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Akito10
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Nice, great news.
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Tangowr
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So overall, what's Junk Guild's thought on the serie?
Favorite character, Arc, etc?
Least favorite?
What you think will happen next?
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I loved it. It's 2nd if not tied as my favorite show of the last few years with Build Fighters.

Favorite Character: Shiroe, hands down. followed by Akatsuki and Nyanta. Least favorite, probably Minori and her brother.

Favorite Arc: The Akihabra take over was the high light of the show for me, as well as the start of it in general when everyone was getting used to being trapped in the new world.

I don't think that I really had a least favorite arc, but I didn't care much for all the time wasted on the kids training. Another thing that felt disappointing was that after the Serara rescue arc, there wasn't any real focused battles anymore.

As to next, I assume Shiroe will wage war on that one girl.

Though it'd be smart if he were to buy his cathedral as well, since apparently if someone buys one they pretty much have control over life and death.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it, it's my Anime of the Season, I regard it better than Build Knuckle Fighters.

Favorite character: Shiroe, Nyanta, Akatsuki, Rudy.

Favorite Arc: The Akihabara arc. That was the best part of the show. The planning, reactions etc.

Least favorite: None. My problem isn't with arcs, I even liked the introductory arc which felt slow at first to me but after re-watching I appreciated it. What I found annoying was Minori and Tohya at the beginning but they later grew on to me.

What you think will happen next: Most likely war against the Western part. More World changing magic and I get the feeling Akatsuki will play a bigger role.
Edited by Se7enSword, Mar 27 2014, 12:51 AM.
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I loved the show, so much so that I began a long campaign to convince my friend who had been so scarred by Sword Art Online as to never touch a .hack-alike again to give up his prejudice and give it a try. Needless to say, it became his favorite show of both seasons after that. As for me, it wasn't me favorite in either; Kyousougiga took it last time, and this time Sekai Seifuku, Silver Spoon and a few others bumped it down a bit further. It was always among my favorites though, and I am definitely looking forward to the next season.

Favorite Character: Shiroe. Both my friend and I agreed he was the best protagonist of the last season, and he was definitely the best character in his own series. Nyanta, Crusty, Minori, Henrietta and a few others were also favorites.

Least Favorite Character: None. Some are weaker than others, and many of the simpler ones (such as Naotsugu) are in desperate need of character development after so much time, but none of them are actually bad in my mind.

Favorite Arc: Akihabara Takeover. As much as I enjoyed the fruits of Shiroe's labors, the early arcs about him and his closest friends were the parts I enjoyed most. It's why I'm so excited for season two, is because it seems like the next arc will follow that formula again as he leaves Akihabara behind and heads out with his guild in tow.

Leave Favorite Arc: Pre-Goblin Invasion. Shiroe getting dragged into fancy balls and stressful politics he doesn't particularly care about against his will, while some young characters we don't really know yet trained pointlessly, did not make for a good story. The plot seemed to have gotten too big after the take-over, with too many characters and events that spread everyone we cared about across the country while nothing of import really happened. Shiroe being uninvolved was the greatest sin, however, and it really started to drag to before the invasion actually began. It wasn't bad, but compared to most of the rest of the series it was extremely weak.

What Do You Think Will Happen Next?: Given that we saw Buffy McRapeson again in the ruins of the West in this last episode, I get the feeling he might eventually show up again. I'd really like Shiroe to buy their Cathedral and just fuck them all over. XD

More realistically, I think he'll use his new Scribe magic to do just what the sage talked about was back during the pre-goblin arc: cast world-spanning magics that will alter the rules of their world. He'll definitely be going up against Nureha and the East, but I don't really have enough information yet to know what he really intends to do in the end. Maybe he and Nureha will end up in a New Magic fight?

I did find it interesting that he's tried sending people back to Earth though, and all he knows of its success is that the people involved disappeared. That seems like a juicy plot thread to follow as well.
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Well, 2nd season will most liekly start with the serial kill arc, it's a female focused arc, focusing on Akatsuki and NEET Princess.

Basicly, there's a serial killer going around Akiba, killing high level adventurer(First one killed is Kyouko the 2nd team captain of West Wind Brigade, a level 90 Guardian Knight, and the next few days, various high level people was killed, even a 5 people patrol party, the other odd thing is, the NPC guard doesn't activiate, or appear, when the Serial killer appears.

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Hmm...So it might be possibe to introduce Roe2 for S2, and focus on her with the newbie squad, or save her for Season 3.
Roe2 - Shiroe's alternate account on the US server, a level 90 Summonor, who dislike the subclass that her older "brother"(Shiroe) chose for her, and joined up with Team Minori as long as they call her onee-chan, and it'll fun to see Nureha's reaction to 2 Shiroe..


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ねぷは..自由だ!!!

Wait, so they're 2 different people? Or did Shiroe's brain just become 2 people at the same time with different personalities?

She still basically has Shiroe's man face...
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May 25 2014, 10:27 AM
Wait, so they're 2 different people? Or did Shiroe's brain just become 2 people at the same time with different personalities?

She still basically has Shiroe's man face...
Well, there's no official art of her yet, she's only described as a tall woman(Like Shiroe) wearing glasses, with a nice body, and uses the same cloak as Shiroe
She is not Shiroe, but her own person.
But the "body" is created by Shiro(US server in the manga, in the novel, Mare Tranquillitatis in volume 8 of the novel>,
but a seperate "soul" inhibit it, and is not a "adventurer" from our world, as she is not familiar with "food" and other stuff that adventurer created, and finds human society not very proeuctive/effective.
But she likes Minori and the newbie gang, and joined them to help them, and also wants to learn more about stuff that adventurer created.
Edited by Tangowr, May 25 2014, 11:39 AM.
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Season 2 air date - 10/4
New character and VA announceed, from the looks of it, Season 2 will cover at least to book 7.

New gears for the main cast
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Rize - She plays a part in Book 6, the Akiba serial murder arc, which only stars the female cast, and she is Crusty's...third in command
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Kinjo - A NPC with alot of power and influence, who appears in Book six during the Akiba serial murder arc, he has access to spell and technology that not even player can use, such as the GM Armor.
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Tetra - Lv.92 Cleric, Subclass Idol - Self proclaimed Ginga bishoujo idol, met Naotsugu and seems to have a crush on him, joining Log Horizon after the quest that the guys of Log Horizon did while book 6 take place, has connection with a former member of the Tea party(Now No.7 in Plant Hwyaden, who has his own mini guild that protect native landers against adventurer in their region)
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ねぷは..自由だ!!!

Can't wait.

Though the final arcs started to feel like a bit of a let down compared to the Akiba take over arc. =/
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Ovan
Aug 18 2014, 11:51 AM
Can't wait.

Though the final arcs started to feel like a bit of a let down compared to the Akiba take over arc. =/
The festival arc?
That was just to introduce a new anatagonist, the leader of Plant Hwyaden, we won't get much interaction with then till a later arc, and then Shirou makes a deal with the "God" of Log Horizon.
But that one was mainly world building, showing that there is another city-state that have reached an "uneasy" alliance with the Adventurer, compared to Akiba(Self Adventurer ruled, and treaty with the NPC nation, with representive opening Embassy, and hiring adventurer), Susano, Aka. Adventurer held city, now under siege by DDD with a few hundred player stuck inside.
Plant Hwyaden infletrated and took over the NPC government and formed their own Empire, also absorbing all other guild in their region under them.

It'll be interesting to see how the anime team do Book 6 and 7, as it takes place at two different place at the same time.

The Akiba Serial Killer arc is pretty good, if the anime team is the same, since it focus on the female cast, NEET PRINCESS and her insecurities in her current position, and not sure if she is friend with thema ll(Each guild sent a rep to be her friend/bodyguard, Lize from DDD, Akatsuki from Log Hirozon, etc)
Akatsuki feeling unable to help Shirou, feeling that she was too weak, since she didn't do anything during the Festival Arc, instead it was Minori that helped Shirou, and Wing Brigade wil also have a somewhat major part, But this arc, Crusty, Shirou, Issack aka. the "Main Guy" of the Akiba Guild will not be available, and it'll be up to the girils/seccond in command of the Akiba guilds to solve this situation, an d how they solved it, will make Shirou and Crusty proud, since they used tactic and strategy to defeat him.

Shirou, Naotsuku will be MIA, as they were off in the Susano city they rescued Serara from with a doing a EPIC quest~

And hopefully the anime will do the Silver Sword guild leader justice, he's hilirious, and an even bigger fan of Shirou then Nuerha+Souichiro combined.

And Shirou also switches to his Epic level gear, with the new rods that have wing of light(Wonder if anime will show it)
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First official art of Shiroe2(Main Necromancer, Sub Vampire)
Is annoyed at the subclass that her older brother chose for her, and supposedly has the largest chest size in the serie.

She appears in Book 8, which focuses on the novie team and her adventure, it explores more of the world and the landers native, and also introduce other factions.
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ねぷは..自由だ!!!

So, is she an NPC that's using his other player character, Shiroe's mind split in 2, or what?
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Ovan
Aug 21 2014, 10:13 AM
So, is she an NPC that's using his other player character, Shiroe's mind split in 2, or what?
Not known, but most likely the 4th race (Adventurer, Native lander, Ancient, "World - TRAVELER")
And probabely the first one that is actually helping adventurer, as other "traveller" are considered invader and enemy of Elder Tale and Adventurer
As she is nor familiar with either the Elder tale world, and our world(She doesn't recognize Miso soup, Negi, and food flavering) and is trying to understand what Emotion is.
And also she keeps on seeing event from an outsider perspective
Her summons seem to include the Scrapped Princess(Goddess)
But Necromancer is a rare class, and now even rare in Elder tale, because of the summon are scary.
She appears in Book 8 after switching spot with Shiroe, using a Summoner spell, planning to go to a guild to change her subclass from Vamprie, annoyed at her older brother's choice of a subclass.
She teamed up with the Novie-team, because they need transportation, which she can summon, they were acquitance of her older brother(Shiroe) and she likes to be called Big sis by them...
But she didn't get much chance to use her summon skill, as Serara is scared of her summons(Crying) and Wraith seems to keep on getting hit by the idiot boys and other NPC/adventurer, because it look too much like a monster.

Regarding the "Species" - Native/Adventurer/Ancient can be classfied into different race, Shiroe is half-alv, giving him high affinity to ancient magic due to his Alv blood line
Everyone else beside Nyanta are human.

Alv are all extinct, except for the few half-Alv, Alv were the maker of the Guardian armor that the city guard use, and countless other feats.
Their six scrapped princess are also the "goddess" that probabely brought the monsters and adventurer into the world

Native - Being that lives in Elder tale - The largest number, and the weakest, when they die, they are dead

Adventurer - Beings that can't die and were "summoned" by the six princess/god to combat the erosion of the monsters, cannot die, when they die, they are brought back through a Temple after the death time is up, current adventurer, when they die, they lose some of their memories of the old world

Ancient - Native that are born with powers that rivaled or even surpass the adventurer, think of them as the Yuusha of the world, All the ancient belong to one of the 13 legendery knight guild in Elder tail

Traveller - A fourth race that Shiroe(Origional) feared more then adventurer and ancient, since in lore wise, they are the "invader" that was foretold.
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ねぷは..自由だ!!!

Who are they?
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Ovan
Aug 22 2014, 10:46 PM
Who are they?
That's just the art main Job class of Log Horizon.
Those picture are the default job for the TRPG, you can download the chara card at the official site here
http://lhrpg.com/lhz/download


Top picture, from the top Melee type character
Warrior type
Guardian Knight(Naotsugu)
Monk(The guy that wanted to kidnap Serara in the first arc)
Samurai(The leader of the West wind brigade)

Weapon based
Swashbuckler(Nyanta banjo)
Bard(Owner of the golden retreiver, she gets a really good arc for her and the golden retriever in Book 8)
Assassin(Akatsuki)

2nd Page Spell caster - From the top right
Healer

Druid (Serara from Crescent Moon)
Kannagi(Minori from Log Horizon)
Cleric(Tetra from Log Horizon)

Mage
Summoner - (Shiroe2/Roe2, she's the Necromancer type)
Sorcerer (Rundelhouse/Golden Retreiver from Log Horizon and Rize from D.D.D.)
Enchanter - (Shiroe from Log Horizon, Nureha from Plant Hwyaden)
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ねぷは..自由だ!!!

Oh, I see, thanks.

I thought they were introducing a bunch of new characters all at once or something.
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[utube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSHRFIYEmck[/utube]

So they switched animation studeio to Deen, first season is SateLight.

Op is the same~~
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C'mon Deen, don't screw it up! XD
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ねぷは..自由だ!!!

The problem with Deen is that they often have this weird desaturated look to their shows. Like they're so cheap they're skimping out on the colors.
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Second Season will be 25 episode
Art style of the new studio..is closer to the novel now.

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And from episode title released, they are doing Book 6 and 7 at the same time.
Ep.1~3 - Book 7 - SHiroe arc
Ep.4 - Book 6 - Akatsuki arc
Edited by Tangowr, Sep 27 2014, 08:41 AM.
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Official novel art of Roe2<Shiroe2)
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Tangowr
Sep 27 2014, 08:37 AM
Art style of the new studio..is closer to the novel now.
Awkward with saturated colors?

That promo art looks nothing like the screenshots so far.
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