You have to admit it, Solo Leveling has so far been pushing the boundary of coolness and it fits perfectly as a top new-gen shonen, rivaling other modern anime, and even surpassing them. And now with Season 2, Studio A-1 Pictures has taken the game to a whole new level.
However, Solo Leveling has one major issue that people finally noticed in the anime, which was already apparent in the manhwa. It was during the Demon Castle arc that it first felt like there were no stakes! Jinwoo is just too powerful for any other threat to be considered a threat.
The biggest issue with Solo Leveling – Power-creeping!
For a lot of manhwa, as well as anime fans, the Demon Castle arc in Solo Leveling was a bit of a letdown. Why so? Jinwoo has been power-creeped a bit too much!
The upper floors should’ve been an exciting challenge for him, but they literally felt like a cakewalk. Even after all that Jinwoo has been through already, he just breezes through the upper floors like they’re nothing. The final fight was just another Tuesday for him as it didn’t have the impact it should’ve had.
Everyone imagined to finally see him in some kind of danger like he would be really pushing himself to take down the final boss, but unfortunately, it was just another easy win.
He scaled those 100 floors of the Demon Castle in a glance, and for anime-only viewers, it felt quite rushed. Especially when he hit the Forest Ruins area with the demon daughter’s help, it went by within a blink. We didn’t even get to explore areas between floors 90-100.
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One can now only imagine what kind of challenges and enemies he could have faced in that area. Overall, it felt like a missed opportunity and the anime could add some more depth and excitement to the story. But unfortunately, most of the time, they remained faithful to the manhwa!
Both the manhwa and the anime lost their opportunity to utilize the Demon Castle arc’s potential
The pacing in this part of the story might feel a bit off, but that’s definitely because the narrative jumps around a bit, and keeps the viewers in the loop on what’s going on with others at that same time. And that’s not something objectively bad.
The manhwa made it feel like Jinwoo’s progression was pretty quick, as if we were only seeing the highlights of his climb.
If you match the anime from the source material, you’ll find both are pretty same, so it’s not solely the anime’s fault. Jinwoo fights a couple of mini-bosses, then takes on the demon king, and the rest of the floors are kind of glossed over. But still, the adaptation has done a great job of streamlining the story and cutting out some other unnecessary bits. They’ve kept the focus on the good stuff, and it works out fine.
Solo Leveling is available to watch on Crunchyroll.
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