Sword Art Online had a lot of bad things going for it, but Log Horizon seems to have gotten rid of everything that was good about Sword Art. As a result, many characters in the show are max level. But the one huge difference within the Log Horizon universe is that the game they are trapped in existed as a normal computer game before people got stuck in it. Another difference is that dying in the game doesn’t mean you die in real life. I distinctly remember one man in the first episode who acted like all his marbles had been taken away, but other than that everyone was calm and collected. In Log Horizon, no one seems to go crazy at the fact they are stuck in a game. While comparison to Sword Art Online is inevitable (and I will state if I think it’s a rip-off or not by the end of this review), I must first tell of the many subtle differences. Or at least, that’s what you would think. When it comes to Log Horizon’s initial premise, all you need to know is that it shares Sword Art Online’s plot. Point aside, I watched all of Log Horizon and now I’m going tell you if you should as well. Was it the opening, which was both captivating and really well done? Maybe I’m just a sucker for loli’s (probably not though). In the end though, I didn’t share his anger at the episode in fact I really wanted to watch some more. To be fair, it was hard to fully take it in the episode while my friend was shaking the television in convulsive rage. Sitting myself down at his TV, not knowing what horrors he might expose me to, on came the first episode of the new anime Log Horizon. It seemed quite obvious something had made him quite butt-hurt. He spoke with the growled voice of a starving house-cat: “you gotta check out this anime, it’s utter shit!” It was at that point I noticed the trickle of blood that appeared to be coming from the back of his pants. After determining he didn’t have rabies I entered the door and asked him what was the matter. Upon visiting my friend’s house, he came to the door essentially frothing at the mouth. That would have been the case, if it weren’t for my good friend Victor (not his real name). I was bogged down from school work, accumulated by watching too much other anime, so I decided to take a break from the entire season as a whole. It was at the beginning of the fall 2013 anime season, and I wasn’t expecting to follow any of the shows that came from it. Gather around the electronic campfire in front of your faces, for I have a story to tell you.
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