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Solo Leveling (2024)

Series · 24m episodes · Rated TV-14 · In Japanese

Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English), Sci-Fi

A relentlessly epic adventure unfolds as a weak hunter gains a mysterious system to level up and uncover dark secrets.

Suspenseful. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is heavy.

Streaming on Crunchyroll.

Solo Leveling parents guide

The thing to know: brutal violence and graphic gore, more than a TV-14 usually carries. Beyond that, no sex or nudity and mild language.

Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the gore and violence.

Scare
Mildly scary
A few tense or eerie moments.
Jump scares
A couple
One or two sudden jolts.
Gore
Graphic gore
Blood and wounds shown clearly.
Violence
Brutal violence
Our top level for violence.
Sex and nudity
None noted
Language
Mild
Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

Three questions

Is Solo Leveling scary?
Only a little. Solo Leveling has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
How gory is Solo Leveling?
Graphic gore and brutal violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
What is Solo Leveling rated, and is it OK for kids?
Better for teens than younger kids: it is rated TV-14, with brutal violence and graphic gore.

What is Solo Leveling about?

They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.

Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)

It leaves things open rather than tying them up.

Cast and crew

StarringTaito Ban, Genta Nakamura, Haruna Mikawa, Reina Ueda, Daisuke Hirakawa, Hiroki Touchi

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