Crunchyroll revealed a teaser trailer at Anime Expo on Friday for Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-, the second season of the anime adaptation of writer Chugong and the late artist DUBU’s (REDICE Studio) Solo Leveling manhwa. The trailer features Hiroyuki Sawano’s “4eVR” soundtrack song. The anime premiered in Japan on January 6, and Crunchyroll added the English dub on January 20.
Describing the storyline, Crunchyroll explains:
It’s been over a decade since the sudden appearance of the “gates”—the paths that connect our world with a different dimension. Since then, certain humans have awakened to supernatural powers. We call these individuals “hunters.” Hunters make their living by using their powers to conquer dungeons inside the gates. In this world of tough customers, the low-ranked hunter Jinwoo Sung is known as “the weakest hunter of all mankind.”
One day, Jinwoo gets fatally injured when he runs into high-rank double dungeons hidden within a low-rank dungeon. Just then, a mysterious quest window appears in front of him. On the verge of death, Jinwoo decides to accept the quest and starts leveling up… while the others aren’t.
Solo Leveling Anime Debuts with A-1 Pictures, BTS’s TOMORROW X TOGETHER Perform Opening Theme
Shunsuke Nakashige (Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory) directed the anime series at A-1 Pictures, with Noboru Kimura (Gundam Build Divers, Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!) serving as the head writer. Tomoko Sudo (Alice in Borderland, Fragtime) designed the characters, and Hiroyuki Sawano (known for works like Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist, Kill la Kill, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) composed the music.
The opening theme song “LEveL” is performed by BTS sibling idol group TOMORROW X TOGETHER in collaboration with composer Hiroyuki Sawano (SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]).
Chugong’s Solo Leveling novel series, illustrated by DUBU, debuted on Webtoon services in March 2018 and concluded in December 2021. Yen Press publishes both the manhwa and the original novel series in English, while Kadokawa releases the manhwa in Japanese under the title Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken (I’m the Only One Who Has Leveled Up).
