Accel World Episode 4 Discussion

BlueKite said:
And stupid Hime why won't she just move both of them instead of Haru. Is she trying to be a heroine of the day by putting herself in a coma?e

huntx said:
Also the most hottest girl fell in love with the guy in 4 days/eps

BlueKite said:

Revelation of Taku being Cyan Pile! My theory is he is the one that Hime killed and he got Brain Burst forcibly uninstalled and his girlfriend who is also an accelerator is Chiyu. He managed to install the Brain Burst again and is hidden under the name of Cyan Pile

belatkuro said:
No. Didn't you listen in episode 2? Once the Brain Burst program is uninstalled, it cannot be installed once again, even if you change your Neuro Linker.
And no, Cyan Pile is not a King.

lobkestar said:
Why? why did they censored Araya's face?

kaimax said:

Does it even cross your mind that she was already interested or likes Haruyuki way before the story of the anime starts. Like how she was already investigating Cyan Pile One Week before she approached him, In episode 3.

5layer said:
I think they could've done some of the scenes better, though.

huntx said:
i hope they explain it on next eps, thats what i meant.. or... or i will just ignore it... and think love sometimes is ... simple.

kaimax said:


As you can see, moving in Full burst does not mean she can move freely. She's seen struggling to move in Full Burst, and probably only had the strength and time to just push Haruyuki away, rather than puling both of them away.

belatkuro said:
No. Didn't you listen in episode 2? Once the Brain Burst program is uninstalled, it cannot be installed once again, even if you change your Neuro Linker.
And no, Cyan Pile is not a King.

kaimax said:


I think someone in this thread mentioned that recently there are many car crashes like that in Japan.

Better than what happened to "Nice Boat", since it didn't get postponed.

BlueKite said:


I mean they can both move their physical bodies while accelerating. She doesn't need to use her high level command skill imo

lobkestar said:


I know that there are a lot car accidents lately but why would you censor a face while they do show a person getting hit and laying on the ground while bleeding

StormSky92 said:
Well, the whole accident thing really caught me off guard. Definitively didn't see that coming. No surprise as to who Cyan Pile was, considering they've only shown, like, 4 main characters the whole series.

Sad scene there, but i'm just not able to get into the relationship with those 2. Maybe if that happened later on in the series, i'd care more. I'm not really a big fan of any of the characters so far, and the relationship seems a little forced to me, because there haven't been that many episodes.

The battle next episode should be good though.

kaimax said:


You didn't pay attention to any explanations, in this anime huh?

In Burst Link, the only thing that can move is their Avatars, which is just a projection created by all the Social Cameras around them. In Accelerated mode they're just basically "ghosts" that cannot affect anything in the "normal world".

It's shown in the 1st episode, that in this mode, Haruyuki can't even move the neuro cable, let alone try and move his own body. Burst Link only gives you an advantage in making a plan in a split second.

The only way to move your body in Burst Link is using the Lvl 9 only emergency skill, Full Burst.

Although it's debatable if they can move fast enough to avoid the car. Heck, most people will just stand still in shock when they know a flying car is gonna hit them.
"inb4 other people, acting all smart and tough responding that both Haruyuki and Kuroyukihime can actually move away, with nerdish explanations."

Tyrel said:


Man that face, I just wanna punch him. The next episode is gonna be intense. I've never read the anime, but I sorta of thought that Taku would be Cyan Pile, he's always wearing a blue/cyan color feel of clothing, and his eyes are a "Cyan color." Can't wait gahhhh.

MelbShaw said:
That nurse seems too suspicious that sneaky whore!

AirStyles said:
....

Well... Let's hope this show gets better... At the moment, I actually take the first 4 episodes of Guilty Crown over this... And I'm not a big fan of Guilty Crown.

1lau said:
This one was very cool, especially the twist at the end

MikedyMike said:
+ Animation of the technology

- Trying to explain impossible technology just adds useless dialogue.
- Love declaration in ep 4 is a bit soon
- Haru's self deprecation is very heavy-handed (we get it already!)

MikedyMike said:
+ Not drawing out Cyan Pile 'mystery'
+ Animation of the technology

- Trying to explain impossible technology just adds useless dialogue.
- Love declaration in ep 4 is a bit soon
- Haru's self deprecation is very heavy-handed (we get it already!)


3/5 - Conceptually interesting and the plot is moving, but the characters could use some serious work. Especially Haru who cry-yells far too much to be taken seriously. The person who wrote this has a weird opinion of what depression is like.

XartaX said:

TL;DR you have no idea.

I've known people who've acted very similar to this. Yeah, they've got out of it after finding a group that accepts them over time, but before that..?

And Taku doesn't really count, since Haru wants to keep his "pathetic side" hidden from him (which just serves to build up extra stress and make it all worse). Chiyu is the ONLY healthy relationship he has up until the series start. Even that one is kinda messed up, since he pushed her into becoming Taku's girlfriend.

He has NOONE he can really lean on for support whatsoever, either because of them, or because of his own reservations (not showing his true side to Taku, can't confide in Chiyu because of the whole girlfriend thing, etc.).

Is it really that hard to read into characters? People have taken their own life over bullying, I'd say this guy is tackling it a hell of a lot better, even if it's not exactly a stellar job. Bullying and no social life is no laughing matter.

People need to stop thinking "Would I act like this? No? Conclusion: Unnatural behavior!". YOUR natural behavior isn't the set default for how EVERYONE reacts to events.

Read my earlier post for an argument against the whole "lol early confession, wtf is this"-thing.

edit: formatting.

Ostacchini said:
I'm sorry... but the main character just makes this anime almost un-watchable for me. i don't think i've ever seen a main protagonist be so pathetic in all the years i've been watching anime (he's even worse than shu from guilty crown, and that really takes some).

the story is great, but come on! Haru? really? i couldn't take the confession seriously at all with his character model, and the fact that he's crying his bloody eyes out. i think i'll give this one more ep. and if that doesn't turn things around i'll be more than happy to drop it.

Ajunky said:
]Nay, he isn't realistic, he goes to the other way of the scale. At least I've never met anyone nearly as pathetic in real life.

MikedyMike said:
+ Not drawing out Cyan Pile 'mystery'
+ Animation of the technology

- Trying to explain impossible technology just adds useless dialogue. (Acceptable.)
- Love declaration in ep 4 is a bit soon (Also acceptable, but in hindsight, the best we could've gotten would be episodes where the main girl spies on Haru in secret and Haru continues to lead his depressing life for no reason. You really want to see more of that? The series has 24 episodes and is really about to pick up.)
- Haru's self deprecation is very heavy-handed (we get it already!) [Research hikkikomoris in Japan. There's nothing special about Haru & there are real life people like him living in Japan. If you want to really contribute your opinion on depression, write help books for curing hikkikomori.)

MikedyMike said:



You forgot to add... IN YOUR OPINION.

I for one don't find 4 eps of info dump and unrealistic relationships ACCEPTABLE.

The last point you make just makes you sound stupid. Seriously, write books to CURE depression? *facepalm*

Also, he isn't a hikkikomori... he's just depressed and they ramped it to 11 instead of establishing it so we could understand how bad off he was.

I gave the show a 3/5, that is a POSITIVE review you fools. They were negatives IN MY OPINION that brought the show down in parts. Establishing characters is one of the most important parts of a show it isn't ACCEPTABLE to skip that part of it for any reason.

.. and yes there are people in real life CLOSE to what Haru is like. Thing is, they would still have to be established to be worth caring about. You can't feel for someone's plight when they do next to nothing to show you it even exists. Him crying about it is not establishing.

Ani-Blast said:
At the same time, I can't tell if you acknowledged my point that "the best we could've gotten would be episodes where the main girl spies on Haru in secret and Haru continues to lead his depressing life for no reason. You really want to see more of that? The series has 24 episodes and is really about to pick up.". Is it worth debating at only Episode 4 of 24 Episodes if the staff should've spent more episodes establishing Haru?

MikedyMike said:

I don't think that is the best we could have gotten, and I don't think 1 or 2 of 24 eps is a lot to establish your MAIN ****ing CHARACTER.

The plot picking up is great... but the characters are an important part of that, and without establishing them fully you leave a lot of emotion out of the equation.

I don't just accept what I am given for characters, it's LAZY storytelling. It doesn't take a lot to establish them, and they kind of failed in that. The point of a main character is to feel for them and want them to succeed, that is the point of a STORY.

Ani-Blast said:


Or A point of a STORY is to see how the whole story itself will create character development for our main characters, putting the crux of the STORY on the characters themselves.
I believe Haru's established enough to where we can predict how he would react to most situations sans any character development. He's not a very complicated character as it is, even when he himself insists on being a pawn for the most popular girl in the school. If Haru manages to do something different than what we'd expect in future episodes and continues to do so, then that should establish display some character growth, should it not?

MikedyMike said:

Character development with barely established characters holds far less meaning. You are REALLY upselling a show that has done little to deserve it through 4 episodes. If it gets better, good... I hope it does. I, however, don't deal in hypotheticals as you seem prone to do.

And no, I am gonna stick with THE... because that is the way I view it. Character and plot go hand in hand without one the other suffers.

That is about all I have to say to someone with the maturity to place that first line in their signature. As smart as you may be your argument loses all validity with childish nonsense like that.