Log Horizon Episode 22 Discussion

pipeds said:
Hmm...it really makes me wonder why the world they live in seems to be more fun and organized than the real world where it includes the real people like lawyers, politicians, businessmen etc. etc... It simply makes me wonder how this MMO players (who I consider most of them as those who want to escape the harshness of this world) beat up the skills of this REAL people. The one that really cracks me up is how well they organize their military strategy as well as their communicating abilities.

In a real MMO game, most of the players are jerks and only want to use you for their own gain. They don't care about how you feel, they only want to have fun and make their character stronger. Anyway, in the first place, this is a fictional story.

FrozenRemains said:
BOYS THIS ANIME IS ROMANCE GENRE,GET A BRAIN AND STOP CRYING.

zabadoh said:

05:16 - Henrietta is clutching 3 plushes (left to right): (who is that on the left?), Akatsuki, Minori

Natr1x said:


In a real MMO most players can indeed be jerks. But the reason for that is mainly because they are playing a game and are practically anonymous. Something which is no longer the case.

kavik_ryx said:


i watched a lot of romance/drama genre, and enjoyed them. but this episode is boring. and there's only 3 eps left.

DivAsakust said:


You'll enjoy s2 if and when we get it then. Starts with a whole books worth of Akatsuki focus.

NettoAzure said:
Darn, this episode. Traditional School Festival trope much? Cake eating and everything. Well Shiroe's harem keeps on growing. XD

Blind_Guardian said:
Agh, goddammit. I hate that little bitch. If there's a second season I'll just watch it on fast-forward mode until she gets the hell of my screen.

Lyyu said:
TEAM AKATSUKI!

Good episode. I really want to see a second season of this anime.

Natr1x said:

Well you have to consider that a lot of the players have taken up similar professions as to what they did in the "real" world so it is not like the world is without lawyers and businessmen. As for politics I am not sure if you missed the first half of this anime. Setting up the political structure of Akihabara and the round table was one of the main plot points. As for military strategy it consisted mostly of gathering groups of 40 and pointing them in a direction. Something that is not particularly hard to do.

In a real MMO most players can indeed be jerks. But the reason for that is mainly because they are playing a game and are practically anonymous. Something which is no longer the case. A lot of people are indeed still jerks though. There was an arc entirely about how they threw out a lot of them and managed to set up rules by purchasing buildings which allowed you to ban certain people from entering. It is explained in the books that most of the people who disagreed with these rules simply moved to Susukino which as you saw in this episode is still pretty much a lawless player city.

As for how they manage to beat out the skills of the people of the land it is hardly surprising considering that all of the adventurers have at least a basic education while the vast majority of the people of the land are illiterate. Add to that the fact that the adventurers all have bodies with superhuman strength, endurance and the ability to telepathically communicate with anyone at any distance.

Sorry for the rant but I was just wondering if we had been watching the same anime. Because your questions have been some of the main focuses of the Log Horizon I have been watching.

pipeds said:
But also, how the heck did they build that freaking steam boat? Yup I do know some of them can be engineers but producing that huge quantity of metal and creating the blueprint without any form of guide or book is just insane. It would take them multiple trials for them to truly establish a concrete blueprint of that.

BurntJelly said:
If people had a bad impression of Shiroe before... I wonder what they think after seeing him with those two little ladies...

It was pretty funny, but I hate to see this kind of filler so close to the end.

Zeando said:
silly episode
guess the story is already over :u

Zeando said:
silly episode
guess the story is already over :u

Takuan_Soho said:


Ah, that is a Japanese thing. I wouldn't doubt there being 10-20 "steam boat building clubs" throughout the country, with their own glossy magazine depicting how to make one. It has ceased to amaze me how many strange craft/hobby clubs there are in that country.

Dimitrije1606 said:

Wait, don't they have to kill the Goblin King?

ItzDom said:


Well fillers like this are not bad, its kinda nice to have a light-hearted episode once in a while.

kaimax said:


She has one volume dedicated for her...ENJOY.

Poffpoff said:

What I like about this series is that, it's way more mature than many others that's similar in style. He has two admirers that like him, I can hardly consider that a harem, and I don't see that number rising. One is a teacher-student kinda relationship (Minori, duh) where his knowledge and kindness made her experience feelings like love, and the other is Akatsuki, who is always by his side.

pipeds said:


I was also talking about producing the raw materials without a factory or something like that. In the real world, it is easier to have parts that can be use to make such a boat. Also, how many months did it take for them to create such a machine in comparison to how they do it in the real world?

airbornejaws said:
I like how everyone's content and happy even though they're trapped in a different world. *cough*SAO*cough*.

Azekura said:
Man, I was really enjoying this anime, but I don't think Log Horizon needs a love triangle at all. That whole scene with Minori crying because Akatsuki likes Shiroe felt awkward as hell. Minori is one of my favorite female characters in the series, but I prefer Akatsuki with Shiroe instead.
Hopefully they resolve this Love Triangle fast, and it doesn't carry on through the rest of the series. I'd rather see more tactics and diplomatics that Log Horizon is known for, than love drama.

acdneo said:


You know, Minori is more mature than Akatsuki, she'll deal whit it in a great way, unlike the shitty useless ninja.

Just wait.

acdneo said:


Akatsuki isn't exactly immature you know. Her problem is that she is a 23 year old girl who looks like she is 13 child (as explained in episode 3), it doesn't take too much imagination to begin to realize what a living hell that would create for a woman her age. There is a reason why she wanted to do the lone wolf assassin route.

As for being "useless", in the first 4 fights they did as a team, she dispatched more players than Shiroe and Nagotsu combined. The problem is of course as Shiroe rises in status, his battles are fought at a higher and higher level, which makes her combat skills far less important (in that Shiroe needs armies, not individuals). However, given that we know that there is another power center forming in West Japan, her value will suddenly increase (though she doesn't know it yet) as the battle between Shiroe and whoever that leader is becomes more personal and Shiroe's individual worth increases. Then a bodyguard/assassin will have a lot of worth.

SimmianPrime said:
Minori can't be that bright if she believes that she (as a middle schooler) can have a romantic relationship with a university student (23 I think?)