Solo Leveling review

Bryoli2
Apr 17, 2021
This is my first webtoon/mangwha review so I don't know how to handle this in comparison to Anime I've watched so please don't be surprised if I'm lenient toward this. Firstly, I began reading this morning and I've already met the maximum available chapters (I'm kind of pissed it happened to fast). Let's get into why I became addicted to this mangwha/webtoon!

Note: There may be minor spoilers so skip if you are worried about being spoiled.

Story: This story approaches an MMORPG style universe set in modern day South Korea; We follow 'the weakest hunter' Sung, Jin-Woo who is notoriously known to be reluctant with his life as he enters dungeons to earn money for his mother's hospital treatment. One day, after entering an E ranked (weakest rank) dungeon with a party, Sung Jin-Woo finds himself in trouble after his party enter a double dungeon with overwhelmingly powerful monster statues and boss. Sung Jin-Woo experiences betrayal to the worst degree after more than 70% of his party are wiped out and expected to solve the riddles in order to overcome the boss and leave the dungeon. It is from this point where he sacrifices himself as the one responsible for losing most of his party and would be the last moment of his weakness as a surprising game-breaking UI element transforms him forever. If this isn't an interesting description, I have no hope you will enjoy this mangwha - This plot isn't necessarily new or transformative, in fact it seems very similar to shield hero. However, the execution of the plot is AMAZING!!! It seems extremely realistic yet doesn't at the same time that it is thrilling; this feeling of being excited for such content hasn't attracted me with anything I've read before. I may be a bit lenient because I became addicted with it and spent every spare moment of today reading it but the pacing of the plot as well as the events that occur were extremely satisfying it's super entertaining. I'm going to rate this 10/10, this may have just highhandedly made me interesting than watching for the first time in my 'weeb' career.

Art:
Compared to the many manga I've read (probably like 3-7 at this point) I'd say this manwha beats it right out of the get-go. The tendency to leave a lot of negative space makes it EXTREMELY easy to read panel per panel, paired with the fact you read as you swipe downward makes for an extremely seamless and satisfying reading experience. However, that is just the tip of the ice berg in terms of art - If I was being honest, the detailed and cleanly colored art style is what made me stick around for more, this is my first experience with south-korean comics but it was certainly amazing. The speech bubbles and similar are very large in size which allow the text inside to be readable and less distracting from the art as they are often offset away from the center of the panel. However, the fact that the panel styles get more complex and transformative won me over with this manwha, the illustrations manipulate designs such as gradients, panoramas, quick action sliced panels etc. to portray much more movement between scenes and character fights. Overall I'd say art is 10/10, easily one of the cleanest quality I've seen so far - the fact it improves around chapter 70 as MC gets more powerful makes for entertaining content.

Character:
Despite being such an amazing manwha and appearing to have no weaknesses, I feel overall character development is more or less the achille's heal of this manwha, since MC becomes overpowered within the first 10 chapters, there's very little space for him to improve as a character. I see they've tried to make him participate in different quick time pop up dungeons, daily excercise quests and the occasional involvement with other guilds and character quests but it did become fairly repetitive (not that I didn't enjoy it, I was rather excited to see these events go wrong and MC eventually unleashing his powers but it does remove quality character development) The fact that MC loses most of his emotion, and that he's aware of it around chapter 30-50 means that we can't really rely on him or other of his hunter-buddies to develop his character - instead, the challenges that he receives not only improves his strength but his intellect as a result and as such, he's much more observant and optimistic about others around him. I'd say overall in terms of character development this manwha lies on a 9/10; definitely an amazing experience seeing MC transform from an E ranked hunter to quite possible an SSSS rank hunter (because of his max level summons and ability to learn as he gains experience).

Enjoyment:
need I say more? this manwha is a masterpiece which is why i became so invested in it within a single day moreso, that I actually read 107 chapters (albeit, they are a bit shorter than manga or other longer webtoons) within a few sittings in a single day. Just a masterpiece.

Overall:
Despite it's weakness in character development, I feel 107 chapters is just the tip of the ice berg, I'm excited for what they do in the future chapters. Hopefully a formidable opponent can stand toe to toe with MC... Thanks for reading :)
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