Can we have an honest thread about this?

No whining, no "pinch emoji", no schizoposts. Just talking about it. Because I would be hard press to believe nobody on /a/ has watched it.

I watched it because my boss wouldn't shut up about it and ended up enjoying it. I convinced my friend to watch it but it was NOT EASY because he uses this shithole board and he must have thought if he watched Solo Leveling he was going to... well, I have no fucking idea. Waste time? Anyways, he loved it.

okay so hear me out. i’m a retard and thought it was a japanese anime, so when he turned into a k pop idol it blew my mind. it’s actually hilarious if you look at the before and after. anyways that said i liked it. the writing is straight forward. it’s just shonen power up and fighting harder and harder monsters. it’s nothing new but the writer doesn’t fuck around so the whole thing feels fun and fast. the only thing i dislike is the fact that he becomes a summoner. i think it would have been more fun if he was just a solo fighter. i don’t hate the summons though.

Micropenis gookshit garbage.

>>279995119 (OP)
I read the webcomic and forgot about it the second it ended. It's a fun, brainless timewaster.

Basically, it's the tiktok of anime. Which explains why it's so popular with zoombers and alphies, but not so much on this board.

>>279995119 (OP)
>Show about leveling
>MC puts all of his points into STR
>Leaves the rest of his stats untouched
>Has to fight a pack of goblins, notoriously weak but quick foes
>Can barely even block their blows with exclusively leveled STR
>Easily dodges their attacks with unleveled DEX/AGI
Alright, let's talk about why you kept watching.

>>279996377
Every person I know who enjoyed this show is an old gen x fuck. The zoomers "like" it like they "liked" kagurabachi

pic rel is pretty honest

I enjoyed it but it's impossible to discuss here because the anti korea shitposter / bikini schizo would just spam and samefag to no end

>>279995119 (OP)
There is nothing to talk about. I don't mean that in a shitposting way either.
Apart from art/production value it has nothing going for it. It's a visually flashy power fantasy, that's it.

>dude, trust me, the average demographic for solo leveling is a 50+ year old white collar worker, tiktok generation third worlders are only pretending to like this show

>>279997040
Don't be hysterical.

Solo Leveling changed my life.

>>279996866
>There is nothing to talk about
Agreed. I enjoyed both seasons immensely and can't think of a single topic to actually discuss about the show. Sometimes the advantages of an anime being bad or an outright trainwreck is that there's always plenty to talk about.

There's an inordinate amount of dubs in this thread.

The first season was fine but the second season was dull. Won't watch a third one.

>>279997226
im noticing

There are far better webtoons than Solo Leveling in the same genre, such as Return of a Disaster-class Hero, Nanomachine, or ORV. Why did it get popular all of a sudden when S1 was mostly ignored? no idea.

Sung Jinwoo is my hero!!!

>>279995119 (OP)
Is this shit even going to get a S3?
It has no fandom, flopped in Japan. Nobody draws arts, there are no colabs or merch to sell. Blu ray sales were dire, source material sales were terrible
How the fuck are they going to make the production costs back?

>>279998352
>How the fuck are they going to make the production costs back?
This is how.

>It has no fandom, flopped in Japan. Nobody draws arts, there are no colabs or merch to sell. Blu ray sales were dire, source material sales were terrible
Because it's not made for Japanese audiences. It's fully financed by Crunchyroll.

>>279998412
>It's fully financed by Crunchyroll.
Then how are they going to keep funding it? Anime doesn't just make money by itself, the reason anime is made is to drive sales in - manga, blu-rays, merch and collabs. That's how they make their money back and then hopefully profits. If it doesn't then they stop making it, always been that way.

You cannot tell me Crunchyroll are just going to sink millions into something that is clearly making no money

>>279998536
Are you a moron or something?

>manga, blu-rays, merch and collabs.
>That's how they make their money back and then hopefully profits. If it doesn't then they stop making it, always been that way.
None of that is relevant here.

>Anime doesn't just make money by itself
>You cannot tell me Crunchyroll are just going to sink millions into something that is clearly making no money
In case you were not aware, Crunchyroll is a legit streaming platform nowadays. They make money by selling monthly subscriptions.
At USD$10 in average per user, they make $170 million every month.

>>279998536
>He thinks there's only an audience for anime in Japan alone
What part of "Because it's not made for Japanese audiences" did you not understand?

>>279998536
Are you a moron or something?

>Anime doesn't just make money by itself
>You cannot tell me Crunchyroll are just going to sink millions into something that is clearly making no money
In case you were not aware, Crunchyroll is a legit streaming platform nowadays. They make money by selling monthly subscriptions.
At USD$10 in average per user, they make $170 million every month.

>manga, blu-rays, merch and collabs.
>That's how they make their money back and then hopefully profits. If it doesn't then they stop making it, always been that way.
You're thinking of the standard Japanese model, and none of that is relevant here.

>>279998412
It's fully financed by Kakao and the korea government with some support from crunchyroll
>>279998536
Webtoon/manhwa industry go bankrupt for the second times lol

>>279998673
What part of "NO SCHIZOPOSTS" you failed to understand, bikini-schizo?
GO AWAY. WE ALL DETEST YOU.

>>279998412
> Because it's not made for Japanese audiences
Not even Korean themselves want to draw fanart for SL and they’re actually hates this shit. Most of SL fanart are draws by muhamad, mexican and seanigger

>>279998691
https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=244933#:~:text=Korean%20webtoon%20companies%2C%20which%20entered,have%20hindered%20Korean%20webtoon%20companies.

Hey this article is from Korea, not me bro

>>279998642
You haven't answered the question. Why would a company invest millions into something that makes them no money. Wtf for? Domestic audience is ALWAYS the most important one, that's where every anime ever makes it's money.
If it fails in Japan then it won't survive, would you spend $10m on something that loses them money when they could be making money instead?

You really think the Japanese anime industry lives and dies on how many pajeets click on a Crunchyroll video?

>>279998691
>>279998673
Look like they’re spend too much money for the anime, this backfire and all their services got shutdown all over the world kek. Truly the manga killer

What with the daily inferiority complex solo shitting thread?

>>279998536
The kind of person that likes solo levelling is getting their parent to sub to crunchyroll

>>279998752
>Korean webtoon companies, which entered overseas markets seeing growth potential, are closing their businesses one after another due to lower-than-expected revenues. In particular, illegal distribution is analyzed to have hindered Korean webtoon companies. According to the “2024 Survey on Overseas Korean Wave Content Infringement” report by the Korea Copyright Protection Agency, 71.6% of the replicated content posted on illegal distribution sites overseas last year was webtoons. The damage caused by illegal webtoons amounts to hundreds of billions of won, with the damage in 2023 reaching 446.5 billion won. At the same time, in markets such as Europe, where print culture still dominates, Korean webtoon companies are struggling to gain traction.
>To make matters worse, the growth of the domestic webtoon market is also slowing down. According to the “2024 Webtoon Industry Survey” report by the Korea Creative Content Agency, the total sales of the domestic webtoon industry in 2023 recorded 2.189 trillion won. Although it exceeded 2 trillion won for the first time since records began, the industry is more concerned that the market will shrink from its peak in 2023, rather than being optimistic. In fact, the growth rate of the domestic webtoon market in 2023 (19.7%) has significantly decreased compared to 2021 (48.6%) and 2020 (64.7%). The number of works registered on domestic webtoon platforms as of last year also decreased by 6.7% to 18,792 from the previous year (20,141).
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>279998762
>You haven't answered the question.
No, I answered your question, but you are clearly a moron and refuse to accept it.

>Domestic audience is ALWAYS the most important one, that's where every anime ever makes it's money.
>If it fails in Japan then it won't survive
That is clearly not the case here. You are operating under the logic of "produce anime to promote merch for the Japanese domestic market" and believe it's always been the case forever. You're a thick-headed imbecile so it will not matter, but that logic is wrong: in this case, it's "produce anime that paying subscribers want to watch".
Plenty of anime nowadays is financed and produced by overseas companies like Crunchyroll, WBD and Netflix: Little Witch Academia, that Lazarus thing, etc.

Toshio Okada has commented on this repeatedly: https://youtu.be/iExwO1v_V-s?t=739
Solo Leveling is the clear example of what he's talking about: enormous overseas funding gives you authority. This translates into funneling lots of resources into a single hit project.

>You really think the Japanese anime industry lives and dies on how many pajeets click on a Crunchyroll video?
If the pajeets put their rupees to watch this garbage, then yes.

>>279998989
>Little Witch Academia, that Lazarus
And how many seasons are these anime going to get?
Would Dungeon Meshi have gotten a s2 if it flopped in Japan? would JJBA be getting p7 on Netflix subscriber money alone?
Be serious

>>279999067
>And how many seasons are these anime going to get?
It's pay-to-play. If the viewing numbers are there, they will keep making more.

>Would Dungeon Meshi have gotten a s2 if it flopped in Japan?
>would JJBA be getting p7 on Netflix subscriber money alone?
Yes. Yes, they would. Also, those two are hit manga. They would've gotten adaptations regardless of foreign investment. Quality or length would've varied, but they still exist without Netflix and WBD paying.

In case you were not aware (or didn't watch the video), the anime industry is poor. They are used to working with tight budgets and paying very little. At the same time, overseas investors are loaded with cash. Put two-and-two together.

You understand now? You understand that the Japan market is utterly irrelevant when it comes to Solo Leveling? It's for export markets only, something the Japanese have been making for decades across various industries.

hello, protagonist from the mega global success hit most successful anime of all time here

>>279999130
>If Dungeon Meshi had flopped Netflix would have paid for a S2 anyway
Delusional

>>279999146
Can’t be helped when even korean themselves looks down on people who like this trash just like /a/

>>279999146
Why is his transliterated name wrong?

>>279999168
Flopped where? On which market, western or Japanese?
And, again, it's an ADAPTATION. A proven idea, doing decent numbers in print. It was impossible for it to flop. An anime original, however, would've gotten shitcanned straight away if it didn't do the numbers.

>>279999180
lol faggot trash

no amount of incredible animation and amazing music can save a show that has a paper thin plot, boring themes and no memorable side characters.

literal who's from one piece have more compelling backstories than every single character in solo leveling combined.

Korean names are more pathetic than Indian ones and if your fiction is Soong Kim Lee Jing Oook La bullshit I will laugh and move on.

>>279996587
I have a show for you:
Bofuri

>>279995119 (OP)
It's an entertaining show.
I'll watch new seasons. But if there was never an s3 I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
It's certainly nothing special.
One thing I kind of liked is that it seems vaguely inspired by HxH in some ways.

>>279999298
I'm taking Syrup home and protecting him from Solotards. Don't you ever dare put my Maple in danger by mentioning her around koreaslop consumers.

>>279999168
>If Dungeon Meshi had flopped Netflix would have paid for a S2 anyway
>Delusional
Did you miss the part where I said "Dungeon Meshi would've gotten an adaptation with or without a foreign financer"?

I just realized I don't even remember the MCs name. And I probably watched it like whenever the last episode came out is when I finished semi-binging it, since I had to wait 1 week for the final episode.
This is my best guess:
Sun Min Ho

>>279995119 (OP)
Is shit, if you find deku a bad character this one is worse reaching levels of /x/ anons (no joke intended).
>girl is nice to him because likes him.
>mc : she must be trying to use me there is no other reason.
>we want you on our party
>mc : they musg be attempting to get me killed, i will make sure they pay.
Nothing to like at all not even the girls but i bet you like it because of the focus on mc without shirt (faaagggg!!!).
First korean manwha without ntr and is aimed at faggots.