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Apr 1, 3:16 AM
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And thus this stretched out nothingburger of gaming sham finally gets to an end. It could had easily fit in just 13 episodes taking out all the padding and worthless infodumping or plain blabbermouthing scenes

Shame that so much effort was invested in animation and voice acting in a hollow and souless show with cardboard cutout characters. Take a look at GunGale Onine as a good example of doing more than just the "gamur" experience, Lenn felt more like an actual character with more sides than just one smug act like Sunraku does, in fact her personality IRL was completely different and the online gaming part that allowed her to just unwind and reach out to people.

Characters like Rei had no purpose other than being doormart to inflate the neckbeard fantasy of a cute girl stalking a literal nobody that only plays videogames all day and has zero personality or skills. Shame that Aramis joined until now, he's the legit only clown in this circus that made me laugh (that and Bilac that served the necessary role of a straightman)

This one gets a 3/10 in my books just for the animation effort.

Remember kids, good graphics don't make a videogame, and in the same way, good animation shouldn't be an excuse to cover for poor storytelling and poor character writing.
@Kimurah I'm glad you watched the entire show. See you on the next season for more negative feedback o/
Apr 1, 3:50 AM

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Well, looks like the bunnies are better than the cats.

Pretty nice show, I'm interested for season 2.
Apr 1, 9:59 AM

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What the...? That cute pink-haired Mahou Shoujo from the OP is voiced by Nakata Jouji? Freaking Kotomine Kirei from Fate?! LMAO!

Pretty laid-back episode to conclude this first season. Aramis's character was introduced and I already love the dynamic he shares with Bilac. He kinda reminds me of Pepe Le Pew but less horny lol.

Really cool show overall. Very clear regarding what it wanted to be and as result, the final product ended up being a truly enjoyable experience for me. Cast was likeable, there were some really nice character designs and visuals remained surprisingly consistent throughout the whole show. Not to mention the high-quality animation during most of the fights, with Wethermon being the highlight.

Seriously, Sunraku's journey has been such an entertaining one and the news of a second season coming this soon only make me feel more eager to see him and co. again.

8/10 - See you all in October.
Apr 1, 10:01 AM

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This show really dragged on after the Wethermon fight ended. Bizarre decision to have the MC just dicking about with NPCs after the tease of the world changing.

Apr 1, 11:38 AM
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Bye-bye to the season with a new character with a peculiar voice!!!
Caith Sith, another race of this world!!!

Waiting the second season!!!
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Apr 1, 5:45 PM
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I am not ready for that deep old man voice for a cute magical girl LMAO

Season 2 confirmed again on Fall 2024!!
Let's go!! another 2 consecutive cour too!!


Overall Very Good 8/10 imo
I'm gonna missed their shenanigans.
Apr 1, 9:26 PM

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The ending really made me want a s2. Loved mostly everything about the series minus the mcs quiet stalker romantic interest. I did like her in game form though. A 10/10 from me. The manly mahou shoujo was comedy gold.
Apr 2, 12:31 AM
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Cant wait for season 2
Apr 2, 5:42 AM
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With the exception of the exceptional Wethermon arc, this has been an utterly boring and forgettable anime. I think I'll pass on season 2 and will just look up the Lycagon fight once it happens.
Apr 2, 6:53 AM

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The world and story of this anime are intriguing, but holy shit are the side characters unbearably annoying. The prospect of the insufferable cat character tagging along for the next journey is a real turn-off. It's also strange that the last two episodes of this season were essentially filler. I'll still be checking out Season 2, but my expectations aren't super high.
Apr 2, 9:26 AM

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That loli dude caught me off guard lmao. Last few episodes were full of that sweaty grind and now that it picks up again... onto next season!! Happy that it's more 25 episodes of fun though.
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Apr 3, 12:04 AM
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Absolutely amazing.
Apr 3, 8:21 PM

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Well... that's it guys, I am going to try and main a Pink Hair Loli in every game I play.

LOL

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Also... guess NPC's also got NPC stalkers too huh...

And it's a Cat x Bunny combo... hmm...

With that, Sun's got another powerful NPC group (the Catz)

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The Pink hair girl turns out to be the "LORE" group. Possibly the same guys that do game guides.

Feels like Sun should actually befriend them, but also ask them to keep some stuff hidden cause it'll jeopardize Sun's current "special event line"

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LOL @ the SLF theater, haha, poor Sun gets send to get bunch of stuff by B-nee-chan.
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Apr 4, 11:07 AM
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Omg i loved it so much
I cannot wait for the second season and the revelea's along the way
Apr 5, 3:38 AM
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A great production with a high-quality run.

Looking forward to the second season with its 2 cours!
Apr 5, 3:52 PM
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It was very beautiful. I hope Sunraku progresses in love in season 2.
Apr 5, 4:22 PM
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This anime surprised me, it's actually better than the overhyped Frieren. From story to comedy this top the another one.
The fights especially Wethermon are really cool.
The bunnies are cute and funny lol, I'm curious about Emul's 3rd sibling, hope they show in 2nd season.



Apr 6, 9:00 AM
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Kimurah said:
And thus this stretched out nothingburger of gaming sham finally gets to an end. It could had easily fit in just 13 episodes taking out all the padding and worthless infodumping or plain blabbermouthing scenes

Shame that so much effort was invested in animation and voice acting in a hollow and souless show with cardboard cutout characters. Take a look at GunGale Onine as a good example of doing more than just the "gamur" experience, Lenn felt more like an actual character with more sides than just one smug act like Sunraku does, in fact her personality IRL was completely different and the online gaming part that allowed her to just unwind and reach out to people.

Characters like Rei had no purpose other than being doormart to inflate the neckbeard fantasy of a cute girl stalking a literal nobody that only plays videogames all day and has zero personality or skills. Shame that Aramis joined until now, he's the legit only clown in this circus that made me laugh (that and Bilac that served the necessary role of a straightman)

This one gets a 3/10 in my books just for the animation effort.

Remember kids, good graphics don't make a videogame, and in the same way, good animation shouldn't be an excuse to cover for poor storytelling and poor character writing.

This thread is such an easy game of “Spot the Idiot”
Apr 6, 1:05 PM
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Decent finale to what has been a fairly fun 2-cours of Shangri-La Frontier.

God, the voice in the end there got me chuckling quite hard too, props if it's intentional. All that mystery about the "truth of the world", I wonder what that's all hinting about.

Cat and Bilac-san's dynamic is hilarious, I would've love to see more of that, lol. I could tell they wanted to feature Psyger 0 somehow in this episode, lol, and I'm glad for that, even though it meant nothing really.

Both banger Openings, hopefully we'll see them again in a few month's time. Reona's ED was a great song but felt a little too sad for the ED theme, it was perfect for the conclusion of the Weathermon battle, but that's just a small gripe from me.

7/10, looking forward to the next cour.
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Apr 6, 11:59 PM
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Great last episode cant wait for season 2
Apr 7, 8:03 AM
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Apr 2021
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nice anime to anime beatiful graphics 2024
Apr 7, 6:29 PM
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all of it the anime is masterpiece for me. The character gameplay excatly like me the rage when he lose or the grind he did for item like wonderfoul excatly like real gamer... I love it
Apr 8, 12:13 AM
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20/10 AND GOD.............
Apr 8, 4:02 AM
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That cat is sure something lol, but if it can helps with the materials that's nice... now that professor with a deep voice but a little girl avatar was also unexpected but that's how you troll with your appearance in video games ahaha, I wonder how Sunraku will react to the invitation, since it can help him but he needs to be cautious.... can't wait for S2 to see the revenge against Lycaon, what a great anime overall
Apr 9, 3:07 PM
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Great anime, very well paced, action is fun and visuals are good.
Apr 10, 12:38 AM
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What SAO wishes it could be. Very good characters and world lore. Excited to see where it goes from here.
Apr 10, 4:24 PM
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bird man get cool daggers
Apr 12, 6:10 PM

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Kimurah said:
And thus this stretched out nothingburger of gaming sham finally gets to an end. It could had easily fit in just 13 episodes taking out all the padding and worthless infodumping or plain blabbermouthing scenes

Shame that so much effort was invested in animation and voice acting in a hollow and souless show with cardboard cutout characters. Take a look at GunGale Onine as a good example of doing more than just the "gamur" experience, Lenn felt more like an actual character with more sides than just one smug act like Sunraku does, in fact her personality IRL was completely different and the online gaming part that allowed her to just unwind and reach out to people.

Characters like Rei had no purpose other than being doormart to inflate the neckbeard fantasy of a cute girl stalking a literal nobody that only plays videogames all day and has zero personality or skills. Shame that Aramis joined until now, he's the legit only clown in this circus that made me laugh (that and Bilac that served the necessary role of a straightman)

This one gets a 3/10 in my books just for the animation effort.

Remember kids, good graphics don't make a videogame, and in the same way, good animation shouldn't be an excuse to cover for poor storytelling and poor character writing.

This thread is such an easy game of “Spot the Idiot”
@RynoSwagman



ROFL. The alt/bot accounts aren't even hidding they are shilling bots.
Apr 12, 7:10 PM
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@RynoSwagman



ROFL. The alt/bot accounts aren't even hidding they are shilling bots.
@Kimurah what? What language are you even trying to speak here? If anyone’s a bot it’s you lmao
Apr 13, 6:29 PM
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Start to finish hands down my favorite power fantasy anime. I'm a sucker for an ideal speculative mmorpg and how it would play out, having loved King's Avatar, Grimgar, among others, but this one simply blows all the other ones out of the water with its game WORLDS (more than 1), animation, and character dynamics. Can't wait for season 2!
Apr 13, 7:56 PM

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Was not expecting that deep voice on Professor, really caught me off guard. Anyways, another reference to the truth of the world yet we still got nothing as far as lore goes. Especially these last few eps were somewhat weak with their focus on the game aspect.

That said, was really enjoyable overall. Wethermon arc was definitely the highlight. Really hoping Sunraku accepts the friend request from Professor and there is more lore development next season.
Apr 13, 8:14 PM

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"yorokobe shounen" ass voice 😭😭😭

I did not expect that at all lmao

Can't wait to watch season 2
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Apr 14, 6:03 AM

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The visuals are obviously really nice, and I did appreciate how it just stayed a VRMMO show and explored the idea pretty straightforwardly. I didn't really have an issue with the non-ending, considering the immediate sequel announcement it shouldn't really be considered an ending in the first place

I never felt the narrative was ever interesting though, so it cannot get much higher than a 5 or 6 in my book.
The characters and premise might not work in a serious setting, so maybe it's just better this way
Apr 15, 10:48 AM

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Mahou Shoujo with Alucard voice haha.🤣
Apr 16, 10:38 PM
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This was a really good show. It had its ups, it had its moments where the story stalled, but the fights in it were solid.

The ending itself did feel like it was going nowhere.. but I'm sure in a second installment we would get right back to fighting Lycagon. And since Sunraku eventually learned about the things that he intentionally skipped from Day 1, he has the upgraded skills to help move the story along.

For him to be experiencing this unique story, it makes you wonder how many other unique scenarios there are for players to explore. Surely Sunraku's friends can find their own unique routes so they can have something to brag about.
Apr 17, 3:26 AM

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I honestly started pretty lukewarm on this, after being interested in this series since the manga first started, then later on there were some things I liked like the rabbit boss, the Wethermon or w/e he was called fight and things that absolutely grated on me at times like how annoying the screeching of that lil rabbit could be and a few other minor annoyances. The SLF Theatre Mini's were often enjoyable at least.

Unfortunately this series just about scraped a 7/10 for me, meaning it was good and I enjoyed it, but it was teetering on the edge of being a 5 or 6 (just average/okay for me). So I'd still be hesitant about who I'd recommend this to. A shame as I had higher hopes for it as a series. I enjoyed enough to continue to S2, but can't see a long ongoing commitment to watching this if it continues to drag out, I think the manga is still ongoing, so we'll see how the adaptation pans out. Will get to S2 once it's out eventually when I have the time, the first season being on Netflix defo helped me get through it much quicker than I likely would've otherwise.
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Apr 17, 11:44 AM
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can't wait for season tbh
Apr 19, 6:21 PM
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He ended up with so much stuff and we got a new character, or two.
The Girl hardly appeared the second half, but. i'm not complaining.
Good season all round.
Apr 20, 4:44 PM

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We finally got the pink hair girl that we saw in the opening and she's is nothing like how I imagined. The gap between the avatar and the old man voice was hilarious.
Apr 23, 1:57 PM
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Overall good take on the overpowered VR character.
Apr 28, 11:34 AM
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While I liked the character's personalities, the humor, and the animation, this entire 25 episode season (+Recap) has been woefully lacking in characterization and story. Both characters and story lack development, depth, and substance. Most of the fights lacked substance, especially earlier on, and potential story and character development points are negligently passed by for more meaningless things that lack significance.

For example, why does Pencilgon have such a soft spot for the ghost at the grave? They could have taken the time to explore that for character development especially after that boss defeat, but nope! One could argue they're hinting at it, and will explore it later; however they've been hinting at it many many times already as subtle hints before the boss fight, after the boss defeat it was the right time to share, but they didn't, they only showed her at the grave again sad. That moment was screaming it was the time to reveal more, but they didn't. It came off instead as a carrot on a stick scam designed to string the audience along.

That's not the only instance, they could have developed the story more after the boss defeat by explaining why the boss was cursed to protect that grave for so long, they did not. Or what's the deal with the ghost and the grave, they did not. Or why the Daddy Vorpal Rabbit guy is connected to them, they did not. For stressing the importance of game lore so much, this show is not very forth coming with developing and revealing the lore. Alright, aside from the game why don't they reveal and develop more of the characters? What's the deal with Pencilgon's brother who she backstabbed? No huh? Well what's the deal with Pencilgon's modeling, how does that connect to how her character is? How about how the MC reacted when he met her IRL? Or with the professional gamer guy? No? Okay how about expanding on the stalker girl, why is her family rich? How did she start playing SLF? What's the deal with her sister who's the leader of a clan? How about anything that doesn't treat stalker girl like a joke or plot driver convenience? No, no, and more no? Alright, how about we talk more with Emul and Bilac, ask them if they're AIs and find out how much they understand about the outside world, they do understand the concept of the MC logging out after all. No? Okay then what's this about NPC deaths being permanent, are they afraid about that now that they're fighting along side the MC? What, that's not a concern to even discuss? Okay since the MC doesn't know how he triggered the unique vorpal event, why not ask Emul and Bilac if they know why, or the reason why the MC was chosen? No, too huh? ...

Like come on, all those avenues of growth, development, and revelations, and not one path followed. I can't see anyone defending this show to say they rather not have any development, growth, or revelation of those things I've listed. At best one could say it's still coming, but given how little that has been dole out in 25 episodes, it's really hard to say those aren't carrots on sticks meant to bait the audience to keep mindlessly following without ever giving enough of a payoff.

I really wish it wasn't so because I do like the character's personalities, the show's humor, and the animation, but I'm starved for characterization and story. I mean the first 4 or 5 episodes I was bored out of the skull because it was just the MC doing tedious uninteresting stuff without substance, he was barely interacting with anyone. Finally he got Emul and started talking with her, Pencilgon, and that pro gamer guy. Thankfully that made the show tolerable at least, but there's been very little advancement in characterization and story since to be worthy to fill 20 episodes.

All in all, this was better than the similar Bofuri, and more tolerable than SAO, both of which I despise. I hope S2 improves, but fear it's going to be more of the same. 6/10. I don't hate VRMMO animes, as it stands Log Horizon is probably the best I've seen so far, although it got a little worse each season, and it doesn't look like anymore are coming.
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I wish I could relive those days when I feel that excitement about a mmorpg.

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May 2, 11:58 PM
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Enjoyed the ride through and through! Used to be a hardcore gamer myself!

Season 2 can't come soon enough!!
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animation goated
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DURR HURR I'm going to act like I don't understand a meme, reciprocate with a NO U reply and end it with a stupid pointless LMAO. Good god, I'm such a genius


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May 16, 5:00 AM

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My 268th completed series chronologically.

For the record, i extended it a 6/10 rating.

May 17, 3:12 PM
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fantastic Show ..
May 28, 5:31 AM
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It was a (barely) OK finale, but I can easily forgive them for that after the absolute masterpiece that was the fight against Weathermon. Unfortunately, I'm worried they're never going to hit such a high bar ever again.
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Easily the best MMO-'isekai' fantasy anime I've seen. It understands MMOs and the way people play them so much better than most other games that have an MMO as their main concept. The characters are enjoyable, cool, cute. The story is interesting. Love it.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM
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