#final impression

Log Horizon 2nd Season

There’s a few more series I need write reviews for before I finally manage to complete all reviews of 2015 series. So, this time we’re checking Log Horizon’s second season. Damn, this is a one wonderful anime! Personally, I can’t just get enough of it.

Log Horizon’s 2nd season continues from where the first season ended. Shiroe and Naotsugu are away to win against goblin king with a party they’ve gathered in order to get money. Akatsuki is left alone in Akihabara and she’s off to meet a strong enemy, what puts the whole city to do some training. The youngsters are going on a journey to get stronger (gain levels) and accidentally meet Roe2, whom they find out to be Shiroe’s alternate character avatar. Adding to all this Krusty is still missing.

I mentioned in my final impression of the first season that Log Horizon and SAO shouldn’t be compared, because they’re completely different. I stand to my previous statement. While SAO concentrates on one main protagonist, his relationships and journeys, Log Horizon is more about party members, tactics, politics and the overall world building. In the second season, we learn so much more about the world. While the NPC’s seem to have personalized to be more than just NPC we are also introduced a “new” race of unknown origin. They are known as Travelers – who are further divided into Genius and Fools, or Observer and Collector as the anime decides to call them.

Personally, along with Grimgar, I find this as one of the best “woken up in a strange world and trapped there” series. I have even thought of buying and reading the light novels of both series. The most disjunctive factor is the fact that you can’t die in Log Horizon. Or at least once you die, you can be revived. But apparently dying in that world makes you lose a part of your memory and eventually you can forget completely just who you are. I have to admit that the part where Shiroe and Akatsuki died and met in that weird world, on the shore of a big ocean, was definitely the most beautiful scene in this season.      

As the story in light novel still continues, Log Horizon 2nd was left/ended in a cliff hanger. First of all, it was nice to meet Shiroe’s ex-party members from Debauchery Tea Party, especially the leader Kanami, who made her first in-person appearance in the 14th episode. We also learned that there’s more than Yamato server, Kanami is caught in the China server. There is no idea where this all is heading towards. I’m excited to learn more!

I said this already, but Log Horizon is definitely my favorite trapped in a mysterious/game-world-series. This anime also introduced MAN WITH A MISSION to me and that band has been one of my favorites ever since. Especially their song “Seven Deadly Sins” that was also used as the second opening song of Nanatsu No Taizai. I truly wish and hope that once light novel will have enough material, we’ll receive another season! I wanna know what happened to Krusty! I want some decent and actual, sweet romance!

Extra Note: I just want to apologize for how long this took to get out. Last weekend I had a terrible case of brain fog, on top of a god awful migraine that prevented me from even being able to work. I got a lot to catch-up to.