7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Log Horizon (2013)
Log Horizon (2013)
Overview
One day, while playing the online game Elder Tales, 30,000 players suddenly find themselves trapped in another world. There, eight-year veteran gamer Shiroe also gets left behind. The trapped players are still alive, but they remain in combat with the monsters. The players don't understand what has happened to them, and they flee to Akiba, the largest city in Tokyo, where they are thrown into chaos. Once proud of his loner lifestyle, Shiroe forms a guild called Log Horizon with his old friend Naotsugu, female assassin Akatsuki and others.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Female Combat: Yes
Viewer Rating
7.5
Overview
One day, while playing the online game Elder Tales, 30,000 players suddenly find themselves trapped in another world. There, eight-year veteran gamer Shiroe also gets left behind. The trapped players are still alive, but they remain in combat with the monsters. The players don't understand what has happened to them, and they flee to Akiba, the largest city in Tokyo, where they are thrown into chaos. Once proud of his loner lifestyle, Shiroe forms a guild called Log Horizon with his old friend Naotsugu, female assassin Akatsuki and others.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series champions collective governance and systemic solutions to societal problems, emphasizing the need for regulation to prevent exploitation and ensure social welfare for all members of a new society. This aligns with left-leaning themes of social justice and collective responsibility.
This anime, set in a fantasy MMORPG, features a diverse cast of characters in terms of archetypes and fantasy races. The narrative primarily focuses on world-building and strategic challenges, without explicitly critiquing or negatively portraying traditional identities.
Secondary
Log Horizon features Roderick, a male character who frequently cross-dresses in maid outfits. This aspect of his character is presented as a quirky eccentricity and a source of lighthearted humor, but he is not ridiculed or ostracized for it. His gender expression is incidental to the main narrative and his role, neither explicitly affirming nor denigrating LGBTQ+ themes, resulting in a neutral overall portrayal.
The show features Akatsuki, an Assassin class character, who frequently engages in and wins close-quarters physical fights against multiple male-coded monsters using her dagger and agility.
Log Horizon does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. While some characters play avatars of a different gender than their real-life sex, the narrative does not explore these differences in the context of gender identity or transition.
The anime adaptation of Log Horizon faithfully portrays all established characters with the same gender as depicted in the original light novel series, without any instances of gender alteration for main or legacy characters.
Log Horizon is an anime adaptation of a Japanese light novel series. The characters, consistent with their source material, are depicted as East Asian or in a generic anime style that aligns with their original design. There are no instances where a character canonically established as one race in the source material is portrayed as a different race in the show.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.4
7.7
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