as a source reader i can say with out spoiling this second half of the season is gonna be crazy . im excited to see what a 1 pictures can do to the next few arcs
I'm amazed at the pace this season has been working through the arcs. At this pace we might even get to the arc for that mystery key he got from the cursed loot box! (not naming the arc to avoid spoilers) Also, I'm 99% certain we'll only be getting 3 seasons.
@@astral_95 we will get more , the next season will cover that key , don't forget there are many arcs after that and the author said he will add the story,
@@treymiller5736 I would think so. The difference in power lvl. Or Joohee was just on the bottom for B-Rank and or the psychological blockade. Dunno. But regenerating limbs is sure a feat.
@@Airwave2k2 just felt the difference was just a little to much, like they could have let her regenerate like half his leg before failing suggesting she was just short rather then a complete failure. (Would also make more sense on why she tried so hard “just a little more”)
@ I mean speaking for Joohee she got the cleaving wounds Takeshi (the hunter association psychopath) sliced in Song pretty well healed. I guess if Jinwoo's leg would have been fixated I guess she could have reattached it, but tried the "impossible" because reasons ... I perhaps are more ok with it because i see the scaling as exponential and not linear.
I think Sung won't allow anyone to die on that team & he will protect everyone. Reason being, they earned his respect, not because of their strength but their decisions. Like to go back & making decision on logic and not on Pride, the second one is the willingness to die so that 1 E-Rank can escape & live to tell the tale. Every other time it was reversed. And because of that i think he is going to save them because they are "good hunters" & not "rotten" like others
Havent read the manga so i cant say for sure but i think another part of it (though i agree his respect for this team is the main factor) is hes mentioned previously he feels like hes losing parts of himself in other fights and this may be his way of trying to keep more of his humanity. Again though probably not the main reason
The exact moment I was so hyped jumping around my room, was during the orc fight when jinwoo started ripped that orc in half and the girl smiled after pushing that orc.
as soon as Jin agreed to go to the dungeon my immediate thought was go get few ambulances ready :D I can't believe how quickly this ep blew through. I love how these Orcs looks like. I smell new addition to the shadow army :D
I loved the animation during the fighting but I like this episode mostly because this experience contrasts with the most of the previous ones that Sung Jinwoo had prior. Because, despite him still officially being E-Rank, we know he is S but some people treat him despite his supposed low rank. He feels connected to certain people. And, for once, he is in a party that isn't full of assholes, so, if he may save them.
They’re all professionals who have been doing this together for at least a year. Even the leader smiling about Jinwoo being E rank isn’t a bad thing. He was thinking that if he could lead his first raid while toeing around an E rank without him getting hurt, it’d be a major feather in his cap. A bit self serving, but he had a good reason for being that confident. Any other raid, and there wouldn’t have been a problem. It’s just bad luck that they wound up with an almost S rank dungeon that for some reason felt like a lower A.
I love how competent (one mage noticing his stealth) and actually decent these guys are. A real big shift from the previous groups Jinwoo had to deal with and a direct parallel with the double dungeon where this time the group wouldn't abandon him if needed.
1:05 Clarification: a single one of these orcs vs an A-rank is a 50-50 chance for survival. B-ranks stand no chance whatsoever. AND they were outnumbered.
@@SuperCleverPunNamepretty sure the anime did say that there strength are as strong as A ranks, i think the captain says it but yh if it’s anyone other and jin woo they’re be f’d, since even a low s ranks are only as strong as 10 a ranks so hundreds of them would be crazy
@@Hellogandy Did they? I'll go back and check, but I'm pretty sure that the only time ranks were mentioned in relation to the high orcs was to say that the B-ranks stood no chance.
From what I heard next episode will break the interent and will be on the level if not better during Igris fight. Seriously I need a time machine to see the next episode faster these clinfhangers are killing me.
It's going to be so dope. When S1 first started rolling out, I was more excited for this next episode to be animated than the Igris fight. It's going to be in THAT realm of blowing people's minds.
Dimmed down your expectation I don't think it will be better...in the manhwa it was but if the anime doesn't go way harder in animation as they did with the battle against Igris it won't be better. Just expect great fights
Jinwoo got used to working with D-C-B rankers who have low perception stat. Then tried the same strategy with A-ranks and got busted. Good thing he decided to come out as an S rank a few days prior otherwise it would be a scandal.
Love at first smell that is what I call Cha Hae-in reaction to our boy Jin-woo. As it’s rare to see a girl approach someone like this in shows. But I love it and I ship them so much❤ Other than that I really liked the rest of the episode as well. With how the secondary team did work and was. Because they each had a different design and fighting style that I liked to see. Which sadly is not always the case when you have a group of less important side characters in a story. Then how Jin-woo started to help out was so awesome in how he with his telekinesis not only choked one of those big orcs to death but also pulled out its spine. And the reaction the healer made after seeing something like this happened after she had basically accepted her death while helping another team mate. Which after that Jin-woo did try to sneakily try to help the rest of the group. By attacking the monsters weak points. But the episode ended in such a cliff hanger with them entering the keep of an orcish king. Which looked so awesome that I cannot wait until next episode
I am glad you keep saying in your videos that Solo Leveling is not just an action fest. If they were adapting the manhwa 1:1 then it would have been just the jinwoo show. But with the anime original scenes with the side cast and the expansive world building makes it so it's not just a generic power fantasy. You have to praise A1 pictures for going above and beyond with this adaptation of a popular series. And also props to D&C who were the holders of this title. They wanted this to be the best anime it can be and they didn't take the quick buck route and gave it to some studio who weren't going to do the story justice. So when people do complain about cuts from the source or small changes... Do remember, that this adaptation only exists because the people behind it are passionate about it and you may not have gotten so lucky in a different timeline. But that's just my two cents about it. This episode was absolutely fire. Peak Leveling continues to be peak and we didn't even have like " insane" action but the action we did get was still really awesome. I really love this party he has. All the people in it know what they are doing and they are highly skilled. The captain is also very sensible for turning back once they realised it was too dangerous even for them. Without Jinwoo, they probably would have gotten slaughtered in there because those orcs were no joke at all. It was incredible seeing him use his skill and basically make a fool of everyone there except for that mage girl who caught on to what he was doing. But she realised that he probably doesn't want to be known so she stayed quiet about it. But goddamn that orc leader is absolutely terrifying. He's basically welcoming them to a slaughter fest but that OST when they entered the room was so peak. 🔥🔥🔥 Yeah... Next week it's gonna pop off and a happy early birthday to you Brandon. You got Sakamoto and Peak Leveling to look forward to on your birthday. Also... Funny how Cha just fell in love at first smell. Not sight... Not touch but smell... Really interesting how her her powers or whatever it is make it so every hunter smells awful but him being a special hunter makes it so he smells like he came from the perfume factory. 😂 Great review Brandon. Great episode
Next saturday I will send you my regards... I mean, a happy birthday for you. Then. Either way, love your reviews, I hope they step up the animation yet again next week!
In the LN, Jin-Woo's reason for joining the mining team was to find out what A-rank dungeons were like, not because he needed money, like CrunchyRoll put in the synopsis.
Thanks for reacting to this great series. Unlike the other episodes this season, I didn't notice anything missing from the source. It was covered very well, and I don't expect anyone will be disappointed in the next episode.
That’s what’s up, bro. You’re gonna have a birthday level up. I don’t know if you’re gonna have mixed feelings about getting older but happy birthday you keep doing what you’re doing.
I think that Lee Bora (glasses and maid motif) noticed that Jin-Woo vanished, and from her position at the back of the formation had more time to notice the nicks and stabs that crippled the high orcs, rather than being able to see him in stealth.
3:35 The formation of the group in the picture above right is quite interesting. Jinwoo is at the very back and has enough space to place his shadow army behind him.
Cliffhanger. Hanging from a cliff. And thats why we called Cliffhangers!! We find Cliffhanger where we left him hanging last.... Hanging from a cliff. 😂😅
That was SO DAMN GOOD! The randomness of the dungeons allow the author to have an extremely wide variety of what can go down in there. Also, I wonder which Axe bodywash Sung uses lmao.
Been looking forward to these two episodes all season. But then I can say that for so many things coming this season. A-1 is cooking. Also I wholeheartedly agree. Most power fantasies don’t pay attention to the subtle details this show does. From something as little to remembering the difference between this crew and the other that abandoned him. Or the feeling of camaraderie from a known group of coworkers. It’s subtle, but the show has a lot of heart.
Beautiful episode. The scene of Cha Hae In that smell Jin Woo and after her thinking about him in her room really beautiful. The people who form the party really cool I hope we will see them again later, ready to sacrifice themselves a great team. Jin Woo in stealth dancing really cool 😍 and the entrance to the dungeon with the incredible background music was epic. Now episode 6 will be devastating vs Kargalgan 🔥🔥
What I think is interesting about the mage lady being able to sense Jinwoo using Camoflauge is that previously, those who had seen him use skills far above his rank immediately jumped to "false ranker", a category who are typicallly murderers. Mage lady, on the other hand, seemed affronted that he thought he could slip it by them and quickly decided not to say anything, which implies that she dismissed the threat of him being a false ranker out of hand.
Kudos to the raid leader. Cool and collected under pressure. Kudos to the raid team. They know they roles and acted accordingly. Hopefully, all of them will return safe.
As a fan of the light novel and manhwa, I have been very impressed with the Solo Leveling anime. It has so far exceeded my expectations. You will be getting a great episode on your birthday. Things are about to escalate rather quickly.
Solo Leveling peaks with the action... Because it builds up to the hype fights with touching character driven storytelling, makes us care about the world, otherwise we would have never enjoyed the action like we do!
best part for me was a small thing. it was when the crew were preparing to face their end while hoping Jinwoo gets out. i want to see jinwoo take charge. when everyone is like are you nuts the mage that caught on tells everyone just to trust him. thats when i want to see the big reveal. I want him to bring out and army of knights and bears
Wow this was such an exciting and awesome episode! You can consider yourself lucky to have that amazing show air on your birthday next week. I'm so excited for the next episode.
I loved this episode, and look forward to more of the fun to come. My big question is how he was able to take over the Orc and make it speak in the common tongue. I recall the group made a big deal out of Jinwoo being able to speak to the Dark Elves, so unless there's a difference with these Orcs they are also speaking to the humans, but to all of them this time.
Dang.. You're a Feb as well!? Let Solo cook for the whole month for Feb! You and I had the same though process. I was like, yup somebody was bound to see him. I like how they set him up, we see the healer looking at the orc knowing she was going to die, only to see THAT happen! They cooked with some serious good sauce this week to do something like this, now we are just hungering for more. Additionally, I did like the team synergy they had, it was amazing to see a strike team work so well together. But Sung cooked, man got that secret sauce that no one knows and is just serving it up! I'm with you, we are so waiting to hear the word arise and then many things will be arising and it won't be a shadow army.
Me: "Am I miss remembering this? Did we skip a dungeon?" * The A-rank captain shows up asking for volunteers * Me: "Oooooh!" I'm so bad at remembering the precise order of events. I'm just so excited for certain things to happen that I forget that other things need to happen, first. Lol.
Sung Jinwoo: No one should notice that I'm cloaking myself to weaken these orcs to help these other hunters. One of the mage hunters: Am I joke to you? Me: Kinda. Also, Cha-Hae-In liking Sung because he smells good compared to other hunters is crazy. The characterizzation (spelled that way intentionally) here sure is interesting.
my theory: he has been putting most of his skill points into intelligence for the past while instead of agility, and that explains why his stealth skill is still only b rank level. If he focussed more on evening out his spread of stats, he would have gone fully unnoticed
Chae Hae-in get interested in Jinwoo because he smells nice 🤣 It was as funny as when I read the Manhwa! The A Rank Dungeon with the High Orcs' part was insanely well done! Especially the last scene with the background and character details 😌 Next episode is gonna be Peak Fiction for sure 🙌🏻👀
Jinwoo acting like he is on a leasury hike when they are obviously up shit creek should tip the hunters off that the dude ain't normal! Also something that came to my mind during this episode is that if I was that good at healing than her I wouldn't be in a dungeon. I would be raking millions healing maimed peoples.
The group looked like a well oiled machine, they quickly got ready to fight without a single command! The man who lost his arm, I thought he wouldn't make it or at least his career as a serious Hunter was over, but no, he got his arm fully healed in seconds, granted without his armour!
This episode was awesome. I am so glad the group Sung is with are not selfish people and wants Jinwoo to escape to send a message and close the gate. But I am sure Jinwoo will not let them die. I just know it. Looking forward to the next episode. X3
A-1 Pictures and Hiroyuki Sawano really gave us the best yet also WORST FUCKING CLIFFHANGER!! I've read the source, I know what's about to go down, and _man_ next episode is gonna pop the fuck off! Y'all are in for a treat! I especially have to mention Sawano because that music when we got to the boss room was so fucking epic! That was some Attack on Titan shit that really sold how overwhelmingly powerful and menacing this new enemy is!
Oh I can’t wait for next episode, this really was a fantastic episode for set up. Next week will be fun especially if everything is concluded in one episode…… oh I am giddy. Then seeing what next episode is called, oh I’m smiling ear to ear. I will say it, I unfortunately/fortunately know a small bit of spoilers (Thank you internet…) and my excitement is at its peak for next week and thus why it’s partly Fortunate because I’m just purely excited.
Call Truma Team, we're about to have a cyberpsycho on the loose! But not for me! (Sung points Shadow Army at Orcs). We all know what's going to go down next episode...
Seeing how close they kept this episode to the source material, after having so much cut content in others, I wonder how they decide what to keep and what to cut? I can't tell at this point. This season they cut content that will be important when everything is revealed, so I really would love to know :) how they decide on this. Really good episode, next one will be insane if they keep it the same level of adaptation.
The red gate was a bunch of trainers. This group is a bunch of experienced professionals. Of course they will notice. But yes, the reactions from them next week should be not epic, but LEGENDARY
This season has me re-reading the mahwa and this episode ended right about where I expected it to. If they stay even relatively faithful to the mahwa with next week's episode, we might get the most epic fight in the series yet and "shock moments" in triplicate. I really loved the High Orc dungeon arc in the mahwa and it's shaping up to be great in the anime too.
Me just hyped to see my A rank girls from the game like Bora noticing he used his skill highly recommend picking up the game "Solo leveling Arise" after the season you will get alot of additional plot back stories the manwha and the show don't have
MAD RESPECT to all of the Anime onlies…I don’t have the STRENGTH to do this series week to week…I have already read the Manhwa AT LEAST 25 times!!! PEAK isn’t even HERE yet!!! 😂
A couple of interesting things here. Last time we saw intelligent dungeon monsters, in the red gate, only Jinwoo could understand them, and here too it looks like the regular orcs spoke their own language - but this orc mage boss can actually speak comprehensibly to humans. Which suggests that he wasn't there specifically for Jinwoo, he actually wants to talk to humans in general. And second, they weren't expecting that level of enemy based on the gate's emissions - so is this mage boss also able to deliberately suppress a gate's emissions to make it seem like a lower rank gate?
I am INCREDIBLY suspicious from this episode. I do not think it is normal for monsters to speak and for humans to understand them. It was hinted with the ice elves. And so now, that one monster's head has a fit, twists around and randomly they can start to communicate with humans. Sung's father has said before something wrong is happening and he wants to go after it. I think some threads are connecting in the background, and man it will be big.
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YESSIR!
I think she can smell mana or whatever is the basis of 'power' for the hunters
@@AHBrandonReviews man, next week is his for real coming out party😎
@@AHBrandonReviews happy birthday in advance bro 😁
Your prediction was spot on. One person does get injured and then he saves them. Then Arise.
Cliffhanger-kun strikes again.
as a source reader i can say with out spoiling this second half of the season is gonna be crazy . im excited to see what a 1 pictures can do to the next few arcs
I'm amazed at the pace this season has been working through the arcs. At this pace we might even get to the arc for that mystery key he got from the cursed loot box! (not naming the arc to avoid spoilers)
Also, I'm 99% certain we'll only be getting 3 seasons.
@@astral_95 we will get more , the next season will cover that key , don't forget there are many arcs after that and the author said he will add the story,
@astral_95 they confirmed 5 seasons and a movie
Spoiler free: You think we are getting to the part with the healer? I think there is just barely enough time to get to that part
God I Have Got to buy some of these books to get the Full content missed out on Solo Leveling. I only got the First book so far.
The power of an A-Rank healer. Great animation. And we are back to cliffhanger central. Just the way I like my Solo Leveling.
But a b rank can’t regenerate pretty much anything. 🤷♂️
@@treymiller5736 I would think so. The difference in power lvl. Or Joohee was just on the bottom for B-Rank and or the psychological blockade. Dunno. But regenerating limbs is sure a feat.
@@Airwave2k2 just felt the difference was just a little to much, like they could have let her regenerate like half his leg before failing suggesting she was just short rather then a complete failure. (Would also make more sense on why she tried so hard “just a little more”)
@ I mean speaking for Joohee she got the cleaving wounds Takeshi (the hunter association psychopath) sliced in Song pretty well healed. I guess if Jinwoo's leg would have been fixated I guess she could have reattached it, but tried the "impossible" because reasons ... I perhaps are more ok with it because i see the scaling as exponential and not linear.
@ in the latest episode that a rank made an entirely new arm.
I think Sung won't allow anyone to die on that team & he will protect everyone. Reason being, they earned his respect, not because of their strength but their decisions. Like to go back & making decision on logic and not on Pride, the second one is the willingness to die so that 1 E-Rank can escape & live to tell the tale. Every other time it was reversed. And because of that i think he is going to save them because they are "good hunters" & not "rotten" like others
Havent read the manga so i cant say for sure but i think another part of it (though i agree his respect for this team is the main factor) is hes mentioned previously he feels like hes losing parts of himself in other fights and this may be his way of trying to keep more of his humanity. Again though probably not the main reason
The exact moment I was so hyped jumping around my room, was during the orc fight when jinwoo started ripped that orc in half and the girl smiled after pushing that orc.
Dunno who that girl is yet, but she's already my favorite
Remember when Sung had his promotion test he tried to stealth but the mages kept exposing him so he had to kill them first. Nice call back
as soon as Jin agreed to go to the dungeon my immediate thought was go get few ambulances ready :D I can't believe how quickly this ep blew through. I love how these Orcs looks like. I smell new addition to the shadow army :D
Yeah, at this point if Sung enters a dungeon, people need to have Cyberpunk's Trauma Team at the ready.
I loved the animation during the fighting but I like this episode mostly because this experience contrasts with the most of the previous ones that Sung Jinwoo had prior. Because, despite him still officially being E-Rank, we know he is S but some people treat him despite his supposed low rank. He feels connected to certain people. And, for once, he is in a party that isn't full of assholes, so, if he may save them.
I agree, this is how a party should be. They have great teamwork, know when to pull back and know when to lock in for the greater good.
They’re all professionals who have been doing this together for at least a year. Even the leader smiling about Jinwoo being E rank isn’t a bad thing. He was thinking that if he could lead his first raid while toeing around an E rank without him getting hurt, it’d be a major feather in his cap. A bit self serving, but he had a good reason for being that confident. Any other raid, and there wouldn’t have been a problem. It’s just bad luck that they wound up with an almost S rank dungeon that for some reason felt like a lower A.
I love how competent (one mage noticing his stealth) and actually decent these guys are. A real big shift from the previous groups Jinwoo had to deal with and a direct parallel with the double dungeon where this time the group wouldn't abandon him if needed.
Baby girl literally have a
Love at first sniff 😂
Lol, love at first huff
Maomao approved 👍🏽 😁
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1:05 Clarification: a single one of these orcs vs an A-rank is a 50-50 chance for survival. B-ranks stand no chance whatsoever. AND they were outnumbered.
yeah my b
@@AHBrandonReviews Nah, you're good. The anime didn't mention it, just that B-ranks stood no chance.
@@SuperCleverPunNamepretty sure the anime did say that there strength are as strong as A ranks, i think the captain says it but yh if it’s anyone other and jin woo they’re be f’d, since even a low s ranks are only as strong as 10 a ranks so hundreds of them would be crazy
@@Hellogandy Did they? I'll go back and check, but I'm pretty sure that the only time ranks were mentioned in relation to the high orcs was to say that the B-ranks stood no chance.
"Huh, I really don't remember these scenes"
_Jinwoo rips out the orc's head_
"Oh. It's this part"
From what I heard next episode will break the interent and will be on the level if not better during Igris fight. Seriously I need a time machine to see the next episode faster these clinfhangers are killing me.
It's going to be so dope. When S1 first started rolling out, I was more excited for this next episode to be animated than the Igris fight.
It's going to be in THAT realm of blowing people's minds.
Dimmed down your expectation I don't think it will be better...in the manhwa it was but if the anime doesn't go way harder in animation as they did with the battle against Igris it won't be better. Just expect great fights
A-1 Pictures raise the bar and has revolutionary animation 💯🔥🐐 they are goats 🐐
next week we welcome that episode with open arms
I had open arms for this week episode - - I'll now be panting in lust for the next week episode!!
Jinwoo got used to working with D-C-B rankers who have low perception stat. Then tried the same strategy with A-ranks and got busted. Good thing he decided to come out as an S rank a few days prior otherwise it would be a scandal.
Love at first smell that is what I call Cha Hae-in reaction to our boy Jin-woo. As it’s rare to see a girl approach someone like this in shows. But I love it and I ship them so much❤
Other than that I really liked the rest of the episode as well. With how the secondary team did work and was. Because they each had a different design and fighting style that I liked to see. Which sadly is not always the case when you have a group of less important side characters in a story. Then how Jin-woo started to help out was so awesome in how he with his telekinesis not only choked one of those big orcs to death but also pulled out its spine. And the reaction the healer made after seeing something like this happened after she had basically accepted her death while helping another team mate. Which after that Jin-woo did try to sneakily try to help the rest of the group. By attacking the monsters weak points. But the episode ended in such a cliff hanger with them entering the keep of an orcish king. Which looked so awesome that I cannot wait until next episode
Shout out to A1, this week is NPC's fight but they still looking great. Next week definitely the meat and potatoes.
I am glad you keep saying in your videos that Solo Leveling is not just an action fest.
If they were adapting the manhwa 1:1 then it would have been just the jinwoo show.
But with the anime original scenes with the side cast and the expansive world building makes it so it's not just a generic power fantasy. You have to praise A1 pictures for going above and beyond with this adaptation of a popular series. And also props to D&C who were the holders of this title. They wanted this to be the best anime it can be and they didn't take the quick buck route and gave it to some studio who weren't going to do the story justice.
So when people do complain about cuts from the source or small changes... Do remember, that this adaptation only exists because the people behind it are passionate about it and you may not have gotten so lucky in a different timeline.
But that's just my two cents about it.
This episode was absolutely fire.
Peak Leveling continues to be peak and we didn't even have like " insane" action but the action we did get was still really awesome.
I really love this party he has. All the people in it know what they are doing and they are highly skilled.
The captain is also very sensible for turning back once they realised it was too dangerous even for them.
Without Jinwoo, they probably would have gotten slaughtered in there because those orcs were no joke at all.
It was incredible seeing him use his skill and basically make a fool of everyone there except for that mage girl who caught on to what he was doing.
But she realised that he probably doesn't want to be known so she stayed quiet about it.
But goddamn that orc leader is absolutely terrifying. He's basically welcoming them to a slaughter fest but that OST when they entered the room was so peak.
🔥🔥🔥
Yeah... Next week it's gonna pop off and a happy early birthday to you Brandon. You got Sakamoto and Peak Leveling to look forward to on your birthday.
Also... Funny how Cha just fell in love at first smell. Not sight... Not touch but smell... Really interesting how her her powers or whatever it is make it so every hunter smells awful but him being a special hunter makes it so he smells like he came from the perfume factory. 😂
Great review Brandon.
Great episode
Next saturday I will send you my regards... I mean, a happy birthday for you. Then.
Either way, love your reviews, I hope they step up the animation yet again next week!
In the LN, Jin-Woo's reason for joining the mining team was to find out what A-rank dungeons were like, not because he needed money, like CrunchyRoll put in the synopsis.
So pumped. This has been non-stop 10/10 fire.
season 2 is already better than s1 it\s crazy
@@AHBrandonReviews Definitely better than S1.
Thanks for reacting to this great series. Unlike the other episodes this season, I didn't notice anything missing from the source. It was covered very well, and I don't expect anyone will be disappointed in the next episode.
That’s what’s up, bro. You’re gonna have a birthday level up. I don’t know if you’re gonna have mixed feelings about getting older but happy birthday you keep doing what you’re doing.
i get better with age im chilling lmao
The rest of the season will be turned up to 11 and I'm here for it lfg
THAT CLIFFHANGER BRUH! 😭🙏
(Also happy early bd 😘)
Jinwoo went full Mortal Kombat Fatality on that one Orc
I think that Lee Bora (glasses and maid motif) noticed that Jin-Woo vanished, and from her position at the back of the formation had more time to notice the nicks and stabs that crippled the high orcs, rather than being able to see him in stealth.
I was not expecting a smelling fetish to be one of the reasons why people hype up Cha Hae-in
Not quite the case but it is funny to think of it that way lol
3:35 The formation of the group in the picture above right is quite interesting. Jinwoo is at the very back and has enough space to place his shadow army behind him.
That healer regrowing a whole arm was badass. She could be rich in the medical field.
That's A/B rank healer for you 😮
Cliffhanger. Hanging from a cliff. And thats why we called Cliffhangers!!
We find Cliffhanger where we left him hanging last.... Hanging from a cliff. 😂😅
Now that takes me back to first grade.
I am sooooo hyped for next saturday
😱 This episode from the animation even to the music 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nice army you have there, they will make a fine addition to my collection.
Love at first ❎
Love at first smell ✅
Yeah I had a BLAST watching this episode.
That was SO DAMN GOOD! The randomness of the dungeons allow the author to have an extremely wide variety of what can go down in there. Also, I wonder which Axe bodywash Sung uses lmao.
My favorite moment by far was when we entered the arena 💯
The MUSIC WAS EPIIIIC !!!!!!! The sound designers are goated and not enough appreciated.
This episode was fantastic! 🔥
Been looking forward to these two episodes all season. But then I can say that for so many things coming this season. A-1 is cooking.
Also I wholeheartedly agree. Most power fantasies don’t pay attention to the subtle details this show does. From something as little to remembering the difference between this crew and the other that abandoned him. Or the feeling of camaraderie from a known group of coworkers. It’s subtle, but the show has a lot of heart.
Can't wait for the next episode I was surprised that one person noticed him helping them when they got surrounded
This has to be the show that has the most obnoxious cliffhangers of the season award
Beautiful episode. The scene of Cha Hae In that smell Jin Woo and after her thinking about him in her room really beautiful. The people who form the party really cool I hope we will see them again later, ready to sacrifice themselves a great team. Jin Woo in stealth dancing really cool 😍 and the entrance to the dungeon with the incredible background music was epic. Now episode 6 will be devastating vs Kargalgan 🔥🔥
What I think is interesting about the mage lady being able to sense Jinwoo using Camoflauge is that previously, those who had seen him use skills far above his rank immediately jumped to "false ranker", a category who are typicallly murderers. Mage lady, on the other hand, seemed affronted that he thought he could slip it by them and quickly decided not to say anything, which implies that she dismissed the threat of him being a false ranker out of hand.
It’s crazy to look at all of them in armors and dripped out, then here goes Jin woo, backpack 😂
Kudos to the raid leader. Cool and collected under pressure. Kudos to the raid team. They know they roles and acted accordingly. Hopefully, all of them will return safe.
As a fan of the light novel and manhwa, I have been very impressed with the Solo Leveling anime. It has so far exceeded my expectations. You will be getting a great episode on your birthday. Things are about to escalate rather quickly.
Solo Leveling peaks with the action... Because it builds up to the hype fights with touching character driven storytelling, makes us care about the world, otherwise we would have never enjoyed the action like we do!
best part for me was a small thing. it was when the crew were preparing to face their end while hoping Jinwoo gets out. i want to see jinwoo take charge. when everyone is like are you nuts the mage that caught on tells everyone just to trust him. thats when i want to see the big reveal. I want him to bring out and army of knights and bears
Wow this was such an exciting and awesome episode! You can consider yourself lucky to have that amazing show air on your birthday next week. I'm so excited for the next episode.
Yeah super looking forward to the next one. Happy bday Brandon, I hope you have a great one. Thanks for all the content.
Son Kihoon is like opposite side of coin with Kim Cheul
I loved this episode, and look forward to more of the fun to come. My big question is how he was able to take over the Orc and make it speak in the common tongue. I recall the group made a big deal out of Jinwoo being able to speak to the Dark Elves, so unless there's a difference with these Orcs they are also speaking to the humans, but to all of them this time.
The fact that this was a setup episode we are gonna be so happy with next one
Dang.. You're a Feb as well!? Let Solo cook for the whole month for Feb! You and I had the same though process. I was like, yup somebody was bound to see him. I like how they set him up, we see the healer looking at the orc knowing she was going to die, only to see THAT happen! They cooked with some serious good sauce this week to do something like this, now we are just hungering for more. Additionally, I did like the team synergy they had, it was amazing to see a strike team work so well together. But Sung cooked, man got that secret sauce that no one knows and is just serving it up! I'm with you, we are so waiting to hear the word arise and then many things will be arising and it won't be a shadow army.
The next episode is by far my favorite so far in the story. It will be absolutely crazy.
Bro the OST right at the end went hard
Me: "Am I miss remembering this? Did we skip a dungeon?"
* The A-rank captain shows up asking for volunteers *
Me: "Oooooh!"
I'm so bad at remembering the precise order of events. I'm just so excited for certain things to happen that I forget that other things need to happen, first. Lol.
MC's puts some Axe body wash to make Cha Hae-in fall in love to his smell.
Love at first smell.
It was a great episode.
Love one the first smell.
Also in the end, others see enemies, I see Sung Jinwoo's new pokemon
Sung Jinwoo: No one should notice that I'm cloaking myself to weaken these orcs to help these other hunters.
One of the mage hunters: Am I joke to you?
Me: Kinda.
Also, Cha-Hae-In liking Sung because he smells good compared to other hunters is crazy. The characterizzation (spelled that way intentionally) here sure is interesting.
my theory: he has been putting most of his skill points into intelligence for the past while instead of agility, and that explains why his stealth skill is still only b rank level. If he focussed more on evening out his spread of stats, he would have gone fully unnoticed
I love it every episode!!! More Sole Leveling!!!
Chae Hae-in get interested in Jinwoo because he smells nice 🤣
It was as funny as when I read the Manhwa!
The A Rank Dungeon with the High Orcs' part was insanely well done!
Especially the last scene with the background and character details 😌
Next episode is gonna be Peak Fiction for sure 🙌🏻👀
our mans Shadow Army is about to become the Orc Army
Hear me out - im not saying he should let them all die, but that's like 6 a-rank hunters that could've been his shadows. 😂
Jinwoo acting like he is on a leasury hike when they are obviously up shit creek should tip the hunters off that the dude ain't normal!
Also something that came to my mind during this episode is that if I was that good at healing than her I wouldn't be in a dungeon. I would be raking millions healing maimed peoples.
Bro next week is gonna be LIT. Your Bday present is gonna be Gangsta.
That is how I met my wife moment😂
First time in the series I'm excited for next episode and pretty good cliff hanger
The group looked like a well oiled machine, they quickly got ready to fight without a single command! The man who lost his arm, I thought he wouldn't make it or at least his career as a serious Hunter was over, but no, he got his arm fully healed in seconds, granted without his armour!
Just waiting to hear the mortal kombat line "Fatality" after that first high orc lost his head.
Nahhh. I can't take Brandon serious. "Performance issues "😂😂
it was a 10/10 joke and you know it
Those amazing words.......
*WAKEY WAKEY*
This episode was awesome. I am so glad the group Sung is with are not selfish people and wants Jinwoo to escape to send a message and close the gate. But I am sure Jinwoo will not let them die. I just know it. Looking forward to the next episode. X3
loved this episode
the next part of this season is gonna break the internet
The heah spine thing is from chapter 70 for those who want to see how the original panel was and how is it compared to the anime.
Solo Leveling and Ishura 2nd Season are top anime for me this year so far
I already really like this party, but the martial arts lady is my favorite.
This anime truly is one of a kind finally not cheesy built up fine top tier
I cannot wait for the absolute cooking that is coming next episode and they are evil for that cliff hanger
A-1 Pictures and Hiroyuki Sawano really gave us the best yet also WORST FUCKING CLIFFHANGER!! I've read the source, I know what's about to go down, and _man_ next episode is gonna pop the fuck off! Y'all are in for a treat!
I especially have to mention Sawano because that music when we got to the boss room was so fucking epic! That was some Attack on Titan shit that really sold how overwhelmingly powerful and menacing this new enemy is!
Oh I can’t wait for next episode, this really was a fantastic episode for set up. Next week will be fun especially if everything is concluded in one episode…… oh I am giddy. Then seeing what next episode is called, oh I’m smiling ear to ear. I will say it, I unfortunately/fortunately know a small bit of spoilers (Thank you internet…) and my excitement is at its peak for next week and thus why it’s partly Fortunate because I’m just purely excited.
Next episode may become the best episode yet
Call Truma Team, we're about to have a cyberpsycho on the loose!
But not for me! (Sung points Shadow Army at Orcs).
We all know what's going to go down next episode...
Seeing how close they kept this episode to the source material, after having so much cut content in others, I wonder how they decide what to keep and what to cut? I can't tell at this point.
This season they cut content that will be important when everything is revealed, so I really would love to know :) how they decide on this.
Really good episode, next one will be insane if they keep it the same level of adaptation.
The red gate was a bunch of trainers. This group is a bunch of experienced professionals. Of course they will notice. But yes, the reactions from them next week should be not epic, but LEGENDARY
This season has me re-reading the mahwa and this episode ended right about where I expected it to. If they stay even relatively faithful to the mahwa with next week's episode, we might get the most epic fight in the series yet and "shock moments" in triplicate. I really loved the High Orc dungeon arc in the mahwa and it's shaping up to be great in the anime too.
It only gets better after this, my dude.
Season 2 is way better than season 1.
i was laughing at the start of romance at first sniff. damn this anime.
Me just hyped to see my A rank girls from the game like Bora noticing he used his skill highly recommend picking up the game "Solo leveling Arise" after the season you will get alot of additional plot back stories the manwha and the show don't have
MAD RESPECT to all of the Anime onlies…I don’t have the STRENGTH to do this series week to week…I have already read the Manhwa AT LEAST 25 times!!! PEAK isn’t even HERE yet!!! 😂
A couple of interesting things here. Last time we saw intelligent dungeon monsters, in the red gate, only Jinwoo could understand them, and here too it looks like the regular orcs spoke their own language - but this orc mage boss can actually speak comprehensibly to humans. Which suggests that he wasn't there specifically for Jinwoo, he actually wants to talk to humans in general.
And second, they weren't expecting that level of enemy based on the gate's emissions - so is this mage boss also able to deliberately suppress a gate's emissions to make it seem like a lower rank gate?
I just realized the ending song of season two is done by the same person that did the Tokyo ghoul opening 😱😅🥹🤣😂
Jinwoo is going to drop the act next episode and take out those orcs.
I am INCREDIBLY suspicious from this episode.
I do not think it is normal for monsters to speak and for humans to understand them. It was hinted with the ice elves.
And so now, that one monster's head has a fit, twists around and randomly they can start to communicate with humans.
Sung's father has said before something wrong is happening and he wants to go after it.
I think some threads are connecting in the background, and man it will be big.
Darth Vader has Force choke. Jinwoo has Force decapitate. No kill like overkill. 😅