Review of Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow

5.75/10 ~ its fine Every season we get shows with massive praise and hate, and honestly most of them are fine and deserve neither the hype nor the hate. And solo leveling is just that. Honestly the biggest crime Solo leveling does (more season 1 then 2) is how unsuited the studio that animated was for the job, Season 1 was a laughable job to depict one of the most stunning webtoons ever made and the product, much like tower of god was just not great. Season 2 of solo leveling does step it up a bit, but when compared to its peers of Demon slayer,MHA, Kaiju #8 it just doesnt stack up. Sure the one thing that Solo does better then the rest is the whole "aura" thing... but I dont care one way or another about how kool someone looks while they do the thing, so its lost on me.

- Characters are flat as a doorknob
- Story is weak as hell
- the world is interesting but with the lack of good character or storytelling this is lost
- they emphasize the little video game moments of stats/accomplishments/items received for all of 2 frames, usually amounting to sub 1 second log sequences that you literally have to pause and rewind to read what is being said, bit annoying.
- they skip so many sequences and just say "yeah this happened", like common show, not tell.
- there are literally no stakes, powerful person does powerful things and it gets kinda boring watching him turn every situation into a XP farm lol

I really wouldn't recommend this to anyone, even fight wise the show is pretty lacking, when I read other reviews or talk to people about it IRL, I often ask myself if we watched the same thing.