Solo Leveling - Vol. 2 Ch. 179 - [Season 2 End]

[NoLuckReader]

Thank you for the manhwa, it was a fun experience.

I finished reading it and my thoughts are pretty much it's a fun, and interesting concept. I feel like some parts were either unnecessarily long or random like Love Interests chapters, and the fighting over him arcs.

but the artstyle and usage of spreads are so good.

 

[8Starlite8]

The author forgot the orange hair girl in the first chapter, she is the first girl like MC, she look like don't care the MC rank at first, but the author throw her away and change the girl who has issue with her nose, like that orange girl is nobody, and i thought she is gonna be with MC in the last... but no MC going with that blonde girl

 

[TheProtectorOfPureHeartedGirls]

9/10—›7/10

What a lonely ending. ​

 

[Meiselyn]

Bro just started new game+

 

[Rox-as]

Man, this was pretty lame ending, just an ok ending. The long rants here pretty much says what I think, so there’s no point in re-saying that stuff.

I will say that I’m fine with this ending, because I realized that they never really went into much characters in the stories, and the only character that I actually cared about was the old man, but other than that, no one really mattered. When they introduced the love interest, I remembered the first girl, but then they never meet up again. Even if they decided to scrap her, just feels lame like they should have done something. But the love interest was barely even there too.


Look, we all knew that he was gonna win, but it’s the in between that makes it worth it to read. That’s why people re-read stuff, it’s the journey that makes us excited to see the ending, even if we know how it will end. I will always be able to re-read the beginning, but end doesn’t seem worth it to me.

I can’t really blame anyone who worked on this, since this was originally a novel, the ending already pre-determined, it just mattered on how they adapted that. Sadly it’s kinda hard to make dirt seem like gold. So I don’t blame them, the art was fantastic.

So I’m fine with this ending. Not much was lost since not much was made.

I came from the anime, and came out a little disappointed. But this brings me with hope, hope that the anime adapts this better like they did with the Cerberus fight. Cause I’d say that is when the story became a little dull, when he first started to have no stakes.

 

[Tdogjames]

very valid take. Him resetting the world to do everything again by himself caught me by the neck because at no point did I think, "OH NOOO THAT PERSON DIED THIS IS SUCH BS." Besides the chairman of the Hunters Association but his death felt okay because it was a good kind of punch in the gut. Other than that literally no one MC cared about died. And he was never the "im going to protect all of humanity because im that much of a righteous douche!" kinda guy, so the whole end twist made zero sense. Plus, the end he's like "i'll find new meaning in the friends i made before!" 1) bro they were already your whole meaning to begin with, you got lost in being a literal god and i guess forgot you were doing all this for your family? To be fair, he practically ignored his mom's whole existence after waking her up. Had dinner with her one night and disappeared days between. I don't think they ever once had an actual conversation after she was awake. 2) Literally none of the friends you made remember you now (which that whole trope pisses me off by itself). You're gonna look weird as hell trying to talk them after like "hey you dont remember me but i reversed time and saved the whole Earth from demons and monsters, which you've never seen because gates never existed in this timeline, but i saved your life a bunch of times before so do you wanna be friends again?" Like no bro, you sound crazy. Idk, those kind of endings kinda make the whole story feel pointless.

 

[homeless_leg-eater]

good until half the chapter is yap-fighting

 

[SumRndmPenguin]

I read this cause half of my friends say this is dogshit and the other half say it's great. Must agree with the former. The first 50 or so chapters were full of shit I disliked but I was just gonna call it mid. Then the next 120 chapters or so were the worst slog I've ever trudged thru. Drops of character writing interspersed thru pages and pages of Jin-Woo glazing and fights that I know he's going to win. I regret not just watching the anime immensely. At least that has good fights (from the clips I've seen).

 

[Beinmote9z]

i can't even put what i have to say into words,
how do i even rate ts

 

[Izuma95]

The authors ran out of ideas and they pull out the classic time travel shenanigans and resetting everything.

 

[LightningForce]

Bro pulled a Stein Gate-type ending. I guess I don't overthink of whether its good or bad at first but I see why ppl can somewhat complain

Yeah, but Steins;Gate earned its ending. Time loops, sacrifice, causality---that stuff is baked into the story from the start. It’s the kind of show where a reset ending (of sorts) actually makes sense, even if not everyone liked it.

But Solo Leveling? It’s an urban fantasy MMORPG story. The world isn’t built for deep, serious reflection or prolonged emotional conflict or plot lines---it’s about being a power fantasy. So when it tries to do a reset ending, it just comes off as shallow. The whole thing doesn’t just feel off, it undoes all the character growth and story we’ve been through. And the worst part is it’s treated like it’s the heroic, noble choice. As if erasing everything is the “right” thing to do. It’s just emotionally empty, and it invalidates everything we've been through with his character.

From chapter 1, Sung Jin-Woo was a born hero. The entire story was built for him to be the main character. His struggle at E-rank? It almost certainly happened to other people too, but they needed a reason to make him seem special enough to get chosen by the og Shadow Monarch. It doesn’t hold up if you actually stop and think about it. Actually, Solo Leveling can be summed up with this one sentence: it’s fun in the moment, but falls apart if you think about it for more than a second.

It was especially obvious at Jeju Island. When Beru said something like this, "He's so strong!!! I need to be better than him at something! ... Wait, I have an army! Suuuuurely, he doesn't have an army!" Only for Sung Jin-woo to smirk that stupid smirk of his, and pull out his shadow army, to which everyone---of course---reacted with awe towards his amazing strength and charisma. The way the author set up the incoming glaze of Sung Jin-Woo was so obvious that it made me cringe. Power fantasy and wish fulfillment at its core.