Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise From the Shadow- is surelyone of the most-watched new anime shows airing in the Winter 2025 anime season, and with three episodes already streaming on Crunchyroll, fans are looking forward to see what's next for Sung Jinwoo in the fourth episode. Sung Jinwoo already defeated Vulcan in the previous episode, and he only needs one ingredient to get a cure for his sick mother, but it looks like he will no longer be able to prevent drawing more attention to himself.
The official website of Solo Leveling has released preview stills, official synopsis, and staff information for the fourth episode of Season 2 (Episode 16 overall), which is titled I Need to Stop Faking, which is scheduled to premiere this Saturday, January 25. The synopsis reveals that Jinwoo will have to retake the Hunter Rank tests so that he could participate in more advanced raids. The previews also tease Cha Hae-in's appearance.
Check out the preview stills for Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 4 in the image gallery below:
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Solo Leveling Animation Partners
The official synopsis of Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 4 reads:
Feeling that he needs to further raise his level to clear the S-rank dungeon “Demon Castle,” Jinwoo decides to undergo a reassessment of his Hunter Rank to participate in advanced raids. While top guild members begin to take notice of Jinwoo, whose magical power is beyond what measurement devices can quantify, another individual also visits him.
The staff Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 4 includes:
Direction: Makiko Hayase
Script: Noboru Kimura
Storyboard: Makiko Hayase
Chief Animation Director: Tomoko Katasho & Hiromi Ogata
Chief Animation Director Assistance: Tomoko Sudo
Animation Directors: Kumiko Ozawa, Takaaki Tanabe, Aika Sato, Akari Abe, 外崎虎徹, and Hikari no Sono Animation
Solo Leveling Season 2 Japanese Cast and English Dub Cast
All the main Japanese and English voice cast members returned for Solo Leveling Season 2, and here's a list of them:
Japanese Voice Actor | English Voice Actor | Character |
Taito Ban | Aleks Le | Sung Jin-woo |
Genta Nakamura | Justin Brine | Yoo Jin-ho |
Reina Ueda | Michelle Rojas | Cha Hae-in |
Daisuke Hirakawa | Ian Sinclair | Choi Jong-in |
Hiroki Touchi | Christopher R. Sabat | Baek Yoon-ho |
Banjo Ginga | Kent Williams | Go Gun-hee |
Makoto Furukawa | SungWon Cho | Woo Jin-chul |
Haruna Mikawa | Rebecca Wang | Sung Jin-ah |
Rina Honizumi | Dani Chambers |
Solo Leveling Season 1 premiered in Japan on January 6, 2024, and Crunchyroll started streaming the English dub version of the anime on January 20. Studio A-1 Pictures, which produced the first season, returned to produce the animation of the Season 2, with Shunsuke Nakashige as director, and Noboru Kimura as series composer. Tomoko Sudo is in charge of the character designs while Hiroyuki Sawano in composing the sequel's music.
What is Solo Leveling Season 2 about?
Solo Leveling is based on the South Korean portal fantasy web novel series written by Chugong and illustrated by DUBU, which launched on Webtoon services in March 2018 and ended in December 2021. The manhwa and original novel series is being published by Yen Press in English, and the Japanese version is published by Kadokawa under the title Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken (I'm the Only One Who Has Leveled Up).
Crunchyroll shared a description for Solo Leveling Season 2:
It's been over ten years since gates that lead to another dimension have begun appearing across the world. The battles between the magic beasts inhabiting the dungeons through the gates and the human hunters who have awakened the abilities to fight them show no signs of ending. Ordinarily, a hunter's abilities do not change upon awakening, with their rank never increasing. However, the low-ranked Sung Jinwoo, known as 'The Weakest Hunter of All Mankind,' gained the ability to level up through battle during a raid on a double dungeon. Having completed a job-change quest that earned him the job 'Shadow Monarch' and command over an army of shadows, Jinwoo heads into battle seeking the ingredients for the Elixir of Life to save his sick mother.
Here's the main trailer for Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadows-:
Crunchyroll is streaming the Solo Leveling anime series. For more info about Solo Leveling Season 2, visit the official website of the anime.
