The other one, Tower of God, is f*cking brilliant all around. I’m watching this and just keep thinking One-Punch Man is basically the blue print for this stuff and it’s exceptional. Even during the short bursts of very obvious budget expenditure, sh*t was still barely dope. It took five whole ass episodes for ANYTHING to happen. Conceptually, Solo is right up my alley, but this goddamn execution is killing me. I can’t wait over a hundred chapters worth of content for this sh*t to finally catch up to what Slime did in ten. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, Slime, Wonderland, and Sword are some of my favorite anime, all-time, I’m just saying Solo has a lot of work to do in order to impress and it’s falling really short. All of these narratives follow the same beats, hit the same notes, and deliver the same kind of overall plot.
It’s Parasyte, Deadman Wonderland (which is excellent, one of my favorites, and a high recommend), Attack on Titan, and f*cking Arifureta. It’s Kenichi, Black Clover, and Tokyo Ghoul. From what I can tell, the details in Solo are not all that interesting. I’ve come across these OP protag stories before, it’s basically a trope now, so the devil is in the details. I’ve watched a ton of plot synopsis and “what you need to know” about Solo Leveling, and i am thoroughly unimpressed. It’s so ugly, the immaculate world building can’t even really save it for me and that’s a whole different issue, in of itself!īro, the overarching story is kind of whack. An entire series and a spin-off later, this sh*t is still ugly as f*ck to look at. Solo Leveling has not been blessed in this way. All of a sudden, OPM is brilliant on all fronts and I can dig it. Eventually, Murata got a hold of the narrative and blessed us with his art. There was enough in those first few hideous chapters, to keep me coming back. His Web comic version of One-Punch Man is the worst in terms of art, but the world building was there almost immediately. I could tell that this was a series made by A guy in his bedroom, basically. The art is bad, very amateurish in my opinion. I made an attempt, long ago, to get into this thing right before it got hot-hot and couldn’t stand it. As I understand it, the rich world building and colorized art, is what has people completely enamored with the series. Solo Leveling has garnered much of its praise from the excellent web comic of the same name. The wild thing is, everyone who swears by this show is telling me that it’s not supposed to, that the narrative doesn’t pick up until f*cking chapter one hundred. I’m seven episodes in, and haven’t seen any of it.
These are all things I was led to believe Solo Leveling archives. I love well developed characters and a properly fleshed out world. Interestingly enough, I am about that solo life in my RPGs. I don’t give a sh*t about MMORPGs in general.
It’s the second best of the Big Three but I’m a BLEACH guy and World of Warcraft is whatever. I cannot tell you how many Narutards and WoW trolls have attacked me in my life because I don’t prostrate myself at the feet of their chosen media. I tent to find the fans of those types of thing to be objectively insufferable and it turns me off to whatever the sh*t is. Admittedly, I am prone to automatically dislike the most popular and mainstream of sh*t on principal. I am trying my goddamndest to care about Solo Leveling but it has become a straight up ordeal.