Fans Debate Why Solo Leveling 'Is Being Ignored'

In a recent discussion thread on one of Japan's most popular forums, users have been hotly debating the possible reasons behind the apparent lack of popularity of the anime adaptation of "Solo Leveling." Despite high expectations and anticipation from fans, the series doesn't seem to capture the audience's attention in the way that was expected.

To make matters worse, it has been announced that the next episode of "Solo Leveling" will be delayed to make way for a compilation, which has raised even more unease among fans. This delay is considered a bad sign, especially coming from A-1 Pictures, who have already experienced similar situations with previous projects such as "NieR Automata Ver 1.1a" and "86: Eighty-Six."

News of the delay has further stoked the debate online, with many fans expressing disappointment and concern for the future of the series. Through it all, some fans continue to hold out hope that "Solo Leveling" can bounce back and reach its full potential in future episodes:

• "It's like seeing Kirito again, I don't see the case with him."
• "The battle with Cerberus wasn't interesting."
• "Anime media has done everything to boost the popularity of this series, but there haven't been good results."
• "The first half of the story was interesting, but eventually it becomes the same thing we've seen in other shows."
• "The reviews are bad simply because a story like that isn't interesting anymore."
• "I've only seen video of the anime, I don't have much idea what it's about, but when you read the description you can't help but compare it to Sword Art Online."
• "In South Korean manhwa stories, there's a constant of characters who were physically and verbally abused in the past and become super powerful. It's been seen so much that it's boring to watch."
• "Although Solo Leveling was original and interesting at the time, I think by 2015, a lot of similar stories that came after did get their anime. It took too long for them to animate Solo Leveling, they missed the opportunity."
• "It's so much better than any light novel about broken characters, too bad they didn't think to animate it about five years ago, at least."
• "It's the fantasy of power that we've seen ad nauseam. Maybe Solo Leveling did it first in its time, but for the anime world it came pretty late."
• "I've read the original story and I know what's going to happen inside the anime. I stopped watching it after four episodes without having any particular opinion, I didn't find it interesting."
• "With just one episode, Arifureta is much more interesting than this."
• "I think it's the best-selling manhwa in history and I didn't expect it to be going so unnoticed now that it became an anime. I don't think I've even seen it enough to have an opinion."
• "It's just an anime that's more appreciated outside than inside Japan. Even if they changed the name and the settings to look more Japanese, they couldn't handle nationalism."
• "The status and quest screens are in English, not Japanese, so if you haven't seen the manga, you won't understand it at all."
• "Like any story of a broken protagonist, what's interesting is only at the beginning."

Source: Yaraon!