Saturday, October 12, 2013

Log Horizon - ep02


The second episode doesn't really waste a lot of time exploring the concept of dieing in this world. That it doesn't take long for it to be clear that if you die in this game you are later revived back at town. That unlike SAO death is not as much of an issue because you don't die for really. However with death not being permanent it has cause different socially effect than what was seen in SAO. That with nothing to really do, this has cause the frequency of Pking to rise. That we see the effects of this when Shiro's group falls victom to the Pkers although they defeat the Pkers. This raise the question to Shiro are they any better because they don't really have a goal to work towards so he can't really considers them much better off.


This leads to the introduction of a goal to Shiro. It seems that Crescent Moon Alliance is planning a trip to retrieve their last member. However by forcing Marie to speak of it, Shiro realize how dangerous this is going to be for them. That he doesn't believe they will succeed since there is a party limit of six. There is also the fact that they would have to travel 425km which is about 260 miles. It turns out that this would be about a month long round trip. That if she were defeat they would have to start all over again. It seems to be that Shiro believe he would have a better chance of success but he feels he has no real right to intruded upon what they are doing since he is not part of her guild. Altough it seems that Akatsuki and Naotsugu are aware what he is think. That with their approval Shiro states that they will go in their place. This also serves another purpose of find something of mean where there is very little of anything that has any true value. However it is doubtful that this journey will span the entire anime but just the first arc. It will be interesting to see how different this world will be in comparison with Sword Art Online.

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