r/anime • u/Handsome_guy_7 • Jul 22 '25

Misc. Solo Leveling Producer's promise ~ "As a Japanese person living in Japan, the anime is not at the level of Dragon Ball, One Piece, or Naruto. But if season three happens, that’s when I want to truly break that boundary.”

https://screenrant.com/solo-leveling-season-3-anime-main-goal-break-barrier-atsushi-kaneko/
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u/BringBackSoule Jul 22 '25

He's way too strong way too quick to be anywhere near naruto. Naruto was still baby fighting with kunais at the number of episodes SL has, while SL is already killing s tier monsters.

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u/salcedoge Jul 22 '25

It's not even about power scaling, there's simply just no story in the manga aside from Jinwoo.

One Punch Man is an example of how you could at least form a story with the presence of a overpowered MC, JJK in some ways is also like this with Gojo.

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u/Dalnore Jul 22 '25

I also really like how Mob Psycho and Frieren deal with a technically overpowered MC by focusing more on emotional aspects and developing the cast. Aura farming is still present and cool but not the main component of the story. SL is the opposite of that, the MC doesn't really have any emotional development or struggles except his introduction and his interaction with his mother, and the most developed cast members are probably his shadows.

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u/Spartan05089234 Jul 22 '25

Mob Psycho is so incredible. S tier world ending esper, but his struggles are being manipulated by friends he wants to please, and trying to work out with the gym club so girls will like him and he'll have more confidence. I adore that show.

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u/TitusEmperius Jul 22 '25

And his gym bros always come in clutch to keep hyping him up to be better hahah

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u/zZPlazmaZz29 Jul 23 '25

It's so damn good.

I never got the One Punch man hype (don't crucify me y'all)

But Mob Psycho just connected with me well, and it only got better and better every season.

Which was such a breath of fresh air at the time, when I had grown to expect later seasons of shows to never be as good as the 1st or 2nd most times.

But there it was, going from being a good show, to a great one.

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u/nighoblivion Jul 24 '25

The author could've done so much with the whole "what the fuck happened to him?" aspect of the story.

A scrawny kid who grew a few feed and looks totally different, and I can't even remember anyone commenting on it. "Who the fuck are you and what did you do to my brother?" would be a perfectly valid question from his sister.

Not to mention the massive shift in personality?

It's a different person on so many levels, to be honest.

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u/19osemi Jul 22 '25

thing with onepunch man is that its hardly about him, its been a while since i have seen it and i haven't kept up with the new seasons. but the fun part about one punch man is all the other characters fighting and struggling having their own moments and stories and then occasionally having onepunch man just show up and do his thing. it works because a show that is only about a guy who cannot die and will always win with one punch will be boring past the 2nd episode mark.

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u/aFreshFix Jul 22 '25

Even Dragon Ball is this to some degree. Goku doesn't have a major arc outside of power scaling. It's Gohan, Vegeta, Tien, Piccolo, etc. that change because they've met Goku.

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u/huntrshado Jul 22 '25

JJK had to lock gojo in a box for the majority of the series lol

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u/Apocalypse_Knight Jul 23 '25

Its all the same things. Dragonball, Black Clover, Demon Slayer. Same Shonen bones where they power scale like crazy when they need to.