Grammy-nominated Colombian singer J Balvin will direct “important role” in English/Spanish dubs
Crunchyroll supplied on Wednesday that Grammy-nominated Colombian singer J Balvin is joining the English and Spanish dub casts for Solo Leveling Season 2 -Come up from the Shadow-, the 2d season of the Solo Leveling anime. The firm did not specify which persona J Balvin will direct, but listed it as an “important role.”

© Solo Leveling Animation Partners

© Solo Leveling Animation Partners
Crunchyroll started streaming the anime’s English dub on January 18.
The English solid, which positive aspects returning contributors, involves:
- Aleks Le as Sung Jinwoo
- Rebecca Wang as Sung Jinah
- Daman Mills as Barca
- Emi Lo as Han Tune-Yi
- Patrick Seitz as Kim Chul
- Trina Nishimura as Park Heejin
- Geoff Bisente as Stride Myunghwan
- SungWon Cho as Woo Jinchul
- Matthew David Rudd as Hwang Dongsoo
- Ian Sinclair as Choi Jong-In
- Kent Williams as Stride Gunhee
- Christopher R. Sabat as Baek Yoonho
- Cory Yee as Ahn Sangmin
- Anthony Bowling as Hyun Kichul
- Sally Vahle as Trainer
- Monica Flatley and Kirsty Johnson as College students
- Bryson Baugus, Aiden Call, Ethan Gallardo, Brandon Acosta as B-Unpleasant Members
- Drew Breedlove as C-Unpleasant Member
- Aiden Call as Ice Elf
Caitlin Glass is directing the dub, and Samantha Herek is producing. Jessica Sluys is adapting the script. Gino Palencia is the mixer, and Jamal Roberson is the engineer.
The 2d season debuted on January 4. Crunchyroll is streaming the 2d season.
LiSA and Felix from South Korean boy band Stray Childhood are performing the opening theme song “ReawakeR (feat. Felix of Stray Kids).” Hiroyuki Sawano (Assault on Titan, Blue Exorcist, Destroy la Destroy, Cell Swimsuit Gundam UC) produced the song, and is returning as the anime’s composer. TK from Ling Tosite Sigure performs the ending theme song “UN-APEX.”
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-, a compilation film for the Solo Leveling anime’s first season and a preview of the first two episodes of the 2d season screened in Japan from November 29 to December 12. Crunchyroll and Sony Images screened Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- on December 6 in decide theaters in the U.S. and Canada.
The anime won in the 2024 Astra TV Awards’ original “Best Anime Series” category.
The first season of the anime of author Chugong and the slack artist DUBU‘s (REDICE Studio) Solo Leveling webcomic debuted in Japan final January. Crunchyroll added the English dub of the anime in the identical month.
Crunchyroll describes the legend:
It is been over a decade since the surprising look of the “gates”—the paths that connect our world with a varied dimension. Since then, sure folks like woke as a lot as supernatural powers. We call these contributors “hunters.” Hunters make their residing by the usage of their powers to triumph over dungeons interior the gates. On this world of not easy customers, the low-ranked hunter Jinwoo Sung is identified as “the weakest hunter of all mankind.” One day, Jinwoo will get fatally injured when he runs into high-corrupt double dungeons hidden within a low-corrupt dungeon. Precise then, a mysterious quest window appears to be in entrance of him. On the verge of death, Jinwoo decides to unprejudiced secure the quest and starts leveling up… whereas the others are not.
Shunsuke Nakashige (Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory) directed the anime series at A-1 Images, and Noboru Kimura (Gundam Fabricate Divers, Nyaruko: Crawling with Like!) served as the head author. Tomoko Sudo (Alice in Borderland, Fragtime) designed the characters, and Sawano unruffled the song.
The webcomic adaptation of Chugong‘s Solo Leveling new series, with illustrations by DUBU, launched on WEBTOON companies in March 2018 and resulted in December 2021. Yen Press publishes the webcomic and customary new series in English, and several companies together with Tapas liberate the web new and webcomic digitally. Kadokawa publishes the webcomic in Japanese below the title Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken (I’m the Most involving One Who Has Leveled Up).
The webcomic is also inviting a Korean live-motion adaptation.
Daul (Dungeon Reset, Infinite Reset) launched the Solo Leveling: Ragnarok sequel web new on Kakao Web whine in April 2023 and it is miles ongoing. Tapas started releasing the web new in English in January 2024.
Artist JIN (REDICE) and adaptor Brix (REDICE) launched the Solo Leveling: Ragnarok webcomic adaptation on Kakao Web whine on August 1. Tapas started publishing the webcomic in English starting up on November 11.
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