Danica Davidson
January 22, 2025 
Solo Leveling is a huge international franchise that includes novels, comics and an anime, and it’s about to get even bigger. Its live-action drama adaptation is in development, according to its Korean publisher, Kakao Entertainment. Kakao Entertainment’s media division is engaged with developing, writing, and planning the adaptation.
This doesn’t come out of nowhere. D&C WEBTOON creative director Heaeun Kwak did mention in October 2023 that there was going to be a live-action Korean adaptation. However, plenty of shows and movies that are “supposed to be” end of languishing and not going anywhere, so this looks like a good sign for the live action Solo Leveling becoming a real thing.
The story got its start as a web novel by Chugong. It later got a comic adaptation, and finally the current anime. The novels (along with audiobook editions) and the comics with art by DUBU (who has unfortunately passed away) are all available in America thanks to Yen Press. In Japan, the series is known as Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken (translated as I’m the Only One Who Has Leveled Up).
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-, the new season of the anime, began earlier this month. And the Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- compilation movie was briefly screened in American theaters in December.
Crunchyroll is currently streaming the anime, and gave this description for its plot:
Solo Leveling Plot
They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.
Are you interested in a live-action version of the franchise?
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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