technique is fit for the product of a hack author, one such as Solo Leveling; moreover, it keeps Solo Leveling's tendency for anticlimactic drivel and useless deaths. Gigachad Sigmalord does an FMAB exchange in this episode: "so ummm, many hunters will be beheaded so I can aurafarm some more, yes, AND I'll also get to do le epic entrance, add that to the contract, yes thank you. what do you mean that it loses all impact and grandiosity the millionth time it is done? that doesnt matter" Ooooh, one dude feels Bootleg Meruem's nen aura and goes berserk, thats so spooky... except the aura thing means nothing by now. I can't emphasize just how boring and lame it is to see these established S-hunters, more powerful than the korean hunters, be instantly beheaded and speedblitzed by a faceless, personalityless and vaguely animated villain in less than a second, imagine if Meruem just went insane and started to go full-on Jason Voorhees on the HxH hunters without a single bit of nuance, without Togashi's cool talent and without HxH's development, that would be very lame! Well, it happens here. It's like a gross mixture between the overindulgence of Shibuya Incident and a bootleg Royal Palace Infiltration all concentrated in a single and disgusting cocktail, everyone fucking dies and its bland, nothing matters because its obviously yet another scenario made for Jin-Woo to thrive, and it was OBVIOUS since the beginning. The japanese hunters were insanely cucked, while the koreans take all the triumph, gall, etc; there is not ever a showcase or nugget of nuance that could make us care about Japan in this scenario, and you're telling me that the nations of this world wouldn't see such a global threat and coalescence into an alliance to annihilate it and keep the status quo? It's like: "yeah so theres the fucking Crimson Axis "but its mutant ants" version, creatures which threaten to expand and invade the world, but we are not gonna do anything about it. let the koreans and japanese take care lul it's on their territory" HOLY SHIT IT'S... Bootleg Meruem, except he's 100 times more generic and 100 times less threatening, and this is the supposed peak of the series, bootleg Chimera Ant arc. He decided to change his method of execution now because he's dealing with the koreans now, and we cant instakill them all, now! I'm surprised that healer dude isn't getting PTSD flashback'd to hell and back now that his teammates are getting flailed around by bootleg Meruem... aaand he's dead.
I'll drop the jokes here. There is no tension or drama whatsoever in this arc because of these reasons, although this applies to the entire show as a whole:
1. We don't get to know these characters enough, and the characterization we know is tremendously archetypical and one-dimensional.
2. This show's past shenanigans leads me to believe that this is just another scenario for Jin-Woo to flourish and kill the bad guy of the moment. Extremely predictable.
3. The animation has been downgraded, I really cant take it seriously when Hae-In is just spinned around like a JPEG when she gets decked by the Ant King, or when the battle feels more like a clunky turn-based game rather than a dynamic fight.
4. There is no build up to this villain. The Queen just spits his brethren to the world and he is instantly off on a killing spree. Very lame.
5. The japanese hunters got handled really badly by the author. In every way.
6. The battles are weak and clunky. There is no meaningful interaction whatsoever between the characters and the King. It'd be interesting if we get to see him talk a lot of shit to the hunters but he just cleans them and does a funny thing with Healer Dude's head. Instant decapitaitions are boring, unless you do it well! Solo Leveling does not.
7. Not only is the Ant King tremendously under-built, but his design and characterization are also barebones.
8. As we've seen, the author is incapable of writing proper drama, it instead hits as a melodramatic attempt at such since there is no proper try at doing everything needed for a dramatic piece to succeed.
9. Who cares about these characters? I know this sounds rough, but really who cares?
10. Not only are the S-hunters UTTERLY cleaned, but it also ends with more Jin-Woo glaze, is it not enough by now? Even Goto compares the fucking Ant King, who ANNIHILATED many S-ranked hunters, to Sung Jin-Woo, the glaze is almost lovecraftian at this point.
11. The build up to this arc makes no sense. We are led to believe in an insanely contrived situation for all of this to happen.
12. Seriously? I mean, the author paints the Japanese as absolutely egotistical and manipulative, and the United States as an alienating metropolis represented by a narcissistic korean immigrant—who later on gets beaten by Korean ubermensch—all incapable of proper teamwork and international organization. Theres no subtleness about the obvious and insufferable nationalism in this work. Reminds me of Baki and why I've avoided it.
13. Goto will obviously be badly injured or outright die and Jin-Woo will notice the reaction of his shadow upon this event, thus he will go to save the day once again against the Ant King—obviously, after cleaning the entire row of Ants that were about to swarm the Korean hunters. Being predictable and bland is this show's bread and butter at this point.
14. Are we supposed to like or be content with the MC and his irrational, stupid decisions?
15. For as hard it tries to be visceral and brutal, it feels more like a children throwing toys together and feigning big explosions & death. There is no passion or genuinity.
16. The King suddenly changes his execution method from "speedblitz beheading" to "smacking down everyone" AND THEN killing healer dude for more shock value. Weird and inconsistent.
17. HORRIBLE vertical powerscaling, the author shot himself in the foot with his own decisions. Some stuff should be kept in drafts! Solo Leveling is like Dragon Ball Super but without the added nostalgia of "hey, at least it is Dragon Ball, even if its dogshit." and, due to this, when a new powerful bad guy shows up, it's due for Jin-Woo to beat him and no one else.
18. The reactions to the Ant Queen dying are very weak. Mainly the reactions by the populace.
19. Quite weird how Healer Dude didnt get instadeleted after Hae-In was spun around in JPEG mode. Ant King has been shown to have intelligence, detect people in stealth and combat awareness yet doesnt target him straight out of the bat. Also, this dude has clear PTSD yet shows no sign of being triggered in such a situation. I dont expect nuanced representation of such a complex mental issue in Slop Leveling though.
Solo Leveling is one of the most creatively bankrupt and derivative things I've ever seen. Sunken cost fallacy mayhaps, but its fun to see the sunken ship.
Im so sad they didn't pace this slower so you could see how hard they fought against beru before jinwoo showed up. the healer was one of my fav characters
Im so sad they didn't pace this slower so you could see how hard they fought against beru before jinwoo showed up. the healer was one of my fav characters
Actually I have a pretty good theory why the Ant king fought the way it did! The anime is actually logical.
1) The main reason he killed the S hunters first was to protect the Queen, he was outside and killed like 5 of them.
2) Then the Queen called him back, and he came back too late, and at that point, he said himself "no point anymore in killing, that won't change anything" => that explains why he doesn't kill them directly but is more interested in playing with them.
3) Now his goal changed, and it is to be the strongest living being, so he wants to find the Human king, and leaves the cavern without killing the weak hunters.
4) He goes outside and does exactly what I said above, attacks the strongest hunter, and there's a collateral casualty.
About the healer ... well he kept shouting himself "as long as I'm there you will be fine", and another hunter also said "we have a powerful healer!" (facepalm), so the healer naturally became the target.
Shame there was barely any animation until the kill sequence of the queen by Cha and the King vs the Korean S ranks. Hoping they do the next episode justice, the anime hasn't been a step up from the manwha since the Baran fight.
The fight on Jeju Island gets more intense. The S-Rank hunters continue their fighting on the island unaware that there is a new magic beast that resembles a humanoid ant.
The fightings get more intense as the hunters battle for survival with the ants and magic beast trying to defend their nest and queen.
UTMAN said: @amf85 A one shot to the head/beheading not a SSS healer can get you up lol. And I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact if he would not go back to the Japanese and one shot the girl and
spoiler alert, he will one shot/behead ryuji too.
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It's blatant plot armor, which is sad because so far the show masked it's plot armor pretty well, and its villains even though they were pretty one dimensional... they were decent in a way that they were written consistently with their characters.
OMG such a cynical stance to watch a show. You're probably on the top of everyone's list of people NOT to invite at parties, especially watch parties. Immersion is a no no for you.
"But... but... logic.. plot armor...
Just stop
Nah fr why do people take anime so seriously 😂😂, like I get using logic as a joke, but when you start being serious with logic/common sense in anime, that’s when your own common sense has gone out the window 😬
Anime is not meant to make sense, some anime is about logic, but most anime especially solo leveling should not require logic in its story. If you hate it so much then stop watching it lol.
Also the same people that cry about animation, bruh animation is not the only thing that makes an anime great, samurai champloo is one of my favorite anime’s of all time, but it has potato 480 quality, same thing with Monster.
It’s just so cringe when the only thing people have to say about a show every week is how it’s dropping in animation, how the story makes no sense, how bad it is. Why keep watching it if all you have to say is negative things 😂
Hey if they want to waste their time on something they don’t like, by all means go ahead, but don’t call us idiots for not looking at the show with logic and common sense 😂😂
holy shit this was fire. while i still slightly prefer manhwa i gotta change my score to 10!!
loved the parallels of king ant vs S-ranks and jinwoo vs the human hunters in S1. same great OST too
king ant is same VA as meruem lol
love that the gore isn’t being censored too
🔥
Rinrinka said: Nice episode as usual but don't you all love it when the S-rankers, the supposed ultimate form of hunters, are now reduced to just punching bags in order to make Sung Jin Woo looks good later? That's one thing I dislike from Solo Leveling.
That’s a fair point, I haven’t thought about it like that :0
It definitely does diminish the “S Rank” title that these people have, makes them seem like E ranks :0.
I hope he struggles against the aim, because Jinwoos fight with goto seemed pretty evenly matched, it would be so lame if he just destroyed the ant king lol.