Log Horizon

[Kraco]

Episode 4 - HS





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Akatsuki really is stupid. As much as I like her, there's no avoiding saying that. She laments the fact she has never been on a raid, yet she won't participate even when invited! Why? Probably because Shiroe didn't tell her to. It's a really sad vicious circle: Shiroe is denser than tungsten and only cares about his own plots, Akatsuki is suffering and would like to do something but won't as long as Shiroe doesn't give the order. And he never will because he wouldn't see Akatsuki's problem unless it was expressly told him in unambiguous words. Naturally right now he's not even in town. The others have pretty much guessed her problem but nobody says anything or advices her. They only keep her company as if she was some terminal disease patient in need of that sort of support. Why don't they tell her to forget the princess for a while and join a raid instead? Some friends they are.

Plenty of Lenessia in this episode, and theoretically I should have enjoyed it a lot, but to be honest she's totally boring without Crusty there to tease her. At least the impression I got from the previous ep's preview, that she would be dismayed by her inability to understand the adventurers, was wrong.

[Archangel]

Holy shit that was next level awful, there's literally never been a worse episode in either season.

The only relevant part to the whole thing were the last 30 seconds

[Buffalobiian]

At first I thought someone was going to buy Akatsuki a really expensive present, but now I think that was just Soujiro upgrading himself.

(Unless the PKer is the one holding the special katana, now that I think about it some more)

[Xelbair]

did you notice that body of killed girl did not disappear?

[MFauli]

All these "Im so unhappily in love with him, poor me"-episodes are so frustrating and boring to watch since they NEVER lead anywhere. Ffs, can we PLEASE have Shiroe and Akatsuki become a couple proper? I hate anime that tease a certain romance, but never go through with it or do it only at the series´ end. Cant bear anymore such episodes, ugh.

Also, am I the only one who thought that Akatsuki was totally ridiculed in terms of skills this episode? So many people noticed her while she was secretly observing others. Heck, pretty boy noticed her from 200m afar and she did NOT notice that she had been spotted. For an episode that tried to show Akatsuki´s desire to become stronger/better, it certainly achieved the opposite :/

did you notice that body of killed girl did not disappear?

Yeah, wtf. Unless the disappearance was just delayed for dramatic impact, that´s a game changer. And I dont know how to feel about it. I remember that I criticized the lack of death in this anime, saying that there´s no real sense of danger without it. Despite that, Log Horizon managed to convince me otherwise. And now that´s all being overturned? Bullshit. Hope we´ll get a proper explanation. While we´re at that, I could think of something: Maybe it´s somehow possible to turn adventurers into people of the land, just like Rudi was turned vice-versa. That way it´d be possible to actually kill.
If that´d be the case, then it´s safe to say the theories about everybody actually only existing inside the game anymore and NOT being connected via their real bodies is true.

[Kraco]

Is she even dead? She seemed to hold her salmon fighting skills in high regard, so it would be a bit underwhelming if a single sword cut emptied her pool of HP without an assassin technique. She called herself a second captain, so I'd imagine she's not any level 30 beginner.

[Archangel]

Why didn't she re-equip her gear anyway? Was that a legendary salmon with +600 attack?

[MFauli]

have wounded adventurerers always bleed before? That´s what was weird, too, the puddle of blood on the ground. I dont remember the first episode where was saw player killers. Was there blood, too?

[David75]

Is she even dead? She seemed to hold her salmon fighting skills in high regard, so it would be a bit underwhelming if a single sword cut emptied her pool of HP without an assassin technique. She called herself a second captain, so I'd imagine she's not any level 30 beginner.

We've heard twice she's level 90 right?
And yes, I also wondered why she waited to be slashed, instead of defending herself.

[Xelbair]

I am pretty sure that someone has found a way to kill an Adventurer.. permanently.

[KrayZ33]

She laments the fact she has never been on a raid, yet she won't participate even when invited! Why?

She got invited to raid with someone? When did that happen, I missed that.

Very boring episode. As much as I like the setting, this show is really dull and slow (story progression wise) most of the time. It feels like they are celebrating a different festival each episode..

[NeoCybercoin]

I dunno why I thought that guy looked like a distorted evil Santa with the cape and all.
Could be some kind of event since those Guardians didn't show up. And they always do whenever PvP is about to happen.

[MFauli]

im pretty sure that guy is one of those elite forces of the people of the land, forgot the name. those that nobody knows why they were absend all this time. in combination with the princess´ revealed fake-friendliness, it, imo, paints an upcoming plot line where the people of the land begin to rebel against the perceived dominance of the adventurers.

[Ryllharu]

Lenessia is genuine.

Her fakeness is part of being nobility. You have to literally tell someone you're happy/sad because they won't believe whatever face you put on.

She's never had real friends, so she's incredibly overwhelmed by the fact that the Akiba Adventurers are so open, warm, and honest. She's used to some fawning noble that smiles to her face while thinking she's a dead fish or a bore. That's why Crusty throws her off, he can see through her bullshit. She's lazy and cowardly, but always has to show a strong face and a dignified, pleasant, happy demeanor. Even if other people see through her, they pretend they don't.

Lenessia struggles to tell how they are feeling because they don't outright describe their feelings, they wear them on their faces (everyone) or in body language (Akatsuki). She's used to everyone constantly appearing polite or even-handed. The adventurers she always hangs out with hide nothing, and that unnerves and drains her.

[MFauli]

episode 5 is out - proper subs can be found on nya
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were those bubbles at the end Akatsuki dying or did she awaken her teachings power?

Anyway, I loved the expression on Sou´s face during the whole episode. Love these 180°-changes in character behavior.

But I hate, hate, hate how unfocused these past two episodes were. Almost nothing happens, because the episode is split into tiny bits. Can we please see how Shiroe is doing the raid? Can we then see the fight against the murderer? Can we then deal with Lenessia´s emo phase? It´s Game of Thrones season 3 all over again. Jumpy, jumpy, jumpy. sigh

Biggest lol of the ep: When Akatsuki was talking about Lenessia´s tiny shoulders. Yeah, there´s not a single living being in this game that has tinier shoulders than Akatsuki.

[David75]

Akatsuki died.
Shiroe too.
Then we can loop back to that scene in ep1.

[Kraco]

Looks like nothing is going as planned right now. Shiroe's raid team seemed to have found an enemy no easier than this berserk royal guard terrorising the streets of Akiba. Quite interesting the same NPC clan Shiroe tried to deal with turned out to be controlling the royal guards as well. Quite a powerhouse, and shady as hell. I don't get why the other royal guards don't go after this single murderous one, though. Perhaps they simply don't want to?

Lenessia missing Crusty was nice, with her continuous emo scenes getting so boring of late.

[David75]

Royal guards are not designed to fight each other I guess. So that bug, or game evolution can't be easily countered yet. Unless someone finds another bug/evolution they can exploit. Like an adventurer dressing a royal guard armor...

[lelouch]

Pretty stupid that they didn't draw him out where the entire clan can fight him. The whole point was stacking two healers on each patrol team to stall so that there's enough time to for the "main force" to get there, which I assumed wasn't just Sou. Each patrol team was about 6, and there's at least 60 people in the clan, so there should be at least 20 healers. There should have been 20 healers backing Sou and akatsuki up, and they should have drawn the guy out to an open space so the remaining 40 members can attack as well. So stupid, absolutely no teamwork. Kakashi would send all these guys back to genin camp.

[shinta|hikari]

Best twist at this point is dying once means the actual person being permanently dead and being replaced by an NPC copy.

@Lelouch - The enemy's HP bar wasn't moving. Having everyone fight him means everyone dying. Souji stayed because he knew that and wanted his allies to escape.