SAO relied on streamlined characters with simple and often bland motivations with OP characters but LH relied on complex characters with each characters having a different personality than the last, each with their own aspiration, goals and worldview, nothing complicated but this variety helped LH to create a believable world. But what is truly different between the SAO and LH are characters. Another anime which revolves around trapped in a gaming world and this time Log Horizon use this theme to its advantage. I will talk about SAO in detail in another post right now we will focus on next candidate.Īfter SAO I had lost hope for a good Isekai anime but then came Log Horizon. SAO became just another drop in a harem-romance genre at its end. SAO created the false experience of being tense, edgy and serious but on the surface main character didn’t face any real dangers as he was a Gary Stu the cousin of Mary Sue, better than her yes but still her cousin. SAO did manage to generate a large following with idea of being trapped in another world and that included me as well but it is sad to say SAO didn’t do anything with it.
It executed the idea well or it seems that it did until the second episode. It also generated the tension around this idea by saying that if you die in the game world you die in the real world as well. SAO did a great job in creating an excuse for getting dump in another world. Again I could be wrong but the first feeling of Isekai that I got was from SAO and there might be media or anime before SAO that have that distinct Isekai-ish feeling. This makes the story distinctly Isekai-ish in nature. it uses the setting itself to drive the story and characters. It revolves around being thrown into another world rather than creating a great adventure story driven by characters. On the other hand, SAO bets all its money on the idea of another world. Digimon, Inuyasha, Narnia, Alice in Wonderland are fundamentally adventure animes, the story revolves around the characters, their adventure, and development, throwing them in another world is just an excuse used to create a great adventure fantasy story. While there was quite a large amount of anime that used the Isekai idea but they never relied on only “Otherworld” aspect of it. There is a very easy explanation for this distinction. Digimon, Inuyasha, Narnia, Alice in Wonderland and many other’s came before SAO which did explore the trapped in another world idea but I never saw them belonging to Isekai category. Though I was unaware of Isekai genre until SAO or I should say that I didn’t distinguish it.
It might be just love of games or something else but I enjoy this genre. There something that attracts me towards anime set’s in a gaming world or different world than ours.
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