The show is written like a middle schooler’s power fantasy gone wrong. Our protagonist, Jinwoo, starts as a laughably weak hunter who—surprise, surprise—gains overpowered abilities overnight. Character depth? Forget it. Jinwoo’s personality is as flat as the screen you're watching him on. His only defining trait is being ridiculously strong, but with no real challenge or stakes, everything he encounter feels more like a chore than a genuinely exciting moment.
Plot? What plot? It’s just a rinse-and-repeat cycle of Jinwoo slaughtering enemies in dungeons, leveling up like it’s some poorly designed RPG, that's it. Any semblance of tension or intrigue is immediately squashed by the fact that you know he’s never in danger. It’s a one-man show where the supporting cast exists solely to either worship him or be so useless that they make him look even better by comparison.
And yet, here we are, with fans defending this mediocrity as if it’s the pinnacle of modern fantasy storytelling. Apparently, all it takes for a story to get high praise these days is mindless action, zero plot complexity, and a protagonist that’s more cheat-code than character. You could swap Solo Leveling with any other generic isekai or power-trip story and no one would bat an eye—because, let’s face it, they’re all the same.
The fact that this anime holds an 8.2 rating is either a joke or a sign of how low the bar is set for storytelling in this medium. At this point, fans are praising spectacle over substance, and Solo Leveling embodies everything wrong with anime today.
