Beyond the System Movie Officially Announced

Anime studio A-1 Pictures, the team behind Sword Art Online and Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV, is providing the animation in collaboration with Aniplex, Netmarble, D&C MEDIA, Kakao Piccoma, and Crunchyroll.

Solo Leveling tells the story of supernatural monster hunter Sung Jinwoo who, driven by the burdens of his mother’s medical expenses and his sister’s education, takes a risk and, as a result, gains the ability to level up and go from being the “World’s Weakest Hunter” to, essentially, a one-man army. The anime is based on the 2016 South Korean web novel, which was adapted into a webtoon in 2018. The first season of the anime version aired on Crunchyroll in 2024, with season 2 dropping last year.

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