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Overlord, SAO, or Log Horizon?
Sep 25, 2015 1:08 AM
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I know most of you (including me) think this show is going to fail because it has the same themes and premise (a person stuck in the virtual world fighting for his life) as SAO or LH, but in fact, this show has a great plot and a more mature protagonist.
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Sep 25, 2015 6:29 AM
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Overlord for me. But do keep in mind this is in Overlord forum so obviously Overlord will get lots of votes.
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion.

http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30

It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist.
Sep 25, 2015 6:43 AM
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Not sure about log horizon since I've never watched that series before, but I cannot really compare overlord with SAO. I mean, apart from the MC being stuck in the virtual world, to me they are a bit different to make a fair comparison.
Sep 25, 2015 6:46 AM
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Log Horizon was pretty amazing, with action and interesting social interactions ontop of a good story, but can get boring at some point.
SAO's first arc was okay. It gets only worse and worse after that.

Can't tell you for Ovelord.
Sep 25, 2015 6:57 AM
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Log Horizon S1 > Overlord > Log Horizon S2 > SAO

To be fair though these series are pretty different. LH has more focus on game mechanics, Overlord is about an OP MC who's in control of an undead army, and SAO was about survival and the MC saving his waifu.
Sep 25, 2015 9:45 AM
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log horizon is automatically last for having those stupid ass kids and abandoning plot points, it would have been better as a slice of life.

OVERLORD's vol 3 adaptation was rushed to hell for some reason, I blame one punch man.
Hope it gets a 2 cour when opm is over and gets an anime it deserves.

sao is a'right.
Sep 25, 2015 11:11 AM
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Avenger-senpai said:
Log Horizon S1 > Overlord > Log Horizon S2 > SAO

Seems about right.
Sep 25, 2015 2:46 PM
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One of these 2 is a brilliant tactician/villain in glasses and the other is just a shiroe.


Sep 27, 2015 12:43 AM
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Overlord, it's not even a contest. Log Horizon was somewhat interesting but I got really bored by the end of season 1. The less I talk about SAO the better, I have a pretty strong distaste for that series.
Sep 27, 2015 12:57 AM

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Sep 27, 2015 2:07 AM

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Having watched all three

Overlord > Log Horizon > SAO

Choose Overlord over Log Horizon because a human converting to an elder lich king is far more interesting. Not annoyed by a single character(unlike Log Horizon).
Sep 27, 2015 4:15 AM

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Both SAO and Overlord are entertaining

Log Horison is boring. It has too much dialog and boring fights and characters. People who like Log Horison are probably the same people who like these boring school/slice of life anime that has a lot boring social interaction.
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Overlord > Log Horizon > SAO


Overlord is the most satisfying of the bunch, and has the best opening. Log Horizon is kinda meh, and SAO is mostly garbage.
Sep 27, 2015 4:17 AM

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SAO because none of the others have this

Sep 27, 2015 4:18 AM
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SAO > Overlord > Log Horizon > SAO II > Log Horizon S2

Maybe?

I think Overlord was the best up until like episode 10 or so though, then they started rushing things like fuck
Sep 27, 2015 4:19 AM

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You know what's even better than Log Horizon? LogH! (sorrynotsorry)

inb4 the logh
Sep 27, 2015 10:39 AM

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Ok, I love the 3 series so much.
In my opinion, I wouldn't compare SAO with Log Horizon and Overlord.

In Log Horizon and Overlord the game becomes their reality.
In SAO, they're still playing a game (before Underworld arc)

Log Horizon and Overlord indeed have a better plot, they can shape the world as they like want, but SAO does a good job making a solid game.

Overlord MC is playing to be the bad guy and conquer the world.
Log Horizon MC is playing to be the president and find a way to return to their world.
SAO MC is playing a game and wants to save his waifu(s).

If they ever make a 3rd season of SAO, watch it. It's like Log Horizon or Overlord, the game becomes their reality.

P.S. Don't be a hater, just love the three of them. (I voted for SAO tho).
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Sep 27, 2015 11:13 AM
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SAO > Overlord

Didn't watch Log Horizon yet so.
Sep 27, 2015 11:21 AM

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No contest. I actually love Log Horizon, dislike Overlord and hate season 2 of SAO (s1 was good).

Definitely LH.
Sep 28, 2015 5:02 AM

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Overlord >DanMachi> Log Horizon> SAO> NGNL > SAO2

(adding DanMachi and NGNL for lolz.. kinda gamey too I guess)

Sep 28, 2015 6:49 AM
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Log Horizon S1 >>> SAO S1 > Overlord > Log Horizon S2 > SAO S2

So Log Horizon ftw....for now.

Overlord has a chance to be the best anime about MMORPG, depends on the sequel, if any.



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Sep 28, 2015 7:38 AM

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Asking this on the main forum probably get a more accurate answer. Overlord is always going to win on its own forum
Sep 28, 2015 7:40 AM

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Feb 9, 2016 9:20 PM
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SAO + great music. good animation during fight scene. SAO world is better.
- character development, MC, sequence, lots of plot holes. its potential wasn't explored

Overlord + better story. better characters. lots of potential
- it was rushed

Log Horizon - haven't seen it myself. but it seems it has better character development and is better psychologically

SAO(Mother's Rosario arc) > Overlord > LH > SAO
Feb 15, 2016 6:13 AM

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SAO because none of the others have this



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Feb 29, 2016 7:55 AM

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It's honestly really hard to judge because at least in the case of SAO and Overlord aside from being stuck in games there virtually completely different. I haven't seen Log Horizon but have seen and heard quite a bit. Anyway like I said it's hard to compare them because there so different. With SAO it's more on the realistic side and there is an actual real danger/threat that if they lose in the game there brains get fried in real life. There also is a clear goal of needing to clear the game as well as in my opinion more character interaction because it's not just one human and then all npcs. Overlord on the other hand is [I haven't read the lns so if i'm wrong and things change there idk i'm just going by the anime.] Overlord is actually kinda confusing from what i've seen so far tbh. It's just sorta out of nowhere that he get's stuck in the game for an un known reason or it becoming a world or whatever. It's kinda unclear from what i've seen. Then there is no viable thread as far as I know because there is no risk in the game as well as no real purpose other than Ains taking over. There also in my opinion is no real interaction being he's the only real human there and it may change but so far the npcs are just a bunch of settings pretty much with a little personality. Log Horizon from what I hear is more leaned towards being like Overlord except beign alot more focused on the game mechanics and things of that nature and very detailed but kinda plain in the charries and everything else.

So for me personally SAO is vastly better for those simple reasons. Someone that prefers the opposite would most likely pick Overlord. SAO is more a serious with real consequences and realistic emotion driven anime and Overlord is more fantasyish game, action/world building. Overlord is pretty decent and I find it entertaining but I don't get nearly as into it as SAO because it just isn't as realistic which is a odd thing to say I know in anime and this genre but i'm sure you get what I mean. What happens in SAO makes sense and is at least to a point detailed how it happens and you could see it possibly being able to happen if the tech was advanced enough. With Overlord it just seems more like dude magically gets trapped in game with no reasoning. The fact that there is no real life consequences and the fact there is no other humans is what made me hesitant to watch Overlord. Overlord is actually alot more like [Though even there much different and SAO still is much more realistic with it and it makes more sense and is detailed.] like the SAO Alicitazion arc in the light novels currently happening that hasn't been shown in the anime yet. Where things become muuuuuuuch more in game involved and the tech and what happens with it makes it alot more like Overlord.

So for me I would put SAO at #1 because of all of that and then Overlord at #2. Log Horizon at #3 it just looks to me like a much plainer basic and less visually appealing but more detailed close thing to Overlord. SAO is for those who want more realism and a real danger and more emotion. Overlord is for those who want it to be more focused on the game world and more fantasy style. Log seems to be more for those who want something alot more detailed and super true to real mmos. I would honestly like to see peoples real opinions on this being the three are from the very same genre but all 3 vastly different but it'd be near impossible to get. Posting in either the Overlord or Log forums obviously there gonna go that way for the most part same with SAO. Post it in the normal forum and SAO will get no fair play because it's the cool thing to hate. Overlord will get the newer more casual fans and ones who simply enjoy it and Log will get all the elitist and people trying to just look cool and act like there better than everyone.
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I love each of them but personally it was down to SAO or Overlord. Right now I'm reading the Web Novel for Overlord and the plot is going great, I want the second season and the Manga updates to hurry up. With SOA, I'd still say it was my favorite anime because it had a great ending in season 1, even though GG was sorta a bust.
Nov 30, 2016 6:59 AM

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I have seen the 3.
SAO would have been nice and all if it doesn't focus on romance and all that shit.
Log horizon is good but it gets boring a times, dragging on with a too long a dialogue and focusing too much on the kids more so on minori, she has more or equal screen time with shiroe and she always get to do heroic staff.
Overlord has a good plot, good characters and nice phasing until they have to rush everything at the end and needs to finish it with just 13 Episode!

Still, If I have to choose, it would be Overlord for the plot.
Nov 30, 2016 7:28 AM

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I'd choose Log Horizon because it's the only one I haven't seen so I don't puke a little in my mouth when I think of it.
Nov 30, 2016 7:32 AM

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SAO since it makes good hentai material at the very least. That Asuna elf scene, mmm...
Nov 13, 2017 4:42 AM

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I think it would have been fair if the poll was in Log horizon forum and Sword art online forum too
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Nov 13, 2017 4:42 AM

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I have not watched Log Horizon, but Overlord is way better than SAO.
Dec 1, 2017 5:00 PM
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I'm very confused with sao haters, they say kirito is op af and collecting harem, but why they dont think overlord otherwise

Edut: and I think sao has a good development character and story than
overlord

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Dec 1, 2017 5:22 PM

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I'd say Overlord>SAO>Log Horizon, only because I started LH, but became so bored like 5 minutes in. Overlord was hilarious. (Look up Overlord Abridged)
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Dec 5, 2017 3:27 PM

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Lol posting this in Overlord thread will make Overlord win eeeeaaaasy. But, tbh, Log Horizon>Overlord>>>>>>>SAO. Like, I feel if Overlord was a bit longer and build its world a bit more, I would like it more. SAO just plain fucking sucks. So imo, Log Horizon is the winner (for now; might change when Overlord S2 airs) because of its heavy focus on world-building and ACTUAL MMO mechanics (and politics, I'm a sucker for that).
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#1 Overlord
#2 SAO
#3 Log Horizon

Log Horizon is terrible, it is everything that is wrong with isekai anime with huge violations in internal logic and consistency. As bad as people say SAO is, at least it is somewhat internally consistent (Barring one particular asspull that came right out of nowhere, you know which one).

Overlord I find to be the best because it manages to do what I've never seen another anime, or show of any type, do effectively. It takes the "op protagonist destroys everyone" concept and makes it interesting, funny, mysterious and believable. Not to mention Nazarick itself is rich with lore and backstory, enough to fill many season of content... then if you extend to the outside world, you have even more to work with.

Log Horizon couldn't even last a few episodes without running dry.
Dec 5, 2017 11:36 PM

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I did like Overlord in how the anime presented Momonga as a Ruler. Although, let's just say that the LN was quite different when I started to read it and instead focus my hype on the Guardians rather than the MC itself.

SAO for me is enjoyable, in a sense that it was my first isekai series to watch. The S2 was quite bad except for the Mother Rosaria arc that I loved, or whatever the name was; it was Yuuki that I liked there so yeah.

LH was quite good in terms of the mechanics presented in the anime; the introduction of the world and its gameplays and the character that SAO didn't quite do good on the S1.


Ohhh well, overall, I'd choose Isekai Smartphone just because I liked the flow of the series and its-- well cliche setting but still resulted of me enjoying it.
Jan 25, 2018 7:09 AM
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Neither..

Overlod - if you watch for other reason than OP Ainz you are retarded there is nothing else actually interesting generic game world. That was the main reason this anime got popular Momonga/Ainz and we get nothing from it..

SAO it was ok when there was a danger for the characters (real death) later season omg he died... dude we had hundreds of wipes in MMORPG games i can't feel any danger for the characters except they will be killed by a boss.. who cares..

Horizon.... one plane nothing slice of life in "game" world not even interesting slice of life...

Conclusion:

All were pure trash but had a short appeal...

Jan 25, 2018 7:10 AM

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Like which one is worse ? Can't really tell. Can't choose only one.
Feb 5, 2018 9:24 AM
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not even a question.....
Apr 3, 2018 10:21 AM
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Log Horizon S1 > Overlord >>> SAO >> Log Horizon S2

I love Log Horizon S1 because it explains the mechanics of the world better than other 2 to the watchers. Log Horizon S2 went wrong in almost every way, including the animation quality.
Apr 3, 2018 12:19 PM
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Overlord, hands down, all the bloody way!
Mar 30, 2019 11:29 AM
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Re:Zero > Konosuba > Overlord
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Wallenwhatsit said:
Overlord >DanMachi> Log Horizon> SAO> NGNL > SAO2

(adding DanMachi and NGNL for lolz.. kinda gamey too I guess)
Damachi isn't a isekai right
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I think overlord is one of the best isekai out there. Plot is amazing. characters other than the mc also gets importance. I really enjoyed s1. It can't be compared with other isekai because every show is great in its own way.
Jul 30, 2021 10:52 AM
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Overlord ofcourse :)
Jul 30, 2021 10:55 AM
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He's the only character who uses his mind despite being that overpowered.
He takes every precaution and thinks of every way before any action.....that makes overlord different from any other anime.
I haven't watched log horizon but sao definitely loses before overlord!
The mc of OVERLORD gives the thrill that cannot be obtained by any other op anime mc!
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Vishesh_Mishra said:
He's the only character who uses his mind despite being that overpowered.
He takes every precaution and thinks of every way before any action.....that makes overlord different from any other anime.
I haven't watched log horizon but sao definitely loses before overlord!
The mc of OVERLORD gives the thrill that cannot be obtained by any other op anime mc!


log horizon mc is not OP hes mind is OP, hes called villain in glasses for reason, not bad guy but hes master strategist and master of plotting, it even scares ppl but not hes friends though

players are transferred in to a world similar to the game but yet different like their game fused together with some ALT world and its all players who were online that day so even guild building and adventure's cities are from the game and ppl of the land who in game were NPC (in there they are real ppl) refer to them as adventurers sins adventurers have existed there for ages immortal being who resurrect at the temple in their city, but its later reveled there is some penalty with death that they don't know of, its serious but they won't notice it they only learn about it cause some1 recherché the matter
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