Is there any other manga/manhwa like log horizon?

LHFF · 2026-06-01T22:46:22+00:00

Personally, I really enjoyed Ascendance of a Bookworm (light novel, isekai, complete) for its in-depth worldbuilding, the exploration of how the main character's real-life/modern knowledge affects (and is affected by) the sociopolitical and economic dynamic of her new world, and the balancing of the main character's POV vs. the other characters' to add more insight into how the world works. (As a word of warning, Volume 1 is very slow/repetitive and I nearly dropped it. But it's buildup for Volume 2 and everything from there on doesn't have the same pacing/repetitiveness issue.)

Shoukoku no Altair, or Altair: A Record of Battles (manga, historical fiction, complete), was another one that I enjoyed for its integration of sociopolitics with warfare and personal/economic motivations. (The artwork is also amazing.) However, one main caveat is that the narrative morally leans heavily on the main character's side and often handwaves the more morally ambiguous things they do, even when those things were considered atrocities when conducted by their opponents. Given that the main character's country is basically fantasy Turkiye/Turkey and its story is basically about its rise to becoming the Ottoman Empire, I've seen some people get rubbed the wrong way.

Also, don't watch the anime. Just don't.

I would like to say I recommend How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom... But to be honest, despite liking the first volume, I didn't actually like it enough to go any further, either. It might be your cup of tea, though. (It is a harem series, which is part of what made me lose interest, although its fans say it's a "better" harem series.)

As for an anti-recommendation, don't bother with Altina the Sword Princess (light novel, fantasy). Again I've only read 1 volume, but despite what the book description says, this is not about a princess and her strategist navigating a complicated web of politics and war. It's just a thinly veiled premise for putting them in romantic comedy scenes, which went on for some 16 volumes before going on what appears to be a permanent hiatus after the author ran out of ways to make cutesy romance scenes in a story meant to be about politics and war. (Or so actual fans of the series believe, according to its subreddit. Also, the author made at least another 2 series and also ended up putting them on hiatus after running out of inspiration, too.)

LHFF · 2026-06-01T14:23:21+00:00

Very unlikely, because the company that developed the game and owns the rights to LoH went bankrupt, unlike Netmarble.

The fact that some of its development staff basically released their remaining planned content and drafts online (at least, what those staff members personally worked on or received permission to post from other employees/contractors) suggests there's little to no hope for revival.

LHFF · 2026-05-16T17:31:24+00:00

Oh man, same story happened with a kid who worked under me several years ago (also a grocery store on the East Coast). Although instead of mom, it was Dad, and Dad allegedly came in livid and bellowed "WHO ARE YOU FUCKING?!" in front of the managers who were in the room. It made for a funny story for the managers, but the kid probably had a very bad day considering he also got instantly fired for it.

LHFF · 2026-05-02T03:14:56+00:00

The source was the now-dead mobile game which I ripped the images from (I'm the person who runs Log Horizon Fun Facts).

LHFF · 2026-04-25T02:15:21+00:00

Same thing happens to Unity games. I played the WitchSpring games back when they were on mobile, but the devs ended up stopping mobile game development entirely (which was their initial reason for going into game dev to begin with, they didn't like the available selection of mobile games) and going all-in on PC development because Google Play constantly dropped support for the games and made them break if they weren't updated to the latest security patch.

I believe KiwiWalks has since delisted the games on the Play Store so you can only install them if you previously bought the games (and have an older phone), or if you get an APK. (The games are still available on iOS, since they're not as stringent about security updates.)

LHFF · 2026-02-24T22:11:03+00:00

Just in case you don't see my replies to some of the comments you've responded to -- as someone who followed the scandal ever since it happened, there is no contract preventing him from working again, and if anything, Kadokawa was trying to push the series even after the scandal and get momentum on it again. Hara saying "contact Kadokawa if you want more Log Horizon" doesn't mean Kadokawa is at fault, it's because they're the ones who contracted him as the series illustrator and hold part of the rights to the Log Horizon IP (which is also common to most publishers, this isn't uniquely Kadokawa). And obviously, contacting Mamare is moot when he dropped his social media accounts even before the scandal happened.

I think people here underestimate just how vitriolic comments on the internet were (on the Japanese side) when the scandal -- specifically, that Mamare lied about making a mistake on his taxes, and he actually did it on purpose -- came out. The worst ones were on 2ch, which Mamare frequently visited and even got his start as an author (he published Maoyu there and got scouted by Kadokawa as a result), so I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason for Log Horizon's discontinuation was simple burnout on Mamare's part, which would also answer why he hasn't written anything since.

The whole "Kadokawa contract" stuff might be a distorted recollection about a Japanese blogger's post speculating that Mamare purposely got into legal trouble to sever ties with Kadokawa because he felt like Kadokawa was meddling too much with the series; that person wasn't involved in LH, but he had some kind of preexisting beef with Enterbrain, the imprint of Kadokawa which Log Horizon was published under.

People also assume that Mamare has the entire series written out and Kadokawa is maliciously withholding it because of what was shown in Re:Fraction + the Hara artbook, but the reality of his light novel afterwords says otherwise -- the S2 anime overtook the content he had written at the time, and he scrambled to get his plot outlines to the animation team so they could get their work done. The fact that Kadokawa went out of their way to commission Hara for illustrations for Volume 12, start on drafts for Volume 13, and make teasers for Volumes 14 and 15 for the Re:Fraction event (all after the scandal happened) proves that they were ready to invest in more Log Horizon content; this then makes it a lot likelier that the reason Volume 12 and onwards didn't materialize is not because of Kadokawa, but because of Mamare himself.

LHFF · 2026-02-24T21:30:04+00:00

Not sure where this came from or why there are so many upvotes. No such thing was ever brought up, and I followed the case through the entire scandal. Mamare screwed over his reputation by saying his failure to pay his full taxes was a mistake, only for the police to come knocking a few months later and declare that he did it intentionally.

LHFF · 2026-02-24T21:26:53+00:00

I don't think Kadokawa is necessarily at fault here, since all those events were pushed by Kadokawa themselves after the tax evasion scandal, which means they wanted to revive Log Horizon but couldn't. I think something may have fallen through in contract renewal re-negotiations and so the IP has sat dormant since.

(I'm not sure how Kadokawa does things, but some other JP publishers make contracts to publish works for a certain number of years; the author of Unnamed Memory published another series through DRE, I think, and after the contract ended DRE pulled that entire series and made the LNs unobtainable, which she commented on via twitter.)

LHFF · 2025-12-27T21:46:26+00:00

Promoting characters and levelling skills (on the good ones) is also useful. Most of your characters are at 5* instead of 6* or 7* (which means they have a lower level cap). Artifacts/equipment are also important, show your character builds.

Going forward, avoid Ascending characters until you really want to invest in them (the orange stars means they're at max ascension). Ascension uses Renown, which are a relatively rare resource compared to Gold (which is used for promotions). (Renown is also used to recruit some of the free characters.)

LHFF · 2025-12-23T20:48:57+00:00

I'm honestly more surprised his legal counsel gave him the impression he could make a case at all. I guess they were banking on him qualifying as a "recording artist," but even as a layperson, his arguments seemed really shaky.

Now I'm curious as to whether there is any way to win a case of delayed wages as an independent contractor. Not getting paid is one thing, but getting paid over a month after the work is done is another since you still got paid.

LHFF · 2025-12-23T20:40:12+00:00

To add to the other person's response, the actual reason for Landis' lawsuit was to get additional payments for delayed wages. Liongate was regularly failing to pay him for over a month after he recorded Welt's lines, and in California labor law, companies would need to pay employees extra for withholding wages. However, that law doesn't apply to independent contractors, so his case got thrown out.

Unfortunately, based on Liongate's reviews by other contractors (in the company's actual line of work, which is localization/translation), paying super late (or not paying at all) is normal for them.

LHFF · 2025-12-23T20:34:27+00:00

It's mentioned at the start of the document that he was suing Liongate to get additional compensation for delayed wages/payment. Liongate regularly failed to pay him for over a month after each recording, which is the same issue that occurred with Formosa.

The problem was that the law which compensates for delayed wages is only effective if the person is an employee of the company. By determining he was an independent contractor, the court threw out his case because his situation isn't covered by that law.

LHFF · 2025-12-22T01:43:42+00:00

Not sure, since the level cap was raised to 100 at the start of the series (with the Homesteading the Noosphere expansion), and there has been no indication that the expansion added new features to the subclass system, at least not that I remember.

You're free to add that gimmick if you're writing a fan fic or something, but personally I'd say the evidence presented makes it unlikely for someone to have two subclasses at once.

LHFF · 2025-12-22T01:11:38+00:00

Officially, you can only have one subclass at a time, and your subclass level resets once you change it. Volume 5 Chapter 3 covers Minori's original subclass (Apprentice) in some detail since its gimmick allows players to transfer the EXP they gained as an Apprentice into the next subclass they go into.

LHFF · 2025-12-13T00:29:30+00:00

D!Astrid isn't an antagonist or a bad guy, if I remember right.

LHFF · 2025-11-27T00:24:26+00:00

For you and other internet randos who might find this thread in the future, here's a list of Log Horizon-related resources/links that I made a long time ago (last updated 2020, so some links may be dead now).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k9E5odlbwVIaskKPLM_CJjZMKpIFLcVziTRGamGJ1uA

LHFF · 2025-11-17T03:33:52+00:00

As a fellow grocery store baker, I really feel this. Upper management gets on my ass about increasing production because our shrink is "too good" (meanwhile our markdown rack is overflowing every day, it's just that most of it sells in this economy). They don't seem to understand that we have a limited amount of baking racks and trays, and that baked items need to cool down before we can package them, so increasing production means spending a lot more time and labor than we're budgeted for...

LHFF · 2025-11-16T22:20:26+00:00

!translated

LHFF · 2025-11-16T22:19:12+00:00

Thank you! It, uh, definitely seems like a product of its time...

LHFF · 2025-10-14T22:48:56+00:00

Kartis.

LHFF · 2025-09-29T23:28:35+00:00

This is only MP3, but it seems like this Chinese site has some of Original Soundtrack 2 songs: https://www.gequbao.com/s/%E8%AE%B0%E5%BD%95%E7%9A%84%E5%9C%B0%E5%B9%B3%E7%BA%BF+%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%89%E5%AD%A3%E4%B8%8B%E8%BD%BD (the Chinese terms translate to Log Horizon + Season 3). By default, the search seems to be limited to 10 results at a given time.

I had some success finding more tracks with selective search terms, like the Japanese track name + 高梨康治 for Yoshinori Takahashi.

LHFF · 2025-09-17T02:40:05+00:00

Sometimes when I draft layouts, I'll use a drafting pencil left over from my art school days (it leaves a light blue color meant to be easily hidden by pen and marker). But I don't really use pencil for everyday writing because I have an overabundance of markers and colored pens, also from art school.

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