A Korean webtoon got an anime greenlight this week and nobody blinked, which is the story. Per Anime News Network, SSS-Class Revival Hunter — Sinnoa's web novel, Neida's webtoon — premieres as a TV anime in January 2027 from Studio fu, with Hiroaki Sakurai directing, Sayuri Oba on series composition and Takahiro Yoshimatsu on character design. Takeo Otsuka voices Gongja Kim; Satoshi Hino plays the Sword Emperor. Crunchyroll streams it worldwide outside most of Asia. Ten years ago that pipeline did not exist. Now it is routine enough to rank.
Quick answer
Per SenpaiRanks's dual-axis board, the best webtoon-adapted anime right now is Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow (A-1 Pictures, 2025) at 7.61 Consensus / 7.61 Quality, ahead of Tower of God (Telecom Animation Film, 2020) at 7.41 and the first Solo Leveling season at 7.38. The pipeline is not slowing: Eleceed arrives in 2026 and SSS-Class Revival Hunter follows in January 2027 on Crunchyroll.
The ranked board
1. Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow — 7.61
A-1 Pictures, 13 episodes, 2025. The shadow-army arc is where the adaptation stopped being a highlight reel and started building fights with consequences. It is the highest-scoring manhwa adaptation we track, and the gap to the rest is not small.
2. Tower of God — 7.41
Telecom Animation Film, 13 episodes, 2020. The original SIU webtoon is the genre's foundational text and the first season still carries the best world-building of any adaptation on this list. Its two 2024 continuations score lower — Ouji no Kikan at 6.58 and Koubou-sen at 6.75 — a decline the single-number sites blur into one franchise average.
3. Solo Leveling — 7.38
A-1 Pictures, 12 episodes, 2024. The season that proved a Korean webtoon could open a Japanese production pipeline at scale. Raw average sits at 8.25 against an adjusted 7.38 — a big enthusiasm premium, which is exactly what the Bayesian correction is for.
4. The God of High School — 7.06
MAPPA, 13 episodes, 2020. Spectacular fight animation attached to a plot that outruns its own setup in the back half. Worth it for the choreography.
5. Noblesse — 6.88
Production I.G, 13 episodes, 2020. The weakest of the Webtoon-Crunchyroll wave, and useful as a control: same source platform, same year, lower execution.
What is queued next
Eleceed (Dandelion Animation Studio) brings Son Jeho and Zhena's action comedy to TV in 2026, and SSS-Class Revival Hunter follows in January 2027. The SSS-Class premise — an F-rank hunter who gains an S-rank skill that only activates when he dies — is the kind of hook that reads as a gimmick on paper and lives or dies on direction. Sakurai has comedy timing in his filmography, which suggests the anime knows the joke is the point.
Solo Leveling Season 2 trailer — the current ceiling for the format.
How to read these numbers
A single score cannot tell you whether a manhwa adaptation is broadly liked or actually well made, because these shows have unusually loud fanbases voting on the source material rather than the animation. Two axes separate those signals. Solo Leveling's 8.25 raw against 7.38 adjusted is the clearest example on this list. If your read differs, rate the shows yourself — the board moves when actual watchers vote, not when a platform promotes something.
For adjacent lists, the best isekai anime ranking covers the closest neighbouring genre, and the best dark fantasy anime ranking catches the tone Solo Leveling is chasing.
Frequently asked questions
Q: What is the best webtoon-based anime?
A: Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow, at 7.61 Consensus / 7.61 Quality on SenpaiRanks, ahead of Tower of God at 7.41.
Q: When does SSS-Class Revival Hunter premiere?
A: January 2027, from Studio fu, with Crunchyroll streaming worldwide excluding most of Asia (the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia are included).
Q: Is Tower of God worth watching after the sequels dropped?
A: The 2020 first season at 7.41 is the strongest entry. The 2024 continuations score 6.58 and 6.75, so start at season one and decide from there.
Q: Where can I watch these?
A: Most of this wave launched on Crunchyroll, with Solo Leveling also carried on Netflix in several regions. Availability rotates — check each show page for current regional links.
Q: Why does Solo Leveling's raw score differ from its ranking score?
A: Its raw average is 8.25 and the adjusted figure is 7.38. The adjustment corrects for vote-count enthusiasm so a loud fanbase cannot outrank a broadly-watched classic.