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Log Horizon Season 1 Review@filotasriza31965d
You know i always watch anime, series and films. It's like a drug to me so each day i have to watch at least one episode. A couple of days ago, while i was searching for anime, i stumbled across Log Horizon.
Some of you may already know it but Log Horizon is a kinda old anime, that dates back to 2013. Now the new season was out and to tell you the truth i couldn't remember a single thing. So i did what i had to do and rewatched season 1 and 2 once again.
Generic Info
Log Horizon came out in 2013 and has 25 episodes. It also has 2 other seasons that came out so there is much to see. The studio behind the anime is called Satelight with many known animes in their portfolio like Fairy Tail. It's an action, fantasy anime and its origin is a light novel, not a manga as we are used to.
Plot
There is a popular MMORPG called Elder Tale and just got its newest update, but something happened during that update. Around 30k Japanese gamers are transferred and stuck inside the game with no way out.
The protagonist called Shiroe a college student but a veteran of the game quickly finds 2 of his friends, Naotsugu a tank, and Akatsuki, an Assasin. The town in which most of the players are is in chaos as there are no rules and such.
Soon Shiroe and his friends along with other players are trying to take the city under control and eradicate chaos. Also, soon enough they understand that the ones known as NPCs are now called People of the Land and they have an actual life.
So they will both try to understand the world, the People of the Land as well as find a way to get back home. That won't be easy ofc as many new elements of the game that came out during the Update are shown to everyone, while they are trying to keep up with everything that is going on.
What i Liked and what i Didn't
To be honest the timing for Log Horizon was bad because a year ago Sword Art Online came out. Everyone thought that this anime would be a rip-off of SAO but that wasn't the case. SAO was focused on battle and such but Log Horizon was completely different.
The thing i liked was the character development, as you see most of the characters throughout this journey to be in different phases depending on what was going on. That was pretty cool because it reminded all of us they were actual human beings that tried to surpass tough situations all the time.
Also, i really liked that they have focused on building the city as well as building relationships with other cities, "countries", guilds etc etc. That was amazing because i haven't seen anything like it in any other anime. They actually show what it takes to keep control of a city, the politics and the economics that take place as well as the negotiations and relations with other parties.
The only thing i didn't like was the fight scenes. There were so scarce but i get it. Also, watching the other seasons i believe they understand it as well so they have added some more but not so many, to be honest.
›Log Horizon Changed My Mind About Isekai Anime... Almost (Review)@krispnatz2616d
Isekai anime have gained increased popularity and notoriety over the past few years with titles like Rising of the Shield Hero, That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime and notoriously Sword Art Online but there's one Isekai Anime that stands out as a classic amongst fans of the genre, namely the two season trapped-in-a-game themed Log Horizon. Log Horizon follows Shiroe, his companions Akatsuki, Naotsugu, Nyanta, his gamers guild Log Horizon and the rest of the gamers in the city of Akhibara after thousands of players are mysteriously transported into the mmorpg Elder Tale after the release of its twelfth expansion pack forcing everyone to adapt to their favorite video game becoming reality in order to survive until they can return to reality. In this review we'll discuss the series' accessibility for non gamers, its great female characters, its annoying love square as well as how for someone who isnt a fan of Isekai, it may still be an enjoyable watch.
Many say that a show should be judged based only on its own merits and not how it compares with others of its kind. Nothing can be more far away from this concept that Log Horizon, which will forever be compared to Sword Art Online. And rightfully so, since it came out so close to it, just to cash in on its fame and get money out of the starving for more SAOtards who couldn’t wait for another sequel full of harem, deus ex machinas, and super perfect anti-social gamers.
At the same time, it is also considered to be the anti-SAO series, for focusing on completely different aspects. Yeah, the premise where people are trapped in a videogame is the same, but that doesn’t mean much. Right now Overlord is a show with that happening all over again, and yet it’s just a comedy. SAO is fantasy empowerment, and LG is more about world building. Since death is not permanent, there is nothing of grave importance, as SAO pretended to have before throwing in tentacle fan service. The conflict is as light as it gets, with the trapped players simply trying to get along. This is what makes the show to be slice of life instead of action / survival.
It’s not like there aren’t any battles in this show; it’s just that with the penalty of death removed, and no apparent way to escape, people don’t do something out of necessity, as they do it out of boredom. Stuff like looting and pseudo-killing are done just to break the monotony. As for our main heroes, they want to stop all that, because… um, they are good people. Yeah, that is what the conflict is all about. Later on they try to make it seem more intriguing by mentioning how you lose some of your memories every time you respawn, or how the NPCs actually have personality and are not drones. Despite those attempts, the whole thing remains a light comical adventure about the micromanagement of a society within an MMO.
Coming from the same guy who made Maoyuu Maou Yuusa, everything is about economy, and a satire of fantasy tropes. Some would go as far as calling it a subversion, but that would be incorrect, since the plot is way too easy-going and doesn’t do much with what it makes fun of. Even if it’s decent in the characterization of the cast and in the immersion to its setting, it doesn’t do a particularly good job with the material at hand. To the most part it feels like a slapstick comedy with harem flavor, the two things that ruin all good ideas, any light novel ever had.
Of course very few anime fans will notice that, since they will be too preoccupied with laughing at said humor and shenanigans, as well as fangasming over the MMO terminologies. Even though the battles are meaningless, if you are a gamer the familiar concepts will shut off your suspension of disbelief. You probably won’t even notice how sloppy the exposition is, such as many of the players not knowing very fundamental powers, even if they are at maximum level, and have been part of this world for years. Everything is explained when it happens for the first time in the series, which means we get the classic case of someone standing still and explaining what he just did in the middle of a heated battle, even if it’s supposed to be something the characters should already know of.
It is cheaply manipulative when the show attempts to pass as strategic by explaining skills and spells that are used for the first time. We, as the audience, never knew a character could do all that up until that moment, essentially making every strategy to be an asspull. It does make sense after they explain it to you but it is by no stretch of the word smart; the author is making up stuff as he goes along, based on the demands of the plot.
The characters are not deep or complex in any way; they are easily defined by a few quirks and a simple mentality, which is usually there just for laughs. Thus we have the assassin chick acting like a slave to a bookworm mage, who is friends with a pervert paladin (talk about acting out-of-character). They are fairly cartoony and goofy, defined by very familiar archetypes and fetishes, so you never feel like they are real people, even when they are supposed to be. Which is another proof of why the show is not a subversion. It also feels out of character when some act scared if a bad guy is looting or killing them. Such acts means absolutely nothing if you can’t really die or you just lose a few trinkets.
With all that said, the first season looks ok and has a very catchy opening song. It is a decent job coming from an average in budgets studio like Satelight. The second season on the other hand is inferior in almost everything, so it’s no surprise that very few liked it. DEEN is notorious for its terrible budgets and bad animation, so it made everything to look run down. Plus, the already simple storyline was further simplified by becoming nothing but minor missions and meaningless training sessions. None of its interesting concepts were developed in any way, leaving the viewer with nothing of interest to look forward to. Plus, the pacing became a snail, because they had to adapt far less novels with the exact same number of episodes as the first season. Plus the focus moved away, from the interesting characters, to some minor unimportant ones, some of which were annoying kids doing nothing but talking on a wagon. And as if the in-series problems weren’t enough, the second season of SAO began airing along with the second season of LG. With a worn off novelty, and the content being crap, it lost its reputation as the SAO killer.
It is fun if you want to see online communities working in an easy going way, and how social skills and strategies are more important than grinding monsters out of screen, and then having time skips every 20 minutes just for the heck of it. Log Horizon is honest about what it is. It doesn’t promise you to be a scary action survival before soon turning to a harem with tentacles, rape, and incest. It is also not exciting because there is no tension, and loses steam as it goes on. Unless you are in for the comedy and the gaming terminology, you will get bored of it very fast.
In other news, the best “trapped in a videogame” anime, is still Hack//sign for NOT being about videogames but rather about isolation and a critique on escapism through a fake persona. It might not have been funny or exciting, but it was serious and moody throughout its run.
›Log Horizon: The West Wind Brigade Manga to End in 2 Chapters@sangjin3097d
Spinoff manga began in 2012
Manga artist Koyuki announced on Twitter on Tuesday that her Log Horizon: The West Wind Brigade manga with writer Mamare Touno will end in two more chapters. The 63rd chapter debuted in the February issue of Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine on Tuesday.
Log Horizon: The West Wind Brigade (Log Horizon - Nishikaze no Ryodan) is a side story of the Log Horizon novels that follows Sojiro and the members of the West Wind Brigade.
Koyuki and Touno launched the spinoff manga in 2012, and it serialized on Kadokawa's Age Premium website until the monthly digital comic magazine ceased publication in July 2015. The manga then transferred to Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine. Kadokawa released the 10th compiled volume of the manga digitally on November 9.
Yen Press licensed the manga and released the seventh compiled volume in North America on November 21. The eighth volume will ship on February 27, followed by the ninth on July 24.
The story of the original Log Horizon novels begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a "sword-and-sorcery world" is now the "real world." Shiroe, Naotsugu, and Akasuki join together to survive.
Yen Press released the ninth volume of the original novel series on October 31, and the 10th will ship February 27. The company also released the first volume of the manga adaptation by Kazuhiro Hara. Sentai Filmworks released both seasons of the anime adaptation on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Today i will tell you about log horizon the manga MMO par excellence. You will say "Roh but it's good SAO is already style MMO there's nothing interesting to discover". Well, what! Log Horizon gives way to a whole other aspect of this type of game. If SAO speaks a lot of feelings and digital encounters, Log horizon will be more vocabulary-oriented game, group system, even even a little fiction in fiction!
Attention the language will be rich in vocabulary MMO!
Synopsis
The anime is adapted from the manga of Mamare TOUNO and Kazuhiro HARA. The story is simple: Shiroe is an unconditional fan of MMORPG and spends his days on it (a bit like me when I get my 5 weeks vacation). He finds himself enclosed in Ender Tales. Unable to disconnect, unlike SAO the people who die in the game do not die in real life but respawn in the cemetery ...
Shiroe, one of the best players in the game, will start by building up a guild and discovering a game where NPCs become almost human. The ultimate goal will be to find out why they got locked up and how to get out of this game.
The main characters of log horizon :
Shiroe
It is the main character of the anime. A strategist, he manages to anticipate the assaults of these enemies. His class is magician / enchanter.
Akatsuki
It is a very discreet assassin who will meet Shiroe at the very beginning of the game. It is the card joker because it serves as scout and little to thwart ambushes.
Naotsugu
This is the team's tank. He receives the blows but also knows how to return them. He is a trusted person and an experienced player.
Nyanta
This atypical character is a cat man, his class of swordsman makes him a fine blade. He remains one of the best players of the game.
Opening Log horizon :
An opening "that tears his race" and which I enjoy listening to before watching the anime. Database performed by Man With a Mission and Takuma
Ending Log horizon :
Wallpaper Log Horizon :
My opinion on anime :
A bit disconcerting to see that this scenario is close to SAO. But Log Horizon rather than talking to you about love, will talk about strategy. Here the neophytes of the MMORPG will find themselves confronted with a language incomprehensible at first glance but do not worry young ignorant, everything is explained as it goes. So if you want to see a real manga MMO with classes, NPCs, PK, dungeons and I think Log Horizon is for you! (Yeah I sell it well I know). Graphically, nothing incredible it remains correct without much pretension. We nevertheless denote a lack of charisma of the characters in general what makes that one likes or one does not like the anime in the first episodes.
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