Solo Leveling receives Korean live-action adaptation

D&C Webtoon creative director Heaeun Kwak revealed in an interview with French news website L’Internaute that the popular Webtoon, Solo Leveling is receiving a Korean live-action and is currently in development.

Solo Leveling is a Korean Webtoon illustrated by the late artist Dubu and written by Chugong. It was first serialized in Kakao’s digital comic and fiction platform KakaoPage as a light novel in 2016 and is soon to get an anime adaptation in January by the one and only, A-1 Pictures!

The anime will be airing on Crunchyroll for non-Asian viewers in January.

The Webtoon came into existence two years after the light novel release in 2018 and finished in 2021. Its English version was published by Yen Press physically and digitally with seven volumes currently out and the eighth on the way.

Solo Leveling/ A-1 pictures

There’s still no information available on the release date or the staff who will be covering the live-action version of Solo Leveling but we hope it will get Netflix’s One Piece treatment instead of the Dragon Ball: Evolution treatment.

Synopsis:

It tells the story of humans who are referred to as hunters after awakening powers after “The Gate” arose ten years ago, bridging the gap between the actual world and the domain of magic and monsters.

20-year-old Sung Jin-Woo is known as the  “World’s Weakest” because of his weak powers compared to other hunters. Despite being weak and pitiful, he continues to hunt monsters in order to afford his sick mother’s medical procedures.

A surprising event happens leaving Sung in a hospital with a weird screen floating in front of him, what could this mean?

Watch Solo Leveling’s anime trailer below:

Buy the Solo Leveling Yen Press English manga here.