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.
InformationIn fact, it 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. 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?
Fountain: TheBell
