Solo Leveling, Vol. 1 (comic)

Bereits aus Sword Art Online kennt man das Prinzip "Spiel oder stirb". Doch "Solo Leveling" befindet sich auf einer ganz anderen Ebene. Hier vermischt sich das echte Leben mit einer Welt, die einem Videospiel ähnelt. Nur die 'Hunter' können verhindern, dass die Monster aus den Dungeons in ihre Welt fliehen können. Solo leveling überzeugt in Farbe, Spannung und Story. Ich bin sehr gespannt wie es weitergeht.

Jin-Woo Sung lives in a world filled with dungeon portals and so-called „hunters“, who developed special abilities in order to close the dungeons. Due to his low rank and basically nonexistent abilities, he is affectionately called „the weakest hunter“. However, after *certain* events, he suddenly gets access to a game-like system, which allows him to level up. Some may call the trope „weak guy suddenly gets super duper strong due to *circumstances* and has to save the world or something“ a little bit old, but I love it every single time. The game-like leveling system with its quests is also very interesting and fun. I really loved it at the beginning. However, I didn’t love some of the turns the plot took along the ending, because (slight spoiler!) I wasn’t very fond of him having to do it all on his own and everyone else forgetting everything. I also wasn’t a fan of the romance. It was just too sudden, no yearning, no nothing. (Spoiler again) Suddenly he just went on a date with someone he never seemed to care about before, and that was it; they never talked about it again (they do a bit, but really basically nothing). And for me, personally, I’d rather have no romance than a half-baked one (to put it bluntly). However, I did really enjoy reading this and could barely put it down, so I still really recommend it.