Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Kresni
Characters are whining all the time and saying sorry to every bs imaginable
The anime keeps introducing unnecessary characters who contribute pretty much nothing to the story
The romance between the characters does not go anywhere, even though a lot of screen time is allocated to it
Why is a veteran assassin (Akatsuki) fighting with a middle-school kid to get the attention of the MC? Who thought that was interesting?
Half of the season is the adventures of a party of novice players (kids), and the boring conversations between them
The raids on the dungeons and boss scenes are pretty cool, and you see some MMO strategy there. However, it is a small part of the anime compared to everything else.
Kinda disappointing as the first season wasn't too bad.
Read at the sourceMakeranenai
Why does the story think I care about other characters if I never really learned about them, until they are directly involved to some conflict?
The story does not revolve around the main character, and yet, they take too long to finish side character's arc. I dont know about everyone else, but I dont really care about side characters. Im not a big fan watching kids or MC's friends. But, the whole season spends too much time on kid's screen time, MC's friend's story arc, MC's friend's friend's story arc, and MC's friend's friend's opponent's story arc. MC just claims that he is busy with paperwork, and doesnt really do anything. He can just hire more mobs to do the work. What happened to hiring NPCs to do that paperwork with less labor fee, mentioned in seaseon 1? Paperwork is not a hard j…
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TO START OFF;
YES, the pacing is significantly slowed down compared to season one,
I RECOMEND watching it how u would watch filler,
(if you watch 'filler' because thats kinda what this season compiles,
What i mean is doing other things on the side like doing something that doesnt take up your complete attention,
WHY I DO/DID THIS; the storyline is stretched out, and the character buildup they try to do to mask it up doesn't work enough to grab your attention like it should, EITHER WAY, i dont think its appauling, just super mid, i would've rated it lower if I forced myself to pay FULL ATTENTION to it instead of multi-tasking,
thats why i had it at a 7 or 9 untill now,
Read at the sourceYungGripson
The first part of the season was amazing and exciting, it was the usual shiroe making his Over powered 200IQ plays,but then came the kids arch and they try the whole character development and more screen time for the kids, but it was just too much. It got really annoying and very boring in my opinion. It felt like shiroe wasn't even the main character anymore, in fact throughout the whole series it just felt like they're trying to fade him out.
Im gonna give this a 7 it would be an 8 if it weren't for the kids arch.
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In my opinion this second season did not improve in any areas compared to season one, but instead it either remained the same or even got worse. I will give my thoughts on each component of the show as well as my rating for it. If I have any spoilers, I will write them between *'s.
First of all, the story. The story in this season is worse than season one. Yeah its moving forward and its exploring the world, but its done in a way that feels more like cramming in information than exploring and discovering their new world. The theme of this season according to what I saw is "adaptability and creativity during the unexpected", as we *see that when silver sword adapts to the new dungeon, the kids party adapts to the world while traveling alone, as well as shiroe coming to terms with their sit…
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While watching this i sometimes really got bored. I'm tired to seeing the same battle mechanics over and over again. The tank team taunts the beast and everyone else attacks healers heal ofc its literally same thing since season 1. In all fights we see that even in the children's adventure arc. Is it that hard to think of anything else I'm really tired of it. We saw things about the universe that we absolutely don't give a f. We didn't see any good politics as we did in season 1. NPC-human interaction was the only thing ok in the whole season actually. There are bad guys without clear motivation. It was such a disappointment. 5/10.
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Season 2: Good but with less rewatchable quality
Compared to S1, this next adventure in the Log Horizon files does feel like a big step back and a disappointment. The first episode's structure was to entice people about what's to come, but really it only left a confusing mess. It didn't help that the next 6 or 8 episodes were really slow. S2 had a lot of trouble balancing the two separate plotlines and may have lingered on them longer than necessary.
Another hard pill to swallow when it comes to S2 is that it doesn't begin to be as interesting as S1 until much later. The members of Log Horizon, save for Akatsuki, seem to be missing as the story focuses on a serial killer and incorporates the other guilds. There are some good moments with the younger members of Log Horizon later on when t…
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TL;DR: I found the second season of Log Horizon to be quite good.
The story is noticeably slower in this season than the first, and by that I mean entire arcs are shelved only to be returned to several episodes later. There's also just a lot more filler occupying most of the time spent in this season. For that reason, the writing doesn't feel as consistent or as well paced as it was in the first season. One benefit of the filler in this season is that many of the main and side characters who didn't get a lot of development or screen time in the first season, get WAY more attention in this season, and they all benefit from that. Many of their backstories and personalities/ motivations are fleshed out a lot more, so in that regard, this season does very well.
However, the story does seem t…
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This season focused heavily on character development. By "heavy" i mean like every episode. There are many amazing character development moments this season like Akatsuki's, the juniors, and of course William's deveolpment. Heck, he had a whole episode with just him talking. The raid fights in this season was also very cool and that "death" scene.
I got to say that the animation quality was not as good as the first season, so i guess it's just decent. I especially despise their real world persona. I know they meant to make it as a kind of realistic touch but it just looks weird and awkward. At least Database is still here.
As I said earlier, this season focuses heavily on chara development. I grew to like Minori a bit more, even though Akatsuki is still best girl. Akatsuki also got a lot…
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Im Not mad, just a little disapointed. Its hard to say if the issues with this season is in the Original Material or Studio Deen.
Log horizon season 2 forgoes quite a bit of the worldbuilding and fills it with cheap jokes and drama("romance", cause why woudnt half the city be in love with the antisocial nerd) for the first half. Wich wasnt a problem in the first season to the extend it happend since it didnt considerably slow the story).
The second half is taken up by secondary characters for a big part, wich is nice for those characters, but doesnt help the pace.
The enjoyabilty of the story also drops considerably while the studio drops the ball on paceing and animation quality.
Eh this review is a bit jumbled together, but I aint feeling like rewriting it.
Story:____6(pace and cohesio…
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After hearing the announcement of the 3rd season I decided to check out the anime. I know the anime is old but with the upcoming season there may be new fans that might want to check out the show.
In this season they tried to do way to much for a 25 episode anime, with the pacing being off. We got so much useless info dumps which I felt didn't really matter because they would just add another rule which would make the other obsolete. New threats were being introduced left and right with none of them being solved. The princess adventurer they introduced in the first season left us at a cliff hanger, and you would expect them to follow up on that. Instead of her planning an attack or strategizing they showed her moping around and grieving.
The shows pacing and threat dumps could have been…
Read at the sourceMagister_Jakene
I binge watched the first season of Log Horizon (now to be called LH because the full name is a chore to type) over the summer, and I found it quite enjoyable. The action kept me on the edge of my seat, and the MMORPG elements of the show encapsulated me into the world. Every episode felt like another new adventure, another breath of fresh air. The second season, however, did a complete 180 for me. This review is based off of what I saw in the show, because as I explain in the next paragraph, I skipped a couple of episodes.
Story (2): When the season first began, it was pretty interesting. It started becoming boring about... the third episode. The raid Shiroe went on came to a standstill, so the story took a break from him and focused on minor issues in the Adventurer City. This wouldn't…
Read at the sourceWicked_Turtle
My score for sound is for the music, and the sound FX.
The voice acting was B... almost C class for most of the characters, even if they were important. (Like big sis, amazing character, but she had probably the worst voice actor in the entire anime).
This anime has one of THE BEST plots to exist for being in another world.
But it is almost completely ruined with the massive side story of the kids.
I don't mind the kids, never have until now. But they focus FAR too much on them in this season while giving us the tip of whats going on in the main overall story. Not to mention, they're heinously one dimensional, and come to revelations of THE most simple things in existance like the importance of music.
There is no reason for them to focus THAT much effort into such a miniscule thing. And t…
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I'd honestly give it more than 10 if I could.
I really enjoyed the world build -- even though the anime had a slow pace, the two seasons taking over a full year of in-game-time, the build didn't focus on one main character and gave all the rest of events as given out, just in some dialogue like "this and that happened in suskino". Instead, the world was built from a character's perspective, whether it would be shiroe, tohya or akatsuki, and then it was built as a guild, as a city, as a server, and now as a whole world (and the moon).
Sure, there were politics involved, and large scale events, but that's the whole beauty of this world. A new world where people gain power and are no longer just tiny screws in a system, powerless to do anything.
I also really really enjoyed the MMO aspect…
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The first half of the season was really really slow and it seemed filled with fillers and boring stuff. The second half was completely packed in and seemed t be extremely rushed. I almost felt like dropping the series midway through.
This season did not have it's ups and down, but was rather filled with explanations and was pretty much boring. They have kept the opportunity for a third season open, but I feel it would be dragging things out too much.
As for characters, not mentioning names(to avoid spoilers), some of them change personalities that is their basic nature with(Like, are you kidding me!). And then there are concepts which have been explained but in a very rough and unsystematic manner.
Though everything, it wasn't much and was filled with positivity and somehow lost it's fo…
Read at the sourceSeekingWaylander
2nd season of the anime drops its art animation quality. This says alot.
Focuses more and more on the younger characters in the show, making the main character starting to look more and more like a stage prop.
The plot devices moves on to introducing new characters while developing an interesting conflict that is going to be seen probably in the next season, or maybe never.
What I disliked was that the main characters of the 1st season received visible downgrades on all aspects besides of their art - they become dumber, more bad at things, more lines where they most of the time don't know what are they talking about - aka the story itself was rushed.
One big problem is that the main story is dragged and has lots of fillers this season, more than probably the last season and you won't b…
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This is a direct continuation of the first season, though ultimately one that starts in a different direction for the most part. The first arc that focuses on Akatsuki with Shiroe and his raid going on in the background had a very different feel from the rest of the show. It maintains keeping multiple stories going on side by side. However, ultimately both of these begin to feel incredibly slow. Akatsuki's side seems to be very largely focused on developing her character. However, it takes far too long for things to happen, with her staying in a state of doubting herself and not really making any movement towards growing stronger. There is a turning point regarding such, after which things speed up a bit, which is primarily due to how it drops looking at Shiroe's side entirely until her st…
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If you liked the first season you'll like this one well enough. It's worse, but only by a little bit, and while you may be a tad underwhelmed you won't come away from it feeling utterly disappointed either. It's basically a slightly worse version of more of the same.
Art-
If you liked the art before, which I did, you'll like it again here. The animation is crisp and smooth, the "halfway point of this episode" screens are still awesome and it still looks fresh and modern. That said, they did mess around with a couple character designs and make a few changes between Season 1 and Season 2, which is extremely noticeable if you're watching back to back, and as an in general I dislike when animes do this on principle and in this specific instance I don't overly care for it in practice either.…
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Log Horizon is an anime that has been completely overshadowed by the massive popularity of Sword Art Online. The first season was an admirable attempt at creating something worthwhile, but the second season fails to impress.
Story: Log Horizon Season 1 was an intriguing geo-political chess match inside the framework of a cliche "trapped in the game" story. Log Horizon Season 2 abandons that premise in favor of more action and side character development, which undermines what the series had going for it. Particularly grating are the horrendously long and redundant external monologues where characters spout off meaningless exposition about "friendship" and "struggle," as though these things weren't evident from what's happening. One instance of this takes up nearly an entire episode! Log Ho…
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In this review, I assume that you watched "Log Horizon" so it may contain spoiler
Pros
- Tons of new characters
- Art style improvement
- More characters get their own spotlight on the story which emphasize the importance of their role
- More characters growth
- Spontaneous comedy that seems more natural
- Opening song so epic they didn't bother to change it since season 1
- Good transition from ending scene to ending song - The atmosphere of the story is more tense and more philosophical with many challenging new problems
Cons
- There are many things left unexplained and no confirmation on season 3, but still enjoyable
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