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SL 2x9

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All these S-Ranks gathering for this all-too important operation. Meanwhile, Hwang's just out there pursuing Jinwoo's dad. Like, are we gonna get back to that plot point? Cause Hwang still being alive is making me worried, ESPECIALLY now that Jinwoo's mom is awake. Jinwoo has more to lose than ever. 😰

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14:30 "She kinda looked like the elf" Esil is a demon, not an elf. Also, I'm pretty sure both having purple hair was just a coincidence.

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Between the facial animation and Aleks Le's performance, they REALLY sold Jinwoo being vulnerable for the first time since he became the Player. 🥲

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Appa has to be catering right?

A. Coro

It also seems like he has a lot of creative freedom when it comes to voicing Jinwoo.

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The mom VA is momo form my hero

mastertater

If Waddles' job is Lighting Director, what do the other cats do? 😹 What about the dogs?

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"Are you Might's secret love child or something?"

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Totally fair

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I hate that my mind went to the same place when I watched this episode. 💀

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No, saturday

Limini

The torodoki family could never.

Pugz

Jinwoo trying to smile and seem okay for his mom but unable to stop sobbing kills me

Erin Ryan

Oh dude sorry no, I'm not having this discourse with you lol. Have a good day!

MaSeshield9277

Can people believe that this episode was the most disliked episode this season because Jinwoo cried? The edgelords got upset because Jinwoo has emotions.

L.C.

Its called Friendship buddy. Friendship between guys is friendship

L.C.

Newp

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Oh.

MaSeshield9277

Oh did you not read the manhwa?

MaSeshield9277

That was sarcasm

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Jinwoo EARNED this W. He deserves the fruits of his labor.

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Was that Bodie, their newest cat? 🐈

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I can't wait to see more of this "Thomas Andre" guy. Dude looks straight up like All Might. Though, since actors like Chris Sabat and Patrick Seitz are already taken, who'll they get to voice this guy?

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Shocked why?

MaSeshield9277

We don't know much about her, but Jinwoo's mom is already shown to be pretty goated. Jinwoo accidentally spilled boiling water on her as a kid, and her first instinct was to comfort him. ☺️🥲

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*Byung-gu, and I'm shocked 😐

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For the record, I totally ship baek and the healer

MaSeshield9277

hxh today?

slayerX

chronologically it is between the 4th and 5th episode. If you ever wondered how she suddenly qualified to write for the princess in episode 5 when she was still rather wooden in EP 4, then that special episode probably answers that. she goes through a lot of growth there

Limini

Oh okay thanks

Kr

They made a post with the schedule change. Invincible yesterday and Friday. SL today and hxh on Saturday. Only one episode of hxh this week and no frieren

Limini

It isn't his actual intelligence lmao. You never played Elden ring or souls games my guy?

L.C.

According to there schedule yes but this episode of solo leveling was supposed to be uploaded yesterday so it seems they are just a little off schedule which is okay

Kr

Just so you know.... Intellect is an actual stat for games and in this series as well. Intellect correlates with mana and magic.

L.C.

are they posting it today

Jose Olguin

They gotta post that hxh vid soon

Kr

I'd prefer to get Vox Machina that day

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True but I thought he also said he had battle injuries that healers can fix anymore along with old age

Braden Jackson

He is a REALLY good VA seems like a even better person as well

Braden Jackson

Can we take a moments to appreciate Aleks Le some more this episode? He's perfectly captured Jinwoo's increasing coldness throughout the series, but in this rare and important moment of vulnerability, he DELIVERED the emotion Jinwoo is going through right now. 🥲

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Please let the next ep be Monday, pretty please

Big Fuze

When should it be watched chronologically? Cause there's the main series, Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, and finally Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

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Luckily it's not a compilation. It's a 28min special about writing lyrics for an opera singer

Guadalupe Leon

With Solo Leveling nearing the end. A show that I would love to see you guys react to is Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. It's 13 ep and after 15 years it's coming back with a season 2. From the shows you reacted to it's most similar to Hazbin Hotel.

Guadalupe Leon

Don't think I've seen that. I assumed it was just a compilation of the show.

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The fairy Queen Titania Erza

Hari Viswanathan akZNIpCfAg

Don't forget about the Violet Evergarden Special

Guadalupe Leon

If you're concerned about waiting for the dub, that might actually not be an issue. Fun fact: when the first season of Kaiju No. 8 was airing, the dub aired alongside the sub.

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Season two of Kaiju No. 8 is supposed to be coming in July, so if you're needing something to fit after this show, then now would be a great time to try Violet Evergarden. It's only 13 episodes and two movies, so it should slot in nicely.

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Not only that, but Jinwoo's mom is Yaoyarozu.

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I feel you. Fairy Tail is CLASSIC. It was the first anime I watched semi-knowing what anime was (Dragon Ball and Yu-Gi-Oh on Saturday morning cartoons don't count).

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Bro it came out like one week ago haha

Letts React

But chairman Go isn't this or anything. He's just getting old, no? Elixir can't reverse aging

Limini

love the b99 reference

Herman Vallestad

He can save jinhos dad if someone is near death during the ant arc or we also heard that chairman Go isn’t doing to well so I can see him giving him one but he can also take much more risks now because of the elixir

Braden Jackson

We don't NEED to but I still wish we would have. Wouldn't have hurt the show and would have made the scene more cathartic

Limini

This was my first time hearing this episode dubbed I was not prepared for the mom to sound like that but she's by far one of my favorite VAs (Fairy Tail was my gateway to anime)

CadeNoCap

True

Braden Jackson

His family is the cornerstone that connects him with his humanity. Wanting to have such a big part of him a big more fleshed out is reasonable. It was an emotional scene and you can have sympathy with him but I think it needed a bit more to connect to me in a more emotional way. Rn for me I'm glad his mom is back and they're a happy family again but it feels more like a check on a to do list. The way we are immediately moving on to s ranks sparring was also a buf jarring. I wish the scene where they clean up the apartment and trying to get back to normal life and how jinwoo can't do that anymore bc he changed so much would have been longer. I wish we could have gotten the moms and sisters perspective a bit more. Similar to Dandandans 7th episode or jjk s2 5th ep, i wouldn't have minded if we gave the whole episode to his family and emotional state. And maybe have a conflict between wanting to spend time with his mom now that she's back and the world needing him for s rank stuff. Or like more of an indication that he still carries that with him. It's a bit too one and done for me.

Limini

I've only known Esil for an episode and a half, and if anything happened to her, I would k*** everyone in this room, and then myself.

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To the idea that there might be some consequences to the Elixir of Life, considering how hard Jinwoo worked and how much blood, sweat, and tears he dropped to get this for his mom, I think it being some kind of scam would be really stupid, writing-wise. This ain't JJK; you don't need to punish your main character just cause you can.

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We don't need to know that much about a character's mom to have sympathy for her and her son, dude. 🫤

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Montana has a cat crown

Braden Jackson

They really disliked the episode that he wasn’t farming for the whole time

Braden Jackson

You're right about the voice actor! Can't believe I didn't pick out her voice from the get-go. 😅

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I really need to know who voices the mom because damn it sounds like Colleen Clinkenbeard. Also Jinwoo wasnt included in the sparring group because he technically is a "mage" type and not a combat type per his evaluation as an S-rank

CadeNoCap

I can't believe people got upset with this episode just because Sung wasn't aura farming and was crying in this episode, I loved this episode cause it gave him a human touch instead of the typical overpowered MC. Also Him getting 6 elixer's of life kinda makes me think he's gonna fight beings that will make him use it, or his gonna get in a situation where he has to give it to another person.

Teib _21

Uh, did the last bit of the discussion get edited out? Cause I feel like we missed something.

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His relationship with his mother could have been set up better. The payoff, him reuniting with his mother felt a bit flat in my opinion. Before this episode we barely get a feel on who his mother is, we mostly only ever see her in the coma. A couple more flashbacks here and there in the previouses episodes with his mother, maybe in context with his sister would make it feel more cathartic. Even though he's been working towards this goal the entire time, the reuniting feels kind of sudden. I think the emotional weight would have been felt more if he we would have witnessed his family more or if thee progress of his leveling would have been directly linked to his goals. In the first seasons in the throne room where he exclaims "I have a family too" That was really impactful for example. If he would have similar moments of "I'm not going to die here bc of my family" or "I'm closer to my mother now bc of this" having him feel "relieved" or "hopeful" Maybe each time he hit a new milestone not just bc he was getting stronger but bc he wanted it for his mother. When he goes to dungeons as a miner, everyone asks themselves why he would do that, that would have been a good moment to remind everyone that he does this for his mother. In the episode the joy he had running to the boss chamber felt more like bloodlust or him wanting to test his powers, etc. Him visiting her in the hospital and actually meaningfully interacting with her would have been good too. Talking about the burden of raising his sister, how he maybe misses her homecooking, that he finally feels like he can do something, or maybe him noticing that she's getting older, her muscles are getting weaker or something to give us a sense of urgency, bc rn it felt like it wouldn't matter if she stayed in the coma a couple years more. It is a good episode but the emotional payoff could have been set up better in my opinion.

Limini

This show and character are not weaker for having emotions. Heck, we've known he was fighting to help his mom since the beginning. Did they think the show would be casual about bringing her back?

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Yeah, it's mom stuff in media that usually able to make me emotional, too. 🥲

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The time difference between gates and the the outside world is only for Red Gates, since it cuts everything off outside. Small fun fact that was cut out, but the translator and guild master for the knights guild, both of whom are a ranks, sparred against each other with the rules being the winner is whoever grabs the others wrist. The guild master won that and lectured her about how underestimating others could be fatal, and how in Korea they have to sometimes fight other hunters

Kristopher Sy

Dang, you never told us you were bringing Siri into the reactions! 😅

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Haters gonna hate

Kristopher Sy

I think the A-Rank Guildmaster of the Reapers Guild is voiced by Todoroki.

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People are crazy

Braden Jackson

Jinwoo crying for his mom was everything for me

Braden Jackson

I have no idea why so many people hate this ep

DarkenedBlade1

I was NOT expecting this show to be able to make me emotional going in. And yet, here we are. 🥲

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just to point out this was the mist disliked ep of solo leveling which is crazu

Kevin De Bruyne

Took y’all long enough

KingPin

first

Kevin De Bruyne


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