Thoughts; Another stuck in a game show. I've never actually watched any of the other shows that have this premise, but I know there are a couple out there. With that said, I don't really have much or anything to compare this to...
With these twelve episodes I do like what I've seen, it's a little slow, but it really does show the MMO feel. Of course, when the characters die in the game they just get the normal game punishment of being warped back to their city of origin. That is sort of boring. Who cares if you die if there's no real world consequences and really... up to this point.. I'm not even sure what the real world has to do with the game in general.
Why are all these people stuck in this game? Are they really stuck there or is this just some strange, after images of themselves playing the game. Okay, the latter of that would be a little hard to believe
The whole NPC Vs Player idea that seems to be brewing somehow does seem interesting though.
Who we have...
Mains.
Shiroe- Class; Enchanter ~ Subclass; Scribe ~ The head brain of the show, everything that has been accomplished up to this point has been pretty much thanks to him. He's quite the nice guy and it seems this has gotten the best of him in the past, with people coming to him and using him for his knowledge just so they don't have to do it themselves. This has soured him for guilds in general...
Before the expansion pack that somehow locked every one's real life selves in the game, Shiroe had been playing the game for years and pretty much knew everything about it. After the expansion though, his knowledge is still great but then there's the new content that had been added. Oh, also of course the fact no one can log out.
He's made quite a name for himself in the game through out the years of playing, being a "member" of the Debauchery Tea Party a group of people that just hung out together to do stuff. Most of them in different guilds or no guilds at all. Shiroe was the Strategist of the group... and one hell of a strategist at that.
Naotsugu- Class; Guardian ~ Subclass; ?? ~ He hadn't played the game in a couple years and had just come back for the expansion pack. What a time to come back, even though he's stuck in the game he is quite the cheerful fella'. A self admitted pervert, an open pervert as he says he's always saying things that has Akatsuki kicking or abusing him in some manner.
He and Shiroe and friends, meet up and start traveling together from the get go.
Akatsuki- Class: Assassin ~ Subclass; Tracker ~ Before the expansion and change, Akatsuki was a male assassin who just never spoke on voice chat. After, she's stuck in a male body for a while before Shiroe gives her a potion to change herself back into a female to match that of her real life self.
Normally, she liked to play the game alone. Though after Shiroe was nice enough to give her the potion to change her appearance she accepts him as her "Master" and joins his group. She really seems to get a long well with Shiroe, but she and Naotsugu's open pervert mind set don't really bode well.
She's quite the talented Tracker and Assassin.
Nyanta- Class: Swashbuckler ~ Subclass; Chef ~ He certainly doesn't look like his real life self, a cat man! He even talks with the Nyan in it. A very calm gentleman I assume he's probably older then most the other players in the real world.
That fact doesn't hurt his in game fighting though, at level 90 in both his jobs he's quite the formidable opponent. He shows up a little later then the other three, when the other three take a job to go find a friends guild mate in another part of the country Nyanta is the one who has been aiding her.
Up Until Now..
You'd expect people to sort of freak out in situations like these, but really... there's been very little freaking out in this. The main Trio meet up and get the feel of things in Akiba, then soon after they meet with another one of Shiroe's friends the Guild Master for the Crescent Moon Alliance, Maryele.
One of her guild mates{Serara} is trapped in another town within the game, Maryele was going to rescue Serara herself but Shiroe and company volunteered to go instead. Since the warp gates weren't working it is a bit of a walk. Through a dungeon, forest, mountains the normal for any video game. Of course, no matter how close to the other town they are if they die, they rezz back in Akiba. Which makes for an interesting trek..
Getting to Susukino wasn't that difficult, but once there they are met by a crazy, PKing guild that has taken over the in game city. This is where they meet up with Nyanta, he's been taking care of Serara and she's developed a bit of a crush on the cat man. After fighting the guild leader {I forgot his name, whoops} and a few of his henchmen the group sets back off to Akiba.
On the way home they discover that even though most the food tastes terrible, if a person with a high enough Chef level cooks the food from the environment the food actually tastes amazing. Nyanta is that Chef!
Back in Akiba..... There's a party... Shiroe decides to finally make his own guild and calls it "Log Horizon". Nyanta, Naotsugu and Akatsuki join his guild and all is good. Sort of. There's a naughty guild in Akiba that needs to be dealt with!
The Hamelin guild has recruited the newbie players and are forcing them to make then hand over their Exp Pots, that characters under a certain level get once per day. In turn they sell these Exp Pots to other guilds and there's a lot of leveling going on. Two of these newbs are Twins that Shiroe actually knows from a while back...
Log Horizon and the CMA set out to save these newbs, but first they must make some money! How? Selling good of course. The Sub Class Chefs start to raise their levels while the other plays hunt and gather the items needed to cook. After a little time goes by they open food stands and the shocked players happily hand over their money for the yummy food.
Shiroe has other plans in mind, not just the food.... what to do with the money! Buy a building. The group call together the leaders of the highest combat guilds and the highest business venturing guilds to meet at the guild hall. Shiroe leading the meeting he turns out to be a bit evil....
The plan is for all the guilds to come together and bring order to the chaos in Akiba, if they don't agree to this... they can't use the guild hall! Shiroe bought the Guild Halls building for 5 Mil or so... Of course the other leaders are kind of angry, but there's squat that they can do about it so... an Alliance was made. Well, besides with the one leader who left early... which I can't remember the guilds name or leader. Oh well.
During the meeting the other members of Log Horizon and the CMA are rescuing the newbies kept by Hamelin. With Shiroe owning the Guild Hall he pretty much boots the entire guild out once they are killed and sent to the Cathedral Rezz spot.
The Twins, Minori and Touya join Log Horizon and begin to train.
New Problem?
The NPCs or the people of the land as they call them in this game have become, irritated with...suspicious of the adventurers. They seem to be planning something, but no one is quite for sure what or if. Then they are invited to the NPC's Kings Castle! There they meet the people and get to play with the Princess.. Well, Not quite play but.. Yea. I'll get more into this stuff once I watch the rest of the show.
That's it, For now....
