Ore dake Level Up na Ken Season 2: Arise from the Shadow Episode 2 Discussion

I still don't know if every single action he takes is predetermined by the system, but I still think he could've thought of using better words at the end...

Since he couldn't get the awesome Head Elf, do you think he took any of the others in case he ever needs archers?

Sung Jinwoo's group had a whole deli going on at the camp fire, intestinal-casing sausages and all; they were eating good that past week. I wonder what bear meat tastes like.

That leader Kim is pissed at them for being well-equipped, while he literally left them to die and even bragged about it to the other teammates before they got wiped out...the audacity of this son of a bitch.

I like that Sung Jinwoo didn't even waste a single second waiting for the boss to finish talking before taking the head of that other elf dude...just like they killed the weakest members of their original group in an ambush in the last episode. What comes around, goes around.

I suppose those ice elves are that other world/dimension's equivalent to "players", similar to how the system forces Sung Jinwoo to kill other hostile humans on occasion.

What causes the newly Arisen warriors to change equipment? The killed leader had no helmet, and wielded a sword. He originally had a shield, but not at the time of his death. But after being revived as an undead shadow warrior, he now not only has a helmet, but one with big horns like Loki...and a huge battle axe/hammer like Thor in place of his sword, with a new shield too. Or maybe Sung Jinwoo can give some mana to upgrade him in the process, explaining the bulk in size as well. I don't think the shadow warriors use the physical bodies, since the corpses of the bears were left behind after they got revived. I'm guessing since shadows can take any shape, sprinkle in some otherworld magic and souls of the undead and you got anything you can imagine. That's what I'm going with unless there's a more official explanation.

At any rate, with how dumb he was failing to see his own shortcomings and blaming others, I'm not surprised "Iron" inherited his intelligence, or rather lack thereof, perhaps even more so with him acting like a Neanderthal caveman that only knows how to smash.

So...did Sung Jinwoo end up letting the survivors keep those winter coats that were likely defeated enemy drop rewards? They honestly looked quite nice and fashionable with that quilted suede leather look, I wouldn't mind wearing something like that going out. Maybe he let them keep those coats in exchange for keeping his abilities secret until he's ready to reveal himself in the future after laying the groundwork.

Perfectly ended the episode off with a misunderstanding. I hope they never address it again, because it's that much more funnier the longer this misunderstanding goes unresolved.

Pretty mediocre episode:

Let me say that the dialogues in this anime are disarmingly banal, the problem is also the studio that puts in its Japanese bullshit like the apologies or calling each other by name when in the manhwa nothing of that happened and instead they cut the good dialogues like when the S-rank hunter is worried about Jinwoo's strength.

Then can someone explain to me how they put the OST? They put Dark Aria in the finale when it literally didn't fit and in the fight there was some nice soundtrack but nothing as spectacular as the fans described.

Not to mention that they ruined Iron's entrance quite a bit, in the manhwa it was spectacular but here it all seemed so forced that it even creates inconsistencies about the time it took him to summon it, and as usual you don't explain anything about Jinwoo's abilities and his shadows, despite the system being a fundamental part of the work here it is totally cut.

And then why is the pace so fast? In season 1 they were making the scenes a lot longer while here they are shortening them unnecessarily, well, the only good stuff is some animated scenes, but it's certainly not a good job considering all the negative points. I'm really surprised that it's so appreciated despite having many things that don't work in these episodes

@Leon888 I get where you're coming from, but if they went into detail about every single thing, there would be whole episodes of him just explaining skills and stuff, that would be horrendously boring.
In this episode they even did very well with SHOWING you how things work instead of going into an info dump monologue.


A quote from the Manhwa when Baek questioned Jinwoo at the end:
"Seems I've let out my frustrations on you. You're right. I apologize."

Also from the Manhwa when Jinwoo drops off Song-Yi:


Kindly re-read the manhwa before you complain about the unfaithfulness of the anime. Because you're really just spouting nonsense at this point.
They've done a fantastic job adapting it so far. Yes, there have been times that were lacking an explaination, but those are VERY few and mostly rather unimportant.

The pace isn't fast at all imo. But I'm also watching Donghua, so I'm kinda used to fast paced anime atp. Calling this episode mediocre, even if unsatisfied with the show overall, is just wild.

I don't think they could have adapted this better. Thank God this series got the treatment it deserves.

Iv'e seen over a hundred different anime and this takes the cake as one of the best ones that I've seen. Especially love that there was some extra scenes from the movie too!

So the auto-translate and the voice tagging him not a target is part of the system designating him as Player, but what about the glitch in the Barca's dialogue, is that the system overwriting his script or something else?

He let Igris kill Kim, extract and resummoned him as a stronger Shadow all in that span of several seconds under the cover of that snow/blizzard thingie. Beaten Barca by gangbanging him. LOL Too bad he couldn't extract him being perhaps too high level, I hope his dagger has good specs/stats after all that effort.

At least Baek still shows some restraint not pushing Jin for more info and humility when he reminded him of his rescue of a quarter of their members from the gate. Hwang most definitely will go straight for his throat when he came out of the gate if he was still there.

Funny scenes with Iron looking at Igris but Igris turned away so he looked for the shadow mages' support instead! LOL And the other Jin misinterpreting things in the end.

@Vedrun Bah you also focus on the minimal aspects and don't really pay attention to the differences: in the manhwa Baek also apologizes because he feels the enormous strength that Jinwoo emanates, in the anime instead he apologizes twice (the 2nd time was cringe) and doesn't even say anything about Jinwoo's strength, about the name as you can see in the manhwa he doesn't give it too much importance, in the anime it seemed as if there had been a radical change after having said it which was very annoying to hear.

Leaving aside this part and I reconfirm that the dialogues in the anime are incredibly banal, I have expressed many other points that you accidentally didn't mention or answer, but you tell me to go and reread the manhwa when I know the contents that they skipped or modified and saying that the explanations are irrelevant is very wrong given that the work initially focused a lot on the characters' statistics.

And I call this episode mediocre because it's not enough to simply have a little bit of action and ignore the rest to say that it's a well-managed episode, especially considering that the manhwa made all of this much better since you could really feel the tension of the fight also due to all the disadvantages listed of Jinwoo, here instead they made it pass as yet another generic battle focusing only on the action and not on the context in which it takes place

@Leon888 I will once again quote your exact words:


And I was saying this is untrue, because it is. If you were merely complaining about how they changed the dialoge up a bit, then you should have written that, and not changed the meaning of your words in your next reply, just because it benefits your point. You clearly said NOTHING OF THAT HAPPENED. Yes it did.

Am I obligated to mention all of your points? I simply don't agree with them. To me the dialogue brings across the same meaning it did in the manhwa most of the time. The OST placement was fitting. I didn't see a reason to mention it. Sometimes these things are just up to taste. I do think the timing of the battle OST in Ep1 could've been timed better, but that's beside the point because this is an Ep2 discussion.

I know content has been skipped and modified. It was a given this was gonna happen. I still think they're mostly minor things. You act like the dialogue has lost all its meaning just because some things are worded slightly different sometimes. Obviously they can't always quote the manhwa word for word, because it wouldn't fit the pace of the animation. That would result in a lot of boring still frames that get dragged out a lot, just for a little bit of more information. It works in Novel and Manhwa format, but not in anime format.