in the manwha it was actually premeditated, Jinwoo deliberately kicks the A ranks swords to him while he is unconscious so he can attack him and jinwoo can kill him and arise him :)
At the very least, this was clear just watching the anime to me. Jin-woo was waiting for the guy to make the first move so he had justification to kill and raise him. It's pretty clear he's far colder as a player than he ever was as a human.
Yeah, in the anime most people will not notice it or at least in their 1st watch. I only noticed it because I have read the 1st 194 chapters of the manwha and even then I almost didn't notice it. 😊
@@Malinoric Jin could not kill someone who wasn't trying to kill him, innocent and especially someone he cares about. That in the manwha points out Jin knew he needed another powerful ally otherwise Bakau most likely will kill him.
Season 1 was basically a prologue; season 2 is where the story actually begins. The story is a lot deeper than you think. Baruka revealing there's a voice telling them to kill humans is only the tip
Saw around 10 people reactions or talking about this episode, and what I found strange is that every single person saw the "Glitch" and interpreted as something that happened with the boss, but I remember reading that years ago, when the manhwa was still releasing, and I had no clue was going on and thinking that the glitch was in Jinwoo vision, If I wanted to stop someone I'm guiding, controlling or at very least helping power leveling I would just glitch his vision, I clearly have that power since I make him see panels in their face that no one else can see and even HUD's on top of people you killed to show loot or that this creature/person can be turned into a shadow
the things with the system in this episode really caught me off guard and I loved that we actually got just a tiny more insight into the goings-on with that
The fact that it might end up not even being in top 3 of this season episodes is insane, but realistic thought. It's definitely great sign for some of the more hyped moments coming.
I interpreted the glitch differently than you. I saw the elf being prevented from revealing something to Sung, not him being prevented from hearing something from Sung. Also, I don't think there is much evidence for dungeon dwellers being just digital creations. In fact, I feel the evidence is the opposite. Dungeon breaks occur, and very real, existing creatures come out.
YES, that is completely accurate, but there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season
It maybe kind of implied by the openings and ending if you noticed it. In the opening he’s depicted as dead, while in the ending he’s depicted being saved
5:40 A) he was knocked out and when he woke up he had tunnel vison on the person he hated, thats actually a real thing. B) its simple. If you hate someone, you dont care if it looks like they will die, YOU want to do it yourself. Its the mindest "i hate i couldnt do it myself" if someone got to them first.
YES, that is completely accurate, but there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season
The new episode of Solo Leveling covers parts of chapter 51, nearly all chapter 52, all of chapters 53-55 of the manwha. The manwha has Jinwhoo more blunt saying to Kim 2:22:12 that he abandoned them to die and not the other way around😂. Though in Kim's defense at that point he was on survival mode with suffering hypothermia, starvation for days and the PTSD the ice elves gave him. At 2:25:03 the anime hides Jinwhoo's calculating mind knowing he needs a tank Shadow soldier and know how Kim will react when he awakens from being knocked out 😏. The manwha shows this cold calculation of Jinwhoo in great detail . He deliberately made sure that Kim's sword 🗡 landed next to him to goad Kim into trying to kill him, so Jinwhoo could have the justification to kill him and make him into a shadow soldier. Iron uses a goad skill to make Bauko to attack him and not Jinwhoo. It's a common traite in tank type class.😊
8:55 This was actually addressed in season 1 and in this particular episode. The level difference between him and the elf king was too great, that's why it failed three times. It even says in the system that you cannot shadow bind someone at a higher level than you. But then you're thinking, Idris was definitely higher level than Sung, how did he do it? Because Idris wanted to serve him (also addressed in season 1).
ty Andrew great vid! Ever since reading the manhwa how great it was to see this scene animated and fantastic job, i can wait to see the rest of the season some great exciting stuff to come. Iron: "Hulk SMASH"
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that jinwoo can literally kil a human and make it his own shadow soldier?? Was expecting it to be limited to monsters but man.. imagine recruiting dongsoo, a rankS after beating his arrogant ahh
I remember binge reading the manhwa after the first season ended. It's so good - follows the rule of cool so well. Really excited to see some specific fights animated this season based on how well this one was handled. Seriously hope it keeps getting more popular so that the entire story is animated
I think we're getting something closer to "I'm Standing on a Million Lives" for this world. I don't want to spoil anyone who hasn't seen/read that, but that's the vibe I'm getting.
I interpreted the glitch as the demigod temporarily overriding Sung's privileges. That evil seeming demigod can probably just model its power that it grants after something the awardee would be able to recognize and interpret. Like how Sung understood their language inherently. Its just auto-translated in his mind as something he can recognize Oh, and its also possible that the evil demigod knows of videogames and fancies them as they reflect his war hungey ways. A system that rewards endless killint, hooray!
Beru is king!!! Also (spoiler alert) Sung's sisters life is only ever threatened once, and lets just say that existance felt genuine horror and regret when sung showed up.
Yeah dude. This simple power-fantasy just FEELS good to watch. Today's episode ESPECIALLY. There's no deep plot-points and everything is nice and simple and dark. It's good.
The creatures in the dungeon are very real, they are in not digital, there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season.
I feel like if he doesn’t go a little crazy he is just a person running a muck killing humans and taking souls. He has to sort of pay the crazy tax at some point
I think all three of them (Jinwoo, Igris, and Kim) are all fighting somewhere on the A rank spectrum, Kim being low A rank, and Jinwoo and Igris being mid A rank, and the Ice Elf was probably high A rank. I don't think any of them are quite S rank.
Reasonable, but I'd still say sung and igris are closer to s rank to be able to one shot an A rank who specializes in tanking and defense. The boss was definitely high A to low S rank though
@@colovick yeah I agree by this point they're like mid to high rank, definitely stronger than a mid A rank but not as strong as an upper A rank, but iron is around a B rank because it has been stated that the shadow soldiers are weaker then when they were alive(at least at this point in the story)
@ I suspect Igris could one shot Kim Chul because he was already significantly damaged from his previous encounters, putting him closer to an effective B rank.
I figured he was low s rank, just barely, due to how much stronger he is than Kim but also how baek reacted when he tried to stop jinwoo when they left the gate
So Otaku Spirit, are you suggesting that Sung Jin-woo is a probe for the "other side"? An intelligence gathering tool with self-preservation functions? Now that is a twist that I cannot recall seeing before.
Love your videos. Your thoughts on this video got me curious if you read the manga. I myself have not but have seen summaries of the Manga but also played the game which has the story part of the game so some theories make sense and some not so. Also loved the episode
It's sad that for as much Jin upgraded in perception he is still so oblivious about the girls falling in love over him. Also, hey, if she can participate in life threatening raids then she can date the MC, it's only fair XD
@@Chalo122790 i thought he thought the nurse was just worried, but good to know, still it's a little sad he is not interested, i mean, aside from the obvious girl that was teased already tho
@@Ricardo_Rick True. But one has to remember that prior to the hospital scene, he was pretty much a smaller disheveled wimpy kinda guy. Probably never got noticed by girls.
You gotta do ya diggin, he was blessed with the power of the strongest God/Monarch named Ashborn 💡💡💡 and it's other Monarchs that will be popping up later 😈😈😈😈
it's a system that's all i can say in a way, and i was not going to watch this season since i read the ln/wb twice, but this arc being animated is top tier, can't wait til they get to the island area.
YES, that is completely accurate, I'm staying here there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season
I think it was best since the first 2 episodes, I felt the ignus fight was kindof plain, just the same old job for him, defeat this for your goal today, and those where getting old, though that was atleast a more detailed one. I wonder if the system glitched itself, or if the god that made him glitched it to keep him unknown, to help shield him from any other gods
Either Jinwoo wasn't strong enough or RNGesus is just a cruel mistress. First, Sister Leveling, now this? 😂 As for recruiting Jinwoo, couldn't they just offer to pay for care/cure to his mom? Or would he still decline since he has that potential cure from that dungeon? Seriously, thought, 10/10 episode and my favorite. Thankfully the first two episodes of s2 are so much stronger than the first two episodes of s1. Solo Leveling Saturday vs Sakamoto Saturday (vs BTE Behemoth 🤣)? We're the winners either way! Bring on SLF Sunday!
If he is a 'player', what does he play against? We keep implying this is a 'Player vs Environment' rather than 'vs Player' scenario, but even in such a case, is he the only 'Player' in this system?
You dont want it to be a video game? I feel you. But what if we are in a simulation? There is a theory that once computing power gets powerful enough, the AI or beings created on it would not even be able to tell that they were in a simulation. 😂😂😂
My theory is that several realms with several alien gods are at war and several of them are trying to invade and conquer earth with their armies but for some reason one among them, some kind of evil shadow god decided to reincarnate as human instead, among few reasons behind this choice was to make the conquest easier and to take other gods by surprise for that he may have also staged his own destruction he also may have created that dungeon from the beginning and large scale spell the MC calls "system" to find his new body, slowly awake his own reincarnation and make his new human-like body slowly used to his divine powers
No te emociones. Al principio también pensé que el autor se traía algo entre manos pero terminé totalmente decepcionado. Esta novela es una basura xd. Al menos espero buenas peleas animadas
in the manwha it was actually premeditated, Jinwoo deliberately kicks the A ranks swords to him while he is unconscious so he can attack him and jinwoo can kill him and arise him :)
It's in the anime but the scene goes by Hella fast
At the very least, this was clear just watching the anime to me. Jin-woo was waiting for the guy to make the first move so he had justification to kill and raise him. It's pretty clear he's far colder as a player than he ever was as a human.
Yeah, in the anime most people will not notice it or at least in their 1st watch. I only noticed it because I have read the 1st 194 chapters of the manwha and even then I almost didn't notice it. 😊
@@Malinoric Jin could not kill someone who wasn't trying to kill him, innocent and especially someone he cares about. That in the manwha points out Jin knew he needed another powerful ally otherwise Bakau most likely will kill him.
arise him ඞ
Season 1 was basically a prologue; season 2 is where the story actually begins. The story is a lot deeper than you think. Baruka revealing there's a voice telling them to kill humans is only the tip
Saw around 10 people reactions or talking about this episode, and what I found strange is that every single person saw the "Glitch" and interpreted as something that happened with the boss, but I remember reading that years ago, when the manhwa was still releasing, and I had no clue was going on and thinking that the glitch was in Jinwoo vision, If I wanted to stop someone I'm guiding, controlling or at very least helping power leveling I would just glitch his vision, I clearly have that power since I make him see panels in their face that no one else can see and even HUD's on top of people you killed to show loot or that this creature/person can be turned into a shadow
the things with the system in this episode really caught me off guard and I loved that we actually got just a tiny more insight into the goings-on with that
yuh season 1 was training arc the real plot starts from s2 ep 2
The fact that it might end up not even being in top 3 of this season episodes is insane, but realistic thought. It's definitely great sign for some of the more hyped moments coming.
I interpreted the glitch differently than you. I saw the elf being prevented from revealing something to Sung, not him being prevented from hearing something from Sung. Also, I don't think there is much evidence for dungeon dwellers being just digital creations. In fact, I feel the evidence is the opposite. Dungeon breaks occur, and very real, existing creatures come out.
YES, that is completely accurate, but there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season
this
It maybe kind of implied by the openings and ending if you noticed it. In the opening he’s depicted as dead, while in the ending he’s depicted being saved
That's true, but it's foreshadowing something else
He was pissed shiny pokemon got away.
LOL that must have been the same feeling indeed
oh boy im not spoil you but what i will say is the story is way deeper than you think
Bro has no idea 😂
Fantastic eps! Thanks for the vid, glad you were able to squeeze it in today, I really look forward to your takes.
2:40 hunters doesnt get strong. Its a one time thing. When they awaken, thats it theres no way to gain more power aside from equipments.
Do you get ripped overnight?
5:40
A) he was knocked out and when he woke up he had tunnel vison on the person he hated, thats actually a real thing.
B) its simple. If you hate someone, you dont care if it looks like they will die, YOU want to do it yourself. Its the mindest "i hate i couldnt do it myself" if someone got to them first.
4:15 I thought it was more like it was just censored out.
Like the system wouldn't allow that to go through the chat filter.
YES, that is completely accurate, but there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season
My interpretation of the glitch was that it was the system censoring Baruka's words. But I just hope it doesn't go the "digital world" route as well
@@Rapha_blinds this was my impression too
That’s correct will be confirmed in demon castle arc.
The new episode of Solo Leveling covers parts of chapter 51, nearly all chapter 52, all of chapters 53-55 of the manwha. The manwha has Jinwhoo more blunt saying to Kim 2:22:12 that he abandoned them to die and not the other way around😂. Though in Kim's defense at that point he was on survival mode with suffering hypothermia, starvation for days and the PTSD the ice elves gave him.
At 2:25:03 the anime hides Jinwhoo's calculating mind knowing he needs a tank Shadow soldier and know how Kim will react when he awakens from being knocked out 😏. The manwha shows this cold calculation of Jinwhoo in great detail . He deliberately made sure that Kim's sword 🗡 landed next to him to goad Kim into trying to kill him, so Jinwhoo could have the justification to kill him and make him into a shadow soldier.
Iron uses a goad skill to make Bauko to attack him and not Jinwhoo. It's a common traite in tank type class.😊
8:55 This was actually addressed in season 1 and in this particular episode. The level difference between him and the elf king was too great, that's why it failed three times. It even says in the system that you cannot shadow bind someone at a higher level than you. But then you're thinking, Idris was definitely higher level than Sung, how did he do it? Because Idris wanted to serve him (also addressed in season 1).
Glad you enjoyed it! The build up for the S2 finale gonna be insane given this animation at episode 2.
ty Andrew great vid!
Ever since reading the manhwa how great it was to see this scene animated and fantastic job, i can wait to see the rest of the season some great exciting stuff to come.
Iron: "Hulk SMASH"
the meme scene is now animated
Which one is that?
@@Jason_Quinn the misunderstanding. And sure fire material for the next episode of Sister Leveling.
16:20 , all i can say is, you wont be disappointed :)
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that jinwoo can literally kil a human and make it his own shadow soldier?? Was expecting it to be limited to monsters but man.. imagine recruiting dongsoo, a rankS after beating his arrogant ahh
No spoiler: If they continue to adapt the way it's going, there won't be any disappointment and the anime will be one of the best.
My favorite part is the spoof Sister Leveling.
I remember binge reading the manhwa after the first season ended. It's so good - follows the rule of cool so well. Really excited to see some specific fights animated this season based on how well this one was handled. Seriously hope it keeps getting more popular so that the entire story is animated
"Solo Leveling" is the title. 16:48
The fight vs the ice elves was bad ass.
He died as a small boi!! And revive back as a DADDY... 😩😩😩😩😩
I think we're getting something closer to "I'm Standing on a Million Lives" for this world. I don't want to spoil anyone who hasn't seen/read that, but that's the vibe I'm getting.
I've read the manwa all the way through, and he is kinda on the right track, but it's even cooler than he is guessing.
The full story is so good.
I interpreted the glitch as the demigod temporarily overriding Sung's privileges. That evil seeming demigod can probably just model its power that it grants after something the awardee would be able to recognize and interpret. Like how Sung understood their language inherently. Its just auto-translated in his mind as something he can recognize
Oh, and its also possible that the evil demigod knows of videogames and fancies them as they reflect his war hungey ways. A system that rewards endless killint, hooray!
I was jumping and shouting by the end of the episode! What a S2E1 kickoff!
This anime had some interesting "matrix" undertones.
So hard not to spoil it lol but just wait theres so much more to see in this season and the seasons to come
Yep. The "Derpy" bad guy woke up and got tunnel visioned on Sung.
This is one ive read all the way through thisll be my first to go through the ik all thats gonna happen making all the theory playand stuff intriguing
Beru is king!!! Also (spoiler alert)
Sung's sisters life is only ever threatened once, and lets just say that existance felt genuine horror and regret when sung showed up.
16:45 lol
Yeah dude. This simple power-fantasy just FEELS good to watch. Today's episode ESPECIALLY. There's no deep plot-points and everything is nice and simple and dark. It's good.
But there is foreshadowing for deeper plot points,
This is one of those episodes you gotta watch twice😂
Only the high level monsters or people retain their memories when Jin Woo brings them back like Igris. They have a remnant personality but that is it
The creatures in the dungeon are very real, they are in not digital, there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season.
I feel like if he doesn’t go a little crazy he is just a person running a muck killing humans and taking souls. He has to sort of pay the crazy tax at some point
Isn't that elf A-rank too?
From that adventurer to Igris and that Elf there's a huge gap...
We’re only two episodes in but this season has been peak
The game world is clearly run by Bender Bending Rodriguez, giving the gate characters the prime directive “kill all the humans”
Trust me it won’t be a gaming world
All I can say is it’s gets deeper from here on ❤️❤️
I think all three of them (Jinwoo, Igris, and Kim) are all fighting somewhere on the A rank spectrum, Kim being low A rank, and Jinwoo and Igris being mid A rank, and the Ice Elf was probably high A rank. I don't think any of them are quite S rank.
Reasonable, but I'd still say sung and igris are closer to s rank to be able to one shot an A rank who specializes in tanking and defense. The boss was definitely high A to low S rank though
@@colovick yeah I agree by this point they're like mid to high rank, definitely stronger than a mid A rank but not as strong as an upper A rank, but iron is around a B rank because it has been stated that the shadow soldiers are weaker then when they were alive(at least at this point in the story)
@ I suspect Igris could one shot Kim Chul because he was already significantly damaged from his previous encounters, putting him closer to an effective B rank.
I figured he was low s rank, just barely, due to how much stronger he is than Kim but also how baek reacted when he tried to stop jinwoo when they left the gate
So Otaku Spirit, are you suggesting that Sung Jin-woo is a probe for the "other side"? An intelligence gathering tool with self-preservation functions? Now that is a twist that I cannot recall seeing before.
Love your videos. Your thoughts on this video got me curious if you read the manga. I myself have not but have seen summaries of the Manga but also played the game which has the story part of the game so some theories make sense and some not so. Also loved the episode
It's gonna take years to tell the story of this manwha. I don't think we will even get to the island this season.
It's sad that for as much Jin upgraded in perception he is still so oblivious about the girls falling in love over him.
Also, hey, if she can participate in life threatening raids then she can date the MC, it's only fair XD
He is not oblivious just not interested , is sort of skipped but the nurse also got ignored for being too intense
@@Chalo122790 i thought he thought the nurse was just worried, but good to know, still it's a little sad he is not interested, i mean, aside from the obvious girl that was teased already tho
His emotions are slowly being stripped away. Remember back to episode 6 and 9, his first two kills under instruction of the system.
@@adaeptzulander2928 Well, true, but to be fair he was dense even at the hospital tho
@@Ricardo_Rick True. But one has to remember that prior to the hospital scene, he was pretty much a smaller disheveled wimpy kinda guy. Probably never got noticed by girls.
You gotta do ya diggin, he was blessed with the power of the strongest God/Monarch named Ashborn 💡💡💡 and it's other Monarchs that will be popping up later 😈😈😈😈
All i have to say is, pay attention to his class!
it's a system that's all i can say in a way, and i was not going to watch this season since i read the ln/wb twice, but this arc being animated is top tier, can't wait til they get to the island area.
The island is honestly one of my top three arcs of the entire story for me
He's not human he's a monarch so was that elf..
Just FYI, there IS a reason that there was a glitch... and it has to do with season 1 episode 1... although, we haven't met the character yet...
YES, that is completely accurate, I'm staying here there's a bit more lore behind it, and I will say this there will be more “glitches” i.e. The system restricting what he can hear, in this season
Sad you didnt made a first impressions video about akuyaku reijou tensei ojisan, i still have hopes youll do it with episode 2
I think it was best since the first 2 episodes, I felt the ignus fight was kindof plain, just the same old job for him, defeat this for your goal today, and those where getting old, though that was atleast a more detailed one. I wonder if the system glitched itself, or if the god that made him glitched it to keep him unknown, to help shield him from any other gods
Don't worry. You're wrong about everything being a digital world. This is not Digimon. And the light novels are really good by the way. 😉
Buddy is this your first time being introduced to solo leveling? Did you not read the light novels? Or are you an anime only?
Either Jinwoo wasn't strong enough or RNGesus is just a cruel mistress.
First, Sister Leveling, now this? 😂 As for recruiting Jinwoo, couldn't they just offer to pay for care/cure to his mom? Or would he still decline since he has that potential cure from that dungeon?
Seriously, thought, 10/10 episode and my favorite. Thankfully the first two episodes of s2 are so much stronger than the first two episodes of s1. Solo Leveling Saturday vs Sakamoto Saturday (vs BTE Behemoth 🤣)? We're the winners either way! Bring on SLF Sunday!
@nakerusa the cure has a next to no chance of spawning so with mc getting it, no one can unless they are a S rand and really really really lucky.
I'm waiting for Ep3 next week, because it wasn't in the movie.
I thought this was a really good episode I was a little bummed out that we didn't get to see tank very much but I thought iron was hilarious😊
If he is a 'player', what does he play against? We keep implying this is a 'Player vs Environment' rather than 'vs Player' scenario, but even in such a case, is he the only 'Player' in this system?
Why was Kim Chul stronger as a shadow than he was in life. I thought that they were supposed to be weaker thanbtheir life counterpart
Episode 2 was better than Episode 1 which was better than much of season 1
YOU AIN'T WRONG WITH THAT TITLE
I knew it was gonna be a good episode. :D
For real. ❤❤❤❤
You dont want it to be a video game? I feel you. But what if we are in a simulation? There is a theory that once computing power gets powerful enough, the AI or beings created on it would not even be able to tell that they were in a simulation. 😂😂😂
Reanimated would be the better word than recreation
please consider doing an aninews reaction or atleast watch on your own time, itd help getting alot more context, its mostly spoiler free
its not going to be a game world don't worry
rest assured this is not digital
Spoiler: You're going to like the next few parts
miss after miss after miss bro, u gotta stop tryna guess ts that was horrible lmfao
Second heart
Where's the reaction?
My theory is that several realms with several alien gods are at war and several of them are trying to invade and conquer earth with their armies but for some reason one among them, some kind of evil shadow god decided to reincarnate as human instead, among few reasons behind this choice was to make the conquest easier and to take other gods by surprise for that he may have also staged his own destruction he also may have created that dungeon from the beginning and large scale spell the MC calls "system" to find his new body, slowly awake his own reincarnation and make his new human-like body slowly used to his divine powers
@@doubleohriser dude are you sure you haven’t read the manwha 😭
you just read the manwha
Bro delete this
No te emociones. Al principio también pensé que el autor se traía algo entre manos pero terminé totalmente decepcionado. Esta novela es una basura xd. Al menos espero buenas peleas animadas
please please read the LN so much is left out
They COMPLETELY botched this episode! It was WAY too short! 😡
😁