Solo Leveling was voted as the crunchyroll best anime of the year. Which is such a let down, considering all the great anime that came out alongside Solo Leveling.
Here is trends graph of Attack on Titan vs Solo Leveling and Frieren. Attack on Titan is a show everyone knows of at this point, Frieren has held the title of the best anime every on MyAnimeList for the past two years, and Solo Leveling is all about Aura Farming.
And Aura Farming absolutely crushed good story telling brought forward by Frieren. Solo leveling almost surpassed attack on titan at one point, which means it was likely more popular that several Hollywood movies.
I believe Aura Farming is going to have even more of an impact on anime for a while, because of how well Solo Leveling performed.
Even as a manhwa, it was immediately evident that this series was all about Aura Farming, because of that, the protagonist is never in any real danger. Of course Sung Jinwoo will be victorious and save the day somehow. The show was still fun to watch though.
But then One Punch Man season 3 came out. This was one horribly animated show. Compared to that, yeah, solo leveling was leagues better.
Hiroyuki Sawano made several sound tracks for this show, I guess they really had high hopes for the show, and it did live up to that. All the manhwa readers who proclaimed that this would be one of the most popular anime to come out were proven right.
Still quite a let down that aura farming beat all the other good show.