I’ve seen my fair share of anime over the years, beginning with the Cartoon Network days of Toonami and now with the extensive catalog of Crunchyroll. So, I guess you could say I’m an anime connoisseur who’s at least familiar with standard tropes and themes. I’ve grown numb to entire families getting murdered in the first episode. And I don’t even blink when the weak main character miraculously becomes the strongest of them all.
Unfortunately, this has brought on a biased perspective that sometimes makes me judge a show by its first episode. That was the case with Solo Leveling for me, at first, where I initially scoffed at tropes I had already seen before.