Sword Art Online Review: Kirito Thinks He Can Fight You Personally
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- I talk about an infamous series among those familiar with anime. It's both perfectly okay and absolutely not great and terrible. In fact, people specifically wanted me to rip this series apart.
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>be me
>Buy sao
>Get trapped
>Say the n word in the world chat
>Perma banned and kicked to the main menu
>GG EZ
Wouldn't that just kill you? Or worse trap you in the menus for however long it takes them to fix the issue?
@@getthegoons I think you get trapped in their version of prison until the game is done. Same thing happens if you try to sexually assault someone apparently.
@@SirBladewindwhat?
@@Galilupottepeak in SAO if you do something the system considers egregious you just get teleported to the prison for a time. Serious stuff gets you locked there until the game is beaten.
In the LN when Kirito and Asuna make out Kirito gets handsy and the system asks her if it's consensual or if she wants him booted to the prison.
So nah, I bet if you slur in SAO you just get thrown in Black Gate Prison on floor 1
@@SirBladewind thanks
Loli taking a break from taking about the Black Swordsman by talking about that other “Black Swordsman”. It makes sense.
There's the Badass Black Swordsman
Than that edgelord black swordsman
@@JustCobaltVA Edgelord. Just, edgelord, there is no swordman here
@@Replied_ByMeatr1der5 fair enough
@@JustCobaltVA guts beats
@@JustCobaltVA both of them have living? offspring
Kirito: _"I am the Black Swordsmen!"_
Guts: *_"No, you're fuckin' not."_*
Kiriito has never called himself the black swordsman in the canon of the series. Most of the times his enemies are the ones calling him that as a way to mock him.
@@aincradarchive Gigguk reference, bud. ;)
@@jakefrost7404 And is not funny because it was never the truth, an now everyone thinks that Kirito gave himself the nickname to look like a cool edgylord when in reality he could not care less about it.
@@aincradarchive You want to play arbiter of what is and is not funny, that's your business, I suppose.
@@jakefrost7404 hey i found it funny. That guy is just a butthurt sao fan lol
I remember way back when this came out and thought why wouldn't people raise an eyebrow that the VR headset you put on your HEAD have a microwave capability, something that could fry electronics much less your own brain. The internet would be questioning this constantly and people would be asking how safe this is. Even if the villain of the first season somehow hid the real specs of a microwave emitter that's powerful enough to fry brains, the MOMENT the headset is released, we'd have tech RUclipsrs eager to tear it apart and examine it and THEY will find the microwave emitter that's capable of frying your brains
We live in the world where people are willing to inject themselves with untested innovative drugs, just because the shiny box told them they should. And every specialist who dares to raise concerns about possible negative long-term effects gets silenced. So is this so hard to believe? Think, again.
You forget the people who are gullible and would believe the tech man who said it's perfectly safe 👌
@@DENIS_Biomech
What are you on about? What are you referencing?
@@DENIS_Biomech I have not been vaxxed because I am still waiting to see if there are any long term effects, that doesn't mean I haven't taken a flu shot or any other shots in my life, when it works the shit works.
Because we live in a society that's all about being distracted with entertainment and RUclipsrs have made careers in tearing down new technology, that's my point. When the current gen gaming consoles came out, there were quite a few channels and articles that talks about it, comparisons about specs and breakdowns. A literal game changing device like the NERV gear is getting EVERYONE'S attention, good press and bad press and in the age of social media even the tiniest thing will be brought up, leading to responses from the developers on safety or the fact that this device literally puts you into a dream like coma just so you can play the game.
Hell, Kirito even points out that he KNEW the device essentially messes with your brain so you can't physically pull the device off yourself. Like I said, if this was invented in the "real world" that we live in, people would quickly try to point out defects or if this system is actually safe to use. The beta testers would try to break it down and put it back together.
That's why RUclips disabled the Dislike button, and since SAO takes place in the near future more likely the comments section as well.
Two years' worth of gamer juice made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna
Oh Christ
Everyone has Uno. It came free with your nervegear
I don't have it, I got the oldest Nervegear known to man.
That intro was a work of art.
Even if it's not the "worst anime ever," can we at least agree that Sword Art Online is partially to blame for making people think that Geoff/Mother's Basement was intelligent and worth listening to?
Yeah…
A broken clock may be right twice a day, but it's still wrong for the other 22.
the fact that most of his vids are full cap and people still watch and like his videos never fails to disappoint me
Not to mention that he has milked that dead horse dry for several videos, and while it's got a lot of problems regarding its writing, tone, and overall world building (not to mention that Episode 3 killed off a character I liked), but I don't think it's as nearly as bad as a large majority of AniTubers paint it as.
I also think that people mislabel SAO as an Isekai, even though it's a VR game and not an alternate world.
And going back to MB, he comes across as a mindless Crunchyroll shill that abhors piracy and does his damndest to make the Cowboy Bebop Netflix adaptation look better than it actually is.
@@mattc2306 On the Bebop point: oh, if he wasn't already, he is _dead_ to me now.
>You will never get isekai'd to the dimension where it's perpetually the late 60's African bush wars except that everyone is a cute anime girl.
Why even live, Bros?
Jokes aside, I didn't hate SAO. If nothing else it gave the abridged community an infinite supple material to work with, I can't wait for SAO:A to reach the Gun Gale arc by the time I reach my 50's.
I liked the first couple seasons that was kinda it though
I’m interested to see how SAO:A handles Kirito’s trauma with Sugaha once he realizes that she’s Leafa, I want to see insane Kirito rise again!
Tfw no more bush wars in the world today. Why even bother
Mugabe Kun is best girl
I gave Sword Art a chance a long time ago when it was first airing on Toonami. It wasn't my kind of stuff. Before I stopped watching I thought the twist was going to be that Asuna was actually just an NPC who thought she was real given how bland and by the numbers her personality was.
That would give it more credit than it deserves.
They did that with the daughter character Yui, but it was done in one episode and fucking ruins the story if you take it in context of what exactly is happening and where when it goes down.
Honestly would have made the story a bit better IMO, very tron-esque
How and why is Asuna bland? Would you care to back up your claims in any meaningful way, with accurate information that comes from the show itself?
@@boyishdude1234 bro did watch the video this comment is tacked onto? Loli outlined why in the video. Cope, seethe, Mald my dude.
Huh, so that's the Black Swordsman arc I keep hearing about?
Xbox live screaming matches and Negative Xp? Man that's based
I think where SAO season 1 lost me was how everyone just stopped worrying about getting out of the game and only by the end did they just randomly figure out who and where the villain is and remember “oh yeah weren’t we trying to escape before?”. As for Kirito himself? He’s a Gary Stu. He survives experiences that should have killed him and for very eye rolling reasons (season 2 is guilty of this also). As for the “the viewer is supposed to be him” point? Eh, I see where you’re going with that, but honestly I don’t think that works anywhere except for an actual video game, where we the player have the option to choose how the player character acts. But SAO is an anime where we’re just watching things happen, the main character is already prescripted with a set path, we don’t get a say in what he does.
They really could've done something interesting by having some people just grow comfortable with the game and make a statement on how fucked that is or show some sort of message of "finding peace in hell". But it comes off more stupid because the show doesn't go dark enough to earn that so instead we get "hey, kirito! I'm random old guy background character. Wanna ho fishing?" Think of all the people that live horrible lives in the real world so they use the game world to escape from that. You could have someone who was suicide irl but in sao they're now powerful. They can kill monsters and be an insanely powerful player, the idea that sao is both a heaven and hell would be amazing if the show actually chose to focus more on it's themes and take risk instead of playing it mostly safe.
@@kingcyclops4079 "Think of all the people that live horrible lives in the real world so they use the game world to escape from that."
almost every main character and antagonist is like that.
Examples:
Kirito wants to escape the reality and the fact of being adopted.
Asuna wants to escape her horrible family. In VR she has finally has control over her life
Sinon wants to escape her weakness and PTSD
Yukki Konno, has a several medical issues, and can only have fun in VR.
Death Gun: Disliked by his family and became a player killer to feel powerful
Shinkawa Kyouji: Gets bullied in school, starts playing vr games to feel more powerful
Oberon: Has a inferiority complex towards Kayaba, so he wants to use VR to feel like a god
There is a even a episode about a married couple that got stuck in the game and how both reacted differently.
Griselda, a common house wife becomes a confident warrior.
Grimlock, the husband, becomes extremely depressed and hires assassin to kill his wife because he refuses to accept her new confidence as a reality, he refuses to accept a world where he is not the stronger in the relationship.
"the idea that sao is both a heaven and hell " is very present in this series, I can even give more examples.
@@aincradarchive tbh I only watched season 1. I'm not that interested in much else. If it seriously gets better I might be interested. I'm just judging from what I've seen, the show comes off more edgy to me. It wants to be taken seriously but at the same time just really falls back before it gets too dark. The reason I say edgy is because it feels like someone just trying to be cool and deep without either understanding are not wanting to go too far. I agree with the original post because it really does feel like they just don't take it as seriously as they should. All of kiritos friends die (I'll admit wasn't a bad episode) and then he kinda just forgets about them. Yeah, I know they're brought up but it feels like he gets over it pretty well. By the end he gets a gamer gf and then all the horrific shit he's seen he just kinda brushes off as "yeah well that sucked but atleast I have my girlfriend so it isn't so bad". It comes off as close minded and stupid to me that he just ends up looking back on this as a fond memory, as if he and thousands of people didn't just watch their friends die.
Maybe it really does get better I don't know maybe I'll check it out.
Same
@@aincradarchive Which is all fine and dandy. My issue lies largely in how it was implemented. In which it seemed random with how the urgency of the situation just got forgotten about, until at the last minute where they just suddenly go back to what they were originally supposed to do. At least to me that’s how it felt. Also not helped that Kirito dies, only to get revived after his brain should’ve been fried at that instant. Hence my Gary Stu complaint.
I just want to say, In season 2 the government hires Kirito to help with the Sao investigation because he is good at video games.
Fucking kill me
I heard the series gets worse over time
@@DaughterCesar in Sao3 there is another pervert villan like Sugou from the 2 arc.
Some thing do not change...
Is not because "he is good at video game" that is oversimplification. Teenagers got hired by the government all the time in anime, but apparently is only a problem in SAO
@@aincradarchive No, it is stupid every time it happens without an actual explanation. Yes, it is a problem in SAO. No, bringing other stuff that's bad doesn't make SAO good. Please stop it.
@@VladDascaliuc There is an actual explanation, but I think you wouldn't care if I explained. So may if for some miracle you rewatch the series pay attention.
Out of all the animes you could’ve chosen, this is the one that needed the review the most lol
Finally, the true Black Swordsman
I was about the say that xDDDDD
Ya'll cappin, right?
EXTERMINATUS
The only thing I don't like about Kirito is how so many anime protagonists that came after him all look the same
Like I get he's somewhat similar to the typical Japanese teenager... but christ almighty even Mob Psycho 100 protagonists look more varied than they do
Even some H anime's male characters weren't left out tbh.
@@fffffffffff8402 what?
The only way I can watch SAO is the Abridged version, Krito is a Jackass there but a likeable one at that.
He's just a real gamer in that.
Ballsdeep69 is truly the best hero of All time.
And the commentary on the game industry really helped.
In the abridged series the characters are given character.
Still can’t believe Bethesda Released SAO to the public after learning that it was a glitchy mess. I mean Glitch that kills the Boss but dosen’t Flag the door to Open, Death and Teleport animations being the same. Oh and a glitch that kills people in real life after their avatar dies. Oh well I guess it Just works.
Still can’t believe Kayaba didn’t just blame it on a Hacker group who trapped everyone. But hey When you’ve gone 3 weeks without sleep I guess you really start thinking anything is a Good idea.
I got this reference
@@Rannos22
Yeah 👍
Another thing that SAO dropped the ball on was player killing. In the game, if you kill someone, your name tag goes orange for an few hours unless you kill more, then it is permanent.
That is such a stupid plot specific cop out concept. It doesn’t matter if you were defending yourself or actively killing someone, if you end a life that’s going to haunt most people for the rest of their life. Not giving it the gravity it deserves is such a wasted concept.
Wrong, the show deals with the trauma of taking a life all the time, is the main focus in the first half of season 2.
@@aincradarchive i’m talking about season one. The one that most people watched.
@@aincradarchive
Fanboy alert.
Well not quite. You only go orange when you hurt another player, which you can revert back to green after some time, hence temporary. Player killers, on the other hand, had red cursors, which is permanent. I mean, this is explained pretty well in episode 4 of season 1.
Sword Art Online Abridged made this show a lot better
If the best thing you can say about a show is, "The abridged version is great." I have no desire to watch the source material.
@@nillynush4899 let’s be honest. It has very emotional parts cuz yeah people commit suicide and shit to escape or they believe it’s just a dream but the harem shit kinda hinders it. This was my literal introduction into anime and I thought it was the shit.
@@Eon233 why the spam?
@@Eon233 Even Abridged has better emotional moments.
@@mathnasiumalumni7608 it for some reason has been doing an error where it posts twice idfk
So here's my two cent regarding Sword Art Online and it's significance to modern day Indonesian culture: This Anime was and still is one of the most famous Isekai show in my country, Indonesia. And there's a strong reason for it: You see, when this anime aired in 2012/2013 most Indonesians were too broke to afford the expensive subscription in order to watch this Anime. So the only way we could watch SAO (and any other anime) as broke midde school students were to stream/download illegal anime on roadside Intenet Cafes known as WarNet. Now these WarNet themselves are quite interesting place to discuss since they tend to be dirty, poorly ventilated and provide you with low spec trash-tier PC..
But the thing is, it's fine, since most of the customers who visit these places are broke students or NEET who tend to play low-spec free-to-play MMORPG like Atlantica anyways.
So for many Indonesians of my age, SAO is often associated with those good old days as online gamers who threw around casual profanity and racism for hours on end. Of course now, as adults we know SAO is trash, the plot is full of holes and the horrible execution of the theme and premise are hard to ignore. But nevertheless, we still cherish SAO.
And what even more amazing is how this comunity of former online gamers are amongst the least racist people in Indonesia, in spite of our casual racism. I'm a bataknese, a double minority non muslim group that are ussualy discriminated openly by the rest of Indonesian society. You can easily differenciate us apart from the rest of Indonesians based on the fact that we're taller and more muscular in comparison to most Indonesians. Yet none of my former online gamers friends ever treat me in a discriminative manner. In short, this trash Anime brought together wholesome people, and it is nowhere as bad as pretentious AniTubers paints it to be..
Nah it’s bad it’s just if this is your soul form of entertainment and you have nothing else to compare it to I wouldn’t blame you for liking it
And I’m certainly not gonna blame a community that’s view has clearl been affected by it’s environment
@@Galvatronover it is bad, no one's trying to say that it was a hidden gem like Grimgar of Ash and Ilussion.
@@Galvatronover I think you missed the point.
Random reminder that John Carter of Mars was the original Isekai. Complete with the Waifu and power fantasy elements.
If we are talking the movie, wasn't he a Confederate? Like, I know some people personally who'd be down for a power fantasy with that part included but I don't think you thought this through.
@@shadowofhawk55 And most Iseaki protags start as fuckin nerds. Doesn't matter how you start, but you need to become OP and get a waifu in another realm, dimension, planet, etc.
And in the stories from the 1910's he was a Confederate Cavalry Captain still, yeah, but that is a whole other discussion about how the archetype of the ex-confederate becoming an adventurer or outlaw fleeing the arm of the union was super ubiquitous in literature and to some degree real life after the Civil War. Loads of the famous Cowboy figures both real and fictional fall into that archetype.
@@SneakyRANGERREX Gotcha. I was just having a laugh.
That moment of Cartman was me when Kirito didn't pick Sinon. What can I say? I like big guns and I cannot lie.
Edit - I didn't start this war, they drew first blood. Such a badass line used for something this stupid makes me chuckle.
Sniper GF is Best GF always in every piece of media. Prove me wrong.
*_As a fellow brother in appreciating girls with big guns, I cannot deny the merits in your taste._*
I was mad when watching SAO 1 the first time because he picked Asuna over Liz, watching GGO knowing he couldn't pick Sinon was painful
Was gonna make a black swordsman joke but everyone else already did it
People keep mistakenly calling any litRPG as an Isekai. In my opinion, only Log Horizon did the in-Universe stat system thing well. Goblin Slayer gets an honorable mention (it isn't an isekai; native isekai is just a word for Fantasy used by people with brain rot) as the stats are just an abstraction to the character themselves.
I remember that this was the first anime I had ever watched, my friend tried to get me into anime by showing me the first season. It put me off anime for maybe 4 years until I watched Berserk '97.
Feel any different ?
SAO has it’s problems;
But let’s not forget the fact that it did get popular and it was probably a couple of young peoples first anime.
Just sayin’.
🎩
🐍 no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰
"a couple" is a massive understatement.
Glad to see you here as well my man. I see you in Timcast comments quite often.
Those are two of the biggest reasons people hate it so much
Yeah and it gave birth to every isekei having stupid video game rules
I haven't seen you in years snake dude, glad you're doing Well
16.5 is obviously designed for the horni and raised WAY too many questions about the technology and the moralities. In fact because of this specific tech, it raises a lot of other questions that most people don't want to talk about
I like to think Kirito spooged while the EMTs were trying to load him into the ambulance.
Some poor dude got covered in Protagonist Slime.
@@TheAlmightyLoli Or worse, the hospital staff. Just imagine if EVERYONE stuck in SAO was doing the cum game and the nurses' daily duty is to clean up people's cum stains along with emptying their piss AND shit bags
@@Excalibur01 Duuuuude, i am pissing myself!! Heeeelp :)).
I remember that its uncanon and part of a joke for writing a doujin the author wrote for his own series for the Web Novel when SAO was web novel and could be read for free and I dont think its part of the LNs
@@insolus2307 It isn't...but considering what is said in season 2 about the VR technology and what ALMOST happened to Asuna tells us the concept of having sex in the VR is still very real
This show’s first arc was interesting. If we focused on any other character that isn’t Kirito, then it would be a lot better. Asuna or Klein would’ve been a whole lot better of a series. After the second time that Kirito got out of a situation with little to no health, I didn’t care about the series anymore. Because as long as Kirito was the main character, I knew he wouldn’t be in any real danger.
The same thing can apply to every anime ever, the protagonist always escape the dangerous situation at the last moment.
@@aincradarchive that’s true, but Kirito did more than 3 times, which by that point is just ridiculous. I’m sure his health bar was stuck at that point only
Why wouldn't the players just grind till they're max level? Also I can't believe I never thought about what of the WiFi cut out, what would the developer guy himself do if that happened to him?
i think it pointed out in the show that almost everyone gotten unplug to be tranport to hospital at one point. also the developer is more of an ai then person.
@@jackleface2903 Really? I've watched it a few times but I don't remember that, but I guess it explains how they got to the hospital. Still doesn't explain how the players didn't die from being unplugged, unless they only die if they pull off the headset and were able to turn off the game the whole time, that'd be funny
@@conorkelly4152 The show explained how the game master allowed for a safe period of time to transfer players to the hospital.
@@aincradarchive Bruh I swear I watched this like 3 or 4 times, can you tell me where they say this? Not saying I don't believe you just wanna know how I forgot this
@@conorkelly4152 I think episode 13 of season 1 has a scene explaining.
The SAO Anime debate is more of a landmine discussion than Religious Debates.
Scrolling through the comments of this video is hilarious. Watching Aincrad Archive desperately deflect criticism and make excuses with the same copy-paste, broken English comments is comedy.
Soy based Kirito vs meat-based Guts
15:50
There's an allocated amount of time when you can be disconnected from Wi-Fi. This was implemented by Kayaba so that the players could be moved to hospitals without them dying.
I was wondering when you would cover the guy Guts is based on.
Kirito is soy based. Guts is meat based
@@numbers9696 mmm those mutated child intestines works wonders on your muscle growth!
@@sirshotty7689 can you even eat apostles
@@numbers9696Kirito is based. Guts is ass*
I don't get it, this man claims to be the "black swordsman" but he has a tiny figure, he's not missing an arm nor an eye, he doesn't appear to have a metallic arm equipped with a canon nor does he have a rapid crossbow or an oversized lump of iron, and he doesn't seem to Inhale the purest gas known to man, R A G E. is this some kind of parallel universe?
he's the soyboy ver.
Kirito never claimed to be the black swordsman, the people around him use the nickname, sometimes his enemies use it as a way to mock him
@@aincradarchive indeed
@@aincradarchive it’s still cringe bro.
@@syntheticvocalist-p472 Originally, people made that name to troll him because nobody likes him because he's a beta tester. Then it kinda stuck when they realized it sounded cool and he goes around doing cool and heroic shit.
I disagree with the silent protagonist in the example with Metro. In the video games you get a pretty decent character with Artoym in his journal. If you read the books in my opinion he becomes one of the best post apocalyptic protagonist.
Oh man that reminds me, I always wanted to get into the metro books, same with roadside picnic. Never got the chance to read them.
I watched the whole anime when I was a 12 year old dumbass kid, looking back at the age of 20 I ask myself “why did I watch this and furthermore why did I like it?”
There’s nothing wrong with liking it tbh. Similarly when I was 16 I watched it and liked it, though I admit I didn’t have the best taste and I should have stuck with fma or somethiny
Escape is always nice. The anime has appeal and i understand why i liked it when i was younger. I just didn’t care about how bad the story was, or the poor characters, I just really liked the idea!
@@indrickboreale5463 the concept is good and has potential but the anime never really did a good job, kirito is just a generic Mary Sue protagonist that gets a harem and is considered a flawless hero, it hurts.
I liked it in middleschool ( i was 11 in 2013) and occasionaly rewatch it (even tho i don't like Alfheim/calibur). I recently rewatched the entirety of S1 and i'm re going through S2 this week. Every time i rewatch S1 i always find new things to appreciate and more stuff to criticize but overall i still enjoy it.
Wish SAO Progressive released in my country tho....
That sounds like a good question for you to explore.
The channel 'Scamboli Reviews' put it best for me when he talked about how, back then, SAO was truly something unique and interesting but as time went on, people looked at it more objectively and critically. I will always hold its impact and the first viewing in my heart, but that won't change how disappointed I get looking back on it now.
The popularity is simple. It's, as you said, just a power fantasy. Otaku love power fantasies & self insert fiction. That's how SAO got so popular.
Ehh, since many others were like it before, I think it's that factor PLUS the fact that Zoomers were coming of age around that time too, we got so many people on earth consooming animu now most new anime are severely bloated. Zoomers are probably the first generation to be raised by the internet from birth so this probably majorly appealed to them. Even younger millennials can remember a time before the internet was wholly dominate in their lives/entertainment consumption so the gamer power fantasy gets old.
@@nillynush4899 Actually, this explanation makes quite a lot of sense compared to the others I've seen. Hell, I'm old enough to remember not only a time when the internet was just a neat hobby for most with a PC, but liking anime or video games wasn't cool and you got looked down on and criticized for it.
Yeah, getting PTSD after killing people, Survival Guilty from the people you were unable to save, and brain damage caused by your own self hate is a great power fantasy.
The series makes a point to bring up how all the power the characters have is not real is just a virtual simulation, is actually a major plot point.
@@aincradarchive You'd have a point if Kirito still was not lusted after by every female character major & minor. Or if he wasn't good at every game he plays despite not having nearly the same amount of time experiencing them as he did SAO.
@@goldenrider2068 every VR game in SAO uses an special engine that allows for the skills and stats to be perfectly transferred between games, that was explained several times.
Here is a list of female characters Minor and major that never "lusted" after Kirito:
Griselda, Yolko, Yulier, Sacha, Argo, Sinon, Fanático, Yuna, Konno Yukki, Sheyta, Quinella, Musketeer X, Libel, Fizel, Selka Zuberg, Tiese, Liena-senpai, Rinko, Nurse Aki, Nori and Since from the Sleeping Knights, Dee Eye Ell and Lips the Dark knight
Ah the wannabe Black Swordsman.
The abridged version is hilarious.
yes
The only good thing that came out of this trash fire
14:54
Yeah, most of what you're talking about is unfortunately only thought of by the characters in the novels, and since there's nothing the characters can actually do with those thoughts, it's not mentioned much in the anime. I recommend that you read Progressive, by the way. It helps disprove the claim that Kirito is a self-insert because it clearly shows you his thought process and even gives him some memories he looks back to.
15:25
No, Kirito is the only one who kept his NerveGear. The rest have been recalled by the government.
11:38
I disagree, and I think that the explanation you wrote off as incorrect actually explains the "inconsistencies" of his character. This is because the episodes don't happen the day after the previous one, but in most cases, many months after. The scenes where he slowly opens up to others again and gets over his trauma fit with the amount of time that passes, especially since he manages to form meaningful connections with some of the people he meets.
So it’s ready player one mixed with bad berserk swordsman -Hold up is the anime with the femboy?
That intro was fucking glorious👍.
I'm just glad that the Abridged Series improved the story and made it a million times more enjoyable
The only good thing to come out of SAO was SAO abridged.
god that series is so great.
It was a solid 10/10
Then they added Big Blast Sonic from Guilty Gear Xrd and it went straight to 11/10
SAO was one of the first anime I watched from beginning to end and it holds a special part in my heart.
I'm calling Boone.
same
I am so sorry that's the case 😔😔😔😔
Same.
I just realized that Kirito is just Travis Touchdown but with none of the dramatic irony or memorable moments and character traits
14:46 I think that while they hint at it with Suguha too in her flashbacks, S2 did a better job with it using Asuna's parents, like her mom being disapproving of her 'wasting her life' on the same tech that made her comatose and Asuna eventually maturing (thanks to Konno Yuuki's positive influence) and having the guts to confront her
slightly unrelated but I'd also add that, whilst S1 already alluded to the topic of the 'authenticity' of feelings in a fictitious environment, S2 again takes the subplot and gives it a nice conclusion wrapping it up nicely. I don't know if at the moment i'm typing this you are planning to watch S2 but i recommend it
Well I wasn't expecting this.
We should do an Uno game night if people have it on Steam or whatever lol
Love the use of Negative XP for the opening song
15:47 there's a brief mention even in the anime that at a certain point there were many disconnections (they result in the player being paralized in the room he's in iirc and alone up until he reconnects, you have a grace period where you aren't immediatly electrocuted tho)
An Inoffensive video about an inoffensive series.
It just might be causality...
I refuse to call him the black swordsman at all.
I completely forgot about the incest arc in alfheim online
[Don't forget that] for someone that claims to respecc whamen, Reki Kawahara implements a lot of grapes in his work.
WINCEST
I watched this when I was younger and the "die in the game die in real life" trope hadn't been worn out for me. That gave the show an overarching anxiety that really set it apart for me. Everything felt amplified and more intense because it was all overshadowed by the idea anyone could die at any time, though looking back on it they kind of fucking wasted the potential of the whole thing, watching it moment to moment the first time was an experience I won't forget.
I do a Uncle Ruckus impression when playing as a paladin in D&D
You nailed the reason I dislike SAO types of stories: just nothing more than cheap power trips to make the reader self insert to someone who gets everything handed to them. No conflict, no development and just a slow rollercoaster with a few bumps to make you feel like you daring rode a EXTREME ride.
Wonder if gut’s astral greatsword can cut through kirito’s plot armor, something to think about.
Full disclosure, this was the first anime I followed as it came out when I started trying to get into anime (I'm a gamer at heart at the end of the day) in 2012, so I'll admit I was part of the wandwagon at the end of the day. Thing is, I never truly got attached to the series because it failed at what I was actually looking forward in the series: a realistic depiction of a video game anime. I tried watching .hack///sign before watching SAO, and got somewhat into it before it got boring with the mystery of the cat person being the kid mother's and what-not. The video game stuff just felt tagged on and combat just followed the rool of cool animation, flashy attacks that are limited only by the animator's skill and series budget, instead of the rule of video games, limited attacks that follow a set of rules that's limited by the engine and the complexity of the code. There was no questing nor grinding, staples of MMO-RPGs and the reason Kirito was supposed to be as strong as he was, just in passing as comments. At the end of the day, *THIS* was the reason I never got into SAO and other Isekai animes.
Then GGO came and dropped it halfway there. It was a somewhat cool premise, but really stupid execution. Didn't like Kirito's melodrama over killing a happy murderer, nor did I like stupid stuff in the adaptation like having Kirito say "Shoot the guy" but the anime wasted minutes to do anything just to build tension, I'm not a fan of that. Good thing I did cause I wouldn't have liked the ending, nor subsequent sequels. A couple of years later I saw Digibro's video shitting on SAO Part 2 and thats when I jumped on the hate wandwagon.
I think a lot of modern weebs, or anime watchers at the very least, watched SAO as "baby's first anime." I mean, outside of barely remembered Toonami viewings, SAO was my real first intro to anime outside of DBZ Kai, I though SAO was mid at best when I first watched it anyways.
Look for *Hai to Gensou no Grimgar* if you're into more "realistic" isekai (in case you didn't watch it already)
@@dantethewanderer4989 SAO wasn't my first anime, not at all. That title, obviously, goes to Death Note (Although I never finished it). I meant first anime in the sense as in following it's release, although that's also a lie (The first one I followed was a Yuri slice of life about girls working for a newspaper delivery, don't remember the name). The first anime I finished was... I think it was one called Simoun, but I'm not sure if it was it, or perhaps Devil May Cry.
@@1EFeKT1 I'm not really into anime anymore besides the odd one that gets my attention, like Re;Creators did (Which was actually the most recent anime I watched and the last one too). Like I said, I'm a gamer at heart, I like to be immersed but anime more often than not pulls me out of the stories they're trying to tell. I am into manga though, although I try to avoid Isekai, Manwha, and mainstream shit unless the artstyle is really fucking good (Except Manwha, I reject that shit on a fundamental level regardless of the quality of the product (Although it's not that high from what little I read)).
@@sirbruno95 fair enough, though the reason I recommended Grimgar in the first place is because it's very "realistic" game-wise.
At the beginning the characters REALLY struggle against low level monsters and have to grind and work hard on their tactics in order to level up even just a little.
They also have to manage their supplies as a bed, money and food are not easy to get.
Anyways, I also used to be a heavy gamer, until work and my kids forced me to have a more flexible schedule, so I couldn't dedicate hours at a time to play a game, so I switched to playing rogue like games (with saving mechanism 😅) and watching anime on short "bursts"... That's life I guess 🤷♂️
Got me really wanting a Shield Chad review, loli. New season coming in April and I just rewatched season one.
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Also, I'd just like to point out that the Aincrad arc was meant to capture life in Aincrad. Not just the happy parts or the sad parts, but all of it. The point was that you could live a real life and have real experiences in Aincrad, even if it wasn't part of the physical world. This is a similarity to our lives in the physical world, which have their ups and downs as well.
Best Uno meme was the Richter one.
Reuploaded & re-edited just to add the glass throw. Dedication right there.
The only season, shame they didn't extend the series
There is a movie coming out that focuses on Asuna's side of the SAO story. Comes out this friday in theaters.
@@Excalibur01 probably not going to watch it, I'm not a massive SAO fan at first but maybe if I'm bored and remember that I'll give it a look
@@sumtenwitty6021 it's a guilty pleasure for me. You SHOULD watch SAO abridged
@@Excalibur01 I just cannot seem to be able to care. What even is there to show of her "side of the SAO story"?
@@VladDascaliuc SAO was always about Kirito when a more interesting story is his better half. It is even said in the light novel that Asuna might actually be a better fighter than him.
The first arc blew my fourteen year old mind back in the day. I could barely get through the second arc and haven't watched any of it since.
You should do a video on sword art online abridge
Let's be real, the reason gamers die is because of lag. There really should have been more jokes about that in this anime and frame rate issues.
The light novels are good. The anime is ok. Personally speaking it's a decent series to chill out and watch but it never got me pumped for the next episode/season. Jobless reincarnate does a better job at the fantasy aspect.
Brutal Legend is an Isekai. The fact that it's both a Western Isekai, and that it does the genre really well is shocking. RTS gameplay aside, and ignoring the fact Eddie Riggs is a Gary Stu, it's a pretty great game with a fun story.
"Brutal Legends is an Isekai" is an incredibly weird sentence to read, even if true, which is why I am commending you for that statement.
Thanks I hate it
Maybe life ain't so bad after all. I can put down my dad's 45. and go through one more day.
Ah yes, the virgin black swordsman. SAO abridged is the only reason I care about this show’s existence, lmao
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"Computer, I want you to simulate a full Xbox Live multiplayer lobby of the 2009 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Enable misogyny, name calling, racism and xenophobia, sexually explicit language, and swearing... Oh and computer? Turn all N-word prohibitors... off."
"I hear it gets better in later seasons"
I mean, not really? SAO II had a really cool concept, but it absolutely suffered because Kirito had to be in it, and he just HAD to use a fucking sword in a game revolving around guns. The only genuinely good later season is the spinoff SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online. And the whole reason it works is because literally none of the characters from any other arc are in it, and it's written by a competent story teller.
That said, Chapter 16.5 is a literary masterpiece, surely greater than all the works of the Great Library of Alexandria.
your concept of masterpiece is really messed up man.
I will never forget the globbing sound. Truly an inspiration
What’s chapter 16.5?
What’s chapter 16.5?
What’s chapter 16.5?
"I don't have time to look at the rest of the series."
Somehow finds chapter 16.5 of all things-
The reason why Kirito's characterization is all over the place is because a lot of it doesn't even come from the original story.
Aincrad was written in 2001 as a short story and published in 2002. It started on the 74th floor, then went through a flashback sequence of Kayaba's announcement and then it went straight to the ending with the KoB guild shenanigans. Everything else in the anime were taken from short stories written throughout the years-for example the murder mystery comes from a short story compilation novel he wrote years later.
I'd say that Alicization is pretty decent though, even if they still didn't do a good job of explaining some mechanics.
It's less that it started on the 74th floor, and more that it skipped from floor 1 to floor 74 in the space between chapter 1 and chapter 2.
But-- finally, someone else around with the obscure(?) knowledge.
A show with asun- plot plot plot
You keep pushing it with the music bro. I respect it
Finally, the true gamer anime
Kirito recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. I just can't get behind that
Shout outs for the use of the Dead Rising mall music. Bangers.
The Virgin “Black Swordsman” vs The Chad Black Swordsman
That's what makes SAO such a bad anime in my book - it's nothing, not even fantastically terrible - there's no reason to watch it beyond pure normie peer pressure.
Offensively unremarkable/10.
SAO isn’t a good show, its just not as bad as people make it out to be. Its like the Nickleback of Anime.
I would love to watch at least a 12-episode series of a mmog anime where everyone talked like a oldschool cod lobby.
I found you through the JSG video and was checking out your back catalog of videos. Gonna have to dive into your Berserk videos at some point haha, but being a big SAO fan I appreciate that you didn't completely bash the series like others have. You should check out the other seasons at some point and come back to it.
You mentioned that SAO is all a big numbers game, with no strategy, which is a lie.
Kirito almost die to a lower level player that tricked him into drinking poison, that is strategy. The situation was so bad that Asuna had to step in to save him, great gary stu self insert who needs to be rescued.
That wasn’t necessary a great example considering it’s simple. But alright.
How about when Kirito was in ALO, and used ilusion magic to scary a big group of Salamander players that drastically out number him, and were kicking his ass, that is strategy.
holy shit you've made dozens of comments on this video now, you're WAY too invested in this shitty show dude
@@TAKEYOURCREATINE So people are allowed to hate SAO nonstop for years, but when I try defend the series is weird?
There always two sides of the argument.
I'm just speaking my piece.
@@aincradarchive You're not defending the series. You're doing nothing but making excuses and deflecting criticism. The fact that the anime is dozens of episodes long and you can only find a few examples just proves the point. Let me introduce you to a saying I love. "The exception does not define the rule"
Considering Gut's and Kirito's nicknames this is ironic....love it lol
I really enjoyed the video Loli. I wanted to ask if you ever though about doing a video on Overlord. It is usually categorized as your normal bland isekai but to me it is my favorite isekai ever. It covers a story about a person in a dieing world
escapes in a video game. To play with his only friends friends that are now gone when he was isekai He is now reborn in the game filled with responsibilities of taking care of his and friends hard work. Ainz is not a harem protagonist, or a underserved overpowered character. He has knowledge, he plans, and has his own character traits that makes him feel like a own unique protagonist.
Holy shit pairing Negative XP to SAO is the most fitting thing I've ever seen Jesus christ
I really liked SAO but I understand why people hate it and it has some major bad and stupid moments that really ruine the whole worldbuilding.
that being said what I like most of SAO are the few emotional moments, the times when things got pretty depressing and dark, particularly what stand out for me is,
1. the moment Kirito loses his guildmates and friends in the second episode of the first season, afterwards Kirito is obsessed with finding a way to bring his lost teammate Sachi back from the dead and goes on a almost suicidal quest to try and find an item that brings people back from the dead and he does get the item, the catch is it only works on people who died I think 2 hours, which makes him go solo for a while and be the edgy dark character people both hate and love.
2. after spending some time with Asuna after getting ''married'' they are recalled back by the guild commander telling them they need their best players for the next boss (last team got destroyed) Kirito does not want to go back and begs Asuna to just forget about getting out and just stay in the nice parts of the world and just be together there, Asuna explains that in the first few months some people just died without any real cause and wonders if it's because their biological bodies must be kept alive in hospitals and some people's bodies just died, at some point their bodies too are just going to collapse and she wants to get out of the world so she can hug and feel Kirito in real life and perhaps have/be a family.
3. I think the last part that stuck with me that I remember was near the end of season 2 (spoilers for those of you who have not seen it) some amasing swordswoman is challenging people for sword duel and she actually beats Kirito, what turns out is the woman is a terminally ill girl who is kept in a coma like state with not much time left and she has spend most of her life in the video game world, for her life itself has been the game and the arc is basically her enjoying the last few days of her life and then dying, it's really sad and depressing.
anyways those bit stuck out for me, I enjoyed it for what it is, frankly the abridged series of SAO is so much better than the original, it makes fun of the plot holes, the characters are more fleshed out and the humor is just awesome, it's one of the best.
Kirito is the least threatening black swordsman of the two and that a fact
Youjo Senki is my favourite Isekai anime. It still has some of the tropes others have, but the protagonist has a very distinct personality and there's a lot of deeper themes about God and humanity, hell, Tanya doesn't even want to be this badass warrior. She's constantly trying to get away from the front lines because she despises war. She just happens to be really fucking good at it.
"Have you ever seen Scanners?"
What the hell is this
SAO Season 1 and 2 are horrible. I'm not sure about the following seasons or spinoff.
My main issue with SAO is that it has a REALLY cool premise and it squanders it entirely. It also bugged me that we never saw any kind of progression at all. He's like level 80 on episode 2 lol.
Finally, we're given one golden rule of this game - You die if your HP drops to 0... Except Kirito doesn't... He will-powers through being stabbed in the chest. I guess all those other people that died just didn't want to live hard enough....
thnx man
i just read chapter 16.5 bcs of you
now i know why people think it's peak.