Yoo Jin-ho ( Korean: 유진호 RR: Yu Jin-ho) is a Korean D-Rank Hunter and Jinwoo's best friend.

By taking advantage of this new power offered to him by the System, Jinwoo eventually rises up to become humanity's greatest hunter, but also eventually finds himself to be a major player in a war that has been going on forever between the Rulers and the Monarchs, two groups of unbelievably powerful humanoids who have their own agendas with mankind. Originally an infamous weak E-Rank hunter, he gets the chance of a lifetime when he is selected as the Player of a magical program called the System and gains the unique ability to grow in strength without limit. Sung Jin-woo ( Korean: 성진우 RR: Seong Jin-u) is the main protagonist of series. Jinwoo then sets out on a journey as he fights against all kinds of enemies, both man and monster, to discover the secrets of the dungeons and the true source of his powers. One day, after narrowly surviving an overwhelmingly powerful double dungeon that nearly wipes out his entire party, a mysterious program called the System chooses him as its sole player and in turn, gives him the extremely rare ability to level up in strength and turn anyone he kills into a loyal minion called a shadow. In a world where hunters - human warriors who possess supernatural abilities - must battle deadly monsters to protect mankind from certain annihilation, a notoriously weak hunter named Sung Jinwoo finds himself in a seemingly endless struggle for survival. An anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures is set to premiere in Q1 2024. Ī role-playing video game is in development at Netmarble. The webtoon has been licensed in English by Yen Press. Its individual chapters have been collected and published by D&C Media into seven volumes as of February 2023.

The webtoon's first season concluded on March 19, 2020, and its second season began on August 1, 2020, concluding in December 2021 with its 179th chapter. Ī webtoon adaptation of Solo Leveling was first serialized in KakaoPage on Mait was illustrated by Jang Sung-rak (aka Dubu), the CEO of Redice Studio, who died on July 23, 2022, after suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage. The novel has been licensed in English by Yen Press. It was serialized in Kakao's digital comic and fiction platform KakaoPage beginning on July 25, 2016, and was later published in full by D&C Media under their Papyrus label on November 4, 2016. Solo Leveling, also alternatively translated as Only I Level Up ( Korean: 나 혼자만 레벨업 RR: Na Honjaman Rebeleop), is a South Korean web novel written by Chugong.

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