Eight years after Chugo’s web novel started its serialization, Solo Leveling will finally be adapted into anime. A-1 Pictures is about to take Sung Jin-Woo’s story to the small screen, and the anime has now released its opening theme preview, featuring its much-awaited world premiere.
The preview introduces the protagonist, Jin-Woo, a weak E-Rank hunter chosen to be part of a magical program. It then presents the anime’s opening theme song artists, Sawano Hiroyuki and Tomorrow x Together, as the track, LEvel, begins to play in the background. From there, a montage of scenes of different characters, like the winking Son Ki-Hoon, an angry Minoru Hoshino, a serious-looking Choi Jong-In, and the dapper Woo Jin-Chul, are seen.
The trailer also features Gina in action, followed by a sequence where Jin-Woo fights the enemies. It also gives a glimpse of Jin-Woo’s human sister, Sung Jinah, and another hunter, Lee Joo-Hee. The preview then reveals Solo Leveling’s world premiere in Tokyo and Seoul on December 10 and Los Angeles on December 14.
Who are the cast members of Solo Leveling?
Taito Ban leads the cast of Solo Leveling with Genta Nakamura as Yoo Jin-Ho. For other cast members, you can check the list below:
Reina Ueda as Cha Hae-In
Daisuke Hirakawa as Choi Jong-in
Hiroki Touchi as Baek Yoonho
Banjo Ginga as Go Gun-Hee
Makoto Furukawa as Woo Jin-Chul
Shunsuke Nakashige directs the new anime series, while Noboru Kimura works on the screenplay. The staff also includes Tomoko Sudo as the character designer and Hiroyuki Sawano as the music composer.
What is Solo Leveling about?
Solo Leveling features the world of hunters, human warriors with supernatural abilities, battling deadly monsters to protect humanity from destruction. However, a weak hunter named Sung Jin-Woo finds it hard to survive amid these fights. But after surviving a powerful double dungeon that almost kills his group, a program called System chooses him to be its sole player. It gives him an extremely rare ability that boosts his strength and turns anyone he kills into a loyal minion called Shadow. From here, he begins a journey to find the secrets behind the dungeons and the real source of his incredible powers.
You can read the synopsis below:
More than ten years after the sudden appearance of a "gate" that connects another dimension and the present world, humans called "hunters" who have awakened to superhuman powers appear in the world. Hunters make a living by conquering the dungeons inside the gates and getting paid for it, but among these strong hunters, Shun Mizushino lived as a low-rank hunter known as humanity's weakest weapon. One day, a mysterious quest window appears in front of Shun, who encounters a high-rank double dungeon hidden in a low-rank dungeon and is mortally injured. On the verge of death, Shun decides to accept the quest and becomes the only one who can "level up."
Solo Leveling is scheduled for release in January 2024. With the success of Chugo’s web novel and its webtoon adaptation, it’s now the best time to see Jin-Woo’s story in an anime form.
