Review of Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow

🔵Winter 2025 I just want to express my hatred for this series, mainly due to the approach of anime fans to it...... I myself am a fan of action and watching things that do not require much thought but Solo Leveling is simply bad even in this respect. What does a good action need? definitely a good antagonist, something that we will not see in SL, every opponent in this anime is not important, each is a random, arrogant monster who is usually introduced and defeated in 1-3 episodes where during this time apart from the fight with MC he has no screen time and his characterization comesdown to being simply evil and strong, ok... one or two such opponents can be survived but are they all really like that? does watching the same thing over and over get boring for you?

Good/important secondary characters, this anime doesn't have a single character that would make the MC actually look cooler, the fact that the MC is the strongest doesn't make an impression because all the characters he's stronger than are hopeless, who cares about being stronger than an NPC who didn't have a single moment of glory?

Besides, I could survive watching the tenth situation in a row where ONLY the MC is "cool" and saves everyone, but I can't survive that this type of situation doesn't make an impression because the characters being saved are hopeless, the hopeless situations they find themselves in are not of concern to anyone, it's shown too bluntly that these characters are only here to be defeated and saved, that from the beginning it's the MC's fight and not the characters currently on screen.

The stakes? There is none, everything is predetermined, mainly due to the lack of an opponent who would give the impression of someone who could defeat the MC and it would make sense in the plot, no one will believe that a random and unimportant monster will win.

Maybe some emotional build-up that would make us really care about the outcome of the fight? Without good supporting characters, this is impossible, so SL fails again.

The only emotional thread that had potential was the MC's mother's thread, but it was ignored until her awakening, after which the MC's mother's character was again irrelevant... god, that was the only convincing motivation for MC, why couldn't the creators give some cliched flashbacks from time to time? or anything?

It's not worth wasting time listing the rest of the numerous flaws of this title because everyone knows them and for some reason accepts them.
The approach of SL viewers is simply to spit on any quality and say "we don't care about a good story, characters or really well-written action, only well-animated action and aura farming count"

Really, Solo Leveling makes Jjk and DS masterpieces in my eyes, the level of battle shounen posa is dropping more and more with each year, no standards are met except for good animation.

Finally, I'll say this... it's not shameful to like shit, it is shameful to consider shit as something good and rate it high xD

Normally I would give it 2/10 but this anime is too overrated so I give it...

Rating:⭐❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌