Rukodaime91 said:There is not a single good reason from Jin-Woo not to be in the raid from the start. For the people who said "He didn't want to reveal his power to the Japanese", doesn't make sense since he purposefully fought two Japanese guy in their practice. Sure, he didn't show his summon to the Japanese, but he showed it to a lot of people already... And considering he's already the strongest fighter out of two countries, why would he hid it ?
To the people who said : It's because he doesn't want his mother to worry... Doesn't make sense, he was going into Dungeon as the lowest ranked hunter for several years, and now he's the strongest, he would stop doing a raid when losing mean the end of at least Korea (or losing all political statut and having to depend of other countries)
The real reason is just : The author doesn't want him here. Simple. The only way the author can somehow show how STRONG Jin-woo is... is by showing what happen when he's not here. In the second season, when they get in the first dungeon, with the ice elf dude and bear, he doesn't help the other parties, so they die, and so we can see that Jin-woo is above rank A. He could have helped them, he didn't, we didn't care because the A-Rank let them to die, so, it was justified.
Then, when they get to the dungeon with the red orc and Tusk, he let them get destroyed for no reason (and no need to hide his power since he was going to be announced soon as S-Rank), then, he helped them. The reason was "it's your dungeon, so, I needed your authorization to help you", which was bullshit since he helped them two minutes ago, and no one want to die. Utterly non sense but hey, at least, Jin-Woo didn't let anyone die.
Now, he just let people die. By not being here. By not sending hundred of armies. We know Jin-Woo could have handled the whole island on its own.
Jin Woo is not here because he can't be here, since he would solo everything. He can't be there, in the same way that mangaka needs to find bullshit reason for overpowered character to not be there. Such as : Son Goku arriving after freeza on earth, so, freeza can be killed by trunks (when Son Goku has just learned the instant transmission so he could have arrived before freea), or in the movie dragon ball heroes, Goku/Vegeta are on Planet Beerus and can't be contacted so that Son Gohan and Picollo has to do something on their own otherwise there is no movie.
Too strong character needs to be away. But, instead of creating a scenario where Jin Woo can't be there for reason, author didn't bother. For instance, you could have Jin woo getting ready to join the raid, when they receive the information that ants are attacking the city where his mother is, with three special soldiers, so he has to go back to save them.
Jin woo is not here for no reason except he can't be there. And it's just bad writing. It's not like this show has any good writing from the start, or good fighting system (most S-Rank are just physically strong, even Jin Woo power are 99% of the time useless since he defeat people with his assassin skill alone), or good character, they never let one single S-Rank shine a little, they either fight unremarkable opponent with ease or get killed with ease.
Even in this episode, there is a lot of stuff not making sense :
Why does the strongest ants, who was just born in the cave near the Queen, just left the queen, when there was several S-Rank closing in, to kill random S-rank outside, who were presenting no direct danger to the Queen,
Why did the queen didn't request help from the start and waited to be 99% dead to call for help,
Why did no one realize that several S-Rank were dead for several minutes,
Why did no one even try to call Jin Woo for help after the discovery,
They didn't hype the S-Rank, they didn't hype the ants, author just want Jin-woo to shine. Except, hero needs good villain to shine. Squashing some unknown bugs, because he killed some unknow S-rank hunter who barely said two words, we don't care.
And people say this was inspired from Hunter x Hunter.
Please.
Don't compare them.
Sure, Hunter x Hunter had much more episode, but, if Hunter x Hunter chimera arc is 100, this are is about 2. And I'm being generous. Cause I don't even know what Solo Leveling did right to get two points. Well, maybe, two points for the insert song from season 1 used again (dark aria) but this time from the POV of ants. Which could be "intelligent" if the ant didn't attack human to eat them, so, it doesn't really work, would have been better to use is when Jin-woo arrive to fight the ants.
Nice try, though.