The key to what Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go” is about is in the title. You can basically sum up this entire episode of the anime as Sung Jin-woo going “Hey, let’s see how many risks I can take and not die”. While this is bad for him, it’s highly entertaining for us as an audience.

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go”: Details

Solo Leveling textless key visual.
This episode shows that his physical growth seems a bit disproportionate to his brain size.

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go” is the seventh episode (you can read reviews for Ep. 1, Ep. 2, Ep. 3, Ep. 4, Ep. 5, and Ep. 6 here) of the first season of this kinda sorta urban fantasy action anime. Said anime is the anime adaptation of the South Korean web novel and webtoon series of the same name by Chugong. A-1 Pictures (Black Butler, Blue Exorcist, Sword Art Online) is the animation studio behind this anime.

Yūya Horiuchi is the director behind Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go”, with Shigeru Murakoshi as the writer, Yūya Horiuchi (again) doing the storyboard, and Hirotaka Tokuda being the chief animation director. Shunsuke Nakashige is the director of Solo Leveling overall, with Noboru Kimura also being the writer for the same. Hiroyuki Sawano is the composer of the music you hear in the anime.

Speaking of music: the opening theme music for Solo Leveling as a whole is “Level” by Sawano and Tomorrow X Together. Meanwhile, “Request” by Krage is the ending theme music.

Voice Cast

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go” features the voices of Taito Ban (Aleks Le in English dub) as Sung Jin-woo, Genta Nakamura (Justin Briner in English dub) as Yoo Jin-ho, and Haruna Mikawa (Rebecca Wang in English dub) as Sung Jin-ah.

When and Where to Watch

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go” made its airing and streaming debut on February 17, 2024. You can watch this episode only on Crunchyroll at the moment. In fact, you can watch this entire anime only on Crunchyroll for the moment, due to this anime being a Crunchyroll exclusive at the time of this writing.

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go”: Synopsis

He looks unbeatable, but as it turns out, even he has his limits.

As you can tell by my previous reviews about this anime, Solo Leveling is a very recent show. In fact, Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go” only just premiered two days ago as of this writing. Thus, instead of a spoiler-filled plot summary, you will all be getting the official synopsis from Crunchyroll. You can read that below:

As Jinwoo continues his training, he completes a daily quest one day by doing more than the quest requires, and a key that leads to a certain item appears in front of him.

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go”: The Good

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 "Let's See How Far I Can Go" screenshot showing Jin-woo with much of his face splattered with blood.
Despite what it looks like, it’s a good thing here…that he’s still alive, that is.

As you might guess from all of my previous reviews, the action of Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go” is the best part about it. Not only that, but this episode truly takes the action into an epic direction. This enemy Jin-woo fights is not only the most massive compared to him so far, but it’s the fastest too. When you have a building-sized enemy moving at the speed of a Dragon Ball Z fighter in true Lightning Bruiser fashion, you know that you’re going to have a really good fight on your hands.

This is especially since throughout the entire fight, Sung Jin-woo is pretty clearly at a major disadvantage. Unlike the giant snake from before, this current enemy is basically knocking around Jin-woo with ease for the entire battle. Jin-woo is only barely able to win by the skin of his teeth, which only makes the clear gap in levels all the more clear. Honestly, this is probably why Jin-woo’s battles are so engaging. Unlike Kirito’s battles in Sword Art Online, Jin-woo so far is almost always shown to be winning by the skin of his teeth. Battles where he effortlessly crushes his enemies are few and far between.

Oh, and this is also an episode where Jin-woo remembers that he has a life outside of his eldritch video game. He gets to interact with his little sister in a fairly substantial way, for one thing. In fact, it’s even driving the plot of this episode, and why he’s taking such absurd risks here. It’s nice to see him remembering that the System isn’t his entire life.

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 “Let’s See How Far I Can Go”: The Bad

Solo Leveling Ep. 7 "Let's See How Far I Can Go" screenshot showing Jin-woo about to get creamed by Cerberus
Bad doggie, bad doggie, BAD DOGGIE!

My only complaint here is the same as my complaint in the previous reviews. I wish Sung Jin-woo would interact more with people outside of his System. Heck, I wish he would confide in someone about it already. Maybe his little sister, maybe that Yoo Jin-ho guy, just anyone. Because while the action is still great, I long for some character-driven interactions and story, for once. Maybe soon, Jin-woo might just do that. Hopefully.