# Special
# SP1 - A Hunter Rises
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G4VUQVJ2X/a-hunter-rises)
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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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G14U410M2/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.