a rare breed...

if you fucked with season 2 it will only get better from here imo

Can I just say how happy I am that they actually ended the first run of the anime (be real this was more like season 1 pt 1 & 2, they obviously already had season 2 mostly done by the time season 1 was over) on the ending of the first season of the manhwa? Extremely satisfying but makes me scared what is going to be done with the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint adaptation considering the nigh total lack of good early stopping points.

Any fan of the series will tell you to read the manhwa. It is better than the novel in effectively every way. Though, I will note, the trend of each adaptation improving on the material it is adapting is absolutely continuing and the anime is in my opinion superior to the manhwa as well. That being said, the webnovel is practically not even worth reading it my opinion.

man this is more likely rage bait than the comment its calling rage bait

Manhwa reader here: I do not think you will like this show, straight-up. While I appreciate the fact that Solo Leveling does by the end provide an answer to almost every question raised towards the start unlike most of its contemporaries, it is nonetheless still predominantly just fun for fun's sake. There is not going to be a lot of thematic depth or unless you're REALLY looking for it, there is effectively no real character development, and the context and lore behind the events of these first two seasons is not going to get properly explained for quite a while, long enough for me to say that its not going to retroactively make you give a shit about the foreshadowing. Ultimately, if the turn-your-brain off fun and edgy bullshit of Sung Jin-woo's rise to power does not entertain you, that means most of the story is going to feel like wasted time to you since that's what the focus is on and that's what most people are here for. I'm not even a huge fan of the manhwa as in my opinion its been far outdone by contemporaries like Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (which has also had an anime adaptation announced, woo!!) and The World After the Fall, but I knew damn well that, if adapted properly, it would make for a fun thing to sit down and spend 20 minutes on every Saturday as long as you can appreciate some simple stupid shonen fun, and I think I was right.

While that "glitch" scene was in the manhwa, the anime has also been going to pretty great lengths to inject foreshadowing that was not present in the source material which sometimes feels a bit out of place but nonetheless a great creative choice on the part of whoever made it, as I always felt like the lack of foreshadowing and cohesive elements tying the various arcs together was the manhwa's absolute greatest weakness. I wish a few hints toward the overarching plot had been dropped in season 1, but I'm still very happy that season 2 is making it so clear early on that there actually are bigger things going on and its not JUST watching Sung Jin-woo get handed unlimited power for no reason in a setting that only exists for the sake of it being neat.

I know Solo Necromancy / The Lone Necromancer (which is unbelievably blatantly ripping off solo leveling) is very popular but I could never personally get into it. Probably a me issue, though. 66666 years is also oriented around a main character who is technically a necromancer and is a lot more captivating in my opinion but it unfortunately focuses far less on that aspect since he tries to be something of a jack of all trades when it comes to combat. I know there's a fair few other manhwa series that have the necromancer premise though on account of just how popular Solo Leveling managed to make the idea, so all you really need to do is look. Unless you mean anime specifically, in which case, I can't do much for you since I'm not much of anime watcher myself and usually only watch anime when its adapted from a comic I enjoyed.

THERE MUST BE A CONSTELLATION OUT THERE SHINING DOWN ON US

you probably won't enjoy the show but at the very least i can inform you that it rapidly changes from stereotype to stereotype lol

having read the manga i can tell you straight up, if you don't find harmless fun in dopey shounen shit there will be nothing for you in this entire show much less this season. i can enjoy some things like this casually when i watch them with friends but yeah don't expect it to suddenly change trajectory or anything. also most of the shitty comedy was added just for the show, kinda weird but it happened to my favorite series too

artists had to get swapped out for a variety of reasons, i think multiple times. sometimes you can't really help it. honestly, it doesn't really bother me at this point because it still looks above par compared to some of the absolute dogshit i read in my spare time lmao (looking at you, jack be invincible)

YOOO THIS COMIC FINALLY GOT KICKED OFF WEBTOON, BASED

if this chapter is what im assuming, yeah the political commentary in this comic is utterly fucking deranged, extremely ignorant, and blatantly reactionary. the implications of the general concept were already deeply problematic but i was able to ignore them until it started to get so in-your-face that ignoring it was impossible. this stupid shit is why i stopped reading.

Yeah, hes intentionally portrayed as being awful towards the start of the story. I honestly enjoy greatly that this series has a character so bizarrely messed up who grows through the events of the story, rather than the the kind of nothing-protagonists you often get out of most stories in this genre. It reminds me of the development of characters like Thorfinn in Vinland Saga, who begins the story as such a disgusting person that it is difficult to even forgive him as a reader. (Though obviously this one is either less nuanced than Vinland Saga's portrayal of personal growth, or nuanced in very different ways)

Anyways, the protagonist is presented as very inhuman and struggles to understand how to normal people think, so he is definitely mentally ill in a way not too terribly far off from psychopathy. But he spends most of the story trying to understand other people and developing as a character and as a person through it. It is definitely an extremely strange way of portraying that idea and I can understand being frustrated by it; this story is definitely not something I wouls recommend to most people. But it is not too far into the series that he is forced to understand the value of death, and life by proxy, even if in a really strange and somewhat twisted manner.

In general, this series has an extremely bizarre relationship with the concept of death and loss, especially the kind described by the word in the actual title of the story. (not the one on here) If that is something that bothers you, it is probably not even worth reading the story in the first place. But I think its not a fault of the story or even close to an endorsement of his philosophies that the author decided to write it, nor that many people enjoy reading it.

(Side note, + spoilers for “The Warrior Returns”, the protagonist in this strongly reminds me of the main antagonist of the first season of The Warrior Returns, but it handles the exact same subject matter in a very different way. If you can handle an EXTREMELY tragic story and are interested in a series that explores the fridge horror implications of the protagonist of this story's mindset and twisted perception of death, I highly highly highly recommend giving “The Warrior Returns” a read.)

excellent commentary

Blueris' comment clarifies most of the obvious takeaways, but it is probably worth noting its technically entirely possible that the author didnt have a specific philospohy they wanted to impart upon the reader; sometimes, it really is just a story in a vacuum. That beind said, that's probably not the case, at least in my opinion. I think the story itself was probably largely inspired by or related to the concerning and disproportionate levels of suicidal depression in South Korea and the intention was more to impress the general idea that it is healthy to fear death to an extent. “Fear” death, in the same connotation as one would say “Fear of god”. It cannot be controlled nor should it be willed upon anyone, much less oneself. Death is cruel and hateful and agonizing, and should never be viewed as a release, but it should be respected as a force of nature and inevitable aspect of life rather than a tool to use to your ends.

If we're assuming that it wasnt ended abrubtly do to an accident or abrubt loss interest in the project, then there's simply gotta be. But given the phrasing, I was left under the impression the creators probably became disinterested in continuing the project. Which is fair, since despite the interesting premise, it isnt executed too especially well in my opinion.

Though if you were asking if there's any official information on the matter, I'm most certainly not aware of any. The author also isnt terribly easy to track down, so its unlikely to be easy to find even if an unofficial statement was released by one of the creators.

lmao, uhh... i mean i dont particularly like that? i agree some modern moral standards are unreasonable but doubtfully more than ones of the past. the only context in which im likely to support traditionalism/conservatism is in city districting. why did you wonder to ask me in particular?? did something on my page indicate i would think that?

i have literally no idea what that is. why do you ask / sell me on it