Log Horizon, Vol. 2: The Knights of Camelot - light novel (Log Horizon, 2)

While volume 1 of the light novel series covered the effects of The Catastrophe on a more smaller level -- Shiroe, his companions, and the Crescent Moon League -- volume 2 described the effects of The Catastrophe on the Adventurers residing in Akiba, a major city for Adventurers. With the Intercity Transport Gates non-functional, the unpredictable destinations from using Fairy Rings, and monsters roaming the land, this "game" had become very real to the trapped Adventurers. Many of them had become too scared to venture out of Akiba and thus were in a virtual prison.Meanwhile, unscrupulous high-level Adventurer guilds took advantage of the low-level "newbies" that were also trapped in this world by recruiting them under false pretenses and then using them as slave labor. In other news, many guilds were recruiting to increase their member size and then use their large guild membership to influence or bully smaller guilds. Akiba was slowly turning into a depressing nightmare.And Shiroe the Enchanter, the Machiavelli-in-Glasses, wasn't going to stand for this.This volume details how Shiroe and his friends and allies bring civilized order and hope to not only the Adventurers but the People of the Earth that live in the world. There is more exposition of the events that happen in this volume than the anime could cover.You learn things in this volume that the anime skips or barely touches upon.* You learn a little bit more Henrietta's real life background. (not mentioned in anime)* You learn a little bit more about Marielle and Calasin's background. (one line in the anime)* You learn a little bit more about Minori and Touya's background. (one flashback scene in the anime only)* The negotiation to form the Round Table Council is slightly lengthier. There are discussions of some weighty issues that the anime skips, like slavery of People of the Earth to unscrupulous Adventurers.* You learn about macroeconomics as it applies to Akiba.* You learn why Shiroe named his guild Log Horizon and why he chose his headquarters where he did.The anime almost entirely follows this volume's contents accurately (unlike volume 1), but one minor thing appears to have been changed in the anime from this volume: *SPOILER* Naotsugu is a bigger curry lover than Shiroe.As with the previous volume, Taylor Engel does a great job with the localization. However, there is one typo in this volume. At the beginning of each chapter, an Adventurer is featured with a brief description and their stats. Michitaka's level was incorrectly printed as level 19. As the head of the Marine Organization production guild and a veteran Adventurer, he is most certainly not level 19!

This volume picks up as the team continues back to Akihabara from the ending of the 1st novel. I won't delve too much into story but the world building continues to be fairly impressive; the author/translator do a good job of pointing out the problems that being trapped in an entire world may bring about; he relays its effects to the general population, and then focuses on a particular set of characters and weaves it into the main plot setting up future events in the novels to come. Well done. Most people buying the series won't be swayed by a review, especially after only the 2nd volume. To those whom have watched the anime, this second volume covers approximately up to episode 10 of the 1st season of the ANIME. That's not bad at all.The only major con I have of this series is that the author finds it necessary to be excessively wordy in explaining attacks/terminology over and over again; it may really be only twice in the book and it may even be necessary but what I think would be better than explaining things like that in the main text would be to create footnotes with explanations or an appendix. Would make the action/explanations be more smooth. This particular point is my preference though and this one problem is not going to make me stop reading the series. I like the characters [though at times, the dialogue is cringe-worthy], I especially like the setting and world building, and the plot has been developing nicely.It's a worthy buy. The copy I received from amazon was damaged and the immediately shipped out a replacement order {i have returned the damaged copy to them]. Hats off for great customer service.

Yep, its kindanfrustraying reading through stuff I watched on the anime already.On the other hand, it's interesting seeing what was going through some of the characters heads during some of the big moments. That's just something you can't get from an anime.

As this book is translated from the Japanese, it may not flow as well as you would expect a book from a Western writer, but I found this book hard to put down, regardless. I enjoyed reading about the extremely intelligent strategist Shiroe and how he manages to steer others to follow his plans. It's refreshing to read about a hero who is much more of a thinker than a fighter, although of course, he has combat-worthy friends. I watched the anime before I started reading the books but the books stand well enough on their own. Check it out if you can.

I've been getting these books for my friend and she loves them!

Love the anime and wished to see through words and my own imagination. Great way to kill time before the announced season three of the anime.

The second volume of the series has a much better pace than the first. It fully introduces the twins mentioned in volume one. It has an interesting bit of world building, giving the hero a chance to shine in a way that would make Machiavelli proud.

So I am torn on giving it 4 or 5 stars. The writing is far from perfect as it is translated from Japanese and thus may not flow perfectly a few times. Still the story is nearly perfectly translated from the original work.It also is a good read if you did see the show. I did enjoy it and would recommend it for fans of the show.

The writing picks up from here, this has tons of elaboration when compared to the anime, a good read. I can visualize the scenes in detail due to amazing descriptions.

Brilliant book, well written just all round great. Still liked reading it even though iv watched the anime and read vol 1 of the manga aswell, just think Log Horizon is brill.

Imaginative and immersive. Builds on the first novel and establishes a proper world building base for the series

Beh, conosco la serie e la light novel è bellissima. Scritta molto bene, praticamente un libro! (Molto meglio rispetto a quelle di Sao per esempio). La lettura è accattivante e spesso ti tiene col fiato sospeso. A quanto pare comunque l'anime si è mantenuto fedelissimo, quindi il racconto non si discosta da ciò che accade, ma alcune aggiunte sui personaggi e i particolari riguardo al gioco arricchiscono sicuramente la lettura. Consigliatissimo per i fan e non! ^^(L'inglese è comprensibile, ma è come leggere un intero libro con descrizione, inttrospezioni et co., tutto in inglese).Well, I know the anime and the light novel is beautiful! Wrote very well, pratically a book! Really really better than for example Sao's ones. The reading is captivating and full of suspence. The anime is very faithful, but the story adds some details on the characters and about the game as well. Reccomended for fans and not! ^^

Perfect