50 Fun Facts About Log Horizon

In Log Horizon, what is the name of the online game whose update traps thirty thousand Japanese players inside?

Elder Tale had reached its twelfth expansion pack when the update hit. Players who were logged in found themselves wearing their avatars in a world that had become real.

Which Log Horizon assassin, a college student who looks much younger, starts calling Shiroe her lord?

Akatsuki claims she follows Shiroe out of gratitude, but she is really infatuated with him. Her Tracker subclass adds stealth and detection to her skills.

Which Guardian in Log Horizon, Shiroe's best friend and a salaryman, is often kneed in the face for crude remarks?

Naotsugu is the tank of Shiroe's team, soaking up damage in heavy armor. He also fought beside the strategist in his old raiding group.

Which Swashbuckler with the Chef subclass shelters the young healer Serara in Susukino in Log Horizon?

Nyanta is an old friend of Shiroe who once belonged to a guild made up solely of cat people. It disbanded after bad weather caved in its house.

In Log Horizon, players who die revive at a cathedral, but each revival costs them a portion of what?

Their memories of the real world slip away a little with every death, taken in the form of experience points. Shiroe first spreads the news as a rumor to avoid a panic.

In Log Horizon, food made through the game's command menu has what flaw until players start cooking by hand?

It has no flavor, however good it looks, so every menu-made dish is equally bland. Only players with the Chef subclass who cook manually can make meals worth eating.

Which real Tokyo district is the model for the largest player city in Log Horizon?

Akihabara is rebuilt in the game as the biggest player city on the Japanese server. In real life the district is seen as the center of Japanese otaku culture.

Shiroe, the Villain in Glasses of Log Horizon, plays which support-magic class instead of a front-line fighter?

Enchanter is a class built around strengthening allies, which suits a strategist who wins through other people. Shiroe had played the game for almost eight years.

What name is given to the governing council that Shiroe persuades the major guilds of Log Horizon's home city to form?

The Round Table brings together the guild masters of the eleven major guilds to govern the city. It is later reformed to include representatives of the game's native people.

In the Log Horizon anime, what do trapped players call the day the update pulled them into the game world?

The Apocalypse is also the title of the first episode, in which Shiroe finds he cannot log out. It struck during the launch of the game's twelfth expansion pack.

Before founding Log Horizon, Shiroe was the strategist of which legendary band of elite raiders, since disbanded?

Debauchery Tea Party was never a formal guild, just a loose circle of top players who cleared the hardest raids. It broke up when its leader left the country.

Marielle, a Cleric known for crushing hugs, leads which Log Horizon guild that speaks for the city's lesser guilds?

Crescent Moon Alliance is tiny beside the city's giants, yet its hit food stall is the first step in Shiroe's scheme to reform the city. Its guild master is a friend of his.

Which Log Horizon guild recruits low-level beginners only to exploit them, until Shiroe has its members blacklisted?

Hamelin wanted the exclusive items handed to low-level players, creating a monopoly it could sell to bigger guilds. The twins Shiroe once mentored were among its captives.

In Log Horizon, what does Shiroe secretly buy with five million gold to gain leverage over the city's leaders?

The Guild Building gives its owner the power to ban any guild from the premises, which hands Shiroe control over every guild's affairs. He uses it to shut out a guild that preyed on beginners.

Which loud-mouthed Log Horizon sorcerer is saved from permanent death when Shiroe writes him a contract?

Rundelhaus Code was secretly a native of the game world posing as an adventurer, so death would have been final. Shiroe's contract rewrote him as a true adventurer who can respawn.

Which guild master of D.D.D., Log Horizon's biggest combat guild, serves as spokesman for the city's governing council?

Crusty fights as a Guardian-Berserker and leads the players' counterattack when an invading army threatens their neighbors. He also grows close to a princess of the native nobility.

In Log Horizon, players who ignore quests while rebuilding their city allow which monster ruler to unite a great army?

The Goblin King is normally kept in check by players clearing quests, but nobody bothered once the game became real. His forces threaten the towns of Eastal, whose lords must ask the players for help.

At Log Horizon's first city conference, Michitaka reveals that players have built which invention by hand?

A steam engine proved that players could make things the game never offered, simply by working with their own hands. Shiroe argues that such inventions will drive the city's economy.

After rescuing Serara in Log Horizon, Shiroe and two veteran friends summon which flying mounts to head home?

Griffons carry the group away after they defeat the guild master who ruled the northern city by force. Three of the beasts are summoned for the flight home.

Which Cowen family princess in Log Horizon pleads with players for volunteers and becomes ambassador to their city?

Lenessia is admired as a famous beauty, but in private she is thoroughly lazy. Her heartfelt plea still moves hundreds of players to march to her people's defense.

Which young Kannagi healer joins Log Horizon with her twin brother Tohya and studies strategy as Shiroe's apprentice?

Minori falls for her teacher as she learns his craft, and when she finally confesses he tells her he likes someone else. She first met him on her very first day in the game.

Which fox-tailed guild mistress of Plant Hwyaden rules Minami and is obsessed with Log Horizon's Shiroe?

Nureha bought Minami's cathedral so she could permanently kill players who defy her, forcing the whole city into her guild. She knew Shiroe before players were trapped.

Which former leader of Shiroe's old raid group was stranded on Log Horizon's European server when players were trapped?

Kanami had moved to Europe with her child, which is why the old group broke up. She sets off across a continent to rejoin her friends in Japan.

Which Cleric with the Idol subclass joins Log Horizon after aiding Shiroe's raid from Susukino?

Tetra was sent north by a former comrade of Shiroe and asked to join the guild once the job was done. The self-styled idol spends much of the trip teasing Shiroe's best friend.

Which Bard in Log Horizon, a high-school girl new to the game, first learns that a friend is no real player?

Isuzu found that the system would not let her add him to her friend list, the sign that he was never a player at all. Finding a lute after her rescue had revived her love of music.

Which Silver Sword guild master, known as Mithril Eyes, walks out of Shiroe's conference in Log Horizon and moves north?

William Massachusetts refuses a council seat, yet later lends his raiders to Shiroe for a brutal raid. His speech about why gamers play rallies the beaten team to try again.

Which Brigandia guild master, brutal ruler of Log Horizon's Susukino, does Shiroe taunt by mispronouncing his name?

Demiquas despises Shiroe for staying in the shadows while others deal the damage. After losing his grip on the city, he settles down with a local woman who refused to bow to his threats.

Which West Wind Brigade guild master in Log Horizon, an old comrade of Shiroe, leads a guild of his own admirers?

Soujirou Seta is so popular with women that his guild is essentially his fan club. Shiroe once turned that devotion to use, sending the members out to patrol the city streets.

Which franchise inspired the green suit and twin swords of Log Horizon's American player from New York?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gave Leonardo his name, his green suit and his twin swords. He even once lived in the sewers of the game's American server.

Which half-Alv Summoner in Log Horizon, weak to sunlight through her vampire subclass, is really an alien-made AI?

Roe2 is an Observer, an artificial intelligence that took over a secondary character Shiroe made before players were trapped. Her subclass gives her special buffs at night.

In Log Horizon, what are the game's non-player characters called, who gain real emotions but die permanently?

People of the Land once handed out quests with a few stock replies, but became sentient when the game turned real. Unlike players they never respawn, so every death is final.

Which subclass lets Log Horizon's Shiroe draw accurate maps of every place he has visited?

Scribe makes Shiroe the mapmaker of his group, and he starts experimenting with what else the subclass can do once the game turns real.

Tohya, the younger twin who idolizes Shiroe in Log Horizon, plays which tank class with flashy, attention-drawing moves?

Samurai gives him heavy armor and strong skills with long cooldowns, so timing matters. In real life a car accident left him unable to walk, and he loves having working legs again.

Henrietta, who handles negotiations for Shiroe's schemes in Log Horizon, has which real-world profession?

Accountant with an MBA is her real-life job, which makes her a great asset when a plan needs budgets and bargaining. Her stern front collapses whenever she sees something cute.

Away from the game, Log Horizon's Shiroe is Kei Shirogane, a socially awkward graduate student in which field?

Engineering is what he studies as a graduate student, far from the scheming image he has in the game. He long had strong reservations about joining any guild.

In Log Horizon, what is the Japanese server called, home to the player cities of Minami and Susukino?

Yamato follows the map of Japan, so its player cities sit where real cities do. Players from China and Central Asia are housed on a separate server.

Susukino, the lawless northern player city in Log Horizon, sits where which real Japanese city stands?

Sapporo is home to the real Susukino, a district known for entertainment and nightlife. In the story the player city falls under a guild that loots and bullies other players.

Minami, the western player city ruled by a single guild in Log Horizon, corresponds to which real Japanese city?

Osaka is the real-world counterpart of Minami, the rival power to Shiroe's home city. Its spies slip into the east as its one ruling guild extends its reach.

In Log Horizon, the sage Regan tells Shiroe about which great spell, cast only three times in history?

World Fraction was first cast by the vengeful Alvs, and a later casting summoned adventurers to the world. Shiroe works out that the third was the event that trapped the players.

Which Japanese rock band, whose members wear wolf masks, recorded Log Horizon's opening theme Database?

Man with a Mission kept the opening slot through the first two seasons, fifty episodes in all. The band formed in Tokyo in 2010, the same year the story first appeared.

Which Japanese author wrote both Log Horizon and Maoyu, a fantasy about a demon queen allied with a human hero?

Mamare Touno is the pen name of Daisuke Umezu. Both of his best-known series have been adapted into anime.

Which studio animated the first season of Log Horizon before Studio Deen took over for the second and third?

Satelight made the first 25 episodes, which aired from October 2013 to March 2014. Director Shinji Ishihira stayed on through the change of studio.

Log Horizon first aired in 2013 on the educational television channel of which Japanese broadcaster?

NHK carried all three seasons on its Educational TV channel, from the 2013 premiere to the third season in 2021.

In what form did Log Horizon first appear in 2010, a year before it was published as books?

A web serial posted in installments on a site for amateur novelists came first, starting in April 2010. A publisher picked it up and began printing it in March 2011.

Shinji Ishihira, the director of all three Log Horizon seasons, also directed which long-running fantasy anime?

Fairy Tail follows Natsu Dragneel and the popular wizard guild he belongs to. Ishihira directed his first anime in 2002.

A critic in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction likened Log Horizon's society-making plot to which classic novel series?

Foundation, Isaac Asimov's saga, shares the show's interest in how durable political and economic systems emerge from fragile beginnings. Shiroe's story is about a society forming, not one hero surviving.

Which raid zone do Shiroe and the Silver Sword guild clear together in Log Horizon's second season?

The Abyssal Shaft seals the source of the world's gold, and a Christmas Eve battle there ends with the whole raid wiped out. The team later becomes the first to clear it.

Coppelia, a Cleric who gains a mind of her own after players are trapped in Log Horizon, started out as what?

A gold-farming bot run from China, she developed some sentience of her own once the game became real. She then became the loyal partner of a player crossing the continent.

Which publisher began releasing the Log Horizon light novels in English translation in 2015, four years after Japan?

Yen Press also picked up the manga adaptation drawn by the original illustrator, Kazuhiro Hara. The books had been in print in Japan since 2011.

Which level-100 hero of the Ancient Species serves as the in-universe mascot of the game in Log Horizon?

Elias Hackblade is not a player at all but a scripted champion who was the public face of the game. He ends up travelling with a small band of players crossing Asia.