Each story just kind of happens & ends with no real apparent impact. There's no such sense of one thing building into another in LH2. Things started with everyone just getting used to functioning in this new world, which led to the Akihabara adventurers trying to better organise themselves, which led to their becoming diplomatically involved with the nearby PotL kingdoms & so on.
In LH1 you had a real sense of progression between the different story arcs. Unfortunately, LH2 tends to skip over the more interesting parts while doing very little to try & tie everything together. Friction between the People of the Land & adventurers continues & we also, finally, start getting a hint at why the players of Elder Tale were sucked into the game in the first place. We meet characters that we wouldn't expect, such as a Chinese farmbot & Shiroe's alt character Roe2, who also seem to have come to life. Other issues not raised in LH1 are explored, including the idea of mortality & what it's actually like for the adventurers to die & how different people are responding to their being trapped in this new world.
The first story arc occurs against a backdrop the sudden & destabalising event of all the flavour text for the games many items suddenly becoming real, resulting in, among other things, Crusty being sucked into apparent oblivion by his weapon. These things concluded, the characters finally get around preparing for the prospect of war by.sending the younger guild members on a fetch quest so they can make magic bags.Īll these stories continue Log Horizons rather enjoyable combining of a fantasy adventure setting with MMO rules, & the interesting ways they come together. Following on from that (although both events occur at the same time) Shiroe seeks to deal with the financial problems the round table are facing by leading an epic raid on an El Dorado mine where all the world's gold is alleged to come from. First is a mysterious player killer in Akihabara, somehow able to get around the zone's rules against combat between players. Instead, LH2 focuses on three events that all feel like they're setting the ground for something big, but they don't know what. Remember how LH1 ended with a climactic battle against the goblin king's forces whilst also revealing a new, human threat in the form of Nureha, guild leader of Plant Hwyaden who seems as powerful a mage as Shiroe? Well it seems the author or script writers forgot, because none of that really matters in LH2. (note this review assumes you've seen LH1) Sadly, it seems in Log Horizon 2's case, either nobody knows where things are going, or nobody is communicating it. When series, particularly longer series, feel like they're becoming increasingly unfocused as the source material begins to run out, you'd think that the script writer & author would work together to at least come up with a framework for where the story is going so the adaptation knows what to focus on without deviating too much from where the author plans to go with their story. There are times when one wonders if the scriptwriters for a show & the author of the source material being adapted ever talk to each other. Don't bother unless they announce a third season, & even then you'll probably be better off looking for an abridged version on youtube than
TL DR: A disappointing second season that feels like the director & script writers had no idea where Mamare Touno is planning to go with the story of Log Horizon, so just adapted enough to pad out the 25 episode run time & hope that the audience figures out how it all connects together themselves.There are some good episodes & it explores interesting ideas (or brings them up, at least), but ultimately they don't add up to 25 episodes worth of content.
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