#Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 1 proves that Sung Jinwoo is the goat

My new favourite anime of 2024 is Solo Leveling Season 1, a pleasant strategy to begin the 12 months combining two of my favorites: anime and video video games. My love solely expanded with the second season as Sung Jinwoo honed in on his newfound class from the Job Change Quest.

Once we final noticed Jinwoo, he had simply uncovered his new energy (spoilers for anybody who hasn’t watched the top of Season 1) with Necromancy. The primary time I watched this reveal, I used to be pleasantly stunned to see a category like this. On the most, it’s at all times been the extra conventional ones like Fighter or Mage, however by no means one thing much like Necromancy. With Solo Leveling Season 2, often known as Come up from the Shadow, we see Sung lastly put this class into motion, displaying him because the puppetmaster of the undead.

Jinwoo might want to put the talent to the take a look at when he enters a brand new gate with fellow hunters. His objective continues to be the identical because the final season: degree as much as garner sufficient power for the Demon’s Fortress. Keep in mind, the citadel holds the Holy Water of Life, the potential remedy to his mom’s lethal sickness. This season will possible carry us again to this menacing place, however within the present’s present standing, Sung should first cope with the most recent gate earlier than getting there.

Solo Leveling Season 2’s setting primarily takes place in a snowy setting, differing from the deserty Penalty Zone and castle-like interiors of dungeons. The visuals have kind of stayed the identical as Season 1, with just a few extra developments in shading, which is greater than sufficient contemplating it was already visually pleasing from the get-go.

As a result of alteration within the setting, enemies have additionally modified to match the gate’s frosty world. It’s the right likelihood for Jinwoo to get used to his Necromancy, commanding his troopers to take out surrounding enemy forces. Positive, it’s just a little gory to observe, however what are you able to count on from an anime that started off violently? By the top of the episode, Jinwoo makes use of Necromancy effortlessly, virtually as if we’re watching a grasp at work regardless of him solely unlocking the talent a short while in the past.

Though Sung Jinwoo looks as if an knowledgeable within the artwork of Necromancy, he nonetheless acknowledges that he wants far more room to develop within the episode. That’s one of many many issues I respect about him since he doesn’t solely let his profound powers get to his head. Effectively, he does in only a few conditions, however he sometimes will get punished for it and instantly sees the error of his methods. The necessity to at all times wish to enhance oneself and proper errors is the primary purpose why Jinwoo is the GOAT. Humble kings are typically far more profitable, for my part, than those that suppose they’re excellent.

Even the characters he’s simply met within the episode can see simply how superb Sung Jinwoo is, and it’s extremely satisfying for my boy to get the popularity he deserves. Nearly everybody notices his energy, taking out beasts that others have died combating. It’s not exhausting to see the adjustments in him since Season 1, in gentle of the brand new season’s very manly, buffed look. Oh, and he’s received a elaborate new hairdo that makes all the women simp over. I can already see the string of latest thirst entice edits on TikTok.

Whereas Come up from the Shadow’s first episode is simply the tip of the iceberg, organising the stage for what appears like an epic Season 2, we’ll possible be getting extra into the nitty-gritty stuff within the subsequent few weeks. There’ll presumably be many extra top-dog moments with Sung Jinwoo, too, furthering his standing as the best of all time.

There are a whole lot of lingering questions from the primary season, like what occurred on Jeju Island? And who’s the true mastermind of the System? Luckily, we might get a solution with the primary 12 confirmed episodes for the season, releasing each Saturday on Crunchyroll.