After the last episode of season 1 of the anime Solo Levelingfans have been eagerly awaiting the English dubbed version of Episode 12. However, the hype surrounding the final episode has turned toxic, causing a backlash from the voice actor behind the main character Sung Jinwoo.
Aleks Le, who voices Jinwoo in the English dub, has faced a wave of threatening messages online. These threats revolve around the “Arise” sequence in the finale. In a recent TikTok video, Le revealed that he received thousands of messages asking him to deliver his lines perfectly.
One such message read: “If you don't say ARISE right, I swear I WILL FIND YOU and then Sung Jin-woo will not bring you back.”
In response to the threats, Le took a comedic approach by taunting fans with a series of humorous variations on the scene in question.
“You are so excited,” Le said. You are worrying. I get it, but here's the thing. I'm not talking about polite comments asking me to do a good job. No, not those things.” He then warned: “If you continue to spam my comments section with threats, if you continue to threaten me about this scene, I will change it to'Wake up'. I'll change it to 'wake up'. … I'll change it to 'wake up, buddy… it's time to go to school.'”
Although his initial response was light in tone, Le promised fans that he was committed to delivering a powerful performance during Jinwoo's important moment, and urged fans to set expectations while waiting for the final episode to release. He emphasizes patience and avoids over-exaggeration.
“Jokes aside, the episode comes out in less than two weeks… I'm going to do my own thing. Just wait, be patient and don't over-exaggerate yourself.”
Solo Leveling The English dub will premiere on January 20, 2024.
English voice cast includes:
Aleks Le as Sung Jinwoo Justin Briner as Yoo Jinho Rebecca Wang as Sung Jinah Michelle Rojas as Cha Hae-in Ian Sinclair as Choi Jong-in Christopher R. Sabat as Baek Yoonho Kent Williams as Go Gunhee SungWon Cho as Woo Jinchul Dani Chambers as Lee Joohee
Caitlin Glass is serving as ADR Director for the English dub.
Solo Leveling The anime aired from January 7 to March 31, 2024, in Japan.
Shunsuke Nakashige directed the anime, with Noboru Kimura writing the script. Tomoko Sudo is responsible for the character designs and Hiroyuki Sawano is composing the music.
Solo Leveling is a Korean web novel written by Chugong. It was serialized on Kakao's digital manga and novel platform KakaoPage starting on July 25, 2016 and was later published in full by D&C Media under their Papyrus label on November 4, 2016. .
A webtoon adapted from the story Solo Leveling first serialized on KakaoPage on March 4, 2018; it is illustrated by Jang Sung-Rak (aka Dubu), CEO of Redice Studio. The first season of the webtoon ended on March 19, 2020, and the second season began on August 1, 2020, ending in December 2021 with the 179th chapter.
Source: Comics