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More than a year has passed since Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Log Horizon were published in Australia by Madman Entertainment. Although available via AnimeLab

The second season arrives!

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime that aren't explicitly connected to an established video game world leverage game-like systems to explain away how power progression works for their protagonists. Compared to these examples, Log Horizon is a little unique in that it looks at familiar RPG mechanics, ponders their narrative implications from a more realistic framework, and then has its characters interact seriously with them. The same familiar gameplay elements that characters may take for granted in some self-aware RPGs and RPG-influenced anime are meaningfully engaged with by Undertal...

While this episode, which is basically a transition piece between storylines, has a fair amount of interesting bits and pieces, I have to say that one thing I'm particularly pleased about is that Tetora's annoyance factor goes down quite a bit. Apart from the confirmation that they do not, in fact, live in Naotsugu's shirt, they also serve a very specific purpose this time: apart from Shiroe, they're pretty much the only person who has been playing Elder Tale from the beginning, so when the younger guildmembers bring home a couple of stray Ancients, Tetora is in a position to contribute some...

Don't you just love it when an episode of anime crams ¾ of a book into one episode? I sure don't! And I have a sneaking suspicion that even if you haven't been following the original Log Horizon light novels you can probably tell that that's what's going on here. This is essentially a crash course in a little over half of the novel published in English as Krusty, Tycoon Lord (volume eleven of the series), and while it does manage to hit on the salient points, it also definitely feels too rushed. In all fairness, however, the really good stuff in the book is in that final quarter of the nove...