Log Horizon Fun Facts

Whoops, I somehow never saw this!

I think the Hara Kazuhiro artbook effectively confirmed Roe2 was intended to be Log Horizon's Summoner, rounding out the "1 person per class" rule Mamare had intended. An illustration featuring every official guild member, plus Roe2, was posted at the end of the Re:Fraction snippets.

(Sorry about the poor quality photo, the physical artbook is fairly small and my phone's camera hates my ass.)

In terms of official art, no. The closest you'll get is his Valentine's artwork from the mobile game (reposted for convenience since my original post about it is about 9 years old).

Log Horizon Manga: Chapter 8

Because chapters 8-10 of Hara Kazuhiro's promotional Log Horizon manga never got serialized in a published volume, he recently received permission to post it on social media.

Wow, this made me realize I never shared photos of the drama CD that came with the book. (However, the two tracks listed is all that's on there. So if you're looking for anything else, sorry, that's all I've got.)

The two tracks:

『腹ぐろ眼鏡の腹のくくり方 ~シロエはいつ決めたのか?~』 (Side story depicting other characters' perspectives during Collapse of the Round Table, I gave up on TLing this)

『リトカとレリアのはじめてのおつかい!』 (TL: Litka and Lelia's First Errand!)

Character list, from top left going down, to bottom right:

Shiroe

Naotsugu

Akatsuki

Minori

Raynesia

Calasin/Charasin

Isaac

Rieze

Eins

Touri

Marves

Lelia

Litka

Tetora

Log Horizon Fun Fact #279:

The Log Horizon TRPG website was coded by Yamamoto Yamane, a long-time Log Horizon fan and the author of the side story novel Kushiyatama, Do Your Best! (The novel started out as fan fiction before being picked up for official serialization)

I forgot a semi-important note about people's insistence on "Kannagi," which is that Mamare wrote out kannagi in katakana (カンナギ) as the intended reading for the kanji used in the class name (神祇官, which also reads kannagi). To give a comparison, the Monk class' katakana was モンク (Monk) whereas its kanji was 武闘家 (Budōka, meaning "Martial Artist").

I have no memory of either usernames or the incident in question.

"Shrine priest" isn't necessarily wrong, per se, but given that Kannagi is a Japanese server-exclusive class meant to reflect Japanese culture, many people consider "Kannagi" a better rendition of the name since it's the Japanese gender-neutral term for Shinto shamans (as opposed to the female-only but more popular term, miko).

As I was looking through my Hara Kazuhiro tag, I realized that he posted a draft of what later became Volume 12's cover art in December 2016 (eventually shown in final form in Hara's artbook, published early 2021). By comparison, the web novel was (publicly) completed in 2017 and the LN was supposed to be published in 2018.

This means they were working on Vol. 12 around the same time they were preparing Volume 11 for publication (which happened around May 2016, around the same time Mamare started posting Vol. 12's web novel). That said, Vol. 11 didn't get published until 2018; Vol. 12 was also supposed to release in 2018 but got pushed back 3 times before finally getting removed from listings altogether.