S2 E21
The episode was quite the slow down from last few to end the arc. I liked it and the junior gang since their seemed to be some actual character growth, even if they weren't quite powerful enough to keep the city unscathed.
Next week is going to be huge, isn't it?
Next week should be :
"damn we're in trouble, what do we do ?"
This arc in particular doesn't seem to feel like it really knows what it's doing. Every defined arc that preceeded it, even the Adventures in China Arc, felt like a complete idea. But this one has like almost four or five differing plot threads that intersect with one another yet didn't really come off to a satisfying conclusion. Now that might be because it's kind of a set-up arc, but the others were largely self-contained even if they progressed the overall story. This one progressed the story but - I think possibly due to the way the 'defence of the town' idea was executed in particular - didn't seem to really fulfil itself.
That's a side effect of too many things happenning at once during an arc . Instead of going to the next event , the author gave us another point of view on the current events and choose to prepare the next big things within it.
it happens.
Also i think that the main idea was to show the lack of power from everyone in the cast ( from nyanta to isuzu or rudy ) to change things in front of them as individuals. Ity should provide them enough motivation to grow as characters.
If I had to compare it to an arc I'd say the defence against the fish-people arc in S1 where Rudy got killed and Shiroe had to magic a skill into play to save him. The main thing about that solution, I think, was that it was instantly clear what was going on and what the thing would do. But having Izuzu just randomly decide 'yes i will play music' and... well, I mean, I assumed it buffed everybody in range, but the message the show decided to go with was that it was about 'hope'. Which is super damn nebulous really. I get that this isn't a clear-cut victory in the way the fish-fight was, but it didn't come off as deliberate so much as confused.
I'll confirm that isuzu new skill is an EXTREME defense BUFF .
As for the message the show decided to give us , again one might interpret it as hope for the future , i see it as powerlessness .
I mean they did what they could but in the end , they didn't manage to protect everything i think it's a deliberate mimic of S1 in the sense that they all gained experience but couldn't change things on their own. in S1 , they choose to fight regardless and suceeded but the circumstances were just different.
I also think what was actually happening in the battle was simply not clear enough. There was no good sense of positioning or even of location, no idea about really what the wyverns were doing other than flying around and occasionally slam-dunking the knights, no decent actual fights or even moments of fights (Log Horizon isn't known for this, of course, but it was even more insipid than usual) and even when important scenes would occur it was almost like a stage play where the 'players' are off in a seperate world from the actual scene.
I'll definitly agree with that , the anime viewers didn't get as much information as they could.
But it's also because there was no time to formulate a strategy, for a big part of the attack they were all separated and then it turned into a point defense. It certainly doesn't provide as much insight . Again totally understandable since it was a surprise attack.
I've gone delirious and I simply can't wait anther week for satisfaction 
