Nobody is asking when it starts anymore. Solo Leveling Season 2 finished airing in March 2025, so the question has changed. British fans now want to know where to stream it, what that costs, and what follows it.
Here is the plain answer, checked against UK listings on 6 August 2026: thirteen episodes, roughly five hours of viewing, and a cinema film rather than a third series.
Season 2 key facts for UK viewers
| Detail | What it is |
| Full title | Solo Leveling: Arise from the Shadow |
| Episodes | 13 (numbered 13 to 25 across the whole series) |
| Original run | 5 January to 30 March 2025 in Japan |
| UK streaming | Crunchyroll, or the Crunchyroll channel inside Amazon Prime Video |
| UK subscription cost | £5.99 a month after a seven-day free trial |
| Buy it outright. | £19.99 as a download on the Apple TV Store |
| Episode length | About 23 minutes |
| UK age rating | 15 |
| Studio and director | A-1 Pictures, Shunsuke Nakashige |
| Music | Hiroyuki Sawano |
| Opening and ending | “Reawaker” by LiSA with Felix of Stray Kids, “Un-Apex” by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure |
| What comes next | A theatrical film, Beyond the System |
Key Takeaways
- Thirteen episodes, all of them already streaming. There is nothing left to wait for.
- £5.99 a month is the entry price in Britain, and the first week is free.
- No third series has been ordered. A cinema film was announced on 3 July 2026.
- The English dub exists and covers the full season.
- Readers who cannot wait for the film should open the webtoon at chapter 111.
What Solo Leveling Season 2 covered
The season is subtitled Arise from the Shadow. It picks up with Sung Jinwoo hiding the scale of his power, then pushes him through a red gate, a demon castle, and finally the Jeju Island raid. Thirteen episodes, one relentless upward curve, ending on the line “On to the Next Target.” So much for the shape of it; detail is where this season earns its reputation.
Solo Leveling Season 2: Season one spent twelve episodes turning the weakest hunter in the country into someone worth fearing. The second season stops asking whether Jinwoo is strong and starts asking what happens to everyone around him once he is. Hunters like Cha Hae-in and Baek Yoonho get room to react. Then Jeju arrives. That final arc, which fills the last five episodes, is the reason most viewers rate this season above the first and the reason the finale lands.
Where to Watch It in the UK and What It Costs
Three routes, and only three.
- Crunchyroll, which carries all 13 episodes in Japanese with subtitles and in English dub. The entry plan runs £5.99 a month, with a seven-day free trial before the first payment.
- Crunchyroll as a channel inside Amazon Prime Video, at the same monthly price, if you would rather keep everything in one app.
- Apple TV Store, where the season is listed at £19.99 to own outright as a download.
Do the sum. Buying costs about the same as three and a bit months of Crunchyroll, which sounds like a bargain until you remember everything else sitting on the service. Own it if this is the only anime you care about. Otherwise, subscribe.
The age rating here is a 15. Rightly so, because the Jeju episodes get properly gory and the show never softens what the ant swarms do to the hunters sent against them.
At about 23 minutes per episode, all 13 come to just under five hours. Call it a Saturday afternoon, or two evenings if you are being sensible. Sawano’s score does most of the heavy lifting in the raid scenes, so it rewards proper speakers. Our rundown of budget soundbar options for a small living room covers the cheap end of that upgrade.
The 2025 Schedule and Why UK Dates Ran a Day Early
Episodes went out weekly rather than in a single drop. In Japan, the broadcast slot was just after midnight, which is why Japanese listings show 5 January to 30 March 2025.
UK viewers saw each episode on Saturday at 5:30 pm GMT on Crunchyroll. So the finale landed here on Saturday 29 March 2025, one calendar day before the Japanese date. This still confuses people reading old episode guides.
The English dub started later, on 18 January 2025, and then ran a fortnight or so behind the subtitled release before catching up. All 13 dubbed episodes are up now, so the lag no longer matters to anyone starting today.
Season 3 is not the next thing.
This is the part most articles still get wrong.
On 3 July 2026, during the Crunchyroll showcase at Anime Expo, Aniplex and Crunchyroll announced Solo Leveling: Beyond the System. It is a theatrical anime film, not a third television season. A-1 Pictures returns to animate it, with Tao Tajima directing and Tomoko Sudo carrying over her character designs. Crunchyroll, Aniplex, Netmarble, D&C Media and Kakao Piccoma are all named as producers.
No release date. Nothing has been confirmed beyond the announcement itself, so treat any specific year you see quoted online as guesswork rather than news.
Which brings up something worth flagging. Search YouTube for a season 3 trailer, and you will find dozens, some with hundreds of thousands of views. They are fan edits, upscales, and recut footage from the existing seasons. None of them come from Crunchyroll. The only official footage so far is the concept material shown at that July panel.
Where to Carry the Story On Yourself
Episode 13 of the season ends partway through the source material, not at a natural stopping point for readers.
If you want to keep going, open the manhwa at chapter 111. It picks up exactly where episode 13 stops and saves you from skimming forty chapters you have already watched. The webtoon finished its run in December 2021, so nothing is left dangling.
After that, there is Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, the sequel following Jinwoo’s son, which began as a web novel and got its own webtoon in July 2024. Netflix also has a Korean live-action series in development, with Byeon Woo-seok cast as Jinwoo and Han So-hee as Cha Hae-in.
And there is the obvious one. Netmarble’s role-playing game Solo Levelling: Arise came out in May 2024 and lets you run the same levelling loop yourself. Console players should weigh up what Xbox controllers cost and how long their batteries last before committing to a long grind.
Is it worth watching in 2026?
Yes, and the awards back that up rather than just fan opinion. Arise from the Shadow took Best Action and Best Animation at the tenth Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2026. The first season had already won Anime of the Year the year before.
The criticism is fair too. Character writing stays thin, the supporting cast exists mostly to look impressed, and the season leans hard on spectacle from first episode to last. Nothing here fixes that.
Start the free trial, watch the first three episodes, and decide from there. That costs nothing and takes about an hour. If it does not land, cancel before day seven and browse something else in our Entertainment section, such as this look at Samantha Barks and her screen career.
Conclusion
Solo Leveling Season 2 builds on the success of the first season with bigger battles, stronger animation, and Sung Jinwoo’s continued rise as the world’s most powerful hunter. All 13 episodes are now available to stream in the UK, making it easy for new and returning fans to watch the complete story in one sitting.
While there is no official Season 3, the announced theatrical film Solo Leveling: Beyond the System will continue the franchise, giving fans even more to look forward to. If you finish the anime and cannot wait for the next adaptation, the manhwa starting at Chapter 111 is the perfect place to continue Jinwoo’s journey.
FAQ
Thirteen. They are numbered 13 to 25 if you count across both seasons, which is how Crunchyroll lists them.
No. The confirmed continuation is a film, Beyond the System, announced in July 2026. No third television season has been ordered.
£5.99 a month on Crunchyroll after a seven-day free trial, or £19.99 to buy the season outright from the Apple TV Store.
Yes. The dub began on 18 January 2025 and now covers all 13 episodes.
Yes. The second season opens mid-story and explains almost nothing about the System, the shadow army, or Jinwoo’s family.
Chapter 111. The Jeju Island raid closes out around chapter 110, so that is your clean entry point.
No. Netflix has a live-action Korean drama in development, but the animated series is a Crunchyroll title here.
