I enjoyed solo leveling just as much as the next person and there's no doubt it's a great show and sequel. However, it's same stuff we always see with above average production. A-1 studios did well with the adaptation but the actual story, characters, etc were just appalling. I'll be going into each aspect in detail below.

Story: 5/10

I think this is a quite fair rating for the storyline and many would agree. It was a pretty standard one much like other manhwa with the mc becoming super op through killing monsters and leveling up through a unnatural system. Nothing too shabby but not too innovative or new since we've seen this concept a lot in anime as well. Yes - the ones we call trashy isekai.


#Animation: 9/10
The animation was fricking FANTASTIC but the only reason I can't give it a 10 is because feel like animes like AOT, CSM, Demon Slayer, Fate and the latest episodes of One Piece are just a notch upper. So i just can't get myself to give it a 10.

I really liked where their budget went to as well

Spoiler, click to view

#Music: 8/10
Music was done by Hiroyuki Sawano, so it was obviously impressive. Every time Dark Aria played it was ABSOLUTE CHILLS and the moments became so much better. Although i didn't enjoy the second opening as much, the first opening was really catchy. I have seen better Hiroyuki Sawano works like AOT so that's why it's 8/10


#Characters: 6/10
Sung Jin Woo, Igris and Iron! Am i right?! We all know the aura final boss our mc himself but the rest of the characters really fail to make any impact and are just kinda there. Sung Jin Woo has been aura farming, carrying the entire character cast himself so I can't really rate it too high. Besides Sung Jin Woo isn't too well of a written character either. He's just aura.


#Direction: 10/10
In this section i wanna talk about the overall execution as an adaptation to one of the best manhwa of all time. I think it's safe to say they really did a AMAZING job with the adaptation. The execution and direction of the anime was flawless which really made it one of the top animes this year. The extra scenes they added were nice as well

Though im disappointed they left her out. She's so hot as well :/

Hype carried this anime all the way to the end. People would call Demon Slayer overrated saying it was carried by animation and no story, but even though solo leveling is similar in that aspect, viewers would definitely prefer it over Demon Slayer just cause of some overused aura moments.

In the end, i did enjoy the anime very much as well, and my score really reflects that. It may seem contradictory rating it this high after everything i said, but it was a good anime and i cant deny that. Though I don't think the anime deserves anymore than a 8/10