Solo Leveling Season 2 Staff Counts Down to Episode 1 Premiere With Illustrations

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise From the Shadow- begins tomorrow with Episode 1, and the staff has been revealing count down illustrations daily leading up to it. The anime by A-1 Pictures was voted the most anticipated show of Winter 2025, with Crunchyroll set to stream it worldwide.

Update (Jan 4): The anime premiered, revealing the opening and ending songs, as well as an Igrit shadow visual and battle video.

You can see the illustrations from the staff below.

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Key Animator: Hajime Nakagawa

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Key Animator: Kaito Hashimoto

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Key Animator: Atsushi Yonezawa

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Key Animator: Takafumi Torii

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Action Director: Hirokatsu Maruyama

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Action Director: Yoshihiro Kanno

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Chief Animation Director: Hirotaka Tokuda

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Chief Animation Director: Chiaki Furuzumi

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Chief Animation Director: Tomoko Sudo

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Director Shunsuke Nakashige

The main Solo Leveling Season 2 anime staff includes:

• Director: Shunsuke Nakashige
• Series Composition: Noboru Kimura
• Character Designer: Tomoko Sudo
• Sub-Character Designer: Chiaki Kozumi
• Monster Designer: Hirotaka Takuda
• Prop Design: Soutarou Shiraishi
• Action Director: Yoshihiro Kanno, Hirokatsu Maruyama
• Main Animator: Takafumi Tori, Kaito Hashimoto, Hajime Nakagawa
• Art Director: Yasuhiro Okumura
• Color Design: Naomi Nakano
• Director of Photography: Daichi Iseki
• CG Director: Toshitaka Morioka
• Motion Graphics: Hiromu Oshiro (Production I.G.)
• Editing: Yuji Kondo
• Sound Director: Ryo Tanaka
• Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
• Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

The new season will also have theme songs from TK from Ling Tosite Sigure and LiSA, with Hiroyuki Sawano as the music composer. You can hear both of the theme songs in the last released trailer.

The Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- movie premiered in North American theaters on December 6. It featured the first two episodes of the new season, and you can also check out our spoiler-free review.

Source: Solo Leveling Official X
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