 * Your list is public by default. Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Na Honjaman Level Up, I Level Up AloneJapanese: 나 혼자만 레벨업More titlesInformation Volumes: Unknown Chapters: 201 Status: Finished Published: Mar 4, 2018 to May 31, 2023 StatisticsScore: 8.661 (scored by 320694320,694 users) Ranked: #6922 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.Popularity: #5 Members: 538,970 Favorites: 45,743Available AtResources |
Details Characters Stats Reviews Recommendations Interest Stacks News Forum Clubs Pictures More Info Ranked #69Popularity #5Members 538,970SynopsisTen years ago, "the Gate" appeared and connected the real world with the realm of magic and monsters. To combat these vile beasts, ordinary people received superhuman powers and became known as "Hunters." Twenty-year-old Sung Jin-Woo is one such Hunter, but he is known as the "World's Weakest," owing to his pathetic power compared to even a measly E-Rank. Still, he hunts monsters tirelessly in low-rank Gates to pay for his mother's medical bills. However, this miserable lifestyle changes when Jin-Woo—believing himself to be the only one left to die in a mission gone terribly wrong—awakens in a hospital three days later to find a mysterious screen floating in front of him. This "Quest Log" demands that Jin-Woo completes an unrealistic and intense training program, or face an appropriate penalty. Initially reluctant to comply because of the quest's rigor, Jin-Woo soon finds that it may just transform him into one of the world's most fearsome Hunters. [Written by MAL Rewrite]Background_Solo Leveling_ is a webtoon series which has been officially published in book format by D&C Media (디앤씨미디어) since September 26, 2019. It originally ended with 179 chapters on December 29, 2021, and side stories began serialization on January 20, 2023. The side stories are drawn by Disciples after the death of original artist Sung-rak Jang.The series has been published digitally in English by Tappytoon since June 4, 2020, and in print by Yen Press since March 2, 2021. It has also been published in French by Delcourt since April 7, 2021.Related Entries MALxJapan -More than just anime- Characters Reviews  Jan 11, 2025 Despite what the chapter counter says, this manhwa really ended at 179/180 chapters. I had it completed there with a 10/10 until one day seeing there's 20 new chapters.I was quite happy with the original ending, other than a few things that simply were left unaddressed. These new chapters try and give closure to some of those things which is a positive, but all in all I don't feel they added much.Imagine your regular 13 ep anime season which finishes well with the last episode, then has some beach OVA which is completely voluntary to watch. This feels more like the last episode ended almost... as intended but left some stuff out due to screen time limitations, so they release an episode 14 which is half a slice of life closure episode, and half trying to reboot the excitement of the original series within one erratic episode for some dumb reason.The series not knowing how to properly wrap up it's ending and whether to have a serious sequel story or not is why I've dropped this to a 9 for me. Even if you argue the last chapters are supposed to be a comedic extra release, it's released as the main story's chapters and contains canonic endings - so it's voluntary but not really.You might like the extra 20 chapters but for me personally it undermined the original work more than it added to it. Reviewer’s Rating: 9 What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0Show all  Dec 28, 2024 This is my thoughts about this series right after I finished it, I kept any spoilers to a minimum possible while still giving a generic overview of the story:Everyone hyped this series too much so i guess i was a little disappointed.The art is great and the action too, but at least for me... There is a crucial aspect missing in Solo Leveling.And that is "story".Don't get me wrong, thing do certainly happen, but, when you look at the overall story, it doesn't have much going on besides the mc(main character) finding a strong enemy, getting stronger to beat it up, and then repeating.The world... building is quite good so it doesn't feel as plain as other stories that follow similar pattern..... BUT....WHERE ARE THE OTHER CHARACTERS???Let me know them. Let me care for them. Let me see them more, instead of just showing them to give a simple speech or to say "This guy seems different"+"How can you be so powerful?!" and forgetting these people until the mc needs them again.This "little" thing really took away most of the fun in this series for me. I can't get too sad when someone dies, or feel that a romance makes sense if the characters involved just show up in this bland fashion.And as such, my favorite part in the whole series is the start and the side stories, because that's where I can finally know some of the characters I'm reading about. Reviewer’s Rating: 7 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  May 23, 2024 Not RecommendedWell-written I wanted to like Solo Leveling. I'm Korean; I genuinely want to see manhwas succeed and stamp their place within the Animanga industry, but I finished reading and regretfully my first and only thought about Solo Leveling, without pulling punches, was that it was utter garbage. It's completely devoid of creativity, it's painfully predictable, the characters all suck (not that anybody other than the MC mattered in the first place), and because of these numerous faults it made for a very boring and unengaging reading experience. When I think of how one could still manage to write an interesting story in which the protagonist is... dumb overpowered, I look to One Punch Man and how well Murata managed such a difficult task with Saitama. Saitama is untouchable in the OPM world, every reader knows this, we know Saitama can never lose yet OPM is still so special because it does everything else so well. The side cast is excellent, characters like King, Genos, Garou, and others each exhibit their own charm and display a belonging within the story. Of course, whenever Saitama is in action the outcome is an obvious victory for our MC, but this never feels like a problem because we as readers are cognizant of this fact; it's because Saitama's opponent is always presented as the challenger rather than the other way around that makes for such an interesting element, like a Souls game, except in this instance our protagonist is the seemingly impossible boss fight. This is why such a heavy emphasis is placed on the side cast, as One Punch Man is ultimately a story about our stupidly overpowered protagonist in search of his equal, and therefore to make such a thing happen the side characters must be more important than even the main character.On the contrary, Solo Leveling failed to compensate for its overpowered MC in every possible fashion. Sung Jin Woo begins the story in the abyss of powerlessness, just but an ant at the very bottom of the food chain. Jin Woo then receives a massive power-up, as expected from any story like this, and gradually scales his way up the food chain but at a certain point in what was still the infancy stage of the story he gains quick access to completely busted monsters that eventually work under him as slaves. From this point on it really was a cake-walk for Jin Woo, as nobody and nothing stood a chance to him. None of the side characters are worth a single penny within Solo Leveling; all of them are utterly powerless and rendered useless before Jin Woo and it certainly does not help their case when not one of them possesses any traits that make for a good character. Instead of using the side cast to augment and give some more depth to the overall story like any good writer would, the creator of Solo Leveling would rather treat these side characters as throwaways to further increase the gap in power between Jin Woo and everybody else. What is the point of a ranking system when nobody other than Jin Woo is worth a damn? Almost like Naruto and how everything in between Genin and Jonin ultimately meant nothing. The story is disgustingly unoriginal which goes without saying: the typical zero to hero. There is no depth whatsoever, just a linear path without any obstacles from one enemy to the next until we finally arrive at the last one. Whatever type of half-assed effort of world-building was immediately vanquished when Jin Woo went from the strongest hunter in South Korea to immediately the strongest in the world. Just an absolute sh*t show.I'm just not understanding where this Solo Leveling hype stems from. Is it because it's in color and you all view it as a novelty? Or is it because you enjoy a story even an average 3rd grader is capable of writing? I'm not a fan and wouldn't recommend to anyone with any type of standards. Reviewer’s Rating: 1 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all Interest Stacks Recommendations Recent News Recent Forum Discussion |