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Synopsis
By its eleventh expansion pack, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Elder Tale has become a global success, having a following of millions of players. However, during the release of its twelfth expansion pack: Novasphere Pioneers, thirty thousand Japanese gamers who are all logged on at the time of the update, suddenly find themselves transported inside the game world and donning their in-game avatars. In the midst of the event, a socially awkward gamer called Shiroe along with his friends Naotsugu and Akatsuki decide to team up so that they may face this world which has now become their reality along with the challenges which lie ahead.

These two animes are quite different. In sword art online they have/had the freedom to switch to whatever kind of game they want after finishing that arc, however LH does not have that capability as the game has become real life for them. To compensate for this though there are still multiple events that can be triggered making the specific arc they are in more interesting or just making an arc out of the event in general. LH and SAO also have completely different main characters. While Kirito happened to have the luck of training as a martial artist while he was younger, Shiroe (LH main character) is just an elite strategist couch potato.

These are only some of the few differences in the animes LH and SAO, however that said they are both REALLY great animes and log horizon in my opinion is as good as SAO and has the potential to become better.

sorry for the long explanation sorta

Don't be sorry! That was really helpful! Unless Oni wants to watch it with me later in the year, I'll probably go and watch LH next. Thank you!