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@kristopherprime9837that's what happens when you waste such cool events in the actual series while an abridged actually uses those events to their advantage
@@complex6753more like that’s what happens when an abridged series gives a character an actual personality instead of a perfect human being with zero flaws that literally no one can relate with.
It's actually pretty clear why he went full asshole after the first boss. The people in the raid didn't listen and follow the plan and the leader got killed because of it. He even points out that one dude who was still playing Bejeweled.
Well, that and it was just a continuation of how he was treating Cline at the start of Episode 1. He wants to mock people with his power because this is the only place he can do so. It's just that so many of them make it so easy by providing him new material. :)
I agree, but also want to point out that just before this, when Diabel was dying, Kirito said something like "In another life maybe we could have been friends" and Diabel just said "I doubt it." So not only was Kirito fed up with the rest of the raiders, but his insecurity had just been triggered by Diabel's rejection. So it makes even more sense, at least in my mind.
isnt he mocking them so that the other beta testers arent harshly treated? so he can take on that "mantle" instead of all of them being treated unfairly?
Not sure if it gets mentioned but Kirito's PTSD is directly triggered by the words "Your fault". They were sachis last words, they were the words silica said before kirito helped her, they were the words Lizbeth were about to say before kirito interrupted her with "don't say another word" AND they were what spurred kirito to save the fake spaniard. "If he gets himself killed its not our...DAMMIT".
Considering that Kirito confirms in the most recent episode that he has asthma, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason Kirito's mom pulled him out of Kendo was for his health and he kept it to himself because he though his sister would lose respect for him.
Especially considering it seems like the grandfather is an abusive POS as a teacher and knowing my own father would never take Kirito having asthma as an excuse especially considering the way his sister talks about how he taught her just screams abusive to me (my current analysis is that Kirito probably didn't even know that his mom had pulled him out of kendo because of having asthma knowing that if his grandfather actually tried teaching him it could literally get Kirito killed if he has an asthma attack if he tried to go for his inhaler he would likely have it be straight up removed from his grasp and then his sister became the victim of the grandfather and as her maladaptive coping mechanisms became distant from Kirito and even mimicking the abuse she's received towards him ultimately eroding any connection they shared (the kendo scene dialogue to me at least indicates that)
I would say, kirito said he thought Rosalia’s group may have been laughing coffin,a group of notorious murderers, and was purposefully drawing them out. It’s vigilante justice, but I wouldn’t call drawing out serial killers to take them out is explicitly chaotic evil.
In fairness it's likely he was just trying to draw them out to flex on them anyways, and the fact it was a weakling guild just made the flexing into something to laugh at for him rather than something he had to try to accomplish.
@@rowletthejowlet6241 "Sorry, Grand Wizard Asuna here isn't exactly a people-person" "Hey Mr. Kettle! Mr. Pot called! He says you're blaaaaaaaa... ck."
The big problem with the characters is their lack of personalities, but the abridged series saw how much potential they had. Cell is boring Frieza, Kirito is every generic hero who inspired more characters to be generic, alucard is the least like this but he is just a plot device to say the vadguys are done Exclamation point has multiple videos on Sao abridged on how they saved the show Tfs is doing a commentary on tfs bento showing how much they put into cell and how each stage is very different from crazy imperfect, driven semi, to confident playful perfect Alucard is a bored immortal, who is desperately trying to stave off boredom and sees himself as a god At every point they said their not just the villain, or the guy who's in focus, they ask why follow them, how to make them memorable and make sense.
@@gototheend1139 I wouldn't really say Alucard has no personality. The whole premise of his character is that he was a man who desperately tried to be a good servant for God during the Crusades, only to end up leading his men to their deaths and being known as a mad king, eventually becoming a monster. He now goes to battlefields and fights men and monsters, trying to find a good place to die. The best way to describe him is what Integra's father said about immortals. "That they are, in fact, frail, sobbing children."Granted there's characters that are more more well made, but I wouldn't say he lacks a personality. I would say that the abridged series did a better job portraying that in a funny way.
I love the End scene with Kiaba, because it does makes sense. Game development is hell and given that is a device that doe connect directly to your brain can leads to horrible bugs. From all we know the Beta was filled to the brim with bugs. And given that he probably slept like 2 hours a day at the end trying to fix it, it is understandable that such a big mistake can happen and no one notices it because there was no quality control. And he also explained that in his state of mind (which was fucked) he thought that pretending to trap them on purpose was a good idea (Lack of sleep for weeks can lead to very stupid ideas and very questionable states of mind).
Considering how, in college, there was a silly challenge among my small group of friends of going without sleep for a few days, write a whole page or two on word doc on whatever comes to mind, sleep, and then read whatever the heck you ended up writing, that definitely checks out.
I kinda figured kirito going all a-hole and stealing the coat was because he had someone die in his arms, refusing to be healed, because the masses had drained away the guy’s will to live. On top of that Kirito’s coping mechanism in general is scathing remarks and mean-spirited humor to close people out.
I assumed he did that because he was in shock, someone literally died on his arms a few minutes before and he had to almost die fighting what likely in-universe looked like an hyperrealistic red-eyed colossal monster using a huge-sword, and then got bullied and accused of causing deaths. In some other short story we discover he gets sentimental when alone and stressed VERY often before the events that led to him and Asuna pairing up. If someone told me he went to cry after that in some locked-off room in a town on Floor 2, I wouldn't be surprised if it was canon. Dude wasn't in his right mind and only Asuna's support (as we see through Progressive) kept him from unironically considering su1c1d3 or going insane. Dude was on the edge for practically 2 years. And the same stress and anxiety pattern seemed to repeat across almost every high-level player, the entire clearing team was full of anxious wrecks that knew how to fight for their lives. But that was also their weakness.
I'm sure he'll probably do a part 2 covering Season 2 once it's fully finished. That'll be awhile before it actually happens, but we'll just have to wait and see
Stuart likes to go through whole seasons or series, so I can understand why he didn't. However, while he doesn't like the original series, I could see him tackling season 2 of the abridged series after it's done.
Oh come on, as soon as season two is done he has to cover it. I will watch this video on repeat, if I have to, just to convince Stuart it will be profitable
@@jseries101 Right after that, kirito tells lizz about the stupid name he gave the sword and she responds with "i can't believe i wanted to have sex with you." Which implies that she was already changing her mind about the relationship after realizing that he's still an asshole.
People laugh, people joke, people claim that SAOA is a funny fix of the original, but the reason I recommend the show endlessly is because of the heart and care that was written into the characters beneath all of the jokes of opportunity.
11:32 this is highly debatable, it's pretty much confirmed she's just trying to provev him wrong, she's doing it out of spite, she outright admits she's just pretending to be nice to people. SWE have made it very clear that both Kirito and Asuna are super f*cked up. I imagine we're going to see a similar growth arc for her in a later season, probably season 4 since she's hardly in 3
Yeah! Kirito in my mind is more Chaotic Good, while Asuna puts on an act as Lawful Good but is actually closer to Chaotic Evil. With Kirito you have to look at what he does, not say. For Asuna you do the opposite.
I doubt SWE will make more SAO after S1 is done but I can see them compressing like 3 or 6 episodes in 1 if they dare to do S2 to just rush through it. And avoid the previous format of doing full-episode parodies that take years. Even now they are going through fairy dance super-fast.
I believe there are so many video essays on why SomethingWitty's SAO is just the best version of the show, but I'll highlight a few points here that are my favorites: 1. SWE's SAO World is actually shown to understand Video Games, and those who play them. In SAO proper, the guy who wrote SAO actually had never played video games at all before writing the story, and it shows. (Heard this somewhere, need a better source on this however) 2. There are many times in SAO proper where the useful items, Teleport Crystals and Healing Potions, simply aren't used or don't work with little explanation. In Abridged, the entire game is buggy, so a teleport crystal simply not working is a bug of the game that never got fixed. 3. Minor Details are literally EVERYWHERE in Abridged that add to the story in very small ways but can leave huge moments of fridge logic that make multi-leveled conflicts. Within the first month of SAO's launch, 2000 people died. Couple that with a player stealing the tutorial NPC, which is even brought up in the Season Finale could mean that a large amount of players simply did not know how to even play the game got killed because of it. Or for Season 2, at the start, Kirito says that "(He's) not the same little boy with asthma anymore." and later in the series, we find out that his sister holds a large grudge against him for quitting Kendo, putting those pieces of information together, you could easily think that Kirito quit Kendo due to it being a large health risk to him, and his sister didn't understand why, or was never told why, leading to this conflict. 4. This is a personal one, but Kirito's voice. SWE's Kirito *actually* sounds like he's a teenager instead of the official voice where he sounds like he's in his mid 20s. A main character's voice can really made or break a series, and SWE's Kirito *sells* SAO for me. 5. Music, as touched on in the video, the musical choice of 30 Seconds to Mars': This is War, is *such* a good song for SAO as a whole. All the players are trapped within this digital world, a Brave New World for them. And Season 2's OP being asking if they could live a real life between the devil and the digital sea fits completely with what Season 2 is, switching between the game and reality trying to save someone important.
1. Reki did played games before and admitted that they were partially what inspired SAO, he just wasn't a big enough gamer to properly understand general gaming community. 4. Definitely a personal one I don't find anything wrong with og kirito voice. 5. It's good but original SAO also has impressive music. SWE managed to find what works for their version of it.
Corrections: 1: Mr. Kawahara is a gamer, but he NEVER PLAYED an MMO before writing SAO. SAO's main inspiration was Wizardry. That's why several parts of the arcs before Unital Ring feel like friends playing the multiplayer of some RPG game that simulates being an MMO (like Hollow Fragment). Also this IS why Progressive and the spin-offs show Aincrad in a better light when it comes to VRMMOs in-theory. 2: Funnily enough, the few times we see that happening in canon are the only times it happened at very inconvenient situations. Anti-crystal traps are ULTRA-RARE in Aincrad, Floor 74 boss room was the first time a boss room OF ANY KIND had an anti-crystal trap, and Floor 75 had this same gimmick, indicating Kayaba let that be on-purpose so no one would think that was ever going to happen. 3. Correct 4. Correct 5. Indeed, this is also why Crossing Field is also liked, Aincrad's battlefields are called like that because people and monsters "cross swords" or each other across them. The song refers to a crossing field, but of the mind, what Kirito, Asuna and likely most of SAO playerbase had to mentally go through as their future was uncertain and they really only had each other, even the animals weren't real so no actual pet comfort, Pina gets the pass tho.
@@Obelisk-oj4fu I don't think he'd really do that given how when Rosalia pointed out his Asshole choice to bring Silica right to her He just says "no, she's right I totally did that"
His speech at the end of Illfang does actually make sense. All the other players have done have proven to him that they are exactly as he thinks, useless. They let the only person who was actually trying to save them to die, and left only him and Asuna to fight the final phase of the boss. Side note, the reason Kirito and Liz never get together in the abridged series isn’t because Kirito insulted her, it’s because Asuna threatened her life and then burned her shop to the ground when she thought Liz was trying to make a move on Kirito
*YEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!* The one Abridged version of a series that's superior to its original in every single last way. I'm so glad a video is being done on this
When I saw the notification I was like "OH NO!!!" After though, yeah, this abridged show is absolutely amazing and is so much more enjoyable than the original and Abridged Kirito is such a relatable character. From douchebag to genuine hero. SomethingWitty did an amazing job on him. I can't wait for the other abridged characters soon following the Asuna one. And Thirty Seconds to Mars: This is War as the opening and for the final fight in season 1 is the best use of a song for an Abridged series ever!
"You know something? I really. Hate. Kirito. He's a boring, one-dimensional, poorly written character with basically no interesting qualities whatsoever. I mean really! Look at all he doesn't have! Personality! Character growth! A compelling arc! It's just a never-ending parade of power fantasy and wish fulfillment! He is, without question, a complete write-off of a character. AND HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME THINK HE'S COOL!" -You, probably.
i can call you out on all of that. 1. in general he was a loner especially since before he was a teen he found out his entire life was pretty much a lie his mom wasn't his mom ect hense the gaming. 2.he didn't join klines group bc he wasn't good with groups, he took the cloak to play the role of the bad guy so there would be no in fighting esentially isolationg himself. and the moment he actually opens up the entire guild he joined dies. the anime only skims on the shit that he is thinking about.
Honestly kirito fake and kirito true is one of the most fascinating case studies on writing being critical to media. Just a change of hands in the writing for characterization and plot and kirito goes from the most boring and uninspired walking cliche on legs to a multi-layered character who suffers, loses, and grows despite of how powerful he is rather than because of how powerful he is. Cant wait for the sister video to this one!
I just finished watching the video and it definitely made me understand why SAO Abridged is so beloved and even though I won't watch the show or at least not yet it's definitely piqued my interest in the series
I had an old character in a Digimon themed campaign that had a similar dynamic to one of the party members as abridged Kirito and Asuna. So this is going to be fun to watch.
@@alexanderlucard4810 It was a two and a half year long campaign so I got a few. So there was Artemis who was a cop that saw the world in black and white. Your either good or your evil. Then there was Aaron/ Finley (didn’t know his birth name until way later. So while the party knew him as Aaron for a while his real name was Finley so I’ll call him that.) who was a a former solders for project Mayflower. A military operations where the United States government tried to invade the digital world. The operation is failed for a few reasons but the one to note is that a ghostmon dark digivolved int a bellestarrmon and killed most of the solders. Finley was one of the few to make it out and get a digimon which he named Nox. Who’s ultra level was neocrimsonmon who was the id of god. Due to some experiments on Nox and Finley they now shared a bond but that makes Finley impulsive at times. They didn’t really have any problems at the start. They didn’t agree morally but bickered a lot. Worst thing that happened was Artemis arrested Finley after he fired a gun in her car. After they defeated the big bag evil guy Travis Moto who was a human/duskmon, things started to get interesting. Finley was hired by another survivor of project Mayflower Butch Mason who gave him mercenary jobs. One of these jobs was to kill the 10 legendary spirts which he helped do only leaving a few alive as a part of him felt conflicted. Artemis who was promoted to work with Dats was tasked on stopping the person who killed them. They met up and bickered occasionally usually when Finley did something impulsive. Though they did work together to stop a few baddies like an Amish guy who thought his digimon (a lalamon) was a demon. (That Finley later rescued when Artemis was trying to arrest her.). But soon the party met up with a Fakemon that one of the other party members Darius had to drive insane with the help of a scientist named Varruckte. Who would drug his digimon to get him to digivolve and also hated digimon because he believe they stole the place of pets in there world and made humans weaker. Artemis didn’t like him because of that and really hated that he drugged his digimon which Finley would comment it isn’t that dumb of an idea. Granted he occasionally has to drug his partner with a special digivolution serum when he was in the military or else he died. Which they bickered over. Anyway back to Fakemon, he was broken beyond repair but he wanted to help anyone he could. So he decided to “help” Artemis and Finley by informing Artemis of Finley’s crimes. They met up at a hotel in Venice where Artemis tried to get an answer out of Finley. Finley was also trying to talk down the situation. They thought of each other as decent friends at this point. Though in their middle of their discussion Artemis checked a text from a bellestarrmon (the same one from project mayflower.) who she called before they met as possible back up. Fakemon used his illusion skills to make the message look like it said to take out Finley. So Finley shot at Artemis and the two where forced to fight. They both got their crest and ultimate forms. Artemis got Justice and Finley got Revolution. At one point in the fight Finley had to drug nox to have him dark digivolve into Neocrimsonmon so he could defeat Artemis. He still lost as Artemis digimon Shadow who at this point was a quirnmon used electric web and restrained him. Bellestarrmon then tried to kill fakemon which resulted in the hotel getting destroyed. Which gave Finley a chance to escape. There are a few other stories but there also very long. There was the time that Finley made a raffelsimon to have a fail safe against the big bad. Which resulted in her dying in a week and Artemis being very confused and suspicious with how nice Finley is. Like she even stalked him a bit, and almost arrested him for what she thought was murder at the time. Though after seeing Finley teared up realized it wasn’t the case. The time that a bunch of neodevimon where kidnapping people for an auction and the two placed bets on who would be captured first. Artemis won the bet after she was captured, and after getting her heart broken by Bellestarrmon Finley tried to cheer her up by throwing her bet money at her. Which in her words made her feel like a “depressed whore”. The time Finley kidnapped mikihara norn (who’s a human vessel of Yggdrasil who in the digimon lore is kinda a self proclaimed god.) to get her out of danger from a corrupt seraphimon and Artemis had to be the hostage negotiator. They had a few buddy cop sessions where pretty much Finley finds out something crazy and absurd and has a very grey take on it and Artemis tries to follow along. One was when they went to an ocean temple that contained all the data in the world and took pieces of gaiamon (god in the digimon world) and it caused them to fight past lives of their digimon. Which Artemis gave him shit over. There was time years later in a sequel campaign where they where trying to solve a mystery of a secret cult. As well as find out who wanted revenge on Finley. At this point Artemis kinda went insane cause Butch succeeded in his plans and made Gaiamon which killed all digimon who she later broke out. So she was very protective of her child. Finley found out where the group was located but some of the main members. He was stumped for the life of him on who was trying to kill him. Partly because he made so many enemies. He actually made a list of people who would want him dead (there was about 60 people) and in one glance Artemis figured it out. Which shocked Finley and left him bewildered for the rest of the session cause normally he was the one in the right.
This was a good episode, but I'm surprised that he didn't scoure a few moments. There's three I wished that Stuart dinged. His Speach To Grimlock: Upon finding out that Grimlock killed his wife because she refused to make him dinner, he calls out the man's petty actions and points out what he threw away by doing so. Granted, Grimlock more or less ignores this, but for at least trying to point out the injustice the murderer did I'd say it be: LAWFUL NEUTRAL/LAWFUL GOOD. Defending His Wife From The Truce: Though simply listed under "Kirito Shenanigans", the actual situation is much more understandable. In short, Heathcliff brokered a truce with the King of Ashes to allow the former's group safe passage (and saved his own captured ass) by promising to have Asuna (who's 17 during this point in the arc) do poses for a thong porn calendar without her consent. Upon learning of this, Kirito threatens to "flay [The King of Ashes'] fucking soul!", which calls off the true. While it does put the raid group at risk, he would probably just defend them and Kirito does avoid his wife from being exploited. Because of this I'd list this as: CHAOTIC GOOD. His Heart-To-Heart To Asuna & Friends: Before Kirito faces off Heathcliff, he admits that SAO is a dream come true to him, but knows that his loved ones will continued to be put at risk and is willing to leave SAO if it means their safety. Asuna encourages him, Kirito asks Tiffany to tell Liz that he didn't give her sword a mocking name, and apologizes to Klein for not joining the latter's guild. Since he's fully willing to sacrifice both his life and happiness, as well as trying to mend fences with the friends he's hurt it would be: LAWFUL GOOD.
he doesnt just openly mock the other players for no reason. he does this because he understands that in that moment the other players need a villain. he willingly sacrifices his own social status in this moment to do that
I dropped SAO when the villain of the first half of season 3 was literally sexually assaulted to death. (The assailant literally bursts into flames to catch up to her and there is definitely a frame or two and her voice changing mid-assault that implies that he did fully violate her before they both died.)
one of my favorite lines from the abridged is the fact they make the company that caused all this Bethesda because its 100% believable Bethesda would pull that shit
I was watching the series as it was airing, and it wasn't until the final episode of season 1 that I realized I was wanting Kirito to win. When the opening started to play during that fight scene, I completely forgot about the actual anime. This is the best abridged series in the history of youtube. They took some most anime fans won't even dare look at anymore, and they turned it into something magical. Can't wait to see how season 2 ends.
Ok Kayaba forgetting his reason to make SAO a Death Game is an anime original plot hole. In the light novel Kayaba explains that he made it a death game because he was living out a personal fantasy of his living in a world that was quote: "simple and and free, where a man could decide his fate by just his skill with a sword." A quote that was stated as the reason why Kirito was drawn to SAO as well, Kayaba was essentially set up to be what Kirito could have become if he kept up with his loner tendencies and didn't make connections with others. It's been a while since I've read the light novels (and it was a fan translation) but I remember that quote specifically and I remember being dissapointed that the anime actually made Kayaba's motivation such a cop out... For reference you can basically read each of the antagonists of the first few arcs of SAO as being dark mirrors of Kirito Kayaba is Kirito if he didn't make human connections Sugou is Kirito if he saw people as pawns. Death Gun's desire to kill like he did in SAO is similar to how Kirito feels hollow living in a post SAO world, making him a dark parallel to Kirito again.
@Aaa-vp6ug like I said, I read the light novels as a fan translation before the light novels were localized so that may have been something the translators changed or something like that, heck they may have translated the web novel and that's where the quote was, I remember the quote clearly being in what I read. My own recollection might be flawed but I remember the quote clearly in my mind.
As someone that avoids proper SAO, due to how Gary/Mary Stu Kirito and harem start and become, It took me a good long while to actually sit daown and watch this Abridged take. Yes I had seen the K.A.R.F. meme on TVTropes of all places first. I am happy to see that this is the more realistic take on these characters than even the source material. It also doesn't hurt that they think that In Another World with My Smartphone as just plane bad and treated it as such earlier this year (April for streams and just last month for stand alone VOD). Sorry Smartphone fans but I felt nothing when I read synopsis, and every attempt to look further into it just makes confused further that it got a second season. SAO Fans, you have my condolences about Alfheim arc as written.
Oi! Stuart, did you really just skip Kirito's speech about love to the guy who looks like John Lennon joined the mafia?? He had to go to a dark place to pull out that masterpiece! It made him feel things that scare and confuse him! XD
Chaotic Good edging into Chaotic Neutral. He's overall got a good heart, but he also doesn't give a shit. He definitely starts off SAOA as a firm CN but after Sachi, quickly shifts into CG.
I was wondering what the Alignment shift would be for enacting vengeance on Gary. I was thinking either Chaotic Neutral, because he allowed emotions to dictate his actions, or Neutral Evil, because revenge is an act motivated by malice and rarely succeeds without premeditation.
I actually really love how they even call him out on the idea that he could have EASILY become a leader, and could have taken the place of Asuna's boss aka Kayaba. The reason Kayaba even ended up going into the game in the first place was because the people needed someone that would take on the leader role. Literally the only other possible candidates were Kirito and Asuna (My headcanon is that she never ended up making a guild and become the leader because she couldn't figure out how to make a guild) and neither of them ever had any interest in it. Clite was probably the third strongest non cheating character, and he was still miles behind both of them. He had the leader qualities, but lacked the abilities of Kirito and Asuna to really make a difference. Kirito really *could* have become the typical, strong leading, charismatic character capable of handeling everything, but thanks to how shitty he was, he ended up actually making the creator himself join... In other words. If not for Kirito they would have actually finished the game at 100....instead of that unsatisfying bullshit that was ending on whatever level they ended on...
Abridged!Kirito at the start of the series is Neutral Evil. He is primarily motivated be selfishness and is not chaotic or lawful enough to push him significantly in either direction. As the series goes on, he drifts more towards true neutral as other people begin to take prominence in his life.
The solo boss scene is by far the coolest scene in saoa. The mixture of raw skill in the scene, character development, amazing acting and top tier writing is simply mind blowning.
21:05 He did explain why, the fact he didn't know was more a meme. He wanted to bring the world he had dreamed about as a kid to life. What he actually said, and what people attribute to him forgetting, is that he hadn't thought about it in a long time.
Oh God Kirito, a One Note Gary Stew Character that Shows Japanese are boring with Anime and Manga nowadays- ~Sees Abridged. Oh, Okay. You have my Interest.
"Oh God Kirito, a One Note Gary Stew Character that Shows Japanese are boring with Anime and Manga nowadays-" The first volume is written in 2001, proper publishing started in 2009, anime began in 2012. You have some weird definition of "nowadays" my friend.
Honestly (and as an SAO fan), I think SAO's worst part is how much it fails (with the exception of the Sleeping Knights arc) to reach its potential. As you mentioned, the first two episodes are great, but then it just fails to execute many of its great ideas.
The "asshole" moment from Kirito in episode 2, I always interpreted as him power tripping. Like, in Episode 1, Kirito knows he's a good player. But in Episode 2, Kirito realizes he's one of the better players, maybe even one of the best in SAO. It's basically him riding the high of basically 2v1ing a boss before the events of Episode 3 smack him down from his high horse.
Definitely a couple of Chaotic Neutrals I'd have framed as Chaotic Good, but definitely stemming from differences in analysis of motivation, which, you know, is gunna happen.
"with a death flag built into their character sheet..." Gods now I cant help but imagine that conversation "OI joe what's up with that flag in the corner of my page?" "Its probably nothing bob! Lets fight the big one."
I'll always have a soft spot for SAO. it was my first proper watch of an anime and was the show that got me into all of it. SAO abridge got me into abriged series. so thank you for covering this in its best versions. Cant wait for asuna and her many murder hobo thoughts.
Kirito's alignment is chaotic lawful, also known as malicious compliance but with the option to burn the building down with everyone inside as an overdrive. Also Perfect Cell being the voice of Heathcliff, chefs kiss
1:24 you need to watch alicization then that is the only season of sao I will stand behind being a great anime. The rest I loved bc it was the first anime I watched and I was 13 now it's just nostalgia.
I love that you said what I tell people about why I think SAO abridged is probably the best abridged series. The fact that it takes a mid to sub-par (depending on your opinion) show and made it a show that actually got me hyped for the characters growth. I can’t think of a single abridged that managed to get me more excited then the base show.
(I’m not saying this about the loading crew) I’m so sick of people hating on people who like SAO so why does that matter to you especially when they make their entire personality acting like their opinion is superior than everyone else’s but in the anime community no does this more than mother’s basement he literally calls him the pope of anime and no I don’t think it’s done ironically
The reason he was an asshole is because everyone thought he was a beta tester and to keep everyone as a group he made himself the target for everyone to attack him
If I'm being honest... The only real problem I have with SAO Abridged is that it just takes a whole ass fucking YEAR for most of the episodes to go up. For Dragon Ball Z Abridged, the whole series spanned 10 years, and it took a year for them to produce episode 60's 3-4 parts, which they released on the same day every week. That's 4 full lengthed DBZA episodes that took a whole year to make, whereas it takes SWE a whole year to produce one single episode. While the writing is phenomenal in SAO Abridged, they just simply take too long to actually make their episodes. If it was an episode every couple months or so, that would be better, but for about a year between each episode is far too long to wait, no matter how good the show is
Kazuto and Suguha are not actually siblings. She calls him "Onii" because he is an older, male family member, specifically her cousin. Now, I'm not sure if he was formally adopted by Suguha's parents or not, but he is living with them because his parent are dead... I think.
Usually I don't agree that abridgements should be held above the official source... But this is AN extreme exception... Sao abridged is such a pure gem of entertainment
If you’re doing an abridged month then I NEED you to do Ghost Stories Dub. I don’t know if it’s the grandfather of the 4star abridged series’s or if it’s just that weird mountain hermit that looks vaguely similar but STILL
i dont watch anime but even i know sao is trash but sao abridged is good ngl i almost only watch yiutube content in general but i watch all your alignment videos it's just good content and fun
okay, hang on: -Rosalia in the original show was labeled as orange, meaning she was a player killer and was using that mechanic to ambush other players and steal their loot, Kirito had actually been hired to bring Rosalia and her gang to prison, but within this particular context, i agree Chaotic Evil, but for the original show's context, i'd go chaotic good because he kinda used Silica to draw out Rosalia.
Kirito went full asshole for a reason. Imagine your raid leader (the only fully capable person you've met) would rather die than spend another minute with the useless bunch of idiots who couldn't even organize their attacks. In my opinion, kirito went easy on them, cause i would've locked the doors and left them to fight the boss once it respawns.
I was a fan of SAO when it was an illegal fan translation of the light novels ages ago. The show lost a lot of charm that was in the novels, it didn’t translate well to the screen. SAO abridged managed to take the charm and wonder i felt while reading the books and make it a show I could endlessly rewatch. My friends and I quote it all the time, reference the battles and bits every chance we get. It’s a brilliant show, the best abridged series I’ve ever seen. And I love it so much.
Yo, I was scrolling my subcriptions page and I'm like, "Oh, SWE uploaded? Wait....OH YO!" I'm hype as hell for this. Probably hype enough to rewatch the series a 5th time. Also, guessig Neutral Evil leaning Neutral turns to True Neutral leaning Chaotic Good? Depends on your cutoff point but I'm also feeling unsure. Either way, thanks for the video!
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No, canon SAO really is that bad. I watched Alicization. And without the narm and sexism. It's boring. It's worse than awful, its boring.
Asuna follow up?
Continuation when they're done with season 2?
@@Justanothershow151 we'd be waiting another 5 years for that.
@@angrybronybut is that a bad thing? Something witty already announced that they are almost done with the scripting
“Well you don’t have to wonder where your god is! Because he’s right here! And fresh out of mercy.” -Kirito
"Hear that, Asuna? Meat tobagan."
@@serenitysilvermoonwhich episode is that?
@@ivarramirezpaulsen8212 I wanna say it was 5 or 6? It was during the murder investigation but it's been a while since I actually watched SAOA
@@ivarramirezpaulsen8212 it’s definitely 5 since most of 6 was laughing coffin in the forest
My favorite line
Followed by the guy crying in the background
*Sees Kirito:* "Oh No"
*Sees that it's abridged:* "OH YES!"
Kool-aid Man, is that you?
@kristopherprime9837that's what happens when you waste such cool events in the actual series while an abridged actually uses those events to their advantage
@@complex6753more like that’s what happens when an abridged series gives a character an actual personality instead of a perfect human being with zero flaws that literally no one can relate with.
Why would you say “oh no “ to Kirito?
why is this literally me
In Kirito's defense, Gary left them to die. Killing him was completely justified.
We must save my family!
@@vectorzulu And he is NPC anyway so yeah :p
@@vectorzulu The bandits are coming!
Gary.....
@vectorzulu Don't forget to jump, Jump
It's actually pretty clear why he went full asshole after the first boss. The people in the raid didn't listen and follow the plan and the leader got killed because of it. He even points out that one dude who was still playing Bejeweled.
Well, that and it was just a continuation of how he was treating Cline at the start of Episode 1. He wants to mock people with his power because this is the only place he can do so. It's just that so many of them make it so easy by providing him new material. :)
@@bretsheeley4034Yeah, he's basically power tripping. This is the high point of his time in SAO before the next episode slaps him back down to earth.
I agree, but also want to point out that just before this, when Diabel was dying, Kirito said something like "In another life maybe we could have been friends" and Diabel just said "I doubt it." So not only was Kirito fed up with the rest of the raiders, but his insecurity had just been triggered by Diabel's rejection. So it makes even more sense, at least in my mind.
@@bretsheeley4034no he mocks people because he got power and thats the only way he knows how to interact with people when he is superier to them
isnt he mocking them so that the other beta testers arent harshly treated? so he can take on that "mantle" instead of all of them being treated unfairly?
Not sure if it gets mentioned but Kirito's PTSD is directly triggered by the words "Your fault". They were sachis last words, they were the words silica said before kirito helped her, they were the words Lizbeth were about to say before kirito interrupted her with "don't say another word" AND they were what spurred kirito to save the fake spaniard. "If he gets himself killed its not our...DAMMIT".
Holy shit, I never noticed that. I knew the writing was good, that elevates it even further. Damn.
Does it apply when he kills Rosalia?
"Well, now you're dead, so... DAMNIT!"
Was he about to say "your bad/your fault"?
@@stef96ify no I think he was just going to belittle he knowing where his mind is at at the time
@@stef96ifyNah, I think he just couldn’t come up with a comeback that would top, “this is the deepest you’ll ever be in a woman.”
@@ffreedI think he's upset that she died before he could say anything, stealing his dibs on having the last word.
Considering that Kirito confirms in the most recent episode that he has asthma, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason Kirito's mom pulled him out of Kendo was for his health and he kept it to himself because he though his sister would lose respect for him.
Honestly that’d make sense wait abridge or og
Where was that stated
@@olivernavas4569episode 17 when he dies in the world tree
@@Crimsnfkr ok I thought a new episode was out
Especially considering it seems like the grandfather is an abusive POS as a teacher and knowing my own father would never take Kirito having asthma as an excuse especially considering the way his sister talks about how he taught her just screams abusive to me (my current analysis is that Kirito probably didn't even know that his mom had pulled him out of kendo because of having asthma knowing that if his grandfather actually tried teaching him it could literally get Kirito killed if he has an asthma attack if he tried to go for his inhaler he would likely have it be straight up removed from his grasp and then his sister became the victim of the grandfather and as her maladaptive coping mechanisms became distant from Kirito and even mimicking the abuse she's received towards him ultimately eroding any connection they shared (the kendo scene dialogue to me at least indicates that)
I would say, kirito said he thought Rosalia’s group may have been laughing coffin,a group of notorious murderers, and was purposefully drawing them out. It’s vigilante justice, but I wouldn’t call drawing out serial killers to take them out is explicitly chaotic evil.
In fairness it's likely he was just trying to draw them out to flex on them anyways, and the fact it was a weakling guild just made the flexing into something to laugh at for him rather than something he had to try to accomplish.
@@theendersmirk5851 but still, erasing a public danger/menace, regardless of narcissistic tendencies throughout, isn’t chaotic evil
@@edwardnowakowski5990 fair. I'm just saying his mindset probably blocks it from qualifying for chaotic good either.
@@theendersmirk5851 I’d put it as chaotic neutral
@@edwardnowakowski5990Not to forget, he used Silica as a hostage, by the end is that still chaotic-neutral?
For those curious about chapter 16.5, SWE actually did a reading of it. It is hilarious.
They f**ked
Asuna and Kirito did the horizontal shuffle 😏
I never sat down and read it but I DID watch SWE read 16.5 and honestly I think that made it even funnier
"Asuna is actually being a decent person"
Asuna: "Hey T-Dawg, what is up in dis hiz-ouse?"
To be fair she's not trying to be racists, she's just trying so hard it loops back around to being racist
'Ah, handing a black man a murder weapon. A tale as old as time.' -Tiffany
Correction @@Gozokukolat its TFizzle the chocolate axe
@@rowletthejowlet6241 "Sorry, Grand Wizard Asuna here isn't exactly a people-person"
"Hey Mr. Kettle! Mr. Pot called! He says you're blaaaaaaaa... ck."
@@rowletthejowlet6241 eehh "I'm sorry it's, you look like a really angry black man" "Now you see that? That was racist"
I love how a lot of people love the abridged versions of cell, alucard and kirito than their cannon versions.
especially kirito
“Mr. Perfect Cell.”
Canon Kirito is the ‘abridged’ one in all but name. Abridged Kirito is straight up the character fully realised .
The big problem with the characters is their lack of personalities, but the abridged series saw how much potential they had.
Cell is boring Frieza, Kirito is every generic hero who inspired more characters to be generic, alucard is the least like this but he is just a plot device to say the vadguys are done
Exclamation point has multiple videos on Sao abridged on how they saved the show
Tfs is doing a commentary on tfs bento showing how much they put into cell and how each stage is very different from crazy imperfect, driven semi, to confident playful perfect
Alucard is a bored immortal, who is desperately trying to stave off boredom and sees himself as a god
At every point they said their not just the villain, or the guy who's in focus, they ask why follow them, how to make them memorable and make sense.
@@gototheend1139 I wouldn't really say Alucard has no personality. The whole premise of his character is that he was a man who desperately tried to be a good servant for God during the Crusades, only to end up leading his men to their deaths and being known as a mad king, eventually becoming a monster. He now goes to battlefields and fights men and monsters, trying to find a good place to die. The best way to describe him is what Integra's father said about immortals. "That they are, in fact, frail, sobbing children."Granted there's characters that are more more well made, but I wouldn't say he lacks a personality. I would say that the abridged series did a better job portraying that in a funny way.
I love the End scene with Kiaba, because it does makes sense. Game development is hell and given that is a device that doe connect directly to your brain can leads to horrible bugs. From all we know the Beta was filled to the brim with bugs. And given that he probably slept like 2 hours a day at the end trying to fix it, it is understandable that such a big mistake can happen and no one notices it because there was no quality control. And he also explained that in his state of mind (which was fucked) he thought that pretending to trap them on purpose was a good idea (Lack of sleep for weeks can lead to very stupid ideas and very questionable states of mind).
Considering how, in college, there was a silly challenge among my small group of friends of going without sleep for a few days, write a whole page or two on word doc on whatever comes to mind, sleep, and then read whatever the heck you ended up writing, that definitely checks out.
Sleep deprived to the point that he thought he saw the face of God. He was literally about to die.
For a normal human going that long without sleep means you're in the forever box since your body shut down long before week 3.
@@starkiller1289 Unless you OD on caffeine and short out your brain’s ability to feel exhaustion
"Fu$%ing Bethesda"
Sao abridged is the only reason i want sao to continue
I kinda figured kirito going all a-hole and stealing the coat was because he had someone die in his arms, refusing to be healed, because the masses had drained away the guy’s will to live. On top of that Kirito’s coping mechanism in general is scathing remarks and mean-spirited humor to close people out.
I assumed he did that because he was in shock, someone literally died on his arms a few minutes before and he had to almost die fighting what likely in-universe looked like an hyperrealistic red-eyed colossal monster using a huge-sword, and then got bullied and accused of causing deaths. In some other short story we discover he gets sentimental when alone and stressed VERY often before the events that led to him and Asuna pairing up. If someone told me he went to cry after that in some locked-off room in a town on Floor 2, I wouldn't be surprised if it was canon. Dude wasn't in his right mind and only Asuna's support (as we see through Progressive) kept him from unironically considering su1c1d3 or going insane. Dude was on the edge for practically 2 years. And the same stress and anxiety pattern seemed to repeat across almost every high-level player, the entire clearing team was full of anxious wrecks that knew how to fight for their lives. But that was also their weakness.
The only right version of the character. I know that there's a "real" version, but this is the best version of the show.
Real Kirito is Neutral Boring
@@DakkaNah2619
Neutral Stupid
Talk for yourself buddy, SAO Abridged is the canon version to me
@@DakkaNah2619 that depends on how much you are capable of getting from the show... key work being capable
@@1nn3r3V1L i went cold turkey on official sao after the fairy arc
kinda sad he didnt cover season 2 at all, maybe in the future. But the ending to episode 17 is by far some of the best writing ive seen
Yes, the best version of that story by far
The end of E17 made me tear up.
And internaly I cried, when I remembered that it will take more than a year 'till E18.
I'm sure he'll probably do a part 2 covering Season 2 once it's fully finished. That'll be awhile before it actually happens, but we'll just have to wait and see
Stuart likes to go through whole seasons or series, so I can understand why he didn't. However, while he doesn't like the original series, I could see him tackling season 2 of the abridged series after it's done.
Oh come on, as soon as season two is done he has to cover it. I will watch this video on repeat, if I have to, just to convince Stuart it will be profitable
They never actually talk about Sachi's problems. When she asks if they can talk about her issues he tells her "Ugh, no one cares"
ah. so he did...i'm sure they talked later
@@TheLoadingCrew yeah also it wasn't Kirito who lost that chance with lizz that was asuna scaring the crap out of her
@@jseries101 Right after that, kirito tells lizz about the stupid name he gave the sword and she responds with "i can't believe i wanted to have sex with you." Which implies that she was already changing her mind about the relationship after realizing that he's still an asshole.
@@Emmariscobar she says that sure but come on it was totally asuna fault that she changed her mind like her shop still got burned down to the ground
People laugh, people joke, people claim that SAOA is a funny fix of the original, but the reason I recommend the show endlessly is because of the heart and care that was written into the characters beneath all of the jokes of opportunity.
You think heart and soul is put into saoa lol nah it’s pure hatred of how crappy the original is that they went like we’ll just do it but better
Why can't it be both?
11:32 this is highly debatable, it's pretty much confirmed she's just trying to provev him wrong, she's doing it out of spite, she outright admits she's just pretending to be nice to people. SWE have made it very clear that both Kirito and Asuna are super f*cked up. I imagine we're going to see a similar growth arc for her in a later season, probably season 4 since she's hardly in 3
Yeah! Kirito in my mind is more Chaotic Good, while Asuna puts on an act as Lawful Good but is actually closer to Chaotic Evil.
With Kirito you have to look at what he does, not say. For Asuna you do the opposite.
I doubt SWE will make more SAO after S1 is done but I can see them compressing like 3 or 6 episodes in 1 if they dare to do S2 to just rush through it. And avoid the previous format of doing full-episode parodies that take years. Even now they are going through fairy dance super-fast.
I believe there are so many video essays on why SomethingWitty's SAO is just the best version of the show, but I'll highlight a few points here that are my favorites:
1. SWE's SAO World is actually shown to understand Video Games, and those who play them. In SAO proper, the guy who wrote SAO actually had never played video games at all before writing the story, and it shows. (Heard this somewhere, need a better source on this however)
2. There are many times in SAO proper where the useful items, Teleport Crystals and Healing Potions, simply aren't used or don't work with little explanation. In Abridged, the entire game is buggy, so a teleport crystal simply not working is a bug of the game that never got fixed.
3. Minor Details are literally EVERYWHERE in Abridged that add to the story in very small ways but can leave huge moments of fridge logic that make multi-leveled conflicts. Within the first month of SAO's launch, 2000 people died. Couple that with a player stealing the tutorial NPC, which is even brought up in the Season Finale could mean that a large amount of players simply did not know how to even play the game got killed because of it. Or for Season 2, at the start, Kirito says that "(He's) not the same little boy with asthma anymore." and later in the series, we find out that his sister holds a large grudge against him for quitting Kendo, putting those pieces of information together, you could easily think that Kirito quit Kendo due to it being a large health risk to him, and his sister didn't understand why, or was never told why, leading to this conflict.
4. This is a personal one, but Kirito's voice. SWE's Kirito *actually* sounds like he's a teenager instead of the official voice where he sounds like he's in his mid 20s. A main character's voice can really made or break a series, and SWE's Kirito *sells* SAO for me.
5. Music, as touched on in the video, the musical choice of 30 Seconds to Mars': This is War, is *such* a good song for SAO as a whole. All the players are trapped within this digital world, a Brave New World for them. And Season 2's OP being asking if they could live a real life between the devil and the digital sea fits completely with what Season 2 is, switching between the game and reality trying to save someone important.
1. Reki did played games before and admitted that they were partially what inspired SAO, he just wasn't a big enough gamer to properly understand general gaming community.
4. Definitely a personal one I don't find anything wrong with og kirito voice.
5. It's good but original SAO also has impressive music. SWE managed to find what works for their version of it.
Corrections:
1: Mr. Kawahara is a gamer, but he NEVER PLAYED an MMO before writing SAO. SAO's main inspiration was Wizardry. That's why several parts of the arcs before Unital Ring feel like friends playing the multiplayer of some RPG game that simulates being an MMO (like Hollow Fragment). Also this IS why Progressive and the spin-offs show Aincrad in a better light when it comes to VRMMOs in-theory.
2: Funnily enough, the few times we see that happening in canon are the only times it happened at very inconvenient situations. Anti-crystal traps are ULTRA-RARE in Aincrad, Floor 74 boss room was the first time a boss room OF ANY KIND had an anti-crystal trap, and Floor 75 had this same gimmick, indicating Kayaba let that be on-purpose so no one would think that was ever going to happen.
3. Correct
4. Correct
5. Indeed, this is also why Crossing Field is also liked, Aincrad's battlefields are called like that because people and monsters "cross swords" or each other across them. The song refers to a crossing field, but of the mind, what Kirito, Asuna and likely most of SAO playerbase had to mentally go through as their future was uncertain and they really only had each other, even the animals weren't real so no actual pet comfort, Pina gets the pass tho.
It would been beautiful if we had SWE Kirito costarring this.
Just a badly drawn kirito head shot on the alignment chart as kirito tries to "correct" what is being told about him
"This correction brought to you by the Kirito is Always Right Foundation."
Izzy probably would've done it toi
@@Obelisk-oj4fu
I don't think he'd really do that given how when Rosalia pointed out his Asshole choice to bring Silica right to her
He just says
"no, she's right I totally did that"
His speech at the end of Illfang does actually make sense.
All the other players have done have proven to him that they are exactly as he thinks, useless. They let the only person who was actually trying to save them to die, and left only him and Asuna to fight the final phase of the boss.
Side note, the reason Kirito and Liz never get together in the abridged series isn’t because Kirito insulted her, it’s because Asuna threatened her life and then burned her shop to the ground when she thought Liz was trying to make a move on Kirito
But Kirito doesn't know that, so from his perspective he successfully pushed her away.
To quote the Prince himself: "Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I received it."
My guesses are:
Asuna is the lock for the other SAO Abridged character.
Vegeta and Cell are the two DBZA guys.
At 22:05 he outright says Asuna is the other, I agree with your dbza predictions
I’d wager that it’s Frieza and the Crimson Fucker himself, Alucard
@@nickdeltufo3857I'd say cell or alucard
SAOA is such a good show. It’s so much fun to see Kirito get humbled over the course of the series.
"Prepare to meet the wrath of pisset-off nerd with admin privileges." -Kirito
I said before I watched this, "Chaotic neutral. You could argue for Chaotic good". And boy was that on the money
*YEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!* The one Abridged version of a series that's superior to its original in every single last way. I'm so glad a video is being done on this
I am watching the english dub of soa and it sounds off without the abridged voice actors
When I saw the notification I was like "OH NO!!!"
After though, yeah, this abridged show is absolutely amazing and is so much more enjoyable than the original and Abridged Kirito is such a relatable character. From douchebag to genuine hero. SomethingWitty did an amazing job on him.
I can't wait for the other abridged characters soon following the Asuna one.
And Thirty Seconds to Mars: This is War as the opening and for the final fight in season 1 is the best use of a song for an Abridged series ever!
"You know something? I really. Hate. Kirito.
He's a boring, one-dimensional, poorly written character with basically no interesting qualities whatsoever. I mean really! Look at all he doesn't have! Personality! Character growth! A compelling arc! It's just a never-ending parade of power fantasy and wish fulfillment!
He is, without question, a complete write-off of a character. AND HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME THINK HE'S COOL!"
-You, probably.
omg that's perfect
i can call you out on all of that. 1. in general he was a loner especially since before he was a teen he found out his entire life was pretty much a lie his mom wasn't his mom ect hense the gaming. 2.he didn't join klines group bc he wasn't good with groups, he took the cloak to play the role of the bad guy so there would be no in fighting esentially isolationg himself. and the moment he actually opens up the entire guild he joined dies. the anime only skims on the shit that he is thinking about.
@@TheLoadingCrew I feel slightly insulted ;-)
I love how you LITERALLY used Abride Kirito's speech about people to mock on Original Kirito
Honestly kirito fake and kirito true is one of the most fascinating case studies on writing being critical to media. Just a change of hands in the writing for characterization and plot and kirito goes from the most boring and uninspired walking cliche on legs to a multi-layered character who suffers, loses, and grows despite of how powerful he is rather than because of how powerful he is.
Cant wait for the sister video to this one!
I just finished watching the video and it definitely made me understand why SAO Abridged is so beloved and even though I won't watch the show or at least not yet it's definitely piqued my interest in the series
I had an old character in a Digimon themed campaign that had a similar dynamic to one of the party members as abridged Kirito and Asuna. So this is going to be fun to watch.
Digimon themed campaign?! Could I have that link? I love Digimon!
@@SuperSoldierS117 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z3SiO4cmDnAklN36lxj76jXrfq_n2aaBcIcs7AqgCRU/edit
@@SuperSoldierS117 me too please!
Yeah that sounds like an amazing story. Love to hear some highlights from the campaign if you wanted to share.
@@alexanderlucard4810 It was a two and a half year long campaign so I got a few.
So there was Artemis who was a cop that saw the world in black and white. Your either good or your evil. Then there was Aaron/ Finley (didn’t know his birth name until way later. So while the party knew him as Aaron for a while his real name was Finley so I’ll call him that.) who was a a former solders for project Mayflower. A military operations where the United States government tried to invade the digital world. The operation is failed for a few reasons but the one to note is that a ghostmon dark digivolved int a bellestarrmon and killed most of the solders. Finley was one of the few to make it out and get a digimon which he named Nox. Who’s ultra level was neocrimsonmon who was the id of god. Due to some experiments on Nox and Finley they now shared a bond but that makes Finley impulsive at times.
They didn’t really have any problems at the start. They didn’t agree morally but bickered a lot. Worst thing that happened was Artemis arrested Finley after he fired a gun in her car.
After they defeated the big bag evil guy Travis Moto who was a human/duskmon, things started to get interesting. Finley was hired by another survivor of project Mayflower Butch Mason who gave him mercenary jobs. One of these jobs was to kill the 10 legendary spirts which he helped do only leaving a few alive as a part of him felt conflicted. Artemis who was promoted to work with Dats was tasked on stopping the person who killed them. They met up and bickered occasionally usually when Finley did something impulsive. Though they did work together to stop a few baddies like an Amish guy who thought his digimon (a lalamon) was a demon. (That Finley later rescued when Artemis was trying to arrest her.).
But soon the party met up with a Fakemon that one of the other party members Darius had to drive insane with the help of a scientist named Varruckte. Who would drug his digimon to get him to digivolve and also hated digimon because he believe they stole the place of pets in there world and made humans weaker. Artemis didn’t like him because of that and really hated that he drugged his digimon which Finley would comment it isn’t that dumb of an idea. Granted he occasionally has to drug his partner with a special digivolution serum when he was in the military or else he died. Which they bickered over.
Anyway back to Fakemon, he was broken beyond repair but he wanted to help anyone he could. So he decided to “help” Artemis and Finley by informing Artemis of Finley’s crimes. They met up at a hotel in Venice where Artemis tried to get an answer out of Finley. Finley was also trying to talk down the situation. They thought of each other as decent friends at this point. Though in their middle of their discussion Artemis checked a text from a bellestarrmon (the same one from project mayflower.) who she called before they met as possible back up. Fakemon used his illusion skills to make the message look like it said to take out Finley. So Finley shot at Artemis and the two where forced to fight. They both got their crest and ultimate forms. Artemis got Justice and Finley got Revolution. At one point in the fight Finley had to drug nox to have him dark digivolve into Neocrimsonmon so he could defeat Artemis. He still lost as Artemis digimon Shadow who at this point was a quirnmon used electric web and restrained him. Bellestarrmon then tried to kill fakemon which resulted in the hotel getting destroyed. Which gave Finley a chance to escape.
There are a few other stories but there also very long.
There was the time that Finley made a raffelsimon to have a fail safe against the big bad. Which resulted in her dying in a week and Artemis being very confused and suspicious with how nice Finley is. Like she even stalked him a bit, and almost arrested him for what she thought was murder at the time. Though after seeing Finley teared up realized it wasn’t the case.
The time that a bunch of neodevimon where kidnapping people for an auction and the two placed bets on who would be captured first. Artemis won the bet after she was captured, and after getting her heart broken by Bellestarrmon Finley tried to cheer her up by throwing her bet money at her. Which in her words made her feel like a “depressed whore”.
The time Finley kidnapped mikihara norn (who’s a human vessel of Yggdrasil who in the digimon lore is kinda a self proclaimed god.) to get her out of danger from a corrupt seraphimon and Artemis had to be the hostage negotiator.
They had a few buddy cop sessions where pretty much Finley finds out something crazy and absurd and has a very grey take on it and Artemis tries to follow along. One was when they went to an ocean temple that contained all the data in the world and took pieces of gaiamon (god in the digimon world) and it caused them to fight past lives of their digimon. Which Artemis gave him shit over.
There was time years later in a sequel campaign where they where trying to solve a mystery of a secret cult. As well as find out who wanted revenge on Finley. At this point Artemis kinda went insane cause Butch succeeded in his plans and made Gaiamon which killed all digimon who she later broke out. So she was very protective of her child.
Finley found out where the group was located but some of the main members. He was stumped for the life of him on who was trying to kill him. Partly because he made so many enemies. He actually made a list of people who would want him dead (there was about 60 people) and in one glance Artemis figured it out. Which shocked Finley and left him bewildered for the rest of the session cause normally he was the one in the right.
This was a good episode, but I'm surprised that he didn't scoure a few moments. There's three I wished that Stuart dinged.
His Speach To Grimlock: Upon finding out that Grimlock killed his wife because she refused to make him dinner, he calls out the man's petty actions and points out what he threw away by doing so. Granted, Grimlock more or less ignores this, but for at least trying to point out the injustice the murderer did I'd say it be: LAWFUL NEUTRAL/LAWFUL GOOD.
Defending His Wife From The Truce: Though simply listed under "Kirito Shenanigans", the actual situation is much more understandable. In short, Heathcliff brokered a truce with the King of Ashes to allow the former's group safe passage (and saved his own captured ass) by promising to have Asuna (who's 17 during this point in the arc) do poses for a thong porn calendar without her consent. Upon learning of this, Kirito threatens to "flay [The King of Ashes'] fucking soul!", which calls off the true. While it does put the raid group at risk, he would probably just defend them and Kirito does avoid his wife from being exploited. Because of this I'd list this as: CHAOTIC GOOD.
His Heart-To-Heart To Asuna & Friends: Before Kirito faces off Heathcliff, he admits that SAO is a dream come true to him, but knows that his loved ones will continued to be put at risk and is willing to leave SAO if it means their safety. Asuna encourages him, Kirito asks Tiffany to tell Liz that he didn't give her sword a mocking name, and apologizes to Klein for not joining the latter's guild. Since he's fully willing to sacrifice both his life and happiness, as well as trying to mend fences with the friends he's hurt it would be: LAWFUL GOOD.
"During this time Asuna is being a decent person"
Asuna: HEY! At least I *pretend* to be nice to people.
12:30 "Do it Sachi" still hurts.
Sao abridged is so good. I’m hoping we get abridged Alucard from hellsing as part of this series as well!
YES!
he doesnt just openly mock the other players for no reason. he does this because he understands that in that moment the other players need a villain. he willingly sacrifices his own social status in this moment to do that
To be fair, he lost out on a relationship with Lizbeth because Asuna is unhinged and threatened that poor girl
I dropped SAO when the villain of the first half of season 3 was literally sexually assaulted to death. (The assailant literally bursts into flames to catch up to her and there is definitely a frame or two and her voice changing mid-assault that implies that he did fully violate her before they both died.)
one of my favorite lines from the abridged is the fact they make the company that caused all this Bethesda because its 100% believable Bethesda would pull that shit
I was watching the series as it was airing, and it wasn't until the final episode of season 1 that I realized I was wanting Kirito to win. When the opening started to play during that fight scene, I completely forgot about the actual anime. This is the best abridged series in the history of youtube. They took some most anime fans won't even dare look at anymore, and they turned it into something magical. Can't wait to see how season 2 ends.
Ok Kayaba forgetting his reason to make SAO a Death Game is an anime original plot hole.
In the light novel Kayaba explains that he made it a death game because he was living out a personal fantasy of his living in a world that was quote: "simple and and free, where a man could decide his fate by just his skill with a sword." A quote that was stated as the reason why Kirito was drawn to SAO as well, Kayaba was essentially set up to be what Kirito could have become if he kept up with his loner tendencies and didn't make connections with others.
It's been a while since I've read the light novels (and it was a fan translation) but I remember that quote specifically and I remember being dissapointed that the anime actually made Kayaba's motivation such a cop out...
For reference you can basically read each of the antagonists of the first few arcs of SAO as being dark mirrors of Kirito
Kayaba is Kirito if he didn't make human connections
Sugou is Kirito if he saw people as pawns.
Death Gun's desire to kill like he did in SAO is similar to how Kirito feels hollow living in a post SAO world, making him a dark parallel to Kirito again.
That’s not what I read. I have it in my house still
@Aaa-vp6ug like I said, I read the light novels as a fan translation before the light novels were localized so that may have been something the translators changed or something like that, heck they may have translated the web novel and that's where the quote was, I remember the quote clearly being in what I read.
My own recollection might be flawed but I remember the quote clearly in my mind.
@@mangamanzx probably the web novel then, the light novels are arguably barely enough to be considered not dung
As someone that avoids proper SAO, due to how Gary/Mary Stu Kirito and harem start and become, It took me a good long while to actually sit daown and watch this Abridged take. Yes I had seen the K.A.R.F. meme on TVTropes of all places first. I am happy to see that this is the more realistic take on these characters than even the source material. It also doesn't hurt that they think that In Another World with My Smartphone as just plane bad and treated it as such earlier this year (April for streams and just last month for stand alone VOD). Sorry Smartphone fans but I felt nothing when I read synopsis, and every attempt to look further into it just makes confused further that it got a second season. SAO Fans, you have my condolences about Alfheim arc as written.
Thanks for covering this. Here's to hoping you cover SAO Abridged Season 2 when it finishes 5 years from now.
17:30 I'D LIKE TO BUY ONE CHILD PLEASE
Oi! Stuart, did you really just skip Kirito's speech about love to the guy who looks like John Lennon joined the mafia?? He had to go to a dark place to pull out that masterpiece! It made him feel things that scare and confuse him! XD
Chaotic Good edging into Chaotic Neutral. He's overall got a good heart, but he also doesn't give a shit. He definitely starts off SAOA as a firm CN but after Sachi, quickly shifts into CG.
I was wondering what the Alignment shift would be for enacting vengeance on Gary. I was thinking either Chaotic Neutral, because he allowed emotions to dictate his actions, or Neutral Evil, because revenge is an act motivated by malice and rarely succeeds without premeditation.
Or Chaotic Evil, because it was an act of malice and revenge with no Lawful or Good aspects to it whatsoever?
I actually really love how they even call him out on the idea that he could have EASILY become a leader, and could have taken the place of Asuna's boss aka Kayaba.
The reason Kayaba even ended up going into the game in the first place was because the people needed someone that would take on the leader role.
Literally the only other possible candidates were Kirito and Asuna (My headcanon is that she never ended up making a guild and become the leader because she couldn't figure out how to make a guild)
and neither of them ever had any interest in it.
Clite was probably the third strongest non cheating character, and he was still miles behind both of them. He had the leader qualities, but lacked the abilities of Kirito and Asuna to really make a difference.
Kirito really *could* have become the typical, strong leading, charismatic character capable of handeling everything, but thanks to how shitty he was, he ended up actually making the creator himself join...
In other words. If not for Kirito they would have actually finished the game at 100....instead of that unsatisfying bullshit that was ending on whatever level they ended on...
I think it was 78 or around that number.
Floor 75
I know the next one is gonna be Asuna but you gotta pay respects to the legendary BallsDeep69.
Abridged!Kirito at the start of the series is Neutral Evil. He is primarily motivated be selfishness and is not chaotic or lawful enough to push him significantly in either direction. As the series goes on, he drifts more towards true neutral as other people begin to take prominence in his life.
The solo boss scene is by far the coolest scene in saoa. The mixture of raw skill in the scene, character development, amazing acting and top tier writing is simply mind blowning.
SWE read chapter 16.5, too. They did it for the lols and fundraising, but it's there.
21:05 He did explain why, the fact he didn't know was more a meme. He wanted to bring the world he had dreamed about as a kid to life. What he actually said, and what people attribute to him forgetting, is that he hadn't thought about it in a long time.
Exactly!
Dude, thank you, thank you SO MUCH, SAO abridged is one of the best written parody shows and is so much DEEPER the SAO proper
Nice analysis of Kurt, can't wait for the one about Ass.
I understood that reference
If Alucard Abridged ain't coming up, I don't know what is-
Oh God Kirito, a One Note Gary Stew Character that Shows Japanese are boring with Anime and Manga nowadays-
~Sees Abridged.
Oh, Okay. You have my Interest.
"Oh God Kirito, a One Note Gary Stew Character that Shows Japanese are boring with Anime and Manga nowadays-"
The first volume is written in 2001, proper publishing started in 2009, anime began in 2012. You have some weird definition of "nowadays" my friend.
ANIME kirito is, novel kirito is alot more the issue falls to trying to cram all of sao into a single 12 episode
@user-vo3hu7qg1o Yeah, 2001.
And...how many people try to copy/rip off this concept these last.....22 years?
@@Strykerx31 You're saying this as if copiing
ipping off concepts is something new and has never been done before.
I always forget how good this series was. Thanks for reminding of it XD
Honestly (and as an SAO fan), I think SAO's worst part is how much it fails (with the exception of the Sleeping Knights arc) to reach its potential. As you mentioned, the first two episodes are great, but then it just fails to execute many of its great ideas.
*ahem*
We must save my family
Yes yes yes i never expected abridge kirito
The "asshole" moment from Kirito in episode 2, I always interpreted as him power tripping. Like, in Episode 1, Kirito knows he's a good player. But in Episode 2, Kirito realizes he's one of the better players, maybe even one of the best in SAO. It's basically him riding the high of basically 2v1ing a boss before the events of Episode 3 smack him down from his high horse.
6:00
You mentioned Kirito was “following orders and doing exactly what they were supposed to”. That’s Lawful Good, if anything.
Kirito, asuna,goku,and alucard
This is the real Black Swordsman
Definitely a couple of Chaotic Neutrals I'd have framed as Chaotic Good, but definitely stemming from differences in analysis of motivation, which, you know, is gunna happen.
"with a death flag built into their character sheet..."
Gods now I cant help but imagine that conversation
"OI joe what's up with that flag in the corner of my page?"
"Its probably nothing bob! Lets fight the big one."
I'll always have a soft spot for SAO. it was my first proper watch of an anime and was the show that got me into all of it. SAO abridge got me into abriged series. so thank you for covering this in its best versions. Cant wait for asuna and her many murder hobo thoughts.
Kirito's alignment is chaotic lawful, also known as malicious compliance but with the option to burn the building down with everyone inside as an overdrive.
Also Perfect Cell being the voice of Heathcliff, chefs kiss
This video and the kickstarter are what has convinced me to subscribe to you, congrats.
1:24 you need to watch alicization then that is the only season of sao I will stand behind being a great anime. The rest I loved bc it was the first anime I watched and I was 13 now it's just nostalgia.
10:25 I would warrant a chaotic side movement from this moment, also I would give a true neutral/good movement from Kirito crying about Sachies demise
I love that you said what I tell people about why I think SAO abridged is probably the best abridged series. The fact that it takes a mid to sub-par (depending on your opinion) show and made it a show that actually got me hyped for the characters growth. I can’t think of a single abridged that managed to get me more excited then the base show.
YES YES YES YES YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG YES, THE BEST VERSION OF SAO LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I’m not saying this about the loading crew) I’m so sick of people hating on people who like SAO so why does that matter to you especially when they make their entire personality acting like their opinion is superior than everyone else’s but in the anime community no does this more than mother’s basement he literally calls him the pope of anime and no I don’t think it’s done ironically
The reason he was an asshole is because everyone thought he was a beta tester and to keep everyone as a group he made himself the target for everyone to attack him
If I'm being honest... The only real problem I have with SAO Abridged is that it just takes a whole ass fucking YEAR for most of the episodes to go up. For Dragon Ball Z Abridged, the whole series spanned 10 years, and it took a year for them to produce episode 60's 3-4 parts, which they released on the same day every week. That's 4 full lengthed DBZA episodes that took a whole year to make, whereas it takes SWE a whole year to produce one single episode. While the writing is phenomenal in SAO Abridged, they just simply take too long to actually make their episodes. If it was an episode every couple months or so, that would be better, but for about a year between each episode is far too long to wait, no matter how good the show is
Kazuto and Suguha are not actually siblings. She calls him "Onii" because he is an older, male family member, specifically her cousin. Now, I'm not sure if he was formally adopted by Suguha's parents or not, but he is living with them because his parent are dead... I think.
Regardless, she was still only there to fulfill the author's disgusting incest fantasy. Yet again, something the abridged series fixed at the root.
@@AquaLanternyes, it's the authors "fantasy", rather than a tired trope of the Harem genre that predates SAO...
@@RaifSeverence Are you saying he only put it in as an obligation?
Oh nice! Your doing a video on the REAL, TRUE, AND ONLY Sao.
Usually I don't agree that abridgements should be held above the official source... But this is AN extreme exception... Sao abridged is such a pure gem of entertainment
Chaotic “It’s what my character would do” Neutral
Wow, good play on Mr. Loading. Holding SAO alignment video hostage is a good play.
Alucard, Cell.
Those are the big two in the abridged community
Goblin Slayer again
If you’re doing an abridged month then I NEED you to do Ghost Stories Dub. I don’t know if it’s the grandfather of the 4star abridged series’s or if it’s just that weird mountain hermit that looks vaguely similar but STILL
Perfectly placed commercial: "To quote the man himself -" "TRY JACK'S NEW BREKKY BURGER"
Dream (Sandman)
Aziraphale and Crowley (good omens)
Les Mis
i dont watch anime but even i know sao is trash but sao abridged is good ngl
i almost only watch yiutube content in general
but i watch all your alignment videos it's just good content and fun
thank you ^_^
okay, hang on:
-Rosalia in the original show was labeled as orange, meaning she was a player killer and was using that mechanic to ambush other players and steal their loot, Kirito had actually been hired to bring Rosalia and her gang to prison, but within this particular context, i agree Chaotic Evil, but for the original show's context, i'd go chaotic good because he kinda used Silica to draw out Rosalia.
Let me guess, the fuckmothering vampire might be next
Kirito went full asshole for a reason. Imagine your raid leader (the only fully capable person you've met) would rather die than spend another minute with the useless bunch of idiots who couldn't even organize their attacks. In my opinion, kirito went easy on them, cause i would've locked the doors and left them to fight the boss once it respawns.
I was a fan of SAO when it was an illegal fan translation of the light novels ages ago. The show lost a lot of charm that was in the novels, it didn’t translate well to the screen. SAO abridged managed to take the charm and wonder i felt while reading the books and make it a show I could endlessly rewatch. My friends and I quote it all the time, reference the battles and bits every chance we get. It’s a brilliant show, the best abridged series I’ve ever seen. And I love it so much.
What a fantastic review of the abridged series AND the character!
i love sao abridged
Yo, I was scrolling my subcriptions page and I'm like, "Oh, SWE uploaded? Wait....OH YO!" I'm hype as hell for this. Probably hype enough to rewatch the series a 5th time. Also, guessig Neutral Evil leaning Neutral turns to True Neutral leaning Chaotic Good? Depends on your cutoff point but I'm also feeling unsure. Either way, thanks for the video!
Didn't expect the SAO abridged to get a DnD Alignment review lol. Overall, he's a chaotic neutral kind of character here
when i noticed this video in my home page, i immediately thought "chaotic neutral" almost like by instinct. XD
11:43 her name is yoga pants!
I love both the abridged and the normal of this show so much and his voice actor is my favorite!!!
just gotta thank you for covering one of my favorite fictional characters