Finally got around to watching Solo Leveling (my backlog is an eldritch horror and I'm working backwards), and was feeling nostalgic again. Decided to just type into the void because I'm never going to have an opportunity to write about it as the notes of one of my uploads. (Anyone who makes an SL AMV likely has their own channel.)
Koreans have been pushing themselves to catch up and surpass the world in various fields. Games, music, idols, manga, anime, novels, electronics, etc.... I noticed their foray into the world of webcomics with "Noblesse," "The Gamer," and "The Returner's Magic is Special." But the art still had a....webcomic feel to them. Nothing bad, but just little things that solo artists had to cut corners on to make those weekly deadlines.
Then Solo Leveling happened. It didn't have the most intelligent/wonderful story ever, or have the most well-developed charaters. It's just meant to be a fun shonen ride ala John Wick. But the art.... it's like they went: "American comics have color and (sometimes) detail, Japanese manga has dynamic framing and weekly releases.....Hold my beer." To me, Solo Leveling sent out a message of "Look what we can crank out every week (probably with near-slave labor). Y'all have no excuse." And the Koreans responded with a never-ending deluge of entertainment. Now, SL is even getting printed on glossy paper so pretty that I'm terrified of reading it for fear of smudging.
With that in mind, I'm kinda surprised Solo Leveling was made by a Japanese studio. I know that for many years, anime studios have outsourced animation to Korea. Koreans make songs so great that they somehow made (some) Asian males sexy to the Western mainstream. And the SL comic is probably story-board ready. So...what was left? Voice acting?
Lethophobe's AMV Nostalgia
Finally got around to watching Solo Leveling (my backlog is an eldritch horror and I'm working backwards), and was feeling nostalgic again. Decided to just type into the void because I'm never going to have an opportunity to write about it as the notes of one of my uploads. (Anyone who makes an SL AMV likely has their own channel.)
Koreans have been pushing themselves to catch up and surpass the world in various fields. Games, music, idols, manga, anime, novels, electronics, etc.... I noticed their foray into the world of webcomics with "Noblesse," "The Gamer," and "The Returner's Magic is Special." But the art still had a....webcomic feel to them. Nothing bad, but just little things that solo artists had to cut corners on to make those weekly deadlines.
Then Solo Leveling happened. It didn't have the most intelligent/wonderful story ever, or have the most well-developed charaters. It's just meant to be a fun shonen ride ala John Wick. But the art.... it's like they went: "American comics have color and (sometimes) detail, Japanese manga has dynamic framing and weekly releases.....Hold my beer." To me, Solo Leveling sent out a message of "Look what we can crank out every week (probably with near-slave labor). Y'all have no excuse." And the Koreans responded with a never-ending deluge of entertainment. Now, SL is even getting printed on glossy paper so pretty that I'm terrified of reading it for fear of smudging.
With that in mind, I'm kinda surprised Solo Leveling was made by a Japanese studio. I know that for many years, anime studios have outsourced animation to Korea. Koreans make songs so great that they somehow made (some) Asian males sexy to the Western mainstream. And the SL comic is probably story-board ready. So...what was left? Voice acting?
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