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Did Solo Leveling surpass One Piece and Demon Slayer?(Photo Credit –YouTube)

Solo Leveling has taken the anime world by storm since its global release on Crunchyroll in 2024. With its gripping premise set in a world where humanity’s survival depends on hunters ranked by strength, the series instantly captured audiences and became one of the year’s most talked-about anime.

Now, with the arrival of its second season, Solo Leveling has achieved yet another incredible milestone. It has surpassed two of the most iconic anime series to claim the title of Crunchyroll’s most-rated anime.

‘Solo Leveling’ has now surpassed ‘One Piece’ to become the Most-popular Anime on @Crunchyroll!

Although the ‘soup for the soul’ variety of anime is not exactly common in the particular industry, nevertheless, when titles of the category do come out, they tend to be quite good. “Negative Positive Angler”, an original anime TV series, is definitely one of those titles.

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Tsunehiro’s life’s in shambles. Despite attending university, he has lost all his money trading on financial markets and a group of loan sharks are on his heels for the money he borrowed from them. Even worse, he gets some news from the doctor that he has only two years to live due to stomach cancer, while one day, while returning to his apartment, he finds the whole complex demolished. Essentially giving up, he jumps from a bridge, only to be saved by Hana Ayukawa amd Takaaki Tsutsujimori, two amateur fishers who...

At the start of Negative Positive Angler , the protagonist Tsunehiro learns one day that he has only two years to live. Shortly afterward he meets a group of fishing enthusiasts in his neighborhood. These folks take him under their wing and give him something to live for. Now Tsunehiro has a goal: to become the very best fisherman he can be in the time he has remaining. But living isn’t free, and unfortunately Tsunehiro has debts to pay. A fisherman he meets named Takaaki scores him a job at a convenience store to manage the costs. Tsunehiro must learn the ways of customer service in order to survive. That’s right: Negative Positive Angler isn’t just an anime about fishing. It is, secretly, an anime about retail. If you’ve worked retail at some point in your life you likely have strong feelings about it . My own impression...

If there's one easy way to get people hooked on a new anime, especially for an original series like Negative Positive Angler , it's through a catchy opening song. Fortunately, we don't need to trawl through the latest production from studio Nut ( Deca-dence ) to put "Ito" by Van de Shop on loop, since a creditless version of the sequence is now available to watch below. Negative Positive Angler Opening Video Related: Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister Anime Threads Through Creditless Opening Video Yutaka Uemura ( Saga of Tanya the Evil ) directs Negative Positive Angler at studio Nut, with series composition by Tomohiro Suzuki ( One-Punch Man ), character designs and chief animation direction by Hiromi Taniguchi ( Ranma 1/2 remake) and music by Tomoki Kikuya ( Bocchi The Rock! ). Crunchyroll is simulcasting the anime and describes the story: Tsunehiro’s life isn’t easy. After a doctor gives him two years to live and debt collectors come knocking,...