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SIGN Solo Leveling: Chapter 1
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I find that it's a piece that
evokes emotions in everyone.
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It can be said that it's the
most successful Korean webtoon.
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It's the kind of story everyone dreams of.
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"We have to do it as a webtoon at all costs."
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It's a great work worth rereading
when you're bored.
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This is why Solo Leveling is very cool.
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It's no exaggeration
to say that Solo Leveling
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pioneered the international webtoon market.
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My coworkers instantly told me,
like, "You have to get into this."
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When the animation arrives,
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it will truly be the
completion of this universe.
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Solo Leveling is a story about resilience,
perseverance, and fighting for good,
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and I think that are the three themes
that we get to see a lot of the time
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through the main character Jinwoo.
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Sung Jinwoo started off as
a young and weak character,
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but his personality changed with time,
which I felt was unique.
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On Kakao Page it said that
Solo Leveling is a masterpiece
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and all my friends around my age
were reading it.
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My name is Kim Young-Jo,
and I live in Seoul.
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D&C Media was founded in 2002.
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We produce web novels, webtoons,
manhwas, and merchandise
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and distribute them in Korea and overseas.
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Hello, I am Choi Wong-Young,
CEO of D&C Media.
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What's most important for us is
good novels and webtoon authors.
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Our skilled team's task
is to find those webtoon authors.
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Aspiring authors can send publishers
their manuscript via mail or directly.
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Those manuscripts will be given to the editors,
which we nowadays call PDs.
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A team of those producers will review
the manuscripts and rate their potential.
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Afterwards the team decides
whether or not they will reach out to an author.
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Usually, authors use their works
to express their thoughts.
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They feel lost when having to directly interact
with their readers, so they tend to avoid it.
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For example, when they are public officials.
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Those tend to hide themselves and
prefer communicating via their work.
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They don't like the spotlight.
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I think, with Solo Leveling,
we were lucky in many ways.
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Our first contact with the author Chugong
was on an online platform—
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that's where we read Solo Leveling
for the first time.
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Back then, there were not
many comparable works,
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so we were confident
that it would be well received,
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but we didn't except so much hype.
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This epic journey started with D&C Media.
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What's most interesting to the people
seems to be the story.
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An interesting story needs to be captivating.
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Of course, the author wanted
the novel to be successful.
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The story takes place in Seoul
with a Korean background,
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and I think the author
wrote himself as Sung Jinwoo.
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A good writer speaks through his work
and connects with his readers.
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Sung Jinwoo has a rough start and
doesn't really find his place in life.
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But seeing how he is then given opportunities
and starts to grow as a person...
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"I want that too," "I want to get better too"—
that's what I thought.
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In Solo Leveling, an ordinary young adult
experiences amazing things
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and saves the world.
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The kind of story everyone dreams of.
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The story rose in popularity,
so we asked ourselves,
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how we could express it visually.
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I read the story in my office and thought,
"We have to do it as a webtoon at all costs."
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If a novel is adapted into a webtoon,
you need an artist.
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Who could be a suitable candidate?
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Back then the webtoon industry
was rather small,
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so we had to go abroad for promotion.
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That's where we met Redice.
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The owner of Redice
was at the Beijing Book Fair
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and met a representative of D&C by chance.
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Neither knew which studio
the other belonged to,
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so they mistook each other as Japanese
and spoke Japanese first,
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until they found out that they were both
Korean, one from D&C, one from Redice.
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Both wanted to cooperate.
We told them about a great web novel we had,
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and Redice wanted to
work with us on that project.
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That's how Solo Leveling
turned into a webtoon.
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I am the CEO of Redice Studio,
Jang Jung-Sook.
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Redice Studio is leading the webtoon
production in Korea and globally.
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Making a webtoon requires certain steps.
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First, a pencil sketch gets digitized,
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followed by line art, color,
background, and final corrections.
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The most impressive thing about Solo Leveling
is the great artwork made by Jang-Sung Rak.
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On Twitter, many people expected at least
ten people were working on the webtoon.
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But it was our first project, and Jang-Sung
Rak's artistry was simply unmatched.
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Alongside a highly skilled colorist
and a great storyboard writer,
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they finished the main story
as a team of three.
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A year ago I was living with
Jang-Sung Rak, learned a lot,
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and worked on a spinoff with him.
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I am the cartoonist Seung-Jin Kim.
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Since it was our first graphic work,
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we collected many references
to ensure a certain quality standard.
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Usually, we upload one episode per week,
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but we need to have 20
prepared before launch.
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For 20 episodes,
we need around five to six months.
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During this time, the producer
and artist work closely together,
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discuss feedback, and correct the draft
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until the final version is set.
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I researched a lot, wanting to make
the illustrations look more natural
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through directing and coloring
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Until then, from staging
and drawing to coloring,
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I had never seen a draft
of such high quality.
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I was sitting in our publishing house,
asking myself how they did it.
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In Korea, most people have
their mobile phones with them at all times.
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They can be quickly and easily used,
which makes reading webtoons simple.
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I think that's the biggest advantage
Korean webtoons have in the global market.
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It's no exaggeration
to say that Solo Leveling
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pioneered the international webtoon market.
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The setting itself is interesting
because we see the juxtaposition
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of the earthly world that we know of
and we're very familiar with
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which is also, we see countries like Korea,
Japan, and the U.S. featured in this story,
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which is familiar to us, and then we
also get to enter these blue gates
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to then enter a dungeon in a fantasy setting.
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To me, Hapjeong Station in the story's
introduction was the most impressive.
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For us Koreans, it's a popular meeting place
if you want to hang out.
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Turning this station into a dungeon
makes it easier for the reader
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to dive into the story
and be captivated by it.
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So, you see the fantasy world and the
earthly world that we are all familiar with,
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and that fantasy setting allows us
to escape from reality.
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Entering society as a young adult,
I felt like I knew nothing—
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like I couldn't do anything
and lacked experience.
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My situation was similar to Sung Jinwoo's.
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It's a great work worth rereading
when you're bored.
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Webtoons and novels are part of the "snack
culture," merely seen as means to kill time.
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But if you can relate to the characters,
it's more than that.
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Then you want to possess it
in some kind of physical form.
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Readers who read the work online
became attached to the story.
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They wanted a physical copy
they could own and collect.
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Instead of only having it on their phone,
they wanted a real book.
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To fulfill those needs,
we published a paperback version.
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Even the most exciting stories
can be quickly forgotten.
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But if I'm able to put even just one volume
on my shelf, it will stay in the back of my mind.
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I remember ordering the first
two volumes immediately,
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and I felt sadness, unfortunately, at the end
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because I realized I read through the first
two volumes back-to-back in one night,
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and then I would have
to wait for more volumes,
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because I'm a person who likes to read
the physical volumes, rather than digitally,
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and so I'd have to wait two to three more
months to get another volume to read it.
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After Solo Leveling was published
and rose in popularity,
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the word "solo" itself became
somewhat of a phenomenon.
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Solo Leveling made a huge impact
and gained many fans,
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so more and more works
with "solo" in their title appeared.
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Having Solo Leveling create
sort of a subculture of manhwa and novels
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and receive so much love
and attention from its readers
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makes me kind of proud,
even if I am merely a reader myself.
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The transition from novel
to webtoon is one thing,
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but up to animation is something
I could hardly have imagined.
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As a fan and reader,
I look forward to the animation.
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I didn't make the story big,
but I contributed a lot
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to the creation of the animation.
That makes me proud.
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The web novel turned into a webtoon
and now even into an anime.
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When the animation arrives,
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it will truly be the completion
of this universe.
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Solo Leveling is definitely on a journey
to level up in its own franchise.
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So, we got to see this start off as a
light novel, actually published in Korea,
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and then eventually Redice making
that story into an actual manhwa,
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now being illustrated into picture form,
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and now we get to have the anime
adaptation, so now it's...
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Really, I guess in a way,
it's at its third level.
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SP2 - Second Awakening
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[00:16] Furuhashi
I was reading a variety
of webtoons at the time,
[00:20] Furuhashi
and the thing that really drew
my attention was the artwork.
[00:26] KR
When the animation arrives, it will
truly be the completion of this universe.
[00:39] KR
The transition from novel
to webtoon is one thing,
[00:41] KR
but up to animation is something
I could hardly have imagined.
[00:45] Jinwoo
Everybody, get down!
[00:50] Chris
...this start off as a light novel
actually published in Korea,
[00:53] Chris
and then eventually Redice making
that story into an actual manhwa,
[00:59] Chris
and now we get to have the anime adaptation.
[01:02] Jang
Japanese animation studios
are by far the best.
[01:06] Furuhashi
I'm not sure how to express this,
but we're working hard every day
[01:10] Furuhashi
to make sure that we live up
to everyone's expectations.
[01:13] Chris
So now it's... Really, I guess in a way,
it's at its third level.
[01:31] Kim
In Japan, the webtoon format
wasn't really how it was perceived.
[01:36] Kim
It was seen as a kind of
vertically scrolling manga—
[01:41] Kim
either that or as Korean manga,
[01:45] Kim
and that goes to show
how little notoriety it had before.
[01:59] Kim
But over time it started
to become more recognized,
[02:03] Kim
and now they're often referred to as smartoons,
with a lot more people reading them.
[02:17] Kim
Hello, my name is Kim, and I work in Kakao
Piccoma's Global Content Department.
[02:23] Kim
Piccoma is an app where
you can jump on at any time
[02:30] Kim
to read original manga and smartoons.
[02:36] Furuhashi
After I had looked into it, it became clear
that it was a global phenomenon,
[02:40] Furuhashi
not just popular in Japan...
[02:43] Kim
The first time I read Solo Leveling,
I went through three or four chapters,
[02:50] Kim
and I had to see what happened next.
[02:53] Kim
I ended up staying up all night reading.
[02:57] Furuhashi
Part of the reason I chose
Solo Leveling was...
[03:01] Furuhashi
I was reading a variety
of webtoons at the time,
[03:05] Furuhashi
and the thing that really drew
my attention was the artwork.
[03:11] Furuhashi
That was the first thing
that really struck me.
[03:15] Furuhashi
After that, I started thinking how
I would like to turn it into animation...
[03:24] Furuhashi
My name is Furuhashi, and I'm a producer
at Aniplex working on Solo Leveling.
[03:31] Choi
For Solo Leveling, we received offers
from many different studios.
[03:39] Takahashi
Solo Leveling is being produced like
the majority of anime in Japan,
[03:43] Takahashi
with a production committee,
[03:44] Takahashi
where you have a variety of companies
investing in the show in order to create it.
[03:53] Jang
Japanese animation studios
are the best, right?
[03:57] Choi
From all of those, we chose Aniplex.
[04:01] Takahashi
So, on the committee you have
Aniplex, and Crunchyroll,
[04:04] Takahashi
along with the licensors
from Korea, all involved.
[04:09] Chris
We saw the original story as a light novel,
then to a manhwa, then to an anime now,
[04:13] Chris
and now we, as Crunchyroll, Aniplex,
and all the different committee members—
[04:18] Chris
we get to be a part of making this be in the
hands, in the reaches of a global audience,
[04:24] Chris
by bringing the anime to the world.
[04:36] Chris
So when we are doing co-production
[04:38] Chris
it means we have a much more
intimate relationship
[04:41] Chris
with the title and the people and
the committee members involved,
[04:45] Chris
which allows us to talk about
things at a much earlier point.
[04:54] Kaneko
I first learned about Solo Leveling when
Furuhashi-san, the producer at Aniplex,
[05:05] Kaneko
showed me the project
outline in July of 2020.
[05:16] Furuhashi
A big part of why I chose A-1 Pictures
to work on the project
[05:20] Furuhashi
is their success with a number
of titles, regardless of genre,
[05:26] Furuhashi
which really speaks to
their level of ability.
[05:30] Kaneko
Hey there, folks, I'm Kaneko,
an anime producer from A-1 Pictures,
[05:35] Kaneko
and it's a pleasure to be here.
[05:37] Nakashige
I'm the series director, Nakashige,
and thanks for having me.
[05:44] Nakashige
When I first read it, my initial reaction
was "So this is what's popular now?",
[05:50] Nakashige
but also a twinge of nostalgia.
[05:54] Nakashige
It reminded me of how,
when I was doing art in 2009—
[05:58] Nakashige
when I was still drawing as an amateur—
[06:01] Nakashige
I used to read a lot of
vertically oriented manga.
[06:06] Nakashige
So it also took me back to that time.
[06:09] Kim
I'd say there are three big differences
between smartoons and Japanese manga.
[06:15] Kim
One being that smartoons,
like their name would imply,
[06:21] Kim
are designed to be read
on smartphones or on the PC.
[06:27] Kim
That means scrolling vertically.
[06:32] Kim
Another thing is that they tend
to have a faster pace, per-chapter,
[06:38] Kim
with the amount of information
conveyed being simplified.
[06:42] Kim
And the last big difference
is that they're completely in color.
[06:55] Furuhashi
I have to say, my favorite thing
about Solo Leveling really is the art.
[07:01] Furuhashi
The action plays out in this really
cool, stylish, and stoic fashion,
[07:05] Furuhashi
which is a big part of its appeal.
[07:10] Furuhashi
Beyond that, there's also the fact that
the story takes place in the real world.
[07:18] Furuhashi
It is not a story about traveling
entirely into another world,
[07:22] Furuhashi
which I think makes it easier to get into.
[07:31] Jang
Aniplex has a great production system.
[07:36] Jang
For the character design, there was
the original work, the webtoon, to refer to.
[07:45] Jang
The anime characters were
designed with that as the base.
[07:51] Jang
Every step had to be confirmed by D&C.
[07:59] Nakashige
With regards to what advice we received
from the staff of the webtoon,
[08:04] Nakashige
we got to speak to them, as well
as the author of the original novel.
[08:08] Nakashige
So, for example, there would be characters
who didn't show up in the webtoon.
[08:11] Nakashige
They'd be brought up in dialog
but wouldn't appear in the artwork,
[08:15] Nakashige
so we would ask, "Well, what are they like?"
[08:20] Nakashige
Other than that, we'd ask things like
"While the protagonist is doing this,
[08:27] Nakashige
what are the other characters
up to around that time?"
[08:31] Nakashige
and then seed those elements into the script.
[08:50] KR
As producers of the webtoon,
we're similar to assistants.
[08:54] KR
When we get to see the first animations,
we'll continue to provide feedback.
[09:01] KR
That's how we pushed the process
forward up to this point.
[09:14] Sung Jinwoo
That might be why I was able to tell...
[09:17] Sung Jinwoo
Everybody, get down!
[09:33] Cho Myung
What the hell?!
[09:35] Joo Jae-hwan
Nobody mentioned this!
[09:36] Ra Hyeyoung
What is going on here?!
[09:37] Joo Jae-hwan
How should I know?!
[09:38] Kim Sangshik
You all right?
[09:39] Park Beom-shik
Yeah. How about you, Kim?
[09:41] Kim Sangshik
I'm fine.
[09:42] Lee Joohee
No more... No more!
[09:46] Sung Jinwoo
What is happening here?
[09:49] Sung Jinwoo
How is this possible?
[09:51] Sung Jinwoo
We're trapped. We're done for.
[09:54] Sung Jinwoo
We're dead. Dead.
[10:00] Sung Jinwoo
We're gonna die!
[10:05] Furuhashi
In terms of adapting a webtoon into an anime,
[10:09] Furuhashi
I'd say the biggest difference
is probably the pace of the story.
[10:14] Furuhashi
For example, with a webtoon,
a single collected volume...
[10:16] Sung Jinah
You need to take better care of yourself!
Do you know how worried I was?!
[10:20] Furuhashi
For a typical manga, that would cover
two to three episodes worth of material.
[10:22] Sung Jinah
You always end up a mess,
even when everyone else is fine!
[10:27] Furuhashi
But for a webtoon,
it really is much faster paced,
[10:31] Furuhashi
so a collected volume is only about
one and a half episodes of material.
[10:40] Furuhashi
And that was one hurdle
we needed to deal with.
[10:43] Furuhashi
So, in order to overcome that,
we added a bit of extra meat to the story
[10:48] Furuhashi
with an eye towards the overall adaptation.
[10:52] Nakashige
It's such a brisk read
[10:53] Nakashige
that it can sometimes be a little
too breezy for 20 minutes of TV,
[10:57] Nakashige
and with film you need
upswings and downswings,
[10:59] Nakashige
so we try to think hard about how to control
that, what to add and what to subtract.
[11:06] Nakashige
It'd be simple to just say
this is an episode,
[11:08] Nakashige
it's going to contain
this many chapters of story,
[11:10] Nakashige
but as an animated product that'd result
in something that's pretty monotonous,
[11:14] Nakashige
and wouldn't properly convey
how entertaining the original was,
[11:18] Nakashige
so like I said before, we consider
where to add additional stuff,
[11:22] Nakashige
and where to subtract extraneous stuff,
in order to help develop the pacing.
[11:33] Kaneko
This is an original work from folks in a
different country with different sensibilities.
[11:41] Kaneko
And then we take that and present it to
the world through the filter of anime...
[11:46] Kaneko
It's really an interesting sort
of formula we've created here.
[11:58] Furuhashi
With Crunchyroll, they've been a huge help
in regards to the localization efforts.
[12:07] Furuhashi
Since we want Solo Leveling to be
a global hit, not just a domestic one,
[12:13] Furuhashi
part of that meant putting
a focus on the localization
[12:20] Furuhashi
for each region it would be released in.
[12:46] Takahashi
At Crunchyroll, we don't often independently
host premieres for shows before they air.
[12:56] Takahashi
But in the case of Solo Leveling, there are
a lot of fans of the original work already,
[13:03] Takahashi
so we've been holding world premiere events
across the world, starting with Los Angeles.
[13:11] Takahashi
This really isn't something
we could do with most shows,
[13:15] Takahashi
so helping coordinate these
different locations across the globe
[13:20] Takahashi
really was a new experience.
[13:33] Chris
So, as an example of
how this gets played out,
[13:35] Chris
when we were talking about
what is a big promotion
[13:40] Chris
that we could do with
Japan, Korea, and the U.S.
[13:42] Chris
as being the three biggest
markets for this title,
[13:45] Chris
we talked very early on about doing some sort
of premiere event in these three countries.
[13:52] Chris
We got to be a part of those discussions
[13:54] Chris
and also very much have
a collaborative effort with Aniplex
[13:58] Chris
on the premiere events themselves.
[14:00] Chris
So we're making sure that when we do
some of these marketing promotions
[14:04] Chris
that we are actually including the
localized nuances of the different regions,
[14:09] Chris
so that we can actually appeal to those fans.
[14:12] Chris
Because it's different for an
American to view this title
[14:14] Chris
as it would for even someone
in Europe, like the British,
[14:19] Chris
the French, the Germans will have
a slightly different view of the title,
[14:23] Chris
and so we have to think about
from their perspective,
[14:26] Chris
what is it that they'd be excited about.
[14:30] Takahashi
What we're doing with this campaign
[14:33] Takahashi
is operating on a scale
that we usually don't work at.
[14:37] Takahashi
And I think that's personally
helped me level up, as a producer.
[14:44] Chris
How's everyone doing?
[14:48] Chris
Who's excited for the first
two episodes of Solo Leveling?
[14:56] Chris
It's such a pleasure
to be here with you guys.
[14:58] Chris
It's been an incredible day so far,
with the guys here from Japan—
[15:03] Chris
by the way, when they come
out here, I have to tell you,
[15:05] Chris
you have to give the craziest
and the loudest applause
[15:09] Chris
because their flight got canceled yesterday.
[15:13] Chris
They got here this morning.
[15:28] Announcer
Before we begin, as a reminder,
[15:31] Announcer
there is absolutely no flash photography
or recording of this screening.
[15:36] Announcer
Seriously, don't make us send you
into the next dungeon.
[16:03] Jonny Tran
That actually blew my mind.
[16:06] Jonny Tran
I'm so excited to see more,
because there's a lot of gore,
[16:09] Jonny Tran
some great fights, and the
cliffhangers are set just right.
[16:12] Justin Han
I think this is probably my number
one favorite webtoon of all time,
[16:16] Justin Han
so finally getting adapted... Y'know,
it's like a dream come true, actually.
[16:20] Jeremy Evans
I haven't read it yet, but after watching
this, I have to read everything now.
[16:23] Chris
The franchise itself has
a very, very bright future.
[16:26] Chris
A lot of the fans who have been keeping up
with this title from a manhwa perspective
[16:31] Chris
are really excited to see
this become animated,
[16:33] Chris
but for those that have only
just heard about the title,
[16:36] Chris
this is their chance to really get into
this world that Solo Leveling has built,
[16:41] Chris
and to jump into this with other fans,
[16:44] Chris
so we're really excited to bring this globally
to all of our audiences, and to our fans.
[16:50] King Vader
I've been excited ever since
they had the teaser trailer,
[16:52] King Vader
so I'm kinda coming into this, y'know, blind,
but nevertheless, I'm excited.
[16:57] Reagan Kathryn
The animation was stunning,
like the voice acting was fantastic...
[17:00] Samuel Leggett
Japanese animation, and honestly
Japanese film in general,
[17:04] Samuel Leggett
they have, like, a raw invoking emotion.
[17:07] Furuhashi
With Solo Leveling,
in anticipation for the show,
[17:11] Furuhashi
I've been traveling to
different countries for events,
[17:15] Furuhashi
and when Solo Leveling comes up,
the crowd always erupts.
[17:21] June Yoon
It's one thing to scroll the pages
of a webtoon, certainly,
[17:26] June Yoon
and be amused and entertained by the story
in whatever resonances that we may get,
[17:31] June Yoon
but it's something else to watch it
unfold on a screen, with animation,
[17:36] June Yoon
and sound effects, the mixing,
the music, the acting...
[17:39] June Yoon
It really feels like everything
came together in a cohesive piece
[17:43] June Yoon
that really, really, really
feels complete, in a sense.
[17:51] Furuhashi
I'm not sure how to express this...
but we're working hard every day
[17:55] Furuhashi
to make sure that we live up
to everyone's expectations.
[17:57] Takahashi
We're all aware of how popular
Solo Leveling is as a comic,
[18:03] Takahashi
so being involved in the anime
adaptation is very exciting,
[18:11] Takahashi
as well as being a lot of pressure.
[18:17] Stella Chuu
This webtoon far and exceeds
anything I've ever read before.
[18:21] Stella Chuu
It's cinematic, as you're reading it,
[18:23] Stella Chuu
and so now that it's finally
being turned into an anime,
[18:25] Stella Chuu
I feel like... it's finally
deserved. Like, we're here.
[18:29] Stella Chuu
All the fans, we've been waiting
for years to get up to this point!
[18:32] Stella Chuu
Solo Leveling is here,
it's an anime! Aw, let's go!
[19:08] Chris
I know that A-1 Pictures being
the animation studio on this title
[19:12] Chris
will deliver that. They'll do an amazing job,
[19:14] Chris
and we've seen amazing past works from them,
[19:16] Chris
so I put a lot of faith
in them, too, as a fan.
[19:20] Furuhashi
It's our goal to make something
that will exceed everyone's expectations,
[19:26] Furuhashi
so we hope you'll check it out.