Aniplex Online Fest 2023 unveiled a brand new trailer for the most anticipated Solo Leveling anime on Sep 10, 2023.
Accompanying the trailer was the release date and new key visual.
Solo Leveling anime will start airing on January 2024.
Aniplex Fest also revealed that Haruna Mikawa will voice Aoi Mizushino.
Other cast members include:
- Taito Ban as Shun Mizushino
- Reina Ueda as Shizuku Kosaka
- Hiroki Touchi as Taiga Shirakawa
- Genta Nakamura as Kenta Morohishi
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Shin Mogami
- Banjou Ginga as Kiyoomi Gotō
- Makoto Furukawa as Akira Inukai
Newly announced staff members include:
- Monster Design: Hirotaka Tokuda
- Prop Design: Sotaro Shiraishi
- Background Art Director: Yasuhiro Okumura
- Color Design: Naomi Nakano
- VFX Director: Daichi Iseki
- CG Director: Toshitaka Morioka
- Motion Graphics: Hiromu Ōshiro (Production I.G)
- Editing: Yūji Kondō
- Sound Director: Ryo Tanaka
It was previously revealed that Shunsuke Nakashige is directing the anime, with Noboru Kimura serving as the script writer. Tomoko Sudo is in charge of character designing, and Hiroyuki Sawano will compose the music.
Solo Leveling is a South Korean web novel written by Chugong. 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 Nov 4, 2016.
A webtoon adaptation of Solo Leveling was first serialized in KakaoPage on March 4, 2018; it was illustrated by Jang Sung-Rak (aka Dubu), the CEO of Redice Studio. 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.
MAL describes the plot of Solo Leveling as:
Ten years ago, “the Gate” appeared and connected the real world with the realm of magic and monsters. To combat these vile beasts, ordinary people received superhuman powers and became known as “Hunters.” Twenty-year-old Sung Jin-Woo is one such Hunter, but he is known as the “World’s Weakest,” owing to his pathetic power compared to even a measly E-Rank. Still, he hunts monsters tirelessly in low-rank Gates to pay for his mother’s medical bills.
However, this miserable lifestyle changes when Jin-Woo—believing himself to be the only one left to die in a mission gone terribly wrong—awakens in a hospital three days later to find a mysterious screen floating in front of him. This “Quest Log” demands that Jin-Woo completes an unrealistic and intense training program, or face an appropriate penalty. Initially reluctant to comply because of the quest’s rigor, Jin-Woo soon finds that it may just transform him into one of the world’s most fearsome Hunters.
Source: Official Website
