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The eponymous Log Horizon guild the story mainly revolves around.

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Main Characters/Log Horizon — Founding Members

Shiroe (Kei Shirogane)

Race: Half-Alv
Gender: Male
Class/Level: Enchanter, Lv.90/ Lv.93 (Present) [1]
Subclass: Scribe
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Japanese), Mike Yager (English)

Shiroe, a 23-year-old engineering graduate student, got trapped in the world of Elder Tale while trying out its latest version after a long hiatus. He is an alumnus of Debauchery Tea Party (DTP), a legendary (though informal) dungeon raiding team, having earned a reputation as one of its strategists.

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• Awesomeness by Analysis: Shiroe is able to utilize various tricks, spells, and tactics against monsters and antagonistic PCs when he studies who is the guild he is up against.
• Badass on Paper: He feels he has this going on. People look at the successes of the Tea Party and all the awesome gear he has and think he must be a total badass to have all that. But he says that a lot of it was due to luck or other people covering for his failures and that he, when you get down to it, wouldn't have accomplished anything on his own. This is because his forte is The Strategist; he does his best work only when he has people around him who can carry out his brilliant plans.
• Big Brother Mentor: Acts as one for quite a few beginner players, especially Touya and Minori whom he used the Teaching System to travel with them.
• Big Good: Serves as such to the adventurers of Akiba, despite being rather devious. At any given time, Shiroe has multiple plots in motion at both the macro level (creating the Round Table, negotiating with the Landers) and at the micro level (rescue the new players held by Hamlin, training Minori and her group).
• The Chessmaster: Equal parts leader, experimenter and social engineer.
• Confusion Fu: His greatest weakness, and the type of enemy he most hates to deal with, is someone whose actions are random, or where no pattern exists.
• Difficult, but Awesome: Shiroe's class, the Enchanter, is the least popular of the twelve primary classes of Elder Tale, mainly due to its low direct offensive power and HP pool. However, if grouped with an excellent team, just like Naotsugu and Akatsuki, the Enchanter's vast repertoire of crowd control skills can be fully utilized, thus turning it into a very fearsome character, as the unlucky player killers in Episode 2 can attest to.
• Encyclopaedic Knowledge:
  • Shiroe's vast knowledge of the Elder Tale game helped a lot of people out, as he reveals in Episode 3. Then he finds out that they mostly want him for his extensive knowledge of various parts of the game, and is one reason why he shunned being in a guild. The sole exception was DTP, who wanted him just because they want to have fun adventuring together, which he seems to like.
  • This massive storehouse of in-game knowledge also has a practical use during battles. Given the name Full Control Encounter, Shiroe can can predict the remaining MP, items, available skills, skills on cooldown, etc. from not just his party, but the monster(s) as well, 30 seconds in advance with a margin of error of 1% of remaining MP.
• Famed In-Story
  • When Henrietta mentioned that Shiroe was behind the Crescent Moon Alliance's grand campaign, Michitaka demanded if she meant "The Villain in Glasses from Debauchery Tea Party".
  • He's this among the Landers as well. Historical documents lists him as a 98-year-old Archmage.
  • In William's estimation in Season 2, Episode 12, Akiba as Yamato knows it only exists because of a raid he was a part of which created it.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Has this reputation among the general Adventurer population. Hence the nickname "Villain in Glasses".
• Godlike Gamer: Shiroe is a master strategist who leads Log Horizon to gain the reputation of a legendary guild. The guild's strength lies in their ability to work together in perfect coordination in accordance with Shiroe's exceptional planning skill.
• Good Feels Good: While boredom drives other players to PKing, he decides to assist a guild that's missing a member. Cue Rescue Arc!
• Got Me Doing It: Adjusts his glasses so much that it rubs off onto characters who don't even have glasses.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: While his skill with planning is acknowledged by veterans in Akiba, Shiroe's reputation among the general Adventurer population isn't that good, where the perception that he's an In-Universe Magnificent Bastard overrides whatever good intentions he might have had during a particular event. It gets so bad that, by Volume 5 and the later episodes of Season 1, Minori makes it her responsibility to salvage Shiroe's reputation. Unfortunately, it does more harm than good. He uses this to the fullest by playing Good Cop/Bad Cop by pretending to be rude and harsh towards Reynesia, only for Krusty to help her out.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Acts like one towards Raynesia in order to deliberately cause her to hate him so Krusty can help her out.
• I Can't Dance: For all his vast knowledge and skill, he can't dance. At Eastal's ball, Henrietta had to use her bard skills to prevent him from embarrassing himself.
• Intelligence Equals Isolation: In episode 9 of season 2, he sees his past self sitting on a park bench alone at night while in the spirit world. He mentions that he was fairly intelligent for someone his age, but that also meant he distanced himself from other people. Sometimes accidentally, and sometimes deliberately because he couldn't, or didn't want to relate to them. He then realizes that he's still doing it in the game, and despite others trying to help him, he's still not fully trusting them or sharing his feelings about various things to them.
• The Leader: Shiroe was formerly the head tactician of Debauchery Tea Party. After being trapped in the game he acts as de-facto leader of his party and eventually becomes the leader of his own guild.
• Loners Are Freaks: Episode 9 of season 2 shows that he was one in real life as he sees his past self sitting on a park bench at night to help him get over his troubles. He also starts to realize that he's still pushing people away, and decides that he needs to trust his friends and companions more.
• Magically-Binding Contract: As a Scribe, he can create magical contracts using special ingredients. The more powerful the ingredients, the more powerful the contract. This includes a contract that can bestow Landers the Adventurer subclass, something he keeps an absolute secret in fear of the chaos that would ensue if it is revealed.
• Magic Is Mental: Shiroe's two classes (Enchanter and Scribe) are best suited for people who can strategically make the best use of them, as well as think of clever and more efficient methods of using them.
• Mirror Character: Shiroe eventually realizes that in some ways, he's no different from Demikas. Both were afraid after the Apocalypse and took out their frustration on others. Demikas, towards the Landers, and Shiroe towards Demikas. Even though he cannot forgive Demikas for his treatment towards Serara and the Landers, he's not the police, and to deny him his name is like not seeing him as another human being.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: By people in Akiba, thanks to his wandering around with Akatsuki and Minori during a festival. They both look about fourteen, while he is 23.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Shiroe is a genuinely good guy, but can also be ruthless and underhanded if needed. Some of his friends call him a "demon" and "scary boy".
• Oblivious to Love: He's clueless about Akatsuki and Minori's feelings for him. Not so much as of anime S3/vol. 13 of LNs as he rejects Minori's direct confession, telling her he is already in love with another girl who is all but explicitly stated to be Akatsuki.
• The Plan: In addition to combat tactics, there's his plan for restoring order in the city of Akiba. Obviously he'd like to help create order out of the anarchic situation, such as when he goes to rescue Serara, though some of the bigger guilds are understandably hesitant to help since they wonder what he could do in the first place. He then tells them that he bought the guild hall, where players have to go to form, join, or leave a guild, and it's also where the bank is located. As it is the only guaranteed safe place to store items and large amounts of money, he can blacklist anyone he wants to prevent them from accessing their stuff. While his intentions are noble, other players can't help but see how shady and underhanded his plan is, and some even outright state it's Blackmail.
• Pragmatic Hero:
  • He's not above using completely unheroic tactics to accomplish good things, as seen when he tricks three guild masters into giving him a huge pile of gold to buy him the entire guild hall so he can force people to go along with decisions made by himself or his newly-formed council. Even though all he really wants is just to clean up the anarchic state of the city, there's a reason everyone calls him the "Villain in Glasses". Even those who can spot Shiroe's good intentions are in sheer awe of the extent he is willing to go to in order to carry out his goals.
• Samaritan Syndrome: Developed one ever since his days within the Debauchery Tea Party. Even after the Tea Party was effectively disbanded, as a veteran player he felt obliged to assist and guide beginner players whenever he could.
• Red Baron: Black-Hearted Shiroe and Villain in Glasses. More positively, the girls of West Wind Brigade always call him "Strategist." Sometime in the future, he will be known as the Chronicler of the East.
• Reality Warper: Shiroe's overskill allows him to create contracts that overwrite the laws governing the world of Elder Tale. He first uses this ability to save Rudy by having him sign a contract granting him the abilities of an Adventurer as a subclass. Next, Shiroe arranges a contract between himself and the Kunie clan that gave him all the gold he needed to buy up all the lands and properties in Yamato and then he returned them, absolving him and the Round Table Council of responsibility for paying the ruinously-high upkeep costs of the Guild Meeting Hall without allowing their enemies to have it either. The result was a fundamental change in "gameplay" as it were. According to Ri Gan, the occurrence of such feats, known as "Sekaikyuu Mahou" or "world-class magic", is incredibly rare and is by far the most powerful form of magic in existence.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Just ask Maryelle or the person who dubbed him "Villain in Glasses".
• Sexy Mentor: Minori definitely thinks this way. She even thinks the way he adjusts his glasses is cute.
• The Smart Guy:
  • He's the brains behind Log Horizon; a genius strategist, map maker, and master of exposition, with a real-life degree in civil engineering.
  • When he had a flashback to his DTP days, Kanami straight up told him that "your job is to think".
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Shiroe, the mage-strategist and resident Enchanter, wears glasses, and he fiddles with them incessantly.
• Squishy Wizard: Enchanters are formidable buffers, debuffers and support characters, but when it comes to direct combat, they're better off taking cover behind a Guardian. Despite his reputation and status as one of Elder Tale's best players, Shiroe himself isn't immune to this, and in the very rare occasions that he doesn't have anyone to support it's very clear that he can't handle combat by himself at all.
• Stock Light-Novel Hero: Shiroe is trapped in a game world along with many other players, and he happens to be one of the greatest strategists alive with the highest level cap (at first) in the game. His exploits earn him the affections of multiple women, and as he learns more about how the mechanics of the game world work, he learns that his abilities and his intellect are perfectly suited to allow him to break reality itself through Magically Binding Contracts.
• The Strategist: He's so good at it that he doesn't/didn't need to establish a guild to make people do what he says. He was, after all, the brains of the legendary DTP. His main weakness is that he requires time to formulate his plans. If he's put on the spot or his plan goes Off the Rails, he'll start hesitating and be at a loss as to what to do. However, Shiroe notes that people are greatly overestimating him due to his role at the creation of the Round Table Council and he's not anywhere near the invincible strategist that they believe he is. Despite the success and legend of the DTP, his plans have failed just as much as they've succeeded.
• Think Nothing of It: Was surprised at the high level of gratitude he received not only from Serara but her fellow guild members as well after she was rescued, and thus tried to downplay his contributions.
• Tired of Running: He finally confronts his aversion to being in a guild, since it has become clear that it's not helping him with his noble goal of bringing order out of anarchy in Akiba.
• Token Evil Teammate: He purposefully does this at times, playing the "bad cop" to the other guild leaders' "good cop", which causes players to spread rumors that he's really an evil bastard. However, Minori tries to call him out on this, asking if he's okay with that, since she doesn't like people seeing him as a bad person due to all the good he ultimately ends up doing. He replies that he's never thought of it that way, and ultimately seems more focused on the big picture rather than his own personal reputation. In episode 9 of season 2 however, he does spend time contemplating this, and debates whether pushing people away is really a good thing in the long run.
• Tranquil Fury: An absolute master of this. Whenever someone manages to piss him off he enters somewhat of a Tranquil Berserker state. Coming up with and executing plans that leave his enemies unable to retaliate physically, mentally, politically, or some combination of the three. This state is where he gets much of his "Villain in Glasses" fame post-Apocalypse.
• Unwanted Harem: Akatsuki, Minori, Henrietta, and Nureha, have all shown hints at some point towards Shiroe. Akatsuki and Minori have gone well past hints.
• Zero-Approval Gambit: Shiroe hovers around this, frequently acting with no concern toward how his actions affect his reputation so long as he's doing what's right, and in more than one occasion deliberately taking on a somewhat villainous role simply because having a "bad cop" or antagonistic party could help move things in the right direction.

Akatsuki (Shizuka Hanekura)

Race: Human
Gender: Female
Class/Level: Assassin, Lv.90 / Lv.92 (Present)]]
Subclass: Tracker
Voiced by: Emiri Katou (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)

A 20-year-old college student who remained stuck in her male avatar during the Catastrophe. She eventually sought Shiroe's help to change her appearance so as to be closer to how she looks in real life. Feeling indebted to Shiroe, she vows to serve him.

Akatsuki is one of the three "main heroine" types initially conceptualized by Mamare, and the one eventually chosen for the first book due to the dynamic she adds to the one already existing between Shiroe and Naotsugu.

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• Action Girl: Discussed, in a sort of interesting way. During the Goblin King Arc in the Anime, she's seen as desperately wanting to get out there and start fighting, going to far as to tap the handle of her sword, but she remains leashed to Shiroe because A). she's his sworn bodyguard; B). she's not been given orders to move. Later she brings this up with him and indicates that because of that fact, she was actually useless to him. Her sense of uselessness is further complicated by the fact that she's crushing on him hard. Shiroe disagrees with her self-criticism and… dancing ensues? It's also worth noting that she's probably role-playing herself this way, because what self-respecting badass ninja wouldn't be an Action Girl?
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the books her hair is described as black. The anime made it dark purple.
• Angst: Has a tendency to indulge in self-doubt and despair, especially in the first part of the second season.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Confesses her love for Shiroe during the final fight of vol. 13/S3 when fighting the Genius of Despair, who weaponizes breaking speeches on "Subjects of Veneration".
• Badass Adorable: It comes with being a short and cute Level 90 Assassin.
• Berserk Button: Towards anyone whom calls her short or treats her like a kid, as Naotsugu can attest to.
  Akatsuki: I will use my knee even if it is my lord.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Implied Pre-Apocalypse. Shiroe observes that Akatsuki didn't talk but was a good assassin, which fits this trope. Justified because "he" is a girl player.
• Bodyguard Crush: She realizes that she likes Shiroe when they were riding on the griffin.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Her romantic affection toward Shiroe. The books make it clear that she is throwing as many signals his way as she can, but Shiroe is literally the first man she has ever crushed on, and she has no idea what to do. The closest she can bring herself to confessing is to say that she's content with caressing his forehead with her fingertips. Shiroe completely misses the subtext...but Minori picked up on the meaning, loud and clear.
• Can't Catch Up:
  • She feels like this at times. While she is extremely skilled herself, she's in complete awe at watching the former DTP members working together, such as when Shiroe and Nyanta teamed up against Demikas. They were able to coordinate their attacks so well without even having to talk to one another that she felt a bit useless. Fortunately for her, Shiroe values her contributions as well, such as when she takes out enemy mages and healers. The reason is because she restricts her playstyle and avoids raids, groups and certain quests due to her roleplaying, because ninjas are supposed to be lone wolves. This not only means a lack of experience in group combat, but she's also under-geared because the best equipment comes from raids/dungeons. In World of Warcraft terms, she's a max level Rogue wearing nothing but auction house green/blue equipment.
  • She also feels inadequate compared to Minori, such as when the latter found a lot of suspicious paperwork forged by the Landers during the festival. Shiroe tells her that she did more than ten people could have in that position, causing Akatsuki to do a little soul searching.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: When Tetra asks Shiroe in episode 13 of season 2 if Kanami, the leader of his old group, was his girlfriend, Akatsuki does a Spit Take, and then wonders about if he did have feelings for her while also simultaneously emanating a dark aura. Tetra tries pulling this again when Akatsuki, Naotsugu and Nyanta are all in the same room in episode 7 of season 3, only to be disappointed to be told that there was never any such thing going on between Shiroe and Kanami. Akatsuki, to say the least, is relieved.
• The Comically Serious:
  • "You sold me out, My Lord! ...You sold me out!"
  • "Is this situation....A DATE?!"
  • And the very next scene: "I... require fashion!"
• Cross Player: She originally used a male avatar to avoid being treated like a girl in the game. Unfortunately once they were stuck in Elder Tale, she couldn't stand this, and was fortunate Shiroe had a gender swap potion on him.
• Cute Bruiser: She's darling even when she's kicking Naotsugu in the face.
• Declaration of Protection: Akatsuki declares that she will protect Shiroe like a ninja protects her lord.
• Doppelgänger Spin: In volume 6, she managed to devise her own kouden, or "Overskill", Shadow Lurk which consists of combining her Assassin and Tracker skills to create multiple illusory copies of herself to confuse her opponent(s).
• Escapism: It's becoming increasingly clear that her role-playing being a ninja and bodyguard to Shiroe is her method of running away from reality.
• Flash Step: As a high-level assassin she can disappear in an instant; a flash of pink light and she's somewhere else entirely.
• Fragile Speedster: She is extremely fast but can't take hits. This is why she's best at hiding in combat and sneaking up on enemies.
• G.I.R.L.: Inverted. Akatsuki is a girl in a masculine avatar, so she can't hide her unmistakably feminine voice (and thus refuses to use voice comm). She later quaffs a model-changing potion to have a more fitting appearance.
• Girl Gamer: Played straight and discussed. Akatsuki first created a male avatar when joining the game both to do things she can't do in Real Life and to minimize the reasons for people to look down on her. In the novel, shortly after she meets Shiroe and Naotsugu, the two mention that male Adventurers are taking advantage of females, and guilds are especially eager to pressure girls to join them. They suggest she stick with them for safety.
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers one during the Libra Festival when she over-hears a conversation between Shiroe and Minori. She realizes the extent of Shiroe's plan of destroying his reputation and Minori being able to figure it out and help him in her own way. In addition, she realizes that while she claims to be his bodyguard, her lack of experience in raids meant that despite her ability being among the highest of the solo players, she is under-geared, lacks experience in teamwork and is really just average. The realization that she doesn't understand Shiroe nor can she truly protect him hits her hard, causing her to break down and retreat back to her ninja role-playing afterwards.
• Ineffectual Loner: A justified example. Akatsuki herself notes that the best equipment and items are drops from boss monsters or rewards for completing a raid. In both cases, you need party members to succeed. She may be a top level assassin but her equipment is subpar because she was a solo player.
• Insecure Love Interest: She constantly questions her self-worth and her value to Shiroe. She desperately wants him not to think of her as a child. This is even more pronounced in the novels, where we can read her thoughts in great detail.
• I Owe You My Life: Akatsuki is extremely loyal to Shiroe because he saved her from having to live with dissonant appearance.
• Living Emotional Crutch: She becomes emotionally dependent on Shiroe after the Apocalypse and suffers a depression when he leaves the city on the Depths of Palm raid. Character Development extends her social circle to Raynessia and her other adventurer bodyguards.
• The Load: She sees herself as this once she sees that DTP is so well-coordinated its members need not speak to one another in battle. Though she really isn't — in the first several episodes she is the knockout punch of the 3-person party. Later, when bigger issues come up, she feels under-powered and nearly useless, such as during the Goblin King invasion event, the Akiba festival, and the murderer in Akiba arc.
• Ludicrous Mêlée Accuracy: She is able to slash a lit-up candle without extinguishing the flame.
• Moe: Even In-Universe, as Henrettia's obsession with her is based on her "easily injured vulnerability" that makes her appear so "precious" which means Henrietta wants to hug the adorable ninja all the time.
• The Napoleon: She doesn't like her short height, especially since it makes others think she's still a kid when she's a college student.
• Ninja: She calls herself one, but technically she's an assassin. During the Eastal Ball, she performs such a function when Shiroe tells her to spy on the Landers.
• No Hero to His Valet: While she never gives up loving and admiring him, this is what her relationship with Shiroe eventually develops into, starting after her character development in Season 2. In the climax of Vol. 13/Season 3, she weaponizes this trope to power through Genius Eirenus' Breaking Speech and continue fighting while the rest of the raid team is paralyzed by the boss' mental attacks targeting memories of those they idolize.
  Akatsuki: My lord was never a hero from the start. He's not a subject for veneration. My lord is... my lord! My lord likes Japanese green tea. But when I say that's akin to a grandpa, he gets bummed out. My lord is quite the sleepyhead. He sometimes has bedhead. If you see his hair sticking out, that's what it is. When my lord gets tired of paperwork, he sometimes lies on his tomach on the couch and thrashes his legs. He's like a kid. My lord is secretly bothered by the wrinkles on his forehead. He sometimes asks me, "Do I have a shifty look in my eyes?" My lord is-
  Eirenus, attacking a memory of Shiroe: Wallow in despair, seeing how your subject for veneration is crushed!
  Akatsuki: He's not my subject for veneration! My lord is my lord! He's not a whatever the heck you're calling him! If my lord is weak, then I just need to be strong. If my lord oversleeps, then I can just wake him up. If my lord is suffering, then I'll do my best, and Naotsugu will help too. Moreover, he's got everyone!
  Eirenus: Lose hope, fearing your expectations will be betrayed!
  Akatsuki: Even if my lord isn't strong, that doesn't matter! I didn't join hands with him because he was strong. It's not because he helped me that I want to be by his side. It's not because he was strong that I fell in love with him!
  Minori: It's like night and day, even though we're looking at the same Shiroe...
  Akatsuki: If my lord is in a fix, I'll be in it with him! Since I'm a dummy, I'm not troubled even if my lord is a dummy, too. I bet it'd be fun if we got distressed together. When my lord is laughing, things are a lot more fun!
  Minori: How can she be... so strong...?
  Akatsuki: Even if my lord isn't strong... Even if my lord isn't Akiba's savior, nothing could change the happiness I feel when I'm with him!
• No Social Skills: Both in Real Life and the Elder Tales game. In Real Life, the woman playing as Akatsuki has always been cursed with extremely short stature and a childlike appearance, meaning that people her own age avoid her, but she's too old to identify with children. Because of this, she has never been on a date or even had a close friend. The reason she started playing the Elder Tale game was because there, being high-leveled was the only thing that mattered. People were bound to respect you if you had a level high enough, although this only allowed for superficial acquaintanceship. However, meeting Shiroe and joining Log Horizon allowed her to meet her very first True Companions that accepted her for who she is.
• Older Than They Look: She looks like a little kid, but is actually twenty. In the novels, it's stated that even in the real world, this is her eternal curse; she's never had a close relationship (platonic or otherwise) because when she was in high school everyone thought she was a grade-schooler, and when she entered college, they thought she was in middle school. The only men she attracts are either too young for her... or pedophiles.
  Shiroe: ...a graduate student. I'm about to graduate, or at least I was...
  Akatsuki: Oh, so you're about the same age as I am.
  Beat
  Shiroe and Naotsugu: Seriously?!
• Only Known by Their Nickname: We never find out what her real name is. She is known only by her avatar handle.
• Out of Focus: In the early episodes, she's an essential party member, and contributes greatly when needed. However, she's feels much less useful and realizes her role is diminished once the political stuff starts coming into play, as the attention is given to Shiroe and other leaders, and the side plot focuses on Minori and her team. While she is still seen on screen quite a bit, she mostly feels like a background character during that time. Fortunately she gets her time to shine when a murderer shows up in Akiba, and she helps in defeating him.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Akatsuki is small, (especially compared to Shiroe and Naotsugu), but deadly.
• Preemptive "Shut Up":
  • Often knees Naotsugu in the face when he's about to say something perverted.
  • Also, this hilarious exchange:
  Akatsuki: "Does [my kimono] look okay?"
  Shiroe: "It's a gra-"
  Akatsuki: "It is not for graduation. It is for fashion."
  Shiroe: "Gr...It's graceful and really nice. Yeah."
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Henrietta regularly stuffs her into cute outfits (summer dresses, waitress uniform, children's festival kimono) and it's always under protest.
• The Rival: She has a minor breakdown she realizes she's competing with a middle-school girl for her love. Akatsuki is a grown woman, but to her extreme dismay, she has never been able to break out of being treated like a child due to looking like one (even in Real Life). Now that problem has followed her into her fantasy life as well.
• The Roleplayer: She role plays a ninja, even after she became trapped in Elder Tales. She's so good at her role that Shiroe noted that when Elder Tales was just a game, you couldn't even tell if she was a real player or an NPC.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Henrietta chases her with pretty outfits because they make the cute girl even cuter.
• Shoot the Medic First: Her role in The Team is to kill the healers while they are distracted fighting her teammates.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Though she originally roleplays herself as the servant to Shiroe's lord, her feelings for him start to manifest when she notices both his many talents and the fact that he uses them to help as many people as possible.
• Stealth Expert: Due to her Scout subclass, she has the ability to move undetected.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Thanks to her nature as a Stealth Expert, she's prone to popping up out of nowhere and vanishing the moment people aren't looking, this being separate from her frequent use of Shadow Step to teleport around.
• Subordinate Excuse: When Shiroe asked why she went to Eastal's Ball instead of the Training Camp/Beach Vacation, she looked away and replied, "A ninja must follow her master." This is despite the scary lady in glasses following her with a summer dress.
• Tomboy: It doesn't come up often but during Eastal's ball she says she "doesn't do dresses" and behaves awkwardly in such a formal setting. She's more comfortable in her role as a sneaking-and-stabbing assassin. Part of her character arc in the anime's second season is leveling the "feminine skills" she neglected for the assassin ones.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Starting in season 2, she decides to levels up her "feminine skills". This includes making friends among the female adventurers, and adding soft and cute clothes to her wardrobe in addition to her ninja gear. By season 3, she is sewing a puppet, which she is proud to say is the result of her feminine skill grinding.
• Undying Loyalty: Akatsuki makes such an oath to Shiroe in gratitude for the appearance changing potion.
• The Voiceless: Akatsuki cannot hide her distinctly feminine voice, so she refused to speak out of fear of Vocal Dissonance. This remained the case until she changed her appearance. Thus, she owes Shiroe greatly for allowing her to look more feminine.
• Wall Crawl: Being as dedicated to ninja roleplay as she is, she has a frequent habit of clinging to and walking across ceilings upside down.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She is roundly berated when she goes off after the serial killer without consulting with anyone, or assumes that she's the only one assigned to protect Raynesia.
• Why Can't I Hate You?: Toward Minori; upon seeing how devoted Minori is to Shiroe, and how hard she works to help him, Akatsuki feels immensely jealous, but can't help but praise the girl for being such a fantastic girl that any guy would be lucky to have. Akatsuki berates herself for failing to meet her own lofty expectations and wonders if she's even worthy of trying to get Shiroe's attention.

Naotsugu (Naotsugu Hasegawa)

Race: Human
Gender: Male
Class/Level: Guardian, Lv.90 / Lv.93 (Present)
Subclass: Border Guard
Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)

Shiroe's good friend and fellow DTP alumnus. Having reunited with him after they got trapped inside Elder Tale, Shiroe decides to team up with him and Akatsuki. IRL he works as a salaryman, and his hire in real life solidified the end of the DTP after Kanami had left.

As a Guardian, Naotsugu represents the Stone Wall build type of the class, Fortress.

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• All Men Are Perverts:
  • Naotsugu believes this with passion, even outright claiming that all men are either open perverts like him or closet perverts like what he accuses Shiroe of. Surprisingly, he's not all giddy when Maryelle glomps him.
  • Have you seen his equipment list? Not shown in the Anime - he has stickers of panties covering the inside of his shield. Then there's his Panties Notebook…◊
• The Big Guy: A tall, broad, knight in armor. His role as a guardian is to aggro monsters and tank their damage in order to protect his teammates.
• Big Eater: His plan for the Scale Festival? "Eat and then eat some more!"
• Butt-Monkey: If someone needs to be hurt for comedy, it would always be Naotsugu. At the start of episode 3, he's randomly munched on by his griffin mount.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He's constantly talking about boobs, panties, and all other sorts of things related to the bodies of women, with him also trying to influence other guys into being as perverted as him. Even so, he's a genuine Nice Guy and valuable teammate, also tries to teach those same guys to be genuine gentlemen, and he never goes any further than talking about his perversions, unlike some other less morally inclined people.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Viewed as this by Akatsuki. He's obviously an out-and-out pervert, completely fine with it, and he's enough of a doofus that Akatsuki accuses/teases Shiroe of lying about Naotsugu's involvement with DTP, but she's also keenly aware that he's a damn good guardian. She acknowledges this one episode prior to the aforementioned accusation/teasing when she sees that Naotsugu fight in Episode 4 of the Anime.
• Draw Aggro: Naotsugu's job is to tank and have the enemies focus on him instead of squishier allies such as Shiroe and Akatsuki.
• The Gadfly: Unabashedly. Akatsuki is the primary recipient of his teasing ("shrimp"); but do not mistake this for Belligerent Sexual Tension.
  Akatsuki: Don't call me shrimp!
• I Choose to Stay: He notes that if he was given a choice to either risk his life to return to the old world or stay in Elder Tales, he would probably choose the latter, as he doesn't have any particular attachment to the old world and has nothing to look forward to except for the daily grind at his job.
• Keet: Very cheerful and boisterous.
• Mr. Exposition: He and Nyanta often serve as this to most of the other Log Horizon guild members, as they are the other Debauchery Tea Party alumni in the guild aside from Shiroe. Most notably, in Volume 13/Season 3, they finally and definitively shoot down the notion that Shiroe was ever romantically involved with Kanami when Tetra brings it up.
• Nice Guy: He is a genuinely nice person who tries to get along with others. While not nearly as cunning as Shiroe, he has much better interpersonal skills and can pick up on things that the former often misses.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: While it's rather downplayed in that he never actually chases after other girls, he gets extremely nervous when a girl willingly gets affectionate with him, such as with Marielle and Tetra.
• No-Sell: Castle of Stone enables him to nullify any and all damage for ten seconds. It's incredibly useful when fighting a raid boss as seen in season 2.
• Out of Focus: He zigzags this trope depending on whether or not the current story involves battle in dungeons or battles in politics. He played a big role starting out and during the first Rescue Arc and diminished during the second and further during the Round Table Council's founding, then came back a little as a training camp instructor and then greater still when the Goblin King was crowned and launched an attack on Lander cities.
• Running Gag: Has a few in combination with Akatsuki, though only in the anime. If he tries to say "panties" around her, she will immediately send him flying with a kick to the face; if she's not with him but is within a mile or two, she will somehow know when he tries to say it, use her Assassin/Tracker skills to teleport and kick him, then teleport back and act like nothing happened; if she's too far away to sense the word and teleport, then something will happen that nearly kills him. Ever since he met Akatsuki, he has not once been able to finish the word "panties".
• Ship Tease:
  • In season 1, with Marielle by way of Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest.
  • In season 2, he explains why Marielle is preferable to Tetra. In the same episode, he has a "cozy telepathic chat" with her.
• Stone Wall: Though he can also dish out damage, his main purpose in combat is to attract attention and soak up hits while Akatsuki or another DPS slices through the enemy. He's very good at it too. One of his skills as a Guardian is even named Castle of Stone, where he turns to stone for 12 seconds and takes absolutely no damage whilst in this state.
• 24-Hour Armor: Averted. He takes it off in Episode 3 while waiting for Shiroe to regain consciousness. Since his armor is an item like any other, it's implied he can equip/remove it easily via the menu. He is seen without his armor on from time to time as well while hanging out around Akiba.
• Verbal Tic: Close enough, but Naotsugu is quite fond of adding "-matsuri" to some of the words he uses.
• You Will Not Evade Me: For enemies that think they can ignore the tank for the squishy wizard, he uses Anchor Howl which forces all enemies to focus on him or face a painful counterattack.

Nyanta

Race: Werecat
Gender: Male
Class/Level: Swashbuckler, Lv.90 (initially), Lv.92 (Volume 10)
Subclass: Chef
Voiced by: Joji Nakata (Japanese), Jovan Jackson (English)

Another DTP alumnus, Nyanta saved Serara from members of Brigandia in Susukino and has since then accompanied her to ensure her safety while waiting for Shiroe's rescue party. He decides to follow Shiroe's party back to Akiba upon their arrival in Susukino.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: On the receiving end of one from Londark during Operation Red Night in Volume 8/Season 2 Episode 20. When he chastises Londark for going along with the Westelande nobles' plans to start a massive bloody war with Eastal, Londark tells him to shut up, screaming that nobody had ever asked Londark if he wanted to come to Theldesia, asking him if he had been invited, and asking how he could take this experience in stride. While Nyanta can deny having been invited, he loses his edge in the battle, as this question forces him to reflect on how Adventurers are all outsiders and victims at the same time, and that Londark's resentment toward Theldesia is understandable to some extent. Even well after this encounter, he is left pondering on Londark's desperate cry of homesickness, fearing that the youth of Touya's Party could end up like the Sorcerer.
• Blade Spam: The combination of this and tightly-timed use of Thorn Bind Hostage results in death (HP to One in the anime) for Demikas.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The well-spoken gentleman can floor you with his rapier.
• Cat Folk: Appears as a werecat in Elder Tale.
• Chef of Iron: He's a Level 90 chef, was the first to reveal the way of cooking tasty food in the Japanese server, and can kick ass with equal ease.
• Cool Cat: There is nothing in this world that can rattle him, not even being overwhelmed in combat.
• Cool Old Guy: Claims to be an old man himself, although Shiroe opines that he gives off the vibes of a middle-aged gentleman instead. In-story hints indicate that he is around 40 years old.
• Cultured Badass: Slightly leaning towards The Dandy but fights like a demon. He's also a fantastic cook.
• Declaration of Protection: To Serara, and boy, does he have the chops to keep it.
• Dual Wielding: His weapons of choice are his dual rapiers.
• Genre Savvy: First one to figure out to not use Video Game mechanics.
• The Kindnapper: Of Serara. Protects her from Brigandia before it's revealed who he really is.
• Lightning Bruiser: He is very strong and fast and has an HP pool rivaled only by warrior-types.
• Master Swordsman: He's level 90 with that rapier of his.
• Nice Guy: Unlike some of the other characters, he's never really seen getting angry at anyone, with the exception of Demikas due to him attempting to bully Serara.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His encounter with Londark and then Mizufa on the train during Operation Red Night has him talk in a cold, harsh tone that he's never seen talking in otherwise. And when Mizufa casually kills Londark and then insults him personally, he's genuinely enraged enough to actually try and kill her.
• Perpetual Smiler: Almost always has some variant of a Playful Cat Smile on his face.
• Real Men Can Cook: In his own words, "mastered the gentlemanly art of cooking".
• Real Men Wear Pink: The cooking, up to and including, valentine treats.
• The Role Player: Like a cat person, Nya~. See Verbal Tic below as well.
• Royal Rapier: "A rapier is a gentleman's weapon."
• Supreme Chef: He not only has chef as his subclass, but is also the first person known to discover the secret of cooking in post-Catastrophe Elder Tale. Considering as how all food tastes like unseasoned Japanese rice crackers in Elder Tale, his discovery is truly a godsend indeed.
• Swashbuckler: Gentleman Adventurer type. It's the name of his class and he's a role-player. He might as well be wearing the trope like an ascot. Oh wait he's already wearing an ascot!
• Team Dad: The oldest member of Log Horizon that everyone respects for his wisdom and delicious cooking.
• Verbal Tic: Likes to include catlike expressions in his speech as a way to roleplay his character. He even uses "wagahai" as a first person pronoun, a clear allusion to I Am a Cat.

Log Horizon - Junior Members

Touya (Touya Housaki)

Voiced by: Daiki Yamashita (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)

Race/Gender: Human/Male
Class/Level: Samurai/Lv.6 (Beginning) /Lv.15 (Hamelin)/Lv.29 (Volume 4)/Lv.61 (Volume 8)

A beginner player of Elder Tale, Touya and his twin sister Minori joined the game as a way to experience new things. They met Shiroe not long after joining the game and picked up lots of useful advice from him. They were unfortunately separated after the Catastrophe and were unwittingly led to join Hamelin, a guild which exploits beginner players and Touya was forced to battle monsters for the guild. After the forced disbandment of Hamelin, he joined the newly-established Log Horizon guild.

He and his sister are both middle-schoolers in real life. At age 14, they are the youngest characters with confirmed ages in the cast.

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• The Apprentice: He looks up to Naotsugu and is trained by him in the ways of the tank. He addresses the veteran as "Master Naotsugu".
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was hit in a car accident in the real world. Though he survived, he became confined to a wheelchair and had to give up his dream of playing soccer. Hence why when he finds himself in the world of Theldesia, he is excited to be here as he can walk again.
• Difficult, but Awesome: His class is considered this due to its long cooldowns and long ending lag on its attacks. But when used properly, Samurai boast high defense while being able to put out enough damage to beat users 20 levels higher than the player.
• Draw Aggro: Taking after Naotsugu, who teaches him how to make the most of his Samurai class to fight this way. He serves as the primary tank for his party and during the Akiba Guild Hall Raid.
• The Dog Bites Back: Both he and his sister Minori end up having to fight to escape from Hamelin, the guild exploiting new players. Fortunately for them, Shiroe was expecting problems to arise, hence why he had Naotsugu and Akatsuki, along with a few other Crescent Moon members aid their escape.
• Glacier Waif: His class specializes in powerful attacks with long cooldown times; however, since his character in Elder Tale is modeled after his actual body size, his strength is incongruous to his teenaged appearance.
• The Heart: Although not a strategist or leader like his sister, he has an uncanny ability to inspire and rally others, such as the members of his party or the Akiba Guild Hall Raid Party.
• I Shall Taunt You: He has several taunt skills such as Samurai Challenge that make monsters believe he is doing heavy damage when he is not, so he can hold their attention.
• Katanas Are Just Better: His weapon is a katana, given that he's a Samurai.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He has a nasty habit of immediately charging the first enemy he sees and aggroing every mob on the way there. He gets better.
• Martial Artists Are Always Barefoot: He can be seen barefoot outside while relaxing from time to time, although in a subversion, it is not related to him being a kenjutsu practitioner. It carries its own meaning when considering his past life as a paraplegic, as he would be unable to feel anything through his feet back then; having recovered the ability in Elder Tale, it is likely he is relishing on it that way.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: He is an aversion because he admires Shiroe as much as his sister does.
• Not Disabled in VR: He is paraplegic in real life, but after coming to Theldesia, he's trying extra hard to fight for and protect what he considers precious.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Touya is more assertive and energetic compared to his sister, which is reflected by his choice of playing the Samurai, a vanguard class.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite what his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies and age would imply, Touya is actually Good with Numbers to the point that his secondary class is Accountant. One of his accessories is an abacus designed to help him quickly crunch numbers at work. Lampshaded by the abacus' description:
  "Why did Touya choose to be an Accountant in the first place, and can he actually use an abacus?" Although you may be thinking that, Touya actually has first-class qualifications for doing mathematical calculations using an abacus.
• Verbal Tic: Often adds "-matsuri" to some of the words he uses, probably taking after his mentor Naotsugu.
• Wheelchair Woobie: Invoked. Pre-Apocalypse, Touya was confined to a wheelchair. The first thing he did upon waking up in Theldesia was dance and jump around. In the anime, Minori has a flashback to when she and him first woke up after the Apocalypse and she watches this happen. More of this is shown in episode 19 of season 2, when Touya calls out the leader of the Odyssey Knights for deliberately getting themselves killed repeatedly and causing collateral damage in the city during a wyvern horde attack.

Minori (Minori Housaki)

Voiced by: Nao Tamura (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)

Race/Gender: Human/Female
Class/Level: Kannagi/Lv.6 (Beginning) /Lv.15 (Hamelin)/Lv.21 (Volume 4)/Lv.59 (Volume 8)
Subclass: Tailor/Apprentice

The twin sister of Touya, Minori started playing Elder Tale at the same time as Touya. Like her brother, she deeply admires Shiroe for his vast knowledge and helpful personality. Became lower-leveled than her brother as a result of her time in Hamelin where she was forced to produce items for the guild and later joined the Log Horizon guild after the disbandment of Hamelin.

Minori is another of the "main heroine" characters conceptualized by Mamare, but due to both her age and her experience level, was passed on in favor of Akatsuki.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: The novels say her hair is black, but dark brown in certain light. In the anime, its color is a lighter shade of reddish brown. Character design drafts indicate that in real life, she and Touya do have black hair.
• The Apprentice: She studies under Shiroe in order to become a party strategist like him. She carries around a notebook and studies it at night.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: She's attempting to emulate Shiroe and his Full Control Encounter and can foresee 5-10 seconds ahead with a 5% margin of error on remaining MP.
• Barrier Warrior: Her class specialises in damage-prevention magic.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She idolizes Shiroe because he helped her and Touya out when they first started out the game. It gradually turns into love as she spends more time learning from him after he helps them escape from Hamelin.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. During her time in Hamelin she was so filthy and disheveled that she barely considered herself a girl.
• Big Sister Instinct: She's the elder of the twins, and she tries her best to protect her brother. In post-Catastrophe Elder Tale, this translates to her providing essential rear support whenever she fights along with her brother.
• Break the Cutie: Due to being killed by player killers as seen in episode 8 when she awakens inside the cathedral after being attacked moments earlier, she and her brother end up losing practically all of their items. As a result, they end up joining Hamelin, who at first seemed like they would help. But that guild ends up abusing them and treating them almost as badly as the player killers did, forcing them to make items and give up their exp potions to sell for profit.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She sees the signs of it starting inside her and doesn't like it, but she can't think of a way to stop it. In her mind, she and Shiroe were destined to be together, and she would always be by his side. From the moment she met him, she never even conceived of a different outcome. But, finding out that Akatsuki has feelings for him too introduces the first pangs of jealousy and the realization that she could lose him.
• Damsel in Distress: Shiroe contacts her since she was on his friend's list after learning that she and her brother are in a guild that's exploiting low level players and treating them as slaves. He vows to get them out of there.
• Everyone Can See It: Everyone can figure out that she likes Shiroe way before she realizes it.
• Green-Eyed Epiphany: She first realizes that she has feelings for Shiroe when she sees Akatsuki doing something romantic with him. For the first time, she feels jealousy over another girl being close to him, and also for the first time, she realizes that her future with Shiroe is not a foregone conclusion, but something she could actually lose.
• Hero-Worshipper: Towards Shiroe. She ends up hating herself for feeling this way when she realizes that she's treating him as an object, rather than a person.
• Insecure Love Interest: She considers herself to be a "burden" due to her age, inexperience, and meekness. While captive at Hamelin, she tries to dissuade Shiroe from saving her and her brother because it would be a tremendous burden on him. In the novel, when she realizes that she's in love with Shiroe, she runs a mental list of reasons why such a relationship can't work, and why she's an inadequate match for him. However, Touya encourages her to accept it, because she can't deny her feelings.
• The Leader: By dint of being the strategist. It's unofficial but no one in her party disputes the orders she gives in battle. It's also why Akatsuki, her party members, and the former Hamelin captives who stayed with Crescent Moon choose her to lead the Akiba Guild Hall Raid Party in Volume 13, or the last arc of Season 3.
• Merlin and Nimue: Though she didn't admit it at first, this is what she fantasized about regarding Shiroe. As he was the first person who took her and her brother under his wing, the two of them began to refer to him as "sensei". In the novels, Minori thinks to herself that she thinks of him as her mentor, and wants him to be more than that.
• Miko: The basis of her class, which is referenced by her usual shrine maiden outfit.
• Nice Girl: Minori is a kind and polite girl at heart, and she sees Akatsuki as a friend despite the love rivalry for Shiroe.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Minori is more reserved and serious compared to her brother, which is reflected by her choice of playing the Kannagi, a support class.
• Precocious Crush: She's at the older end of the spectrum of this trope. She's a teenager developing into a young woman, but she is still underage and there are a substantial number of years between herself and Shiroe, her crush.
• The Rival: To Akatsuki, for Shiroe's affections. In the novel, Minori tells herself that she has nothing against Akatsuki personally, that she's actually very nice and very beautiful, and that Akatsuki has the right to fall for any guy she wants. But on the other hand, screw that noise—Shiroe is hers.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Touya applauds her interest in Shiroe by saying that he's a smart, kind man.
• The Strategist: This is her role in her own party. She makes plans, coordinates the others, and monitors the field.
• Subordinate Excuse: She becomes The Apprentice to Shiroe largely to have an excuse to be close to him.
• Terrible Artist: Running Gag in the anime. In Season 2 Episode 14, the rest of the Log Horizon junior members and Serara all physically restrain her from painting animals on the wagon they bought for their journey west, and in Season 3 Episode 4, she shows a hand-drawn election poster she had made for Raynesia to Shiroe, Marielle and Calasin, all of whom are thoroughly unamused before the rest of the Log Horizon junior members and Serara arrive to apologize for her and drag her off.
• Took a Level in Badass: Introduced as a victim of Hamelin and by episode 16 she's become a mini-Shiroe.
• Why Can't I Hate You?: Toward Akatsuki. When she realizes that Akatsuki is in love with Shiroe, Minori's gut reaction is to resent Akatsuki for trying to take "her" Shiroe, but then realizes that she actually really likes Akatsuki and that she deserves a guy as great as Shiroe. Minori realizes that her resentment is the logic of a Clingy Jealous Girl and feels terrible about it, but knows she can't stop thinking this way as long as they both like the same man.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Played with. She's actually a middle-school-aged schoolgirl, but her Elder Tales avatar is a shrine maiden, and she is almost never seen without a kimono—the symbol of Japanese beauty. Her strongest personality traits revolve around her desire to both please and emulate Shiro, bringing him tea to help his digestion, and doing her best to improve his Hero with Bad Publicity reputation. She is very loyal and subservient to him and has a number of domestic virtues rounding her out, but she is absolutely not one to be trifled with.

Isuzu (Isuzu Tonan)

Voiced by: Eriko Matsui (Japanese), Margaret McDonald (English)

Race/Gender: Human/Female
Class/Level: Bard/Lv.24 (Initially), 63 (Volume 13)

Another beginner player, Isuzu became acquainted with the twins after the Catastrophe after they were lured into joining Hamelin. Briefly joined the Crescent Moon Alliance after the collapse of Hamelin before finally joining Log Horizon to stay close with Rundelhaus.

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• Anger Born of Worry: She was so happy to see Rudy respawn in Akiba's Cathedral that she called him an idiot and hit him on the head several times because she was worried that he would die for real.
• Boring Yet Practical: Coward's Fugue, which makes non-fighter classes appear to be doing less damage to the enemy. It's nothing flashy but it works to crowd control monsters.
• Heroic BSoD: Post-Catastrophe, she fell into despair, and it is the main reason why she was so easily enticed to join Hamelin.
• Game Music: The Landers only possesses 42 songs (the number of BGMs in the game). The Landers, including Rundelhaus, become captivated by the songs that she sings, because they're songs that they've never heard of, although Isuzu is ashamed of the praise and attention because she's using songs from her own world. During the defense of Saphir, in desperation, she sings her own original song, a song that touched the hearts of everyone. Later on, she notices that Lander children are singing it, becoming known as The 43rd Song, her Overskill.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Coward's Fugue. She thought it was useless because it didn't damage enemies or heal allies but it works well in a team setting. She can make it easier for samurai like Touya to keep enemies focused on himself and away from sorcerers like Ruddy.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She has a low opinion of her combat abilities despite performing well. She doesn't consider herself a skilled musician (certainly not as a good as her dad) despite regular applause when she performs.
• I Am Not Pretty: She considers herself plain looking and not pretty.
• Lethal Chef: She tries to make something in episode 13 of season 2, but whatever it was doesn't look fit for consumption. Fortunately Nyanta loans her an apron to boost her cooking skills and gives her advice on how to make something simple.
• Magic Music: Her class specialises in song magic, which can boost the strength of her teammates or weaken her enemies.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She has three incidents where her actions eventually result in her regretting the after-effects.
  • The first is in Volume 4 during the Battle of Choushi, when Rudy dies; she blames herself for letting him come to the battle to live his dream as an Adventurer, knowing full well that he was truly a Lander and that if he died, he would be gone for good, unlike Adventurers like herself. Luckily, Shiroe's timely intervention saves the day.
  • The second is in Volume 8 when she finds out why her music is so significant to Landers: They literally cannot conceptualize any music aside from the "42" given to them by the gods, so Isuzu's music is amazing to them. Isuzu, realizing that she's just singing songs from the Old World without giving any second thought to what the lyrics actually mean or what the songs are expressing, is mortified with herself.
  • The third is in Volume 13 upon realizing the depths of Minori's feelings toward Shiroe during their battle against the Genius Eirenus, who attacks memories of those its victims revere to cripple them, after Isuzu had egged her on to be more forward about her feelings for him. When she confesses this to Rudy, he has nothing to say to her to console her, because she brought this on herself; in fact, he'd tried to stop her, but she ignored him. He tells her that all she can do for Minori now is to be by her side as her friend, which she does after Minori's confession, providing a space for Minori to cry and be vulnerable.
• Named Weapon: She calls her lute "Flying Dolphin" because of its pattern.
• Secret-Keeper: She was the first to find out about Rudy being a Lander.
• Shipper on Deck: She is fully supportive of Minori's crush on Shiroe and encourages/pushes her to develop her relationship with him. This she says is part of the Girl Code. She even designated herself the leader of the Minor Cheer Squad. She later realizes this was a terrible thing to do, not because she was supportive of a friend but because she treated her friend's serious feelings like a game.
• Ship Tease: With Rudy. Aside from their scenes in the opening and closing themes, the veterans remark on their seamless teamwork and she has a classic tsundere moment the first time Rudy respawns.
• Tsundere: In addition to her Anger Born of Worry moment, she insists that touring the Libra Festival with Rudy is Not a Date and that when she makes Valentine's Day treats for Ruddy with Coconia fruit, that it doesn't mean anything. The Genius Eirenus forces her to acknowledge that she idolizes him, as a person and not a harmless pet, and so she speaks seriously with him afterward.

Rundelhaus Cord

Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (Japanese), Tyler Galindo (English)

Race/Gender: Human/Male
Class/Level: Sorcerer/Lv.23 (Initially), 61 (Volume 8)
Subclass: Adventurer/Lv.??

A beginner player who participated in the summer training camp organised by the Round Table Council to improve himself, Rundelhaus is assigned to Touya's party by account of their similar levels and began training with them.

In fact, Rundelhaus is a Lander (NPC) who grew up on tales of the Adventurers and their heroic feats. Enraptured, he decided to become an adventurer himself despite having none of the advantages granted to Player Characters. He is fatally wounded during the "Return of the Goblin King" event, but is saved after signing a magical contract created by Shiroe that grants him the "Adventurer" subclass (with all the associated benefits, like auto-resurrection). As a condition of this, he officially joins the Log Horizon guild.

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• Animal Motifs: Isuzu thinks of him as a Golden Retriever because "he's cute but doesn't make me nervous." She even tells him to shake at one point.
• Ascended Fanboy: He grew up watching/hearing stories of Adventurers whom would travel around the world helping people in need. His dream is to become an Adventurer and do the same thing, to the point of pretending to be one. He gets his wish thanks to Shiroe.
• Blue Blood: He was from a corrupt military noble family in the Ninetails Dominion (equivalent of Kyushu and the old Choshu Domain), and their corruption influenced his valorization of Adventurers, whom he saw as everything his family wasn't. After his hometown was destroyed, he left for Akiba; it's unknown if he has any surviving relatives.
• Boisterous Weakling: He considers being a level 20 adventurer something awesome enough to gloat about in front of a member-seeking party. Inevitably, he ends up embarrassing himself. When you know his origin as a Lander- who receive 1/4 of the EXP that adventurers do and lack beginner aids like EXP Pots- you can understand how reaching Level 23 would be an achievement.
• The Cape: A heroic young man who wants to save people without an ulterior agenda, and yes, he does wear a cape.
• Gratuitous English: He likes to pepper his words with English words.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Once you get past the "I'm awesome" bluster, you find a friendly and chivalric young man crowned by golden hair.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices himself to save his friends, whom then learn that he is actually a Lander and thus cannot resurrect. Luckily, he is saved by Shiroe whom Take a Third Option and turns him into an Adventurer.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He acts like a foppish idiot, but in episode 14, Isuzu walks in on him training by himself. He constructed a sparse outline of the Training Camp's dungeon and spent hours directing fireballs. Then he became flustered when he realized Isuzu was watching. He's more insecure than he lets on.
  • As much as he likes to praise himself, he is just as quick with the same over-the-top exaltations for others, like Isuzu.
• Glory Seeker: Based on his gung-ho attitude during the training camp, you'd think he was one of these. In truth, he just wants to save people, especially his fellow People of the Earth, and doesn't care about glory.
• Idiot Hero: Starts off as a very rash person that is prone to unleashing his full power without taking into account of his party members but has a likeable personality which allowed him to avoid being hated by them.
• Interface Spoiler: He has the stat window of a Lander, long before he's revealed as such. The anime never calls attention to it, hiding it in plain sight.
• Knight in Shining Armor: He wishes to be a gallant hero that fights monsters. On one hand, this leads him to fighting up front with the samurai tank instead of behind him with the bard, but on the other hand it leads to a chivalric attitude. When Isuzu says "You wouldn't want a lady to walk through a forest at night alone, would you?" he instantly agrees to be her escort.
• Large Ham: He speaks with passion and is fond of striking poses. He even has bishie sparkles!
• Leeroy Jenkins: He's like this at first, made worse by the fact that he's a Squishy Wizard getting the attention of all the monsters, and forcing the group to retreat repeatedly.
• Magically-Binding Contract: To save his life, he signed a contract created by Shiroe that magically gave him a subclass of Adventurer (along with all their abilities) and joining Log Horizon.
• Mr. Exposition: Serves in this capacity during Volume 12/Season 3 for the Round Table brass; being a Lander himself, he has insights into the mentality of his people, and can explain things such as why the Landers who have migrated to Akiba would value having a Duke in the city so much, and why they view Raynesia's rejection of Touri's marriage proposal negatively.
• Odd Name Out: He is the only member of his party to have a non-Japanese name.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Light Novel version of the battle of Saphir makes a point of how much the Odysseia Knights' treatment of the town's People of the Earth hurt and angered him by having Isuzu note how his fists are clenched, his teeth are gritted, and how his eyes are wide as saucers and filled with tears that he can't hide, and contrasting this reaction with how he smiled as he laid down his life to destroy the monsters in Choushi.
• Punny Name: Try not to pronounce it "Rundll House Code", though it would be fitting.
• Playing with Fire: His preferred choice of fighting is to saturate the battlefield with fireballs.
• Simple, yet Awesome: His favorite spell, Orb of Lava. It's a very effective attack that can hit multiple enemies, it takes him two seconds to cast, it recharges very quickly and it looks cool enough to fit with Rudy's whole 'elegance' motif.
• Squishy Wizard: He's as defensively fragile as can be expected from a magic caster with levels in the 20's, but even from the start every one of his spells pack an impressive punch, with him only getting stronger as he gains levels and starts being more strategic in his magic usage.

Log Horizon - Later Members

Tetra

Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii (Japanese)

Race/Gender: Human/Female
Class/Level: Cleric/Lv.93
Subclass: Idol

A former resident of Minami and member of Light Indigo. She was sent by Kazuhiko to aid Shiroe at Susukino. Upon the completion of the mission, she asks Shiroe if she could join Log Horizon of her own free will, and was accepted. She is actually a boy but due to the Apocalypse, became trapped within his female avatar. Naotsugu remains oblivious, even though most of the guild has figured it out by now.

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• Establishing Character Moment: Though she's seen in some action scenes in episode 1 of season 2, her proper introduction in episode 2 has her fall head-first into a snowbank when Naotsugu and Ri Gan discussed finding additional members for a raid party. Once he realizes that she makes a lot of self-deprecating jokes, along with being a Genki Girl, Naotsugu ends up not being able to act perverted the way he normally does towards females.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: Her Phantasmal-Class vest sparkles with reflective light.
• Genki Girl: She's a hyperactive moe-blob.
• G.I.R.L.: She's actually a boy in real life but is trapped in his female avatar. Shiroe, Touya, and Rudy all figure it out pretty fast, but Naotsugu either doesn't catch on, or doesn't care.
• The Glomp: Frequently to Naotsugu. She's often found perched on his shoulders.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She's small enough compared to Naotsugu that she can ride on him like a mount. While he doesn't seem to like her using him that way, he also seems to put up with it.
• Idol Singer: The (completely self-proclaimed) Galactic-Class Idol. She even dresses like someone straight from The Idolmaster. Unfortunately, she's Hollywood Tone-Deaf.
• It Amused Me:
  • Her teasing Naotsugu is actually this. Since he's a boy in real life, she's just messing with him until he figures it out. Adventurers are slowly being over-ridden by their avatars after all...
  • She doesn't limit herself to one target either. During the Valentine's Day episode she pours gasoline all over the Shiroe, Akatsuki, and Minori love triangle hoping the girls can provide their own spark. Touya inadvertently defuses the situation.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: She's completely terrible at singing.
• It's Personal: Shows this side when Touya's party brings the Mofur sisters home in Season 3, having extremely negative memories of an item farming quest that the sisters were involved in years ago. When performing her duties to train the junior members, she even declines to use the Teacher System and baits a bunch of giants for the Mofur sisters to fight to get back at them for it. She is extremely upset with Shiroe when he lets them join the guild at the end of the season.
• Loss of Identity: With Adventurer's real-life selves slowly being over-ridden by their avatars, exactly how much of Tetra is Tetra - The Boy or Tetra - The Girl is up in the air.
• Magic Wand: She uses a wand that looks like something out of a magical girl anime. It's actually a microphone and plays music when swung.
• The Medic: Comes with her class as a Cleric. "AURORA HEAL!"
• Running Gag: She has a habit of either clinging onto Naotsugu like an article of clothing, and occasionally popping out of his armor/shirt as if she was hiding underneath it. In episode 22 of season 2, she does this to Shiroe, causing both Akatsuki and Minori to give him a Death Glare.
• Shield Surf: She does this to Naotsugu's shield in episode 2 of season 2 while they're on a raid.
• Squishy Wizard: Like Marielle, she forgoes being a Combat Medic in favor of more healing power.
• The Tease: To Naotsugu. She even does so right in front of Marielle.

The Mofur Sisters (Unmarked Spoilers!)

Lelia and Litka Mofur are two of the surviving Acients and founders of the Izumo Knights. They were the first Ancients introduced to Elder Tale, acting as Crutch Characters for low-level players. They both join Log Horizon at the end of volume 13.

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Tropes Applying to Both Sisters

• Big Eater: They ravenously devour any food offered to them, be it wild mushrooms or Nyanta's gourmet cooking. One of their associated quests in Elder Tale involves them running up a huge restauraunt bill and being forced to pay it off with materials adventurers collect for them.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Quite a few of the older players remember them (if for less than flattering reasons), but since they were simply game NPCs at the time they don't pay much thought to their past interactions. This means it comes as quite a shock to them when they realize the Mofur sisters happily remember all the adventurers who come to play with them, incuding details like Tetra's love of singing.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Litka and Lelia respectively, for a given value of "responsible." Litka acts younger than even her appearance would suggest and both fears and relies on her older sister, while Lelia at least makes an effort to act responsible and can give Litka orders in a pinch.
• Little Bit Beastly: Being of the Wolf Fang race gives them both canine ears, and Lelia has a tail. Lelia's ears are more wolf-like, were Litka's are more floppy and dog-like.
• Power Creep: Victims of this. They were introduced as Level 65 NPCs in an era when player characters maxed out at Level 50. Then the level cap kept being raised as the game updated, while their levels remained static, eventually leading to them being phased out future content. This is one of the things that winds up saving everyone's bacon in Volume 13/Season 3, since the villain is employing a game mechanic that drastically lowers the strength of high-level players.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Employ this tactic while sitting outside Akiba to try to get the junior members of Log Horizon to offer them food and shelter. The effect is enhanced by the fact they're sitting in a cardboard box like abandoned puppies, and by the fact that they're both Wolf Fangs.
• Really 700 Years Old: They look like teenagers, but Shiroe notes that he's heard of them appearing since the start of Elder Tale, which in the game world coincided with the appearance of Adventurers about 240 years ago.
• The Scrappy: They're an In-Universe case, where Elder Tale veterans tend to dislike the sisters, calling them "The Useless Sisters of Izumo," thanks to a particularly annoying quest they were involved with where players had to collect a total of at least 4,000 white lizard scales for them. The quest also had a chance for one or both of the sisters to accidentally lose some of the scales, forcing the adventurer completing it to collect even more. In the end, Tetra had to collect 13,000 scales, leaving her with a massive grudge against the two. Shiroe mentions that there were other reasons, since a lot of the quests they were involved with were crudely made due to the game's early stage of development, but we don't find out the details.
• Sealed Good in a Can: The game developers eventually closed their dungeon, which may account for why they didn't vanish like most other Ancients. From their perspective, the entrance to their home was suddenly sealed off, and so they spent the next 50-ish years hibernating.
• So Proud of You: One of the sister's greatest joys turns out to be seeing how the low-level players they watched over now surpass them.
• Tron Lines: Both have green, circuit-like lines running along their skin. Lelia's at least make some sense since she has the Sigilmaster subclass, but it's unclear why Litka has them.

Lelia Mofur

Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (Japanese)

Race/Gender: Wolf Fang/Female
Class/Level: Monk/Lv.65

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• Big Sister Instinct: Has this both towards her actual younger sister, and towards low-level adventurers in general.
• The Klutz: Fully owns up to being clumsy and unlucky. In the scale-collection quest, one of the things that can go wrong is Lelia tripping and accidentally launching her bundle of scales into a blacksmith's furnace.
• Kick Chick: As a monk, uses her armored legs to make attacks.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Though regarded as something of a joke by the parts of the playerbase who remember her, a pissed-off Lelia manages to go toe-to-toe with a raid boss long enough for the rest of her raid team to rally after being almost completely defeated. Keep in mind that, as a monk, her strength is speed and evasion, but she foregoes that in favor of trading blows with the boss directly to hold its attention. Plus, as one of the Ancients she's technically a Lander, meaning that if she had died durring that stunt she wouldn't have revived like an Adventurer.

Litka Mofur

Voiced by: Nanami Yamashita (Japanese)

Race/Gender: Wolf Fang/Female
Class/Level: Druid/Lv.65

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• Cowardly Lion: Far more skittish and excitable than her sister, but still willing to fight when the chips are down.
• Kaiju: As it turns out, she did have a good reason for wanting all those scales. he uses them to summon and heal a giant lizard monster to help fight Genius Eirenus. The fight burned through about 100,000 of the scales she sotckpiled from adventurers over the years, leading her to ask Tetra to help her replenish them.
• The Minion Master: Fights mostly using summoned monsters, which include both numerous weak mushroom creatures and the afformentioned giant lizard.
• Money Dumb: Spent 3,000 rare lizard scales that Tetra entrusted to her for crafting an item with on a fancy cooking pot.
• Womanchild: Despite looking like a teenager and having been alive for at least the better part of a century in-game, Litka acts incredibly childlike. Fourteen-year-old Touya observes that it's hard to believe she's older than him.