Fans will reunite with Solo Leveling‘s “World’s Weakest Hunter” Sung Jinwoo very quickly.
As a tribute to Solo Leveling‘s artist Dubu’s legacy, the webcomic will launch a sequence of epilogues with the primary two episodes already out in Korean on Jan. 20. Fans can be comfortable to know they will not have to attend too lengthy to learn the story in English. According to Tapas and Tappytoon, they’ll launch the epilogues in English per week after, on Jan. 27. Although Tappytoon provided a concrete launch time of 8 AM EST, Tapas notably has written followers can the epilogue aspect tales “first on Tapas.”
On July 25, 2022, REDICE Studio revealed Dubu had handed away a few days earlier on July 23. He had persistent well being points, resulting in a mind hemorrhage that finally took his life. His demise has solely highlighted the issues of the webcomic trade in Korea, the place creators are routinely overworked, leading to despair, insomnia and poor bodily and psychological well being. The studio, which Dubu was additionally CEO of, introduced on Jan. 9 {that a} crew of artists who beforehand labored with Dubu on Solo Leveling would produce the epilogue in his identify. The epilogue tales can be devoted to Dubu, who was “a leader, teacher, and pioneer of painting.”
First serialized on KakaoPage in July 2016 as an online novel, Chugong’s Solo Leveling obtained a webcomic adaptation on March 4, 2018, the place it ran till Dec. 29, 2021, at 179 chapters. The sequence revolves round an extremely weak E-Rank Hunter named Sung Jinwoo, who turns into a Player because of a mysterious program known as the System throughout a D-Rank dungeon raid that leaves him on the point of demise. The System permits him to get stronger with no restrict to his leveling up. With the world’s security threatened by highly effective beings often known as Monarchs, it could be as much as Jinwoo, as soon as the weakest Hunter on the planet and now the strongest, to avoid wasting all of them.