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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9458168" data-attributes="member: 8461">I just finished the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtoon" target="_blank">webtoon</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhwa" target="_blank">manhwa</a> adaptation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_Leveling" target="_blank">Solo Leveling</a>.Although I'd actually read some of this years ago, when it was recommended to me by a friend of mine (who's younger than me, and so is more in touch with what's popular), I got back into it recently because of how incredibly good the anime (which just came out) is. Given that the series' webtoon adaptation (it was originally a web novel) concluded a few years ago, it was nice to be able to read it through to the end.My take on the series is that this lends further credence to an idea I've come to believe in, which is that how original a story is matters less than how well it's told. There are no new ideas to be found in Solo Leveling (and quite often their inspiration is obvious to the point of being glaring), but the presentation is nevertheless pretty badass. That's good, because the story has comparatively little to recommend it otherwise; this is a series that is focused on doing exactly one thing, and does it quite well.I confess that it's somewhat interesting to compare the manhwa to the anime in that regard. Putting the two side-by-side, you can see where the latter has worked to fill things out that the former gave less emphasis to. For instance, several supporting characters are given more screen time in the anime, even if only to help flesh out the rest of the world. That said, props are due to the animators and the people in charge of the background music for the superb job they did making sure that those aspects properly play up the tenor of the original work.On a personal note, I found my interest waning as the final battle neared, but I can't blame that on the series itself, simply because I've found that to be the case with multiple action series that I've read; for some reason I get bored around 90% of the way through, and have to push myself to finish it, seemingly regardless of the quality of the material. That doesn't always happen, but often enough that I've noticed the pattern. It's an odd quirk of mine, apparently.</blockquote>

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