Solo Leveling debut caused problems on Crunchyroll servers

The anime series adaptation of Solo Leveling is one of the most anticipated anime of 2024 and when its first episode premiered some users of Crunchyroll reported difficulties in be able to watch to the episode.

The situation will not have been as visible as previously with the premiere Demon Slayer 3, One Piece (episode 1071) and the end of Attack on Titanbut the servers of Crunchyroll will have initially had some difficulty to respond to so many fans wanting to watch the first episode simultaneously.

The anime is produced by the studio A-1 Pictures (86: Eighty-Six, Sword Art Online, Kaguya-sama: Love is War), directed by Shunsuke Nakashige (Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory), the story is of Noboru Kimura (Gundam Build Divers, Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!), the character designs are by Tomoko Sudo (Alice in Borderland, Fragtime) and the soundtrack is the responsibility of Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist, Kill la Kill, Mobile Suit Gundam UC).

In the cast we have:

• Taito Ban as Sung Jinwoo/Shun Mizushino
• Reina Ueda as Cha Hae-In/Shizuku Kosaka
• Hiroki Touchi as Baek Yoonho/Taiga Shirakawa
• Genta Nakamura as Yoo Jinho/Kenta Morohishi
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Choi Jong-In/Shin Mogami
• Banjou Ginga as Go Gunhee/Kiyoomi Gotō
• Makoto Furukawa as Woo Jinchui/Akira Inukai

(The Korean characters’ names above are written with surnames first, while Japanese names are written with surnames last)

Chugong began publishing the work digitally in July 2016 and a webtoon adaptation was published on KakaoPage by the hand of Jang Sung-rakending in December 2021. As we previously reported, the artist Jang Sung-Rakbetter known as DUBUunfortunately died in July 2022.

Solo Leveling Synopsis

Ten years ago, after the “Portal” that connects the real world with a world of monsters opened, some ordinary people were given the power to hunt the monsters in the portal. They are known as hunters. However, not all hunters are strong. My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E rank hunter. I am someone who has to risk his life in the weakest dungeons, “The weakest in the world”. Without having any skills at my disposal, I can barely make money in low-level dungeons… At least until I find a hidden dungeon with the highest difficulty within Rank D! In the end, while accepting my death, I gained a new power…