Log Horizon

Nope, nope, nope, and nope! Got it all wrong.

Quite a bit of plot for books 6 and 7 however, slight spoilers ho! It's a rogue city Guard whose Lander "pilot" picked up a raid weapon with some flavor text that just became terribly real, a return to Suzukino, and Shiroe trying to buy the whole of Yamato via trying to negotiate with Clan Kinue.

I mentioned these many MANY pages ago.

edited 25th Mar '14 9:55:39 AM by MyssaRei

Possibly. I might be misremembering.

I had a laught at the suggestions for South American classes. They just make so much sense.

Except for Corsario, that came completely out of left field.

edited 25th Mar '14 6:17:07 PM by Prime32

The TRPG was finally released Monday this week, and with it is an accompanying LN-style story of a session of four known authors and their characters◊.

Characters are as follows:

• Seine (Swashbuckler) — played by Ayasato Keiji, author of the B.A.D. series (Beyond Another Darkness).
• Wulf (Samurai) — played by Murasaki Yukiya of the Haken no Kouki Altina series.
• Hedgehog (Summoner) — played by Maruyama Kugane, who is the author of the OVERLORD series.
• Masuda-san (Kannagi) — played by Mr Shibamura Yuuri whose work includes Gunparade March: Another Princess (author) and Marginal Operation.

Basic plot is how the story is set in the Ritorabure Islands (based on the RL Bonin Islands), where four stranded Adventurers attempt to return to the mainland. On their way back they come across a mysterious Lander girl Nagi, and gets involved (or dragged into) the incident surrounding her loss of memory.

edited 29th Mar '14 8:35:03 AM by MyssaRei

Writeups of the bosses from Book 7◊, as well as the translations of their stats.

edited 5th Apr '14 6:24:04 AM by MyssaRei

Those fan made classes just make me want to play on a Euro server. Daym.

Those NA ones are terribad.

I just finished this anime a few days ago and have now moved on to the translated spin-off mangas. It's an interesting take on the trapped in a game scenario, and you don't see many main protagonists like Shiroe.

More Log Horizon mech from Kadokawa. Just like last time, everything except the T shirt is exclusive to the anime convention.

mech? I don't see any mech.

I think he meant "merch" as in "merchandise".

The latest chapter web post of Mamare for the upcoming book raises a whole lot of interesting questions: Scrub Horizon finally encounter Ro E 2, Shiroe's female summoner, who apparently jumped from where she was on the moon after exchanging places with... someone, who was also in the general area (Ou peninsula, where the Goblin King's fortress is). Oh, and she's a vampire, but finds the subclass a massive pain, so she wants to get to a town and finally have it changed already.

Oh, and given her ignorance of what soy sauce or mayo is, it's likely that she doesn't have Shiroe's memories at all, but Minori picks up on the similarities that in the end, the kids end up calling her "onee-chan".

Putting her and Shiroe in the same room would be... an interesting experience to say the least.

edited 20th Apr '14 6:55:20 PM by MyssaRei

How did it even happened.

Oh. Well, that explains everything and in no way makes my brain bleed.

It is now head-canon for me that players of the Lumberjack class in the NA, while normally as sane as you or-

-as sane as any of you, inexplicably gain an insane damage boost and go completely, frothing-at-the-mouth berserk upon seeing any member of the Log Horizon guild.

Oh, and the "someone" she exchanged places with is heavily implied to be the currently MIA Krusty.

Aside from the chapter post, Mamare also mentioned that people should pay attention to the additions that might make it into book 8 — likely more Ascended Fanon characters.

I'm really hoping there's oxygen up there. And heat.

Space hurts. Especially if you're immortal.

Though that would explain the memory thing.

Speaking of which, I kinda want to do the math and see how tall you'd have to be to note the curvature of the planet. Krusty is probably tall enough.

edited 20th Apr '14 8:14:39 PM by Rem

Take note, in Log Horizon, the moon in Elder Tales isn't really just the moon it's the public test server for Elder Tales, or rather, what happened to it when Elder Tales became real. This is where people go when they die, before they get resurrected in the Cathedral as well.

Does it also weep blood? Do the feline residents of Ulthar leap to it's dream-representation, where they slaughter the cloven-footed Leng slavers and toadlike Moon-Beasts? Is it the rotting corpse of some forgotten, unspeakable god?

Does it know hate?

edited 20th Apr '14 8:46:49 PM by Rem

Now I know you're being sarcastic.

The moon is just as I described, the remnants of Elder Tale's test server. When adventurers die in Theldessia, they spend a short time on the moon — as shown by Akatsuki in book 6 and Shiroe in book 7, where they then sacrifice a bit of their memories so they can respawn back in the cathedral.

Ro E 2's situation is likely like Copellia's situation in Dragonshowl Mountain (Kanami's spinoff), an entirely unintended and unexpected situation brought about by Elder Tales turning "real".

edited 20th Apr '14 10:19:50 PM by MyssaRei

So....if the server gets all of someones memories, does it take over their real life then?

I meant in the real(or old if you prefer) world. I.e. modern Japan

edited 20th Apr '14 10:29:38 PM by kiukiuclk

Given how people constantly create new memories, I don't know how that would be even possible, unless you subscribe to Nureha's theory that people sequestered inside the cathedral and unable to leave it, who eventually die of starvation, then respawn, then starve and die, on and on until they lose all memory eventually get kicked out of Elder Tale.

I'll grant you that the imagery that first sprang to mind was a bit kitschy, but that wasn't sarcasm. That was terror.

Remember, we have no idea how any of this is possible. We don't even know if it is possible, or if that would make any difference.

Imagine what the Landers would make of all of this.

So, I just finished the anime,

Is it wrong that when Nureha was trying to covince Shiroe to side with her, I was actually feeling a bit turned on?

That's was the point — she was turning on her sex appeal full throttle to help ease convincing Shiroe. And if you felt that through the anime, think of this: the anime actually left much of Shiroe and Nureha's conversation out.

Helps that even without that... she is quite the looker.