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Log Horizon
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Log Horizon actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Log Horizon reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
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.
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 62 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20131 episode
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201325 episodes
8.4IMDbOne 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.
Best episode · S01E25 The Libra Festival
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201425 episodes
8.3IMDbMonths after the Apocalypse, the players of Log Horizon have thrived thanks to food, music, and adventuring. Now in an alliance with other guilds, Shiroe leads a quest for treasure to support the city. But what awaits them is a raid boss unlike any other.
Best episode · S02E07 The Maidens of Suifuu
Season 3 · Complete
Destruction of the Round Table
202112 episodes
7.1IMDbIt’s been a year since Shiroe and his friends were trapped in Akiba due to the Catastrophe. Their forging of the Round Table has brought order and prosperity to its people. But fracturing political alliances and the constant menace of the Genius monsters threaten to destabilize all they’ve fought for and built. Can faith be restored and they persevere, or is its destruction truly inevitable?
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S03E12
Song of the Nightingales
S03E11
Despair Genius
S03E10
Labyrinth in Akiba
S03E09
Adoration
S03E08
The Oldest Ancients
S03E07
Not a Curse
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Shinsuke OnishiWriter
- Michiko ItouWriter
- Toshizo NemotoWriter
- Shingo IrieWriter
Direction
- Yoshito HataDirector
- Junichi WadaDirector
- Kenichi MaejimaDirector
- Yasuo IwamotoDirector
- Noriaki SaitoDirector
- Yukihiro MatsushitaDirector
Cinematography
- Yujiro YamaneDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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