Ore dake Level Up na Ken Season 2: Arise from the Shadow Episode 11 Discussion

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Mar 15, 8:27 AM

Stark700

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This looked almost hopeless. Endless swarm of ant monsters and their king boss against a group of raiders.

It was both an intense and emotional episode imo. It just felt like death was imminent at any moment. Good to see a variety of characters fight including Cha Hae-In. She does live up to her name after all. Ending got more interesting with Shun. Next episode should be even more exciting.

Mar 15, 8:31 AM

Ricky16

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Finally It's time for our boss jinwoo to appear on the battlefield.
🔥
Definitely this was an intense episode.
Our Healer😭

Mar 15, 8:34 AM

thebrentinator24

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Jesus Christ this has lived up to the hype so far. That ant king wasn’t even breaking a sweat mowing down the strongest Hunters you could possibly dispatch. It was painful to see muh wifey Cha Hae-In get ragdolled like that 😞 but yea they nailed that menacing presence, I was just in awe with what was happening. I even let out a loud “oh shit” when the healer guy got his head eaten 💀

Of course after how well things went initially, everything had to go south, especially when they pulled out the OST from season 1 when Jinwoo slaughtered those scumbag Hunters in episode 6 (I think I got the episode correct). Now it’s time for the boy to come save the day, as expected.

People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime.

Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait.

MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol.

Mar 15, 9:47 AM

Goukenslay

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2 more episodes. We finally see our boi come in
Goto saying he felt this aura makes no sense in the anime since they cut out that part where he does sense it

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Mar 15, 10:01 AM

KingSlowDown

boop boop

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Mar 2018

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Cha's moment gave me goosebumps, can't wait for the climax next ep

死だけが確実

Mar 15, 10:02 AM

komic

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Damn that ending gave me goosebumps.

iSignature

Mar 15, 10:03 AM

oreinjji

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next week's episode gonna be spicy

Mar 15, 10:05 AM

iDre4M

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Oh baby... it's coming...

Mar 15, 10:06 AM

IzanaSolos

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Yikes... animation wasn't the best this episode. Wasn't bad.. but yeah, yikes. Just like last season's episode eleven that looked pretty rough as well.

What a disgrace for them to use DARK ARIA this episode... didn't even match the scene imo lol. Whatever, only two episodes left I guess.

Mar 15, 10:06 AM

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amf85

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Every ending is just going to be a cliffhanger at this point.

Ant General fight music was the good stuff.

Mar 15, 10:09 AM

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deg

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animation quality drop this episode i guess the high priority episode is next week

because time for jinwoo to fight the ant king next

shadow exchange

Mar 15, 10:10 AM

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Reply to amf85

Every ending is just going to be a cliffhanger at this point.

Ant General fight music was the good stuff.

@amf85 he is best boi after all

Mar 15, 10:11 AM

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PurpleMiku

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Most abusive cliffhanger of my LIFE

Mar 15, 10:12 AM

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FrozenRaider

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Eyyyyy.exchange !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there."

"Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life."

Mar 15, 10:13 AM

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Ba_Dreamer

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Always a cliffhanger...

Mar 15, 10:15 AM

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Mat5i6

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This was a weird one. The combat was very mid, some moments looked good and then the whole Cha slicing the ants happen 🤮. No Jin-Woo (not counting those 3s at the end) didn't helped it either. All these hunters are nice and all, but other than the core crew Baek, Cha and Choi, I had no interest in. The healer dying was completely expected. Only thing that surprised me was Cha getting hurt. I fully expected Jin-Woo deus machina himself before that happens.

Mar 15, 10:18 AM

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Pre_Yum

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We lost too many of our people and the ants were way too strong, especially the Walking Ant. All the S-Rank Hunters were like nothing in front of him. That's one terrifying ant. Even the strongest looked like nothing in front of him.

And, now it's time for Jinwoo to enter the battle through Exchange with one of his shadows which he left before the team leaving for the Island.

Mar 15, 10:20 AM

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LangleyAsuka

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Bro was written only so he could have the most gruesome death possible, poor Byung Gyu

Mar 15, 10:22 AM

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Senpaiiiiiiiii

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After half the team dies, our op protagonist here thinks it's finally his time to show off 👏👏👏

Mar 15, 10:24 AM

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alphazero4um

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This episode was awesome. The moment that song played. We all knew it was not going to end well. The Ant King was beyond angry. Ant King was Jinwoo that moment. The only difference was that Ant King looked like he killed one Hunter. Looking forward to the next episode.

Mar 15, 10:25 AM

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deg

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Reply to Senpaiiiiiiiii

After half the team dies, our op protagonist here thinks it's finally his time to show off 👏👏👏

@Senpaiiiiiiiii lol welp if only jinwoo is right there with them from the start am i right then no one on the team will die

Mar 15, 10:25 AM

#22

Marinate1016

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A-1 clearly saving up some budget for Jinwoo next week because this episode while solid, looked noticeably worse than the last few. Especially the scene of Cha taking out the ants lol. I can’t wait to see Jinwoo take on this new type of ant tho. He easily solo’s all the S ranks. Just how crazy is the power scaling in this show going to get if the S ranks are already outclassed??!

I still don’t get why Jinwoo ain’t go on that raid from the beginning tho!! Several lives could’ve been saved

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Mar 15, 10:26 AM

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phantomfandom

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With only 2 episodes left I don't think I'll meet Jinwoo's DILF again. Which is such a shame because this season is pretty good so far.

Mar 15, 10:26 AM

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MyNameSans

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I can see why people are saying that there's an animation downgrade, I also felt it but the episode still looked really good for the most of it. Not to mention the actual content being adapted was actually really good, I can see why people like Jeju Island so much.

I absolutely LOVE the use of Dark Aria when Beru was straight up toying with our crew, creating a parallel to the time Jinwoo was killing those guys back in episode 6 i think, a being way out of the league of the people in front of it, except this time we are rooting for the people getting frankly annihialated and not the absurdly broken being killing them. Highlight of the episode for sure.

Soooo Japan was actually planning to kill off the koreans so that they are left without any powerful hunters. Should've seen it coming honestly, I am suprised I didn't really predict that was going to happen.

Next episode is the big one. I wanna keep my expectations in check, but I'm really hoping that it's on the level of Jinwoo vs Igris. That fight specifically because it thad the best storyboard BY FAR out of the 3 big ones we've had so far. Baran might've had the best animation maybe, but the storyboard there I was personally not a fan of. Aside from animation, I wanna be able to see what's happening without having to rewatch 10 times to understand a single action. I'm sure the next episode will LOOK great, Im just hoping the STORYBOARD will also be up to par.

Mar 15, 10:28 AM

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This was an insane episode and ngl I predicted this episode perfectly in my head. They go kill the queen ant and get whooped by that super soldier ant only to have Jinwoo come in at the end to save them and I imagine he'll go fight the super soldier ant as well.

I gotta point out though that sequence of Cha getting the final hits on the queen ant was animated absolutely beautifully I genuinely think the way she fights is so much cooler than Jinwoo, she's just so beautiful with how she moves. I doubt she's dead but man did she get hit hard so she's definitely gonna be out of it for the rest of the island raid. Honestly I see why people love her character now.

man this season completely blows season 1 out of the water.

Mar 15, 10:28 AM

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LangleyAsuka

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Reply to Senpaiiiiiiiii

After half the team dies, our op protagonist here thinks it's finally his time to show off 👏👏👏

@Senpaiiiiiiiii This played out life a worst version of OPM

Mar 15, 10:28 AM

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Ambeon

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Absolutely cruel what they do to us this episode, they basically spent an entire episode playing around just so the glazing thats about to happen w/ jinwoo is that much more saucy. Can't wait for next week. This is one of the shows I wish i never started until i could binge it all.

Mar 15, 10:32 AM

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0451

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Damn. The ant king is terrifying. I like how he is almost like a Predator-like threat.

Saw Byung-gu's death coming from a mile away. He just looked like the type who'd go to war just to die and become motivation for other characters.

The Japanese hunters are dicks for ordering a retreat. But I guess in the end it's just what politics is like. They like using buttery words and do things only for their own self-interest.

Finally, Jinwoo decided to step in at the end. I wonder how long he was watching things go apeshit before deciding that maybe he should go. Of course, he's the hero. And the hero must always arrive late to look cool. Wonder how much death he could've prevented if he went to the mission from the start or arrived just a bit earlier.

I hate these cliffhangers.

⭐𝘜𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘪 𝘠𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘢⭐

Mar 15, 10:35 AM

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adbeaver

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Black ant out here aura farming.

Calm down kids, papa is here.

Cliffhanger game on point as usual, peak incoming.

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Mar 15, 10:36 AM

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Natsuo_Fuji_69

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did not meet the expectation that manhwa set

Mar 15, 10:38 AM

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Zane_0

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HOLY SHIT ACTUALLY HAD GOOSEBUMPS AND SHAKING LIKE CRAZY ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY PLAYED THE SONG AGAIN DARK ARIA

This is the same song they played for jin woo

https://image.myanimelist.net/ui/5LYzTBVoS196gvYvw3zjwBG6tfTPUwigsf2iPyCSvPg

Mar 15, 10:39 AM

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dkeniji98

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At this point there is no more words but one PEAK!!!

Mar 15, 10:40 AM

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APlouVR

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Brutal and bloody

Mar 15, 10:42 AM

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UTMAN

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As someone who so far really enjoyed this show... this episode was one of the worst episodes so far. Which is a shame.
Wanted to give it a 1/5 but the animation/music bumped it up to a measly 2/5. So far the worst arc.
I really hate when a show is not really consistent with its characters and the villain here is just not there....

It goes outside the nest and literally goes for 1 hit kills, immediately beheading the Japanese hunters. I can respect that.
Goes back into the nest, and for the Korean hunters, for some reason, let's call it BS plot armor, instead of killing them by one hit like the Japanese ones, he just do blunt attacks, or just goes for limbs. Then TALKS with them. THen he leaves them alive and leaves.... to go back to the Japanese where he goes back from blunt attacks right back to beheading attacks. Like.... I know the writer hates Japan but lol, at least he would not make it so obvious....

Mar 15, 10:43 AM

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alinsan96

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It was perfect this episode, especially how it ends and we announce a glorious new episode!!

Mar 15, 10:44 AM

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shiratori90

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One of the best episodes I've seen in months!!!

Mar 15, 10:47 AM

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Skuvan

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OH MY GOD, BERU'S ENTRANCE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY BETTER, SERIOUSLY, DEBUT OF THE YEAR, AND THE DARK ARIA FROM S1'S EPISODE 6, OH MY GOD. Also, such a cliffhanger should be illegal, the way he just said it without a care in the world, confident that he will go and show Beru his place, in a literal sense, our aura farmer has gone MAD. Excited for the upcoming 2 episodes and the fights being the masterpiece of a conclusion for the season!

Mar 15, 10:48 AM

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Complete peak of a massacre.

Behold of my awesomeness~
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But my feels.

Mar 15, 10:53 AM

#39

deg

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@UTMAN well thats why you watch solo leveling for the rule of cool and not for realism

Mar 15, 10:53 AM

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Alex_the_reaper

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next ep should be a hour special

Mar 15, 10:54 AM

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amf85

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@UTMAN There are plausible reasons, IE the Ant General is mentally screwed up by the death of the queen and the team is being kept alive by a cloaked healer who can regenerate otherwise instantly deadly wounds (at least initially).

But yes, the real reason is obviously plot armor, otherwise the Ant would have just decapitated them all.

Mar 15, 10:54 AM

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Cid_the_Shadow

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Beru is on rampage

Mar 15, 10:56 AM

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UTMAN

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@UTMAN well thats why you watch solo leveling for the rule of cool and not for realism

@deg I don't care about realism. I expect consistent character writing. Which this show failed with its current villain.

Mar 15, 10:58 AM

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deg

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@deg I don't care about realism. I expect consistent character writing. Which this show failed with its current villain.

@UTMAN if you do not care about realism then use suspension of disbelief at least

its not a serious logical show

Mar 15, 10:58 AM

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pietro--

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EXCHANGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Mar 15, 10:58 AM

#46

UTMAN

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@amf85 A one shot to the head/beheading not a SSS healer can get you up lol. And I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact if he would not go back to the Japanese and one shot the girl and

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It's blatant plot armor, which is sad because so far the show masked it's plot armor pretty well, and its villains even though they were pretty one dimensional... they were decent in a way that they were written consistently with their characters.

Mar 15, 10:59 AM

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Kamquat420

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Just when you think they can't possibly top the last cliffhanger, we get "exchange"

Mar 15, 11:00 AM

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Soooo the animation downgrade is very noticeable and that was disappointing tbh… Because I expected them to give the hunters a moment here but well the story did, and they did add extra fight action for Beru which is a big W in my opinion.

Beru literally got Sung jinwoo’s moment even lol. They literally moved the part where the S rank (sorry forgot his name but well now everyone knows why I don’t remember it lol) to Beru. Also the song for Beru, perfect, but like I said it is disappointing to see the animation drop here.

Now for the bright side, now we are sure that next episode is gonna go Animation brrrrrr. So I will give this episode the benefit of the doubt and just wait and see.

There’s another disappointment I have, but I will still wait and see before it.

Mar 15, 11:00 AM

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Soooo the animation downgrade is very noticeable and that was disappointing tbh… Because I expected them to give the hunters a moment here but well the story did, and they did add extra fight action for Beru which is a big W in my opinion.

Beru literally got Sung jinwoo’s moment even lol. They moved the part where the S rank (sorry forgot his name but well now everyone knows why I don’t remember it lol) felt fear from sung to Beru. Also the song for Beru, perfect, but like I said it is disappointing to see the animation drop here. Because otherwise, I think everyone would have loved this episode.

Now for the bright side, now we are sure that next episode is gonna go Animation brrrrrr. So I will give this episode the benefit of the doubt and just wait and see.

There’s another disappointment I have, but I will still wait and see before it.

Note though: surprisingly one of the best pacing we had for an episode, no kidding. No weird cuts.

Confused_100Mar 15, 11:11 AM

Mar 15, 11:01 AM

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UTMAN

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@UTMAN if you do not care about realism then use suspension of disbelief at least

its not a serious logical show

@deg Once again, that can be applied to worlds, settings, powers etc. Not for character writing, which failed in this arc's villain pretty badly.

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