ログ・ホライズン11 クラスティ、タイクーン・ロード

Log Horizon #11

by Mamare Touno, Kazuhiro Hara (Illustrator)

最強の古来種VS無敵の狂戦士

行方知れずとなっていたクラスティは
中国サーバーの仙境で退屈を持て余していた。
一方、仙境のふもとの〈天狼洞〉ダンジョンに
挑むことになったカナミ一行。
しかし「強すぎる」がゆえにエリアスだけが
ダンジョン参加が不可能となってしまう。
己に存在価値はないのか?
悩めるエリアスをそそのかす葉蓮仙女の暗躍により、
エリアスとクラスティが苛烈に激突する!

Genres: Light Novel, Manga, Fantasy, Science Fiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 20, 2018

About the author

Name (in native language): 橙乃 ままれ

Mamare Touno real name is Daisuke Umezu (梅津 大輔, Umezu Daisuke).

Blog: m2lade JAM

Reviews

[Eldon Siemens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe because it's been so long since volume 10, it was hard to get into, or maybe because I miss the main crowd of characters in Akiba, either way, I just couldn't get into this volume, felt too disjointed, didn't flow as well as previous volumes

[Brian Wilkerson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another Kanami focus volume. It shows what she and her group have been doing while Shiroe did his The Chessmaster thing in Japan. It also reveals what happened to Krusty after he disappeared. It is excellent place to pick up the series after watching season 2 of the anime because it overlaps a bit.


It is heavy on introspective philosophical themes. Krusty reflects on his lack of in-game memories as well as his pre-Apacolypse past (interesting itself) and then applies this in an awesome way in the climax. Elias angsts about feeling useless due to his Thou-Shall-Not-Kill curse among other things. Leonardo is linked and contrasted with Elias and the pair also do something awesome in the climax.


The climax is a great pay off from the prior build up.


Also, there's world building for the Chinese server. The developers there found an efficient way to populate endless content over a wide area and this has produced unfortunate side-effects since the Apocalypse. I enjoyed reading about all that and how it compares to the domestic and inter-city troubles in Japan.


Hua Diao (a child-size martenfolk) and Krusty make both a charming moe couplet and a fun comedic duo.


Most of the combat takes place in two major stages and they are amazing. They are these focus bits of streaming action, story pay-off and character development.


Each chapter/section provides a character sheet for a present character. Their level, stats, and flavor text for their items, which are fun to read about.

Trickster Eric Novels gives "Log Horizon v 11 - Krusty Tycoon Lord" an A+

[Jack Keener · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume focuses on Krusty after his disappearance fighting the Goblin horde near Akiba and some more on Kanami's party after defeating the Geniuses. It catches all the loose narratives up to when Log Horizon accesses the radio tower and hear from Kanami. We get a lot of insight into Krusty's mental processes. They get laid out like branching choices, which was a neat little device. The way he interacted with Rayneshia makes more sense now and why he liked to pick on her so bad. Kanami is of course more of the same, a whirlwind doing what it does. Leonardo seems to have taken up Shiroe's place of cleaning up after the messes she makes. Elias is who we really get to know better and the other character in this volume whose motivation we get to understand. He has to come to grips with his fairy curse and the fact that he knows he is an NPC after a battle with the Geniuses right before the catastrophe. I don't remember this battle being mentioned before, but it clears up why we don't hear or see any of the Ancients except for him. The action is good and the end battle is a spectacle like most of the recent boss battles have been. Things are ramping up and the story is beginning to drop bread crumbs on what is going on.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 rounded up because the Elias plot line was so well done. His arc marks the first time since Rudy that we've seen an NPC play such a large and important role, and it addresses the potential reality discrepancies that an NPC might be experiencing. Also, as a childhood devotee of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I love Leonardo, even if Mamare's idea of how to depict an American is a little suspect. (Best line on that front: He was a wide and furry as a Texan.)

[Casey · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like it since we finally got back to Krusty. Alas, somewhere in the last few volumes Log Horizon took a turn onto a side road that for me (and I suspect a lot of others since this was the last one to get a physical release) just wasn't working. Sadly, volume 11 continues in this vein. It is plodding, disjointed, full of a bunch of characters I don't give a plate of fetid dingo's kidneys about with about 20 pages of semi-interesting fight at the end.

I am done with LH. I am not going to attempt to find the web novels that follow. I may revisit old friends in earlier volumes, but I doubt I'll ever head this way again.

Adieu.

[Andy Febrico Bintoro · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's already 4 years, and this series still on hiatus. This last volume also a bit of disappointing, this is like a filler.

[Kayleigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous, now to wait...