Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season

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Synonyms: Sword Art Online: Alicization 3rd Season, Sword Art Online III 3rd Season, SAO Alicization 3rd Season, Sword Art Online 3 3rd Season, SAO 3 3rd Season, SAO III 3rd Season, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld - The Last Season

Japanese: ソードアート・オンラインアリシゼーション War of Underworld

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Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 12, 2020 to Sep 20, 2020

Premiered: Summer 2020

Broadcast: Sundays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Egg Firm, Straight Edge, Kadokawa

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Theme: Video Game

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.49¹ (scored by 355,140 users)

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Ranked: #1923²

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Popularity: #352

Members: 614,159

Favorites: 3,212

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Synopsis

The final battle against the Dark Territory drags on, as players from all over the world flood the Underworld's servers and plunge the Human Empire into utter chaos. Asuna Yuuki and her friends defend their new allies with everything they have, but their numbers are falling. Meanwhile, Alice Zuberg heads toward the World's End Altar while Gabriel "Vecta" Miller relentlessly pursues her.

Meanwhile, members of Rath strategize a plan in an attempt to restore Kirito's damaged fluctlight. However, the intruders occupying the main control room have other plans. Surrounded by death and despair, when all hope seems to be lost, one voice reaches out to Kirito—a familiar one saying, "I will always be by your side."

Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season is the epic conclusion to Akihiko Kayaba's dream of creating artificial human intelligence. Now it is up to Kirito and his friends to protect this collapsing world from the people that still think it is just a game.

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Background

Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld is an adaptation of volumes 15 through 18 of Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online light novel series.

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Adaptation:	Sword Art Online
Prequel:	Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Recap

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kirigaya, Kazuto

Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
Japanese

Yuuki, Asuna

Main

Tomatsu, Haruka
Japanese

Zuberg, Alice

Main

Kayano, Ai
Japanese

Asada, Shino

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Eugeo

Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga
Japanese

Konno, Yuuki

Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi
Japanese

Yui

Supporting

Itou, Kanae
Japanese

Kirigaya, Suguha

Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana
Japanese

Tsuboi, Ryoutarou

Supporting

Hirata, Hiroaki
Japanese

Ayano, Keiko

Supporting

Hidaka, Rina
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Kaneko, Atsushi

Producer

Futami, Yousuke

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Niwa, Masami

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Fukuda, Eishou

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Opening Theme

"ANIMA" by ReoNa (eps 1-10)

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Ending Theme

	1: "I will..." by Eir Aoi (eps 1-10)
	2: "ANIMA" by ReoNa (eps 11)

Reviews

Sep 19, 2020

Pipe

Recommended

SAO's franchise has always been full of disapproval babbles between the anime fans, we can look that in the continue hate and rants that we can find in every place. However, even if it is hard to accept for several fans, the light novel is considered the best of Japan's decade, where it matters. One of the arcs from that light novel is titled Alicization that concludes with these eleven episodes and that for me, it is probable the best part of SAO's plot until this date leaving aside the new arc (Unital Ring) that is being published right now.

The story follows the ... basic template of the light novel; we have a Kirito in a coma waiting for his return as the underworld struggles to survive. The fight allows a large number of characters to participate in the story. The action sequences and some of the subplots are concluded (for example, Bercouli), so the development of the main character is completed. We can see tears, blood, gore, betrayal, fear, and many other feelings during these episodes. Maybe the screen gets saturated with action to the point that we can't process what's happening, or perhaps the events are too fantastic to be accepted. Furthermore, those awkward and useless scenes will lead us to wonder why several fans hate SAO, and it's not a problem with the adaptation that is a problem with the novels and the need to promote them with fan service. Albeit this silly impression, the show is able to offer a charming conclusion to Alicization's story arc, leaving the door open for future development.

On the other hand, character development wasn't too impressive. I understand that various characters are introduced. However, I want to remind the audience that several of those characters have already had their development through other arcs of the story. Therefore, it is unnecessary to cover more details because the setting of the story will not allow it. They are just fillers that will help with the conclusion of the battle, and perhaps that is a negative aspect of this series. Asking for further character development when the climax was already set is not wise, but it could have enhanced the enjoyment. For example, giving Alice a bit more context would have been interesting. Still, this second season I feel like she is left behind as a supporting character, and all her development from the previous seasons froze.

From art and technical aspect, the color palette is traditional but exciting nonetheless, the adaptation focuses more on the action sequences than the personal details that could have been expanded. Even if the action was well directed, you would feel like something is missing if you are not an avid SAO fan. I can't complain about the technical aspect of the series, it's good and I think the director and the studio made an excellent adaptation. On the sound, it's okay and it helps with the dynamics of the action, but it's not great. The songs are interesting, especially Anima by ReoNa; for some reason, I like the rhythm and the lyrics.

Finally, the conclusion is acceptable, but sometimes the plot is useless and leads us to think that the story is garbage. However, I think the author is playing with some fictional elements that can give us great emotions and better development in future arcs. I can't recommend this series to all fans because you need to understand SAO's entire plot from the beginning to enjoy the full context, but I do enjoy it until the last episode. One last commentary, it was funny watching Alice coming out from a box lol.

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Sep 19, 2020

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Mixed Feelings

This second season of War of Underworld is hideous, mediocre and meaningless in many ways, so they tried to hide it through excellent animation and a fairly acceptable sound, but without needing to be a detail person or pay much attention to the history alone, you will notice all the inconsistencies here.

In terms of history, development and characters, the war continues in Underworld, only now dozens of characters have entered that do not contribute absolutely anything since their only function is to be exaggeratedly dramatic and show the viewer gore scenes that are absolutely unnecessary. Oh, I almost forgot the true role of these characters ... ... Saying "Kirito help me / save me" throughout the show just to make Kirito look like some kind of hero, when they are fully capable of defending themselves, leaving aside some of them have accounts of administrator or just a very high level and useful skills.

In the case of the "terrorists" they are really nothing special, apart from being extremely strong and ignoring all logic of the game, they do not contribute anything to the story or development despite being the main enemy.

Also, how was to be expected throughout these 11 chapters there is an apparent nonsense situation at all times, for example, a robot with a soul inside ran out of fuel and magically, because his loved one encouraged him, it works again or when Shino is saved by an object she had and was supposedly Kirito, who was more than still and without "life" in a wheelchair.

As I mentioned at the beginning, they try to hide all of the above with an animation that is worthy of applause, in the same way with the music and sound, but unfortunately this aspect also has its problems or small aspects to improve. In terms of character design, they are all very "flat" and the colors are the same in all their clothes or face, there is no evidence of any change in the tones, which is strange when compared with that fluid and detailed animation, but Of course, this one also has one thing or another to improve and that is that despite looking so good they exaggerate it too much and I would not be surprised if someone had an epileptic attack when they saw so many colors and lights that are left over, but how I mentioned they did it like that to try to make the viewer not notice the rest of the details that make SAO such an illogical work in many respects. And as for the setting, as expected as well as the characters, it is exaggeratedly simple.

In terms of sound, I consider that it is the only one that almost does not present problems since in battles they present us with something pleasant to listen to and that goes according to the situation and both the opening and ending themes are good.

Finally, let's talk about the enjoyment of this program, although there are scenes or events that are meaningless and overlook the limits of the Underworld itself, I believe that this program can only be enjoyed if we ignore the story and the characters, it is I mean, spend a few hours of your life to see a somewhat exceptional animation and sound, but nothing more, just that, do not demand a good story or anything similar, because you will be more than disappointed.

Although being realistic, I think it has been one of the "best" seasons of Sword Art Online to be so immersed in another world and show us another universe with more characters and stories, which personally are better than the real world.

Oh well, here my review ends, I hope you have enjoyed your reading and learned a thing or two about this program and in the same way, you have decided to watch it or not.

Have a nice day.

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Sep 19, 2020

SunlitSonata

Not Recommended

(Note: This review covers both seasons of SAO War of Underworld, and also contains spoilers for Samurai Jack Season 5)

The end of the nine volume “epic” Alicization, the end of SAO’s original web novel, and the last of the cringe phase origin. While SAO rants have been done to death on the problematic issues, including from me, I want to structure this review in a slightly different way. War of the Underworld positions itself as the end all be all of everything the series has culminated towards for nearly a decade, and it has the presentation to potentially make it an impressive achievement, but not ...

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