One night ten years ago, gates to another dimension started opening. This dimension was full of magical beasts who could only be defeated with magic, or weapons imbued with it. Magic then awakened in various individuals, who became Hunters who go on raids defeating monsters and acquiring loot.
Hunters are ranked by their magical power, the most powerful are S-Rank and the weakest are E-Rank. Our protagonist Sung Jinwoo barely makes that rank, as he’s affectionately known as the “World’s Weakest” Hunter. He arrives at a gate for a raid still bearing the wounds from a previous one.
Jinwoo doesn’t fare any better on this newest raid, and were it not for his friend and B-Ranked Healer Lee Joohee, he’d have certainly lost his life to a goblin’s blade. Joohee doesn’t understand why he keeps throwing himself in to such dangerous situations.
She doesn’t have access to Jinwoo’s inner monologue, which reveals he no choice. His father is missing, his mom’s in the hospital, and his sister’s in college. He goes on raids to support his family; apparently a conventional job not involving monster hunting won’t cut it.
In this world, S-Ranked Hunters like the acrobatic Cha Hae-In are treated like celebrities, whether she wants to or not. Even while not on raids, she can use her ability to fight petty crime. There’s also an entire association that assesses, ranks and signs Hunters.
In the cold open we watched a lower-ranked party get torn to ribbons by an army of giant ants, while S-Ranked Hunters swoop in and handle the ants with ease. The Hunter Association’s chairman, Go Gunhee, wishes to harness the power of essence stones and mana crystals dropped by beasts as a clean energy source.
Chairman Go also impresses upon new recruits that the most important piece of advice he can offer is Be Afraid. When they find a tunnel to a boss dungeon, half of the party Jinwoo and Joohee are a part of want to press on and half, including Joohee, want to go home. Jinwoo breaks the tie by voting to press on.
Considering he just almost died, Jinwoo really shouldn’t have gotten a vote. As expected, the dungeon they end up in turns out to be a deadly trap filled with giant killer statues. One statue cuts a Hunter in half for trying to escape, while another statue fires an energy beam that incinerates another.
As the episode ends, it doesn’t look like a matter of if Jinwoo and Joohee are killed, but simply how quickly and painfully. Of course, I doubt he’ll be dying in the second of twelve planned episodes, so someone will either have to save him, or he’ll have to use his weakness as an asset somehow.
Based on South Korea’s most popular manhwa/webtoon, Solo Leveling is one of the most anticipated releases of the Winter season. I’d never heard of it, but it’s a solid enough start. A-1 Pictures and composer Sawano Hiroyuki’s score lend polish and gravitas to the production. The exposition can be clunky, there’s little action, and I’m not quite sold on Jinwoo yet, but it’s early. I’m intrigued enough to see where this goes.
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