7 Best Leveling Systems In Isekai Manhwa

Popularized by the endlessly famous Solo Leveling series, the leveling system subgenre of manhwa is arguably one of the industry’s best-selling points, which begs the question of what leveling system manhwa are. The leveling system manhwa typically consists of game-like features, such as levels, stats, and the easiest identifier, the status window.

However, the focus of this piece goes beyond just the regular leveling system manhwa to isekai manhwa with the leveling system. These manhwa feature protagonists who find themselves in another world one way or another, with these game-like features that enable them to efficiently raise their abilities and overall power just like in a game. Therefore, below are the best isekai manhwa featuring leveling systems.

7 Is This Hero For Real?

Anime-Planet Rating: 3.8 / 5

• Creator(s): Parnar, Ppayong
• No. of Chapters: 101
• Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Magic meets heroism in this series, which follows the protagonist, Hansoo Kang, a regular high school teenager whose life is flipped over when a goddess suddenly transports him and his classmates to another world and demands that they become heroes for the sake of the new world.

Things begin to get twisted after Hansoo refuses to risk his life for a world he has no connection to, as the goddess then leaves him to die in a forest away from his friends and classmates. Sensing something off with the goddess, Hansoo manages to survive with the help of another god and then embarks on a journey of revenge against the goddess responsible for taking him away from his home world.

6 The Reincarnated Assassin Is A Genius Swordsman

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.0 / 5

• Creator(s): Tess, Geulgaemi
• No. of Chapters: 37 (Ongoing)
• Genre: Action, Fantasy

The Reincarnated Assassin Is A Genius Swordsman follows the life of the central character, Roan, once a fiercely loved member of the noble House of Robert until he is killed by his master, Derus. With his last breath, Roan prays for vengeance upon those who have wronged him. However, the prayer is not the only thing granted to Roan, as he suddenly awakens as a member of the noble House of Sieghart, with his path to revenge all but laid out.

In addition to being reincarnated and carrying a coveted technique of the Robert House, Roan also carries the curse of the Bitter Frost, a curse that’s killing him rather slowly. Like Roan’s problems are not enough, he also discovers that he is the embodiment of the demon of Wrath. Soon, it becomes a race against time to see whether Roan will complete his revenge quest.

5 Terminally-Ill Genius Dark Knight

Anime-Planet Rating: 3.8 / 5

• Creator(s): Jung Seonyul, Nagi
• No. of Chapters: 76 (Ongoing)
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Terminally Ill Genius Dark Knight presents the rather interesting tale of the protagonist, Chan, a middle-aged man with only a month to live. Too afraid to try to do anything at all, Chan plunges himself into the world of an RPG game, a game he has played so much he knows, like the back of his hand.

Not expecting anything to be different from every other time he plays the game, Chan experiences an epiphany of some sort within the game that leads him to rethink his choices for his in-game character, which is designed after him as a terminally ill character. Determined to live a better life for his in-game character, Nox, Chan faces a race against time to change what might be his whole life.

4 I Am The Fated Villain

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.2 / 5

• Creator(s): Fated Villain
• No. of Chapters: 191 (Ongoing)
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

I Am The Fated Villain features the classic isekai trope that sees the story’s protagonist, Gu Changge, as he is transmigrated into another world to become the world’s villain. Initially opposed to his sudden destiny of becoming the most powerful villain, Gu Changge becomes more receptive to his calling simply because he dislikes the supposed heroes called the ‘Sons of Fate.’

Even better for Gu Changge, he discovers a mysterious system that allows him to steal a good portion of the protagonist’s luck. With a more than efficient way to get stronger, Gu Changge begins to get more in tune with his role as a villain and soon embraces it fully, birthing history’s most fearsome villain.

3 FFF- Class Trashero

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.0 / 5

• Creator(s): Parnar, Kkangmu
• No. of Chapters: 172 (Ongoing)
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama

FFF-Class Trashero presents the funny but grueling life of a summoned hero. The series focuses on the central character, Hansoo Kang, a young-looking boy suddenly summoned as a hero to another world, Fantasia, to help defeat the lord of demons. Promised to be returned to his original world after completing his objective, Hansoo spends the next ten years of his life trying to defeat the lord of demons.

However, there is a slight problem with his return home. Upon achieving his objective, Hansoo expects to be sent home. Still, to his surprise, he is given a report card that states that he failed as a hero in his journey to defeat the demon lord. As such, instead of being sent home, he is returned ten years in the past to restart his ten-year ordeal.

2 The Greatest Estate Developer

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.5 / 5

• Creator(s): Moon Back-Kyung, Kim Hyunsoo
• No. of Chapters: 162 (Ongoing)
• Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Falling asleep while reading a fantasy novel seemed like a good idea until civil engineering college student Suho Kim did it. Not only does he not wake up as himself, but he is reincarnated into the novel as Lloyd Frontera, the laziest noble ever to walk the earth. Lloyd Frontera is the drunken disgrace of the Frontera House, and not that the family does not have its sins.

Drowning in a mountain of debt, the Frontera house are seemingly not much of nobles. Suho Kim, now Lloyd, is determined to change his family’s fortunes. Using his engineering knowledge from his previous life, Suho begins to make designs and inventions to help his family out of debt. It initially seems impossible, but with the help of a giant hamster, a knight, and magic, Suho may achieve his goal.

1 Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.0 / 5

• Creator(s): Yim Kyung-Bae, Kwon Sookyu
• No. of Chapters: 224 (Ongoing)
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King details the purposeless life of the central character, Hanbin Ryu, ex-military personnel just discharged from duty. While drifting through life aimlessly, Hanbin is suddenly transmigrated to another world and given a ‘guide line,’ a game-like system.

However, there is a slight problem: Hanbin’s guide line is filled with errors and practically useless. Hanbin has been stuck at the tutorial stage for over twenty years, unable to use his guide line. When he is finally released from the hellish ordeal, he finds that everyone else is an otherworlder like himself, and it remains to be seen just how Hanbin will survive in an otherworldly world.