Manwha is basically manga but from Korea, the style of everything is veeery different as to what you see in manga, from art to characters to the stories. Solo Leveling is basically the dragon ball z of manwha because it's iconic and it's the one almost everybody read and the one that got most people into manwha in the first place, depending of the people you ask everyboy will have a favourite but even if somebody doesn't like Solo Leveling compared to other manwha they read nobody can't deny that this series is ICONIC. HOWEVER as a fan of the story i have 0 faith in the anime Edit: A-1 Pictures is killing it and i'm sorry for ever doubting you
Solo leveling isn't the dragonball equivalent in manga. Because solo leveling isn't classic at all it's a very recent release that just pop off after a year of release. The classic of manwhas are all drama/romance themed ones.
@@griefer1851bro manhwa rly became popular through solo leveling i accept that it has a typical storyline but let me tell u that it has did that typical thing the best way and hype build around it just due to that
As a Korean, this manwha is one of the LEGENDS in korean webtoon industry (which is really huge) It’s either they know it or they watch it. It was originally a novel, then it was created as manwha. The manwha finished the story this may. Although I was little bit upset and disappointed that they were changing the setting of the story as Japanese. Fortunately for crunchyroll and any other countries except japan, will air it as the original, so you guys will see korea and korean names as the original setting. As you guys mentioned in the video, A-1 pictures is Japanese and yeah lots of people were upset that they just make korean original story into japanese dub and everything. There’s some rumors? Idk if it is official but they will make a korean dub verson too so I hope all works well for this masterpiece. + the manwha author of solo leveling passed away last year july, after finishing/drawing the story which was shocking to all fans and people. We truly appreciate his work and all that he gave to create solo leveling. I hope A-1 pictures does a good job matching the crazy action scenes and stories! (Solo leveling is in forms of novel, manwha, online game and now Anime!)
Solo Leveling is known for it's godlike art and action, it is probably the coolest looking thing that I've ever read. The problem is that this 2 aspects carry the show, the story and plot are eh, all right, and if they don't come with the best art, animation and action direction you've ever seen, like One Punch Man levels, it's gonna be ok at best. So don't get your hopes too high
Yeah it's only known for the good art because the story is mid with the most generic characters ever written. It's like a shounen version of gantz without the gore and sex
Its much more generic when you read other iseakai manwhas too lol they are literally 95% the exact same thing A bum gets some sort of awakening/blessing, has like a 2 week physical training arc, and becomes Him
@@timooryasen3540 Thats the thing with SL, the story is meh at best, but is just too hype and cool, so if you want AoT, Vinland Saga or Berserk type of great story and writing then youll be dissapointed
Solo leveling is one of the most iconic manhwas ever, it literally changed the standard of manhwas and got many people into manhwas As for what a manhwa is, it is a Korean comic, usually digital and in a long strip form, it comes out weekly, fully coloured. Other manhwas with adaptations: tower of God, God of high-school Manhwas with future adaptations: The boxer
you know what the tragity is? It's how much of the solo leveling story was ripped from the grand-daddy of the "level up in real life/dungeons in the real world" novels called Seoul Station Necromancer and yet SSN got a dogshit Manwha adaption and will never see an Anime. Its a shame because it's an amazing novel. That said SL is pretty f-ing good, but it's almost shameless how much the 2nd half is plagiarized/borrowed from from SSN. At least the author went in a different direction for the ending. (probably the weakest part of SSN was it's last 1/3 and ending) (why the SSN manwha is bad... It ruined the whole start, and skipped a lot of the world building, they stripped away a lot of the MC's pain/motivation, I mean he's nearly unrecognisable in the Manwha, not to mention the art is just mediocre. In the end the story just has none of the charm of the webnovel)
lower my expectations? literally all this show had was its art, if thats gone, there is nothing left. what we have seen yet, doesnt look good enough. maybe you should get standards instead. we literally just want it to be as good as its source material, like if it isnt, whats even the point of making it?
I would definitely agree tbh. I never expect anything from adaptations. If people are really interested in Solo Leveling then they should read the Manhwa or light novel. (Speaking as someone whose read both).
SL is a highly popular korean webtoon but it's going to have a japanese adaptation. It's hype bc the webtoon art style and fight scenes were peak, it started blowing up back in pandemic days. Every manhwa readers knows SL even if they don't read it so fans don't have expectations from it tho im still gonna watch since the trailer looks decent. The only thing I don't like here was the name change and nationality 😭 they could have just have a collaboration but they didn't and had to change them 💔
They probably won't enjoy it unless they lower their expectations ngl. Different genres of show especially manhwas are a very different type of enjoyable.
Having read the manhwa, I'm ridiculously excited for this. Honestly I don't think I've ever felt as consistently hyped throughout an entire series as this one right here. Just non-stop badassery from start to finish.
Having read the manhwa I'm ridiculously scared for this lol, idk I'm not convinced I'm scared af I don't wanted them to fuck up at least music is gonna be epic already but I'm scared 😩💀😣
@@nikolechastre28xd65 A-1 Pictures doesn't have UfoTable levels of animation, but I'd say they're tied with Mappa. They did SAO and it's animation quality still holds up to this day despite being 10 years old.
honestly they should lower their expectation. The story's not that deep (I mean not like AOT and etc), and they might not enjoy this type of genre (u know, like the op type of stuff). But I FREAKING LOVE this type of manhwa. Its stress free (except for the first few episode) so I hope they enjoyed it!
Yeah tbh, I love aot, but I think them starting with aot, kinda put a standard in their heads for other anime, they have compared a lot of anime they watch to aot so far and it hurts their watch through, especially if the anime’s main focus isnt it’s story/plot
@@ControllerNormi3 true. I hope they read the comments cz I see some of the comments telling them to lower their expectation. Don’t want them to think that the story would be as mind blowing as aot. But its still a good manhwa in my opinion, I mean its cz I don’t really like being stressed out while reading or watching something. Its a fun read, solo leveling I mean.
The only people who like solo leveling are the animation simps who don't care about the story. The story and characters can't be more generic and bland. The whole "killing monsters in a video game simulation" has been done better and so many times already.
I think it'll still be enjoyable to them especially if the studio handles the fights well but that's about it. It'll be a fun watch for sure along the lines of one punch man or something.
@@lisamarieschnee well there’s a reason the manhwa’s popular, maybe there are a lot of people like me that like op character. And like I said it’s a stress free read. If it’s not for u then don’t read it, simple🙂
Basically Solo Levelling is an adaptation of Korea Manhwa..if Japan has Manga then Korea has Manhwa.. but Manhwa isn't same style as Manga.. but more into like comic and with coloured version.. Manhwa industry has been rising for the last few years.. and since then, Anime Studio has been picking up Manhwa into anime adaptation project.. Solo Levelling isn't the first manhwa that gets anime adaptation.. they're a few manhwa that already got anime adaptation like (Tower of God, God of high School, etc.. I hope yall can react to these two as well) So Solo Levelling is a stats-system based story..in a simpler term.. the power system, element of this story just like the RPG Games...fyi, Manhwa industry gets famous bcs of this genre, and also BL ( gay story manhwa)... but Solo Levelling has its own points that makes it special than other Manhwa
@@hopeworld7175 yeah that one as well.. hurmm i think the ranking would be like this 1. Action/Fantasy genred Manhwa 2. BL 3. Straight Romance or 2 and 3 would be interchangeable
It all depends how many chapters they will turn into 1 season. God of highschool covered more than 100 chapters in 13 episodes , Tower of God 79 in 13 episodes. If they are planning to animate a whole series, first season should end with clearing Demon castle and cliffhanger for Jeju Arc. Of course, it all depends on whether they plan anything more than season 1 at all. They could also take it slowly and finish first season with Sung Jinwoo getting his rank re-evaluated before A-rank gate and make 3 seasons
i don't see what solo leveling hype is coming from ! , it looks like a generic isekai with no much depth at all , i did not read the mangs but i have low expectations for this one .
Okay so Solo Leveling is a Korean comic, also known as Manwha, the Korean form of Manga. One of the most iconic, if not THE most iconic manwha that exists. They are staying true to the Korean origins with the names of the characters and the setting, while adapting it into the Japanese language and making it an anime. So the names of the characters are gonna be way different than what you guys are used to because of the Korean origin, but otherwise the story should be pretty easy to pick up if they do it justice. Here's hoping
its japanese studio A-1 Pictures the goat unlimited budget🔥🔥 A-1 Pictures knowing as Team Go Their work is Sword Art Online, Fate Strange Fake, Fate Apocrypha, Eighty six(86), Solo Leveling, Eisen Flugel, mashle, the seven deadly sins(first two season and first movie), nier automata, lycoris recoil, blue exorcist, kaguya sama, grimgar, black butler, your lie in april, erased, magi, etc A-1 Pictures Freelance work Jujutsu Kaisen : animate SS2 ep16 (Sukuna VS Jogo) Jujutsu Kaisen SS2 : 2nd Key Animation (ep 12), Digital Finish Animation (ep 8), Digital In-between Animation (ep 8) Attack On Titan : paint ep26 and ep58 Fate/Grand Order -Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia : In-Between Animation OP1 and ED1-2; (10 episodes eps 1-2, 4-5, 7, 11, 13-14, 17, 19), In-between Check (ED1; ep 11), Paint (eps 1-3), Production Assistance (ep 14) Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon : Paint Spy×Family part 2 : Paint (ep 17) Fire Force : Paint (ep 11) Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood : Production Assistance (ep 23) Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! : 2nd Key Animation (ep 4), In-Between Animation (ep 4), Key Animation (ep 4), Production Cooperation (eps 4, 10) Haikyu!! (TV 3) : Paint (ep 3) Haikyu!! To The Top (TV 5) : In-Between Animation (eps 14, 20) My Dress-Up Darling : In-Between Animation My Roommate is a Cat : Paint (eps 1, 8) Yuri!!! on Ice : Photography (eps 8-9) ETC.... About Clover Works And A-1 Pictures Anime studio CloverWorks announced that it separated from being part of Aniplex subsidiary company A-1 Pictures and became its own company under Aniplex. The new CloverWorks Co., Ltd. company has a capital fund of 100 million yen (about US$877,940) with 100% investment by Aniplex. The company's president is producer Akira Shimizu. From the person who wrote this comment Every Mappa Anime is pulled by Major Freelancers Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsawman staff who were actually Staff on SAO alicization Mappa was helped a lot by A-1.Pictures Studio, If they didn't have A-1 Pictures they probably wouldn't have the quality they're producing today.
The original story is a manHWA not manga, and a webtoon at that as well, so it's actually very different. Not sure if the animation studio will adapt it into a Japanese style though
Oh dang I didn’t know the last trailer was out. It finally looks decent. The manwha (Korean manga) is famous for its insanely good art and the anime just wasn’t up to the standard at first. Solo leveling is what got me and thousands of other into reading manwha. Now I have 40+ tabs open for them. The reason it’s being made in Japan is the reason countries come to America to make big movies. We have Hollywood. Japan has all the big anime studios. There are Korean and Chinese anime, but if you want to reach a worldwide audience you go to Japan.
I don't know how to feel about this one. Started reading it a couple of years ago but then it started to bore the hell out of me. Didn't help that I've read 3 or 4 (probably more tbh) Manhwa that follow a similar story
It's got potential but I really hope they do it justice T^T The art of this webtoon/ manhwa is absolutely superb! It's soo cool! All the panels and everything was amazing! That's what we can say about the reading experience. It's famous for its art style and cool panels and of course, the action scenes.
I heared This Korean webtoon was blew up in Japan because anti japan and copy from Hunter x Hunter chimera ant arc 😇 The story and country names was changed only in Japanese version , but it was found out and it got spontaneously combusted like Samson smart phone😂
I literally read the manhwa in two days with 200 chapters... It was sooo gud n the lingering feeling afterward was so intense😭😭😭 the manhwa ia written by a korean as all the names r in korean but the anime is in japanese n i luv it cuz watching anime in Japanese has its own hype to it.. Im not saying korean is bad but for me japanese language would definitely win the hype as per the storyline🤯🔥😎 i cant wait for itn ur reaction...
Actually, this original work is a Korean novel, and it is an anti-Japanese work, with a Japanese character as the villain. However, it wouldn't sell well in Japan as it was, so we made the main character Japanese and sold it as a Japanese web comic. I think it's strange that Japan would create a work like this. I am Japanese.
@@kyunn-f4o thank you. Koreans who lived during the Japanese colonial period say that the Japanese were good people, but the Korean government is demonizing Japan in order to increase its approval rating. Nowadays, with the spread of the Internet and SNS, more and more Koreans are realizing that this is a mistake, but there are still many Koreans who hate Japan due to anti-Japanese education. Sorry for saying something unrelated even though it's an anime reaction channel.
It's certainly not even close to AOT in terms of story but the story of SL itself isn't bad at all. It does get somewhat rushed towards the very end but otherwise is very consistent in what it wants to offer and what it delivers
Solo leveling has always been my favorite Manhwa, I remember when it started to come out online I eventually read all the pages numerous times and am so excited for the series to become this anime.
If youre hyped, you should check 86 too, made by the same studio of Solo leveling (A1 pictures) and got the Sawano ost like attack on titan and solo leveling, and obviusly is really good!!
Solo Leveling is best action manhwa. because it's PURE HYPE. I love solo leveling for the same reason I like jjk, the fights are HYPE. Except I would say even though both series do have an actual story aside from all the action, I personally prefer Solo Leveling's (caught up with JJK manga btw)
I started reading Solo Leveling when it had around 50 chapters out. The story is enjoyable, but nothing insane. The thing that made it such a big deal was how great the art/colors and style that it was drawn in made it sick.
As a manwha reader, that guy The main character has one of the best drip in anime, is one of the best manwhas ive ever read And iam hyped for this anime as ever 🔥🔥
It's a big detail because the manwha is 10000/10000, so freaking good. Ah - I literally screamed when it was announced that there will be an anime adaption. So excited for this to come out, especially with having Sawano. The manwha author is literally a legend.
You should watch 86 (same studio w/c is A1 pictures). Great soundtracks since Hiroyuki Sawano was behind most of it. Only few episodes. One of my fave anime lists.
Solo Leveling is a huge Manhwa which is basically a Korean Comic, the Manhwa has been out for along time and just earlier finished, having been reading it for along time i was wanting an anime so when i heard that an anime of it was finally in the works i was so excited, i can't wait till Jan,6th
This is a must, you have to read it. The experience will be soon much different if you read the Manhwa first then watching the anime when it's released. You'll be soon excited to see how the animation will come to life. Hands down the Best Manhwa.
The second trailer you saw was images taken from the Manhwa, I like that choice because it lets a new audience see how great it’s pages/chapters looked.
Having read the webnovel and half of the webtoon, it's the most generic webnovel to ever exist. Lower ur expectations. It's not that good. The only people who really hype it up are the ones whose first time reading a webtoon or webnovel was solo leveling. Otherwise, it was similar to every other isekai webnovel.
Hi are you guys not interested in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex? It's a bit of an old anime but still one of the coolest worth watching anime. If you like mature anime, you may want to watch it
Solo Leveling has light novel but most known for it's manhwa (korean comic/manga)... Highly recommend for you guys to read it... And the statue gave me ptsd😅😅😅
Although A1 was very successful, unfortunately the perfection of the character drawings were not drawn well in the anime. The first trailer was very exciting, but the drawings in the following ones disappointed me. I hope that feeling disappears while watching. Yes, it is a worldwide phenomenon, because even though there are comments like the subject is not very good, as far as I know, the subject of "leveling up" is the first time in a manhwa. All the leveling-themed manhwas currently in the industry are from solo leveling. The worst part is that the artist of this has passed away and he won't be able to see the anime. He left us with a beautifully drawn main character and his army of darkness... don't compare it to Gojo, friends. If this had been on the mappa, I'm sure it would have been drawn much more strikingly...
I like how they recognized Hiroyoki Sawano but cant recognize wheather the launguage was japnese or korean 😂. Just how little animes have you watched lol
Come on this Manhwa is like literally the father of all manhwa in korea, which is like drogon balls being one of the best in Japan... but not to judge I really don't think the do better in the anime cause this manhwa has insane art, but if it was a studio like UFOTABLE, the anime would have been fire
If the animation is bad, then this is gonna be trash tier crap. The art carries the generic story. But if the animation is good, it'll be amazing to watch, but still have a trash story. Basically the In-N-Out of food
Read this 200 episode manhwa in a span of 2 days and reread it again right after I was done with the last chapter. That's how amazing it is. And there were a lot of moments when I stop reading because I'm so mind-blown with the story, add the top-notched art of the manhwa and dude 🤌🏻 The anime might not capture everything but hopefully they can do a little bit of justice to it! Can't wait for you guys to know more about this 🙌🏻
Wow watching reaction from you guys who literally have zero knowledge of the manhwa or novel and just watch the anime is really refreshing. I had so much fun. Keep it up guys
If you read the manhwa your mind will blow it will make you crazy I'm waiting for the anime for over a year I read the manhwa over a year ago and I'm a og fan of this story
ngl i would think this would be bad based off of these trailers, but i read the manwha and know that it is good. these trailers only show like the first 3 episodes
Honestly Solo Leveling is the best manhwa i've ever read. The hype was real when i first read it. Knowing there will be animations I got so excited, but looking at the trailers umm like nah i dont wanna get my hopes up
Don't expect a really deep and complicated story line. This show will just be pure braindead action with beautiful art, animatin and badass moments. And thats why it got popular.
the prolog is abt mc dead then he got second chance, then he got the "system" (the mekanism like a game). the system forcing him to lvl up, if he didnt lvl up he will got punishment/killed. basically the main story is actually the "system" use him for something, and he use system to lvl up while he find out about the system
yall missed out on the year of Korean manwha getting adaptations back when god of highschool and tower of god both came out around the same time. they were both alright, but had to condense so much of the original material into them that apparently they kinda sucked as adaptations. Hopefully the same isn't the case with this, I've heard mixed opinions on this one but ill at least check it out since its got so much hype around it. Also A-1 pictures is a Japanese animation company known for doing tons of popular shows so the quality there will probably be pretty good
tbh, I read the web toon which is based on a novel if I am not mistaken, I enjoyed it as I read through it but after I caught up to it I just didn't like where it was going and got bored and never ever went back to it, and now as I look back at it, I don't think it was that great but I still plan to watch the anime if it comes out, I don't really remember much details as I read it like back in 2020 if I am not mistaken, maybe it's as good as I used to think it was.. I even remember a time when people used to say this will never get adapted to anime lol
The reason why I read this manhwa to the end because the mahwa is just a pure hype and that hype is just something I really like about it. But when I finished it and thought about it,this is just like one of those manga/anime that MC is freaking OP and nothing more.😂
@@ameer6168 3 months late but yeah it pretty much is that, that's why I got bored. It seemed like at a point in the series the writer realized he was supposed to actually write a story, and when he tried, it wasn't that interesting...
@@znaz8114 I agree, but it will be fun seeing some of those fights being animated. This is one of those types of stories that you watch with your brain turned off and you can have some mindless fun. Mindless fun is more fun when it's animated than when it is still images so I think it'll be worth watching..
@@hopeworld7175 I meah, yeah, i enjoyed it(read everything that came out untill summer 2020). Best art in mahwa i have ever seen. But animation 100% wont be as consistent and beutiful as manhwa. Also plot wise it was typical power fantasy without any depth. And heard a lot that ending was shit.
@@karappathekappa7792 i mean fight/fantasy manhwa's are not meant to have an amazing plot etc, they are made to give us incredible fight scene and to show us amazing drawing styles . And i personally like the ending pretty much, i think ppl didn't like the fact that the main character didn't get the recognition he deserves but i do think he made the right choice
As someone who has read solo leveling. I personally have zero faith in this anime. But maybe I’m just trying to prevent myself from being disappointed since solo leveling is my favorite manwha
