Sword Art Online

[MFauli]

I REALLY want Chudelkin to win 🐧

[DarthEnderX]

I REALLY want Chudelkin to win

It's not like you'd get to watch.

[MFauli]

It's not like you'd get to watch.

I'd feel happy inside my heart

[MFauli]

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 ...

[Buffalobiian]

Is Asuna still a hot and regular feature in this show anymore?

[MFauli]

Is Asuna still a hot and regular feature in this show anymore?

No to either

[shinta|hikari]

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...

[David75]

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 voilà

[MFauli]

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. 🙄🙄🙄

[shinta|hikari]

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.

[MFauli]

And someone on twitter not to long ago dared say SAO wasn't harem ... lol

[MFauli]

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"

[Buffalobiian]

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.

A few of us have actually suspected that he died some time ago .

[MFauli]

Archangel hasn't logged in for 9 months on any accounts we're aware of.

A few of us have actually suspected that he died some time ago .

Now we know: he's fighting together with Asuna.

(i hope he hasn't died ... )

[MFauli]

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


:/

[KrayZ33]

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?"

[MFauli]

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.

[Buffalobiian]

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.

[MFauli]

It's just so hilariously unfitting. Almost as if you'd put a rape scene in Pokemon. Just ... why, lol.

[MFauli]

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

:/