Solo Leveling season 2 may not be here yet, but you can get a taste of it right now with the ReAwakening movie. One of 2025’s first big new anime shows is currently in cinemas – and there are plenty more reasons to be excited about the upcoming series.
Solo Leveling’s hero Sung Jin-Woo has certainly leveled up himself and now, thanks to the System’s help, he has a clutch of new powers and abilities at his disposal. Whisper it, but next year could be the year that Solo Leveling breaks out into the anime big time.
To get you ready, we’ve put together a quick guide to Solo Leveling season 2, also known as Arise from the Shadow. That includes a confirmed release window, the first trailer, expected episode count, plus a look ahead to what else we can expect from the new season.
Solo Leveling season 2 release date
Solo Leveling season 2 is releasing in January 2025. While we don’t have an exact date, we do have news on how you can watch the new episodes early.
Titled Solo Leveling: ReAwakening, the compilation movie bundles together a recap of the first season with the first two episodes of the second season. The Solo Leveling ‘film’ was released in cinemas on December 6.
Solo Leveling Season 2 Story
If you’re new to Solo Leveling, the premise is a bizarre one. As per the official English synopsis, “Over a decade has passed since a pathway called a ‘gate’ which connects this world and another dimension suddenly appeared, and people with superhuman powers called ‘hunters’ have been awakened. Hunters use their superhuman powers to conquer dungeons inside the gates to make a living, and Sung Jin-woo, a hunter of the lowest rank, is considered the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind.”
Solo Leveling season 2 , then, is all set to pick up where the first 12 episodes left off. Namely, the “world’s weakest hunter” Sung Jin-Woo emerging from a near-death situation in the Double Dungeon with the System, a program that gives users quests and lets them level up, at his side.
After gaining the ability to level up (and later change jobs, in true RPG fashion), Jin-Woo battles alongside fellow hunters in new dungeons. Later in the season, he encounters a knight commander by the name of Igris, who unleashes a horde of monsters on Jin-Woo.
Eventually, he prevails in part of his quest and gains the moniker and ability of ‘Shadow Monarch’, which allows him to enlist dead enemies into his Shadow Army.
Elsewhere, a dungeon break (essentially a ‘break’ between the barriers of the real world and the system’s world) has seen S-rank monsters head to the Korean mainland.
And that’s the story so far. What next? We expect Solo Leveling season 2 to adapt the Red Gate Arc (chapters 46-55), and that’s something that has been setup by the ReAwakening movie packaging season 2’s first two episodes together. Given how quickly the series raced through Chugong’s source material, we would also expect the series to edge towards the hotly anticipated Demon Castle Arc (chapters 56-75) in its first half. While we won’t give away spoilers here, it should be Jin-Woo’s toughest challenge yet – and sees the hunter heading into an S-Rank dungeon.
While we don’t have confirmation just yet, we wouldn’t be surprised to see season 2 and on the Return to Demon Castle Arc, but we’ll have more news about where the series ends up in 2025.
Solo Leveling season 2 is expected to last for 13 episodes, which would take it through January, February, and into March at the end of the winter 2025 season.
