I'm five episodes in and this is surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting that.
>>288077514Once you've finished episode 14, just go straight to the next season.
>>288077514SAO was great until probably 2/3's the way through season 1, and not watchable again until after you completely skip the gun gala.I have such fond memories of season one during the really good moments, but man I do not know why they chose to take that route lol
>>288077514I really liked the Aincrad arc. It was a really solid arc and the whole series would have been great if it stayed there and didn't rush it. I didn't like the elf dance arc that much but it introduced the hottest and best SAO girl, Suguha. Gun Gale Online was good when it tried to reconnect to Aincrad. I didn't like the Yuki arc that much. The new year arc (norse mythology arc) was fun.Alicization was a bit overrated in my opinion.
I really only liked season 1 BUT season 2 did have Sinon and she's cool
I thought it became crap the moment they got the fairy daughter.GGO supremacy. Sinon and LLENN are too good for Kiricrapto and no matter how many reboots they try, he will always be a cringe MC
>>288077514>beater crap, other drama crap>switch mechanic>mmo/game mechanics making no sense/being ignored when required>master 'hacker' thanks to C and http book>happy family with npc daughteru bullshit
for me its Lisbeth
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>>288079739>>288079850The Amy Rose of SAO.
>>288077514Sword Art Online?More like Sword SHART Online.
Alicization season 1 is the best because of pic related. GGO is also great just for Sinon. The rest is kind of mid
There must be something good if it lasted four seasons.
>>288082244Women really fucking love Kirito for whatever reason
Don't care, post Sugu/Leafa
>>288082462>Sugu/Leafa
>finally get a non-mobile SAO game that lets you make your own self insert that isn't Kirito's side character>it looks like thisWhat the hell is Bandai's problem? Why are cel shaded environments and models such a hard task for them?
So why did Asuna get appointed the NTR queen?
>>288082737Shut up Kirito
>>288082544Asuna is horny for Sugu.
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>>288083247sugu, you wore it backwards. backwards!!
>>288083259cringe retard
It's reminding me a little of .hack//Sign.
>>288084147proto-SAO which was a rape doujin predates .Hack by two years. The SAO web novel began at the time of the beginning of the .Hack anime. I guess trapped in a virtual world especially in a fantasy MMO stories were trendy at that time. Yugio, Fairy Oddparents, Kim Possible had at least one episode with that plot and they came out during that time. I think I remember there being a Chobits episode also similar.
>>288084294hunter x hunter 98 invented being stuck in a video game
>>288077514If you are enjoying the anime definitely read the novels as well, I found they added a lot.
>>288077514should have leaned harder into the waifu shit instead of just having Kirito have oneitis after hitting once
>>288082244There are concepts it made popular that were copied for damn near 2 decades at this point, so I think it's just a love for its tropes which I admittedly also love.
SAO Abridged was surprisingly good from 1-11 as well. Probably peak fan parody.
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>>288077514It's not bad, but it's problems become more and more apparent with time.
>>288082231I wasn't that impressed. Extremely strong start, interesting story, but can't tell it to save it's life. I dropped it when Kirito and the other guy jumped to a bunch of conclusions at once, all of which I assume turned out to be true, then met some tiny girl who just dumped an entire episode of exposition about the sexy main villain that had never appeared or been mentioned before then. Fuck it.
>>288086255Imagine her pregnant and lactating
>>288077514It begins anons...IT SURE IS SUMMER IN THIS THREAD
>>288078549Because the author sort of fucked himself over. SAO was written as a one-shot for a writing contest, so he wrote the story of the start of the death game up to Kirto leaving Klein behind, then a time skip to the end where Kirito marries Asuna and the death game ends when they kill Heathcliff. When the series was serialised, the author tried to continue the second volume by making them short stories of Kirito during the middle of the story, but then I guess he wanted to continue the story instead of being stuck making interquels, and the only way he can come up with was making up new games for Kirito to play
>>288079728Switch isn't a mechanic. It's something the players came up with because there's a short animation lock after they do a skill. Another party member basically jumps in to protect the stunned player while they wait for the animation lock to end. Shangri-La Frontier also does a similar thing during the Weathermon boss fight where Sunraku and Oikatzo were switching with each other
>>288077514don't worry it turns to shit fast
>>288077514I tried hard to like this garbage...
>>288082462Here you go.
>>288087884The Sachi part and Kirito's painful realization that he couldn't save her no matter how strong he was is good though.
>>288077514As someone who has only watched the anime, I never stood the hate for it. It's the only the second half of the first season that I didn't care for.
>>288077514I want to fuck Kirito.
I master beater if you know what i mean
>>288088674The Moonlit Black Cats was mentioned in the first volume, so the author got to expand on that in Volume 2. He basically treated Volume 2 as an excuse to introduce new girls, worldbuilding and mechanics.>Silica was used to explore Pet mechanics and how PK guilds worked>Lisbeth was used to explore Smithing and the origin of Kirito's second sword>Yui was used to explore NPCs, Admin Controls and how younger players deal with being trapped in the game>Sachi was used to explore guilds and Kirito's bond with the players leading to his trauma at watching their deaths. One of the side games also mentioned that Kirito actually softened up the boss that the Moonlit Black Cats killed before they arrived, accidentally making them overestimate their strength and thinking they were stronger than they actually wereThe author would then continue the story with ALO, GGO and then the Yuuki arc before briefly returning to SAO again.>The murder case was used to explore safe zones and the death mechanics>There was also a chapter dedicated to Kirito's first day in the game, which explored quests and featured Kirito accidentally causing a player's death after said player tried to get him killed first, and some additional flashbacks to Kirito's relationship with his estranged, adopted family whom he regrets pushing away after he realised he might never get to see them again
>>288077514Stop at Episode 14 (end of Aincrad arc) unless you're *really* curious. I feel like it doesn't improve afterwards, the end of the Aincrad arc is a good enough ending, truly.
>>288077514this anime single handedly mogs midren and other overrated garbage anime. it's only hated by tranime enjoyers and eceleb cock worshippers
>>288090210alicization is the best anime ever made retarded faggot. now go such your tranime eceleb cock
so many pseud elitist faggots itt seething . sao mogs your top 3 tranime moeshit garbage
SAO is simultaneously the most overrated and the most underrated show of all time
>>288079576It did. It suddenly turned into a harem romance anime.
>>288090705It's not a harem, though. Even if the girls do show interest in Kirito, he never reciprocates since he's already dating Asuna. It's no different than how Bunny Girl Senpai and Bakemonogatari handle it
>>288079576>GGOJust say you want to fuck the girls. Pretending that completely forgettable show as decent is cringe.
>>288090874Just say you are gay
>>288090954Just go watch hentai if all you want is to jerk off.
>>288077514Who else is a passively suicidal BEATER?
>>288082737Because she's the female self insert
>>288077514I got two episodes in and then dropped it. It's so bland.
>>288090835And just like both those shows, SAO is worse for having this “harem” of orbiters and not focusing on the main couple.
>>288077514stop there then, that's about itor maybe you get another two episodes, basically as soon as the SAO arc finishes, just stop there and never touch the series again
>>288090835>it's not a harem, you're just stuck with four (and growing) extra female characters that add nothing of value to the show except for lusting over the main character and showing off skits about them acting embarrassed around him or showing pantsu or something retardedright
>>288090835Embrace the harem tag. Don't let nornalfaggots who hate fanservice or yuritroons tell you it's bad.
>>288077514Then you can start watching the Progressive movies, move to the Progressive manga/novels, wonder why such an important character is missing in the novels/manga and find out they added a fucking OCDONUTSTEEL for some reason that ruins the whole story.
>>288092271>yuritroonsBut what if I like both harems and yuri and especially in-harem yuri?
>>288090248Alicization is the worst arc by far. Not only did it kill off best husbando, it also had one of the most retarded plot points i've seen in anime with kirito's mind being restored by other people's memories of him.
>>288092644Now that's a good question.
>>288077514S1 was decent GGO was a bit better and everything afterwards is utter shit
>>288077514It is funny, there is nothing wrong with SAO but there was nothing in it that appealed to me in my teeneger years, the whole trapped in a game setting just never clicked for me
>>288092436They also sacrificed First Day in order to shoehorn in OCDONUTSTEEL, too. Honestly, that's even worse than removing Kizmel. >remove the emotional weight of Kirito having to just let someone die and watch it happening right in front of him on the first day>completely butcher the surface-level plot so that Asuna and ocdonut have the moment but worse because the bitch didn't even have the fucking courtesy to dieWe will never have a proper adaptation of Aria, ffs.
>>288077514SAO is the epitome of missing potential.Aincrad is an excellent premise that is rushed WAY too fast - it could have easily been 24 episode son its own. ELO gets bogged down with side plots while also being too short, though it really only needed 6 more episodes.GGO is probably the most well-done arc overall, but there's always the nagging thought that it's premise is a worse/lower-stakes version of Aincrad.The side quest and Yuuki arcs are filler and I never watched anything afterwards.Arguing over who is best girl is pointless because too many of SAO's girls are best girls, but Sinon and Sugu are bestest girls.
>>288082462Suguha wearing a one-piece swimsuit is something classic.
>>288095049She always looks like she's going to burst out
>>288093708who's the blonde? some reboot new chick?
>>288095856You mean it always looks like her breasts are going to burst out? I don't agree with that but at least no one can deny that she's endowed, she has bigger breasts than Asuna and Keiko (obviously).
I'm looking forward to the new game and the information about the movie soon
It's cute how horny anons still get for SAO girls.
>>288077514>I'm five episodes inThe problem is all that comes after that, one of the biggest waste of potential ever.
>>288077915You should probably skip season 2 as well.
>>288078549I think I could've watched at least three seasons of the show of them just doing mmo things and working to get out of Aincrad.
