Recap: The effects of the Round Table Conference  spread quickly through Akiba, but the People of the Land are acting suspiciously.

Iro’s Thoughts:
This week wraps up of the arc of the past few episodes, showing that Akibahara is alive again and apparently setting the stage for the rest of the series. As of this episode, I hesitate to classify Log Horizon in the “trapped in a video game” genre; I feel like now we’re in full epic fantasy territory. Transported-to-another-world epic fantasy, at any rate. I expect some of the big revelations this episode will seem pointless to those who aren’t entirely invested into the secondary setting here, but creating steam engines and basic modern technology is huge. Now that the characters are capable of affecting the world to such a massive degree, I wonder how the focus will change.

The other big revelation is, of course, that the NPCs are not actually NPCs, but sentient individuals. The players aren’t in a game, but a separate fantasy world that follows most of the same rules as the game.  Or perhaps only adventurers seem to be bound by the limitations of the system? In any case, the People of the Land (we NEED to find a shorter name for that) have their own society, and it looks like we’ll have yet more politics to consider as things move forward. And honestly, I’m all up for that.