Episodes

The opening chapter of the Solo Leveling anime introduces a world reshaped by gates and the hunters who brave them, then narrows its focus to Sung Jinwoo, branded the weakest of them all, as a routine raid spirals into a deadly double dungeon.

Inside the hidden Cartenon Temple, a colossal living statue forces Jinwoo's party to obey three lethal commandments. Comrades die one after another, and a mutilated Jinwoo, pinned to the altar, is handed a final offer by the System.

The third episode rouses Jinwoo in a hospital bed with no trace of his rescue, debuts the System's daily quests and penalty zones, and tracks his uneasy first descent into an instance dungeon as he starts treating his powers like a game.

The fourth Solo Leveling episode follows Jinwoo deeper into the subway instance dungeon, where repeated level-ups reshape his body and stats mid-fight. He wins his first solo boss duel against a venomous snake, then quietly turns a public dungeon break in his favor.

Solo Leveling's fifth episode leaves the hospital behind as a fitter Jinwoo hunts for raid work to cover rent. He signs onto a C-Rank job under Hwang Dongsuk, meets the talkative Yoo Jinho, and grows uneasy when the party lacks a healer before the leader's true plan surfaces.

The sixth Solo Leveling episode pits Jinwoo against a C-Rank spider boss he was meant to die to, then against the treacherous hunters who trapped him. A System order to kill the human attackers forces him to cross a line he cannot uncross.

Solo Leveling's seventh episode turns an overachieved daily quest into a hidden reward that drops Jinwoo into a blazing S-Rank dungeon. There he battles the three-headed Cerberus for the formula to a cure-all elixir that could revive his comatose mother.

Solo Leveling's eighth episode answers an urgent D-Rank summons that draws familiar faces together. Jinwoo at last accepts Jinho's strike team, the Cartenon Temple survivors reunite at the gate, and a trio of handcuffed convict hunters joins the raid.

Solo Leveling's ninth episode turns the D-Rank raid deadly when the convicts' escort, Kang Taeshik, reveals himself as a paid killer. After two of Jinwoo's old comrades fall, he is forced to drop his disguise and duel a sadistic B-Rank assassin.

Warned that an S-Rank hunter may want him dead, Jinwoo throws himself into rapid C-Rank dungeon clears with Jinho, building strength and wealth while running circles around a curious White Tiger Guild scout.

Jinwoo enters the job-change quest and grinds through endless waves of armored foes, culminating in a duel against the crimson knight Igris that echoes the horrors of the Cartenon Temple, while a tense Yoojin family dinner exposes the brothers' rivalry.

Pushed past his limit and haunted by visions of his weakest self, Jinwoo conquers the final stage of the job-change quest, claims the Shadow Monarch class, and raises his first shadow soldiers in a defining turning point.

A recap installment of Solo Leveling's first season, Episode 7.5 has Sung Jinwoo retell the journey so far, tracing his path from the labeled weakest hunter to a man newly armed with power and a clear purpose.

Season 2 opens with a transformed Jinwoo attending his sister's school meeting, only for a routine C-Rank outing meant to discourage Han Song-Yi to mutate into a lethal Red Gate that severs the team from the outside world.

The Red Gate boss Baruka confronts Jinwoo with a sinister bargain, and when Jinwoo refuses, the ensuing battle forges a towering new shadow warrior from a fallen comrade and finally seals the frozen dungeon's fate as the survivors emerge.

The third episode of the second season sees Jinwoo, having cleared nineteen dungeons with Jinho, return to the Demon Castle to gather Elixir of Life ingredients for his mother, while a long-imprisoned man named Sung Il-Hwan resurfaces in America.

The fourth episode of Solo Leveling's second season follows Jinwoo as he seeks a formal rank reassessment, overwhelms the association's measuring device, and quietly returns to dungeon work to prepare for another attempt at the Demon Castle.

The fifth episode of the second season puts Jinwoo to work as a porter alongside Strike Squad B of the Hunters Guild, only for an ambush by High Orcs and a sealing barrier to trap the whole team within an A-Rank dungeon.

The sixth episode of the second season stages the showdown against the High Orc shaman Kargalgan, with Jinwoo shielding the wounded strike team, raising his shadow army for the first time this season, and claiming a soldier from the fallen commander.

In the seventh chapter of season two, Jinwoo's promotion to S-rank becomes official and public. The episode plays his spotlight against rival Lee Minsung's staged comeback, then drops him back inside the Demon Castle, where something unseen is wiping out his shadows.

Season two's eighth episode drives Jinwoo's Demon Castle climb toward its peak, where the materials for the Elixir of Life are kept. At the summit, Demon King Baran finally shows himself, mounted on an enormous white dragon.

The ninth episode of season two pays off Jinwoo's Demon Castle conquest as he brings the Elixir of Life to his hospitalized mother, even as a new pressure mounts: a strong push to draft him into the looming Jeju Island Raid.

Season two's tenth episode sees Jinwoo crash a friendly bout against Japan's Goto Ryuji, then bow out of the Jeju Island Raid for his family. Without him, the fourth raid launches and seems to go well, until something goes wrong.

Season two's eleventh episode upends the Jeju Island Raid when a winged ant in black exoskeleton turns the hunting S-rank hunters into the hunted, driving their desperate fight toward a brutal climax.

The twelfth episode of season two stages Jinwoo's duel with the Ant King on Jeju Island, broadcast live to a watching nation, as he tanks poison, levels up mid-fight, and slays the monster, only to find the Holy Water of Life cannot save the dying Cha Hae-In.

The season two finale finds the Elixir of Life powerless to save the critically injured Cha Hae-In, forcing Jinwoo to improvise, and closes the costly Fourth Jeju Island Raid in victory as he sets his sights on still greater strength.