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One-punch man without the self-awareness. ONE had at least the understanding to move away from the self-insert protgaonist to the setting to keep the story interesting. Solo Leveling does not do this, so it gets boring. But maybe that's the point? Maybe the author just wants to a create self-insert wish fulfilment story, and that's fine. The problem that arises when you set your ambitions so low is that you lose any emotional core. So for all the good stuff I could say about this, I can't score it very highly. At least God of Highschool tries to have some semblance of an emotional throughline ... with character arcs from the main cast of characters and villains. Meanwhile in Solo Levelling, the MC's mom's illness is established as a narrative hook and it's brought up again until 80 chapters deep into the story.

Nothing shows the shallow writing of Solo Levelling than the cheap knock-off of the HxH Chimera Ant arc.

I should mention a problem I personally have with the fights is that they fall down to classic trope of anime fights: Spamming the entire fight with light trails, so my eyes have more reason to glaze over all of it.