Solo Leveling Has Officially Been Surpassed By A New Summer 2025 Anime

This article contains spoilers from the Solo Leveling series.

Solo Leveling marked the beginning of an absolutely sensational anime year, and fans have been receiving one hit after another this year. Solo Leveling Season 2 dropped in Winter 2025, setting immense standards for the series that were to follow. Solo Leveling Season 1 won Anime of the Year in 2025, and the fact is that Season 2 was even better than Season 1. As such, fans were utterly shocked to know that when it comes to best fan-rated anime, Solo Leveling isn’t the best of 2025.

Recently a new Summer 2025 series that kept the fans on the edge of their seats every week concluded, and now, a proper assessment can be made on it. It is officially clear that Solo Leveling has been beaten by a new Summer anime, and that’s The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity. With an overall score of 8.74, this anime has absolutely smashed Solo Leveling, and is in contention to be the top anime that aired this year.

Solo Leveling Was Beaten By The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity On MAL

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Dropped In Summer 2025

Solo Leveling has a Rating Of 8.65
The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity has a rating of 8.74

Solo Leveling Season 2 was absolutely phenomenal and that goes without saying. When it comes to individual episodes, it delivered what could be considered to be some of the very best of the year. But, as a whole Solo Leveling is certainly not the best anime of 2025 when fan ratings are taken into consideration.

Each time I get stronger, I feel I lose a part of myself. — Sung Jinwoo

Solo Leveling Season 2 has a fab rating of 8.65 on MyAnimeList, and fans certainly see it as an incredible anime. That said, it is also quite clear that it isn’t considered to be 2025’s best anime by anime means, at least as far as the opinion of anime fans goes.

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, which officially wrapped up on September 28, 2025, has a higher overall rating for the fans. While this anime might not be as popular as Solo Leveling for obvious reasons, it is certainly a brilliant story that fans consider good enough to be above Solo Leveling Season 2, which was spectacular in its own right. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity has an overall rating of 8.74 on MAL, which is quite a lot higher than Solo Leveling Season 2.

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I use the system and the system uses me. — Sung Jinwoo

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Season 2 Hasn’t Been Announced Yet

Fans Await Solo Leveling Season 3 Announcement As Well

The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity netflix delayed global release

While fans absolutely loved The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, the sad part of it all is that they haven’t received a Season 2 announcement yet. This came as a disappointment to many fans, especially as the story is absolutely sublime. At the same time, fans also know that Solo Leveling Season 3 suffers from the same issue. Despite the tremendous popularity of the series all over the world and shattering all sorts of records, Solo Leveling Season 3 hasn’t been confirmed yet. Hopefully, both of these brilliant stories continue and fans get an announcement soon enough.

Solo Leveling has two seasons out right now, one with 12 episodes, and the other with 13, for a combined episode count of 25 episodes available to watch right now. The series can be streamed on Crunchyroll for fans to enjoy while awaiting any more news concerning the third season. For fans who can’t wait for season 3 to come out, checking out the Manhwa might be a great option.