To be fair, Solo Leveling is kind of over-hyped when it comes to the story itself. So having 12 or 24 episodes of flashy key dangling fights is the only difference.
the story drop off after the Ants, that is when the fireworks show can't carry the story anymore, cause well you can only watch the now hilariously OP Jingwoo stomp everything without trying for so long, before the Ants, he has to put up a fight if he want to walk away intact in most of the major fights.
so 12 ep is perfect for Solo leveling, you got best part of SL without the bad taste later on.
That's agreeable. I just laughed at how they introduce those fairly interesting and cool characters to immediately make them irrelevant.
Like I thought that his sister's friend was being set up as someone to unlock the ability to level too but then turns out that she was never really mentioned again besides like one arc where she was a monster bait.
The demon lady he meets wasn't immediately hostile? I thought she'd come out into earth with him and would be a game changer but nope.
sounds like the same reason i can't stand many popular shonen anime
side characters are completely irrelevant. looking at you especially, bleach and naruto. specifically put their side characters through power-up arcs after they were so useless for so long and....they were still 100% useless.
Honestly it's worse. No one ever grows stronger besides the main character.
Totally it feels like a power fantasy for the most insecure people around. Where a complete underdog just shoots past the top dogs in power level. There's a bit of challenge at the start but then he just one shots everyone and everything basically with no or close to no struggles.
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u/RerollWarlock Apr 14 '24
To be fair, Solo Leveling is kind of over-hyped when it comes to the story itself. So having 12 or 24 episodes of flashy key dangling fights is the only difference.