By Jonathan Klotz
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Crunchyroll is the 20,000-pound gorilla in the anime world with the streaming platform belonging to Sony welcoming thousands of series and films, it is a must for serious fans. This is why when something takes fire to the platform and becomes the next great success, everyone is starting to take note of it. Solo Was the best interpreter of the streamer at that time last year, and now, with season 2 about to conclude, the Isekai is back in mind as the hottest series in Cructhyroll week after week.
The solo leveling it again
Solo Play with the Isekai formula by becoming aware of the whole world of portals which give access to another dimension filled with monsters and give birth to superhuman soldiers called hunters, the only ones who stem the tide and save the world. The problem is that each hunter is locked up in his “grade” and his level of power, with the exception of Sung Jinwoo, a hunter of pathetic, helpless and worthless electronic row which was the target of each joke, which suddenly wins the capacity to “rise of level” and become stronger over time. Video game mechanisms play a central role in the plot, including the concept of Mana (which is used to carry out incredible magic exploits), experience points and, in intelligent implementation, full healing at their level.
In season 1, Solo Spends time explaining all these concepts to viewers while Jinwoo develops its powers and begins to get into the ranks of hunters. Yoo Jinho, his best friend of the rank of D, label the dangerous raids, betrayals by other groups of hunters, and finally, the surprising secret behind their world and the origin of “the door”. Season 1 has a lot of ground to cover, but it is a snowball downhill, and at the end, the fans were rapped for more.
The first two episodes of Solo Season 2 was part of Solo reawakening In theaters at the end of last year, bringing “the arch of the Red Door” to the weeks of the big screen before hitting streaming. When a training mission with the White Tiger Guild turns horribly badly after the door, they go through turns of red, trapping the party inside until the boss monster is defeated, Jinwoo must rally the survivors of the expedition to survive. The end result is a bloody moment that stuns the remaining guild members and even the monsters when Jinwoo falls a massive warrior in a sudden.
Embrace the cool rule
Power scaling is a problem with any shonen anime When heroes like Luffy and Midoriya begin to become so strong, it is difficult to imagine that someone can take them, which leads to absurdly powerful bad guys to compensate. Solo Transform the concept of scaling up power in the plot which is a large part of its appeal for dubbed anime fans. From the first episode, when Jinwoo can barely lift his sword, when he says the words “occurs”, the series, helped by incredible animation from A-1 photos, manages to make each new power, weapon and capacity in a moment of classic media threshing.
The last episode of season 2, which will be broadcast on March 30, will not even include the usual opening video in a daring marketing movement selling how much it is simply too intense. It is a crochette marketing decision, but although the series can be subtle in some of its substantive clues and more calm moments, such as the way in which a “healing for any disease” can eliminate a scar but not correct injuries, it is also daring, opposite, and do not apologize. Solo lives by the “cool rule”, and it all depends on these moments of media threw with Jinwoo, which makes it the fast restoration of the anime world compared to the more hinged series Paranoia or even Demon tubeBut sometimes this cheap burger is just hitting you.
Solo is streaming on Crunchyroll.
