Review of Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow

Yay! My favorite power fantasy is back! Fight me but I love Solo Leveling and find it such fun a watch! hehe. As a Novel Reader (not manhwa), A1 may have changed a bunch of things, and altered some parts down the line, but if I'm being honest, I don't care lol. This season was really great and a major step up from Season 1 (tho i like season 1 a lot too). The animation upgrade was amazing, and just in general this part of the story is really good so seeing it animated is fun. As always, animation is crisp and clean (sasuga A1lol), and I'm glad we got more focus on all the guildmaster's this season and just more characters in general. As well as gaining more shadows (+ aura farming cause duh it's Jinwoo, mans gotta farm ⛏️). Just overall this season had more going on and the stakes were higher too so seeing that elevated tension added a nice layer to the series.

Now, a few tiny little gripes I have that being the reason I wouldn't give it a 10. They're small, and honestly not the biggest deal, but feel I should state them a bit at least.

1. Pacing. I thought I was tripping a bit when the Red Gate incident happened so quickly within like an episode but it felt like that due to A1 cutting out things they deemed unnecessary or just filler portions that they didn't need, and while i agree with some of the stuff they cut, they could've cut a little less just to ease to pacing a bit but It isn't the biggest deal. So I don't mind it.

2. Cut Content. The only reason i'm making this it's own indent is cause I'm a little salty they cut out one of my favorite part of the novels. I won't elaborate much but I see the anime is trying to portray the story in a different way then what the novels went for, and while some cut content is fine and makes sense ultimately, they should've left my favorite part in :( i'm just a *tad* salty. that's all.

Anyways, Solo Leveling is peak, and this season was no different. ✌️. You should watch it 🫵.