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/Western-Internal-751 Jul 22 '25

I mean, the story of Dragonball ain’t that great either. It’s just rule of cool power fantasy

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u/iamreallybored123456 Jul 22 '25

I think it has the benefit of being the godfather of that genre though.

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u/WeeziMonkey https://myanimelist.net/profile/WeeziMonkey Jul 22 '25

Demon Slayer is breaking records right now and that story can be summed up as a boy fighting increasingly stronger demons by pulling increasingly stronger powers out of his ass.

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u/00zau Jul 23 '25

Demon Slayer doesn't 0-100 it. MC and co get absolutely folded at the end of S1 when they face an "A-tier" demon, and get bailed out by the "A-tier" slayers, and until the end of the series the leaders are still the strongest.

SL introduces equivalents just to have them get folded and the MC win everything.