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: 8.67¹ (scored by 295,373 users)

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Ranked: #70²

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Popularity: #6

Members: 500,262

Favorites: 44,375

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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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Feb 3, 2024

Cassindra

Not Recommended

If this manhwa had to be described in one word, it would be 'overhyped'. With how much the manhwa had been lauded as the best series of its kind, and even a must-read, the reality falls disappointingly short of its expectations. Solo Levelling is mainly enjoyable for its art, with the plot and characters suffering from a lack of development and a general disinterest.

Sung Jinwoo is known to be the weakest hunter alive, but still desperately attends dungeon clears in order to pay his mother's hospital bills. Unfortunately, abilities in this world are stagnant, meaning that it is impossible for him or any other hunter ... to grow stronger. But after a near-death experience, he is granted the opportunity to 'level up', gain new abilities and increased strength, but he also has to complete quests to avoid punishment.

This premise, while not outstandingly novel, is still a fairly interesting one. Most notably would be his original weakness, as well as the possibility of incurring punishments. However, these plot points are immediately flipped upon its head, and never mentioned again. Despite the title of this manhwa being 'Solo Levelling', which would suggest the main character's quest to grow stronger as the major development in the story, Jinwoo becomes way too strong much too quickly. There is barely any struggle in his quest for strength as well, making the whole story lack any tension at all. The punishment quests only show up twice throughout the entire story, and he faces little to no consequences for anything. The story quickly becomes a power fantasy with the same formula repeating itself over and over: a new enemy which is more powerful than before shows up, which defeats every other character, but Jinwoo arrives to save the day.

The concept of overpowered characters can be found all across media, each to varying levels of success. In Solo Levelling, the overpowered status of Jinwoo simply makes every other character redundant. His necromancy abilities give him enough summons that obey his every command which replaces other hunters in the story, who are simply too weak to do anything relevant. The other characters which begin to appear in Jinwoo's peripheral, pointed out to be the stronger of the bunch, end up useless as a whole. His shadow summons do not have an interesting personality either, with them being basically shadow puppets that are occasionally playful or slightly more angry than the next. Because the entire premise is that only Jinwoo is capable of growing stronger, the other characters show no development, neither in strength nor personality. They lack depth and exist only to make Jinwoo look better. And yet, Jinwoo himself does not have much more depth than the others. Throughout the manhwa, it seems that his personality is replaced with 'strong' and nothing else. He fights because he has to. His protection of humanity never appears to be a desire of his.

Character relationships are another disappointment, mainly because they are utterly unemotional. Other than at the beginning of the story, there was no point which was convincing that Jinwoo would develop close relations with any other character. One of his biggest motivators before he grew stronger was to provide financial support for his family, but soon after he seems to forget them, or rather interactions between Jinwoo and his family are barely shown. The romantic beats end up unexpected, and not in a good way.

The art is perhaps one of the only good points of the manhwa, but it does not really reach exceptional standards. And yet, it is still one of the better qualities.

The popularity of Solo Levelling is what drew me to read it, but my experience with it was mediocre at best.

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