s01e11 — A Knight Who Defends an Empty Throne

Solo Leveling — s01e11 — A Knight Who Defends an Empty Throne

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Release Date: 23.03.2024 18:00
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Out of the blue, a "job-change quest" pops up in Jinwoo's window. Feeling that it may help him get stronger, he enters the gate. Inside, he fights wave after wave of enemies, culminating in a knight who brings back memories of the Cartenon Temple.

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Discussion: Season 1, Episode 11
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reddit
reddit
23 Mar 2024, 20:24 #
Bro, stop losing the teleportation stone
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Beautifully animated the last blow to the red knight
GoodSoulFrozen
GoodSoulFrozen
23 Mar 2024, 20:31 #
The ending was devoured
RoyX1v
RoyX1v
23 Mar 2024, 20:56 #
This episode was damn beautiful, damn it.
Igris is beautiful❤
piftus
piftus
24 Mar 2024, 06:51 #
@RoyX1v: Soul-like vibes
Лёна
Лёна
PRO
10 Sep 2025, 10:36 #
@RoyX1v:
In the comments, I tried to figure out why the signature is "Igris", although in the original seiyu clearly pronounces "Ygritte" every time. And here, as a result, there is Igris everywhere too...
I understand that this is some kind of feature of the Korean original/Japanese voice acting, which is why Igris is written, Ygritte is pronounced, and sabah is written this way or that?
Petryakov_alex
Petryakov_alex
23 Mar 2024, 21:16 #
Ooh!) Well)
Abdurahmon9919
Abdurahmon9919
23 Mar 2024, 22:11 #
Now how to fall asleep after such an adrenaline rush 🤩 it's good that the fight with Igris was not delayed for two series, a beautiful and dynamic fight 🔥💥
tema_krasnoe
tema_krasnoe
PRO
23 Mar 2024, 22:44 #
A great series, that's what I love, fights, new items and skills) it's a pity the series passes quickly
Рэйдан
Рэйдан
24 Mar 2024, 01:17 #
For some reason, the wish of luck from the system looked more like a mockery. There's really some kind of one-way beating here. By the way, is there no way to close these gates? so there should be fewer opponents. Another thing is, won't they reopen? Some questions.
Kodval
Kodval
25 Mar 2024, 08:31 #
@Raydan: yes, they gave a hint in this episode, they'll find out how he is in the next one. Magicians are engaged in keeping the gates open :)
shei350
shei350
PRO
19 Mar 2025, 16:14 #
@Kodval: Bey Summoners ' first case, yeah
РитаЛунева
РитаЛунева
24 Mar 2024, 03:36 #
From the last blow to Igris , goosebumps went through my body 😍 cool 👍🏻
Даня_
Даня_
24 Mar 2024, 03:42 #
I already thought that after GG sat on the throne, Igris would kneel before him and the essence of the quest was actually in this, not in the murder.

A strange story about the armor. What kind of magical invisible and intangible armor does he have, although everyone else has quite normal ones. How is he going to stand out from other hunters if everyone wears it in one form or another
Кенсей
Кенсей
PRO
24 Mar 2024, 04:17 #
@Даня_: he's different
JTBuzya
JTBuzya
24 Mar 2024, 07:36 #
@Даня_: that is, the armor confuses you, but the fact that he is, in fact (so far, as shown) the only one of his kind who even has any quests, inventory and other rubbish does not bother, does it?
shei350
shei350
PRO
19 Mar 2025, 16:15 #
@JTBuzya: and immediately the question is, is it the only one
vk728323
vk728323
25 Mar 2024, 02:39 #
@Даня_:

I already thought that after GG sat on the throne, Igris would kneel before him and the essence of the quest was actually this

I thought so too, but somehow it's too easy
But on the other hand, you still try to think of this and also manage to get to the throne and sit on it during a fight with such a fast opponent
nandi
nandi
PRO
25 Mar 2024, 06:56 #
@vk728323: There was also such a thought, because the knight protects the empty throne, but the idea failed at the moment when the main character was literally thrown towards the throne. That would be a piano in the bushes with a brass band!
wildsiberian
wildsiberian
24 Mar 2024, 03:46 #
God, I thought the madness was happening in the process, but it's just beginning. And dropped the stone again, how so 😁
shei350
shei350
PRO
19 Mar 2025, 16:15 #
@wildsiberian: At least I started carrying a bag with me, otherwise somehow
JTBuzya
JTBuzya
24 Mar 2024, 07:35 #
I don't understand at all why the brothers were pushed into the series by helicopter, the man at the computer, these brothers... stupidly, to stretch the timing of the series and end with a cliffhanger. we could just do a non-stop action game and highlight the series to complete the quest...
JlieNe
JlieNe
PRO
24 Mar 2024, 08:13 #
@JTBuzya: they are trying to fit the plot of several chapters of manhwa into one episode
JTBuzya
JTBuzya
25 Mar 2024, 01:15 #
@JlieNe: I understand that. Any anime is a horror manga or a ranobe. but I really don't understand why dilute a dynamic and intense series with these inserts with a helicopter and an office? Are they affecting something right now? are they important at the moment? I don't think so. but it would be great to show a complete series with a full quest. No, of course, I think that there will most likely be another series completely about the quest, but if in the next series the quest is solved in 3-4 minutes, then it will be a facepalm
ron1
ron1
27 Mar 2024, 11:16 #
@JTBuzya: and why not, people are already eating =))
Sorokin_Kirill
Sorokin_Kirill
24 Mar 2024, 09:05 #
The series is gorgeous, a fighting game with different mobs, finally the stuff went, and then like Dodik with a knife alone. 12 now wait.
IgorShepard
IgorShepard
24 Mar 2024, 09:24 #
"Good luck"

The action in the series is just a dump of everything.
You fucking Ornstein, just hard DS vibes and Anor Londo. The same podsiralkin magicians who infuriate the most, the freaking knights who are better off running around than fighting.
And again, a battle on the verge of life and death. Incredibly lucky to defeat him, because next time you can really die.
As noted above: how much can you lose a teleportation stone? Obviously, he was given out to exit the dungeon, but the system has slipped the pig again and you can make excess amounts (as with dailies) and get a better reward. Only this can come out in one place.
I agree that the system seems to be mocking. It's like checking the hero how far he can go and how much he can withstand.
andarielka
andarielka
24 Mar 2024, 09:59 #
Great fight with Igris
What's in manhwa, what's in anime - goosebumps from tension)
Super!
But the next episode will be even more interesting)
It's a pity that the last one in the season (
aoyagi_rena
aoyagi_rena
24 Mar 2024, 10:11 #
@andarielka: the main thing is that the season is not the last) Well, not in five years
ron1
ron1
27 Mar 2024, 11:32 #
@aoyagi_rena: does it happen otherwise?
aoyagi_rena
aoyagi_rena
27 Mar 2024, 13:01 #
@ron1: Of course
aoyagi_rena
aoyagi_rena
24 Mar 2024, 10:10 #
Igris notably kneaded Jin Wu's sides.... The latter flew around the hall like a feather.
vk728323
vk728323
25 Mar 2024, 02:41 #
@aoyagi_rena:

I am generally surprised that he survived after this and that his health did not drop to zero after such impressions into the walls
nandi
nandi
PRO
25 Mar 2024, 06:58 #
@vk728323: so he also put on armor from the corridor knights - and there is a good plus with the tolerance of blows (but the armor is so-so...). He even said out loud that if not for the armor, he would have already died.
shei350
shei350
PRO
19 Mar 2025, 16:17 #
@aoyagi_rena: I was strangely pleased that the destruction from previous strikes was visible in the background, that the animators had not forgotten about them.
nekit010300
nekit010300
24 Mar 2024, 11:10 #
as always, the most interesting thing...
toybola
toybola
24 Mar 2024, 12:47 #
It takes your breath away, it was a great fight with Igris 🔥
mandrygin95
mandrygin95
24 Mar 2024, 14:23 #
Like winning the GG grand piano out of the bushes again?I don't understand, but it makes sense to add all this leveling mechanics, a la mmorpg, if the winning gg takes out absolutely everyone, regardless of the level of leveling of enemies.Like, take away this whole topic and shove fulltime "I'm not giving up yet" bunch of shit - victory
nandi
nandi
PRO
24 Mar 2024, 14:42 #
@mandrygin95: It seems to me... IMHO, of course. But the point here is not the piano. And the fact is that in addition to skills, knowledge, skills, levels, money, power... You must have willpower and a great desire not to give up until the very end. After all, it all started with the fact that GG passed the secret quest of the double dungeon (what was it called there - the Courage of the weak?).

The main thing is not so much what exactly you can do (although this is also important), but how much you want to continue living on. While you're alive, fight. Otherwise, you can fold the paws at the very beginning.
mandrygin95
mandrygin95
24 Mar 2024, 15:57 #
So I have a claim not to willpower, but it seems to me that it is already a giga moveton to cram this patient topic into senen, that no matter how sucker you are, endure, fight and everything will work out.And so it seemed to me that in soleveloping they moved away from this, added this mechanic with an increase in level and pumping, so that gg, like in all other average senen, would not take out on the "character" of opponents.But here, after 11 episodes, this mechanics has not been developed and everything again rests on a patient "willpower", although on all fronts gg had to lose, according to the laws of mmorpg he had to lose…But he wins, over and over again on this patient "willpower."Hence the question, what's the point of all this pumping, if you need to stupidly not give up and everything will work out - it doesn't work that way.I hoped that soleveloping would offer something new in the development of the genre, but it only repeats the not particularly good old one, so the enthusiastic reviews of people are not clear to me personally.This is literally all the same thing that we see in every average senator every year
nandi
nandi
PRO
24 Mar 2024, 16:07 #
@mandrygin95: Wait, the point is just to not lose this feeling as you gain strength, skills and level up. " go out on strong-willed.". Don't relax. It is not always possible to win on technique and skills. We must continue to gnaw the earth and tear the veins.

After all, without leveling, goblins were orange to him, and dogs (or whoever they are) were red. And now, as mobs, he knocks down knights who duplicate his previous victories in skills - impenetrable armor, stealth, dexterity.

At first he pumped only strength, then he realized how important speed, agility and intuition are. Now I have caught up that intelligence will not be superfluous either, that everything must be developed in order to survive.

But any development without the desire to fight to the end does not make sense. Often the force discourages, leads to the fact that, resting on the floor, you give up. And in "solo" you are shown over and over again that the ceiling is getting higher and stronger every time, but you can't stop beating against it with the same tenacity and desperation as at the very beginning.
mandrygin95
mandrygin95
24 Mar 2024, 16:16 #
There are opponents who cannot be defeated, according to the laws of the game genre, you can't jump over your head, no matter how hard you try.And this is the norm, you can't always export everything at the expense of perseverance.The opponent in this series was invincible for gg and the whole fight was shown to us, and then oh, I don't give up.What's the point of showing the severity of the fight if gg won just like that, by accident, where he shouldn't have won.I repeat - it doesn't work that way, and it can't work all the time, but another piano is stronger than any rules
nandi
nandi
PRO
24 Mar 2024, 16:35 #
@mandrygin95: He was not invincible. He was in the red zone. The level of GG, from the point of view of the system, was sufficient to complete this quest.

And it doesn't seem to me that he won by accident. In the middle of the battle, he was already able to hit the knight's neck and there was even some damage, so repeated strikes in the same area are quite justified.

But what can't always be taken out at the expense of perseverance, I agree, there's not even anything to argue about. But you just can't survive without perseverance anyway.

At the time of the battle with the knight, GG has no other way to survive but to win. And what's the point of the piano that he tried and tried and tried anyway? Should I have let myself be stabbed with a sword? Why, if you can try to intercept the blow? Even knowing that you're about to be killed, why not at least try not to look like a fish on a chopping board? Even a carp jumps in the oven, damn it, if it was badly killed before baking.

By the way, GG quite understands when he doesn't take out " and is quite ready to use the teleportation stone as soon as it gets too hard. Maybe that's why there is no evacuation in this dungeon during the first two stages of the interview? For a person to continue to show the same will to live as when he was weak?
Glenfeed
Glenfeed
24 Mar 2024, 16:56 #
Luck comes first, and then perseverance.

And at the very end of the manhwa (volume 3-187), a little bit is told about this battle. But there are spoilers, of course, for those who haven't read it.
Anvarka
Anvarka
25 Mar 2024, 23:12 #
@mandrygin95: You don't need to talk about the laws of the game genre. Take DS for example. There, the first boss is not removable for a beginner. And they make it clear to us that it cannot be taken out without pumping and equipment. However, there are some enthusiasts who "at the expense of perseverance" endure it naked. It's the same here: GG may be lower in level than Igris, but he defeated him because he didn't give up until the very end. That's the point, after all.

>>> another piano is stronger than any rules.<<<

The piano would have been if he had defeated it "by accident", or someone had saved him. And here he did everything himself.
mandrygin95
mandrygin95
26 Mar 2024, 01:18 #
And did he not accidentally defeat him, gg himself says that he was lucky.You don't need to fill in about DS, there absolutely all opponents are defeated by the starting gear and the development in general requires something else from you, for victories you need trai and knowledge of timings and animos of bosses.The fact that this causes difficulties for beginners is the tenth thing.I was talking about the mmorpg system, which was licked for soleveloping, in any mmo you have gates above which you cannot jump without hundreds of hours of grinding gear / art/ bijou / expa / lvl and these rules are indestructible and one perseverance is not enough there.Here they show us that push how you are pumped, don't give up and everything will work out
ron1
ron1
27 Mar 2024, 11:39 #
@mandrygin95: What kind of willpower are we talking about? GG, who initially did not take out in raids, continued to walk in them, without raising money at the same time. It's not "willpower", it's the absence of a brain.
Uzieller
Uzieller
28 Mar 2024, 19:43 #
I agree, he should not have defeated Igris, in manhwa he punched stupidly in the eye at all - and that's it, there was no finishing. Igris is faster, stronger, more experienced, the armor is impenetrable, he could not miss this blow, an unambiguous piano.
User of MyShows
User of MyShows
22 Apr 2025, 00:26 #
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12werre31234
12werre31234
24 Mar 2024, 18:48 #
@mandrygin95: this is the main disadvantage of the manga and this anime, they did not try to designate any levels of strength such as ranks - GG is a complete imbue and it will remain, there will be no special tricks, understanding how to select techniques and mechanics, no mind games this is not Naruto. Here, just a person will carry everything forward with his feet, and even rivals who carve S-rank hunters with his little finger, he will simply destroy with his incredible power and abilities
mandrygin95
mandrygin95
24 Mar 2024, 22:04 #
@12werre31234: Well, that's what I'm afraid of, that it's just to slide into endless conquests and last chance.Although initially it seemed that soleveloping would be able to avoid this cliche, but apparently alas
Kodval
Kodval
25 Mar 2024, 08:47 #
@mandrygin95: Right now, about a quarter of the manga has been shown, as far as I remember, there will be only a couple more such moments, but most of the time he will simply destroy with his might. Here, in fact, the work is not about rocking and that's all, but about how, having received such power, to remain a human being without putting yourself in the role of god..
ElManiaco
ElManiaco
24 Mar 2024, 19:23 #
We could have done episodes for five minutes
Hamali666
Hamali666
24 Mar 2024, 22:18 #
I have to wait until all the episodes come out, they ate the end of the series again, it's annoying…
Prun_ik
Prun_ik
24 Mar 2024, 22:33 #
We must wait and read the original)
Prun_ik
Prun_ik
24 Mar 2024, 22:32 #
And who sings in the ending in the ending?
Prun_ik
Prun_ik
27 Mar 2024, 01:32 #
And what's the minus?)
Prun_ik
Prun_ik
31 Mar 2024, 11:11 #
And what are the disadvantages here?
How about for **** and
ron1
ron1
31 Mar 2024, 11:14 #
@Prun_ik: children agryatsya, get used to it
Prun_ik
Prun_ik
31 Mar 2024, 11:15 #
I'm used to it, but sometimes I get used to it..
elizavec
elizavec
02 Apr 2024, 21:53 #
Это krage - request
Prun_ik
Prun_ik
03 Apr 2024, 23:52 #
Thank you
Gehrman_Sparrow
Gehrman_Sparrow
24 Mar 2024, 23:03 #
Who has read the manhwa, will it continue like this all the time? Fights, fights, fights and no plot development, or will some kind of movement begin?
Prun_ik
Prun_ik
25 Mar 2024, 07:54 #
Of course it will start, not right in the next episode, but maybe in one, after a couple of arches) or maybe not a couple) watch and find out) Now the kid will give up and go save the world😂
ron1
ron1
27 Mar 2024, 11:42 #
@MrMoust: The plot? What's the plot? The children gathered here not for the sake of the plot, but for the sake of reflexion, on the topic that you can "go through the wrong door " and become an imba.
However, some will rather wait for the anime to open up. =)
imv
imv
24 Mar 2024, 23:35 #
Jin Ho❤❤❤
What a cool red knight 😍
Ebaw3r
Ebaw3r
25 Mar 2024, 01:32 #
Even some kind of hard quest to replace a pro)
Some too short episodes feel like)
Kodval
Kodval
25 Mar 2024, 08:48 #
@Ebaw3r: but the reward is well worth it)
ztRav4
ztRav4
25 Mar 2024, 10:24 #
When I accidentally got into Hidetaka Miyazaki's games :D
ron1
ron1
27 Mar 2024, 11:42 #
@ztRav4: where are the swamps?
ai221163
ai221163
26 Mar 2024, 19:47 #
Jin-ho 💔
Igris, hooray)))
This is the musical accompaniment .. A fight with Igris And, finally, a quest!)))
tyrell
tyrell
PRO
31 Mar 2024, 00:55 #
the dynamics of the episode are crazy, one of the best in the season
phantasm
phantasm
02 Apr 2024, 13:22 #
Something is wrong with the teleportation stones.
zlo
zlo
PRO
05 Jul 2024, 05:35 #
@phantasm: definitely
Vapoig
Vapoig
26 Jan 2025, 23:38 #
@phantasm: he will work with a psychologist later))
elizavec
elizavec
02 Apr 2024, 21:54 #
Ilska is finally at the base 🤩
Король_Лень
Король_Лень
07 Apr 2024, 19:14 #
Who ends the series like that? On a batch like this.
Despott
Despott
08 Apr 2024, 02:17 #
Ohhh! Igris, my favorite sweetheart ♥️♥️♥️♥️ How I've been waiting for you😍😍😍
blcksd
blcksd
PRO
12 May 2024, 23:52 #
Igris is beautiful
zadraleks
zadraleks
19 May 2024, 18:55 #
Yes, yopt, Where Are you that island Tula so early, Jin Woo still swing and swing to it. Not to mention the fact that the very reason for the threat from that island was never shown.
budurr
budurr
25 Aug 2024, 19:18 #
A good fight.
feainnewedd
feainnewedd
10 Jan 2025, 11:42 #
Boo! Are you scared? Don't be afraid, I'm a friend, I'll just throw your stone into the crowd of opponents and survive as you want!
Vapoig
Vapoig
26 Jan 2025, 23:34 #
The described opinion concerns only a specific series (its features), without affecting the opinion about the series as a whole. No objectivity, pure subjectivity))
Like it:
1) An interesting variety of enemies in the quest to change professions and spectacular battles with them
2) The balance of power in the world (despite leveling up, the gg does not become invincible, but there are always serious rivals, while they fit well into the world)
3) Cool fight with Igris (transitions from the 3rd person, then from the 1st are especially spectacular)
4) The world lives its own life while the hero is rocking (intrigues are woven behind the scenes of the world, minor characters have their own interests and goals)
I didn't like it:
1) Once again, he uses something from the bag with the words: "Oh, right" (it looks strange that up to this point he had never even thought about trying out wearable items)
2) They went overboard with Choi Jong-in's pretentiousness, they would have made the character a little simpler, and I think it would have been cooler
. P.S. Small unloved moments, but overall the series is excellent.
5 out of 5
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