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Sword Art Online isn’t even that good, from what I hear. Log Horizon is a better virtual reality isekai as far as I can tell.

ad404b8a372f2b9 4y ago
I never really got into SAO and haven't watched Log Horizon but in the same theme "I Hate Getting Hurt, So I Put All My Skill Points Into Defense" was pretty fun.
- madmod 4y ago
  For others searching for it the short name of this anime is Bofuri. It is one of my favorites and the second season is coming out Jan 2023. Really funny plot showing unintended consequences of the protag accidentally breaking the game design to become op and some fun side scenes of frustrated developers.
- panda88888 4y ago
  Highly recommend bofuri. It’s a fun poke at accidental exploit of game mechanics from unusual and unexpected way of playing a MMORPG.
M4v3R 4y ago
If you didn’t watch it and anime is something you enjoy, you definitely should give it a watch. I saw all the seasons and throughoutly enjoyed it. While the premise of the show is pretty simple, they really do it justice by showing how life would look like after spending literally years in virtual reality, how people adapt to the new situation etc.
sensitivestuff 4y ago
They touch on wildly different genres and target a different public IMO. SAO’s main point is to have people take VR seriously. The author touched on it in his previous series (Accelworld), but it didn’t resonate as much, so he kinda repackaged it to reach the same conclusion after 4+ arcs of novels/ anime. Log Horizon feels to me less about VR and more like a sheer isekai, not unlike the many “I reincarnated into this dating sim as the villainess” kind of series we are getting in troves now.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  Funnily enough, I've heard that SAO devolves into harem anime status. Log Horizon is more about the MMORPG genre, with scenes that are basically like deconstructed WoW battles, or subverting mechanics present in MMO games.
  - makeitdouble 4y ago
    Both devolve into harem status, but at different speed and degrees. SAO is pretty fast and goes straight into it (each anime seasons adds 2 to 3 potential members to the harem). Log Horizon takes more time but still ends with a bunch of potential love interests and dedicated eps to these relationships. I still personally enjoy Log Horizon more for the group dynamics and the main character spending time to raise a guild instead of playing the lone wolf adventurer. Hoping we get more series where the protagonist get in and out of the VR worlds, to have a more liminal kind of space.
    - MartinMcL 4y ago
      There are a few novels that play with this idea in the 'litRPG' genre. The 'Awaken Online' series is the best of them I've read, and has a mix of IRL and VR scenes depending on the book. As with the SAO books the focus soon goes from VR to AI/AGI.
    - Apocryphon 4y ago
      > Hoping we get more series where the protagonist get in and out of the VR worlds, to have a more liminal kind of space. Was that what .hack was about? Or perhaps that was an MMORPG that was depicted as VR-like, for the visual drama.

ad404b8a372f2b9 4y ago

I never really got into SAO and haven't watched Log Horizon but in the same theme "I Hate Getting Hurt, So I Put All My Skill Points Into Defense" was pretty fun.

madmod 4y ago
For others searching for it the short name of this anime is Bofuri. It is one of my favorites and the second season is coming out Jan 2023. Really funny plot showing unintended consequences of the protag accidentally breaking the game design to become op and some fun side scenes of frustrated developers.
panda88888 4y ago
Highly recommend bofuri. It’s a fun poke at accidental exploit of game mechanics from unusual and unexpected way of playing a MMORPG.

M4v3R 4y ago

If you didn’t watch it and anime is something you enjoy, you definitely should give it a watch. I saw all the seasons and throughoutly enjoyed it. While the premise of the show is pretty simple, they really do it justice by showing how life would look like after spending literally years in virtual reality, how people adapt to the new situation etc.

sensitivestuff 4y ago

They touch on wildly different genres and target a different public IMO. SAO’s main point is to have people take VR seriously. The author touched on it in his previous series (Accelworld), but it didn’t resonate as much, so he kinda repackaged it to reach the same conclusion after 4+ arcs of novels/ anime. Log Horizon feels to me less about VR and more like a sheer isekai, not unlike the many “I reincarnated into this dating sim as the villainess” kind of series we are getting in troves now.

Apocryphon 4y ago
Funnily enough, I've heard that SAO devolves into harem anime status. Log Horizon is more about the MMORPG genre, with scenes that are basically like deconstructed WoW battles, or subverting mechanics present in MMO games.
- makeitdouble 4y ago
  Both devolve into harem status, but at different speed and degrees. SAO is pretty fast and goes straight into it (each anime seasons adds 2 to 3 potential members to the harem). Log Horizon takes more time but still ends with a bunch of potential love interests and dedicated eps to these relationships. I still personally enjoy Log Horizon more for the group dynamics and the main character spending time to raise a guild instead of playing the lone wolf adventurer. Hoping we get more series where the protagonist get in and out of the VR worlds, to have a more liminal kind of space.
  - MartinMcL 4y ago
    There are a few novels that play with this idea in the 'litRPG' genre. The 'Awaken Online' series is the best of them I've read, and has a mix of IRL and VR scenes depending on the book. As with the SAO books the focus soon goes from VR to AI/AGI.
  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    > Hoping we get more series where the protagonist get in and out of the VR worlds, to have a more liminal kind of space. Was that what .hack was about? Or perhaps that was an MMORPG that was depicted as VR-like, for the visual drama.