Now, I love a good webnovel (check out Lord of the Mysteries, PEAK fiction), and I liked Solo Leveling back when it first came out. I read it every day from chapter 1 to 270 when it ended, and since it was my first introduction to Korean webnovels, it was enjoyable, BUT OH MY GOD HAS IT BEEN A PLAGUE SINCE.

The story, while fine, isn't anything noteworthy - the art of the manwha carried it tremendously. But the real annoying thing is what it did to the rest of the Korean webnovels who saw its success.

If I ever have to pick one up and see a gate of monsters, or a tower that mysteriously appeared, or E/D/C/B/A/S/SS/SSS rank heroes again, I'm gonna go ballistic. Now, while I know Solo Leveling itself did not invent these things, it certainly did popularize them. I hate gates, I hate ranks, I hate towers with bullshit floors that have impossible challenges every 5 or 10 floors that the protagonists solve in the most impossible of ways. And Solo Leveling's BULLSHITTERY is what's to blame.