4.44 AVERAGE

adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Lots of fun!! But omg it's so grindy.
adventurous dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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One of my favorite volumes!
adventurous challenging dark funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 
Summary:

Jinwoo Sung has a reputation among the other hunters and dungeon adventurers – he's known as the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind. Yeah, quite the blow to one's ego. Yet Jinwoo can't give up this job, as his mother's hospital bills keep on climbing.

However, one job changed everything. It should have been a regular dungeon, but it quickly became life-or-death. Somehow Jinwoo survived – but he's forever changed. Now, he's working hard to level up and change the game.

Review:

Whew. The power scale sure is shifting fast! I think Solo Leveling Vol. 4 may have upped the scales the most thus far. At least, it feels that way. Basically, once [spoiler ability] got unlocked, all bets went off the table.

I'm still enjoying Solo Leveling, though it is making me worried about what sort of power scales we'll be dealing with by the end. Though that worry is less now, clearly, new antagonists keep showing up who can challenge Jinwoo.

Speaking of Jinwoo, I don't know how to feel about one particular arc. He doesn't know about it yet, and I have no idea how that will play out. Are those events over, or was that merely the beginning? Either way, I feel like it's going to hurt before it's truly resolved.

Highlights:
Manwha
Originally on Tapas
Dungeon Adventures
Video Game Mechanics

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shelbythebelby's review

4.0

Amazing artwork as usual, and the first half with the red dungeon arc is so good! It's the later half that drags a bit and that I don't care about as much, just setting up for what is to come. The second half also has the bad fortune to have my least favorite plot point of the entire series, which is the whole infuriating thing with his dad.