I think this is a bit more apt.Originally Posted by Inazuma
Feel free to add in a variety of "hur hur, she's a girl, hrng" as appropriate for verbal flavor. They are playing an MMO after all.
I think this is a bit more apt.
Feel free to add in a variety of "hur hur, she's a girl, hrng" as appropriate for verbal flavor. They are playing an MMO after all.
I don't think they would frame Kirito killing Asuna (if for no other reason, then for the fact the popularity of this show would diminish if Asuna disappeared). One possibility might be the PK guild tricking the humiliated knight to venture outside of a town and slay him, then later have someone reputable blame Kirito for the deed. Although I reckon aside from any framing they might simply try to use the stalkerish fool to pester Kirito. Or even simpler: Maybe they will attack Asuna directly to put Kirito in a tight spot.
Episode 09:
Called it, dual wielding. There better be a good explanation as to why he's the only one who has it though.
Prediction for next episode, this red guy also has some extra skill he'll use to win the duel.
The PvE action was a nice change of pace from all the dorama we've had the last few eps. It is quite suspicious that Kirito is the only one able to level a particular skill though there's probably some wonderful MMO explanation to explain everything.
It was also nice to see Asuna living up (more like down IMO) to her role as a hero catalyst support character. If she hadn't gone in and gotten herself into danger I doubt Kirito would have made a move and demonstrated that no frail little girls (with maxed cooking stats) would be allowed to come to harm on his watch. I suppose it's better than nothing that she can keep the bad guys busy for a few seconds in addition to making sandwiches but it seems her guild likes sandwiches too so now we get to have an honorable duel for the fair maidens hand. Asuna's thoughts on the matter be damned, yay progress!
That leader pissed me off as soon as he said that Asuna can't leave on her own accord. Fucking control freak. (/sets off Buff's autonomy-protection-trigger)
Unfortunately I see Kirito losing this dual as well, then given the position (or perhaps he requests it) as Asuna's bodyguard. I was surprised to see them hold off the Assassination guy's role till later.
As for dual-wielding, my assumption would have to be that it has something to do with:
1) The way Kirito uses his sword in SAO, which is interrelated with
2) Kirito's background in Kendo. He didn't mention it in his talk with the imouto, but perhaps he was training under Nitouryu back then.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
The scene where Klein and Kirito were chatting while Asuna is draped around Kirito was really awkward.
Peace.
The dual wielding skill could be a direct result of Kirito's solo playing history. As opposed to guild members and more casual party fighters, he has had to do everything by himself and has had nobody but himself and his own sword to rely on in most of the fights, floor end boss fights aside. I think it would actually be pretty natural if the game recorded such individualistic long-term behavior and supported the choice with a rare skill only made available under those conditions. After all, otherwise going solo is highly ineffective and far more dangerous.
The fight surely was refreshing after all the drama, even if it was triggered by idiots.
That's what I thought funny as well during the scene, but then I remembered these guys, from the top echelon down to the bottom of the barrel, are all MMO nerds who probably lined up in the middle of the night for hours to be the first ones to get the game. So, a chance to fight over a woman wouldn't by default trigger any red flags in their minds. Quite the contrary as we saw. But it's not like Asuna wouldn't by now know what kind of a dude Kirito is (and isn't).
Edit: I wonder if the guys at Asuna's guild really thought it through when they decided to recruit Kirito using Asuna. Sure he's big news now, but he's probably even bigger trouble unless they simply want his name on the list and an extra hand in some boss fights (in which he would have been anyway). I doubt he's going to be any more agreeable in front of them or bow down and follow their orders. At least I hope he won't!
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What the Blood Oath guy said about their forces being stretched doesn't make sense. If they were an expanding empire that's trying to maintain control over all the grounds they've conquered, it's fair enough that they don't have enough forces to secure their outskirts and prevent invasion/flanking.
As a guild that's trying to clear floors though, one party making their way to the top is all that's required. You don't need to station people one each floor that you conquer. Even if I assume that each successive floor is geographically larger than the previous one, you just have to clear one section at a time (and if this episode is indicative of previous levels, you only have to clear the path to the boss in order to advance). It's not like you had to clear all the dungeons and have people stationed to keep clearing the re-spawning monsters.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
They prolly have people stationed on several floors to help people with quests. (which is fucking stupid)
So Kirito more or less just soloed the level 74 boss that had 4 life bars all by himself...
You are here alone again
In your sweet insanity
All too calm, you hide yourself from reality
Do you call it solitude? Do you call it liberty?
When all the world turns away to leave you lonely
Yes. He also had half of his health zapped before he activated the skill, so he would have had more health if he began the fight with the intention of dealing the highest DPS possible.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I don't think it is a repeatable feat. He was lucky and went berserk. It just so happens that it turned out well.
Peace.
do we actually know how much HP he had left? might be the case that the group actually managed to drain some of its health
I take it that the major disadvantage of the two-sword style that went unsaid is that you can't parry well, if at all. That's why he uses such heavy swords, whereas Asuna uses light swords to take advantage of her speed. Kirito lost more life in during that brief 50-hit combo than he did the rest of the time, or against any other opponent we've seen (where he's not 20+ levels over).
Would have been nice if they had verbalized it, but you could tell from his expression during the fight, and the fact that he was getting hit on his sides. Earlier he was pushing the boss' blade much further away from himself.
So nobody noticed how the person he thought was waking him was someone other than Asuna? Maybe that was his sister trying to wake him from the game. I mean he almost did die so perhaps is slightly slipped back into the real world if not only for a second.
Wasn't it Sachi's face?
That's what I thought.
The hair colour in that shot was somewhat blue and matches Sachi's more so than Kirito's sister. Also, if we're going to say that her lips matched the audio "Kirito-kun", his sister doesn't refer to Kirito by name.
Neo's theory was interesting. I was wavering after reading that until I went back to ep 1 and made the above observations.
Indeed. It felt like either the Klein or Asuna's conversation should have happened first, but they ended up squeezing both in. Having Asuna's conversation first would have avoided the awkward positioning/timing, but broken up the amount of contiguous time focused on Kirito/Asuna's desire to stay together.
And as for the parrying comment, it could be a feature of dual wielding itself, OR just Kirito being locked in his Star Burst Stream combo. Dodging might be harder since you're more encumbered, but the blocking aspect seemed to get a powerup, so I'm not sure what that says for parrying overall.
Skyrim's dual wielding system is as you say though, and I'm not at all surprised if the skill comes at such a cost.
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If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
So did I, but then I checked the Sachi episode and it looked different. But it might be just the lighting and the fact in this returning consciousness scene the girl didn't have eyes at all. And eyes make a pretty significant portion of recognizing an anime character. So, it could have been Sachi as well, I suppose.
I noticed Kirito did not seem to get an item for clearing that boss.
But I guess Asuna makes a good replacement
I somehow felt like I recognized Sacchi's voice. Might be the hair color as you all said.
I guess they want to make it difficult for Asuna to get Kirito's heart.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Sachi has a mole on the right side of her face, so has the girl who tried to wake him, I thought its Sachi
but I like the theory of her being his sister alot more
mostly because I can't see why he'd think of Sachi now that he has such a close relationship with Asuna.... unless they went for another "ghost"story element like they did with the fake-murders when that dead girl showed up at her grave.
edit: I just noticed something....after seeing the flashback of Asuna planing the raid as a vice commander.
"We are going to lure the boss into town" -> "Boss monster won't leave their rooms"
so what is it now :/
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