Unlike Kirito from Sword Art Online and Shiba from Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, Shiroe is not the strongest fighter. Log Horizon is typical of the types of anime I personally enjoy in that there is a central and powerful protagonist. Whether it is game-based visceral combat between players and monsters, political disputes between different groups, or intellectual clash between strategists, the action is as exciting as it is diverse. This bleak MMORPG world serves as a perfect backdrop for the many battles in Log Horizon. Cities plunge into chaos as bandit adventurers plunder other adventurers and NPCs, also called People of the Land, who originally inhabit the world of Elder Tales.Īdventurers call this catastrophe “the Apocalypse.” And an apocalypse it is.
The insignificance of death creates with an anarchist society which plagues adventurers, causing players to band together to protect themselves or assault others. Luckily, death is not permanent in the world of Elder Tale adventurers simply respawn in town when killed.Įlder Tales, once an MMORPG now turned into reality. Unlike Sword Art Online, there is no end goal, no last boss, and no escape. The result is a depressed population with no hope and no motivation.
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Therefore, it is more correct to state Log Horizon is a fantasy adventure with MMORPG roots. By destroying modern society and replacing it with Elder Tales, the series throws every adventure into an anarchist society where no rules apply. Rather than the adventurers of the MMORPG Elder Tales being trapped in the virtual world, the virtual world replaces reality. Fortunately, that is where the similarities stop. Similar to Sword Art Online, Log Horizon‘s world is based off an MMORPG. Easily the best action anime I’ve seen yet, Log Horizon is a brilliant anime with a varied and fully fleshed out cast of characters that I absolutely fell in love with. Five out twenty-five episodes in, I was hooked. It wasn’t until a seven hour bus ride back home for the holidays when I finished Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei and had nothing to watch that on a whim I started Log Horizon. I downloaded the entirety of season 1 last summer but didn’t touch it for a while. hack if you’re old enough to know that). A friend jokingly called it Loli Horizon, yet still recommended then anime to me.
Log Horizon was an anime I had brushed off as another Sword Art Online clone (or.
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