Solo Leveling fans following Season 2 on Crunchyroll are in for some disappointing news about its upcoming finale. The release schedule for the final Season 2 episodes will not buck the trend despite the incredible hype built since Episode 18.
Since its January 2025 premiere, Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- has been earning worldwide praise for its excellent adaptation of the role-playing-inspired manhwa by Chugong (despite criticism for omitting key details from the source material). The reception to Episode 18 — Solo Leveling Season 2, Episode 6, “Don’t Look Down on My Guys” — was so strong that it ‘broke the internet’ for subscribers of Crunchyroll as well as illegal streaming services. The hype surrounding the series has only escalated since, with the recent episode release, “It Was All Worth It,” being its strongest performer yet. Given Solo Leveling’s incredible momentum at the moment, fans were expecting a special event for its final episodes, such as back-to-back premieres or an hour-long episode.
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However, based on information from the Solo Leveling subreddit, Season 2 will follow its usual release schedule despite fans’ high expectations. First, Solo Leveling Season 2 is still 13 episodes long. Season 1 was 12 episodes long (or 13 if fans count the 7.5 recap episode). Second, there will be no one-hour premiere or two back-to-back episodes. New episodes will continue to be released weekly, one at a time. This means that according to its current schedule, the final Season 2 episode will air on Saturday, March 29, 2025, for North American viewers. Reports of a special sendoff for Solo Leveling Season 2 were nothing more than online speculation.
Although Solo Leveling Season 2 will continue with one new episode a week until its season finale, this release schedule isn’t out of the ordinary for popular titles. Dragon Ball Daima, despite the incredible hype behind its final three episodes that were further elevated by the canonical introduction of Super Saiyan 4 Goku and coinciding with the first anniversary of Akira Toriyama’s passing, continued its weekly release with the same roughly half-hour length. Considering Solo Leveling’s unprecedented popularity, fans of the South Korean web novel expected a more monumental farewell. Fans are also nervous about fan-favorite stories from the source material being potentially crammed into Season 2 with little room to breathe — especially as the second anime season has made some unexpected deviations from the web novel.
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While Solo Leveling Season 2 won’t have the epic sendoff that fans think it deserves, that doesn’t mean there won’t be any surprises when the finale goes live in late March. After the Season 1 finale went live on Crunchyroll, Solo Leveling Season 2 was confirmed on March 30, 2024. There’s a strong possibility of history repeating itself on the release date for the Season 2 finale. Meanwhile, Solo Leveling continues its pop culture dominance with exciting new merchandise releases and frequent updates for the online game Solo Leveling: Arise.
“They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo,” the official description for Solo Leveling reads. “After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.”
