Summary
- Knights Guild is Korea's top guild with influential A-rankers and no S-rank hunters, led by Park Jongsoo.
- Fiend Guild, once Korea's strongest, was led by Lim Tae-Gyu and has maintained influence despite key losses.
- Ahjin Guild, led by Sung Jinwoo, dominates with only 3 members, surpassing all Korean guilds with media-covered raids.
Solo Leveling follows Sung Jinwoo, a weak hunter who experiences a dramatic shift in his powers following a tragedy that triggers his second awakening. Since the protagonist comes from Korea, most of the action is set in the region.
In the hunter world, guilds play a crucial role in managing hunters and planning raids that make enough money to be a profitable investment. Although Korea may not have the best guilds in the world, it is still home to well-respected ones that have some global influence. Based on their impact, influence, and the quality of hunters, these are arguably the best Korean guilds.
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6 Knights Guild
Top Korean Guild With No S-Rankers
- Location: Yeongnam Region, Korea
- Webtoon Debut: Chapter 91
Knights Guild is led by the tanker-class hunter named Park Jongsoo. Headquartered in the Yeongnam region of Korea, it is the only top guild in the country with no S-rank hunters. However, the Knights Guild is so influential because it has the most talented Korean A-rankers in its squad.
Jung Yoontae serves as the Vice Guild Master of the Knights Guild, and the team also includes the talented A-rank healer named Jung Yerim.
5 Fiend Guild
Once Korea's Strongest Guild
- Location: Seoul, Korea
- Webtoon Debut: Chapter 76
Fiend Guild is also popularly known as the Reapers Guild or the Grim Reapers. Their headquarters are in Seoul and the team is led by the S-ranked ranger-class hunter named Lim Tae-Gyu. Once upon a time, White Tiger Guild's Guild Master Baek Yoonho used to work for the Fiend Guild.
At the time, it used to be the most powerful guild and was even better organized than the Hunters Guild. But once its key hunters left, the Fiend Guild was weakened and could no longer compete with top guilds. However, it is still quite influential to this day and has been able to maintain some authority in Korea's hunter society.
4 Fame Guild
Honam Region's Most Powerful Guild
- Location: Honam Region, Korea
- Webtoon Debut: Chapter 90
Fame Guild is another well-known Korean guild that has been active for a while. Unlike other guilds, it has more mages in its ranks than any other class of hunters.
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Fame Guild is led by the country's most powerful tanker-class hunter named Ma Dongwook. He participates in the Jeju Island raid and has years of experience under his belt. While most top Korean guilds have their headquarters in Seoul, Fame Guild operates from the Honam region.
3 White Tiger Guild
Baek Yoonho's Guild
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Webtoon Debut: Chapter 35
White Tiger Guild is one of Korea's most influential guilds. With Baek Yoonho as the guild master, it has participated in several high-stakes raids. Interestingly, Yoonho once used to work for the Fiend Guild. But sometime in the past, he decided to leave the organization along with a few other members to establish the White Tiger Guild.
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Ever since then, Baek hasn't looked back, and his guild is now one of the richest in Korea. It has become so big that there are two management departments to run the organization. While one specializes in recruiting new hunters to the team, the other is focused on managing the hunters working for the guild.
Baek Yoonho's White Tiger Guild has surpassed the Fiend Guild and is now rated as the third best after Hunters Guild and Ahjin Guild. It should come as no surprise that their Guild Master is now an influential man in Korea.
2 Hunters Guild
One of Korea's Most Popular Guilds
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Webtoon Debut: Chapter 62
Before Ahjin Guild came on the scene, Hunters Guild was the most popular. Under Choi Jong-In's leadership, it grew in influence and had enough political leverage to dictate policies regarding dungeons.
The last time I played with ants was when I was a little boy. I remember hearing faint snapping noises every time I torched an ant with a lighter...Now, I hear fireworks. ~ Choi Jong-In
Aside from its efficiency and influence, Hunters Guild was also well known because of Cha Hae-In, the star track athlete-turned-hunter. As Vice Guild Master, she had significant leadership power in the organization, but what made her so popular was the fact that she remained humble and treated everyone equally despite being so successful.
Hunters Guild was one of the few guilds in Korea that was big enough to have a separate team of talented A-rank hunters who could raid independently without the help of S-rankers.
1 Ahjin Guild
Korea's Strongest Guild
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Webtoon Debut: Chapter 121
Led by Sung Jinwoo, Ahjin Guild is one of the most powerful guilds in the world despite having only three active members. Within a few days of its inception, it surpassed all other Korean guilds and took on raids that were widely covered in the media.
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Apart from Jinwoo, Ahjin Guild has two other members: Vice Guild Master Yoo Jinho and A-rank hunter Yoo Soohyun. Interestingly, just after Ahjin Guild was created, even Cha Hae-In tried to join, but Sung refused to let her in. He was considerate of her talent and understood that working with him would only be a waste of her abilities. Jinwoo felt that Hunters Guild was right for her because she also had some leadership role to play there.
I feel something within me lost, everytime I get stronger. ~ Sung Jinwoo
Ahjin Guild manages to compete with and almost always outperforms other guilds because of Sung Jinwoo's shadow army. He uses his shadow forces so efficiently that Yoo Jinho and Soohyun don't have to participate in the raids directly.
- Release Date
- 2024 - 2025-00-00
- Network
- Tokyo MX, Gunma TV, BS11, Tochigi TV
- Directors
- Tatsuya Sasaki, Toru Hamasaki
- Writers
- Shigeru Murakoshi, Shingo Irie, Fuka Ishii
Cast
-
Taito BanSung Jin-woo -
Genta NakamuraYoo Jin-ho
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures
- Creator
- Chugong
- Streaming Service(s)
- Crunchyroll
- MyAnimeList Score
- 8.28 (Season 1); 8.86 (Season 2)
- Where To Watch
- Crunchyroll
