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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...

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...