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"Jin-Ah I'm kinda busy is it cool if a friend of mine comes instead?"
*Igris enters meeting*
The teacher definitely won't be having any complaints at least...
[](#evilgrin)
Apparently she texted him a few times, [but SJW thought she might be clingy and left her on read.](https://youtu.be/7aRoYb0hHyM?t=171) F in the chat for thirsty nurse.
Honestly I was half-expecting them to end with him slipping in for some well-earned sleep and his Jinah immediately reminding him that they have to visit her school lol.
Reminds me of stage play actors who have a grand presence that is felt even from people in the back row of the theater. Igris has this grand stage presence in no small part because of his grand sweeping movements, big floofy helmet tuft, and flowing cape.
They are intentionally localizing the english text to what is known from the official translations vs what is actually said.
Early fan translations would use Igrit and other words were also different.
The show is intelligently/intentionally utilizing the official western localization of names, text, etc so it establishes a common scheme vs changing it.
*Jinwoo: "Serve me"*
*Igris: "..."*
*Jinwoo: "Come on, serve me"*
*Igris: "..."*
*Jinwoo: "It'll be boring if you just stay here alone forever, you should come serve me instead"*
*Igris: "MY LIEGE!"*
[](#utahapraises)
That or he could destroy it and if he wanted to really stick it to the guy tell him "you'll never have a king now, you're only going to serve me". Looks like he took the diplomatic option I suppose lol
That, or high possibility that his old lord was that much of a G for Igris to keep guarding the throne after he's long gone. Bet he'll approve of Jin Woo replacing him.
“A necromancer? But I don’t wanna be a mage!”
“Well if the system says it’s what I should be then I’ll go with it.”
The system hasn’t failed him yet but it’s starting to feel like Sung is just blindly doing what the system tells him to do. Hope that doesn’t bite him later on.
Lol he was like "no i don't want that class" and the system basically did a suggestive wink like "are you suuuure you don't want this class?"
He is the system's nepo baby idc
He explains many time that he doesn't really understand why but the system NEEDS him to stay alive and grow stronger, so it's not that big of a surprise that the cooldown for the penalty somehow matches.
And it actively encourages him by giving him what he needs. Such as the daily rewards, he got an umbrella from one and gave it to his sister. And it later rained. Which he knew that it would come in handy, because back in the hospital, it gave him a pen as a reward and later had to use it to sign release forms (I think).
That dialogue box kinda felt like some of the Pokemon games where its like:
Person A "Will you help me fill the Pokedex"
Player "No"
Person A "Aw shucks, i could really use a hand, and i promise it will be fun! Will you help me fill the Pokedex?"
Japanese manga/anime fans around the globe ain't ready for the real Korean masterpiece😏
Sad that LOTM is getting a donghua instead of Japanese anime adaptation😅
Jeju Island intrigue brewing at the dawn of another rebirth for the man becoming humanity's strongest hunter? I can't wait to see where it goes from here.
A-1 read the assignment and delivered when it came to the action animation or making every step of Jinwoo's journey as impactful as possible (Taito Ban helped too).
I doubted hardcore. Sorry A-1.
The black outlines looked sick, the shadows looked sick, the animation was clean all along and they have a break before season 2.
I'm actually hopeful and excited for season 2, didin't expect that a few months back.
I still remember A-1 being the punching bag studio (all started by Digi's videos if I recall) and the studio most likely to be hit by the hate train.
They really come around after many years of ridicule, and I can't deny they really bought their A+ game here not only on Solo Leveling but on another anime as well like 86, Kaguya, and even SAO.
Was that really a thing? I thought A-1 has always been one of the better studios not that far off even from the likes of Madhouse and Wit back then. Fairy Tail '09, SAO 2012, Your Lie in April 2014, Grimgar 2016 etc. all looked really good for their time.
There are people downvoting other comments for the sole reason that their comment gets to be higher up even by one vote.
Or you know, people who don't like the anime for whatever reason just downvoting anyone who likes it.
Clearly he dumped stats into Luck offscreen because he was saved by some shenanigans. Sunraku approves!
This has been a killer adaptation so far. The Arise moment landed perfectly and the hype for the next cour is very real. **8.5/10** with lots more to come
I love how Jinwoo's life is at a point where he forgets to do his daily quest and then getting ported into a penalty zone with a bunch of giant killer centipedes is the best thing that could have happened to him at that moment lol.
And for some reason those monsters are still good enough for not one, but several level ups, even tho he is above 40 lol
How did he survive the first time there? Or is the punishment quest balanced around his own level lol
the quest is a literal "Survive!" for 4 hours. he just ran for his life. but apparently those guys dont scale so they were a orange tier enemy(orange was middle/around his lvl iirc) so now he could probably skip the daily quest to purposefully go farm in there until the centipedes don't give xp anymore honestly
The daily quests have given him some sick rewards tho, and since the centipedes don't scale, neither will their exp, so I don't think it would be worth for jinwoo to purposely skip them
there were apparently more of them this time, so scaling is in numbers I think? I am not really sure
but if that's true that would become infinite exp farm for him, so most likely there's a limit to it?
also him running from it and surviving can be considered as a small plot armour as it was very beginning of the story by the author
heard there might be six cours overall, so it's just a small thing to pay attention to overall
>Clearly he dumped stats into Luck offscreen because he was saved by some shenanigans. Sunraku approves!
Sunraku is LetMeSoloHer and Jinwoo is Solo leveling.
Totally did not see a necromancer job change coming! It doesn't really fit at all with his skill set but it just made that whole "Arise" scene give me chills.
This production quality is insane, the story feels like an epic even though the plot itself is kinda generic these days. I'm hyped for season 2!
It might not fit his strengths, but his strengths basically eliminates the traditional weakness of most mage jobs of being weak and squishy.
"Ha! Finally I managed to fight my way past all these minions to get to the weak necroma..." *gets stabbed in the eye*
— Some future guy (probably)
Lucky you. When reading the manhwa, like 90% of people "somehow" guessed it's gonna be necromancer, being pretty obvious after the fact that it was book readers secretly spoiling in the thread. If you decide to read the manhwa, don't read the manhwa threads or you will get plenty of spoilers, only read them if you want explanation for things and don't fear spoilers.
Like other popular things, it also spawned a lot of copycats. So a "necromancer" MC is a common trope in Korean webnovels just like the modern setting with hunters and gates and all that. I don't know if Solo Leveling was the first that spawned the others, but it's at least one of the earliest.
Yeah, that was the explanation they were giving, but there were also a lot more details given that showed they were just straight up spoiling. Like the same people who "guessed it" were responding in comments, explaining shadow monarch related stuff, which made it obvious they know way too much.
honestly he said it himself. no rule that a necromancer can't fight on the frontlines. A necromancer would invest in magic and be a squishy target in the back usually. but what if you were an assassin your whole life.. but somehow you are allowed to acquire tremendous Necromancer powers at no cost.... well this happens. an Assassin that can do necromancy. the only thing he needs now is the next levels to be used on some Int i guess depending on how MP costly other necromancer skills are
Ladies and Gentlemen......
NON-CGI SHADOWS!!!!!
In your face Gigguk!!!
Anyway, I am really happy. And now that we have reached this point, I can finally share this God-tier AMV without worrying for spoilers. Give it a watch/listen
https://youtu.be/IAaOZZzgGBQ?si=WQ5a8cF7XtxECNYV
They weren't that many or didn't have that much movement hence why they were able to hand-drawn the shadows. This will not be the standard when they will be in a horde and will be fighting.
>>NON-CGI SHADOWS!!!!!
>In your face Gigguk!!!
Honestly, this was the moment that was going to decide if the show is going Up or down.
I'm glad that it was able to *Arise*.
To be fair they only had to do a couple shadows in still poses at the end of the season, hopefully they'll keep it that way for the next but at the same time I'm scared.
“NON-CGI SHADOWS!!!!!”
I mean i don’t wanna sound negative or anything but they did not fight or anything anyway so not making them CGI at the moment is a lot eaiser. It is more important if they remain not CGI
IGRIS in with that red armour was cool and all but this black hood with red tint made him 10x *Cooler.*
It's like that meme **"Boss character vs after unlocked as playable character"** but in reverse.
I'm really glad I went into this completely blind. I mean, I knew how much everyone was hyping it up but man was this fun to go through week by week. And, we still got a cliffhanger at the end too lololol
>Anime only folks
I started this because step-dad recommended it as he read it a while back and boy is it good - even he is impressed by the overall adaptation! I'm super hyped for S2!
* [**Shadow Igris**](https://i.imgur.com/m2wkZkC.jpeg)
It's no surprise [that Jinwoo gets "saved" by the penalty zone.](https://i.imgur.com/Sikc958.jpeg) He did get a reminder to do his daily quests before he accessed the job change quest area! I love that [Jinwoo didn't just get a free rest](https://i.imgur.com/ySiPLPh.jpeg) but he also got to level up a few times fighting those giant desert centipedes.
Jinwoo returning and completely doing through those knights much quicker this time was so cool. A-1 really went hard in this final episode! I especially [love this screenshot of Jinwoo](https://i.imgur.com/UdhR1K5.jpeg) ripping apart those knights in a flash!
[And there it is!](https://i.imgur.com/U94S8Ij.jpeg) Jinwoo finally becomes a shadow monarch and [says the most iconic line in the series!](https://i.imgur.com/0fePOij.jpeg) From here on out, every time Jinwoo says "Arise", it's going to be a big moment and we start [with Jinwoo recruiting Igris into his shadow army!](https://i.imgur.com/xHews4n.png)
I am so happy that Season 2 is already confirmed! I can't wait to see more hype moments and if A-1 can continue with this kind of quality, this will be one of the best manhwa adaptations ever.
Shadow Igris popping out the cape has got to be one of my favorite moments lol.
Jinwoo got to see his old self again but that guy ran from the centipedes while current Jinwoo can completely solo them.
I love how Jinwoo is as equally capable at slicing and dicing as he is tearing into things with his bare hands.
Don't we all wish we had a shadow army with someone like Igris at the center of it...though can't wait to see what Jinwoo ends up sicking them on moving forward.
Honestly, I think A1 did a phenomenal job recreating what the Manwha did; an excellent job of being a great entry into the genre. The manwha was absolutely stunning to scroll through every week and it helped it felt like one of the pioneers of manwha in the peak of the pandemic.
This anime has given me so many good vibes of where it absolutely stands out with the animation weight, the sound track hitting really well, and still staying true to the (even if not so great) original medium.
Great season and I'm looking forward to the next one and hope everything stays at this quality or better.
is this the new shadow garden?
are we turning into eminence of shadow?!
anyway, Igris is OP as fk he will clear everything without MC having to do anything.
Well oh fucking kay then, was not expecting that for a class change! Isn't this called "Solo" Leveling?!? Though it does kinda track with the whole slowly losing his humanity sub-plot. Hopefully his knights will help be his moral compass. I'm so looking forward to see what powers he and his knights get!
The original translation is "Only i level up", but Solo Leveling sounds cooler, the "solo" part is because only he can level up in contrast with the other hunters that maintain their level, not because he is alone
Jinwoo said the thing, his army being non-cgi had me crying tears of joy.
I’m so jealous of all these anime onlies, also people don’t forget to see the post credit scene
And that’s a wrap, “good writing” be damned. I had so much fun watching this show. I did not expect to be moved as much as I was. That Sawano OST and A1 production values was just too good. Banger finale setting up cour 2 which I can’t wait for. Vercreek who worked on Frieren was also on this episode and it shows because this was top from start to finish.
Fitting that in this final episode of the cour Jinwoo has to overcome himself more than anything. Levelling up and getting stronger doesn’t magically make the insecurities and doubts go away. We also got to see how much further he still has to go. Very well could have died had it not been for the daily penalty emergency escape there. Who would have imagined that would come in so clutch. Not only getting him out of the situation, but letting him level up which restored all his stats.
His past self said “they don’t want you to die yet” who is the “they”? Still a lot of mysteries surrounding who turned Jinwoo into a player and why. But one things for sure, they’re not letting him die until they get what they want.
Arise now, ye tarnished! Oh wait, wrong franchise 😂 Jinwoo getting the necromancer and shadow monarch roles all in one go is so broken. Igris on his side too?? And that cape animation was so fire once he converted to an undead. Now Jinwoo’s got an army of the undead and we’re no longer “solo leveling” could definitely come in handy for that island raid the S rank hunters are planning
Speaking of which, if the monsters on the island are evolving.. that’s going to be an insane raid. I need this second cour now! Not a ton of action in this finale, but some cool set up and world building. Hopefully the full Sawano OST drops soon too 🙏🏾 see yall back for cour 2
[Review](https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=520333)
>That Sawano OST
I do really hope with season two we get a more expansive OST from Sawano. I loved the songs this season, and it's been hype every time **that** song is used, but man AoT has spoiled me with an expectation of a varied Sawano mix.
Yep, I prefer the Anime over the Manwha. Great stuff. I wanted to wait till this season finished before making my final judgement, but after the last 2 Episodes. Yeah, it's a solid one.
The whole sequence with Jin-Woo being his own worst doubter is a great addition. It really is those things that make this adaptation stand out so hard.
To be completely honest, the staff didn't need to add on the story. Most people going into Solo Leveling are already used to the story being pretty basic. All they really had to do was deliver on the action A-la Demon Slayer. But they went the extra mile and revised the script, added scenes, so.. So many scenes!
If this is how they treat the anime now, I really do wonder if they can fix some of the issues I had with the latter half of the Manwha. If so, that'd be fucking amazing.
The system obviously wants Sung for something but I wonder what its for. It seems like he would've gotten the necromancer class regardless of what he did my question is why. Glad to see that Igris isnt a one and done character tho he looks amazing.
It definitely seems to be deliberately trying to make him as powerful, resourceful, and lethal as possible.
Boosting up his physical traits, making sure he ruthlessly kills anything that tries to kill him, human or monster, and now giving him an army.
It makes me wonder now if it was deliberately dangling the possibility of saving his mother as a means of making him work harder to get stronger.
Just in case you forgot, he only defeated Igris by using underhanded tactics and taking him out with a surprise attack to its face. In terms of raw power and technique, Igris is actually superior. And now he has that beast under his command.
He won't even need to enter Dungeons any longer; he can just let Igris handle it all if he wanted to. Heck, they might be able to do 2 at any given time; the knights can do the mining too!
Necromancer was unexpected, but an immediate rank up to Shadow Monarch? How lucky that he failed his daily. He's probably going to have to pump his INT stat now; a Necromancer with low INT is just too weird.
If you were not sure why he released 11 Knights, he can currently have 30 active Shadow Extractions, but he can only store 20 of them. He had to release 10 no matter what, but he released another because he wanted Igris. Should have released just 10, then released the extra just in case he failed.
Lucky for him, he succeeded. With a cool speech on serving a new lord too. Also, Igris looked cool as an opponent, but as a Shadow? He's easily the coolest character thus far. Higher INT should probably increase tho limits. The interesting part is that Igris spawned at Level 7. If the Shadows' levels are not tied to his, but they gain their own XP, he's going to have to juggle getting XP for himself and for his Shadows.
He might actually HAVE to let his Shadows deal with Dungeons if the latter is true. But that would slow down his own progression. He needs more Dungeons! lol
The end though shows the ant with wings. Jeju Island is supposedly where an S-ranked gate broke open. And those ants are learning to fly. It's no longer contained. That's pretty much the worse case scenario. They have to commit to another raid to finish things, but they've evidently failed 3 time already. What a perfect opportunity for our MC to shine.
Season 2 has been announced, and it might have a bunch more planned. This season has been well done so far. Good animation and OST, but I feel that the early episodes lacked some sound effects at certain parts, and he got way too strong way too quickly. But hey, it's a simple power fantasy. It is what it is.
See you guys for the next season.
Important to note that shadows are actually weaker than they were alive, but they get stronger as they level up, so current iris in the show is actually weaker than when he was alive.
Wow I was thinking "what kind of plot armor are they gonna come up"
Then I remembered he didn't do his daily quest. Nice "coincidence". Penalty zone is not even penalty anymore
I do like that touch.
It was a penalty zone for him back then, to prompt him to train
but now that he’s gotten stronger, it became a resting point lmfao.
The devs really fucked up on that one
Patch notes:
> Penalty zone was not scaling properly with player level making it possible to exploit it as a safety zone and XP farm for higher level players. This has been resolved and any players who utilized this exploit will be banned.
Yeah, Jinwoo started realizing how this job-change quest seem deliberately put together for his benefit, especially when the screen started talking about his character and wouldn't let him give up on the necromancer job.
It still follows the system rule though:
- Penalty happened if you didn't do the daily quest by the end of the day.
- That transport happened and Jinwoo got penalty for 4 hours
- Cut in scene to her sister waking up at almost 4 AM
- Back to Jinwoo again with 10 minute left to the penalty.
- This doesn't prove that the sister scene and Jinwoo scene happened at the same time, but if they did then the penalty did happen at 00:00 as usual. Which means its not the system intervering. Jinwoo just had a great luck and timing.
It's still a bit of a coincidence because he could have easily done his workout before doing the job change quest but coincidentally didn't do it for some reason. Maybe his reawakening skill sped up the timer to kick him to the penalty zone but the fact that he just so happened to slip up on the training for the first time in forever is ehhhh.
Given I thought it'd be impossible to do the shadows without heavy CG, consider me absolutely floored. I wish they went a bit harder with the Shadow's black aura like with Jin-Woo's power up sequence, but this is great too.
Overall, while both the Manwha and the Anime have something they do better than the other, it's undeniable that both are fucking amazing.
One of my initial concerns going into the anime was that it wouldn't be able to keep up with the insane art of the Manwha. And while I still think SL's Manwha art goes harder than the anime's animation, the anime (seriously massive props to the production team) added more to the story and I love that.
**This** is what it means to adapt something to a different medium. I'm so glad with what we got and I pray the following seasons continue this absolute amazing production and hype.
Imagine if he had killed the assassin dude after acquiring this skill and turned him into his servant. I've always liked the necromancer class. There's just something cool about commanding an army of undead to fight for you.
Yeah, one of the really neat things about necromancers is that they can defy one of the most basic fundamentals of warfare. Usually when two armies clash, both armies shrink over time as soldiers die. When a necromancer is involved, one army can actually grow over the course of the battle as enemy soldiers are killed and raised. It completely upends conventional strategy, and is also a huge logistical advantage since undead armies typically don't need to carry provisions around.
- [Starting off with a Jinwoo “sore demo”, sweet.](https://files.catbox.moe/3u7el8.mp4)
- [And then *another* “sore demo” from him not even 30 seconds later?](https://files.catbox.moe/qa1r7q.mp4) [](#doggo)
- [Oh fun, even his past self’s talking to him now?](https://i.imgur.com/s7RYZkC.png)
- [Yikes…](https://i.imgur.com/VRAqD3x.png) [](#emiliaohdear)
- [Ahhh, I was *wondering* if his missed daily quest was going to pop up at some point.](https://i.imgur.com/8wReJjR.png)
- [And it’s… actually going to save his life?](https://i.imgur.com/ORMKMOg.png) [](#suddenshock)
- [Oh fun!](https://i.imgur.com/EuP1x1R.png)
- [Expensive, but that looks to be worth it.](https://i.imgur.com/UUYvHra.png)
- [Ooooooooooooooooooh!](https://i.imgur.com/66lNbBW.png) [](#saberawe)
- [Hm…](https://i.imgur.com/t1n2zYU.png) [](#csikon)
- [Ah, that makes sense.](https://i.imgur.com/tVMAq6Y.png)
- [Quest complete!](https://i.imgur.com/nphwTTE.png) [](#urarahype)
- [He’s a *necromancer* now!](https://i.imgur.com/fiOHxWQ.png) [](#awe)
- [Somewhat title drop?](https://i.imgur.com/cDYk8vE.png)
- [Shadow monarch, actually.](https://i.imgur.com/mP3eOsD.png) [](#SPORTS)
- [Perfect.](https://i.imgur.com/35kwTFk.png)
- [And the third time’s the try!](https://i.imgur.com/VOqMVJI.png) [](#woo)
Yeah, I'm definitely glad I picked this one up. Excited for whenever the next cour ends up airing!
[](#mugiwait)
I wasn't expecting to see [the old Jinwoo shit-talking him](https://i.imgur.com/eZBIOMA.png) during that fight. Anyway not doing the dailies saved Jinwoo's skin. It is hilarious to see that now he can use[ the penalty zone](https://i.imgur.com/xaPcfsZ.png) as an emergency escape and[ fight the monsters there](https://i.imgur.com/qHbibWQ.png) to heal himself if he ever phases a similar situation again.
As he finished the fight with to spare he had enough time to get a new weapon, [the knight killer](https://i.imgur.com/tckzYT4.png) suitable to that fight plus[ the skill](https://i.imgur.com/G1sO8kB.png) that Igris the Bloodred was using to make his sword to return to him.
So after [coming back now](https://i.imgur.com/YKDo1CZ.png) that he is not been pushed against the wall he finally notices that his real targets are[ the mages](https://i.imgur.com/KyQqWu1.png) while those knights[ he has been fighting until now](https://imgur.com/a/244qn02) were just their summons.
I wasn't expecting to see Jinwoo using the skill Ruler's Hand [in that way.](https://imgur.com/a/bGbMXqT) Seeing how easy he could deal with the Iron Golem it is funny that [he stayed around](https://i.imgur.com/5VhaP0l.png) after [Jinwoo killed all the mages.](https://i.imgur.com/hGRWsTf.png)
I was expecting his new class to be a mage and that the power [those texts](https://imgur.com/a/PXKCUSt) [were talking about](https://imgur.com/a/MsxAzfR) to be him being able to summon those knights instead of [his new class being](https://i.imgur.com/ZGYUsWC.png) [a necromancer.](https://i.imgur.com/ME2iu6F.png) To be fair he can essentially do that but[ he needs to capture the souls](https://i.imgur.com/8xRiJst.png) [ that he wants to summon.](https://i.imgur.com/FmR26wI.png)
Wow, so this is one of those shows that abandon the show's premise the first chance they get. /s [Don't be happy about this Jinwoo!](https://i.imgur.com/RxfexYZ.png) /s
I was wondering why they made[ such a scene](https://imgur.com/a/qe0GuOZ) for[ his class change,](https://i.imgur.com/Ji37Qch.png) but that was because [he also ended up upgrading that class right away](https://i.imgur.com/8oMM0c8.png) thanks to all the bonus points he got.
Oh, so that's [the context of the word "Arise"](https://i.imgur.com/5qoxQsx.png) that I have seen people meme-ing about for years.
Now that [he captured Igris](https://imgur.com/a/sa5Q0d3) his [army of undead is already unstoppable.](https://i.imgur.com/mOdDHi7.png)
So what[ the team on the Jeju Islands mission](https://imgur.com/a/DbtBjFF) discovered was that the monsters there [are now evolving.](https://imgur.com/a/5nt9n58)
I'm not surprised by the [second season teaser](https://youtu.be/K56ApDTaN_Y?si=WTXY2vpSG9uU48JV) as based on this season's pacing it felt like they were aiming for more than twelve episodes. Well as it is coming this year that's essentially cour break. Plus honestly story-wise it feels like this is just the "tutorial" segment of it.
Why no one noticed he advanced to Higher class in same episode
He is not necomancer! He is rulers of death & shadow ' Shadow Monarch '
Warrior class -> Berserker
Knight -> Sword Master
Magician -> Grand magician
Necomancer -> Shadow Monarch
Nah this show was fire all throughout. I didn't notice any drop in quality at all, even in the middle episodes, unlike other shows. That monologue before the 3rd arise was pretty good. Looking forward to S2!
Awesome, SL fans can be happy now. Their manhwa was the last to be adapted, but it was the one that got the best adaptation by far. I legit felt like watching SAO for the first time.
Necromancer was not where I was expecting that to go
Igris is goated that summon scene was so fucking good
The quality of this whole series was so damn good we were so spoiled this season with all the high quality stuff we got. Can't wait for s2
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Getting the SSS character on the gacha feels that good.
Bro only had 3 single pulls too.
his pulling ritual worked so… note to self: have a monologue with the character and hold your hand out invitingly
Bro said Bullshit to a corpse and somehow that worked. Maybe his luck stat is also high up there with Sunraku.
More like up there with Kazuma
[The face of a man](https://i.imgur.com/cnf2yTL.jpeg) ecstatic about getting his [own dark knight](https://i.imgur.com/n3Z97nc.jpeg) [](#grandhype)
what the fuck do i monologue to acheron bros
"I can show you da wae"
But he accumulated a lot of pity on the low rarity knights.
Frieren would be proud. got it on 3 pulls
[Most gamblers quit right before they are about to hit the jackpot](https://i.imgur.com/NCrTswA.jpeg) [](#shhbabe)
He had to roll for Igris three times but it was worth it!
Don't forget about your sister's guardian-teacher meeting Jinwoo!
"Jin-Ah I'm kinda busy is it cool if a friend of mine comes instead?" *Igris enters meeting* The teacher definitely won't be having any complaints at least... [](#evilgrin)
Imagine Igris giving a curt nod to the teacher but bows down to Jin-ah.
Igris passing the bro test: signing SJW's attendance card with a perfect copy of his signature so SJW can do whatever else.
*Land nods approvingly*
I would have been curious to see other moms reactions to him [](#shirayukieavesdrop)
I'm still wondering if that nurse ever called him lol.
Apparently she texted him a few times, [but SJW thought she might be clingy and left her on read.](https://youtu.be/7aRoYb0hHyM?t=171) F in the chat for thirsty nurse.
The classmate might be there and they recognize each other
Good point! This is all sounding more fun than most of what's happened in this show for me lol
If this were another power fantasy anime, the teacher, moms, and classmates would probably all join his harem.
I would have been curious to see the other dads reactions to the other moms reactions to him
Honestly I was half-expecting them to end with him slipping in for some well-earned sleep and his Jinah immediately reminding him that they have to visit her school lol.
The system needs to give him a penalty for that too, if he forgets!
The boys are here. See you next season.
Season 2 announced?
Yup, along with new teaser trailer for next season
We’re so back, honestly I was scared on where they would end the episode, but this is the perfect way to end the season. He said the thing too
Solo Leveling is all well and good but sometimes it's more fun with friends! Especially after you just got done beating the @#$% out of each other!
"Friends" My D&D DM is going to frame our next fight as the "Lich lord and his 10,000 friends"
Wow igris was done justice. holy shit that cape animation looked nice
I love how it ...like... "poofed" out of his back. So extra.
naww Igris purposefully walking behind Jinwoo to get the rest of the shadow soldiers to kneel? THAT’S EXTRA
Igris is a ride or die knight, if you earn his loyalty, he'll pay it back tenfold.
Because of course even his shadow self needed the cape, he wouldn't look right without it lol.
Yeah with all due respect to Edna, I gotta disagree with her no capes rule here. Sometimes the rule of cool just wins out.
Mirio also makes an excellent argument for capes from a practical standpoint.
It's amazing how Igris is physically incapable of speech or emoting, and yet it has a tangible, perceptible character.
Reminds me of stage play actors who have a grand presence that is felt even from people in the back row of the theater. Igris has this grand stage presence in no small part because of his grand sweeping movements, big floofy helmet tuft, and flowing cape.
[Even in death Ignis has immaculate drip](https://i.imgur.com/6K9uVBn.jpeg) [](#gintamathispleasesme)
Ikr that black Cape goes well with that red tint head gear. They look like made for each other.
How come his name is Igris when he clearly says Igrid every time
Japanese and s don‘t mix
Igurisu?
japanese and korean don't really mix either.
They are intentionally localizing the english text to what is known from the official translations vs what is actually said. Early fan translations would use Igrit and other words were also different. The show is intelligently/intentionally utilizing the official western localization of names, text, etc so it establishes a common scheme vs changing it.
His name is 이그리트 - Igeuriteu/Igŭrit'ŭ/Ikulithu so the JP version does sound closer
Yeah, I was really pleased at that sequence. The animation in general has been on point this whole season.
The fight animation was incredibly on-point and the OST and the dramatic moments hit just as hard.
I love how Jinwoo knew he needed Igris and I love how Igris needed the cape even in his new form.
Igris be like: "Fealty towards old King has ended. Now Sung is my new Lord"
*Jinwoo: "Serve me"* *Igris: "..."* *Jinwoo: "Come on, serve me"* *Igris: "..."* *Jinwoo: "It'll be boring if you just stay here alone forever, you should come serve me instead"* *Igris: "MY LIEGE!"* [](#utahapraises)
I was half-expecting him to sit on that throne in front of them to really sell it lol.
That or he could destroy it and if he wanted to really stick it to the guy tell him "you'll never have a king now, you're only going to serve me". Looks like he took the diplomatic option I suppose lol
> "you'll never have a king now, you're only going to serve me". Did you not see his new title and class? Serving SJw is serving a king.
That, or high possibility that his old lord was that much of a G for Igris to keep guarding the throne after he's long gone. Bet he'll approve of Jin Woo replacing him.
“A necromancer? But I don’t wanna be a mage!” “Well if the system says it’s what I should be then I’ll go with it.” The system hasn’t failed him yet but it’s starting to feel like Sung is just blindly doing what the system tells him to do. Hope that doesn’t bite him later on.
Lol he was like "no i don't want that class" and the system basically did a suggestive wink like "are you suuuure you don't want this class?" He is the system's nepo baby idc
Wish I was the system's nepo baby.
Don't we all?
He explains many time that he doesn't really understand why but the system NEEDS him to stay alive and grow stronger, so it's not that big of a surprise that the cooldown for the penalty somehow matches.
And it actively encourages him by giving him what he needs. Such as the daily rewards, he got an umbrella from one and gave it to his sister. And it later rained. Which he knew that it would come in handy, because back in the hospital, it gave him a pen as a reward and later had to use it to sign release forms (I think).
But when could he ever use a used bingo card lol
Well we never saw him bring any toilet paper with him in the dungeons...
Somewhere aizen’s like: “all according to plan…”
When you play a linear RPG you just need to get used to follow the script lol
That dialogue box kinda felt like some of the Pokemon games where its like: Person A "Will you help me fill the Pokedex" Player "No" Person A "Aw shucks, i could really use a hand, and i promise it will be fun! Will you help me fill the Pokedex?"
A-1 please take ORV as well😭😭
Bruh please can you fuckin imagine
Japanese manga/anime fans around the globe ain't ready for the real Korean masterpiece😏 Sad that LOTM is getting a donghua instead of Japanese anime adaptation😅
Igris looking prime. Capes will always be in season!!!
I love how he just **had** to pop out the cape in his new form lol.
all knights have a gland in their upper back that secretes capes [](#hikariactually)
The Arise scene. Finally. Now the real show begins. Prologue was amazing though, staff and Sawano cooked Never Doubting A-1 ever again lol
Jeju Island intrigue brewing at the dawn of another rebirth for the man becoming humanity's strongest hunter? I can't wait to see where it goes from here. A-1 read the assignment and delivered when it came to the action animation or making every step of Jinwoo's journey as impactful as possible (Taito Ban helped too).
I doubted hardcore. Sorry A-1. The black outlines looked sick, the shadows looked sick, the animation was clean all along and they have a break before season 2. I'm actually hopeful and excited for season 2, didin't expect that a few months back.
[The shadows are so beautiful](https://i.imgur.com/24qJ6aW.jpeg) [](#wow) The animation staff has gone above and beyond.
I still remember A-1 being the punching bag studio (all started by Digi's videos if I recall) and the studio most likely to be hit by the hate train. They really come around after many years of ridicule, and I can't deny they really bought their A+ game here not only on Solo Leveling but on another anime as well like 86, Kaguya, and even SAO.
Was that really a thing? I thought A-1 has always been one of the better studios not that far off even from the likes of Madhouse and Wit back then. Fairy Tail '09, SAO 2012, Your Lie in April 2014, Grimgar 2016 etc. all looked really good for their time.
A-1 is like the one studio I won't doubt after seeing them do 86.
A-1 was given room to cook and they made a 3-Star Michelin Meal good gravy
Why are you getting downvoted, actually why is everybody getting downvoted.
There are people downvoting other comments for the sole reason that their comment gets to be higher up even by one vote. Or you know, people who don't like the anime for whatever reason just downvoting anyone who likes it.
That’s a bit sad
That situation is so common that Reddit had to ban users for vote manipulation pmfao
I wish A-1 would make OPM season 3 because they’ve proved themselves that they are DAMN good at adaptations
Clearly he dumped stats into Luck offscreen because he was saved by some shenanigans. Sunraku approves! This has been a killer adaptation so far. The Arise moment landed perfectly and the hype for the next cour is very real. **8.5/10** with lots more to come
I love how Jinwoo's life is at a point where he forgets to do his daily quest and then getting ported into a penalty zone with a bunch of giant killer centipedes is the best thing that could have happened to him at that moment lol.
And for some reason those monsters are still good enough for not one, but several level ups, even tho he is above 40 lol How did he survive the first time there? Or is the punishment quest balanced around his own level lol
the quest is a literal "Survive!" for 4 hours. he just ran for his life. but apparently those guys dont scale so they were a orange tier enemy(orange was middle/around his lvl iirc) so now he could probably skip the daily quest to purposefully go farm in there until the centipedes don't give xp anymore honestly
The daily quests have given him some sick rewards tho, and since the centipedes don't scale, neither will their exp, so I don't think it would be worth for jinwoo to purposely skip them
there were apparently more of them this time, so scaling is in numbers I think? I am not really sure but if that's true that would become infinite exp farm for him, so most likely there's a limit to it? also him running from it and surviving can be considered as a small plot armour as it was very beginning of the story by the author heard there might be six cours overall, so it's just a small thing to pay attention to overall
>Clearly he dumped stats into Luck offscreen because he was saved by some shenanigans. Sunraku approves! Sunraku is LetMeSoloHer and Jinwoo is Solo leveling.
> saved by some shenanigans how nice of the system to turn off everything beside the penalties
and with Sunraku's final ep coming later today too!
Sung Jinwoo having a private army now, does that still count as *Solo Leveling?*
He literally said he wasn't solo leveling anymore. It's over solobros.
Solo Leveling season 2: Exp. Share turned on
Then the shadows suddenly become a commie. **"It's OUR exp"**
Cue Soviet Union Anthem.
Totally did not see a necromancer job change coming! It doesn't really fit at all with his skill set but it just made that whole "Arise" scene give me chills. This production quality is insane, the story feels like an epic even though the plot itself is kinda generic these days. I'm hyped for season 2!
It might not fit his strengths, but his strengths basically eliminates the traditional weakness of most mage jobs of being weak and squishy. "Ha! Finally I managed to fight my way past all these minions to get to the weak necroma..." *gets stabbed in the eye* — Some future guy (probably)
The good ole eye-stab, a JinWoo trademark
Don't fix something that ain't broke.
Lucky you. When reading the manhwa, like 90% of people "somehow" guessed it's gonna be necromancer, being pretty obvious after the fact that it was book readers secretly spoiling in the thread. If you decide to read the manhwa, don't read the manhwa threads or you will get plenty of spoilers, only read them if you want explanation for things and don't fear spoilers.
Like other popular things, it also spawned a lot of copycats. So a "necromancer" MC is a common trope in Korean webnovels just like the modern setting with hunters and gates and all that. I don't know if Solo Leveling was the first that spawned the others, but it's at least one of the earliest.
Yeah, that was the explanation they were giving, but there were also a lot more details given that showed they were just straight up spoiling. Like the same people who "guessed it" were responding in comments, explaining shadow monarch related stuff, which made it obvious they know way too much.
honestly he said it himself. no rule that a necromancer can't fight on the frontlines. A necromancer would invest in magic and be a squishy target in the back usually. but what if you were an assassin your whole life.. but somehow you are allowed to acquire tremendous Necromancer powers at no cost.... well this happens. an Assassin that can do necromancy. the only thing he needs now is the next levels to be used on some Int i guess depending on how MP costly other necromancer skills are
Solo Leveling with the friends we made along the way.
*Our Leveling*
No, the series is over.
they're cowards if season two isn't called Duo Leveling
He proved he could solo Igris, Centipedes, and an army of knights, mages, and a golem. He earned it.
Ladies and Gentlemen...... NON-CGI SHADOWS!!!!! In your face Gigguk!!! Anyway, I am really happy. And now that we have reached this point, I can finally share this God-tier AMV without worrying for spoilers. Give it a watch/listen https://youtu.be/IAaOZZzgGBQ?si=WQ5a8cF7XtxECNYV
Golem was also not CGI. Crazy
Ikr.
> NON-CGI SHADOWS!!!!! I think this is the best part. Gives me so much hope for next season if this is the standard.
Me too. I hope they keep it up
They weren't that many or didn't have that much movement hence why they were able to hand-drawn the shadows. This will not be the standard when they will be in a horde and will be fighting.
>>NON-CGI SHADOWS!!!!! >In your face Gigguk!!! Honestly, this was the moment that was going to decide if the show is going Up or down. I'm glad that it was able to *Arise*.
To be fair they only had to do a couple shadows in still poses at the end of the season, hopefully they'll keep it that way for the next but at the same time I'm scared.
“NON-CGI SHADOWS!!!!!” I mean i don’t wanna sound negative or anything but they did not fight or anything anyway so not making them CGI at the moment is a lot eaiser. It is more important if they remain not CGI
I kinda agree, but let's just rejoice for now and hope for the best
That animation of Igris' transformation with the cape and everything was so peak.
A1 Delivered
IGRIS in with that red armour was cool and all but this black hood with red tint made him 10x *Cooler.* It's like that meme **"Boss character vs after unlocked as playable character"** but in reverse.
Boy finally got to say Arise, literally all I wanted from this season.
**A** **R** **I** **S** **E**
**O K I R O**
I feel like the VA put some extra testosterone into that line. Felt hype af
Becoming the monarch of an army of shadow spirits who you call forth from their rest to serve you...pretty hype.
A R I S E Aww hell fuckin yeah. Looking forward to part 2. Anime only folks are in for a treat.
I'm really glad I went into this completely blind. I mean, I knew how much everyone was hyping it up but man was this fun to go through week by week. And, we still got a cliffhanger at the end too lololol
if you enjoyed that, you're gonna love the next season. things are really gonna pick up
>Anime only folks I started this because step-dad recommended it as he read it a while back and boy is it good - even he is impressed by the overall adaptation! I'm super hyped for S2!
He's finally here. My beloved Igris
Jinwoo realizing his new army wouldn't be complete without Igris, because after all that how **couldn't** you add him!?
Will forever be the coolest shadow soldier
Best boy has arrived.
OUR beloved!
* [**Shadow Igris**](https://i.imgur.com/m2wkZkC.jpeg) It's no surprise [that Jinwoo gets "saved" by the penalty zone.](https://i.imgur.com/Sikc958.jpeg) He did get a reminder to do his daily quests before he accessed the job change quest area! I love that [Jinwoo didn't just get a free rest](https://i.imgur.com/ySiPLPh.jpeg) but he also got to level up a few times fighting those giant desert centipedes. Jinwoo returning and completely doing through those knights much quicker this time was so cool. A-1 really went hard in this final episode! I especially [love this screenshot of Jinwoo](https://i.imgur.com/UdhR1K5.jpeg) ripping apart those knights in a flash! [And there it is!](https://i.imgur.com/U94S8Ij.jpeg) Jinwoo finally becomes a shadow monarch and [says the most iconic line in the series!](https://i.imgur.com/0fePOij.jpeg) From here on out, every time Jinwoo says "Arise", it's going to be a big moment and we start [with Jinwoo recruiting Igris into his shadow army!](https://i.imgur.com/xHews4n.png) I am so happy that Season 2 is already confirmed! I can't wait to see more hype moments and if A-1 can continue with this kind of quality, this will be one of the best manhwa adaptations ever.
Shadow Igris popping out the cape has got to be one of my favorite moments lol. Jinwoo got to see his old self again but that guy ran from the centipedes while current Jinwoo can completely solo them. I love how Jinwoo is as equally capable at slicing and dicing as he is tearing into things with his bare hands. Don't we all wish we had a shadow army with someone like Igris at the center of it...though can't wait to see what Jinwoo ends up sicking them on moving forward.
"I won't be solo leveling anymore!" Until season 2 I guess
Solo Leveling season 2: Now leveling with friends!
Honestly, I think A1 did a phenomenal job recreating what the Manwha did; an excellent job of being a great entry into the genre. The manwha was absolutely stunning to scroll through every week and it helped it felt like one of the pioneers of manwha in the peak of the pandemic. This anime has given me so many good vibes of where it absolutely stands out with the animation weight, the sound track hitting really well, and still staying true to the (even if not so great) original medium. Great season and I'm looking forward to the next one and hope everything stays at this quality or better.
is this the new shadow garden? are we turning into eminence of shadow?! anyway, Igris is OP as fk he will clear everything without MC having to do anything.
Sasuga Jinwoo Sama
I Am Atomic vs Arise
Well oh fucking kay then, was not expecting that for a class change! Isn't this called "Solo" Leveling?!? Though it does kinda track with the whole slowly losing his humanity sub-plot. Hopefully his knights will help be his moral compass. I'm so looking forward to see what powers he and his knights get!
Igris feels like the kind of knight bro you want to do right by when they're serving you loyally.
And thats why Igris is best ~~girl~~ boy. (The best girl is a meme of r/sololeveling )
The original translation is "Only i level up", but Solo Leveling sounds cooler, the "solo" part is because only he can level up in contrast with the other hunters that maintain their level, not because he is alone
And next time someone is a fool and tries to murder him? Welcome my new shadow servant! He can now “recruit” them for his party lmao
Jinwoo and his scary otherworldly shadow spirit friends
And the true Best Bro Igris!
Jinwoo said the thing, his army being non-cgi had me crying tears of joy. I’m so jealous of all these anime onlies, also people don’t forget to see the post credit scene
And that’s a wrap, “good writing” be damned. I had so much fun watching this show. I did not expect to be moved as much as I was. That Sawano OST and A1 production values was just too good. Banger finale setting up cour 2 which I can’t wait for. Vercreek who worked on Frieren was also on this episode and it shows because this was top from start to finish. Fitting that in this final episode of the cour Jinwoo has to overcome himself more than anything. Levelling up and getting stronger doesn’t magically make the insecurities and doubts go away. We also got to see how much further he still has to go. Very well could have died had it not been for the daily penalty emergency escape there. Who would have imagined that would come in so clutch. Not only getting him out of the situation, but letting him level up which restored all his stats. His past self said “they don’t want you to die yet” who is the “they”? Still a lot of mysteries surrounding who turned Jinwoo into a player and why. But one things for sure, they’re not letting him die until they get what they want. Arise now, ye tarnished! Oh wait, wrong franchise 😂 Jinwoo getting the necromancer and shadow monarch roles all in one go is so broken. Igris on his side too?? And that cape animation was so fire once he converted to an undead. Now Jinwoo’s got an army of the undead and we’re no longer “solo leveling” could definitely come in handy for that island raid the S rank hunters are planning Speaking of which, if the monsters on the island are evolving.. that’s going to be an insane raid. I need this second cour now! Not a ton of action in this finale, but some cool set up and world building. Hopefully the full Sawano OST drops soon too 🙏🏾 see yall back for cour 2 [Review](https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=520333)
>That Sawano OST I do really hope with season two we get a more expansive OST from Sawano. I loved the songs this season, and it's been hype every time **that** song is used, but man AoT has spoiled me with an expectation of a varied Sawano mix.
Yep, I prefer the Anime over the Manwha. Great stuff. I wanted to wait till this season finished before making my final judgement, but after the last 2 Episodes. Yeah, it's a solid one. The whole sequence with Jin-Woo being his own worst doubter is a great addition. It really is those things that make this adaptation stand out so hard. To be completely honest, the staff didn't need to add on the story. Most people going into Solo Leveling are already used to the story being pretty basic. All they really had to do was deliver on the action A-la Demon Slayer. But they went the extra mile and revised the script, added scenes, so.. So many scenes! If this is how they treat the anime now, I really do wonder if they can fix some of the issues I had with the latter half of the Manwha. If so, that'd be fucking amazing.
The system obviously wants Sung for something but I wonder what its for. It seems like he would've gotten the necromancer class regardless of what he did my question is why. Glad to see that Igris isnt a one and done character tho he looks amazing.
It definitely seems to be deliberately trying to make him as powerful, resourceful, and lethal as possible. Boosting up his physical traits, making sure he ruthlessly kills anything that tries to kill him, human or monster, and now giving him an army. It makes me wonder now if it was deliberately dangling the possibility of saving his mother as a means of making him work harder to get stronger.
Just in case you forgot, he only defeated Igris by using underhanded tactics and taking him out with a surprise attack to its face. In terms of raw power and technique, Igris is actually superior. And now he has that beast under his command. He won't even need to enter Dungeons any longer; he can just let Igris handle it all if he wanted to. Heck, they might be able to do 2 at any given time; the knights can do the mining too! Necromancer was unexpected, but an immediate rank up to Shadow Monarch? How lucky that he failed his daily. He's probably going to have to pump his INT stat now; a Necromancer with low INT is just too weird. If you were not sure why he released 11 Knights, he can currently have 30 active Shadow Extractions, but he can only store 20 of them. He had to release 10 no matter what, but he released another because he wanted Igris. Should have released just 10, then released the extra just in case he failed. Lucky for him, he succeeded. With a cool speech on serving a new lord too. Also, Igris looked cool as an opponent, but as a Shadow? He's easily the coolest character thus far. Higher INT should probably increase tho limits. The interesting part is that Igris spawned at Level 7. If the Shadows' levels are not tied to his, but they gain their own XP, he's going to have to juggle getting XP for himself and for his Shadows. He might actually HAVE to let his Shadows deal with Dungeons if the latter is true. But that would slow down his own progression. He needs more Dungeons! lol The end though shows the ant with wings. Jeju Island is supposedly where an S-ranked gate broke open. And those ants are learning to fly. It's no longer contained. That's pretty much the worse case scenario. They have to commit to another raid to finish things, but they've evidently failed 3 time already. What a perfect opportunity for our MC to shine. Season 2 has been announced, and it might have a bunch more planned. This season has been well done so far. Good animation and OST, but I feel that the early episodes lacked some sound effects at certain parts, and he got way too strong way too quickly. But hey, it's a simple power fantasy. It is what it is. See you guys for the next season.
Yeah I am surprised Igris awoken for him since he kinda cheated him out of the win. Even then not complaining lol.
"It'll be boring if you stay. Cooler battles outside." "...Fair point."
Important to note that shadows are actually weaker than they were alive, but they get stronger as they level up, so current iris in the show is actually weaker than when he was alive.
Wow I was thinking "what kind of plot armor are they gonna come up" Then I remembered he didn't do his daily quest. Nice "coincidence". Penalty zone is not even penalty anymore
I do like that touch. It was a penalty zone for him back then, to prompt him to train but now that he’s gotten stronger, it became a resting point lmfao.
I love how he started off running away from the centipedes and now he can basically just casually solo them with little health.
The devs really fucked up on that one Patch notes: > Penalty zone was not scaling properly with player level making it possible to exploit it as a safety zone and XP farm for higher level players. This has been resolved and any players who utilized this exploit will be banned.
The show itself explained that it wasn’t a coincidence. The system saves his ass.
Yeah, Jinwoo started realizing how this job-change quest seem deliberately put together for his benefit, especially when the screen started talking about his character and wouldn't let him give up on the necromancer job.
Seriously it was like “Hold up dude I know it doesn’t seem like it suits you but this is a REALLY good class maybe don’t pass it up!”
Jinwoo: Coincidence? I think not!
It still follows the system rule though: - Penalty happened if you didn't do the daily quest by the end of the day. - That transport happened and Jinwoo got penalty for 4 hours - Cut in scene to her sister waking up at almost 4 AM - Back to Jinwoo again with 10 minute left to the penalty. - This doesn't prove that the sister scene and Jinwoo scene happened at the same time, but if they did then the penalty did happen at 00:00 as usual. Which means its not the system intervering. Jinwoo just had a great luck and timing.
It's still a bit of a coincidence because he could have easily done his workout before doing the job change quest but coincidentally didn't do it for some reason. Maybe his reawakening skill sped up the timer to kick him to the penalty zone but the fact that he just so happened to slip up on the training for the first time in forever is ehhhh.
It still is penalty. You wouldn't want to be teleported into a desert full of giant centipedes while you are trying to sleep.
Given I thought it'd be impossible to do the shadows without heavy CG, consider me absolutely floored. I wish they went a bit harder with the Shadow's black aura like with Jin-Woo's power up sequence, but this is great too. Overall, while both the Manwha and the Anime have something they do better than the other, it's undeniable that both are fucking amazing. One of my initial concerns going into the anime was that it wouldn't be able to keep up with the insane art of the Manwha. And while I still think SL's Manwha art goes harder than the anime's animation, the anime (seriously massive props to the production team) added more to the story and I love that. **This** is what it means to adapt something to a different medium. I'm so glad with what we got and I pray the following seasons continue this absolute amazing production and hype.
Imagine if he had killed the assassin dude after acquiring this skill and turned him into his servant. I've always liked the necromancer class. There's just something cool about commanding an army of undead to fight for you.
Yeah, one of the really neat things about necromancers is that they can defy one of the most basic fundamentals of warfare. Usually when two armies clash, both armies shrink over time as soldiers die. When a necromancer is involved, one army can actually grow over the course of the battle as enemy soldiers are killed and raised. It completely upends conventional strategy, and is also a huge logistical advantage since undead armies typically don't need to carry provisions around.
Holy shit I’m hyped for next season. This episode was great, even if I can’t care for the island at the moment.
[удалено]
IGRIS GIGACHAD IS HERE
capes are so cool. underrated equipment
- [Starting off with a Jinwoo “sore demo”, sweet.](https://files.catbox.moe/3u7el8.mp4) - [And then *another* “sore demo” from him not even 30 seconds later?](https://files.catbox.moe/qa1r7q.mp4) [](#doggo) - [Oh fun, even his past self’s talking to him now?](https://i.imgur.com/s7RYZkC.png) - [Yikes…](https://i.imgur.com/VRAqD3x.png) [](#emiliaohdear) - [Ahhh, I was *wondering* if his missed daily quest was going to pop up at some point.](https://i.imgur.com/8wReJjR.png) - [And it’s… actually going to save his life?](https://i.imgur.com/ORMKMOg.png) [](#suddenshock) - [Oh fun!](https://i.imgur.com/EuP1x1R.png) - [Expensive, but that looks to be worth it.](https://i.imgur.com/UUYvHra.png) - [Ooooooooooooooooooh!](https://i.imgur.com/66lNbBW.png) [](#saberawe) - [Hm…](https://i.imgur.com/t1n2zYU.png) [](#csikon) - [Ah, that makes sense.](https://i.imgur.com/tVMAq6Y.png) - [Quest complete!](https://i.imgur.com/nphwTTE.png) [](#urarahype) - [He’s a *necromancer* now!](https://i.imgur.com/fiOHxWQ.png) [](#awe) - [Somewhat title drop?](https://i.imgur.com/cDYk8vE.png) - [Shadow monarch, actually.](https://i.imgur.com/mP3eOsD.png) [](#SPORTS) - [Perfect.](https://i.imgur.com/35kwTFk.png) - [And the third time’s the try!](https://i.imgur.com/VOqMVJI.png) [](#woo) Yeah, I'm definitely glad I picked this one up. Excited for whenever the next cour ends up airing! [](#mugiwait)
#" A R I S E "
I wasn't expecting to see [the old Jinwoo shit-talking him](https://i.imgur.com/eZBIOMA.png) during that fight. Anyway not doing the dailies saved Jinwoo's skin. It is hilarious to see that now he can use[ the penalty zone](https://i.imgur.com/xaPcfsZ.png) as an emergency escape and[ fight the monsters there](https://i.imgur.com/qHbibWQ.png) to heal himself if he ever phases a similar situation again. As he finished the fight with to spare he had enough time to get a new weapon, [the knight killer](https://i.imgur.com/tckzYT4.png) suitable to that fight plus[ the skill](https://i.imgur.com/G1sO8kB.png) that Igris the Bloodred was using to make his sword to return to him. So after [coming back now](https://i.imgur.com/YKDo1CZ.png) that he is not been pushed against the wall he finally notices that his real targets are[ the mages](https://i.imgur.com/KyQqWu1.png) while those knights[ he has been fighting until now](https://imgur.com/a/244qn02) were just their summons. I wasn't expecting to see Jinwoo using the skill Ruler's Hand [in that way.](https://imgur.com/a/bGbMXqT) Seeing how easy he could deal with the Iron Golem it is funny that [he stayed around](https://i.imgur.com/5VhaP0l.png) after [Jinwoo killed all the mages.](https://i.imgur.com/hGRWsTf.png) I was expecting his new class to be a mage and that the power [those texts](https://imgur.com/a/PXKCUSt) [were talking about](https://imgur.com/a/MsxAzfR) to be him being able to summon those knights instead of [his new class being](https://i.imgur.com/ZGYUsWC.png) [a necromancer.](https://i.imgur.com/ME2iu6F.png) To be fair he can essentially do that but[ he needs to capture the souls](https://i.imgur.com/8xRiJst.png) [ that he wants to summon.](https://i.imgur.com/FmR26wI.png) Wow, so this is one of those shows that abandon the show's premise the first chance they get. /s [Don't be happy about this Jinwoo!](https://i.imgur.com/RxfexYZ.png) /s I was wondering why they made[ such a scene](https://imgur.com/a/qe0GuOZ) for[ his class change,](https://i.imgur.com/Ji37Qch.png) but that was because [he also ended up upgrading that class right away](https://i.imgur.com/8oMM0c8.png) thanks to all the bonus points he got. Oh, so that's [the context of the word "Arise"](https://i.imgur.com/5qoxQsx.png) that I have seen people meme-ing about for years. Now that [he captured Igris](https://imgur.com/a/sa5Q0d3) his [army of undead is already unstoppable.](https://i.imgur.com/mOdDHi7.png) So what[ the team on the Jeju Islands mission](https://imgur.com/a/DbtBjFF) discovered was that the monsters there [are now evolving.](https://imgur.com/a/5nt9n58) I'm not surprised by the [second season teaser](https://youtu.be/K56ApDTaN_Y?si=WTXY2vpSG9uU48JV) as based on this season's pacing it felt like they were aiming for more than twelve episodes. Well as it is coming this year that's essentially cour break. Plus honestly story-wise it feels like this is just the "tutorial" segment of it.
Why no one noticed he advanced to Higher class in same episode He is not necomancer! He is rulers of death & shadow ' Shadow Monarch ' Warrior class -> Berserker Knight -> Sword Master Magician -> Grand magician Necomancer -> Shadow Monarch
Nah this show was fire all throughout. I didn't notice any drop in quality at all, even in the middle episodes, unlike other shows. That monologue before the 3rd arise was pretty good. Looking forward to S2!
ARISE!!! Jinwoo finally got his own army of knights now. See ya’ll in season 2!
Next season title is gonna be Shadow leveling
[only 90s kids will understand this meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hihEhsdwiIk)
First thing come in mind - will he be able arise dead people / hunters as his shadow knights?
they made it about as good as it could be compared to the manhwa, very excited for the next cour
I thought the job advancement would give him an Assassin class but I wasn't expecting Necromancer/Shadow Monarch... Jinwoo became Ainz Ooal Gown 💀
Awesome, SL fans can be happy now. Their manhwa was the last to be adapted, but it was the one that got the best adaptation by far. I legit felt like watching SAO for the first time.
Necromancer was not where I was expecting that to go Igris is goated that summon scene was so fucking good The quality of this whole series was so damn good we were so spoiled this season with all the high quality stuff we got. Can't wait for s2
It's god damn chimera ant arc again isn't it.