It is
often said within the anime industry that when a project is announced it only
has one confirmed season ,
or even two if the production committee is quite confident with the source
material and it is incredibly well received. However, it seems that “ Solo Leveling ”
has broken with this paradigm, since a recent leak has stated that it
will have a total of six seasons, at least.
The
information ,
in fact, does not come from a Twitter leak as many have claimed, but from the
Korean portal The Bell: Gateway to Capital Markets, focused on market
movements in South Korea. It is a digital newspaper focused on
finance, with a good reputation within the corporate industry.
In an article
published in February of this year, the outlet reported that D&C
Media, the publisher that publishes the contents of “Solo Leveling,” had
reabsorbed the webtoon publisher from which it had separated three years ago, in
an attempt to rationalize the management of printed novels and webtoons by
combining them into a single operating market, after it was reported that the
market in South Korea for this type of content fell by 40 percent in 2023,
compared to the previous year.
According
to the report, in the two and a half years since the separation of the
companies, that is, the novels and the webtoons within D&C Media, the
global webtoon market grew rapidly thanks to works such as “Solo Leveling” and
This is where what was mentioned in the leak comes.
After
mentioning “Solo Leveling” as a flagship work of the webtoon market, it is mentioned that the anime
adaptation is currently broadcast (remember that the article is from last
month), and that a second season will be broadcast in the second half of the
year. anus. However, it is also mentioned that production will be
extended to a sixth season, expanding the possibility that webtoon market sales
will increase accordingly.
Of
course, this is just what is planned on the South Korean side, but what will be
the plans on the Japanese side? An
adaptation announced with six seasons would be equivalent to a total of 72
episodes if what was seen in the first season ended today is maintained. According
to fan feedback, this would be enough to adapt the entire original work. But
how many years will it take to produce six seasons of this adaptation?
Source: TheBell
