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dowson417 said:  Heheh, I guess MAL exists in 2022. |
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AnimeseDesu said: lol...I only seen 1 episode, but I already hope there is going to be a 2nd season xDD Can't wait for more episodes to air |
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| Not bad, really, I'm impressed. |
| Great start,Welcome to SAO!! Awesome way to start the season with a epic animated SAO episode! First the OP(ED for this episode) was awesome LiSA performing it adds even more epicness to it. The animation its pretty good and adds even more feeling to it. So far as the episode they adapt it pretty well even that they miss somethings but still can add it next episode. The scene when Kirito log in made me have a nerdgasm bad! really really expecting this anime!! Kirito teaching Cline how to fight was nice and enjoy the mid after conversation specially Cline asking for his sister XD After that...shit got serious!! Akihiko log in was awesome!! really loved how they animated his epic entrance,then he giving all the info to the players was full of emotion. When they use the mirror was also good,really lol when the "pair"show that they were both man(i saw that thing coming for a while XD) after that madness and despair spread! They showing many of the main characters was a nice add. At the end Kirito running to next village after leaving Cline behind was epic! And ended whit a epic scream! As a whole great start!! Really cant wait for next episode!! |
| Wow. Read the plot summary, wasn't very surprised. Watched the first episode, amazed. Will definitely be keeping up with this one. |
| I'm pretty impressed with this so far. Also, Klein=Mutta, which is awesome. |
| SO GOOD.Animation and drawings are sick.OST is amazing, MC is not whining all the time. Play or Die~ 5/5 9/10. and lol, it's already 72# rank. |
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| sugoiiiiiiiiiiiii.. im fan of playing MMORPG so im rooting this one.. cant wait for next ep... |
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 Here to share an awesome gif made by another fan. |
| For the light novel readers like me, I try not to equate the anime with the LN too much I mean, it is an anime, it can't possibly be on par with the LN, either way I enjoyed the first episode immenely after waiting for half a year for it to come out was worth it. |
| I was worried because it was made by the guy who made accel world (which I'm not a huge fan or the characters for) but it looks like this is the better work, the hiro's rave master or togashi's HxH...not that yu yu hakusho stunk in the slightest but, you get what I mean. This was a great first ep but I really wish ep 2 came out on the same day! Clain having mutta's voice and reminding me of leorio from HxH made me like him isntantly, and I like how I'm NOT getting "oh what a dick" flashes from Kirito and can deal with him wanting to be a loner for the most part. Needless to say but that the reveal of that 'couple' was hilarious! I'm definetly going to keep watching this and check out the novels later! This and Binbogami ga are really the only two shows I care about this season and both being great sofar is really promising. |
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| I'm impressed so far. Lovely art, beautiful music and while I feared it could be over dramatic I was relieved to find it wasn't! A good first episode. |
 who are you to change this world? silly boy. |
| I'm thinking two things right now. I WISH this was how Hack/sign had been And this may just be my top summer pick. That first episode was pretty epic. Kudos to them showing the reality of a game like that where people WOULD actually die. |
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| Awesome first episode. My interest piqued when I read if you die in the game you die in real life. 5/5 |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
| It was awesome! I had high expectation for this show in many aspects and most of them are duly delivered. No doubt this starts off as one of the best in this season. 5/5 and 8/10 for the first episode. Let's see how far can it goes. |
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| I'm actually excited about this anime since I'm a Video Game junkie. I expect a crazy final boss. Its great that they made a jab about guys being girls. |
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| What an amazing first episode! hope it gets even better in later episodes :) I am a huge fan of RPG and gaming in general, so i think i'll really like this anime. |
"You are put here for a purpose, could be a big reason or a small one" |
| Wow seems great. I'm so glad cline left cause he was pissing me off |
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| subs were already out 4 hours ago!? D: DAMN, why did I go to sleep |
| I feel like a total dork for recognizing the seiyu of Klein/Cline. :x Anyway, so far so good! I wonder what that GM's motive is.. |
| Since I loved Hack.//Quantum, why wouldn't I love this? This is a great beginning! It makes me want to read the novels already. |
| I laugh at the part where one of the female player was actually a real guy. Back in the days where I play Ragnarok Online, there were a lot of guys using female avatars, not just because it looks cute, but as devious means to fool any innocent guy and take advantage of him. |
| Awesome first episode, great promise for the future. Especially animation, it's really, really great, hope it will continue at this level through the series. And Liz's hair is brown, yay :) Hell, I've never been pumped up for any anime as i am now. |
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Magito said: I laugh at the part where one of the female player was actually a real guy. Back in the days where I play Ragnarok Online, there were a lot of guys using female avatars, not just because it looks cute, but as devious means to fool any innocent guy and take advantage of him. LOL. |
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| Alright now I get what the hype is all about. This anime is mad good. At first, I thought the plot is ridiculous if you just remove the net gear... But it actually causes death! Holy. I love this dark twist. A game between the creator and players. I have a feeling that the creator might have a kid died because of video games. I hope this anime lasts for more than 24 episodes!! |
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| this looks more interesting then i thought, i can't wait for the next weeks episode. i hope this keeps up |
| I thought this would be lame, but it was actually pretty cool. |
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| Enjoyed it quite a bit. |
| Nice prologue adaptation. OP is good but they still could add more action there. Beginning of the Aria next ) |
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| I really liked the first episode so I think I'll love the rest of the anime, I do hope it will be at least 24 episodes otherwise it'll be a huge fail... Can't wait to see the next episode |
| This was actually pretty good. Probably the better Accel World? |
| Yamadera doing Kayaba? nice nice. and congratulation on his wedding ^.^ I guess most people want to be god like once in a while, so Kayaba's ambition is quite normal .Kayaba want to make people believe that this visual world are reality , well this is not much different than some people who think that reality(death) is not the end of life .If you know what I mean .lol This is a very nice Anime.This is just like hack. but the story is made way before when Hack. is done .SAO is a web novel and it is very popular even before its light novel even started.This is Kawahara Reki's masterpiece work. This Anime will have 2 cour just like Accel world as mentioned by Kawahara ^.^ Kawahara Reki is very exited with this Anime but he is a bit sleepy now. I will check what he will say about next day in his blog >.< Rabadash said: I guess you forgot the fact that he is actually taking hostage of 10,000 live. One push of a button and everyone is dead .Also, I always wondered from when I read the LN, why don't they just arrest the creator? I mean, everyone knows who he is, its 2022 so forensic technology is pretty far ahead, so they could just force him to free everyone. I'm sure 10000 hostages is reason enough right? |
MorningGloryJul 7, 2012 2:50 PM
| 5\5 amazing episode especially for a first episode ( which most of the times is average ) can't wait for the the next episode come out already !!!! |
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| I've juste seen the first episode and this anime have an absence of originality... it's really generic. But it's not really bad, maybe the best anime of this season (not really a quality...), it's just OK. |
| Interesting... |
ワンダーランド花 ♥ |
| YAHOOO finally!!! i have been waiting for this to come out for a while and damn it was so worth the wait, they animated pretty damn well, i personally thought the artwork was gonna let it down but it did a good job presenting aincrad as a beautiful place like the light novels, i also love the way the portrayed the characters emotions, i love the VA's they suit the characters perfectly :) i cant wait for more episodes if it carries on being this good it might even be able to rival the Light Novels for sure |
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| Even though there wasn't much action in the first episode, it was awesome! I loved the Cline guy a lot and I hope we get to see our other main character soon. Also it sure got rank 72 fast lool. |
I notice Kotetsu is always playing bro-like characters. Aaaahh the joys of online dating Overall they did a good job adapting the first two chapters. |
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| I am not dissapointed. |
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| That definitely wasn't bad at least, which was what I was expecting from this at first. It's produced well and there's not much to complain about so it will probably at least be a decent show in the end if it doesn't plummet in quality. I find the whole concept ridiculous though and that a game like that could ever be released in the first place without being checked over for something like this, but I guess this isn't something that's supposed to make much sense anyways. Also, why the fuck are there like 10 reviews up after the first episode? |
VeroninJul 7, 2012 3:42 PM
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| It's ok...3/5 Veronin said: Also, why the fuck are there like 10 reviews up after the first episode? Ranked # 72 too...lol... |
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