14th October 2013, 1:18 AM
I do have backups of the anime reviews I've posted in the last few months, but I don't know if anyone cares enough for me to post them again... that said though, here's a new one.
Log Horizon 2 - This really was quite good. I had somewhat mixed feelings about the first episode, as I said -- it was good, but somewhat bland -- but this second episode was a solid improvement over the first one! This was a great episode, and I liked it a lot. This show asks the right questions, and has some interesting answers too. It also made me wonder... in this world they're in, do people age? Of course, in games people don't usually age, but that's because they aren't really running in the same time scale as real life; it's always the same short period of time, repeating again and again, in a sense. The worlds those games are set in do have aging and eventual death from that; respawning doesn't heal everything. So, is this just "they're in the game", or is it a bit more real and they can age, or not? Of course, you'd have to be stuck in the game for QUITE a while to figure that out, so I doubt it'll happen. But it is a question related to the ones this episode brings up.
But anyway, yeah, Log Horizon is quite good. The world is interesting, and I wonder how this post-apocalyptic Earth came to have magic in it. The main characters are good and have some nice, if cliche and predictable, interactions with eachother. The plot has promise, and I really like that people resurrect when killed; that's how it works in MMOs, after all, so of course it should work that way here. This is a conventional anime series in a lot of ways, but it's a good conventional series that, if it can hold to this level of quality, I think I'll really like.
Log Horizon 2 - This really was quite good. I had somewhat mixed feelings about the first episode, as I said -- it was good, but somewhat bland -- but this second episode was a solid improvement over the first one! This was a great episode, and I liked it a lot. This show asks the right questions, and has some interesting answers too. It also made me wonder... in this world they're in, do people age? Of course, in games people don't usually age, but that's because they aren't really running in the same time scale as real life; it's always the same short period of time, repeating again and again, in a sense. The worlds those games are set in do have aging and eventual death from that; respawning doesn't heal everything. So, is this just "they're in the game", or is it a bit more real and they can age, or not? Of course, you'd have to be stuck in the game for QUITE a while to figure that out, so I doubt it'll happen. But it is a question related to the ones this episode brings up.
But anyway, yeah, Log Horizon is quite good. The world is interesting, and I wonder how this post-apocalyptic Earth came to have magic in it. The main characters are good and have some nice, if cliche and predictable, interactions with eachother. The plot has promise, and I really like that people resurrect when killed; that's how it works in MMOs, after all, so of course it should work that way here. This is a conventional anime series in a lot of ways, but it's a good conventional series that, if it can hold to this level of quality, I think I'll really like.