7.0/10107 votes#1 - The Apocalypse
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2013
Out of nowhere, Shiroe finds himself in the city of Akihabara, inside the game "Elder Tale". Thirty thousand Japanese players have been locked inside the game! The world on the other side of the screen becomes reality, and amidst the chaos Shiroe finds his old friend Naotsugu. And as they relax at finding one another, they meet the powerful assassin "Akatsuki". Akatsuki has a request to make of Shiroe...
Director: Junichi Wada
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
6.9/1093 votes#2 - The Battle of Loka
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2013
The Apocalypse has locked thirty thousand players inside the game, and no one knows what to do. The larger guilds are taking over Akihabara, and outside the city violent groups are Party Killing other players. A young female member of Marielle's "Crescent Moon Alliance" is trapped in Susukino, far to the north, and needs their help. Shiroe feels somewhat embarrassed, but makes a decision.
Director: Takaaki Ishiyama
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
6.7/1087 votes#3 - The Depths of Palm
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2013
Serara, a young female member of the guild "Crescent Moon Alliance", is trapped by mysterious men in the northern city of Susukino and needs help. Shiroe and his friends travel to reach her. Annoyed by the game's tasteless food, they travel northwards, and go inside "the depths of Palm", a crumbling series of old mining tunnels. There they meet creepy monsters...
Director: Noriaki Saito
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
7.2/1085 votes#4 - Escape
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2013
Shiroe, Naotsugu, and Akatsuki reach the northern city of Susukino, and safely meet Serara. With the help of the mysterious swashbuckler Nyanta, they plot to leave Susukino. But the evil guild Brigantia wants to stop them. The high-level monk Demikas attacks them. Can they overcome the odds?
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
7.0/1079 votes#5 - Return to Akihabara
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2013
Shiroe and his group take Serara southwards. On the way, they stop at the house of one of the "People of the Land". The people of the land were originally only characters in the game, with no personalities or unique traits of their own, but as Naotsugu talks to them, something seems odd... The party gradually realizes that the world isn't the same as it was when it was a game.
Director: Tsuyoshi Tobita
Writer: Shingo Irie
7.2/1079 votes#6 - Resolve
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2013
Shiroe returns to Akihaba and Marielle tells him what the town is like. The initial chaos has subsided, but the larger guilds are in control, and evil guilds are tricking new players and taking advantage of them. Shiroe is angred by this, and tells Naotsugu, Akatsuki, and Nyanta of his plan. And then he tells the Crescent Moon Alliance that he's going to clean up the city of Akihabara.
Director: Takashi Ando
Writer: Shinsuke Onishi
7.3/1077 votes#7 - Crescent Moon
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2013
Nyanta told Shiroe the secret of making real food in this world. With Marielle's help, the Crescent Moon Alliance begins a fast food stand, and their "Crescent Burger" is hugely popular with players who are sick of tasteless food. BUt Shiroe's real goal isn't to sell hamburgers, and with Henrietta he begins to work on the next phase of his plan.
Director: Takaaki Ishiyama, Yukihiro Matsushita
Writer: Shingo Irie
7.4/1077 votes#8 - Villain in Glasses
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2013
After the success of their Crescent Burger, Marielle and Henrietta meet with the members of the major crafting guilds of Elder Tale: Karashin of Shopping Street 8, Michikata of the Marine Agency ,and Roderic of the Roderic Merchant Association. They use Shiroe's plan to dangle the secret recipe of the Crescent Burger in front of them, and the talented account Henrietta opens negotiations. What she wants is...
Director: Takanori Yano
Writer: Shinsuke Onishi
7.8/1084 votes#9 - Round Table Conference
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2013
To make the city of Akihabara safe, Shiroe calls all the major guild masters to the guild building. His goal is to create a Round Table Conference, which will rule the city. But everyone there wants something different, and his plan is about to go bad. What amazing trick does Shiroe have? Meanwhile, behind the scenes of the conference, the plan to free the younger players from the evil guild Hamelin continues. The strategist SHiroe's quiet battle in Akihabara continues!
Director: Yoshito Hata
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
7.4/1076 votes#10 - Grab It in Your Hand
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2013
Shiroe confronts the 10 guild masters who represent Akihabara with the need to revitalize the town and bring peace and order. His calm and forceful manner brings them over, and the government of Akihabara, the "Round Table", is founded. After this work is done, his guild, "Log Horizon", joyously moves to their new location. That night, Nyanta fixes them his special curry.
Director: Noriaki Saito
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
7.1/1076 votes#11 - An Invitation from Eastal
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2013
The Free Cities of Eastel are the first to notice the founding of the Round Table. They send a messenger to Akihabara and invite Shiroe and Crusty to their conference. What are the nobles planning at their ice-covered palace? Meanwhile, Minori and Touya and the other new playesr are going on a camping trip at the beach to learn to fight. Marielle forgets her role as leader (?) and enjoys the salt air fun.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
7.3/1075 votes#12 - The Forest of Lagranda
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/2013
The young players travel the Xantleaf peninsula at the camp. Minori, Touya and Serara meet up with new players Isuzu the bard and Rundel Haus the sorcerer. They head into the "La Granda Forest" dungeon, where skeletons await them. The easily-spooked Serara, the strong-willed Touya, and the proud Rundel Haus... will the five of them be able to work together in their first party fight?
Director: Junichi Wada
Writer: Shingo Irie
7.3/1073 votes#13 - Shield and Freedom
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/2013
Shiroe, Crusty, and Michitaka are invited to the palace by the Free Cities of Eastel. The nobles of the land invite the three of them to various meetings and seem to be trying to find out more about Akihabara and the Round Table. Crusty is attracted to the daughter of Duke Cowen, who is noble, beautiful, but seems somehow lazy...
Director: Tsuyoshi Tobita
Writer: Michiko Itou
7.5/1076 votes#14 - World Fraction
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/2014
Shiroe and Akatsuki are invited to the room of the mysterious mage Reagan. Shiroe is shocked at the revelations he offers about the world of Elder Tale.
Director: Takashi Ando
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
7.4/1076 votes#15 - Attack
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/2014
Touya and Minori and the rest of the players in the training camp are hitting a wall with the way they fight. And Minori's suggestion is that they introduce themselves to one another!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1077 votes#16 - Return of the Goblin King
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/2014
Just as the Sahaugin attack begins on the Zantleaf peninsula, the goblins are seen advancing further inland. Will they attack Laynessia's homeland, Maihama, or Akihabari?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1074 votes#17 - A Lazy, Cowardly Princess
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/2014
The lords of the Free Cities of Eastal begin an emergency conference to discuss the goblin invasion. The protectors of the land people, the Izumo Knights, are missing, and they'll have to depend on the adventurers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1073 votes#18 - Expeditionary Force
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/2014
Princess Laynessia Cowen vows to go to the city of Akihabara herself and beg the adventurers for help against the goblins. The members of the Crescent Moon Alliance can't conceal their excitement at meeting a real princess.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1075 votes#19 - Chasing After Them
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/2014
Zantleaf is attacked by monsters from both the land and the sea, as the adventurers continue to defend it. Inland, Crusty's army launches a raid on the goblin's main force. At the town of Choushi by the sea, the new players are fighting too.
Director: Junichi Wada
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
7.7/1079 votes#20 - Contract
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/2014
Rundelhaus hid from his friends that he was one of the land people, but the price of fighting off the dire wolves was that he took a fatal wound. If they can't save him, he'll die and he won't revive.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1067 votes#21 - The Two of Us Shall Waltz
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/2014
A victory party is held at the palace of Eternal Ice to celebrate the adventurer's defeat over the monsters. Crusty takes the princess's hand and leads her in a dance signifying the reconciliation between the adventurers and land people.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1069 votes#22 - Swallow and Young Starling
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/2014
Fall has come to Akihabara. After defeating the monsters, Shiroe is fighting a losing battle against paperwork, but the town is filled with cheer as the first event the Adventurers have ever had, the "Scales Festival", is approaching.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1068 votes#23 - Student of the Mage
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/2014
The second day of the Scales Festival in Akihabara arrives. Akatsuki has gotten closer to Shiroe, and so is very happy all day, and even seems to be enjoying her fights with Naotsugu. Meanwhile, Minori is uncertain with how to deal with her feelings towards him, and goes to speed to Karashin. Karashin is overloaded with paperwork so she decides to help. It seems like a lot of land people merchants have come to Akihabara...
Director: Yasuo Iwamoto
Writer: Shingo Irie
7.3/1067 votes#24 - Chaos
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/2014
Akihabara is amazingly busy since the Scales Festival began. There are many land people in town, causing accidents, spreading rumors, and starting couples' fights, and even Shiroe can't deal with them. An influential noble named Marves arrives from Minami to see Laynessia. Laynessia tries her best to deal with him, but he gets closer and closer to her...
Director: Kenichi Maejima
Writer: Shinsuke Onishi
7.4/1069 votes#25 - The Scale Festival
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/2014
Marielle and Henrietta put on a fashion show as the town reels from the Minami decoy operation. Akatsuki walks down the runway in her colorful clothes, but Shiroe is nowhere to be seen. That night, Shiroe is met by a beautiful and enchanting "queen of darkness." Shiroe is tempted he reaches the heart of the conspiracy...
Director: Junichi Wada
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
The Best Episodes of Log Horizon Season 1
Every episode of Log Horizon Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Log Horizon Season 1!
One day, while playing the online game Elder Tales, 30,000 players suddenly find themselves trapped in another world. There, eight-year veteran gamer Shiroe also gets...
Genres:AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyComedy
Network:NHK Educational TV
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Apocalypse" is the best rated episode of "Log Horizon" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 107 votes. Directed by Junichi Wada and written by Toshizo Nemoto, it aired on 10/5/2013. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Battle of Loka".