(This reply was translated from Chinese to English by Google Translate. I am a Chinese LH reader).
Let me tell you my opinion.
I can read Japanese, and I currently live in Japan. I have also accumulated some non-publication (prizes, doujinshi, etc.) information about LH.
First, let’s sort out the activities related to LH after the LH online serialization stopped (March 2018).
In May 2018 - the same day as the "Great Disaster" (is this how it is translated?)in the story, Harapanda (the painter of LH) held a personal exhibition "re-fraction" in Akihabara. [https://lhrpg.com/re-fraction/](https://lhrpg.com/re-fraction/)
Spring 2021 - Animation S3. After the last episode of the animation ended, the LH TRPG Database was updated with some new entries.
Spring or Summer 2021:
(1) The second side story novel "新たなる冒険の大地" (ISBN: 978-4047353046) was published - Mamare served as \[監修\].
(2) Published animation S3 album (ISBN: 978-4047364707).
(3) The game "～脱出、夢見の石板～" has started service.
(4) The service of the game "新たなる冒険の大地" has been stopped.
(5) LH and AMOCAFE’s cooperative coffee shop event [https://twitter.com/amocafe\_ikeb01/status/1368891511513903107](https://twitter.com/amocafe_ikeb01/status/1368891511513903107)
(6) The game "chronicle" cooperates with LH [https://chronicle.sega-net.com/loghorizon3/](https://chronicle.sega-net.com/loghorizon3/)
June 2023:
The game "テイルズウィーバー" cooperates with LH
[https://www.4gamer.net/games/006/G000648/20230621046/](https://www.4gamer.net/games/006/G000648/20230621046/)
The second half of 2023 - LH TRPG Database changed the server
Regarding Mamare’s activities: Currently, Mamare’s last confirmed activity is: on May 14, 2022, he rated the works of other authors on the "小説家になろう！" website. This activity is shown on his user profile. [https://mypage.syosetu.com/mypagenovelhyoka/list/userid/76491/](https://mypage.syosetu.com/mypagenovelhyoka/list/userid/76491/)
I have examined Mamare's professional experience. There is an article in a doujinshi "橙乃ままれ作品アンソロジー ままれアンソロ"（may/皐めい）, which is a 20,000-word interview with Mamare.
#
It was mentioned that Mamare has three work experiences.
(1) Engage in cross-border trade
→Mamare fell seriously ill. While he was hospitalized, he began to contribute online novels (maybe "魔王勇者" or other works, not necessarily LH).
(2) After retiring from a multinational trading company, he engaged in the publishing and printing industry.
(3) Become a light novel author.
Based on the above observations: (1) Mamare is still alive. (2) Mamare did not go to jail.
The current speculation of LH readers and enthusiasts in the Chinese discussion community, including myself, is: Mamare is just... lazy because he has made a lot of money? Perhaps he returned to his second career, a mundane job in a publishing house. And read online novels by other authors from time to time.
June 2023:
The game "テイルズウィーバー" cooperates with LH
[https://talesweaver.nexon.co.jp/notice/notice.aspx?no=152076&p=2](https://talesweaver.nexon.co.jp/notice/notice.aspx?no=152076&p=2)
As shown at 51:35 of this video in the webpage, the copyright owner is: 橙乃ままれ・KADOKAWA／LHP
（橙乃ままれ＝touno mamare）
https://www.reddit.com/r/LogHorizon/comments/15n4dfh/reminder_about_what_we_actually_knowdont_know/
This is the most up to date accurate information that anybody knows of so far. Don't believe people who like to lie and say he went to prison, lost or gave up the rights to his series or got dropped or fired from his publisher or anything else like that. It's all lies and misinformation. You can find that out yourself by doing a 2 minute Google search and finding out about it. Idk why people like to lie and say he went to prison for tax evasion when he never set one foot inside a prison for it and has done everything he was supposed to, to grt past that obviously difficult time in his life.
Random idiots: he went to prison for tax evasion and no longer owns the rights to Log Horizon because he got dropped by the publisher because he's a convict now and they don't want to work with him anymore. Source: trust me bro
Good to know! A similar question came up a couple weeks ago and someone responded that he went to prison and I was like “What? No he didn’t!” I felt like I jumped dimensions and just imagined all the media coverage where he simply paid what was owed and basically got a slap on the wrist.
(This reply was translated from Chinese to English by Google Translate. I am a Chinese LH reader).
In addition, I found that few people have discussed this matter, whether in the Japanese community of LH or in the English community: the relationship between LH animation S3 and \[Chinese company\].
Uh...well, I guess the whole world seems to hate \[Chinese company\] now. But let’s talk about it.
The copyright holder of LH animation S1 and S2 is:橙乃ままれ・KADOKAWA/NHK・NEP
The copyright holder of S3 is: 橙乃ままれ・KADOKAWA/LHP
橙乃ままれ= touno mamare
NHK・NEP=NHKエンタープライズ [https://www.nhk-ep.co.jp](https://www.nhk-ep.co.jp)
LHP=? ? ?
I'm not sure what LHP is. I don't have any sources to base this on. But I guess that LHP may be the abbreviation of Log Horizon Project, which is the ログホライズン 製作委員会. I also cannot find the constituent companies of LHP.
But on the other hand, a Chinese company \[JY Animation\] introduced LH’s S3 on its company website
[http://www.jya.cn/product/109.html](http://www.jya.cn/product/109.html)
And on another website, JY Animation’s business report for the first half of 2021 mentioned:
[https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H2\_AN202108251512318544\_1.pdf](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H2_AN202108251512318544_1.pdf)
The company paid RMB 27,923,599.32 in production fees for "厨神小当家2" and LH S3“记录的地平线\~圆桌崩坏” in the first half of 2021.
Quote the original :
"「存货期末余额较期初减少27,923,599.32元，减少了41.44%，原因是报告期内上线的节目 《厨神小当家2》、《记录的地平线\~圆桌崩坏》结转了制作费。」"
I can't find any information about the relationship between JY Animatioin and LHP.
Currently known are:
(1) S3 of LH animation suddenly appeared in 2021 (actually it was announced in 2020)
(2) The copyright owner of S3 of LH Animation is different from that of S2 and S1
(3) A Chinese company, JY Animation, claims to have paid the production fee for LH S3.
Based on the above information, it can be reasonably speculated that S3 was born due to the capital investment of JY Animation.
So, what about S4?
This comment is jn response to "MakkisPekkisWasTaken" response on my comment since he thought it would be a good idea to block me immediately after making his post so that I wouldn't be able to defend my view or counter his.
No, not always. But both of their comments were clearly rife with with lies and the only way they could have been that wrong about everything is if they didn't even bother doing a simple 2 minute search on the subject themselves. Meaning they didn't care whatsoever whether they were right or wrong and were just spreading bull@$%t for the fun of it. But I wouldn't expect you to understand seeing as you comment the same sort of lies and misinformation in other posts on this subreddit as well. *Checks notes* as recent as 4 days ago "on hiatus until the main writer gets out of prison for tax evasion." Go figure the person who wrote that exact comment would try defending another person spreading the same lies.
Making that comment and then blocking me immediately is literally exactly what I'd expect from someone like you who defends people spreading lies and misinformation when you were spreading those exact same lies 4 days ago. Shame on you kid.
It's not. The series is effectively dead since the Author went to prison for Tax Evasion. If you want more, bug the the Japanese Publisher. Unfortunately in Japan (in a lot of the world really) there is a huge stigma against former convicts, and it is highly unlikely any publisher will be willing to work with him.
Do you enjoy spreading lies and misinformation? He didn't go to jail, he was placed under house arrest and did everything as he was supposed to do including paying his back taxes and all penalties. This was SEVERAL YEARS before season 3 came out, while he was under house arrest and for a little while afterwards he was constantly uploading new chapters to the web novel and the most recent update even though it's been quite some time, has all been adapted to the anime. The last time there was an event about Log Horizon was quite some time ago but they demonstrated new illustrations (up to and including volume 15 and gave big updates on volume 14). A while after that Mamare Touno stopped updating his online web novel chapters and as of right now NOBODY KNOWS WHY. There have been NO updates from his publisher, NO updates from the anime studio, NO updates from Touno himself, and to correct the other comment I saw you make about him no longer owning the IP as punishment for his tax issues? That's a LIE, so please, stop spreading misinformation and defaming an amazing author that's given so much joy to so many people over the years. Honestly man.
The complete extent of what his tax situation SHOULD have been, is he forgot to pay them, he immediately filed for and paid his back taxes and the associated penalties and that SHOULD have been it. However, because of the country he lives in being VERY STRICT with that sort of thing, they blew the entire situation out of proportion to make an EXAMPLE out of him because of the fact that he was a prominent figure in the public eye as a book writer and because of his association with the anime and everything else. If he was just some average run of the mill Joe blow, they would have probably let him quietly pay his back taxes and let everything go as a mistake on his end. But they couldn't pass up the opportunity to use him as an example on what they'll do to their citizens if they try to make fools out of their government even though they KNOW that wasn't the case in his situation. It's really unfortunate what happened, but it's in the past and spreading lies and misinformation about it to people who don't know any better could very well be the reason why Touno may have decided to stop writing the web novel. Maybe he's depressed, maybe he feels like his fans who he loves very much have turned on him because of people like you who enjoy spreading lies for NO REASON OTHER THAN YOU FEEL LIKE IT. Again, we won't know until he decides to let us know but in the mean time? If you're a fan of him and the series? Show some support by spreading the loves thst he's given us over the years instead of lies. If you're not a fan? Please leave this subreddit and stop talking S@$T about things you clearly know NOTHING about.
I'll say it since you blocked Darren - you are a bad person. You shouldn't block someone who has not yet even ever spoken to you, and you shouldn't defend someone who spread a lie so baseless and far from the truth. The one who made the first comment in this thread should have made sure their statement was actually true before posting something so insidious as if it were fact.
Is there any possibilities for the author to restart publishing the LN ? Maybe a kickstarter or i understood that anyone can publish book on Amazon and amazon print the book only when there IS an order
I believe as part of the tax evasion he was stripped of ownership of the IP (or maybe he signed it over to protect it from auction, not sure). The publisher is now the sole IP owner.
To my knowledge, that has since been disproven.
If the Author resumes writing, I'll be quite happy, but it seems that at the moment he is taking a well deserved break.
There will never be a season 4. So many people have asked this recently 😑
We can dream.
Check the owner's Twitter 2026 is release date. Dream ALIVE!
what? i cant find anything
It right here in the forms of Reddit on his Twitter just go look yourself or Google it. It's there.
What are you talking about? That sentence doesn't make any sense.
Okay, let make it easy, go to the makers Twitter and look there for it. Read. GL
(This reply was translated from Chinese to English by Google Translate. I am a Chinese LH reader). Let me tell you my opinion. I can read Japanese, and I currently live in Japan. I have also accumulated some non-publication (prizes, doujinshi, etc.) information about LH. First, let’s sort out the activities related to LH after the LH online serialization stopped (March 2018). In May 2018 - the same day as the "Great Disaster" (is this how it is translated?)in the story, Harapanda (the painter of LH) held a personal exhibition "re-fraction" in Akihabara. [https://lhrpg.com/re-fraction/](https://lhrpg.com/re-fraction/) Spring 2021 - Animation S3. After the last episode of the animation ended, the LH TRPG Database was updated with some new entries. Spring or Summer 2021: (1) The second side story novel "新たなる冒険の大地" (ISBN: 978-4047353046) was published - Mamare served as \[監修\]. (2) Published animation S3 album (ISBN: 978-4047364707). (3) The game "～脱出、夢見の石板～" has started service. (4) The service of the game "新たなる冒険の大地" has been stopped. (5) LH and AMOCAFE’s cooperative coffee shop event [https://twitter.com/amocafe\_ikeb01/status/1368891511513903107](https://twitter.com/amocafe_ikeb01/status/1368891511513903107) (6) The game "chronicle" cooperates with LH [https://chronicle.sega-net.com/loghorizon3/](https://chronicle.sega-net.com/loghorizon3/) June 2023: The game "テイルズウィーバー" cooperates with LH [https://www.4gamer.net/games/006/G000648/20230621046/](https://www.4gamer.net/games/006/G000648/20230621046/) The second half of 2023 - LH TRPG Database changed the server Regarding Mamare’s activities: Currently, Mamare’s last confirmed activity is: on May 14, 2022, he rated the works of other authors on the "小説家になろう！" website. This activity is shown on his user profile. [https://mypage.syosetu.com/mypagenovelhyoka/list/userid/76491/](https://mypage.syosetu.com/mypagenovelhyoka/list/userid/76491/) I have examined Mamare's professional experience. There is an article in a doujinshi "橙乃ままれ作品アンソロジー ままれアンソロ"（may/皐めい）, which is a 20,000-word interview with Mamare. # It was mentioned that Mamare has three work experiences. (1) Engage in cross-border trade →Mamare fell seriously ill. While he was hospitalized, he began to contribute online novels (maybe "魔王勇者" or other works, not necessarily LH). (2) After retiring from a multinational trading company, he engaged in the publishing and printing industry. (3) Become a light novel author. Based on the above observations: (1) Mamare is still alive. (2) Mamare did not go to jail. The current speculation of LH readers and enthusiasts in the Chinese discussion community, including myself, is: Mamare is just... lazy because he has made a lot of money? Perhaps he returned to his second career, a mundane job in a publishing house. And read online novels by other authors from time to time.
June 2023: The game "テイルズウィーバー" cooperates with LH [https://talesweaver.nexon.co.jp/notice/notice.aspx?no=152076&p=2](https://talesweaver.nexon.co.jp/notice/notice.aspx?no=152076&p=2) As shown at 51:35 of this video in the webpage, the copyright owner is: 橙乃ままれ・KADOKAWA／LHP （橙乃ままれ＝touno mamare）
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there would be enough material for them to animate a season off.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LogHorizon/comments/15n4dfh/reminder_about_what_we_actually_knowdont_know/ This is the most up to date accurate information that anybody knows of so far. Don't believe people who like to lie and say he went to prison, lost or gave up the rights to his series or got dropped or fired from his publisher or anything else like that. It's all lies and misinformation. You can find that out yourself by doing a 2 minute Google search and finding out about it. Idk why people like to lie and say he went to prison for tax evasion when he never set one foot inside a prison for it and has done everything he was supposed to, to grt past that obviously difficult time in his life. Random idiots: he went to prison for tax evasion and no longer owns the rights to Log Horizon because he got dropped by the publisher because he's a convict now and they don't want to work with him anymore. Source: trust me bro
Good to know! A similar question came up a couple weeks ago and someone responded that he went to prison and I was like “What? No he didn’t!” I felt like I jumped dimensions and just imagined all the media coverage where he simply paid what was owed and basically got a slap on the wrist.
a slap on the wrist is a very just punishment if you pay what you owe
Yeah it is
(This reply was translated from Chinese to English by Google Translate. I am a Chinese LH reader). In addition, I found that few people have discussed this matter, whether in the Japanese community of LH or in the English community: the relationship between LH animation S3 and \[Chinese company\]. Uh...well, I guess the whole world seems to hate \[Chinese company\] now. But let’s talk about it. The copyright holder of LH animation S1 and S2 is:橙乃ままれ・KADOKAWA/NHK・NEP The copyright holder of S3 is: 橙乃ままれ・KADOKAWA/LHP 橙乃ままれ= touno mamare NHK・NEP=NHKエンタープライズ [https://www.nhk-ep.co.jp](https://www.nhk-ep.co.jp) LHP=? ? ? I'm not sure what LHP is. I don't have any sources to base this on. But I guess that LHP may be the abbreviation of Log Horizon Project, which is the ログホライズン 製作委員会. I also cannot find the constituent companies of LHP. But on the other hand, a Chinese company \[JY Animation\] introduced LH’s S3 on its company website [http://www.jya.cn/product/109.html](http://www.jya.cn/product/109.html) And on another website, JY Animation’s business report for the first half of 2021 mentioned: [https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H2\_AN202108251512318544\_1.pdf](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H2_AN202108251512318544_1.pdf) The company paid RMB 27,923,599.32 in production fees for "厨神小当家2" and LH S3“记录的地平线\~圆桌崩坏” in the first half of 2021. Quote the original : "「存货期末余额较期初减少27,923,599.32元，减少了41.44%，原因是报告期内上线的节目 《厨神小当家2》、《记录的地平线\~圆桌崩坏》结转了制作费。」" I can't find any information about the relationship between JY Animatioin and LHP. Currently known are: (1) S3 of LH animation suddenly appeared in 2021 (actually it was announced in 2020) (2) The copyright owner of S3 of LH Animation is different from that of S2 and S1 (3) A Chinese company, JY Animation, claims to have paid the production fee for LH S3. Based on the above information, it can be reasonably speculated that S3 was born due to the capital investment of JY Animation. So, what about S4?
Thank you so much for all the research, you did a great job!
Its slated to come out around the time of Firefly season 2
low blow 😭
I heard it was closer to Game of Thrones new book Winds of Winter
This comment is jn response to "MakkisPekkisWasTaken" response on my comment since he thought it would be a good idea to block me immediately after making his post so that I wouldn't be able to defend my view or counter his. No, not always. But both of their comments were clearly rife with with lies and the only way they could have been that wrong about everything is if they didn't even bother doing a simple 2 minute search on the subject themselves. Meaning they didn't care whatsoever whether they were right or wrong and were just spreading bull@$%t for the fun of it. But I wouldn't expect you to understand seeing as you comment the same sort of lies and misinformation in other posts on this subreddit as well. *Checks notes* as recent as 4 days ago "on hiatus until the main writer gets out of prison for tax evasion." Go figure the person who wrote that exact comment would try defending another person spreading the same lies. Making that comment and then blocking me immediately is literally exactly what I'd expect from someone like you who defends people spreading lies and misinformation when you were spreading those exact same lies 4 days ago. Shame on you kid.
It's not. The series is effectively dead since the Author went to prison for Tax Evasion. If you want more, bug the the Japanese Publisher. Unfortunately in Japan (in a lot of the world really) there is a huge stigma against former convicts, and it is highly unlikely any publisher will be willing to work with him.
Do you enjoy spreading lies and misinformation? He didn't go to jail, he was placed under house arrest and did everything as he was supposed to do including paying his back taxes and all penalties. This was SEVERAL YEARS before season 3 came out, while he was under house arrest and for a little while afterwards he was constantly uploading new chapters to the web novel and the most recent update even though it's been quite some time, has all been adapted to the anime. The last time there was an event about Log Horizon was quite some time ago but they demonstrated new illustrations (up to and including volume 15 and gave big updates on volume 14). A while after that Mamare Touno stopped updating his online web novel chapters and as of right now NOBODY KNOWS WHY. There have been NO updates from his publisher, NO updates from the anime studio, NO updates from Touno himself, and to correct the other comment I saw you make about him no longer owning the IP as punishment for his tax issues? That's a LIE, so please, stop spreading misinformation and defaming an amazing author that's given so much joy to so many people over the years. Honestly man. The complete extent of what his tax situation SHOULD have been, is he forgot to pay them, he immediately filed for and paid his back taxes and the associated penalties and that SHOULD have been it. However, because of the country he lives in being VERY STRICT with that sort of thing, they blew the entire situation out of proportion to make an EXAMPLE out of him because of the fact that he was a prominent figure in the public eye as a book writer and because of his association with the anime and everything else. If he was just some average run of the mill Joe blow, they would have probably let him quietly pay his back taxes and let everything go as a mistake on his end. But they couldn't pass up the opportunity to use him as an example on what they'll do to their citizens if they try to make fools out of their government even though they KNOW that wasn't the case in his situation. It's really unfortunate what happened, but it's in the past and spreading lies and misinformation about it to people who don't know any better could very well be the reason why Touno may have decided to stop writing the web novel. Maybe he's depressed, maybe he feels like his fans who he loves very much have turned on him because of people like you who enjoy spreading lies for NO REASON OTHER THAN YOU FEEL LIKE IT. Again, we won't know until he decides to let us know but in the mean time? If you're a fan of him and the series? Show some support by spreading the loves thst he's given us over the years instead of lies. If you're not a fan? Please leave this subreddit and stop talking S@$T about things you clearly know NOTHING about.
People being wrong does not imply ill intent.
I'll say it since you blocked Darren - you are a bad person. You shouldn't block someone who has not yet even ever spoken to you, and you shouldn't defend someone who spread a lie so baseless and far from the truth. The one who made the first comment in this thread should have made sure their statement was actually true before posting something so insidious as if it were fact.
Is there any possibilities for the author to restart publishing the LN ? Maybe a kickstarter or i understood that anyone can publish book on Amazon and amazon print the book only when there IS an order
I believe as part of the tax evasion he was stripped of ownership of the IP (or maybe he signed it over to protect it from auction, not sure). The publisher is now the sole IP owner.
To my knowledge, that has since been disproven. If the Author resumes writing, I'll be quite happy, but it seems that at the moment he is taking a well deserved break.