Review of Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow

As you get older, you start to have less time to engage in the intricacies of your hobbies when your focus is on productivity. Coming home after work, and turning on Solo Leveling is no different than when my father did the same with his shows. It all is bound to repeat itself in a different form, sometimes amalgamated by the foundation of what your show culminates to. My point? This show is cool as fuck, and anyone whining about it just simply cannot have a good time through their own pretentiousness. Sure, it gets repetitive that Jinwoo is CONSTANTLY dragging his nuts across hisverse, but the plot is as simple as it presents itself to be. It doesn't have to be anything more. The fights have excellence in the animation, and it's easily the show's biggest highlight. Jin-woo's story is satisfying without even getting into what Season 3 could potentially bring.

And as someone who struggled with finding a work/life balance, I think the most minimalist execution of any "power fantasy, shonen slop" is all that you need sometimes just to get invested. It's simple. It's like a sport--if you were following an athlete's career, does it need to blow your mind with some psychological, provocative narrative to differentiate itself? Hell, even between Haikyuu and Blue lock or even the occasional seasonal idol anime, Solo Leveling simply just caters to an audience that didn't include everyone else's niche to speak to when it became popular. That's applicable to every single anime that gets mass attention; JJK wasn't anything special. I haven't used MAL since I last had no life, but this show single-handedly made me log back in to catch up on good entertainment. Get over yourselves and enjoy greatness.