{"id":111855,"date":"2025-02-08T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=111855"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:28:05","slug":"solo-leveling-season-2-highlights-the-powerful-kiba-in-new-shadow-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/02\/08\/solo-leveling-season-2-highlights-the-powerful-kiba-in-new-shadow-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Leveling Season 2 Highlights the Powerful KIBA in New Shadow Visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/01\/18\/the-menacing-tank-takes-over-in-new-solo-leveling-season-2-shadow-visual\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new shadow visual<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been released for the ongoing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/02\/05\/colombian-reggaeton-artist-j-balvin-to-voice-key-character-in-solo-leveling-season-2s-english-spanish-dub\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> TV anime series, highlighting the powerful spirit of KIBA. Season two first premiered in Japan on January 4, 2025 and will run for 13 episodes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_111860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111860\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"111860\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/02\/08\/solo-leveling-season-2-highlights-the-powerful-kiba-in-new-shadow-visual\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?fit=1449%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1449,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"solo leveling kiba shadow visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 SLANM&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?fit=696%2C983&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-111860\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=350%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"solo leveling kiba shadow visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=725%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1085&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=1087%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1087w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=1068%2C1509&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?w=1449&amp;ssl=1 1449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-1.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9Solo Leveling Animation Partners<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Additionally, a 16th new pick up battle video was posted on the Japanese Aniplex YouTube channel, featuring Jinwoo\u2019s action-packed fight against Karlargan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010\ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc0a \ud835\udc14\ud835\udc0f \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc04 #\ud835\udfcf\ud835\udfd4\u3011\u6c34\u7be0\u65ecvs\u30ab\u30eb\u30ac\u30eb\u30ac\u30f3 | \u300c\u4ffa\u3060\u3051\u30ec\u30d9\u30eb\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u306a\u4ef6 Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-\u300d\u6bce\u9031\u571f\u66dc24:00\u3088\u308a\u653e\u9001\u4e2d\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lOg4bCztm4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the staff members from season one are returning to work on the second season, including <\/span><b>Shunsuke Nakashige<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as director, <\/span><b>Noboru Kimura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as series screenwriter, <\/span><b>Tomoko Sudo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as character designer, <\/span><b>Chiaki Kozumi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as sub-character designer, <\/span><b>Hirokatsu Maruyama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Season 1 co-main animator et al.) and <\/span><b>Yoshihiro Kanno<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as action director, and <\/span><b>Hirotaka Tokuda<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as monster designer.<\/span><b> A-1 Pictures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is handling the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Meanwhile, the anime\u2019s returning voice cast stars:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Taito Ban <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Jun Mizushino\/Jinwoo\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Reina Ueda<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Shizuku Kousaka\/Cha hae-in<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Daisuke Hirakawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Shin Mogami\/Choi Jong-in<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Hiroki Tochi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Taiga Shirakawa\/Baek Yun-ho<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Banjo Ginga <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Kiyoomi Gotou\/Go Geon-hui<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Makoto Furukawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Akira Inukai\/U Jin-cheol<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Genta Nakamura <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Kenta Morobishi\/Yoo Jin-ho<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Haruna Mikawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Aoi Mizushino\/Sung Jinah<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first season aired in Japan on January 6, 2024 and ended on March 31, 2024. The compilation film <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/10\/21\/solo-leveling-reawakening-releases-main-trailer-poster\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> screened in Japan from November 29, 2024 to December 12, 2024 and in North America on December 6, 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anime is based on the 2016 South Korean web novel written by <\/span><b>Chugong<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and illustrated by the late <\/span><b>Dubu (Redice Studio)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A webtoon drawn by the latter was released afterwards in 2018, releasing 13 volumes as of November 2024. <\/span><b>H-Goon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> later took over adapting the series in the webtoons\u2019 recent volumes being published in Japan after Dubu\u2019s passing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106798\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"106798\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/12\/21\/solo-leveling-season-2-arise-from-the-shadow-airs-january-4-releases-trailer-with-new-ending-theme\/sololeveling_s2_kv1_2x3_2000x3000\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?fit=2000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9Solo Leveling Animation Partners &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?fit=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-106798\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=350%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"solo leveling updated main key visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=696%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=1068%2C1602&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SoloLeveling_S2_KV1_2x3_2000x3000.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9Solo Leveling Animation Partners<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll is streaming the second season of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solo Leveling <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">worldwide, along with bilibili and Netflix. The former describes the main synopsis as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s been over ten years since gates that lead to another dimension have begun appearing across the world. The battles between the magic beasts inhabiting the dungeons through the gates and the human hunters who have awakened the abilities to fight them show no signs of ending. Ordinarily, a hunter\u2019s abilities do not change upon awakening, with their rank never increasing. However, the low-ranked Sung Jinwoo, known as \u201cThe Weakest Hunter of All Mankind,\u201d gained the ability to level up through battle during a raid on a double dungeon.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having completed a job-change quest that earned him the job \u201cShadow Monarch\u201d and command over an army of shadows, Jinwoo heads into battle seeking the ingredients for the Elixir of Life to save his sick mother.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sololeveling_pr\/status\/1888248446437429374\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solo Leveling Official Anime Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new shadow visual has been released for the ongoing Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- TV anime series, highlighting the powerful spirit of KIBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":111857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,14,87,78,1064,10723],"class_list":["post-111855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-a-1-pictures","tag-anime","tag-aniplex","tag-crunchyroll","tag-solo-leveling","tag-solo-leveling-season-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/solo-leveling-kiba-shadow-visual-e1739042719492.jpg?fit=1450%2C819&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-t67","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111862,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111855\/revisions\/111862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}