Kanami, a character only mentioned before in the show, makes an appearance with her own party, a group of Adventurers traveling the lands, countries away from the main cast in Japan. The episodes get less done in their 24-minute durations when compared to Shiroe-centric episodes, and it feels as though her arc detracts from the overall show by slowing down Shiroe’s plot.Īnother major issue with pacing comes from the “Kanami, Go East!” arc, which condenses a lot of content into a single episode and suffers for it. Despite being trusted with many duties by Shiroe, she acts as though she’s entirely useless without an Overskill, despite being a highly competent assassin. The issue here is that, compared to the Shiroe plotline, which delivers on both the action and the development of characters, Akatsuki’s side drags its feet, with her own issues about friendship feeling particularly weak given that she spends time out with several other characters who all obviously treat her as a close friend. The issue here is that, while the show alternates between the two plots for the first several episodes, it opts to devote itself to Akatsuki’s after some time, when Shiroe’s is infinitely more interesting.Īkatsuki’s arc primarily deals with her own insecurities, especially about her inability to discover an “Overskill,” a skill that doesn’t normally exist in the game, and about her interactions with people outside of Shiroe.
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From there, the show goes on to follow Akatsuki and Shiroe on their own plotlines, with Akatsuki dealing with a murderer somehow capable of killing within the city limits of Akihabara, when the game normally doesn’t allow combat in town, and Shiroe with organizing a full 24-man raiding party to deal with a new dungeon he suspects holds a secret to amassing the wealth of the entire Yamato server. Season 2 starts with a bang, with episode 1 revealing that both protagonists Shiroe and Akatsuki managed to die in some way, a first for both of them. The biggest criticism that one can deal Log Horizon Season 2 has less to do with the animation and more to do with the pacing of the story itself. So now that it’s all said and done, how was Season 2? Well… it wasn’t awful, and DEEN certainly did their best, for whatever that’s worth. Although most of the staff, such as the director and producers, were coming along, and the hilarious opening theme, “Database,” by Man with a Mission, was also confirmed to return, the adage of “DEEN finds a way” still left many fans, including myself concerned. With such visual abominations as Fate/Stay Night and Pupa in the last few years, it’s no wonder that the response to Log Horizon being handed from Satelight to DEEN was met with feelings of fear that the second season of the surprise hit would be butchered by DEEN and their inability to animate even the simplest of things. I’m not sure anyone can accuse Studio DEEN of being even a halfway decent anime studio, especially given their recent missteps.
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