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I genuinely do not understand how Solo Leveling got the adaptation it did. Like it has no real story, no real characters, it's just stuff happens for several hours then it's over, and the literal only quality at all that it has is the absolutely gorgeous spectacle of its lavishly animated fight scenes and the way Hiroyuki Sawano's score perfectly controls the tension and emotion of every scene to the point that the most vapid, pointless bullshit ever gives you chills, things that its dogshit longform webcomic source material completely lacks.
It'd be like Ctrl-Alt-Delete getting picked up for an adaptation by James Cameron and scored by Trent Reznor or some shit.
It's pure spectacle. Close friend of mine would rave about it but always clarify that it lacked any story whatsoever. He'd go on and on about how it's the best anime he had seen in a year but if I asked a question about characters they had very little to say. It's slop, he knew it was slop, but it was good slop. I can't judge, we all have our own taste in slop I think.
Solo Leveling has no right to be as good as it is lol...it should absolutely be isekai slop garbage that no one watches, yet it's still a "good" show. I think it's because it's complete slop that doesn't do weird ass harem shit or moralizing or exposition dumps. It's just some guy punching monsters to death.
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