Log horizon

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Log horizon
Original title ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン
transcription Rogu Horaizon
genre Fantasy
Light novel
country JapanJapan Japan
author Mamare Tōno
illustrator Kazuhiro Hara
publishing company Self-published → Enterbrain
First publication April 13, 2010 - ...
expenditure 14+
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Mamare Tōno
Illustrator Kazuhiro Hara
publishing company Enterbrain
magazine Famitsū Comic Clear
First publication May 18, 2012 - ...
expenditure 1+
Manga
title Log Horizon Gaiden: Honey Moon Logs
Original title ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン 外 伝 Honey Moon Logs
transcription Rogu Horaizon Gaiden: Honey Moon Logs
country JapanJapan Japan
author Mamare Tōno
Illustrator Motoya Matsu
publishing company ASCII Media Works
magazine Comic Dengeki Daiō
First publication January 27, 2012 - June 27, 2014
expenditure 4th
Manga
title Log Horizon - Seifū no Ryodan
Original title ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン 〜 西風 の 旅 団 〜
transcription Rogu Horaizon - Seifū no Ryodan
country JapanJapan Japan
author Mamare Tōno
Illustrator Yūki
publishing company Fujimi Shobo
magazine Age Premium
First publication July 9, 2012 - ...
expenditure 9+
Manga
title Log Horizon Gaiden - Nyanta Hanchō Shiawase no Recipe
Original title LOG HORIZON 外 伝 - に ゃ ん 太 班長 ・ 幸 せ の レ シ ピ -
transcription Log Horizon Gaiden - Nyanta Hanchō Shiawase no Reshipi
country JapanJapan Japan
author Mamare Tōno
Illustrator 草 中
publishing company Enterbrain
magazine comic B's-LOG Airraid
First publication December 21, 2012 - ...
expenditure 5+
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2013–
Studio Satelight (Season 1)
Studio Deen (Season 2)
length 25 minutes
Episodes 50 in 2+ seasons
Director Shinji Ishihira
music Yasuharu Takanashi
First broadcast October 5, 2013 - March 22, 2014 (season 1)
October 4, 2014 - March 28, 2015 (season 2) on NHK E.
synchronization

Log Horizon ( Japanese ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン , Rogu Horaizon ) is a Japanese novel series by Mamare Tōno , which has also been adapted several times as a manga and anime television series.

By the end of April 2018, the series, including the manga, had sold more than 1.5 million copies.

action

When its twelfth expansion Novasphere / Noosphere no Kaikon ( ノ ウ ア ス フ ィ ア の 開墾 , Nouasufia no Kaikon , " Land development from / the Novasphere / Noosphere") is suddenly recorded in the popular MMORPG Elder Tale ( エ ル ダ ー ・ テ イ ル , Erudā Teiru ) At that point, logged-in players - 30,000 in Japan - caught in the game again. Among these are the enchanter as the protagonist ( 付 与 術 師（エ ン チ ャ ン タ ー）) (= Support magician) Shiroe ( シ ロ エ ) -, his old friend the Guardian (守護 戦 士（ガ ー デ ィ ア ン）) (= Tank ) Naotsugu ( 直 継 ) , as well as the assassin (暗殺者（ア サ シ ン）) (= Damage Dealer ) Akatsuki ( ア カ ツ キ ) , each one of the most experienced players.

From his eccentric acquaintance Marielle ( マ リ エ ー ル , Mariēru ) , who runs the guild Mikazuki Dōmei ( 三 日月 同盟 , "Crescent Moon Alliance") , he also learns that all portals between the five starting cities no longer work, but also rejects her recruitment attempt. In addition, he must also learn what it is like to be in a game, starting with the fact that the body feeling is different due to the different size of the figures, but also how one can effectively use his playing skills. Fortunately, he also learns that if you die in the game you will automatically be resuscitated in the last city you visited, which also means that there is no escape from the game and that the attacks by players on other players will increase rapidly. Marielle tells him that a guild member, Serara, is trapped in Susukino ( Sapporo ), which is far from the local Akiba ( Tokyo ) , and asks Shiroe to take over the guild during her absence, which Shiroe refuses by saying that he will undertake the rescue mission himself. Meanwhile, Serara is in the care of Nyanta, a friend of Shiroe, with whose help he frees Serara.

On his return he learns that there were undesirable developments in Akiba while he was away. So the stronger guilds incorporated those areas that deliver experience points the fastest, so that the weaker guilds are left behind; other guilds use new players for their own purposes. In one of them, Hamelin ( ハ ー メ ル ン , Hāmerin , see Pied Piper of Hameln ) , the young siblings Minori ( ミ ノ リ ) and Tōya ( ト ウ ヤ ) , whom Shiro knows from earlier , landed . To remedy this situation, he and his three friends found the Guild Log Horizon (記録 の 地平線（ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン）, " Log horizon") .

character

Guild: Log Horizon

Nickname character Nickname race class additional
1. Shiroe Shirogane Kei The villain with glasses, the strategist Half past ten Wizard-scribe Guild Master of Log Horizon, founder of the "Round Table"
2. Naotsugu Hasegawa Naotsugu human Guardian Friend of Shiroe
3. Akatsuki dwarf human Assassin
4. Nyanta boss Feline Saber rattlers
5. Minor human priestess Sister of Tohya
6. Tohya human samurai Brother of Minori
7. Isuzu human Bard nomad
8. Rundel House Code Rundel House Code Rudy human Witcher He was a "man of the country" and became an adventurer through Shiroe
9. Tetora Galaxy Idol human Cleric idol She is actually a boy but has a female avatar

Guild: Crescent Moon Alliance

Nickname character Nickname race class additional
1. Marielle Marie Sakamoto Marie Cleric Guildmaster of the Crescent Moon Alliance
2. Henrietta Umeko Bard In real life, she's an accountant
3. Serara Druid maiden She often does quests with Tohya, Minori, Rundel House & Isuzu

publication

Log Horizon is Mamare Tōno's second work after Maoyū Maō Yūsha , although it has a similarly unusual genesis. While Maoyū was originally created in an Internet forum , he published Log Horizon since April 13, 2010 on the website Shōsetsuka ni narō ( 小説家 に な ろ う , "Become a novelist") on which users can publish novels. The first five volumes were published there within four months. Log Horizon served him as an experiment on how to write a book in the Japanese narrative style Kishōtenketsu . When Mamare Tōno was finally taken due to Maoyū by the publisher Enterbrain under contract, he was also offered to publish Log Horizon professionally, with the five volumes sold more than 300,000 times.

In December 2011 he began with the sixth volume, which is the beginning of the second narrative cycle. Despite being published by the publisher, the individual chapters continue to appear first on the Shōsetsuka ni narō website and are then published in book form by Enterbrain.

The individual volumes are as of October 2017:

  1. Isekai no Hajimari ( 異 世界 の は じ ま り , "beginning in a strange world"). March 31, 2011, ISBN 978-4-04-727145-6
  2. Camelot no Kishitachi ( キ ャ メ ロ ッ ト の 騎士 た ち , Kyamerotto ~ , "The Knights of Camelot "). May 30, 2011, ISBN 978-4-04-727298-9
  3. Game no Owari (jō) ( ゲ ー ム の 終 わ り 【上】 , Gēmu ~ , "end of the game (1)"). August 31, 2011, ISBN 978-4-04-727413-6
  4. Game no Owari (ge) ( ゲ ー ム の 終 わ り 【下】 , Gēmu ~ , "End of the game (2)"). September 30, 2011, ISBN 978-4-04-727543-0
  5. Akiba no Machi no Nichiyōbi ( ア キ バ の 街 の 日 曜 日 , "A Sunday in the Akiba neighborhood "). November 30, 2011, ISBN 978-4-04-727669-7
  6. Yoake no Maigo ( 夜 明 け の 迷 い 子 , "The lost child of the dawn"). March 30, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-728235-3
  7. Kunie no Ōgon ( 供 贄 の 黄金 ). December 20, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-729175-1 (normal), ISBN 978-4-04-729176-8 (special edition with radio play)
  8. Hibaritachi no Habataki ( 雲雀 た ち の 羽 ば た き ). September 30, 2014, ISBN 978-4-04-729926-9 (normal), ISBN 978-4-04-729927-6 (special edition with radio play)
  9. Kanami! Go! East! ( カ ナ ミ 、 ゴ ー! イ ー ス ト! , Kanami! Gō! Īsuto!, "Kanami! Go! East!"). March 27, 2015, ISBN 978-4-04-730190-0
  10. Novasphere no Kaikon ( ノ ウ ア ス フ ィ ア の 開墾 , Nōasufia no Kaikon , "opening up the Novasphere"). November 30, 2015, ISBN 978-4-04-730674-5

The illustrations for the novel series are by Kazuhiro Hara.

Adaptations

Manga

Enterbrain and other publishers in the Kadokawa Group have published four manga adaptations of the novel.

The first manga drawn by Kazuhiro Hara has appeared on Enterbrain's web manga site Famitsū Comic Clear since May 18, 2012 . On February 15, 2013, the first summary of the chapters appeared as a printed anthology ( Tankōbon ; ISBN 978-4-04-728718-1 ). The work was licensed in the USA by Yen Press.

The Manga Log Horizon Gaiden: Honey Moon Logs ( ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン 外 伝 Honey Moon Logs), drawn by Motoya, was published in ASCII Media Works magazine Comic Dengeki Daiō from issue 3/2012 from January 27, 2012 to 8/2014 from June 27, 2014 Matsu. In this spin-off , the characters Marielle and Henrietta from the Mikazuki Dōmei guild are the protagonists. Four edited volumes were published on this:

  1. February 27, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-891353-9
  2. February 27, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-891354-6
  3. September 27, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-891938-8
  4. August 27, 2014, ISBN 978-4-04-866701-2

The manga Log Horizon - Seifū no Ryodan ( ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン 〜 西風 の 旅 団 〜 ), drawn by Yūki, has been published in Fujimi Shobō's Age Premium magazine since Vol.12 on July 9, 2012 . The series plays from the perspective of the organization Seifū no Ryodan of the character Sōjirō. So far the chapters have been summarized in nine volumes:

  1. February 8, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-712853-8
  2. September 6, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-712896-5
  3. March 9, 2014, ISBN 978-4-04-070049-6
  4. October 9, 2014, ISBN 978-4-04-070354-1
  5. March 9, 2015, ISBN 978-4-04-070507-1
  6. October 9, 2015, ISBN 978-4-04-070723-5
  7. April 9, 2016, ISBN 978-4-04-070859-1
  8. October 8, 2016, ISBN 978-4-04-072054-8
  9. May 9, 2017, ISBN 978-4-04-072283-2

The latest manga adaptation is Log Horizon Gaiden - Nyanta Hanchō Shiawase no Recipe (LOG HORIZON 外 伝 - に ゃ ん 太 班長 ・ 幸 せ の レ シ ピ - ), drawn by 草 中 with the character Nyanta as the protagonist. This has been published in Enterbrain's web manga magazine comic B's-LOG Airraid since December 21, 2012 . Five volumes have appeared so far:

  1. August 31, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-729072-3
  2. August 31, 2014, ISBN 978-4-04-729894-1
  3. August 1, 2015, ISBN 978-4-04-730600-4
  4. July 1, 2016, ISBN 978-4-04-734165-4
  5. June 2, 2017, ISBN 978-4-04-734641-3

Anime

On behalf of NHK, Studio Satelight adapted the first five volumes of the novel as an anime television series directed by Shinji Ishihira and the character design by Mariko Itō. The first season with 25 episodes of the series ran from October 5, 2013 to March 22, 2014 on the education channel of the public NHK. The second season is animated by Studio Deen , also directed by Shinji Ishihara, but with the character design by Tetsuya Kumagai. This was broadcast from October 4, 2014 to March 28, 2015 with a further 25 episodes and covers Volume 6 through Volume 10, which had not yet been published.

Crunchyroll is streaming the series as a simulcast to the Japanese broadcast with English subtitles in North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Sentai Filmworks acquired the series for the North American home video market. The second season was offered by Viewster as a simulcast with German subtitles. On January 22, 2020 it was announced that there will be a third season of Log Horizon and that it will be broadcast in October 2020.

music

The soundtrack for the series was created by Yasuharu Takanashi . The opening title is database feat. TAKUMA (10-FEET) used by Man with a Mission and Takuma by 10-Feet . The closing title of the first season is Your song * , composed by Hayato Tanaka , as well as written and sung by Yun * chi , and that of the second season Wonderful Wonder World * , composed by Masahiro Tobinai, written by Hidenori Tanaka and Yun * chi, and sung of the latter.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Shiroe Takuma Terashima
Naotsugu Tomoaki Maeno
Akatsuki Emiri Kato
Nyanta Jōji Nakata
Minori Nao Tamura
Tōya Daiki Yamashita
Isuzu Eriko Matsui
Round house Tetsuya Kakihara
Marielle Yumi Hara
Henrietta Ayahi Takagaki
Serara Misaki Kuno
Crusty Takahiro Sakurai
Lenessia Mariya Ise
Nureha Khiva Saitō
Kanami Marina Inoue

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crystalyn Hodgkins: Roundup of Newly Revealed Print Counts for Manga, Light Novel Series (March - May 2018). In: Anime News Network. May 7, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ cf. Chapter 1 of the manga in which the English title Homesteading the Noosphere is used, based on the essay of the same name by Eric S. Raymond [1] .
  3. ↑ a b Mamare Tōno: ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン . In: Shōsetsuka ni narō. Retrieved November 3, 2013 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ a b ブ ッ ク 質問 状 ： 「ロ グ ・ ホ ラ イ ズ ン」 “書籍 化 の た め の 練習” が 30 万 部 . In: Mantanweb. Mainichi Shimbun-sha, January 27, 2012, accessed October 20, 2013 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ Recently licensed manga! Yen Press, September 18, 2014, accessed September 21, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Patrick Macias: Crunchyroll Adds “Log Horizon” to Streaming Anime Lineup. In: Crunchyroll. October 4, 2013, accessed October 20, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Patrick Macias: Crunchyroll Adds "Log Horizon 2" to Fall Anime Lineup. In: Crunchyroll. October 1, 2014, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Sentai Filmworks Adds Fantasy Game Anime Log Horizon. In: Anime News Network. October 30, 2013, accessed October 31, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Scott Green: Sentai Filmworks Licenses "Log Horizon 2". In: Crunchyroll. October 3, 2014, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Announcing the TEN New Simulcasts on Viewster. (No longer available online.) Viewster October 14, 2014, archived from the original on April 18, 2015 ; accessed on April 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.viewster.com
  11. ↑ Endymion: "Log Horizon" is getting a third season. In: Anime Sushi. January 22, 2020, accessed January 22, 2020 .