{"id":117279,"date":"2025-03-26T21:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=117279"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:17:04","slug":"solo-leveling-a-1-pictures-behind-the-scenes-featured-in-aniplex-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/26\/solo-leveling-a-1-pictures-behind-the-scenes-featured-in-aniplex-after-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Leveling &amp; A-1 Pictures Behind-The-Scenes Featured in Aniplex After Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Aniplex released its newest edition to its Aniplex After Hours video series featuring <strong>Sally Amaki<\/strong>. The latest episode featured\u00a0<em>Solo Leveling<\/em> behind-the-scenes production at A-1 Pictures ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/24\/look-back-at-sung-jin-woos-journey-in-new-solo-leveling-season-2-climax-trailer\/\">series finale<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dive into the production of Solo Leveling! Aniplex After Hours Vol.4\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6F4s-IU5umY?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Many staff members from the first season are working on the second season, including\u00a0<b>Shunsuke Nakashige<\/b>\u00a0as director,\u00a0<b>Noboru Kimura<\/b>\u00a0as series screenwriter,\u00a0<b>Tomoko Sudo<\/b>\u00a0as character designer,\u00a0<b>Chiaki Kozumi<\/b>\u00a0as sub-character designer,\u00a0<b>Hirokatsu Maruyama\u00a0<\/b>(Season 1 co-main animator et al.) and\u00a0<b>Yoshihiro Kanno\u00a0<\/b>as action director, and\u00a0<b>Hirotaka Tokuda\u00a0<\/b>as monster designer.\u00a0<b>A-1 Pictures<\/b>\u00a0is once again in charge of the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Meanwhile, the anime\u2019s returning Japanese voice cast stars:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Taito Ban<\/b>\u00a0as Sung Jin-woo\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Reina Ueda\u00a0<\/b>as Cha hae-in<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Daisuke Hirakawa<\/b>\u00a0as Choi Jong-in<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Hiroki Tochi<\/b>\u00a0as Baek Yun-ho<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Banjo Ginga\u00a0<\/b>as Go Geon-hui<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Makoto Furukawa<\/b>\u00a0as U Jin-cheol<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Genta Nakamura<\/b>\u00a0as Yoo Jin-ho<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><b>\u2022 Haruna Mikawa\u00a0<\/b>as Sung Jinah<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The first season aired in Japan on January 6, 2024 and ended on March 31, 2024. A compilation film titled\u00a0<i>Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-<\/i>\u00a0screened in Japan from November 29, 2024 to December 12, 2024 and in North America on December 6, 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The anime is based on the 2016 South Korean web novel written by\u00a0<b>Chugong\u00a0<\/b>and illustrated by the late\u00a0<b>Dubu (Redice Studio)<\/b>, which released a total of 13 volumes and a side story. A webtoon manhwa illustrated by the latter was released afterwards in 2018, with 13 volumes published as of November 2024.<b>\u00a0H-Goon<\/b> later took over the series\u2019 webtoon adaptation in the latest volumes being published in Japan after Dubu\u2019s passing. Yen Press has published both the web novel and webtoon in English print.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Aniplex\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aniplex released its newest edition to its Aniplex After Hours video series featuring Sally Amaki. The latest episode featured\u00a0Solo Leveling behind-the-scenes production at A-1 Pictures ahead of the series finale.\u00a0 Many staff members from the first season are working on the second season, including\u00a0Shunsuke Nakashige\u00a0as director,\u00a0Noboru Kimura\u00a0as series screenwriter,\u00a0Tomoko Sudo\u00a0as character designer,\u00a0Chiaki Kozumi\u00a0as sub-character designer,\u00a0Hirokatsu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117280,"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":[1064,10723],"class_list":["post-117279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","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\/03\/Aniplex-After-Hours-Vol-4.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-uvB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117279"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117279"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117290,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117279\/revisions\/117290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}