Suppose I should try to sleep aswell after one very good day of anime. Excellent Akame episode, cute Chuunibyou special, brilliant Psycho-Pass and to end it all with some Cowboy Bebop!
I trust you all to keep the thread going!
NO!
When you wake up tomorrow this thread-NO! These entire forums will be gone without a trace as if they had never even existed
But on the off chance that doesn't happen here's some good night gifs!
(P.S. Saw Fury today, twas pretty good)
So I finished after story. I feel a pain in my soul.
Why does nobody ever listen to me?!?! DON'T DO IT!!
It's too late, I've already cleared 21 episodes. It's passable at this point, it isn't anywhere near how glorious it was before episode 15. I think the reason I'm ok with it is because I've been treating it like a new show with a couple of familiar characters in it (I guess a crossover).
The plot is a complete asspull
The tentacle thing and
I am glad to see
I do think that they would have been better off making what they did, but with entirely new characters. |Placing it in the same universe would have been fine. Before I started watching Sword Art Online I was going to the joke that they should make a show called Magic Arts Online after I finished, but really, it feels like episode 15 and beyond is pretty much that.
They really had a great ending point at episode 14 and they should have stopped
The Asuna thing angers me to no end.
Asunas are for snuggling. Not molesting.
So I finished after story. I feel a pain in my soul.
Yeah I was also pretty sad Tomoya didn't hook up with Kyou. Just kidding, well sort of.
Are you a bully?
I just thought Toyoma and Kyou would have nicely played into the whole life's journey imagery the show was striving for.
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I love seeing Esdeath animated. Best Akame ga Kill girl.
Because there is more to winning a fight then being bigger and stronger. Watch some Bruce Lee movies or something.
Luck is always a factor sure. But the number of advantages and physical differences do matter.
There is a reason why physically inferior combatant winning is an exception, and not a rule.
And Alex Luis Armstrong has more than one advantage in that regard
The power of sparkles!
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The Villain with Glasses can be a complete and utter dick if you harm his friends get on his bad side. In fact, Log Horizon seems to make a point of having people with glasses be able to be total dicks while smiling.
The smiles. The smiles! 
Also, since I suppose a few caveats are due-
Log Horizon obviously isn't perfect. It doesn't have anything I would consider as a major flaw, but it does have... if not major weaknesses, at least things that could be better. Here's my personal top three.
Visuals: Modest with a use of recycling
Log Horizon is not a tier one anime in terms of fight scenes. Where some anime take pride in crisp, detailed art styles in which ever action is well choreographed and every fight visually unique and high-quality choreography and detail (tier 1 examples being Ghost in the Shell, Samurai Champloo, FMA, even SAO), Log Horizon is most emphathetically not. The art style is colorful and smooth and makes a point of avoiding character portrait details- and makes a point of keeping it that way. It's part of the aesthetic style, but the only crisp and detailed images you're likely to see are background images. Fights also occassionally make use of the dreaded clip recycle for re-use of abilities and other segments- it's modest, but there. So is the use of CGI of the monsters (but which is mainly only used for mass-monster groups). Just a heads up.
Plot: Sometimes flippant about Serious Buisness
It's already been pointed out that Log Horizon is sometimes called the 'happier' SAO. Sometimes this is because it moves past real and obvious spots of tension without giving it the sort of attention it might merit. A prime example is that while the issue of 'trapped in a game' is brought up, none of the main cast give it much weight- no one desperatly wants to return home, and there's virtually no thought about trying to seek out a way to return. Angst and sorrow for those left behind is for chumps and the rabble. This fits the narrative's theme of 'learning to adapt to living within the game,' but also creates a sense of lack of tension or development of the 'original side.' Everyone more or less has their strongest connections and reasons in-game, and the largest grievance about the outside-world is that some friends weren't online to be trapped. There are a few more, spoilery, developments that don't get the weight I think they might, but this is how it is. Log Horizon picks which problems it wants to focus on, and that means there are some that it does not.
Characters: Few strong, independent, leading females
This one is more of a (modest) pet peave than a huge issue, and certainly not a flaw to the degree that many other anime (including SAO) are. It just annoys me that, for how many things it does right, female characters are under-represented.
Take this image of the regional whose-who of players. These are the primary leaders of the people in the setting. Count the number of women at the table, and then subtract one because the one on the right is just a very pretty boy. (No real spoilers- just a picture of a table with people sitting at it.)
Yeah, kind of underwhelming, isn't it? The vast majority of the primary cast is male, and most of the secondary cast is male as well. Women are mostly in subordinate/support relationships. Truth in fiction, of MMO settings or real world convention? Perhaps, but annoying none the less- and especially for all the other things that Log Horizon gets right.
This annoys me, and to an usual degree, because how Log Horizon treats female characters is otherwise pretty strong. It passes the bechdel test, in which females talk to eachother and are able to have conversations that aren't about men. It repeatedly emphasizes that level, not gender, is the primary form of strength and weakness (such as when both males and females are targetted and even enslaved), and women are just as capable on the battlefield or in the boardroom. It doesn't define it's female cast by their romantic relationships to men (even the ones who are crushing have outside interests and context), it doesn't pile on a harem scenario, it doesn't treat them primarily as fanservice. Even when romance and crushing do come into play, it isn't to the exclusion of other attributes and interests: in some cases, the (non-romantic) relationship with a man is simply a character development catalyst for self-improvement and maturation.
So, yeah, compared to all that it may not be a 'flaw' as such... but it annoys me just a tad.
@Isi
D'aaaaw! The bestest of best things to wake up to! So much awesome that it's really not possible to gush enough
So I finished after story. I feel a pain in my soul.
He he he!
There's a hole for sure and it will take a little while to maybe close it.
@Vroom
Yes, one might aswell stop after 14 and spare themself from the disaster that are the rest of the season. There's enough stuff wrong in those episodes to almost make me want to flip tables. Alfheim is one massive turd and what they do to Asuna is just.. ugh.. Much better idea to watch Log Horizon instead!
Not going to try this at home but it does look sweet!
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Finished Chihaya.
Now there's another mange that I have to f*cking read.
Next is Psycho Pass EE.
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Oh and it's chapter 93 if anybody else wants to continue on with Chihayafuru.
Oh and it's chapter 93 if anybody else wants to continue on with Chihayafuru.
The temptation is stronk!
But I shall resist
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Well you'll miss out on this.
Well you'll miss out on this.
Spoiler
Such Tsundere
Much want anime
Wow!
Mwhahahaa
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Oh
If any TaichixChi moments come up, do you want updates?
Can I squee here?
What if Shinobu gets fanservice?
Want me to put fanservice up here too?
Always and forever interested in Shinobu related content!
Can always put stuff under the magical spoiler tag and.. who knows maybe I'll (I will) click
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Oh
Whaddaya know.
Shinobu fanservice
Not really spoilerish. Just a bum/boob shot. You know how it is.
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Luck is always a factor sure. But the number of advantages and physical differences do matter.
There is a reason why physically inferior combatant winning is an exception, and not a rule.
And Alex Luis Armstrong has more than one advantage in that regard
The power of sparkles!
Like I said.
I think he was going soft cos he's a softy. His sister is way harder in spirit.
Not like he's a ****** at fighting.
He took on f*cking Sloth xD
But yeah.
Size doesn't mean strength either. So that's the basis of my argument.
I'm bigger than my gym partner. But he can lift heavier than me. And again. Lots of years of boxing, and I've seen what little guys can do.
P.S
I wish more girls would box or do martial arts 
Oh... and I love that picture.
The power of sparkles is indeed the epitome of masculinity.
Oh
Whaddaya know.
Shinobu fanservice
Not really spoilerish. Just a bum/boob shot. You know how it is.
Spoiler
Aww bro!
Why....
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So yeah.
I don't think Season 3 for Chihaya is gonna come up in a while.
Not enough chapters yet since 2 seasons made for 92.5 and there's 137.
Well.... maybe one season.
So I decided to watch some Gintama to cheer myself up and
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Gintama mends the soul.
But there are some episodes that will crush it.
You have been warned.
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