Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter” gives Jin-woo three things in his life. The first is fame for his actions. The second is fortune from the random stuff he collected in his rise to power. The third is a boat-load of fear. Both from his enemies, and from himself as he wonders how to protect the people he cares about with his newfound power.

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter”: Details

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That light shining on Jin-woo is coming from spotlights, and he’s not pleased at it.

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter” is the seventh episode is the sixth episode (you can read my review of the anime film containing Ep. 13-14, and then Ep. 15, Ep. 16, Ep. 17, and Ep. 18 here) of the second season of this dark urban fantasy and portal fantasy action anime, and the 19th episode overall. You can read my reviews of all 12 episodes of the first season here.

Said anime series is the anime adaptation of the South Korean web novel and webtoon of the same name by writer Chugong and featuring illustrations by Jang Sung-rak (aka DUBU), with h-goon adapting it into a manhwa form later. A-1 Pictures (Black Butler, Sword Art Online, Lycoris Recoil) is the animation studio behind this anime film. Crunchyroll is the company licensing this anime film for its global release. Save for in SEA region, where Medialink is the company licensing this anime film there.

Production Cast

Hiromu Ōshiro is the director and storyboarder behind Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter”, with Yoshikazu Tominaga as the writer, and Chiaki Furuzumi as the chief animation director. As for Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- as a whole, Shunsuke Nakashige is still the director, and Noboru Kimura is still the screenwriter.  Yasuhiro Okumura is the background art director, Yuji Kondo is the editor, Tomoko Sudo is the character designer, Hirotaka Tokuda is the monster designer, Toshitaka Morioka is the CG director, Naomi Nakano is the color designer, Ryo Tanaka is the sound director, Daichi Iseki is the VFX director, Sotaro Shiriaishi is the prop designer, Hiromu Oshiro is responsible for motion graphics, and Hiroyuki Sawano composes all the music we hear in the anime film.

Speaking of that music: the opening theme song for this second season is “Reawaker” by Lisa (feat. Felix of Stray Kids). Meanwhile, “Un-Apex” by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure is the ending theme song.

Voice Cast

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter” features the voice of Taito Ban (Aleks Le in English dub) as Sung Jinwoo.

Other notable voice roles in this episode include Haruna Mikawa (Rebecca Wang in English dub) as Sung Jin-ah, Genta Nakamura (Justin Briner in English dub) as Yoo Jin-ho, Hiroki Tōchi (Christopher R. Sabat in English dub) as Baek Yoon-ho, Daisuke Hirakawa (Ian Sinclair in English dub) as Choi Jong-in, Makoto Furukawa (SungWon Cho in English dub) as Woo Jin-chul, and Banjō Ginga (Kent Williams in English dub) as Go Gun-hee.

When and Where to Watch

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter” made its airing and streaming (aka. simulcast) debut on February 15, 2025. You can watch this episode only on Crunchyroll. In fact, you can watch this entire anime series only on Crunchyroll due to it being an exclusive there.

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter”: Synopsis

Alas, she doesn’t even appear in this episode.

Alas, Solo Leveling is still an ongoing anime series. In fact, Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter” only just made its debut five days ago as of this writing. Thus, I shall give you the official synopsis from Crunchyroll in place of a spoiler-filled plot summary. You can check synopsis that out below:

Jinwoo officially becomes an S-Rank hunter, allowing him to finalize his preparations for the Demon’s Castle.

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter”: The Good

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He really doesn’t like this fame, and he’s not faking that either.

Amazingly, the story of Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter” manages to be nearly on par with the action. Mostly due to this episode actually taking the time to build up the world around Jin-woo instead of just leaving it all a barely legible overview. We actually start to see what the world looks like, and even get promises of the world outside Korea for once. Oh, and Jin-woo shows off just a little bit more depth of personality here, mostly by deploying his summon-on-the-fly army to protect people he cares about. That does seem to indicate that he does care about their safety, which makes him a bit more likeable than most other power fantasy protagonists.

Alas though, the fight scenes are still the bread and butter of this anime. At least they’re still as great as always. Let’s jsut say that when Jin-woo heads back into that weird burning city dungeon, he finds time to take out creepy and/or epic creatures in style. Either that, or the new members of his Shadow Army does.

Of course, those fight scenes wouldn’t nearly be as good without the hard work of A-1 Pictures. Their animation team continues to make the fight scenes looks amazingly fluid, with action that’s very easy to follow and aesthetically quite pleasing. It does make me wonder at my own tastes when I’m watching this anime primarily for its fight scenes, but alas, that seems to be in vogue now with mainstream culture in general.

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter”: The Bad

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Yes, he really is trying to threaten someone who doesn’t work for him.

Funnily enough though, most of the action of Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Ep. 19 “The 10th S-Rank Hunter” occurs in the final third of the episode. Everything before that is just Jin-wo trying to get his S-rank accreditation just to be able to sell valuable stuff without raising eyebrows. If you want more of that action, then might I suggest watching Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kaiju No. 8, DDDD, DAN DA DAN, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II, and/or Zenshu. Those other anime series should have more than enough action to satisfy your inner action junkie, and have plenty of story and characters to make them even more interesting to boot.

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