A new shadow visual has been released for the Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- TV anime series, highlighting the formidable warrior spirit IRON. The anime’s second season began broadcasting in Japan on January 4, 2025 and will run for 13 episodes.
Many of the staff from the first season are reprising their roles in the anime’s production, including Shunsuke Nakashige as director, Noboru Kimura as series screenwriter, Tomoko Sudo as character designer, Chiaki Kozumi as sub-character designer, Hirokatsu Maruyama (Season 1 co-main animator et al.) and Yoshihiro Kanno as action director, and Hirotaka Tokuda as monster designer. A-1 Pictures is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the returning voice cast includes:
- • Taito Ban as Jun Mizushino/Jinwoo
- • Reina Ueda as Shizuku Kousaka/Cha hae-in
- • Daisuke Hirakawa as Shin Mogami/Choi Jong-in
- • Hiroki Tochi as Taiga Shirakawa/Baek Yun-ho
- • Banjo Ginga as Kiyoomi Gotou/Go Geon-hui
- • Makoto Furukawa as Akira Inukai/U Jin-cheol
- • Genta Nakamura as Kenta Morobishi/Yoo Jin-ho
- • Haruna Mikawa as Aoi Mizushino/Sung Jinah
The most recent Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- compilation film screened in Japan from November 29, 2024 to December 12, 2024. It also debuted in South Korea on November 28, 2024 and in the United States and Canada on December 6, 2024. The compilation film previewed the first two episodes of Arise from the Shadow, which are titled “You aren’t E-rank, are You,” and “I Suppose You aren’t Aware.”
The anime’s first season aired in Japan on January 6, 2024 and ended on March 31, 2024. It is being streamed by Crunchyroll, bilibili, and Netflix overseas. The series was originally set to premiere in 2023.
The anime is based on the 2016 South Korean web novel written by Chugong and illustrated by the late Dubu (Redice Studio). A webtoon drawn by the latter was released afterwards in 2018, releasing 13 volumes as of November 2024. H-Goon is credited with adapting the series in later volumes of the webtoon’s Japanese publication after Dubu’s passing.
Crunchyroll is streaming Solo Leveling Season 2 worldwide, and describes the main synopsis as:
It’s been over ten years since gates that lead to another dimension have begun appearing across the world. The battles between the magic beasts inhabiting the dungeons through the gates and the human hunters who have awakened the abilities to fight them show no signs of ending. Ordinarily, a hunter’s abilities do not change upon awakening, with their rank never increasing. However, the low-ranked Sung Jinwoo, known as “The Weakest Hunter of All Mankind,” gained the ability to level up through battle during a raid on a double dungeon.
Having completed a job-change quest that earned him the job “Shadow Monarch” and command over an army of shadows, Jinwoo heads into battle seeking the ingredients for the Elixir of Life to save his sick mother.
