Log Horizon – 11
Kind of a beach episode?
Yo all! Fosh and I discuss the going-ons of ep. 11 with the meeting between the Round Table and Eastal and also talk about the training camp that got Marielle her much desired trip to the beach. With Christmas coming up next week, we’ll try and get a post for ep. 12 up sooner than norm.
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Yooooooooo!! Sorry for the late post you know the drill and all with Christmas around the corner we tend to get really busy, but anyway time for the episode! Enjoy.
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Extra MMORPG fun
Maybe she needs a permanent vacation from all guild work?
When in doubt rock paper scissors!
It sure is tough being the main character of an anime series.
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Preview
Helloooooo princes!
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POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
I have just realised that Serara is actually just a cover for an evil person. In reality, she is a shapeshifter!
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Do you have proof of this charge/accusation? 😉
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=85915
Right on the bottom of the list. Now it makes perfect sense pairing her off with Nyaanta.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Interesting.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Kekekeke… Serara’s job is to seduce victims for Nyaanta to finish off.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
I acknowledge that theory’s credibility.
POWUH: 800-899 and Flying Sage with 856 comments
I don’t think Shiroe has a harem. It probably is more accurate to say Akatsuki has a harem.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Shiroe has his intelligence and an alliance of guild members that can be amassed into an army at any time. After all, he’s holding all the cards.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
I think the romantic tension in this show is more of a ‘will they / won’t they’ than a ‘which one gets picked’. Pairs are fairly well set (NyantaxSerara, TohyaxMinori, NaotsuguxMarielle (why does he resist????)), although I don’t know what will happen with the Princess, if she’ll pressure the Shiroe x Akatsuki pair.
I wonder if the more balanced male / female ratio is an intelligent choice by whatever force pulled these people into the game, in order to make it be more sustainable as a world than your typical MMO sausage party (my WoW raid group seems pretty high on the count of ladies, and we still only have 8-10 out of 25).
Last note: Krusty is such a typical character name. Doesn’t fit him at all, probably picked “oh, that’s pretty cool, I’ll go with that.” Everyone else has these cool names, and he’s just… Krusty.
POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 163 comments
One thing I found living in Japan is that they have a REALLY different concept of what sounds sound “kakoi” and which don’t, than we do.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
The difference of communication, I guess.
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 33 comments
well, looking at the OP, i think Minori will be Akatsuki’s love rival or something so… i mean, Tohya’s just a protector or something, he’s her twin brother.
Krusty’s getting important, he needs a girl. Let’s give HIM the princess. They match nice.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Negotiations are always a slippery slope, whether it involves politicians or nobles. The real bitchy part of it all is that neither side wants to lose ground and be at the other’s mercy so tensions flare up easily if precautions aren’t taken.
Shiroe had it coming being chosen to deal with bureaucracy and information. All the tactics in the use of blackmail and other means to create the Round Table had to backfire on him in some way. With all those stares, if looks could kill, he wouldn’t stand a chance. Besides, they want peace so it’s only natural to send in the nerds instead of the brutes. They need precision not blunt instruments.
Some characters either don’t learn from their mistakes or just have rotten luck. Take Naotsugu for instance. If perversion is able to be spoken freely, make sure Akatsuki is not around to cause regrets. Poor Akatsuki. A ninja is supposed to protect its master but who’s going to protect her from her crazed stalker?
POWUH: Meta Resident with 1692 comments
Especially when her master sometimes uses her to pay off her crazed stalker.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Which should already be considered a sign of unforgivable betrayal yet Akatsuki clings to him. Masochistic vibes, maybe?
POWUH: Meta Resident with 1692 comments
Seems that way, but maybe there’s more to it. We don’t know what their relationship was in the game before the Apocalypse. Maybe he helped her out when she was new to the game and she still feels loyal towards him because of it.
POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 163 comments
I think the dress-up-doll thing is really meant just as a throwaway gag. I don’t think it’s actually meant to reflect on any of the actual relationships. Japanese love gag humor a lot more than Americans do.
My wife and I just ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen. More enjoyment that way.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
It’s becoming a reccuring thing that it’s been gradually impacting Akatsuki’s personality.
POWUH: 800-899 and Flying Sage with 856 comments
I agree with Blackbriar that it is annoying because it affects my reading of the character. If it were one joke once, I could have let it go. When it happens all the time it makes it tough to remember how cool she seemed in the first few episodes.
Plus there has been no development of her character. At first it seemed she was going to be interesting, and I was looking forward to this show as a change from a certain show in which the OP main character soloed everything. Now the side characters are just jokes in service to Shiroe’s awesome abilities?
POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 163 comments
I’m just still in shock that Marielle didn’t take off her shorts and jacket and run around in a ridiculously too-small bikini groping random girls’ breasts for no discernable reason.
Seriously, I was dreading it all episode and it never happened. She sat pretty-much fully clothed under the beach umbrella with nary a hint of fanservice anywhere.
I’m at a loss for words.
To the script writers at Log Horizon – I salute you.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Marielle deserves a trophy for defeating the usual beach tropes.
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 33 comments
excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess.