When an anime is as large as Solo Leveling has been for the previous two years, you’d anticipate the studio to need to hold that hype prepare going. After it managed to obtain extra opinions on Crunchyroll than One Piece, it is clear that followers are excited for a potential season three of the present. And but, A-1 Footage hasn’t confirmed a third season of Solo Leveling is even in manufacturing, not to mention given us a potential release date. So, what precisely is the hold-up?
The impatience is considerably justified; season two of Solo Leveling was confirmed as quickly as season one ended, so all of us anticipated a related announcement to occur at the finish of March. Right here we’re, a month and a half later and nonetheless ready. It isn’t that the group behind the anime isn’t keen to get to work on extra episodes – during a Reddit AMA, they inspired followers to be as vocal as attainable of their assist for a third season.
“If we’re going to make a season 3, it’s going to take all the assist and power from the followers,” Sota Furuhashi (producer at Aniplex) and Atsushi Kaneko (animation producer at A-1 Footage) defined.
Kaneko has additionally stated in an Aniplex After Hours interview that he hopes the break can be short-term.
“With Episode 25… the TV anime sequence Solo Leveling will come to an finish for now. Will this finish be short-term or not? I truthfully don’t know what the future will convey.”
Which is a bit extra ambiguous than I think most followers had been hoping for.
No present will get made with out an viewers to watch it, however there is already a clear demand for extra Solo Leveling. It was Crunchyroll’s prime sequence throughout the Winter 2025 anime season. Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini stated he hoped that more Solo Leveling was on the way, saying that the sequence creators “need to work on a lot of reveals. Anime is actually fashionable, so there’s a lot of demand, and so we’ve to discover the proper time to get began on the subsequent season.”
It is value mentioning right here that A-1 Footage, the studio that makes Solo Leveling, is owned by Aniplex, who is, in flip, owned by Sony Music Leisure Japan. Sony additionally owns Crunchyroll, therefore why the streaming service appears extra concerned in manufacturing selections. It is all a part of Sony’s plan to take over the anime trade.

There is a trace in Purini’s remark about the probably motive for the delay Solo Leveling season 3. A-1 Footage is very busy and key members of the group are probably other tasks earlier than they deal with the subsequent story arc of Solo Leveling. How lengthy that takes is not possible to know till they are saying a technique or one other. For instance, there are unsubstantiated rumors that sequence director Shunsuke Nakashige is engaged on one other anime sequence earlier than he returns to Solo Leveling. After engaged on the present fairly persistently for a number of years, it would not shock us if he and others wanted one thing else to work on.
So, is Solo Leveling going to be again for season three? There hasn’t been any official affirmation a technique or one other, however we’d be shocked in the event that they let this celebrated and worthwhile title slip by the wayside. There is clearly going to be a delay earlier than the subsequent season, however late 2026 or early 2027 seems like a probably release window for the group.
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