Database wow

My post on the Akatsuki figurine from some years back has been accumulating notes so I went to check on it and.

Sketches by Motoya Matsu, artist of HoneyMoonLogs

New Valentine’s Day Characters for the LHSNG: Kanami, Henrietta, Nureha, and Minori

So at the time the Round Table was formed, Akiba was largely lawless. In people’s eyes, the only laws were to a) not fight in the city otherwise the Guards would get you, and b) don’t get in the way of the big guilds. This fact, along with the fact that Hamelin was holding its kids essentially as slave-hostages, gave Shiroe motivation to purchase the Guild Meeting Hall for the Round Table Conference. With powers over the Hall, he could use it as leverage to force the other guilds to at least listen to what he had to say, and reduce the possibility of someone using force of arms against him. On top of that, he could blacklist anyone from Hamelin, preventing them from entering the main Hall and stopping them from pursuing the escaped kids.

After the formation of the Round Table, the rest of the important structures were purchased in order to prevent anyone from creating a split faction or try and topple the newly-founded government. A safekeeping measure, you could say. Well, by November/December, the maintenance upkeep of these buildings is way too much for anyone to reasonably amass, even with taxes in place.

So Shiroe chooses to give it all back to the Kunie and their infinite gold resource. His reasoning is that by this time, enough law and order have been restored to the city. There is little threat inside the city that can’t be handled by the guilds, so there’s no reason to hold on to these money-wasters. He bundles all of Yamato’s unpurchased purchasable land and gives them back to the Kunie as well, so that nobody can take over land and use their powers to abuse other Adventurers or Landers. According to the contract, all that land has now been “bought” by the Kunie. Nobody else can buy it now. (Possibly, something can be negotiated with the Kunie if necessary, but only if you’re Akiban; they’re not on good terms with Minami and Westelande.)

> Sees LHTRPG Database update > Opens Nemimi’s entry > 〈記録の地平線〉のシロエが大好きで > “She is in love with Log Horizon’s Shiroe”

LHSNG: [Genius War] Akatsuki and [Genius War] Tetora

While I am biased towards the light novels because I’m always a source-first person, the reviewer on FP is not cut out for the light novel. I don’t mind if she prefers the anime to the light novels, but if she can’t pick up on the text at this point in the story, she really shouldn’t be reading this light novel. She misses parts that are basically spelled out for the reader, and if she’s missing that, then she’s obviously not going to pick up on the subtler points of the series that make up its charm.

like, yes, we learn almost immediately that he’s a former strategist of Debauchery Tea Party and therefore a walking legend, but it has also been two years since it broke up, and unlike Naotsugu, Shiroe had been playing this entire time.

He’s been grouping up with random people, approached for help and support and advice by complete strangers, making friends - he has a long, long, long friend list, with both Akatsuki a random mostly-solo never-raiding player and Crusty the major raid guild leader on it. He’s close friends with Marie the support guild master who doesn’t seem to ever even go fight any monsters anymore. His nickname “Villain in Glasses” is 100% pre-existing and is one of the REASONS his plan to take over Akihabara succeeded, not consequences.

He’s just got SO FUCKING MUCH under his belt. Normally, protagonists are something of a blank slate, someone who learns and develops their relationship with the world and other major characters along the course of the plot, with maybe just a handful of pre-existing connections that are all going to be re-evaluated anyway. To figure out who they are we just look at the stuff they’ve done on-screen, because everything before was fairly generic and maybe has a couple of characterization beats but generally pales in comparison to what they are starting to be NOW.

But when you are trying to figure out who Shiroe is, you absolutely have to take into account the mostly-unseen details of what happened before, that we have to extrapolate from others’ reactions and descriptions and discussions. It’s not just the basic backstory beats of ‘shy introvert engineering student who discovered his scene as an MMORPG tactician’, it’s also everything he’s done in that role. And that is A LOT. He’s literally got people going ‘I don’t care to hear what your plan is, I’m in because it’s your plan’. This is a long huge Noodle Incident that we are never going to hear the details of but the implications of which are never going to stop being brought up.

Tetora caught her cold and now her voice is gone, so now Nyanta and the kids are off to get medicine to restore her voice.

Some outtakes (since pixiv’s gotten smart and it’s harder to rip images now):

In other words, she became the Japanese gay stereotype after the Catastrophe since she was placed into her male avatar.

Final chapter for volume 12!