They were incapacitated. For those two, the battle was over.
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They were incapacitated. For those two, the battle was over.
"It's okay to kill those babies because somebody taped knives to their hands!"Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
We get it, dude. You're a bad person who likes to justify being evil. You don't have to keep reminding us.
Just randomly rewatched the Aincrad-finale. Question: Would anything ingame have been different if Kayaba DIDNT kill anyone irl, but just told them it'd happen?
Basically, was he a petty, murderous asshole or was there a real good reason to kill players for real? They wouldn't have known about it being an empty threat prior of actually dying.
1) He'd be rewarding people committing suicide, because those people would return to real life with less consequence while the long term players would have to rehab their bodies.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
2) If death was not real then the company running these servers would just pull the plug and wake everyone up, ending this whole thing.
1.) But they didn't know about the no-consequences then. Makes no sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
2.) What company? Kayaba was the only one who knew about the death penalty, so any employees wouldn't know. However, I just realized: there were cases of family force-unplugging players, so that would have given it away.
I'll be honest, I have no idea what Kayaba was trying to accomplish. His explanation just sounded like gibberish.
1. You reward it in real life. Kids decide to suicide because they didn't like what they saw, and wake up in real life realising it was the better option. They go about life having experienced suicide as a positive experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
2. The company that runs it the servers, and the company that went bankrupt running the servers since they were life-sustaining. If dead kids just woke up, the company would just force-disconnect rather than run them for years until the money dries up.
I REALLY want Chudelkin to win 🐧
It's not like you'd get to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
I'd feel happy inside my heartQuote:
Originally Posted by DarthEnderX
Underworld episode 9:
I need to get this off my chest: this is the worst season of sao by far, especially since the start of this 'war'.
The author has NO idea how to write an exciting story. Wtf! This anime is worse than a Muso-game. All good guys are massively overpowered and have ultimate special uber attacks. Meanwhile all enemies keep losing instantly. Even side characters of the good guys' get to ruin the enemy's mega attack and live for some 'eMoTiOnAl goodbye.
I've been following this shit the past couple weeks and it makes me unbelievably angry. Alicia is the biggest Mary-Sue since Rey.
SAO is the only anime where I routinely root for the villains ...
Is Asuna still a hot and regular feature in this show anymore?
No to eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I'm just skipping through the episodes. I find that Alice becoming part of Kirito's harem, while Eugeo, who likes her from the start, just got killed off, is repulsive. It's as if it's impossible for a relevant female in the story to NOT fall in love with Kirito...
Eugeo and that kouhai knight too...
Edit: I hope Eugeo won't resurect with an idea like Kirito had to abandon his self part to save Eugeo's fluctlight core data into his own fluctlight... And with Asuna as Stacia, godess of creation, they can get his body back and place the saved core data inside and voilą :D
WHY DID ASUNA NOT JUST TELL ALICIA THAT SHE'S KIRITO'S WIFE?! Or girlfriend or whatever they are currently. "We're fucking, Alicia"
Worse: 1 of 2 'promising' villains got killed off simply by Asuna making an appeance. 🙄🙄🙄
Asuna said it. She said she was going out with Kirito for 1.5 years.
That whole scene was cringe AF. It's like the author is fulfilling his dreams of having women fight over him through his writing. Creepy.
And someone on twitter not to long ago dared say SAO wasn't harem ... lol
Episode 11:
BEFORE the enemy can even execute the first good plan, the heroes already have the solution. God, this is such anti-climatic writing ...
Also LOL: "Kirito hasn't logged in for 10 days, so this can't be a trivial matter"
Archangel hasn't logged in for 9 months on any accounts we're aware of.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
A few of us have actually suspected that he died some time ago :(.
Now we know: he's fighting together with Asuna.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
(i hope he hasn't died ... :( )
Episode 12:
FUCK. THAT. SHIT!
🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈💀💀💀💀💀💀💀🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
Villains mustn't have the *slightest* victory in this trash story :/
Seriously, I want someone to remake SAO, except this time with heroes facing realistic consequences and villains not being cannon fodder. And have Asuna raped once or twice ...
Seriously though, I can't understand how anybody could like this story or find it exciting. It literally is like watching a Musou-game. Heroes having all the power, killing enemies in the thousands with no effort displayed.
Also, the depiction of gamers is sooo unrealistic, too. It's as if only those are skilled that have a higher moral compass, meanwhile those gamers who just want sole fun *must* be weak cannonfodder. 🙄 Also, ofc those hundreds of gamers all act the same and let themselves get offed instantly. And next episode, all Japanese gamers will help, because Japanese gamers are such good people, ya know! And then in the finale ALL gamers turn good to help defeat Vectra!!1
:/
I've finally caught up and managed to suffer through this mess.
I even had to catch up on the last 2 seasons and rewatched the movie by accident again because I thought I didn't watch it yet.
The movie was the best thing about it all because it featured lots of Asuna hairstyles and casual clothing in the shortest amount of time.
And... that's basically what this franchise amounts too now. You get to see the most beautiful waifu of them all in different styles.
SAO-Saber(Alice) and Asuna are the only reason why I managed.
I didn't read the source material and I have no idea if it's actually done well in the LNs... but if it isn't, then I have no idea why this franchise gets so much attention.
In Alicization, we don't even get to see a single fight that was somewhat well animated, (even though this show always gets a high budget? At least that's what I thought) funnily enough, the "true" fights are featured in the openings and in the show itself it's almost comically poorly animated and boring.
I'm starting to wonder if I remember the original SAO (first half) wrong. It's not that I remember it to be as colourful as the latest Fate stuff, but I remembered it to be better.
I can't even begin and won't mention all the plotholes and follies I caught up on in detail but these last 2 episodes really took it to another level. I'm not sure if I should be sad or angry about this whole thing - I skipped most of it.
It feels like the setting itself is so much fun, but the whole thing smells so much like fanfiction and it oozes with 8th grade syndrome out of every corner of the story. It's impossible to like Kirito in this whole story... you just can't. The way the anime portrays him doesn't allow you too. I kept thinking "oh god, this is so bad..." - "yeah, of course dude" and was bitter throughout most of the time to the point were I felt ashamed that I kept watching and watching because "MAYBE the next episode will be different, after all *that* fight is coming up" or "MAYBE I get to see another Asuna-hairstyle next episode", just to suffer through another minute of another 2-3 frames per second fight.
So... did anyone read the novels? Maybe they explain and describes things better there? I won't doubt that it will still be all about Gary-Stu Kirito and his harem, but the last 3 cours introduced so many girls that I kept thinking "What's the point of her existence??". The novels must surely do a better job?
Alice is a character I can get behind from a storytelling point of view, the story is more about here than it is about anyone else since last season. I even thought that the conflict between Kirito's and Eugeo's version was interesting and managed to bring romance-drama to a harem show in which the lead already has his chosen one. Yet, the author decided it wasn't worth the trouble and created that ridicilous "lets exchange information about my Kirito" scenes.
But what about the long haired instructor in purple clothing? What the heck was that?
It just felt like the original source must have had like 2-3 volumes dedicated to that and the anime got through with it in 2 episodes by dragging out the unimportant parts in a poor attempt to create some worldbuilding (i.e. mentioning Eugeo's instructor etc.) before it got to the interesting part again where they became elite-students (4th + 5th seat or something)..that whole thing did mess up the power-level curve quite a bit too.
Gosh, I can already see that I accumilated so much bitterness and salt simply by looking at the wall of text I'm writing.. but still... I'm curious and keep thinking "THIS HAS TO GET BETTER, AT SOME POINT, PLEASE?"
Underworld episode 13:
Just lol.
Honestly, I'm not sure if the author either likes rape (nothing wrong with it in the fictional realm) or is a sjw.
On one hand, he puts these almost-rape scenes in every single season of SAO, and in a qzite sexy way, too.
On the other hand, the scenes are never allowed to play out, are interrupted early, and only end with the hero looking good.
It's so weird. It also kinda makes light of actual rape with how casually these scenes keep happening in SAO. This scene with Leafa might have been the worst though. I laufghed out loud when she thought "I mustn't fight back because I need to get information first". that was bonafide hentai doujin reasoning for why a strong female character allows herself to be raped lol. There was no more difference to that. Hilarious. And Leafa was in obvious discomfort - it wasn't shown, but ... that one tentacle actually penetrated her?! This was way too unbelievable, as Leafa/Suguha is 100% the type of girl that goes "I must protect my chastitiy at all costs or I'm damaged goods". From that I follow that either there was no penetration (which makes it a dumb scene cut) or the whole thing is out of character for her.
Oh well. Can't wait for the doujins - not much of an effort these h-authors have to go through this time ....
As for the rest episode: heroes awesome and powerful, villains keep losing. Yay, so exciting!!1 The only hero who's seemingly beaten is a throw-away character that we wouldn't have seen again after this whole arc anyway.
Can someone who reads the novels actually confirm whether these scenes are written to such graphic detail, or whether it's a studio choice to include suggesti..
Never mind, I just remembered "glug glug glug". It's totally the author.
It's just so hilariously unfitting. Almost as if you'd put a rape scene in Pokemon. Just ... why, lol.
episode 15:
I swear, villains will never accomplish ANYTHING in this arc :( The main bad guy couldn't even defeat that "old" swordman. sigh
prediction:
- Kritito wakes up
- holds speech
- all online-players turn against villains
- happy end
:/
What I am most surprised about is that this show still has viewers.
episode 16:
At this point Im convinced the author only wanted to see hentai doujins of his story. He knew he couldn't get those juicy rape scenes play out in the anime, so he keeps teasing it, basically telling doujin artists: "Pls do THIS".
Sexual Assault Online aside, what a shit episode once again. Now the big bad guy probably can't even defeat Shinon, and the LaughingCoffin guy will definitely be killed by Kirito when he awakens.
These villains really have accomplished NOTHING. Worst villains in any anime ever.
And I fucking hate how desperate the heroes sound when their avatars are about to be killed - ITS JUST AVATARS. Meanwhile, the Underwold citizens die for real. Ugh, such entitled brats. And why is Asuna so weak now, anyway? Why not spam her uber attacks and kill all opponents at once? bad writing.
Why are you punishing yourself by continuing to watch this?
The series peaked at episode 9 of the original.
This. Is. True.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
And it was amazing up to that point.
Help me, what happened in that episode?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
And for the question: I'm too invested at this point. It's like Dragon Ball Super, except DBS was fun. With SAO, I more enjoy the trashtalking afterwars :/
Eps 9: Kirito reveals his dual sword technique and solos the boss on the 74th floor, nearly dying in the process.
Episode 17:
WTF I hate this SAO shit so much. How is this anime still popular. The last episode was insulting:
- these villains achieve NOTHING!
- random character appears and almost defeats PoH
- man villain cant defeat Shinon
- you just know: Any time a "good" character is in a dire situation, IT WILL NEVER ACTUALLY AMOUNT TO ANYTHING. ALWAYS HAPPY END!!1
- so PoH can mind-control REAL players? Fucking LOL
- what was Shinon's big turnaround anyway? She just SUDDENLY REMEMBERED that her rifle recharges, wow, fantastic! /s
- WHY ARE ANY OF THEM DISTRESSED AND CRYING OVER ONE OF THEIR AVATARS BEING KILLED? THEY'RE NOT DYING IRL, IT'S JUST THEIR AVATAR!!!1
- so that random chick that appeared with the random guy from Aincard has the ability to ... sing JPop to buff. lolok
- Leafah keeps whining about being hurt, but pulls out a spear out of her fucking skull like it's nothing and kills 100s of enemies with her cheat-super attacks.
- and now Kirito is gonna wake up. What for?! These two enemies pose no danger at all. If Asuna, Klein, Egil and the others just stop cowering on the ground, they'd kill these two without much effort
This really is one of the worst anime I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. The balance in achievements between heroes and villains is SO one-sided and unfair, that I always root for the villains, to no prevail of fucking course.
Bad anime. :/
episode 18:
yay, he's awake -_-
this core issue, besides villains not accomplishing anything, is that these heroes do NOTHING to justfiy their victory. This was most obvious this episode with Asuna. She started the fight against PoH, he was stronger, she started sobbing ... and then some ghost appears and grants her power.
This is so bad. It is SO bad and it makes me angry so much. I dont want to ignore it. I want the author to be shat on and I want the whole world to agreee "yes, this sucks" :/
episode 19:
SAO ... episode starts with a deus ex machina right off the bat, yay ..
What the author of SAO fails to understand: People like to root for the underdog. When Shikamaru was fighting Hidan/Kakazu, it was exciting because the Akatsuki were thought of as much, much stronger than Shikamaru. In SAO, however, the HEROES are much, much stronger than the villains and NEVER lose. That's why I keep rooting for the villains in SAO ... to no prevail, ofc.
Really, I have less respect for people who call themselves SAO-fans. It's a bad story, objectively.
It's that everyone in the main cast is their own flavor of a Mary Sue. And all the girls have no meaningful autonomy once they meet Kirito.
Kirito: The ultimate perfect game player, who never gives up and can instantly master the mechanics of anything, solve mysteries, and only comes close to defeat when someone else is cheating.
Asuna: The perfect girlfriend-wife. Such a brilliant and smart tactician (that we never see, only get told about), Kirito's (again almost never shown) near-peer in gaming ability. Described by others for her peerless beauty, grace, and delicacy in the real world. Despite the discussed and noticeable PTSD she has from SAO and the Fairy Queen shit, Kirito is easily able to get her back into gaming because he asked. Oh, and they also already have a perfect in-game AI daughter, who is a legitimate afterthought later on.
Shino: The perfect mistress girlfriend (remember this is Japan, where sleeping around is at least partially accepted). Again, a skilled, but nowhere near Kirito's level girl, who...doesn't really have much more in the way of personality than that. After her childhood trauma is overcome...there's NOTHING THERE besides devoted mistress vibes. And of course she's a catgirl in the other game. Does she have her own interests?
Sugu: The perfect devoted little-sister for the audience inserts to lust after, and oh, she's actually his cousin so it isn't incest by Japanese laws. Doesn't seem to have any interest in other men aside from pining after Kirito, knowing that it's hopeless because Asuna is SO PERFECT, so she will remain an eternally pure virgin with unrequited love for her onii-chan. Does she have a personality? She did. She used to do kendo. Then, "she begins playing Alfheim Online as a Sylph in an attempt to try to understand Kirito better." WTF. She doesn't lust after him anymore, but she endlessly tags along after him.
Alice: AI perfect childhood friend girlfriend...you get the deal by now.
You make me hate SAO even more when putting it all together like that ... STAHP XDQuote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
For the birth rate. For the greater good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryll
Considering the quality of SAO's writing, I wouldn't be surprised ii its author has read one too many #humancattle doujins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Episode 20:
This anime is so cringe. Imagine World of Warcraft players crying because their party members 'died' - that's SAO, just with fancier graphics.
Also wow: EVERY GIRL WANTS HIS D! It's so dumb ...
Final victory was bad, too. For the entire arc, Gabriel was calm and level-headed. The moment he meets Kirito, he turns into an arrogant, delusional monster. Sigh
You know what I want now? A video game where you play a villain and you have to fight several 'good guys/heroes', and to do that you have to overcome their 'deus ex machina'-meter. Is there something like that?
Ffs ... Anyone enjoyimg this writing should never give recommendations to anyone elde.
episode 21:
you've got to be braindead to actually find this story "good".
Is there even an episode without at least one fuck stupid deus ex machina-moment? What's hilarious about that is that it is THE VILLAINS that come up with smart plans (see the villain tech guy who anticipated what the "heroes" really were after), but the "heroes" keep winning ... not by outwitting the villains as it's done in literally every other story (because that makes sense. The villains don't need to think, they're powerful. The heroes must find out how to overcome the big bad), but by making bullshit moments happen. Utter bullshit moments!
So this week, a robot that shut down because it was visibly too broken to continue working ... started working again because of EMOTIONS. What the fuck?! Did they build Evangelions there? Is there a human body inside the robot, lol?! The best part: So it looks like the fully-broken robot got possessed by the "dead" villain leader, except now they have an excuse built-in as to why he will lose again: because the robot is too broken, lol. This time fOr ReAlZ!!1
Also nice: It's only men that keep dying. In combination with the frequent blueballing almost rape-scenes that keep painting men as nothing but criminals and swines, the author must have had a real ego trip while writing this shit, because it's clear he considers him (who he put as Kirito) the only "proper" men that all women naturally flock to, while other men are either joke characters or, again, rapists. Considering that this author doesn't come off as a very feministic person, he's a real piece of work.
I'll celebrate the day this shit franchise is over. Can we pls return to the times when Death Note, Claymore and Monster were popular? :(
Episode 22
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Assuming you don't become demented, a 200 year old could have some serious knowledge and insight into people.
Or imagine sending in a bunch of scientists from the real world and having them return with the scientific progress of 200 years ...
I have only one thing to say about this episode: If you enjoyed this, you're literally r*tareded.
Oh, and they found a way to give each girl her own Kirito without it being cheating on Asuna. sigh ....
Whut .Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
Pretty sure he's saying that they can now clone Kirito for each girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
Yes. Ofc they wont do it (I ASSUME LOL), but they *did* come up with a way to theoretically satisfy all girls -_-Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Editt:
Btw can we talk about how creating AIs isn't really the most impressive part? They managed to build a perfect robot that's indiscernable from real people!
Episode 23
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Haha, wtf? Now fighting space monsters, but still using swords.
Kirito: Please delete these fucking memories please.
So... I was wondering, should the new movies about the best part of the anime and franchise be discussed here or in another thread? Perhaps there is one and I missed it.... but I searched for Sword Art in titles only
Either way, I watched the first one - SAO Progressive.
It's really good, it's what made people watch the, what I consider shite, that came after the first "game" anyway imho. (not that there was anything wrong with the games themselves, more like everything was wrong with how the characters were handled - after all, I really liked how Death Gun was setting the mood for example)
Animation was great and movement felt like it had weight behind it. Asuna in a cloak looked awesome but it's no secret that she is quite the handsome gal in the series. Well, lots of good stuff.... I just don't understand how many movies there are going to be?
If I'm not mistaken the premise is that these movies go from floor to floor all the way up.
This whole movie was Floor 1. I'd love to have a movie for every floor I guess :D?
The movies are from Asuna's perspective? But... did she join Kirito after floor 1? I actually thought he disappeared in the original and Asuna went with the other guys right after the boss kill.
Scherzo of Deep Night debuted in the US today. Just saw it in theater, and WOW. What an unbelievably shitty movie. It's on the same level as the most boring Naruto filler. Even the 400lb greasy SAO superfan anime nerd sitting in front of me, who also happened to give me a face full of his sweaty pimpled asscrack, fell asleep 20 minutes into this piece of shit. I will kill myself before I sit through this movie again.
The good: It was SO bad that it brought you back from a lengthy absence. Welcome back :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Janice
Gun Gale Online Season 2 - Episode 2:
WTF, this was offensively bad. This is supposed to be a championship of the best. Why are the opponents all braindead dumb and why can the heroes win with tactics that even I wouldn't fall for as someone who doesn't play online shooters?!
This was absolutely infuriating. The whole time I was like "ok, now throw grenades in the waggon". It took until the end that ONE person did. Of course, the bitch shot the grenade in the air. And then FOR REASONS the blonde loli can shoot multiple grenades at once. WHY DIDN'T THE OPPONENTS SPAM GRENADES INTO THE WAGGON?!
This all so dumb. Like "everyone, praise us for being slightly smarter than these dumbasses!" :/
That aside, animation really sucks compared to other SAO-anime.