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like,, the whole idea of solo leveling,, is it's a reverse isekai. the fictional world comes to them. the world was normal in the beginning.
not only that, japan was known for having some of the most powerful s-rank hunters to begin with. to insert sung jinwoo into japan not only draws away from that lore and the fact that japan has the 2nd largest s-rank guild in asia,, but completely erases the arc of jeju island together, because jeju island is korean. not japanese.
ik there's a lot of hostility and history between japan and korea,, but i wish solo leveling was like lookism instead, and was going to be adapted by a korean animation team instead, bcs it feels like the anime is gonna be entirely different from the manhwa and the novel. fuck anime companies fr. feels like the percy jackson series all over again (with how the large corporations change the entire plot of the series that was already popular, and try to "simplify" it for movie-watchers)