"Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-" is the second season of the TV anime "Solo Solo Leveling", which has been gaining popularity worldwide, including exceeding 650 million domestic pageviews on the digital manga and novel service "Piccoma". Season 1, which aired from January to March 2024, was the most viewed new anime in 2024 on Crunchyroll, which distributes anime and other content in over 200 countries and regions including the United States, and gained worldwide popularity. Season 2, which started in January, is said to be gaining even more momentum.
It has ranked first on streaming services such as Prime Video (Top 10 (Japan), Hulu (General), U-NEXT (Anime), Bandai Channel (Broadcast-linked works), TELASA (General), ABEMA (Anime), DMM TV (Anime), d Anime Store (Anime viewership numbers), and Lemino (Anime). On Crunchyroll, over 480,000 people have given it the highest rating of “5 stars,” and the number of followers on the TikTok account for the work has increased tenfold in just two months, creating a great deal of excitement both in Japan and overseas.
The episode that has been getting a lot of attention is episode 18, "Don't Look Down on My Guys," which aired on TOKYO MX and other stations on February 8. It features an intense action scene between the main character, Shun Mizushino, and the great orc sorcerer Karugarun, and is being dubbed a "divine episode" due to its beautiful drawings and passionate plot.
After the broadcast of episode 18, there was a huge response, with the number of followers on the TiTok account increasing by over 10,000 for two consecutive days. Producer Furuhashi Souta of Aniplex, which is in charge of the series, said, "We are now in Season 2, and since the first episode we have seen an even greater response both domestically and internationally than Season 1. Episode 18 in particular had some spectacular action scenes, and I feel that the excitement is greater than ever before."
"Ore Level" has been actively promoted globally since Season 1, as the original work has been published in various languages and was popular overseas. This strategy has been successful, and the series is gaining popularity both domestically and internationally. As the story continues to gain more momentum, it is sure to gain even more momentum.
The story is set in a world where humans with special abilities known as Hunters exist, a passageway that connects another dimension to the real world. The story follows Mizushino Shun, the lowest E-rank Hunter and known as "humanity's weakest weapon," who suddenly gains the power to level up on his own, rising from the weakest to the strongest.
