What D&D Alignment is Asuna? (SWE SAO Abridged)
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Today we’re determining the D&D character alignment of Asuna from @SWE parody of Sword Art Online!
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Asuna isn’t a sociopath just an average teenage girl. MFW the average teenage girl is a sociopath.
I hope its the crimson fucker
Please tell me you're covering Abridged Alucard!
You should try thanos alignment from marvel! My money is on that he is lawful evil
So what is her alignment in the end?
"She's not a sociopath. She's a teenager."
"They're the same picture."
bro, that's actually so onpoint
As a teenager currently surrounded in a room filled with teenagers, I agrer
"Our best player is a girl who thinks DPS is some kinda sex thing."
Might be my favorite line from anything ever.
"Kirito?! I killed a thing and now it says I have "ex peas." Is that bad?! AM I DYING?!"
In the abridged series, watching Kirito and Asuna build a relationship is like watching caustic soda fall into a vat of hydrochloric acid and being pleasantly surprised to see the mixture turn into brine water.
This is an amazing metaphor and I'm stealing it.
That's the best metaphor I've ever seen
"Never confuse youthful selfishness for genuine malice. Nobody isn't kind of an asshole in their early twenties, and if they actually weren't, they were probably sociopaths." - Alucard, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
Uh... Asuna treats Kirito to dinner because she feels bad/embarassed that she misjudged him and assumed he had molested her in her sleep. Not out of some sort of weird gratitude that he hadn't molested her.
Like, that's why she spends a good 10+ seconds flustered and stammering when Kirito obliviously asks her what she thought he had done to her.
Still Neutral Good though, I agree with that XD
Agreed. Though I can get where Stuart is coming from. If you look her dad and her "fiancee" in the first episode of season 2, you can understand why he'd think she have a low bar to clear.
I feel like one of those "Casca enjoyed it" guys, but I feel like Asuna was hoping he did it with that "You *_could've_* " and the fact that she might've forgiven Kirito if he did something like that, since she was assuming he did something to her in her sleep yet still said "And you may live", which she would DEFINITELY not do to anyone else.
I swear I'm not like one of them I just think with how fucked up this character is its somehow possible 😭
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@@elongatedsedation324 no
@@elongatedsedation324In a fucked up way I get what you're saying, I don't think it was what the authors intended but yes you can definitely read it like that.
I think what makes Asuna a perfect "yandere that isn't evil" is that she seems to genuinely think that's how you are meant to act. She KNOWS she's being a manipulative bitch, but she seems to think that's just what she's MEANT to do.
At least extrapolating from the stuff with her parents, and the "HEY!! At least I PRETEND to be nice to people!", which gets said in almost a way that she isn't in any way upset or surprised by how Kirito is acting - she's just miffed that he isn't ALSO putting up a front while criticizing, as if he's being hypocritical. I've always read her as seeming to run off the assumption that everyone is either incompetent (e.g. Schmitt) or like her, and Kirito grabs her attention since he blatantly breaks that rule.
It's a very, VERY believable outlook for an emotionally neglected rich 17 year old girl with uncaring parents.
Also, shoutout to Asuna's older brother for maintaining his streak of "WAIT, HE EXISTS???" in Abridged, as far as I know, since I think they left the "Asuna stole his Nervegear" setup the same.
ASUNA HAS A BROTHER????
@@johnseymore4774 Kouichirou.
He's a couple years older and was the one who snagged a Nervegear and copy of Sword Art Online, but he worked for their dad's company and was deployed overseas on the day of the launch. Asuna was just borrowing his stuff.
@@cpMetiswas that ever adressed in the anime? Because I had no idea she even had a brother.
@@vicenteabalosdominguez5257 I think he's mentioned in the novel as early as the honeymoon. The wiki lists his first anime appearance as being during the recent Asuna-focussed movie.
Also, apparently he's (ENG) voiced by Denji.
‘She’s not a sociopath, she’s a normal teenage girl’
So, a sociopath?
LOL
Someone chatacterised her as a "straght-up psychopath"
5:00 I'd argue that treating Kirito to dinner wasn't out of gratitude, but as an apology for accusing threatening him over something he ultimately didn't do.
that's a good point
@@TheLoadingCrew I can understand where Stuart was coming from though. With her father viewing her as an unwanted expense and her current “fiancée” in season 2 is a predatory creep, I can understand what he means about the bar being so low.
@@bradleybourgeois4710 plus she's in a game where there's a murder guild and no real consequences for being stalked. I'd argue she's probably experienced some sexual harassment through the game. also, I think maybe what she expected was groping, since I don't think it's possible to take off another players armour even if they're unconscious?? of course, that's still bad
@@Someone-or8tp The anime avoids touching on it, but there is an anti-sexual harassment system that acts kinda like a "kick from lobby" system, where if a player touches another player inappropriately the system prompts the victim to teleport them to a temp jail area and I think make them an orange player (which is pretty bad).
This system can be disabled by the user, which is why there can be "fun times".
Unfortunately, an exploit was discovered I think around the time of the murder arc where some players discovered that you could manipulate a sleeping player into using their menu by physically moving them while they slept. This was typically used for theft, but was also sometimes used for murder (starting a duel to the death and accepting, then killing them in their sleep) and could also be used for sexual assault by disabling the anti-harassment system.
There's a lot of crazy stuff to SAO that the anime doesn't bother talking about or mostly skips over. For example, there's a type of alcohol that can actually get you (sorta, not splitting hairs here) drunk. I'm pretty sure they even leave in a joke about Kirito being disappointed about getting a regular beverage during one of the anime scenes when he visits Agil's cafe/bar.
I'm not sure that's true considering Kirito doesn't seem to understand what she was getting at. I think it's part gratitude part trying to change the subject from an awkward conversation. But eh maybe you're right and she wanted to apologise even if he didn't get it!
In the immortal words of Abridged Alucard, "Nobody isn't kind of an asshole before their mid twenties, and it they actually aren't they're probably a sociopath!"
Abridged Alucard, 2 seconds later: "YOU'RE A SOCIOPATH!"
asuna only investigated the murder in the abridge because she wants to spite krito and prove him wrong.
While that is what the writers of the show want you to think, from the death of the author point of view, I don't think that is true based on the fact that she was comforting Yoga Pants prior to the start of the investigation. I think at minimum it was to keep up the appearance that she cared about people, though it could be argued that she actually cared about others but wasn't emotionally mature enough to admit that was how she actually felt.
@@SpaceCowboyfromNJ "Your only doing this to prove I was wrong" "Yer Well at least I pretend to like people" This is the exchange they have. she doesn't deny she doesn't care because of the murder and in fact doubles down, She might have done the investigation if he wasn't there but that is because she is a manipulator and has an image to uphold comforting yoga pants costs her nothing but holds up the illusion, looking at the interaction with Liz proves she will absolutely fuck up even those who she considers friends if they stand in the way of something she wants more, even by where abridged is now the only truly selfless act other than saving Kirito is trying to log out all the test subjects and not just herself. Also in the sheeptar planning meeting she is the only one who doesn't react to the brutal murder happening off screen.
"Emotional commitment chicken"
Enough said, that's one of the greatest lines I've heard in a while, and I don't even know if it were intentional or not-
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Take my free time!
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You should absolutely do SWE Kayaba because honestly aside from abridged Kirito he’s one of my favorite characters.
Also Don Flufles!
@@henry_tsai yeah him too.
🤣😂yeah I love abridged Kayaba as well.
I don't think there is enough content there for them to make more than a 4 or 5 minute video unfortunately. He isn't around enough for it I don't think.
Maybe could work as a short, but probably not as a full video. But I do agree, it's a nat20 delivery from Takahata101
What kind of teenaged girls have you known? I knew mean girls but not that crafty or so sociopathic
I was a high school teacher for 5 years. trust me...she's average
that is terrifying lmao
@@TheLoadingCrewshe... she is AVERAGE?!
@@TheLoadingCrewWait, a teenage girl committing cannibalism is average!? I mean yeah it's in the second part so you may not count that but still.
@@henry_tsaiwait...what?!
in the paraphrased words of the mighty alucard (abridged) - no one isn't kind of an asshole when they're young unless they're a sociopath
immedeately followed up with YOU'RE A SOCIOPATH
I'd actually argue that at least the first part of the investigation would be lawful neutral or true neutral. Since her motivation was to prove Kirito wrong rather than to actually help anyone. Like Kirito said "Oh spare me, wonder woman. you're only doing this to prove I was wrong."
One of my favorite things about Abridged Asuna is the amount of agency she is giving. She's more than just arm candy, she regularly makes choices, some horrible, terrifying, or mean choices, but it's clear she was making them, even if she put very little thought into them.
Also, looking forward to abridged Vegeta with Lani.
"The level 1 starter dungeon hidden boss death incarnate" best line in the video
"whoa whoa whoa! we can't just go around sacrificing NPCs! Some of my best friends have been NPCs!"
"We must save my family!"
@@atoth62 You see? Some of them even have fa-a-a-ah...Gary. SCUSE ME! I have to go say hi to an old friend. Won't be a minute.
@@keyblademasterclark
"We must save my family!"
I remember seeing somewhere that SWE hit the romance nail on the head better than almost every anime ever. I would also just say that SWE writes the show better than anyone could have. They have a loyal fan base that is more than will to wait for a year to get the next episode.
Explanation point. He made a two-part review 6 years ago.
@@CiaranMaxwell I see those videos in my recommendations basically every time I get to watch the newest SAOA, along with a bunch of others in the same vein, and they run together after a while.
I want to agree with the end analysis, that Asuna isn't truly a bad or psychotic person just because of what she's done, that she's *that* much impacted by the life she's lived and that she just doesn't have any way to know better. That she doesn't know what she's doing.
*...She kinda does tho?* The "Dumb bitch Sally" scene. The line after "It doesn't matter anymore," that's *such* a deeply fucked up line, trying to corrupt and erase other people from Kirito's life and history, just like she did Liz. She is _consistent_ with this, dere when she gets her way and horrifically, methodically yan when she doesn't.
Asuna's entire character throughout season 1 is dedicated to isolating and breaking Kirito just so *she* can be the one to bring him back up. And we can see the effects this has on him *and* Yui in Season 2, how Kirito is an emotionally broken mess who can't really reconnect with anyone else even his own sister when the chance is there, and Yui has gone from a gentle sweetheart trying her hardest to fix broken people... To becoming a sadistic, threatening, manipulative *evil* person just like her mother was, even towards Kirito.
I understand how the alignment system dings work for this series, and I get why at the end of the day, putting her at mildly neutral good makes sense. But damn if the weighting doesn't feel like a major impact here. Asuna might be a good person for Kirito once she's gotten her way... But she has learned how to be evil, ostensibly from her mother if some internal dialogue in the honeymoon arc is to be believed, and uses it. Calling her "just a kid" at this point feels wrong when she knows how to use sex, violence, and emotional baggage to take the legs out from Kirito over and over again until he can only rely on her to even stand.
Oh yes, finally someone says it. The "just a normal teen" doesn't really work for me either.
I completely agree. One thing I've come to realize is that when analyzing fictional characters you can almost break their alignment into an "internal alignment" and "external alignment", where their internal alignment is more looking at who they are and why they do things, whereas external alignment looks at the effect of what they do one the world around them. I would give Asuna a lawful evil internal alignment, because of how she systematically tries to destroy and subjugate the people around her, especially those she seems to care about, but a neutral good external alignment because despite her best efforts she still has a positive impact on the world and the people around her.
Another character like this would be Kelsier from Brandon Sanderson's books. In Mistborn: The Final Empire he is portrayed as a chaotic good freedom fighter, but the more we see his motivations and actions in his other appearances (not going to spoil what they are, but they are pervasive) he is definitely at least true neutral, if not neutral evil, but because of his the circumstances around him and the existence of a greater evil, he happened to be exactly what Scadriel needed at the time.
I mean, I semi-agree. Asuna definitely isn't a "good" aligned character. But I do think the assessment that Asuna legitimately doesn't know how to have healthy relationships is correct.
I'll point to her interactions with Tiffany and her interactions with Kirito while with Yui. Her being racist towards Tiffany is definitely unintentional. While her interactions with Kirito while dealing with their marriage show deep-seated insecurity ("DON'T YOU LOVE ME??"), and a genuine unawareness that never showing weakness doesn't lead to healthy relationships ("Do you ever think that's why Mom and Dad are getting divorced?" "No time to unpack that now.")
You are right that Asuna is "horrifically, methodically yan when she doesn't get her way", but that seems to be moreso the "default" way she was taught to respond to things of that nature, rather than an active choice on her part to behave that way. She's basically parroting/mimicking her parents because she likely has no other frame of reference to what a "romantic" relationship looks like.
"Asuna's entire character throughout season 1 is dedicated to isolating and breaking Kirito just so she can be the one to bring him back up."
This isn't true? Like, at all? The only time she did something of that nature was with Lis, and that was specifically because she saw her as a potential romantic rival. Which is fucked up, but has nothing to do with "isolating and breaking" Kirito. She never even says anything about Kirito hanging out with Tiff, despite her unintentional racism towards him and the fact that he's basically the only friend Kirito hangs out with on a regular basis.
"how Kirito is an emotionally broken mess who can't really reconnect with anyone else even his own sister when the chance is there"
Uhhh.... Have you seen the recent Season 2 episodes? Like, to begin with, Kirito was always an emotional broken mess. He just covered it up with bravado, contempt and sarcasm. So again, wrong.
"Yui has gone from a gentle sweetheart trying her hardest to fix broken people... To becoming a sadistic, threatening, manipulative evil person just like her mother was, even towards Kirito."
Again, not true? Asuna has had no interaction with Yui since her introductory episode. If anything, Yui's more recent behavior would be attributed to Kirito accidentally retraumatizing her by turning her into an item and placing her into pretty much the exact same situation Kayaba did unintentionally. Plus, she's always been sadistic (Go for the eyes, Daddy!!), manipulative (Her masquerading as their daughter to begin with) and cruel (her roast of Yulier/her little "prank" at the end of the episode). And she's not evil. All of her behavior has specifically been to either get Suguha to confront her issues, or to expedite their rescue of Asuna. She's still trying to fix people, she's just a lot more direct and straightforward in her approach due to the pressing nature of Asuna's abduction.
@@Birthday888 "The only time she did something of that nature was with Lis"
There is also that whole scene where intentionally uses Kirito's ptsd regarding Sachi to make him reliant on her
@@KatieGimple She wasn't trying to get Kirito to be reliant on her though? Like, for one, she's not utilizing his PTSD, she's dismissing it. She was really trying to use his PTSD, she wouldn't say something like "Whatever, she's dead now" so casually to Kirito. She's also not trying to isolate Kirito?
Her primary intent in that scene was to try and get Kirito over his PTSD. Hence her dismissive attitude, her insistance that she wasn't going to die, and that "things would be better this time". She does so in a horrible emotionally abusive/manipulative way, because she's a broken mess of a person as well, alongside Kirito.
Asuna is so much of a sociopath. No wonder she got together with Kirito, she's the only one to actually scare him just shy of a literal death. They make for such a great couple, and Yui puts their relationship best when she described it to them.
I don't know if she's a sociopath so much as she's a relative normal teen who was raised by sociopaths. She herself does have empathy and kindness. She's just not entirely sure how to use it.
13:38 Seriously, why *wasn't* this in the main show? Having the theme from the intro play *at the final boss* just adds to the scene.
Neverminding the fact it was funded in THIRTY MINUTES?!? The power of weebs is truly incredible.
For those who wonder why Asuna's "I know" is treated as Nat 20 History Check, it's because during the whole series, parallels are drawn between Kirito and Kayaba are the only ones with the pop culture knowledge to understand each other's references. The bridge is cut during the final episode when Kayaba misatributes a quote from Myth Busters to Dungeon Master. And Asuna takes it from here, quoting Han Solo from Empire Strikes Back to cement her relationship with Kirito.
Kirito is the one who misatributes the quote from Dungeon Master to Mythbusters (although I'm with Kirito on this one, haven't heard about Dungeon Master until I watched SAOA).
I can't wait to see Kirito go to Chaotic Good and Asuna go to Chaotic Neutral leaning Chaotic Evil when you do the second season for both characters.
I'M CALLING IT NOW, THE LAST ONE IS ALUCARD FROM HUA! (Pronounced Hoo-ah at Taka's insistence)
I'm predicting that its abridged Vegeta.
@@justinbowman1342 Yeah, he seems way more "anti hero" than the literal vampire lord that is barely being held back by his rather edgy master.
WE NEED A REAL Fing VAMPIRE
As much as I like Abridged Asuna as a Character, She is certainly a lot more evil then you give her credit for. A lot of her good actions feel to me as purely driven by ego, more so then even prime Egoist Abridged Kirito. She does what she does because it benefits her and her goals, be it to uphold a positive reputation or to isolate and claim Kirito for herself and herself alone.
In turn, Kirito has one advantage: He hates that he does it, but in the end, he admits himself that people have made him care. Something I would not recall Asuna ever doing. Actually caring for people.
i have a feeling these alignments would be different if we include the alfhiem stuff up till now
…ynkow I was gonna argue against this, but then I remembered that Asuna straight up ate a dude (or at least his potentially non-humanoid model) to wage psychological warfare against her captors. I’m willing to argue her threatening that one dude’s dog was just sadistic intimidation tactics, but the Index’d (does anyone even remember that abridge series?) level of cannibalism jokes kind of tips a lot in a different favor.
Yeah Asuna goes a little off the deep end there. Although to be fair, she is being held hostage against her will so being a bit extra hostile is understandable. Kirito meanwhile actually gets surprisingly more mature and good-natured. I'm interested to see what will happen when they meet back up.
@kylepessell1350 Personally, I would love a part 2 where he covers Kirito and Asuna in AALO, as well as the changes to Suguha that might make for an interesting video.
@@kylepessell1350Considering that her captor openly admits his plans to turn her into his brainwashed sex slave IRL, I think going a little crazy in your desperation to escape is understandable.
@@willowdelosrios4326 Less "going a little crazy" and more "allowing the mask of sanity to fall away."
Ok admittedly SAO proper doesn't handle Asuna the best, at least she gets her own spinoff where it persprctive flips to show her side of SAO's story, meaning that even Reki knows that he did Asuna dirty.
"But yeah, she's doing some fucked up shit here." - a good summary of her character.
The 14:53 "Yoko is just 14 and that's problematic" is pretty funny because whoever put it together used a picture of Yoko from after the 7 year timeskip when she was at least 21.
Asuna reminds me so much of one of my high-school "friends" she had no concept of healthy relationships and would lie to and manipulate anyone she could she lied about how much money she had she lied about liking people and well i won't go into her other lies she needed a lot of help i hope she got it
Abriged Asuna is a person who is emotionally capable of eating another person alive. Perhaps the guy did deserve it, but that is not normal teenage girl stuff. If she is good, it's because she hangs around the right people.
i mean she was doing the fucked up shit she did in season 2 cuz she was trying to save the people trapped by that one jackass
@@tirrekbekirr3002 Pretty sure she ate that guy alive before she knew there were others trapped too.
Yes, SWE stuff and other abridged type of things can have way more interesting characters than regular media. SWE's new Smartphone Abridged really blows the whole character stuff out of the water.
That last quote on how nobody really knows what they’re doing and relationships require hard work was great
“Asuna’s not a sociopath. She’s just a teenage girl.”
Other teenage girls:
Killing the Assassin was not chaotic evil. There are no real prisons and there is no higher authority than the high level players. It only looks evil from an extremely comfortable distance. If she had brought him in and then killed him, that would have been lawful good, but given the circumstances I call her actions true neutral at worst and neutral good at best.
I feel like killing Kuradeel might have been able to get away with being CN, if it weren't for the "NoOoo!" before stabbing him.
I had a relationship that we believed was like sao proper, but in hindsight and more emotional awareness, we did but that wasn't good. We acted like we weren't flawed and only showed lovey-dovey affection. When actual life happened and I opened up honestly she was disgusted. I love the abridged because the characters are emotionally deep (awful but deep) and it satirize a show that I can't stand anymore.
11:22 INT check 2 indeed. The first time I can recall seeing two characters Abilene Paradox themselves into marriage. 😆
Wait average teenage girls aren’t sociopaths?
give it a second
4:50 I think it's both, her trying to change the subject because she's embarrassed that she thought he would do that, and two, that she felt bad for thinking he would do that.
I'd love to see Suguha done when SWE finishes season 2 (and maybe even an update for Kirito if needed)
About the kirito being asuna's superior when it comes to the usefulness they showed it isn't that bad in the long run when you see all the things she's been mentioned to do. She at one point beat an opponent that kirito struggled with because she is MUCH better at using SAO's combo attacks and in the process learned a skill that kirito couldn't hope to learn. When others refer to the assault team who took on dungeon bosses and helped take down criminals in SAO she is widely referred to as just as much of a menace to them as kirito was. notice how her heathcliff and kirito are basically the only ones to actually receive nicknames such as lightning flash, the living legend and the black swordsman. Granted she definitely doesn't get to shine on screen as much as kirito even when Spoiler warning for Alicization
She gets access to a admin account with literal god powers. she creates a couple land masses (which does actually save their asses on multiple occasions) but then gets her ass kicked in most fights she was a part of. granted so did Suguha and Shino but i'd argue Shino was kind of a badass in her fight up until she got clapped.
Having "Thoughts of a Friend (AKA A Friend on my Mind)" from Xenoblade Chronicles playing during their last scene was actually a touching choice for me, loved that episode and so excited to see more from SWE
I hope you do follow ups to abridged Kirito and Asuna (and maybe Suguha) once SWE finishes abridging ALO.
A video on Violet Evergarden please! I really want to see you review this character!
I'd be excited to see you do season 2 SaoA at some point.
Bro "I know" at the end hits so fucking hard. For those of you who didn't catch it the first time, she says the same thing as Han Solo when he confesses, thereby making a movie refrence to Kirito at what they think are their last moments. Beautiful writing.
trust me, Asuna's attempt to talk 2 tiff is 100% realistic. happened to me when i moved to sweden. just told them i didn't grow up in the hood and dont care to socialize with sensitive people (it doesmt mean your a b!tch to get offended, i just have tough skin.)
I like how it fits into her manipulative personality. She's trying to put on that facade of niceness that she usually wears, tailor made for the people she's interacting with but she just doesn't know how to tailor it for him. He does seem to talk a little different than the others but she turns it up to 11.
For the most part in real life, it comes from the genuine desire of people to fit in. If you go to another country you generally speak their language to connect with them. You could call it prejudice as you are presupposing the target's culture based on their skin color but I don't really think it's racist.
10:30 Ive actually been thinking a lot about rapunzle from tangled. emotional character, but also plot wise has proper motivation and initiative. it's probably the best female lead I'm familier with
I'm gonna guess the final abridged character is Vegita. I think I remember you making a reference to abridged Vegita in the Vegita alignment video (when concerning how he hooked up with Bulma).
The funniest part of this scene 8:29 has to be the fact that Kirito legit flat out tells asuna he loves her because she had the foresight to bring lunch for them lmao
16:15 I think a big issues with Asuna's character in the show is: The show is not all that great an adoption of the sauce.
Both because the show, and because the sauce order of events was weird.
Originally, the books skipped straight from shortly after episode 1 to the S class ingredient scene directly (you can even tell where too, that scene makes it obvious it's supposed to be the exit of a time skip.)
In that context, Asuna is introduced right away as the first, and ONLY, wifu material.
All of the other episodes between then and now (except episode 2) were side stories from vol 2. Ep 2 was actually a part of a spinoff that goes over the early floors, and there Kirito and Asuna team up for a long time.
Just saw his vids last week. Loving it thus far.
I'd call the murder mystery thing lawful neutral not neutral good. In this Lord of the Flies society, high level players are essentially frontier law enforcement. In a sense it is expected of her and Kirito that they would get involved. It also gets into cultural concepts like giving face and saving face, but her sticking with it is very lawful.
8:35 oi, calling the Korvac a "faceless dude" are fighting words! ^^
Good Wife.
That's my final answer.
He's quick to write off burning down a building as a normal teenage thing
"just girly things"
3:59 The Guild Name is (SWE) “Knights of the Blood Oath”. The Manga version is either “Knights of the Blood” or another precursor organization (like NIS |-> NCIS)
I love the voice work abridged Asuna does when she starts breaking down with Yui
Dude, I am 99.9% sure that Asuna treating Kirito to dinner is NOT a "Thank you for not molesting me" it is "Oh god oh shit, how do I pave over this extremely awkward situation I've gotten myself into with my assumptions?!"
She also tries to set Kayaba on fire with her Mind
possibly
Hey man, been a bust week so I just got around to watching it, but loved it.
I would say that she is still pissed at kirito and is just digging in to prove him wrong and "one up him" (also, she was just as annoyed with his comments at dinner) as it fits with her characteristics.
Finally, I hope the last one is EMIYA for last from UBWA, but if they've already been covered, its probably Frieza.
please... Ill do anything, ill buy your damn book.... please never EVER say snussy agian
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I like how this video notices that Assuna has some very evil tendencies while still being a good person at heart.
Huh..... this actually works together with the Alignment that Kirito ended up with
I find the Red Knights naming gag you're doing do to unintrest in it, it's funny and really shows your feelings about the series proper
the red what now?
@@TheLoadingCrew
Love ya guys and your humor
You're covering Abridged Alucard from Team 4 Star, aren't you? Regardless, a 3 part mini series covering Shulk, Rex, and Noah would be cool
I had stuff to say but then loadingcrew took it all out of my mouth. lawful good.
Oh, I see you are a man of culture and know about the forbidden chapter
I feel like many people misunderstand the point of original Asuna.
She is the tamer, the one who turns a rogue into a knight. That is her purpose. To make edgy teenage boys wish to live a fulfilling life instead of wandering aimlessly.
She does so not by being a powerful person but by steering Kirito into being a caring person. Solving a mystery, helping Yui, helping the knights in their fight when he has the means to do so.
These are not things he would have done had he not met Asuna.
To reject this is to not understand her purpose to the story.
Asuna isn't a a sociopath. She's a psychopath. She has emotions clearly and evidently. She just has absolutely no empathy and cares about everyone else only so far as she can use them for her goals. She does start to change throughout the series, first with Kirito and then with others but that is where she starts.
0:32 the $60,000 icon is just blatantly a humanised version of Cresselia from pokémon
You guys kickstarter's really evolved since like the crystal punk 1 2 years ago
oh...that wasn't us. that was a sponsor ^_^
Wait... is this SAOA Asuna?!
Edit: 0/////0 yessssssss you have my like and sub
13:47 God, bubble monkey is amazing. 😆
First video of yours I've seen, and I regret not knowing about you sooner. Subscribed.
thank you
I’m guessing the next alignment breakdown will be Alucard from Helsing abridged.
there's still a second season of the abridged series focusing on the Alfheim online section.
the fact we dont touch on the partial Alfheim Online arc is sad but understandable
I love how s1 Asuna is NG while we all know that she is just Chaos with the current direction of her being a damsel on a warpath with multiple break outs.
" Do you really need a torture terminal for each individual Brain? That is so ineffecient ,just cram them all into one! you would have so much more space
Gosh i would be so much better at Crime" -Asuna SAO Abridged Alfheim Arc
Sadly he has downplayed the clear flaws of characters he likes and being a little biased before. there was also the Kazuma video where he omitted some of the bad stuff Kazuma did and gave him a higher alignment then he deserved.
Well in Kazuma's case his good deeds ultimately outweigh his negative qualities so the bias isn't that strong. With Asuna here, yeah totaly bias leaking through. If he ever does a follow up video after ALO arc is done and he still thinks of Asuna the same way well... Somethings very wrong with our dude then.
@@user-vo3hu7qg1o outweighing is one thing, not mentioning negative behavior and therefore not taking it into account is another...just saying.
If the next one ISNT Alucard for abridged from Hellsing abridged, we riot
I love the 'I love you' 'I know ' it was great in Star Wars, and it's great in SAO Abridged.
wait, no comment about 14:32 , Kirito has been known throughout this series (abridged version) to constantly make references to movies and pop culture, and then Asuna pulls a complete 180 and makes a friggin Star Wars reference (Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back, when Han is getting frozen in Carbonite Leia says "I love you" Han replies "I know"), showing Asuna might be picking up some of Kirito's traits.
I...did?
I'm gonna take a guess that you're gonna do a video on Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z Abridged I'd love to see more comparisons between the original character and they're Abridged counterpart like during the goblin Slayer video
Kirito TRAPPED Yui. Poor YUI. Yui is left screaming now.
Well Yui thought pretending to die was funny.... until daddy pulled out major hack0r skillz and "saved" her as an item.... no knowing Yui was alright (though her being aware might have been the reason Asuna got over admin stun).
she has to be a sociopath to even LIKE abridged Kirito that way
You should try the Abridged version of Toya from the Smartphone anime, one day.
Its telling some of her stalker behavior isnt called evil when if it was a guy doing it then it would not be a question.
ya know what. yeah.that was a double standard. but the tones of the series were different so I guess that's why it didn't register for me. i'll be mindful of that in future videos tho.
17:53
So, as much as I wholeheartedly agree with this argument when it’s used to push back against the “DBZA did it better” sentiment, you have to understand that SAO is not a remotely comparable situation to the DB manga and DBZ. It was not being rushed out weekly without the time to add in foreshadowing and development, or being forced to rework main villains into side characters on a monthly basis without the time to properly plan out the story’s new trajectory, it didn’t have to work in scenes with good animation potential to every chapter because the anime was only ever a handful of episodes behind.
The SAO anime had 10 years of Reki Kawahara’s hindsight and growth as a writer put into it. It came after the webnovel was reworked by him several times, reworked by a professional editor into a Light Novel, reworked again through retcon side stories that were trying desperately to make Kirito and Asuna’s personalities and relationship make more sense, and finally rewritten from the ground up into “Progressive” (which was worked into the first couple episodes of the anime, even though its release was delayed to coincide with the end of SAO proper in the anime). In terms of the sheer time given for hindsight and revision, the SAO anime had even more than the first arc of the abridged series. I don’t want to be overly harsh on the guy, writing’s hard, but I don’t think it’s fair to say that SWE’s narrative had any more time and hindsight behind it than the original’s story.
one thing, Asuna actually fucking murders the laughing coffin fanboy traitor, She pretends shes gonna let him live before turning around off scene and killing him. Can hear the Death SFX before it moves on
To expand on Jobless reincarnation Rudy Grayrat request. He can have two pucks on the alignment wheel. On pick for the kid the people of the world see him as and one for the adult the audience sees. Kids actions might appear to be Neutral Goob but the audience knows the reason behind the action is Lawful Evil.
I hope you go on to do the 2nd season of SAOA and start where the season 1 ended with the "tare". Dude should get a pass for half that season.
I, as a human being, am problamatic, thats the closest to proper use in a long time
Please! Let! It! Be! Alucard!
god i love being early on these
Remember she will eat that biscuit... Nom nom
14:36 Why need fan art of that scene from Empire Strikes Back but with Asuna and Kirito.