Solo Leveling anime: Release date, cast, plot, more
The Solo Leveling anime is already a contender for the runaway hit of 2024. Now that the show has premiered, we can tell you everything you need to know about Sung Jin-woo’s journey.
Solo Leveling is an incredibly popular manwha, or Korean comic, that already had a large audience worldwide before being adapted. The base story follows a low-level hunter, Sung Jin-woo, who becomes the protagnist after surviving a particularly harrowing dungeon.
Snowballing off of the manhwa’s success, A-1 Studios took it upon themselves to make the story into an anime. This is the same studio responsible for Black Butler II, Sword Art Online, and even Kaguya-sama Love is War, so we knw it was going to be good. Here’s everything you should know about Solo Leveling.
Solo Leveling Release Date
The Solo Leveling anime premiered on January 6, 2024, with weekly episodes every Saturday afterward.
Following a wave of premiere events for the first two episodes in December 2023, across a range of countries, Solo Leveling began streaming on January 6, 2024 on Crunchyroll. This announcement arrived via a special trailer.
The animation studio is handling Nier: Automata Ver1.1a as well, which is an anime adaptation based on the video game, and that also released in January, so the studio had a busy month
Solo Leveling Cast
Despite many believing that the Solo Leveling voice cast would be Korean instead of Japanese, due to it being adapted from a Korean book, the voices so far have been in Japanese and English.
The Japanese cast is:
- Sung Jin-woo voiced by Taito Ban
- Yoo Jinho voiced by Genta Nakamura
- Sung Jinah voiced by Haruna Mikawa
- Cha Hae-In voiced by Reina Ueda
- Choi Jong-In voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa
- Baek Yoonho voiced by Hiroki Touchi
- Go Gunhee voiced by Banjo Ginga
- Woo Jinchul voiced by Makoto Furukawa
The English dub cast is:
- Sung Jin-woo voiced by Aleks Le
- Yoo Jinho voiced by Justin Briner
- Sung Jinah voiced by Rebecca Wang
- Cha Hae-in voiced by Michelle Rojas
- Choi Jong-in voiced by Ian Sinclair
- Baek Yoonho voiced by Christopher R. Sabat
- Go Gunhee voiced by Kent Williams
- Woo Jinchul voiced by SungWon Cho
- Lee Joohee voiced by Dani Chambers
Solo Leveling Plot
Solo Leveling follows the hero Sung Jin-woo, an E-class hero who earns the ability to improve his powers after being saved from death in a mysterious dungeon. He’s the only one who has this ability, in a world where fantasy creatures are invading our universe through portals.
Korean manhwa has a trope of video gaming in real life, a little similar to the progression system present in the Isekai Japanese anime genre. But instead of being sent to another world, their original world is one where video game logic just kind of makes sense. And for Solo Leveling, they exist in a universe where these warriors are called hunters.
Solo Leveling Reviews
Solo Leveling has received a strongly positive reaction from fans and critics. The anime scored an 8.5 on iMDb and an 8.65 on MyAnimeList, indicating viewers have been consistently enjoying the show so far.
It’s not hard to see why: engrossing mythos, fascinating lead character, and some wicked gore. What more could you want from a great anime?
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