DISCLAIMER: This is an absolutely ruthless opinion/review of Solo Leveling and I want anyone reading this to take this into consideration before you may or may not come at me. Let's go for my positive opinion first then next is the negative. Ok so, 1. the artstyle is absolutely fantastic! One of the best webtoon in terms of arts out there- heck, I think it IS the best lol. 2. I'll take a bullet for Beru any day and I am not ashamed to say that about an ant. If a boat is sinking and only two ppl get to live between me, Jinwoo or Beru then I'll instantly push Jinwoo to d word all by him-boring-self. (lol jk)
Ok that's the positives actually (only the artsyle and my endless love for Beru lol) so warning, next up aint your rainbows and unicorns zone if you like SL. 3. As much as I like Jinwoo's face, ngl he's overall a one dimensional insert mc. Minus the enticing good looks, he's just... He's just- wait what is he again? Ah. An overpowered main character, noted. I cant w that one part where he want to hang out w a friend but well he dont have one (said by plot-kun) so he take *, they go to a * and after that they * in Japan. Like, whatttttt? How did you two ended up like that in a day holy shhhht 4. Kidding aside, moving on from dragging the mc down (still love your face, you dry king) to another problem of the series, the world building. It sucks. You got the whole world to play w. They keep on having these subtle teasing about the awesome hunters all over the world I was so excited for em, like, China's top hunter yada yada, America's somewhat unbeatable hunter guilds but what did we got? Japan's pathetic fate. Japan is SL's punching bag I tell yah! It was a mess- erm, literally! (pft, literally a mess, lol get it? Ok I'll stop) Novel readers will understand but I wont spoil any further than that. The take away of my rambling was the obvious wasted potential, world building wise. 5. Character development...
5. Character development...
Gosh, mangago is so confusing my comment aint that long bih why cut it and for some reason I cant send the rest? I give up lol ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
I agree. On the teasing part, like they keep on introducing these godly hunters but it's as if they only wanted to hype us but they'd turn out to be not that big of a hot stuff ;( Also, may I ask on what are your thoughts on how it ended? Because I am personally disappointed but still glad it's a happy ending but is tiny bit disappointed regardless.
Ngl it wasnt as satisfying as they intended to or atleast to what I think they were going for. Like, I get how the author trynna do smth along the way of 'fixing' everything to make a 'happy ending' right to the end of the series so resetting the messed up world and regressing is the best way to go (I guess? Not the best choice for that situation imo but wtv). By doing that the journey feels nonexistent anymore. Not to mention, the mc as a character was already too isolated from everyone else before the regression so being forgotten by the little to no relevant side characters on top of that? Welp, that development makes it even worse.
There's still the 5 and well, a 6 so should I cont? Yeah yeah fck it I'll try again, if it fails this never happened.
5. Character development...
Last one, hang on lol
6. Lastly, overall I find SL an ok webtoon. This aint me hating on a popular series- THIS IS my constructive criticism coming from the bottom of my heart. Specially bcos I keep on seeing EVERYONE praising SL for all of its glory (or smth), missing the obvious bad things and even branding this as one of the best webtoon overall (story and plot wise). Which is imo somewhat of a disrespect to the actually well thoughtout korean series out there.
5 fcked up on me again. I'm done w 5, not anymore. 5 is out! 5 was just me sht talking on another nonexistent character development SL somewhat greatly suffered from. Nothing major ha haha...
Anyway, kidding aside. Feel free to argue w me (just dont bite cos I do too) I'm harmless- at least if youre as well. Tho, I shared my opinion openly so I should be ready for any response. IF yall want a really well-written, super immersive and thoughout korean novel (there's already a webtoon I heard) then the top of my list is always Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, done reading 500+ chap and I wanted more. Go check it out if you want and ofc support SL as well. As much as I rant bout this series I wont hate smth I read for hundreds of chapters, you know so yeah happy reading everyone lol
I honestly do not like Haesoo.
I hope this is it, the happy ending confession scene, come on now.
I know it was his personality, the lowkey kind, pretty low profile and discreet main character but gosh darn it IF only he just flat out said no to Taku and actually not entertain the thought of using another person as a test subject of some kind. If only. Then, he'll prolly may have a rocky relationship at first but at least he's with the one that he supposedly love since the dawn of time... Joowon, hun, pls be happy.
taku literally wanted their r/s
In fact he was quite pushy abt it. And haesoo was in an emotionally vulnerable spot when he agreed. So um, i really dont think haesoo is the one to blame here
I know this is not smth you want to hear but I'm still gonna say it, Haesoo prioritized no one but himself/his emotions that time. But if he only step back a little he'll realize that no matter how much Taku begged him, the decision is still gonna come from him.
With that in mind, Taku will get hurt no matter what Haesoo's decision ,yeah, but ending it when 'it' never even started is the right thing to do. Haesoo was hurt that time? Now look, he hurt Taku and Joowon in the process. Do you think that's acceptable?
I mean, ok fair enough it might be pretty common in fiction but you normally do not use others like that, yeah? I sympathize w Haesoo but I cant make myself agree or accept his decisions.
"The decision is still gonna come from him"
You can say the exact same thing about Taku though? It takes two to tango after all
Honestly Taku was the more emotionally stable one out of the two of them. He's not the one going through a sad and failed relationship after all. So given those circumstances, I dont have much sympathy for Taku, since he made the choice to persistently advance towards Haesoo using his own judgement. Like there are a couple instances where Haesoo even tried to back away like, "yeahh this seems like a bad idea", but Taku literally showed ZERO hesitation? not once did he falter in his decisions unlike Haesoo who flipflopped with his bad decisions lol
Also not to mention the fact that considering your original comment... Joowon did his fair share in hurting Haesoo too. Not just the other way around. so I think you're just being biased. The way I see it, none of the 3 characters are "better" morally than the others.
Believe it or not, A hard 'no' at times like that is enough to stop it all. It wont be good for the plot progression but that's the most realistic decision imo.
I like Joowon yeah but this isnt about 'I want Haesoo to end up w Joowon' but more like I want Haesoo to be brave and face everything head on (preferably, right from the start but he didnt )- not unintentionally hurt himself and drag the others with him. Also, I dont think I'm being biased. I dont like any ships and I like Joowon as a character, I only said 'Joowon, be happy' as a sidenote, that's all.
Plus, about the two's painful relationship, Taku did this to himself and Haesoo should know better.
I mean i dont disagree with you that Haesoo made some bad decisions. I just think the others also made some equally bad decisions,,, so like yeah, that's my only point here lol
I actually quite like Joowon x Haesoo, but anywayyy i won't get into that. i dont have a favourite character tho.
Yep yep they all made bad decisions.