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Jul 26, 2014 9:34 AM

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Well, wb Kirito to your world of badass
Jul 26, 2014 9:37 AM

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Takuan_Soho said:
Another perfectly decent show, a little action at the arcade to show off why Kirito can operate in the game and to break up the necessary data dump that this episode required. Clears the way to focus on action the next way.

And we already know what the haters are going to say about the arcade, so lets clear it up now to spare all of us from having to read 150 posts saying the same thing:

Kirito could beat the game because it was a game based on SAO (through the world seed). He also has the help of watching a very good player lose before him, giving him an idea of how the game operated. Having spent every day of 2 years risking his life against such "games", it isn't surprising that he has a far better grasp of them then players who have only been playing six months (not to mention haven't had to risk their lives to play it).

Overall series is holding at a steady 8, nothing that is great, but nothing that detracts. Just nice entertainment.

I'm sure people are still going to ignore what you said and bash this episode.
Jul 26, 2014 9:39 AM
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-Riptide- said:
Takuan_Soho said:
Another perfectly decent show, a little action at the arcade to show off why Kirito can operate in the game and to break up the necessary data dump that this episode required. Clears the way to focus on action the next way.

And we already know what the haters are going to say about the arcade, so lets clear it up now to spare all of us from having to read 150 posts saying the same thing:

Kirito could beat the game because it was a game based on SAO (through the world seed). He also has the help of watching a very good player lose before him, giving him an idea of how the game operated. Having spent every day of 2 years risking his life against such "games", it isn't surprising that he has a far better grasp of them then players who have only been playing six months (not to mention haven't had to risk their lives to play it).

Overall series is holding at a steady 8, nothing that is great, but nothing that detracts. Just nice entertainment.

I'm sure people are still going to ignore what you said and bash this episode.
It's inevitable. There'll be tl;dr excuses all over the place.
Jul 26, 2014 9:43 AM

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At least its gonna be fun reading all those posts from haters.
Jul 26, 2014 9:45 AM

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Takuan_Soho said:
Having spent every day of 2 years risking his life against such "games", it isn't surprising that he has a far better grasp of them then players who have only been playing six months (not to mention haven't had to risk their lives to play it).
Those two years were quite the ride. We saw Kirito being beat up left and right after he was trying to solo a few floors which were overwhelming even for an overleveled player. He started learning patterns, aggro ranges, animation build ups to a move, elemental defenses, elemental damage, are of effect, are denial, positioning, skill management. But despite that a solo player is still overrun by smaller mobs even if they are lower levels. Later on Asuna joined him and showed him the benefit of teamwork and over two years, many preparations, many recons, many raids over time they are slowly progressing despite their losses. Kirito started to see that people can work together and can be pleasant to talk to. He doesn't care just about games anymore, but the people with him, his new family, his FRIENDS. Despite being trapped in another world which is far more likely to have him killed, he saw the worst and the best out of people, and most importantly, himself... ah, those were the days.

I may be remembering that wrong tho.
Jul 26, 2014 9:45 AM

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here we go! he is playing the game for the very first time and beats that Cowboy with zero knowledge of the game where other players have failed how many times?

remember how many points the guy that failed at the challenge added? now do the math and count how many ppl failed before him ^^

there is absolutely nothing that can explain this and im not buying any of the excused posted before this.

dropped. not watching the same shit happen twice.
Jul 26, 2014 9:49 AM

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Kerozinn said:
here we go! he is playing the game for the very first time and beats that Cowboy with zero knowledge of the game where other players have failed how many times?

remember how many points the guy that failed at the challenge added? now do the math and count how many ppl failed before him ^^

there is absolutely nothing that can explain this and im not buying any of the excused posted before this.

dropped. not watching the same shit happen twice.

And we got the first one!!!
Jul 26, 2014 9:51 AM
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Kerozinn said:
here we go! he is playing the game for the very first time and beats that Cowboy with zero knowledge of the game where other players have failed how many times?
I'm pretty sure none of the of the players are as experienced as Kirito in CQC. That game incidentally was pretty much tailored to his expertise. If it were a sharpshooting game, he would have been sure to fail.
Jul 26, 2014 9:54 AM

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Even though it was another "slow" episode I enjoyed that a lot actually. It was funny to see the reactions of trap Kirito from other players. It was even funnier when some of them cat called him.
Jul 26, 2014 9:58 AM

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Trap-master Kirito FTW ... wait FTL I mean, no ... umm, a tie?

It's always cool to see Kirito show off, nice episode.
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LastChapter said:
I'm pretty sure none of the of the players are as experienced as Kirito in CQC. That game incidentally was pretty much tailored to his expertise. If it were a sharpshooting game, he would have been sure to fail.


he is playing the game for the first time! being good at WoW doesnt mean your automaticly great at counter strike. stop the excuses please.
That was the best analogy I heard all day. >.>
Jul 26, 2014 9:58 AM

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Just started the episode, but I want to note how incredibly disappointed I am that Trap Kirito doesn't have a female seiyuu voice. It's wrong. It's so wrong.
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Jul 26, 2014 10:00 AM
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Splitter said:
Just started the episode, but I want to note how incredibly disappointed I am that Trap Kirito doesn't have a female seiyuu voice. It's wrong. It's so wrong.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka's voice is pretty feminine enough. Remember though that his avatar is still male.
Jul 26, 2014 10:01 AM

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Nice, Kirito having a girl avatar. Of course he would choose an energy sword. Definitely reminds me of a light saber lol.
Jul 26, 2014 10:03 AM
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Kirito is the king of games lol.
He got hit on so many times. XD.
This arc seems awesome so far.
Jul 26, 2014 10:04 AM

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Sinon looks much better smiling.

Anyways, it was a fun episode. Amusing to see everyone hitting on Kirito. Didn't expect Kirito to meet Sinon just wandering around like that but I guess they need to advance the story somehow.
Jul 26, 2014 10:08 AM

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-Riptide- said:

GGO and SAO have some similarities because GGO is from The Seed expansion that Kayaba Akihiko made. So basically some mechanics on SAO apply to GGO as well. And no its not my favorite anime. I actually think Accel World is better than SAO :P


doesnt explain why is suddenly NEO and just can dodge bullets. do you know how fast bullets are shot from a gun? too fast to dodge unless you know in which pattern they are coming at you. the guy that failed before knew them but we only saw the first half of the challenge and never the second. not accepting this explanation.
Jul 26, 2014 10:09 AM

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I enjoyed it. I was looking forward to the adaption of the puppet shooting game as well as buying the sword. Didn't disappoint.
Jul 26, 2014 10:09 AM

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As awesome as I expected from the novel XD

Cowboy game was not as awesome but well :P
Next episode we'll see kirito's OverPowerness XD
Jul 26, 2014 10:10 AM

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I'm loving the whole atmosphere of GGO. Kirito is now a women with a really weird voice, I found that pretty funny. From playing all of those fantasy games his skills are very good no wonder he won that mini game. That energy sword that he bought reminds me of a lightsaber from star wars. I wonder if it can reflect bullets.
Jul 26, 2014 10:10 AM

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Why wasn't Kirito able to customize his character in GGO? I know he converted his account, but he did that in the first season to play ALO right? That's why he still had his stats from SAO on ALO. ALO still let him choose what his character looks like though.
Jul 26, 2014 10:11 AM

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Awesome episode :D Really loving this pacing ^^ Pretty much a perfect adaption so far :) Really loving the scenery of GGO.

Trap Kirito is way cuter than I thought he'd be :O All the guys hitting on him XDXD Yoshitsugu's tone was pretty nicely fitting. Also the way Kirito was trying to act cute was lol and actually believable XD

Loved his interactions with Sinon <3 All dem flags :P Can't wait til she finds out about him being a guy XD

The dodging part was awesome and how he said "Isn't the point of it predicting the prediction line" lol XD

Sinon's smile on the bike at the end was cute :3
Jul 26, 2014 10:13 AM

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I love his reaction when everyone thinks that he is a girl in his avatar form XD.

Basically a build up episode, so next episode should be better :D. Even though he converted his account, he still masters everything in GGO. LOL hoping that Sinon will realize about Kirito's gender XD.

Jul 26, 2014 10:14 AM

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Kerozinn said:
-Riptide- said:

GGO and SAO have some similarities because GGO is from The Seed expansion that Kayaba Akihiko made. So basically some mechanics on SAO apply to GGO as well. And no its not my favorite anime. I actually think Accel World is better than SAO :P


doesnt explain why is suddenly NEO and just can dodge bullets. do you know how fast bullets are shot from a gun? too fast to dodge unless you know in which pattern they are coming at you. the guy that failed before knew them but we only saw the first half of the challenge and never the second. not accepting this explanation.

He did know on which pattern the bullet was shot. He can tell from looking into the NPC's eyes where he will aim next.
Jul 26, 2014 10:14 AM
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There were few references in this episode too. Like the random Tales of Zestiria ad and that guy, who was a part of the crowd had an airbender mark on his head.

Pretty enjoyable episode overall. The second I saw that Kirito cleared the challange game flawlessly, I was like... hate inc.

Enjoying the Kajiura OST as well. A bit on the weak end again, but the anime has plenty of time to showcase other tracks.

I don't know why people are complaning about the pacing, it's much better than S1.
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Hideyoshi Kirito, start!
And "paied"?
Jul 26, 2014 10:15 AM
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Kerozinn said:
-Riptide- said:

GGO and SAO have some similarities because GGO is from The Seed expansion that Kayaba Akihiko made. So basically some mechanics on SAO apply to GGO as well. And no its not my favorite anime. I actually think Accel World is better than SAO :P


doesnt explain why is suddenly NEO and just can dodge bullets. do you know how fast bullets are shot from a gun? too fast to dodge unless you know in which pattern they are coming at you. the guy that failed before knew them but we only saw the first half of the challenge and never the second. not accepting this explanation.
I should quote myself from a previous post:

"It's not that he can predict the bullet line, he's actually reading the shooting line from the enemy's eyes which allows him to grasp where the trajectory of the bullet will be.

It was explained in the novels that he received training in SAO and ALO with similar enemies that would should arrows, venom, magic, etc."
Jul 26, 2014 10:15 AM
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It was a good episode. We finally get to see the the trap version of Kirito being animated.

Kirito's face looked so priceless when he saw his avatar.

Lol at the guys who are hitting on him.

Good thing Sinon helped Kirito out to understand how to use gun.

I'm looking forward to the BoB tournament.
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Why wasn't Kirito able to customize his character in GGO? I know he converted his account, but he did that in the first season to play ALO right? That's why he still had his stats from SAO on ALO. ALO still let him choose what his character looks like though.
He left all his equipment and stuff in ALO, reason why he had no money. Also, GGO avatar selection is completely randomized, unless you are willing to pay money.
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LastChapter said:
Kerozinn said:


doesnt explain why is suddenly NEO and just can dodge bullets. do you know how fast bullets are shot from a gun? too fast to dodge unless you know in which pattern they are coming at you. the guy that failed before knew them but we only saw the first half of the challenge and never the second. not accepting this explanation.
I should quote myself from a previous post:

"It's not that he can predict the bullet line, he's actually reading the shooting line from the enemy's eyes which allows him to grasp where the trajectory of the bullet will be.

It was explained in the novels that he received training in SAO and ALO with similar enemies that would should arrows, venom, magic, etc."


i was watching the anime and not the novels.anyways im done with this show once again. bye
Jul 26, 2014 10:18 AM

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I hope Kirito ends up Telling her that He was in SAO so she can know how beast he really is, but being in sao wasn't something to be too happy about with the whole "you have to beat the game to log out" ordeal, oh well now we wait for next week :)
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Jul 26, 2014 10:18 AM

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Another slow episode, but I didn't mind. It was fun to see Kirito and Sinon shopping for guns.

And Kirito just being the Gary Stu he is by winning that game on his first try.
Jul 26, 2014 10:20 AM
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Kerozinn said:
here we go! he is playing the game for the very first time and beats that Cowboy with zero knowledge of the game where other players have failed how many times?

remember how many points the guy that failed at the challenge added? now do the math and count how many ppl failed before him ^^

there is absolutely nothing that can explain this and im not buying any of the excused posted before this.

dropped. not watching the same shit happen twice.


Absolutely nothing indeed.

His retardedly high agility stat for example doesn't explain his inhuman dodging skills nor do the several lines in the Light Novel that explain how he had to undergo the same training in SAO to avoid monsters who shot Arrows, Venom or Etcetera so that he didn't get his brain fried. Likewise, the fact that he's been doing that for two years of his life definitely does not mean that he's used to it. Likewise, the fact that he also got game knowledge from watching the guy before him does not help him in the least, not at all.

Sarcasm aside now, folks.

This has already been explained beautifully by the first post on second page. Well, I enjoyed this. Let's watch the haters unfold.

It is a bit annoying to see some light novel knowledge be let aside though (Character is totally random so Kirito doesn't exactly chose to be a Trap. The character he got is extremely rare and can only be gotten with a very very long play time, as explained in the light novel, where he looked at his playtime that, due to being a convert account from SAO, had all the two years he spent logged online.)
Jul 26, 2014 10:21 AM

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Pacing of this season is absolutely terrible >_>
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I liked the episode and I like the pacing, even though it slow its better than last season. This is a show that you should watch after all episodes are released.
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Kerozinn said:
LastChapter said:
I should quote myself from a previous post:

"It's not that he can predict the bullet line, he's actually reading the shooting line from the enemy's eyes which allows him to grasp where the trajectory of the bullet will be.

It was explained in the novels that he received training in SAO and ALO with similar enemies that would should arrows, venom, magic, etc."


i was watching the anime and not the novels.anyways im done with this show once again. bye

Great counter-argument you got there.
Jul 26, 2014 10:27 AM

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Good ep. About time Kirito is in GGO. Man he should have just said he was a guy to Shino but I guess it will be fuel for something later. Talk about fast he already showing he is far too good at learning the basics of the game so fast.
Jul 26, 2014 10:29 AM

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Kirito was shocked in his appearance. OP Stats.

Sinon really knows a lot about guns.
Jul 26, 2014 10:30 AM

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Yup, it was fun :)
Jul 26, 2014 10:33 AM

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Is it gay if I fap to Trapito?
Jul 26, 2014 10:33 AM
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't Was fun. Trap Kirito... LOL. Can't remember, but who mentioned Hideyoshi from Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu? Because that totally fits xD
Pacing could be a bit better (sometimes very quick, and sometimes slow), but this episode was flat-out likeable.
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Jul 26, 2014 10:33 AM

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Takuan_Soho said:
Another perfectly decent show, a little action at the arcade to show off why Kirito can operate in the game and to break up the necessary data dump that this episode required. Clears the way to focus on action the next way.

And we already know what the haters are going to say about the arcade, so lets clear it up now to spare all of us from having to read 150 posts saying the same thing:

Kirito could beat the game because it was a game based on SAO (through the world seed). He also has the help of watching a very good player lose before him, giving him an idea of how the game operated. Having spent every day of 2 years risking his life against such "games", it isn't surprising that he has a far better grasp of them then players who have only been playing six months (not to mention haven't had to risk their lives to play it).

Overall series is holding at a steady 8, nothing that is great, but nothing that detracts. Just nice entertainment.

I say that this episode is very good...and by this episode it explains and it show to the viewers how experience is kirito in adapting things...since he has learned many things from his previous experiences on the last 2 arcs...
and you explained well the circumstances in these episode's scenario...well haters are still gonna hate even if you explain it properly to them...

8/10 on this episode <3 it...
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Jul 26, 2014 10:34 AM

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antonn said:
Is it gay if I fap to Trapito?

No. We understand how you feel.
Jul 26, 2014 10:35 AM

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I liked this episode. Heck, even my little brother did and he tends to dislike everything which I watch.
I wonder when Kirito is going to confess about his white lie by the way~
Jul 26, 2014 10:35 AM

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Good episode , they finnaly get in CGO.

Trap kirito and that guy that speaks english was actually really fun.
Jul 26, 2014 10:36 AM
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Rewatching this episode, just noticed how the Untouchable mini game reads "PAIED". Lolling so hard right now..


Also, no explanation over how account conversion works, which is present in the Light Novel. To those wondering how Account Conversion works - No money/items, just Stats.
Jul 26, 2014 10:39 AM

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Lol great episode, finally. The story's picking up!
Jul 26, 2014 10:39 AM

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I really don't like how Kirito is OP in every game he starts. Fuck that!
Jul 26, 2014 10:41 AM

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A GGO lightsaber... even makes same noises. 150k? Shut up and take my money!!!
Jul 26, 2014 10:42 AM

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Yay Jesus is there to be Overpowered again.

But to be honest, the episode was quite enjoyable.
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