Now, I know those seem like some pretty wildly different characters, with one being a swordsman and the other a mage. He’s overpowered to the point he gets a skill nobody else can get, yet is bland and has no personality, with a dull character design we’ve seen a thousand times. In Log Horizon, the protagonist is Shiroe, an unstoppable mage who never fails at anything, beats every opponent he faces single handedly, yet is despised by everyone for no valid reason. In Sword Art Online, the protagonist is Kirito, an unstoppable swordsman who never fails at anything, beats every monster he faces single handedly, yet is despised by everyone for no valid reason. Trust me, it’ll be better that way for both of us. Fair warning, this is likely to be a rather lengthy post, as there’s a lot of things critics slam SAO for I want to get into, and how Log Horizon really does do them even worse.Īlso, please refrain from jumping in to correct me on something until you finish the whole post. For now, let’s take a look at both shows, up close, and see just how they really stack up. Log Horizon actively does everything SAO is accused of, more blatantly. Call backs to previous events we never actually saw happen? Check. Log Horizon is guilty of doing everything SAO haters claim SAO is terrible for. That’s my viewpoint, however, and not an absolute. Hell, that show about people making a dictionary, the one where they talk all the time, was more engaging. That Phoenix Wright anime was more thrilling. I didn’t even know anime could be that boring. Anything that puts a viewer to sleep a tenth of the time is not good. Seriously, I had to rewatch five of the fifty episodes again because I fell asleep while they were on. What I got was one of the worst anime viewing experiences of my life, and raised a lot of questions in my mind as to how seriously I should take the anime critic community. Something that changed my opinion of SAO. I went in ready to see something amazing. Once I finished covering the various story arcs of SAO, I figured I’d give Log Horizon a go in order to challenge my perspective of SAO as being not as bad as it’s billed. Without fail, each cited it as a prime example of just why SAO was the worst. At many of these places, I kept reading and hearing the reviewer mention how much better another anime, Log Horizon, tackled the idea of being trapped in an MMO. Okay, so, in all those SAO posts I’ve made over the last few months, I would frequently visit other blogs and Youtube reviews to get a sense of just what it was about SAO that made it so hated. Every time I think I’m out, you drag me back in.
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