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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

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.

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.