Log Horizon 3 lists 12 episodes; releases in October 2020

After five whole years, the Log Horizon franchise is returning to our screens with a brand new season. The third season, titled Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table (Entaku Houkai) is scheduled for a late 2020 release.

The announcement comes from NHK Enterprises’ official website along with a key visual featuring familiar faces from the upcoming season.

The website also released a preview synopsis on the upcoming season which goes as follows:

A year after the adventurers were blown into the Elder Tale world, Akiba’s prosperity begins to teeter with the emergence of a new monster (“Genius”), a festering power struggle between the east-west aristocrats, and the growing gap among the adventurers themselves.

Finally, the Round Table, the symbol of their unity, faces a decisive crisis…

The new season is expected to have 12 episodes, each 24 minutes long. NHK will produce the season in collaboration with NEP and Kodakawa. Studio DEEN will be responsible for the anime production.

Apart from this, Shinji Ishihara will direct the show under Shoji Masuda’s supervision on the storyline. Kazuhiro Hara, the illustrator of the Log Horizon light novels and the Log Horizon manga will return as the character designer for the anime.

Toshizo Nemoto will be in charge of editing, while Shoji Hata will supervise the sound direction. The original cast for the show is also expected to make their return in season 3.

• Takuma Terashima as Shiroe
• Tomoaki Maeno as Naotsugu
• Emiri Katō as Akatsuki
• Jouji Nakata as Nyanta
• Daiki Yamashita as Tōya
• Nao Tamura as Minori
• Eriko Matsui as Isuzu
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Lundellhaus
• Yukiyo Fujii as Tetra

Log Horizon franchise is based on a Japanese light novel series by author Mamare Touno, that went on to get its own manga version serialized and then subsequent anime adaptations followed.

It is set in a fantasy MMORPG where 30,000 Japanese gamers get trapped in the online game world of “Elder Tale,” a realm of swords and sorcery. Severed from their everyday lives, they’re faced with fighting monsters, eating food with no flavor, and being unable to die.

To help them, veteran gamer Shiroe locates his old friend Naotsugu and teams up with the beautiful female assassin Akatsuki. Together they embark on an adventure to change the world as they know it.

(Image Credit: Log Horizon DOTR – Twitter)

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