You know, Kirito is my type of “solo player”. We don’t actively search for parties with players, but we work with other players when we need to. It’s more of a secluded player.
127 minutes in and I’m remembering my favorite line from my favorite abridged show “ the power of friendship is bullshit!!, violence and swords where it’s at”
The survivors going back to Aincrad and FDVR actually makes sense. Their experience in SAO, in addition to being incredibly traumatic, completely changed their sense of normalcy and even reality. Aincrad was a trap, yes, but they had made it their home. The other survivors were the only ones who now shared their distorted sense of reality. Many had largely resigned to simply accept life on Aincrad and would have been totally disoriented by the outside world.
Also there's a thing called exposure therapy, something that's actually used in the anime by sinon who has major ptsd around firearms. She plays gungale to help battle the ptsd, it would make sense for the aincrad survivors to do the same. Especially with the amount of time they spent there and the friends lost, it would be extremely therapeutic to experience it positively, create the good memories they should've had with the people lost, memorialize them with the 100th floor completion, and finally put those memories to rest.
Thanks a lot for this. Kirito really doesn't deserve all the hate that he's been receiving. I know some kept calling him generic, but the fact that he's one of the first of his kind in the anime community sort of counters that claim. So thank you very much.
You make a great point and also the people saying he is generic are I guess the phrase would be blunt tools in a way seeing how yeah his personality is kinda generic but well he is meant to be human and he is in a game so can act how he likes and as we see in the times when he is in the real world that that is what he does even if only a little different is still a different personality as a character he has at least a decent amount of character growth whilst giving him unique challenges now i could go on explaining but well you already know this so in a way this is to make sure no one can try and counter you huh i made a buffer
@@joeygula581 also he isn’t perfect he’s a teenager who wanted to help people it’s that simple everything else about his life besides his friends is a mess in mental and literal terms
I think you can because he is not alone. He's with Alice. The War made me cry many tears, and when they finally come back..... and the following episodes.... this is one hell of a story. Also they give us clues who it is in the very beginning of the Alicization Arc when we see Asuna playing GGO..... so are they.... they have similar clothing, and a certain someone that is hooded has some familiar looking hair.... you can get a good glimpse of him in season one episode 4, Murder in the Safe Zone.
@@ladyfibonaccii OOOH MY IVE BEEN PUTTING OFF WATCHING GGO BECAUSE I DIDNT WANNA CRY OVER ANOTHER DEATH AGAIN- but hey if I get a glimpse of Eugeo, I’m all for it
1:28:18 This breaks my heart and frees tears from my eyes every time. Kirito has given everything to save Asuna from this purgatory. She is free now, but he will be without her, his everything, for the next 200 years. Strength flees from his limbs and he collapses to his knees as tears swell from his eyes. Tears fall to the stones where his gaze rests low, as he can't even lift his eyes now that his purpose for living, his spirit, her; is gone. "Asuna". But then a shadow is cast, a voice is heard. "Kirito Kun". He looks up, and there's an angel standing there. "I could never leave you behind", she says. She's given up everything else to be with him. I want to love someone like that. This scene brought forth that part of me again, that pain and loneliness, the desire to be loved for who I am, of longing for something profound, someone to give my heart and soul to. Maybe part of the reason I was inconsolably bawling when I first saw this is that I know such a love is impossible: a fiction. It's something I can never have, a place I can never reach.
@@manime3079 that's a bad comparison, Light actively killed both criminals and ANYONE that got in his way, including FBI agents. Kirito was trapped in a death game alongside thousands of other people and had no choice but to kill and fight to survive.
After the SAO incident and other things the government (mostly kikuoka) keeps his identity secret and in exchange they told him where asunas hospital was
Kirito force-of-willing his way through being a vegetable to become stronger than the god of the game world of Alicization is just about the most Kirito-thing I have ever heard in my life. Also, poor Sachi. Curse you, Gary. Curse you and you wanting to save your family.
Fun fact: SAO Light Novel Volume 1 already have Kirito on floor 74 and the story moves forward with some flashback about the first day of the game. Even later volume before alicization are mostly consists of side stories. It's the anime that rearrange the strory into chronollogical order.
Hey bro can you please tell how to know about the story after the war of underworld , where kirito , Alice and Asuna again went to underworld ( shown in last episode of season 4 ) 😢😢😢🥺🥺🥺🥺... Please do reply
@@Fenix-Vale He's rights Sword Art Online Light Novel 1: Aincrad literally starts with Kirito fighting lizard mob in the 74th floor dungeon, and then it flashes back to the start
The first 12 episodes of Season 1 were like top 3 best anime’s of all time for sure. Just extremely well done and unique. I think almost everyone, even SAO haters can at least agree those episodes were really damn good. 13 onward were not great and Season 2 was pretty damn bad but Alicization/War finally feels like SAO is back on track to being like those first 12 episodes. Plus overall SAO as a series has some of the best combat and animations I’ve ever seen. The fights always feel fast, brutal, intense, and emotional.
I enjoyed the SAO-arc, but It felt uninteresting after that, because it had nothing to do with the promise of the first episode. A Genre or Story change isn't something bad, but it was executed poorly. "If you die in the Game you die in Real", was a interessting twist, expecially because i started to watch Overlord and Log Horizon around the same time. But in comparison, SAO is just a bad Anime with nice graphic and i was thinking this for myself until RUclipsr also started to criticize the Hype. It was not a hate against the Anime, it was the hate against the Hype because people started thinking that SAO is the best Anime, while it is clearly not. Everyone has different Interests and everyone likes something different, which is good, but no one can say why SAO is "the best" Anime nor even a good Anime and not even the best Gaming Anime. This Anime is only good, because people don't have to think for themself. Thats why people love it because its easy to understand. SAO lovers would never understand the complexity of the Story from Attack on Titan. They would never understand the motives from Kira or L. They would not understand the timetravel behind Steins;Gate. They would not understand the relationship beetween Holo and Lawrence. They would not understand the Plot behind Fullmetal Alchemist. The Ending CodeGeass had presented us. The Emotion you had in Assassination Classroom. I could tell you 50 Animes with a better Story, Charakterdevelopment, Foreshadowing, Plot, Graphics or better Sidecharakters. I don't say SAO is shit, its the perfect Anime to get into the Anime genre in my opinion and as this it deserves his place, but SAO is by far not as good as many say and this is what i really hate. I talked with a lot SAO-Fans, but noone could say WHY sao is good.
@@93Litze a lot of what you have issues with comes with the anime actually being a fairly bad adaptation. A lot of the enjoyment fans get out of it is from original sources like the light novels. Not to mention a lot of the deeper meanings got lost in adaptation as well which is quite unfortunate. I won't say it's perfect because nothing is but foreshadowing, plot, visuals, etc don't mean anything if the experience isn't worth it (I say this while being a fan of all the series you listed)
ayo I fuckin love how you don't cut out when u stutter during mid-segments. that's not sarcasm it just makes it feel more like a conversation than a documentary and it's awesome. keep up the great work, you are really funny.
They should do an aincrad beta arc, it would be awesome to see kirito's adventures in the beta phase, this could become his training or experience arc as this is where he learned most about the game.
@@sousukeshigure7154 its honestly kinda sad that this is true as it just makes no god damn sense considering that youd wanna be w someone thats good at the death game so u dont die urself but logical sense never was an option in sao anyways. so who cares amr.
i love how the you guys are actually having fun and using your own voice in these anime recap type videos, unlike some people sounding so lifeless or just using text to speach. props
38:38 ok while I agree that they had lots of unnecessary things in the ALO arc, I will say this about Asuna being a “damsel in distress” that people seem to forget about. *1.* She is in a game that was meant to be a trap for her, *2.* With what Creepy Basturd Fairy King told her of how he could easily alter her if he wanted to to make her his(plus the previous point), we can assume that means that she CANT escape even if she wanted to. Remember her vision was blocked when directly looking at the passcode for her cage? Plus the only time she tried to escape she was caught immediately. And the only reason she could escape was cause if the mirror, *and 3.* she doesn’t have her skills at all from SAO, like Kirito, nor could get stronger, like normal players, so she can’t fight her way out. I’m not justifying her being “OOC”, I’m just saying that keeping in mind that she is in a VR game in an area that is tailored for trapping her I can see why she is the way she is in the game. I do think that the ending with the defeat of Overon could have been better tho. The m0lesting scene was really unnecessary.
I mean, I highly doubt War was the final season/arc. It definitely didn’t end the season like it was over. Plus SAO is one of the most popular anime’s of all time so I would say at the very least it will go 2 more seasons. I mean if shows like One Piece and Naruto can go on for 200 seasons plus spin-offs I’m pretty sure SAO can make it at least 5 seasons.
@@Alex-bw6yd Definitely. They still gotta adapt more LN's and we can look forward to more Progressive movies too. I'm with you on them getting a couple more seasons, I was really disappointed with the ending of the last season (them going into space or whatever). It was just too weird to me. But I love the show, one of my fav's, and looking forward to more
"have you ever heard of metacritic?" "Yeah when it turns out your console that only has one game on it, KILLS people, I just decided to make it seem like it was intentional"
@@manime3079 you don't make fun of Mojang or Minecraft but yeah ( I don't really need to work fix the inner workings of Mojang usually but I'm still thinking there was still doing well this despite the updates not being the best recently put it lightly despite the updates not being us this as recently as well as our recent security updates not as bad as Vrchat great I hope they probably remove or some like that as well as fix a reputation) I mean they had Minecraft dungeons as well as the upcoming Legend
47:22 You did Yuki and the Sleeping Knights dirty. That was one of the most touching things. A group of people with biological death sentences. I think Yuki had Aids so she was bed ridden, anyways it was a touching story that actually didn't focus on Kirito. As far as I know, this was the only arc where females, Asuna and Yuki, are the lead.
13:40 If only going based off the girls in SAO, his waifu would have been Lisbeth. Silica didn't spend much time with him, Sachi died, but he always spent time with Lisbeth cause he always went to her for equipment repairs and such. I mean, he even told her about his unique skill before Asuna, soooo, Lisbeth is most likely. If considering all the girls up to ALO 2, It'd probably be Sinon though, assuming he didn't get with Lisbeth in SAO. The reason for this is cause they simply a better dynamic duo than him and Asuna, and they helped each other get over their respective traumas. Add in that he literally ran to her apartment to save her life and you've got a great start to a relationship. Suguha is excluded cause Kirito never had any interest in her anyway. Frankly, even in ALO 1, they were acting more like siblings and friends than possible romantic partners. Or at least, that's my opinion.
@@rene837 As an Isekai, SAO did a really good job, i think Animes like Log Horizon, Overlord or Re;Zero did a better job, but in a different way. SAO would be a really great Anime if they would have focused more on the world of Aincrad and not only the relationship beetween Asuma and Kirito. 13 Episodes for SAO wasn't enough and after that the plot of "If you die in the game you die in RL" was destroyed and the Anime ruined his own plot. 25 episode with more details to the world of Aincrad, maybe a leveling session or more character development episode and SAO would have been really great. Even a slight more awareness of detail would have helped, for example the Item from this Santaboss. It could have been used perfectly in the Match Kirito vs Heathcliff without any bullshit plotarmor from the protaganist.
Its weird how whenever kirito plays with someone he just give them his name and address, it could someone bad trying to win your trust then kill you afterwards.
@Dule Monjin considering hes not even the strongest human with title of black swordsman (that title goes to guts from the series berserk..who could grab kirito by the ankles and use him as a club with ease) ..yes. kirito is weak
I would love the see a Progressive video!! I think it’d be really cool to see how much more character interaction we get. And how much more KiriAsu romance we get☺️
@@SeunghyunChoii Kirito and asuna is top tier best anime couple but if asuna never met Kirito would have still met silica but not lizebeth Remember no asuna = No lizebeth No kirito = NO ANIME Hes the main char so yeah they could do nothing without him But if i were to be speculating sao without asuna Kirito would still be on the front lines selling the super rare rabbit meat Be defeating all 100 floors of aincrad and being known as the winner of sao (PS This is possible cuz remember main character bullsh*t u dont need context power of teamwork or friendship if u have main char powers) He will still be investigated to go GGO then he would meet sinon then yeah Kirinon would be possible IF NOT THE ONLY OPTION OTHER THEN ASUNA (since theres no asuna he would prob tackle ALO before GGO but ALO is a side story about kirito getting asuna but since shes out of the option he would prob just be bored and playing ALO to actually play it) Then after this i got no doubts that kirito would end up with sinon then again this is purely speculation on what SAO would be like without asuna Then alicization if i were gonna be honest if asuna was out of the equation it would be a 50/50 chance if it was gonna be alice or sinon still same thing their gonna get out of underworld and their prob gonna spend a 200 years together then asuna would be living up to her families high expectations and would prob be in an arranged marriage getting a successfull career and asuna would live a good life just with a feeling of emptiness and no clear goal in mind o yeah he would still beat gabriel cuz remember MAIN CHARACTER POWERS PLOT ARMOR
@@joeupchurch4689 no one. I'm just stating facts. Dual wielding wouldn't have helped Kirito because he wouldn't have been able to use the sword skills like starburst. And Yuuki could pull out a second sword if she wanted as well. The author has stated that the only way Kirito could beat her is if he used Excalibur, but that's hardly fair.
Idk if it’s real but based on the Web novel apparently Kirito’s first love is Sachi, which is why almost every time he remembers death the first thing that comes back to him is the memory of seeing Sachi’s death. I guess it’s why he’s so afraid of someone close to him dying Also pretty sweet that Kirito and Asuna took a frontline role in Aincrad on the floor boss to access floor 23 just to be able to get to the honeymoon cabin before anyone else can
@shanks the scarlet emperor true its filler but itll be a nice change of perspective as we follow asuna instead of kirito and see wt she was up to while kirito was grinding
@shanks the scarlet emperor Its not filler.... where did you get that from? Progressive is a series that fills in the blanks from the original SAO. Its far from filler, heck, its more important to the main story now because its talked about during Unital Ring.
@shanks the scarlet emperor Progressive is a part of the main story as stated by Kawahara himself and it can be seen in the story for Unital Ring, and heck, even tiny bits of hints can be seen in the Alicization novels. Its written to show more of Aincrad in detail going floor by floor. Filler is something that does not add anything to the story, something which is not true for Progressive.
@@cindyramnarace1246 Its not filler, its written to fill in the gaps of Aincrad that were never shown in the original story arc, its part of the main line story.
40:15 As someone with cptsd, being able to face your demons without the risk can be incredibly healing! It's common to daydream about either beating or [[Deleting]] your abuser. I bet the oppertunity to defeat the thing that took so much from you, and do so safely at your own leisure, is incredibly freeing. Wish I could have that.
@@vivi-brawlstars9132 imagine when there are youtubers who gets stuck in the game while had their log out button disappeared: let me list a couple: Markiplier: NO! NO! NOOO! GAME WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? Jackcepticeyes: WHY THH F@(K CAN"T I LOGGED OUUUT? F@(KKKKKKKK! Vikkstar123: oh snap..... Quackty: "cursing in spanish" Dream: "takes out an axe and a mask", speed running SAO? good idea.... Grian & Mumbo Jumbo: "up to building something..." Tommyinit: "can't stop cursing"
@@fantogaming283 I'm not sure because like they would all be freaking out for about a month and probably go back to beat the games with some friends they made in the month of freaking out
Yeah its true, i doesn't make sense, even he drop it to 0 for a while somewhere in the game that time lot of people suffer it as well because the game is heavily PVP, except it only work only for Oberon
It wasn’t a global effect, it was only for the room and likely just creepy Boi. Plus even if we didn’t see it, you know Kirito is def the kind of dude to make sure it went back to normal.
This guy is so blessed to be sble to take in and understand anime so well, for me even after multiple replays of anime i still missed soo many details thatcwere crucial to the story, like his talent bro😂😂
Thanks for making a video about SAO when people are hating it just cause its a trend. Its still one of my favourite anime of all time so kudos to you sir
I love how he says almost everyone’s names wrong. I’m sorry but I had to say it other than that great vid I’m glad it was a positive video instead of a negative hateful one.
40:21 if someone from sao do play that again no matter what they do, from walking down a street in a town to a dungeon, they always will remember aot, the people they were with in that area, and if the person they were with died, they would probably freak out
Season 1 Episode 5, Illusionary Defender shows us ALL the bad guys that Kirito has to deal with once the game has been beaten. Then we see one of them once more in Alicization part 1 when Asuna plays GGO with the gang going up against that group that goes around killing for fun..... which is a foreshadowing clue if you pay attention to that detail as well as the type of clothing they wear, plus the middle guy from Laughing Coffin from Episode 5. So clever that they snuck in these little clues to tell us who the bad guys are.
8:45 that moment was the second time i ever cried watching an anime first was at the ending of darling in the franxx. 40:22 classic case of stockholm syndrome
Who else is watching SAO content, until Aria of a starless night: progressive movie comes out in us, and the new SAO season, and the new SAOA(Abridged) Episode 16
he has gray eyes so everyone laughed at him in his childhood teasing him like”haha you’re and anime character only they have those eyes” so he became one.
MHCP001 doesn't actually mean Yui's Heart, it's just what Kirito called it. Technically, that item is Yui herself, just in item form. Also it stands for Mental Health Counselling Program - 001 In other words, Yui was just the 1st or maybe primary MHCP, which leads to the question, what happened to the other MHCPs? It's not like they were turned off.
Kirito is probably the most underrated main character in anime. It’s amazing how many people don’t get Sao and Kirito. They’re basically the “WHAT?!” Guy in Sao Abridged.
I still believe that the 3 who died at floor 75.. or atleast asuma and kirito... was because Klein had the revival item. It was never said to be a one use item.. and from accel world you could piece that Kleins will auto activated the item.. but we also never see if he got to them in time to use the item.. so either is an option. But I fully believe they lived because of that item
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You know, Kirito is my type of “solo player”. We don’t actively search for parties with players, but we work with other players when we need to. It’s more of a secluded player.
same i like kiritos way of thinking besides they just slow you down
Exactly, better to be on your own until you need help and it’s necessary.
That’s 100% me in any game which is why he’s my favorite
127 minutes in and I’m remembering my favorite line from my favorite abridged show “ the power of friendship is bullshit!!, violence and swords where it’s at”
Its a fucking perfect line!! Never fails to make me laugh
I know you probably didn't do it on purpose but did you mean 1 hour and 27 minutes?
Yes I love that line. I always laugh at that line whenever I hear it.😂😂😂
"Then Kayaba gave him the seed"
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@@meksritanaphon4352 the one who made sao the game in the anime
Ayo wtf chill out
Ayooooooo bro you can’t do that
The survivors going back to Aincrad and FDVR actually makes sense. Their experience in SAO, in addition to being incredibly traumatic, completely changed their sense of normalcy and even reality. Aincrad was a trap, yes, but they had made it their home. The other survivors were the only ones who now shared their distorted sense of reality. Many had largely resigned to simply accept life on Aincrad and would have been totally disoriented by the outside world.
Yup. I think it would be weirder if they all collectively forgot the world they lived in for two years with people they'd never known before.
Also there's a thing called exposure therapy, something that's actually used in the anime by sinon who has major ptsd around firearms. She plays gungale to help battle the ptsd, it would make sense for the aincrad survivors to do the same. Especially with the amount of time they spent there and the friends lost, it would be extremely therapeutic to experience it positively, create the good memories they should've had with the people lost, memorialize them with the 100th floor completion, and finally put those memories to rest.
Thanks a lot for this. Kirito really doesn't deserve all the hate that he's been receiving. I know some kept calling him generic, but the fact that he's one of the first of his kind in the anime community sort of counters that claim.
So thank you very much.
You make a great point and also the people saying he is generic are I guess the phrase would be blunt tools in a way seeing how yeah his personality is kinda generic but well he is meant to be human and he is in a game so can act how he likes and as we see in the times when he is in the real world that that is what he does even if only a little different is still a different personality as a character he has at least a decent amount of character growth whilst giving him unique challenges now i could go on explaining but well you already know this so in a way this is to make sure no one can try and counter you huh i made a buffer
Indeed. As a light novel reader, people really undersell how well Kawahara writes. Loved Alicization.
he does hes bland they write him like he perfect its hard to relate to a perfect character
@@joeygula581 What part of him is perfect? Recent seasons have him unable to accomplish anything on his own half of the time he's on screen.
@@joeygula581 also he isn’t perfect he’s a teenager who wanted to help people it’s that simple everything else about his life besides his friends is a mess in mental and literal terms
Kirito did everything except an Anime Training Arc.
that’s like the entirety of alicization beginning though lol
@@mendozaolives actually ur right lol, forgot bout that..
@@mendozaolives didn’t it have a multi year time skip?
Alicization? The boss grinds in oridnal scale? Time skips in sao?
@@fallenpotato4343 if you’re talking about after kirito got stabbed irl i don’t think there were any timeskips
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How do I keep seeing your comments on all my RUclips channel 😂
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Man watching The alicization recap had me in tears. I’m confident at this point i can’t get over Eugeo’s death 💀
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Spoiled before even watching the show 🤦🏾♂️
@@Jerrythebeginr I apologize for spoiling. But like- why are you watching a recap about the protagonists life if u haven’t watched it-
I think you can because he is not alone. He's with Alice. The War made me cry many tears, and when they finally come back..... and the following episodes.... this is one hell of a story. Also they give us clues who it is in the very beginning of the Alicization Arc when we see Asuna playing GGO..... so are they.... they have similar clothing, and a certain someone that is hooded has some familiar looking hair.... you can get a good glimpse of him in season one episode 4, Murder in the Safe Zone.
@@ladyfibonaccii OOOH MY IVE BEEN PUTTING OFF WATCHING GGO BECAUSE I DIDNT WANNA CRY OVER ANOTHER DEATH AGAIN- but hey if I get a glimpse of Eugeo, I’m all for it
1:28:18 This breaks my heart and frees tears from my eyes every time.
Kirito has given everything to save Asuna from this purgatory. She is free now, but he will be without her, his everything, for the next 200 years. Strength flees from his limbs and he collapses to his knees as tears swell from his eyes. Tears fall to the stones where his gaze rests low, as he can't even lift his eyes now that his purpose for living, his spirit, her; is gone. "Asuna".
But then a shadow is cast, a voice is heard. "Kirito Kun". He looks up, and there's an angel standing there. "I could never leave you behind", she says. She's given up everything else to be with him.
I want to love someone like that. This scene brought forth that part of me again, that pain and loneliness, the desire to be loved for who I am, of longing for something profound, someone to give my heart and soul to. Maybe part of the reason I was inconsolably bawling when I first saw this is that I know such a love is impossible: a fiction. It's something I can never have, a place I can never reach.
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dude just wants to be loved and he's "downbad", ok internet
This dude should be famous he saved so many people and won the most popular games
Yeah but he also killed or totally disabled 9
@@manime3079 but he saved innocent people's lives
@@hypermaeonyx4969 Still killed many though. Remember Light was eventually caught up to and he just wanted to save lives
@@manime3079 that's a bad comparison, Light actively killed both criminals and ANYONE that got in his way, including FBI agents.
Kirito was trapped in a death game alongside thousands of other people and had no choice but to kill and fight to survive.
After the SAO incident and other things the government (mostly kikuoka) keeps his identity secret and in exchange they told him where asunas hospital was
Kirito force-of-willing his way through being a vegetable to become stronger than the god of the game world of Alicization is just about the most Kirito-thing I have ever heard in my life.
Also, poor Sachi. Curse you, Gary. Curse you and you wanting to save your family.
choke on my vengeance gary
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Who else loves Sword Art Online?
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I liked the first half of it.
Fun fact: SAO Light Novel Volume 1 already have Kirito on floor 74 and the story moves forward with some flashback about the first day of the game. Even later volume before alicization are mostly consists of side stories. It's the anime that rearrange the strory into chronollogical order.
Hey bro can you please tell how to know about the story after the war of underworld , where kirito , Alice and Asuna again went to underworld ( shown in last episode of season 4 ) 😢😢😢🥺🥺🥺🥺...
Please do reply
What? No its not. Volume 1 literally starts at the beginning of the Anime.
@@Fenix-Vale He's rights Sword Art Online Light Novel 1: Aincrad literally starts with Kirito fighting lizard mob in the 74th floor dungeon, and then it flashes back to the start
People seriously forgot when Sword Art Online was THE pinnacle of anime. Until it was hated to oblivion by some youtubers
The first 12 episodes of Season 1 were like top 3 best anime’s of all time for sure. Just extremely well done and unique. I think almost everyone, even SAO haters can at least agree those episodes were really damn good. 13 onward were not great and Season 2 was pretty damn bad but Alicization/War finally feels like SAO is back on track to being like those first 12 episodes.
Plus overall SAO as a series has some of the best combat and animations I’ve ever seen. The fights always feel fast, brutal, intense, and emotional.
I enjoyed the SAO-arc, but It felt uninteresting after that, because it had nothing to do with the promise of the first episode. A Genre or Story change isn't something bad, but it was executed poorly.
"If you die in the Game you die in Real", was a interessting twist, expecially because i started to watch Overlord and Log Horizon around the same time.
But in comparison, SAO is just a bad Anime with nice graphic and i was thinking this for myself until RUclipsr also started to criticize the Hype. It was not a hate against the Anime, it was the hate against the Hype because people started thinking that SAO is the best Anime, while it is clearly not.
Everyone has different Interests and everyone likes something different, which is good, but no one can say why SAO is "the best" Anime nor even a good Anime and not even the best Gaming Anime.
This Anime is only good, because people don't have to think for themself. Thats why people love it because its easy to understand. SAO lovers would never understand the complexity of the Story from Attack on Titan. They would never understand the motives from Kira or L. They would not understand the timetravel behind Steins;Gate. They would not understand the relationship beetween Holo and Lawrence. They would not understand the Plot behind Fullmetal Alchemist.
The Ending CodeGeass had presented us. The Emotion you had in Assassination Classroom.
I could tell you 50 Animes with a better Story, Charakterdevelopment, Foreshadowing, Plot, Graphics or better Sidecharakters.
I don't say SAO is shit, its the perfect Anime to get into the Anime genre in my opinion and as this it deserves his place, but SAO is by far not as good as many say and this is what i really hate. I talked with a lot SAO-Fans, but noone could say WHY sao is good.
@@93Litze a lot of what you have issues with comes with the anime actually being a fairly bad adaptation. A lot of the enjoyment fans get out of it is from original sources like the light novels. Not to mention a lot of the deeper meanings got lost in adaptation as well which is quite unfortunate. I won't say it's perfect because nothing is but foreshadowing, plot, visuals, etc don't mean anything if the experience isn't worth it (I say this while being a fan of all the series you listed)
Berserk
When kirito started with the marriage honeymoon and parent crap that tributed in ruining the
Anime the first episode was the best and only
ayo I fuckin love how you don't cut out when u stutter during mid-segments. that's not sarcasm it just makes it feel more like a conversation than a documentary and it's awesome. keep up the great work, you are really funny.
They should do an aincrad beta arc, it would be awesome to see kirito's adventures in the beta phase, this could become his training or experience arc as this is where he learned most about the game.
Imagine if Kirito hadn't lied to Sachi about his power level.
Think about it if he didn't lie he would be kick out of the guild cuz he use to be beta tester
True lol
@@sousukeshigure7154 its honestly kinda sad that this is true as it just makes no god damn sense considering that youd wanna be w someone thats good at the death game so u dont die urself but logical sense never was an option in sao anyways. so who cares amr.
Sachi actually realized his true level when she sleep with him.
@@Pyro_UH She peeked while kirito doing something but she accepted he who he is but that's different story to her friends in the guild
i love how the you guys are actually having fun and using your own voice in these anime recap type videos, unlike some people sounding so lifeless or just using text to speach. props
This was a great way of rewatching sao without having to binge watch for a week
It is!
Actually it would take your 1.5 days no breaks so if you took time to sleep and eat at most it would only take 4 days ^-^
@@atato6814 Some people work bro
38:38 ok while I agree that they had lots of unnecessary things in the ALO arc, I will say this about Asuna being a “damsel in distress” that people seem to forget about. *1.* She is in a game that was meant to be a trap for her, *2.* With what Creepy Basturd Fairy King told her of how he could easily alter her if he wanted to to make her his(plus the previous point), we can assume that means that she CANT escape even if she wanted to. Remember her vision was blocked when directly looking at the passcode for her cage? Plus the only time she tried to escape she was caught immediately. And the only reason she could escape was cause if the mirror, *and 3.* she doesn’t have her skills at all from SAO, like Kirito, nor could get stronger, like normal players, so she can’t fight her way out.
I’m not justifying her being “OOC”, I’m just saying that keeping in mind that she is in a VR game in an area that is tailored for trapping her I can see why she is the way she is in the game.
I do think that the ending with the defeat of Overon could have been better tho. The m0lesting scene was really unnecessary.
I suppose if they're trying to hammer home how bad sexual battery is, they did a great job.
But I'm not sure why they actually put that in there.
@@Speed001 it was for character development on that dudes part to show how fucked up he is.
Your video was a breath of fresh air when it comes to someone talking about this series. Hyped for Progressive's movies and beyond.
I have absolutely no idea what happened after the Gun Gale Arc… as long as Kirito and Asuna get their happy ending that’s all that matters!
One of the few shows that I wished never ended…
it didnt in middle of 2022 new season and move
@@isaacperez866 wdym new season?
I mean, I highly doubt War was the final season/arc. It definitely didn’t end the season like it was over. Plus SAO is one of the most popular anime’s of all time so I would say at the very least it will go 2 more seasons. I mean if shows like One Piece and Naruto can go on for 200 seasons plus spin-offs I’m pretty sure SAO can make it at least 5 seasons.
@@Alex-bw6yd Definitely. They still gotta adapt more LN's and we can look forward to more Progressive movies too. I'm with you on them getting a couple more seasons, I was really disappointed with the ending of the last season (them going into space or whatever). It was just too weird to me. But I love the show, one of my fav's, and looking forward to more
nah they definitely gonna make a 5th season SAO IN SPACE 😱 they definitely milking the show but i’m here for it
I love how in the world of SAO they somehow got Full dive technology before straight up VR
Bro really explained the entiered of SAO in one hour. good job
I’m a lizbeth fan personally, but knowing their interactions in the novels and manga I’d choose Argo the info broker
What a based opinion
After loving the series but getting lost in some of the technical explanations, videos like these really help tie the story well. Thanks!
“akihiko explained his reason as to why he created sao”
akihiko: i dunno i forgot.
"have you ever heard of metacritic?" "Yeah when it turns out your console that only has one game on it, KILLS people, I just decided to make it seem like it was intentional"
@@dazeddamien5625 fucking bethesda...😂
@@dazeddamien5625 Mojang in a nutshell
Kirito: Seems legit
@@manime3079 you don't make fun of Mojang or Minecraft but yeah ( I don't really need to work fix the inner workings of Mojang usually but I'm still thinking there was still doing well this despite the updates not being the best recently put it lightly despite the updates not being us this as recently as well as our recent security updates not as bad as Vrchat great I hope they probably remove or some like that as well as fix a reputation)
I mean they had Minecraft dungeons as well as the upcoming Legend
Bringing back Aincrad in ALO is like bringing survivors of Normandy Invasion to play paintball on the exact same beach.
9:22 I think they have the same kind smile which probably gave kirito some comfort without many of us realizing
All anime characters have that kind of smile lol
@@yez9475 nah these 2 smile have the same innocent look not like other anime and other characters
Ahh the nostalgia, SAO was my first anime ever watched, the first arc was so good and it was very nice getting to remember it all, thank you!
How many girls is Kirito gonna add to his harem/team?
21 Savage: A lot.
How many comments have you made on this one video be honest
In laicization they said throw out the waifu and add a best friend
@@Intokyky6969 this video's about you. 😀
@@SpammytheHedgehog hell yeah it is
@@SpammytheHedgehog can you do a backflip
47:22 You did Yuki and the Sleeping Knights dirty. That was one of the most touching things.
A group of people with biological death sentences. I think Yuki had Aids so she was bed ridden, anyways it was a touching story that actually didn't focus on Kirito.
As far as I know, this was the only arc where females, Asuna and Yuki, are the lead.
13:40 If only going based off the girls in SAO, his waifu would have been Lisbeth. Silica didn't spend much time with him, Sachi died, but he always spent time with Lisbeth cause he always went to her for equipment repairs and such. I mean, he even told her about his unique skill before Asuna, soooo, Lisbeth is most likely.
If considering all the girls up to ALO 2, It'd probably be Sinon though, assuming he didn't get with Lisbeth in SAO. The reason for this is cause they simply a better dynamic duo than him and Asuna, and they helped each other get over their respective traumas. Add in that he literally ran to her apartment to save her life and you've got a great start to a relationship.
Suguha is excluded cause Kirito never had any interest in her anyway. Frankly, even in ALO 1, they were acting more like siblings and friends than possible romantic partners. Or at least, that's my opinion.
lisbeth mid. yui should’ve been his waifu
Kirito has the power to turn people into trees.
Yeah I don't know why that happened
@@Dan-do2pl kirito said it himself “he transferred the memories of the tree into him
@@whoshotcupid5119 no he said he transferred the memories from the sword that was orinally a demon stree
tree
How many comment did you do🍜🍜🍜
Imagine if Sachi hadn't died... how strong would Kirito be?
imagine posting 8 comments on the same video.
@@matt5740 imagine not
@@matt5740 His name literally has the word spammer in it, of course he would comment multiple times.
Then there would be no Kiritimati and asuna
Probably not very, mans was down bad
Let’s goo🔥
Hii
Dababy
@@TheAccursedShare dead meme
shut up...
@@VSBattlesYT ???
SAO will always be my favourite anime, loved all seasons including the GGO Seasons and Alicization.
That's really sad to hear.
@@93Litze Maybe I should have added "isekai" before "anime".
@@rene837 As an Isekai, SAO did a really good job, i think Animes like Log Horizon, Overlord or Re;Zero did a better job, but in a different way. SAO would be a really great Anime if they would have focused more on the world of Aincrad and not only the relationship beetween Asuma and Kirito.
13 Episodes for SAO wasn't enough and after that the plot of "If you die in the game you die in RL" was destroyed and the Anime ruined his own plot. 25 episode with more details to the world of Aincrad, maybe a leveling session or more character development episode and SAO would have been really great. Even a slight more awareness of detail would have helped, for example the Item from this Santaboss. It could have been used perfectly in the Match Kirito vs Heathcliff without any bullshit plotarmor from the protaganist.
@@93Litze Still loved all of it, including the filler episodes because I like it when there is a bit of "relaxing" between all the action and drama.
It's also my favourite anime of all time. Even with its flaw i still love sao with all my heart 😄
We were so close to seeing him dual wield with Escaliber and his original sword
Finally you did Kirito. Please do Asuna next if you haven't.
If they make that im going to get my bleach ready
@@4no407 why
I haven't finished watching Sao alicizatio
Feel free to share spoilers idc
@@Sumit-dh4qe some of the scene traumatized me
@@Sumit-dh4qe kirito cousin use to love him
@@louispham3794 u mean suguha
And I know about this
Its weird how whenever kirito plays with someone he just give them his name and address, it could someone bad trying to win your trust then kill you afterwards.
Kirito beaten the shit out of a rapist tho at one point so he wouldn’t have a problem with a gun or knife
@Dule Monjin considering hes not even the strongest human with title of black swordsman (that title goes to guts from the series berserk..who could grab kirito by the ankles and use him as a club with ease) ..yes. kirito is weak
@@romanplays1 Your nonsensically comparing Dark Fantasy Reality to Scifi Virtual Reality.
He honestly only does that to people he trusts not everyone
@@HDLLHANZ well yes, but still
I would love the see a Progressive video!! I think it’d be really cool to see how much more character interaction we get. And how much more KiriAsu romance we get☺️
i literally cant decide whether kirito and asuna or kirito and sinon is better😭
@@SeunghyunChoii i mean, asuna and kirito
@@SeunghyunChoii Kirito and asuna is top tier best anime couple but if asuna never met Kirito would have still met silica but not lizebeth
Remember no asuna = No lizebeth
No kirito = NO ANIME
Hes the main char so yeah they could do nothing without him
But if i were to be speculating sao without asuna
Kirito would still be on the front lines selling the super rare rabbit meat
Be defeating all 100 floors of aincrad and being known as the winner of sao
(PS This is possible cuz remember main character bullsh*t u dont need context power of teamwork or friendship if u have main char powers)
He will still be investigated to go GGO then he would meet sinon then yeah Kirinon would be possible IF NOT THE ONLY OPTION OTHER THEN ASUNA (since theres no asuna he would prob tackle ALO before GGO but ALO is a side story about kirito getting asuna but since shes out of the option he would prob just be bored and playing ALO to actually play it)
Then after this i got no doubts that kirito would end up with sinon then again this is purely speculation on what SAO would be like without asuna
Then alicization if i were gonna be honest if asuna was out of the equation it would be a 50/50 chance if it was gonna be alice or sinon still same thing their gonna get out of underworld and their prob gonna spend a 200 years together then asuna would be living up to her families high expectations and would prob be in an arranged marriage getting a successfull career and asuna would live a good life just with a feeling of emptiness and no clear goal in mind o yeah he would still beat gabriel cuz remember MAIN CHARACTER POWERS PLOT ARMOR
I’m not an Asuna fan, never have been, even more so after meeting Alice. 100 percent Kirito+Alice all the way.
@@SeunghyunChoii Kizmel
Kirito was never the fastest player, he was the player with the fasted reaction time that gave him dual wielding.
Most fast*
@@narutonine6098 fastest*
Only the people with the most fast movement get the fast things 💀. That is logic lmao.
You deserve an award because you took the time out of your life to do this wow……. Just Amazing.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Kirito was close to beating Zekken, but then time ran out.
He was also holding back as asuna said he never used his dual wild sword against her
He definitely held back subsequently he wasn't using Excalibur
Didn't happen in the novels. Yuuki won clean. Also don't assume Yuuki wouldn't just dodge/deflect that last strike in the anime.
@@beastunleashed657 who hurt you
@@joeupchurch4689 no one. I'm just stating facts. Dual wielding wouldn't have helped Kirito because he wouldn't have been able to use the sword skills like starburst. And Yuuki could pull out a second sword if she wanted as well.
The author has stated that the only way Kirito could beat her is if he used Excalibur, but that's hardly fair.
when eugeo came back to help kinda reminded me about goku coming to help gohan with cell
youre my favorite youtuber, love the uploads
That scene where Kirito’s arm grows back into his attack was a emotional rollercoaster, for real.
Life of Guts: 33 mins
Life of Kirito: nearly three times that.
Interesting
your mom
@Volentlyhub haha yessir *knee slaps*
I can write ten pages of bs or one page of meaningful words, which one would you prefer?
Well, Guts's life is probably much wilder than Kirito's is---but Kirito has more adaptions than Beserk, hence why it's probably so long. 🤓
@@holicxhunter no lol
Which characters should we cover next?
Me
Asuna that should work right ehh? ehh?
Isse hioto
Muzan kibutsuji
Shinji ikari from neon genesis evangelion
One of the greatest summaries I’ve ever seen. The first season is the best season for me imo.
Idk if it’s real but based on the Web novel apparently Kirito’s first love is Sachi, which is why almost every time he remembers death the first thing that comes back to him is the memory of seeing Sachi’s death. I guess it’s why he’s so afraid of someone close to him dying
Also pretty sweet that Kirito and Asuna took a frontline role in Aincrad on the floor boss to access floor 23 just to be able to get to the honeymoon cabin before anyone else can
That is correct, but the LN retcons that. The LN makes Asuna his first love, and SAOP further solidifies that.
This Chanel is soo much better than the other anime Chanels because this dude actually has a personality
when internet down, by optical cable cut you are dead.
yes SAO progressive i want that to be covered i always liked SAO and i'm always looking for some more SAO content
there's a movie version coming out this year (next month to be specific if i remember right)
@shanks the scarlet emperor true its filler but itll be a nice change of perspective as we follow asuna instead of kirito and see wt she was up to while kirito was grinding
@shanks the scarlet emperor Its not filler.... where did you get that from? Progressive is a series that fills in the blanks from the original SAO. Its far from filler, heck, its more important to the main story now because its talked about during Unital Ring.
@shanks the scarlet emperor Progressive is a part of the main story as stated by Kawahara himself and it can be seen in the story for Unital Ring, and heck, even tiny bits of hints can be seen in the Alicization novels. Its written to show more of Aincrad in detail going floor by floor. Filler is something that does not add anything to the story, something which is not true for Progressive.
@@cindyramnarace1246 Its not filler, its written to fill in the gaps of Aincrad that were never shown in the original story arc, its part of the main line story.
My favorite anime, and I have watched this anime multiple times and I am always able to rewatch it and will watch this atleast 3 times.
you know its truly the life of kirito when the video is over one hour long
having not watched the original for 10 odd years now it is amazing how many times the abridged jumps in haha
40:15 As someone with cptsd, being able to face your demons without the risk can be incredibly healing! It's common to daydream about either beating or [[Deleting]] your abuser. I bet the oppertunity to defeat the thing that took so much from you, and do so safely at your own leisure, is incredibly freeing. Wish I could have that.
Imagine if he logged out before they stoped that... The show would have sucked
Idk about that because I think that when they entered the game the log out button was already gone
@@vivi-brawlstars9132 imagine when there are youtubers who gets stuck in the game while had their log out button disappeared: let me list a couple:
Markiplier: NO! NO! NOOO! GAME WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?
Jackcepticeyes: WHY THH F@(K CAN"T I LOGGED OUUUT? F@(KKKKKKKK!
Vikkstar123: oh snap.....
Quackty: "cursing in spanish"
Dream: "takes out an axe and a mask", speed running SAO? good idea....
Grian & Mumbo Jumbo: "up to building something..."
Tommyinit: "can't stop cursing"
@@fantogaming283 nah they would all scream, because getting stuck in a video game for the rest of your life would be scarring
@@dunmo9582 true.......
@@fantogaming283 I'm not sure because like they would all be freaking out for about a month and probably go back to beat the games with some friends they made in the month of freaking out
Not gonna lie, he's possibly my favorite anime protagonist of all time
Same bruh
Kirito is definitely my favorite anime character/protaganist of all time.
Saaaaame.
Although I would like to see Kirito lose to somebody just as powerful as he is for once. Hasn’t lost since Kayaba beat him.
You gotta watch more anime then,
If this Gary stu is your favorite protagonist
@@rudrathacker4528 let us have our opinions 🤷🏻♂️
This series makes me feel lots of emotions
reliving SAO through fan videos is wonderful
That Kirito proclaiming himself as The Beater moment I loved in the anime and in the book Sword Art Online Progressive Volume 1
But the Progressive movies made Asuna the main protagonist.
There is a character who deserves to have his back story told
My man Gintoki
A gintama episode would be nice
Kirito never set the pain absorption in ALO back to 10. Let that sink in. Everyone in game fighting now experiences immense pain when losing a hand.
Yeah its true, i doesn't make sense, even he drop it to 0 for a while somewhere in the game that time lot of people suffer it as well because the game is heavily PVP, except it only work only for Oberon
It wasn’t a global effect, it was only for the room and likely just creepy Boi. Plus even if we didn’t see it, you know Kirito is def the kind of dude to make sure it went back to normal.
I've heard of 3 characters who have that black swordsman title Guts, Kirito and Ichigo. Sao, Berserk and Bleach.
This guy is so blessed to be sble to take in and understand anime so well, for me even after multiple replays of anime i still missed soo many details thatcwere crucial to the story, like his talent bro😂😂
Thanks for making a video about SAO when people are hating it just cause its a trend. Its still one of my favourite anime of all time so kudos to you sir
This deserves more attention
I feel like Kirito represent the Anime weebs.
How did you know
Yea the ones who cosplay
Yup
Sao was my second anime
No thats definitely Klein
I legit can't look at these scenes without hearing the abridged version
Oh my god, same
“Shut up Klein, come back when you’re a main character”
I love how he says almost everyone’s names wrong. I’m sorry but I had to say it other than that great vid I’m glad it was a positive video instead of a negative hateful one.
40:21 if someone from sao do play that again no matter what they do, from walking down a street in a town to a dungeon, they always will remember aot, the people they were with in that area, and if the person they were with died, they would probably freak out
sao haters: why
sao lovers:lessgo
Kirito is one of my favorite character
happy birthday kirito, the harbinger of the isekai revolution
man i loved that i discovered you with history of lavabending
This would make a great podcast
Guy without moustache is jealous of my moustache and my super sayan swagger
Thats great now do a life of the black swordsman next
As someone who stopped after the first 2 seasons ... Wtf. They really kept this thing going.
It's coming back, under Asunas POV
@@KaioshinAnimations wait what I finished last year allocation,after procrastinating to watch it for a year or something like that
@@shakiradam7837 I received an email saying SAO is returning, but from Asunas POINT of view
@@shakiradam7837 it say there gonna be other season
@@KaioshinAnimations its gonna be a movie, its sao progressive
Season 1 Episode 5, Illusionary Defender shows us ALL the bad guys that Kirito has to deal with once the game has been beaten. Then we see one of them once more in Alicization part 1 when Asuna plays GGO with the gang going up against that group that goes around killing for fun..... which is a foreshadowing clue if you pay attention to that detail as well as the type of clothing they wear, plus the middle guy from Laughing Coffin from Episode 5. So clever that they snuck in these little clues to tell us who the bad guys are.
This was amazing bro
this is a great anime, loved everything
“The Black Swordsman”. Man, Asuna bouta be on BBC
8:45 that moment was the second time i ever cried watching an anime first was at the ending of darling in the franxx. 40:22 classic case of stockholm syndrome
Who else is watching SAO content, until Aria of a starless night: progressive movie comes out in us, and the new SAO season, and the new SAOA(Abridged) Episode 16
he has gray eyes so everyone laughed at him in his childhood teasing him like”haha you’re and anime character only they have those eyes” so he became one.
MHCP001 doesn't actually mean Yui's Heart, it's just what Kirito called it. Technically, that item is Yui herself, just in item form.
Also it stands for Mental Health Counselling Program - 001
In other words, Yui was just the 1st or maybe primary MHCP, which leads to the question, what happened to the other MHCPs? It's not like they were turned off.
Kirito is probably the most underrated main character in anime. It’s amazing how many people don’t get Sao and Kirito. They’re basically the “WHAT?!” Guy in Sao Abridged.
I still believe that the 3 who died at floor 75.. or atleast asuma and kirito... was because Klein had the revival item. It was never said to be a one use item.. and from accel world you could piece that Kleins will auto activated the item.. but we also never see if he got to them in time to use the item.. so either is an option. But I fully believe they lived because of that item
Just rewatched the entirety of SAO and yeah, i still enjoyed it.
i love your videos because i learn stuff from the manga or novels that the anime dont have so i was a little sad when u only went over the anime
Kirito biological parents wouldn't have died then his name might have been Naruto😂
Kirigaya + Kazuto = Kirito
Narasaka + Kazuto = Naruto
No it would've been narato because it uses the first four letters of kiris name
@@snakeslither2237 The dude is right he just spelled Narusaka wrong since Kirito himself makes this joke in the novel when looking back on his life
You should make a update vid in a few years when the unitial ring anime comes out😁
Kirito is the definition of “Isekai Protagnist”
btw amzing job on this
I totally forgot the abridged version wasn’t canon. I was waiting for him to say “Asuna couldn’t even open her menu.”