Reviews for Solo Leveling: Ragnarok

It was only about a year ago that my friend told me that a sequel to Solo Leveling featuring Jin Woo's kid was in the works. I was like "What the hell, that's gonna ruin the series". And well, here I am, reading this. The story is very similar to its predecessor in the holistic sense, blame it to the prequel's horrible ending of everyone forgetting about everything. Well let's not go to that aspect. This one expands in on the story left behind by the saga of Jin Woo. The story now focuses on our protagonist Sung Suho, the son of Jin Woo. He hasinnate powers of the Shadow Monarch so it makes him pretty busted and a bit less interesting to watch. The immediate evil here is now Itarim as opposed to the Monarchs. So you can witness a little tweak here and there in the story but the overall structure is still similar, you are the weakest player but only you have the power to level up. The story relies a bit too much on the plot armour and the survival aspect of the original being missing dissapoints me, as that was arguably the best part. So it is now purely action fantasy. But still it does not prevent it from being a fun little read. The action is top notch, art is still better than almost the entirety, the story is still fun to read, it has still got its humorous tones, the characters are also good, where seeing past characters genuinely puts me on a simle. So I see plenty good reasons for you to read this. Only time will tell if it will live up to its expectations.

1 word, Disappointing. 2 words, Fucking Disappointing. While I get the take on zero-to-hero like in the first book, the protagonist of this sequel has a disappointing start. Not only was his father a monarch, his mother has the potential of an S-Ranker. Going by that logic, even if Jinwoo's E-rank potential pulled Hunter Cha's leg, Suho's potential should have been either a C-rank or a B-rank. His innate ability to utilize Monarch's Authority(even though its an Authority given to the top creations of the Creator, I dunno, probably Inheritance), is outright useless since it consumes Mana every second, couple that with maintaining shadows as weapons, hisstarting line was a Joke. Suho, as a baby can utilize that authority with no hardship, now, he can barely sustain that for half a minute(baby Suho is literally a genuine monster, what's with adaptation?).

Another disappointment was the team up with monarch descendants setting. What are Monarchs? They are destruction Incarnate, borne to destroy everything their Creator created and everything else in existence. It would have made more sense for the Monarch's descendants to ally with Itarim's apostles, take control of the now ownerless universe and spread destruction to others after everything's over. I guess it still makes sense a little, with the monarch duking it out with Itarim, its still a type of destruction that they'll be doing.

tl:dr; It has a disappointing start compared to the first book and they are overturning our understanding of SL's Universe.

PS: I now understand why they forgot what Monarchs are, this is not a story that came out of the original author's hand, but was written by someone else.

Solo Leveling: Ragnarok is the thrilling sequel to our beloved Solo Leveling series. This time, the spotlight shifts to Sung Suho, the son of Sung Jinwoo. As Suho steps into a world filled with dangerous gates and monstrous foes, he embarks on a journey to uncover his father's legacy and face new and formidable challenges This story starts after the events of solo leveling. Sung Su-ho, the son of Sung Jin-woo and Cha hae-in inherited some of his father's powers as the Shadow Monarch. However, his powers and memories were locked as a child, so he can have a normal life. The system doesn't want him to becomea new shadow monarch (chapter 14) cause the current shadow monarch can't be replaced.

The system wants Sung Su-ho to become something else.

I don't know why Solo Leveling : Ragnarok manhwa got such low rating but the world building , character development , plot development , pacing and the story of Solo Leveling : Rangnarok Webnovel is really veru good. Even minor characters gets character development in this manhwa.

Each plots of this webnovel connects with each other perfectly.

This manhwa is going to become far better than Solo Leveling.

At first, you will think the pacing of this manhwa is fast but believe me , the pacing of this manhwa will become really stable as the series progresses and you will love it.

The first arc of this manhwa needs fast pacing to develop the next arcs of this manhwa perfectly.

All the arcs of this Webnovel is perfect and really enjoyable.

The art is great as always.

I can say it without any hesitation that Solo Leveling Ragnarok Webnovel is even better than Omniscient reader's viewpoint webnovel.

At first I also didn't believed that they can write this manhwa this much perfectly.

Since I read Webnovel , I can say that the rating of this manhwa is 10 out of 10.

I know all readers of this manhwa will love it.

Just reading the few first chapters makes me feel agitated. Our main character SungHo or whatever the fuck that guy's name is is so..awful, the way he obtains his abilities are dogshit without any stakes, and the latest chapter I read made him comment on behalf of his father the problem with that there is. HE BARELY KNOWS HIS FATHER. Sure, I get it it was supposed to be a like father like son moment but it just fails completely. Stardust balls thingy feels so out of place and random, it just suddenly appeared without a foreshadowing and then became a massive plot point over the fallof the demon realm? Holy shit.

This manhwa feels like an insult to the original Solo Leveling and the progress sung Jin woo made in that. In the original there was a very obvious power struggle at the start of the series, while this one just felt... Like another 'Im just built different and I have better genetics' type of mc manhwa (stuff like regressors for manhwa or Isekai mc for mangas).

I pray that the next few chapters I read and are publish would at least live up to the solo leveling name.

I wonder how to relay my feeling from reading this efficiently. Let me try examples comparison. 1) Original: Jin-Woo wants to clear demon tower in order to get ingredients for Elixir of Life for his dying mother. He cannot go through right away, because there are fires everywhere and he would die. So he need to find protection against fire. He can buys resistance gear but doesn't have that cash. He could sell a rare artifact but that would bring waaaay to many questions about where he got it. He is willing to earn it but as an E rank he cannot get into lucrative gates. Heconsideres re-evaluation but that would bring dangerous attention to him while he is not strong enough yet to stand his own against S hunters.

1) Ragnarok:

Sung Suho attacks hyena boss without any obvious reason even if he cannot beat it. In the middle of the fight, he completes a quest that rewards him (randomly) a special bonus against Beasts and so he wins the fight.

2) Original:

A certain shadow insect specimen can be slightly amusing for Jin Woo but other S hunters still get ptsd shivers whenever they see it. even when it is now on thir side. Because they remember how it massacred them brutally and mercilessly.

2) Ragnarok:

That certain shadow insect speciment becomes a tiny chibi doll / joker.

3) Original:

Every other person or creature is about to murder Jin Woo (including his hunter "friends" and his own System) and he has to do his best to kill them just to survive. Because it is story about power that rules.

3) Ragnarok:

Oh look, isn't it one of main villains / murderers from original? Let us pet it and feed it some goblin meet and we can all be great friends!

There is more but this much should be enough. While original was more serious attempt to tell the darker genre story, Ragnarok plays it safe in the middle of omnipresent cliches, random incidences and "humor". It is not terrible but it is really bland and boring, especially compared to the Original.

5/10