Shiroe outplaying all guilds at the round table | Log Horizon

[@Abador7]

This is the equivalent to "How did you get the house back from the bank?" "I bought the bank."

[@TenmaBackup]

Well he is kinda of the batman of the series down to the whole looking scary part

[@ManusiaKagakRusuh]

"How can you persuade the Guilds ?" "I bought the Guild"

[@MrRushSkies]

Even his demeanor of being cunning, anonymous, unabash, and intelligence is very Batman like.

[@michaelm6179]

I like how they constantly called him a villain, yet, they were openly ready to extort in the first place. Lol.

[@Izana000]

"The Villain behind the glasses" ain't an empty title u know

[@hijackdallas6052]

Machiavelli

[@gabrielleurielle8869]

Someone bought a church... Imagine if you are blacklisted from going in and out of the players respawn area. 😅😅😅😅😅 That's the real villain 😈😈😈😈😈

[@NguyenTrung-ff2vg]

A certain someone did that in Minami =]]]

[@derpionderpson1424]

Yeah loved that scene, showed such amazing potential for the show, that the MC weren’t just going to be a victim of other people’s schemes who due to dumb plot armor luck managed to win every time, but instead actually had their own schemes and plans which would be how they end up victorious. Also meant there was a real sense of tension when something unplanned happened. A shame the story kinda went a bit down the “power of friendship and this plot armor I found” route instead of sticking with this strong opening.

[@skyking4557]

It is still scheming,just that everyone became more accustomed and Beware of his scheme,so he relies a bit on luck(plot armor)

[@Seproc]

Bought a guild from a burger stand😂

[@limyueshing]

Obama worked at a burger stand once

[@AnimeLordYuichiro]

@@limyueshingtoo bad he didn’t keep at it

[@lVicel]

It's basically the kid who bought the good soccer ball, and if they don't follow his rules, he's going to take the ball and they won't be able to play anymore

[@SmokeDrake]

You can steal a soccer ball, in this case they can't take the building from him by force.

[@ItsChord]

RIP 9ANIME/ANIWAVE

[@lszfarray5929]

Love this show 😌

[@kaijisan3332]

What season and episode is this one again? Pleaasee

[@reversepsycho410]

It should be Log Horizon Season 1 Episode 9. I think

[@KingKraxz]

Meow

[@danielbudiono7232]

this is such a bullshit plot. theres no way you could buy public building in any games.

[@yuneshthapa2657]

Perhaps it is possible because the game turned into reality.

[@izutonura810]

It's anime. It's bullshit to begin with. You're talking as if this is the first bullshit they pulled :v

[@meisterigi007]

@@izutonura810 it's his first anime, you'll have to forgive him...

[@muridtahmatgnas2184]

I think the explanation was the price was astronomical and so buying the guild building was unrealistic Also after they got isekai'd buildings became purchase able

[@XxTaiMTxX]

You'd honestly have to watch the anime. What you call BS is actually explained in the show. The game they used to play was a 2D isometric game. Among those rules were "you can't buy buildings". The first couple episodes of the anime deal with Shiro and his party figuring out "the differences" between the game and this place. They conclude that the place "is modeled after the game, but isn't the game", so they think it might be some alternate reality of some sort. Now, Shiro does EVENTUALLY figure out the truth (and it could be horrifying, but if you want to know, watch the show) of the world as well as what happens to players when they die (which makes PKer's EXTREMELY terrible people). But, the real answer is "this isn't a video game". This is a constructed world that "acts like a video game" for the comfort of the people brought into the world. It is basically an entire planet constructed just for them. With all its own rules, but based heavily on the video game they all used to play. A few examples: 1. Players who engage in combat quickly discover that it's difficult to do because of all the menus and stuff they have to engage with... but the combat happens in real time. Which means, you can eat a bunch of attacks in the time it takes you to navigate menus and select skills. The earliest discovery is that if you just act like a real fight and stop trying to engage with the world "as a video game", you get much better results (players learn that to activate their skills they just need to try to remember what those looked like and then act like it, which made the skills activate). 2. Food in the world is one of two things. It is either uncookable because nobody has the skill levels for it (cooking had zero benefits in the actual game so nobody bothered to do it) or it is tasteless (when someone does manage to cook a meal). This is a mystery for lots of players, and several think it might be worth leveling cooking just to at least get the bland food. One of the players, applying what they learned from combat... has actually managed to make meals that have flavor. See, they discovered that "condiments" could be tasted. Salt could be tasted. Then they reasoned that it must work like the combat. If you stop engaging the game AS A GAME, you can actually cook food. So, he ditches the menus and the mechanics, and actually cooks stuff from scratch. This is a discovery that they basically tell nobody of until "the time is right", because it is a useful card to hold to get the Roundtable going. It also has MUCH WIDER implications on the world they inhabit, which unsupervised, would cause a ton of problems. --- Many of the players remark that "you can now buy property in the game?" when they go around looking at stuff. It all has a "cost" associated to it, which is so insanely high that not even the best guilds can afford it. So, everyone just remarks, "There's no point in buying any of it". Guilds are just set up wherever they want, without buying the property and they enforce that it's theirs through force. It isn't until this moment that everyone realizes what "owning the property" entails. Nobody knew that you could control who comes and goes by buying a piece of property. Not until Shiro did it. If they had known they could do that, they would've tried it on other buildings to be malicious. Shiro basically dropped a bombshell on everyone at the Round Table. Only a couple people who helped him get the money together to buy the Guild Building knew what he was doing with that money. In fact, Shiro actually threatens to buy the "revival church" in order to effectively kick guilds out of towns. Since, if he blacklists someone from that location, they can't ever revive there. They would need to revive somewhere else, and is anyone willing to find out where you would revive? Or, even if you would revive at all? Nobody is willing to find out. This move effectively removes the "bad guilds" from the town and they go to other locations that AREN'T as regulated as that city is, so they can keep doing bad things. Which is dealt with later.