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| Well, I knew I wouldn't see Asuno yet in this episode, I was very impressed of the anime comparing of the bad manga art. I have recently also begin reading the novel so I don't miss anything. Even if SAO will be a 2nd reality I rather want to be in the game and reality O_o. We also saw Kirito died when he was a beta testers, that Cline also had hard time to kill. So we could see a reason why everyone died so easily even more beta testere died. I guess most of the beta testers is the one that survive those 2 years. Yes it will probably be a time skip the same as manga. This VR MMORPG Sword Art Online is definely interesting game, the system and the grapical. I see you can choose a female character in this game when you are male in reality, the changes was funny when everyone look into mirror. I know about the voice features that was add in the game and so on, pretty cool. I wonder what will happend if they never pick up the mirror item. Nowadays why play female character in Virtual game? I can watch myself in a girl body with a skirt lol and with a girl voice. The farawell with Cline was sad, and the ending when we could see the stone were all people died. I can't wait for Kirito x Asuno ^_^ |
Nothing ventured, nothing gained (Girls und Panzer der Film ) / from Nishizumi Miho |
| Oh gosh, that "tutorial" was done perfectly! It was exactly how I pictured it when I was reading the light novel. Gotta love the extra tidbits though, like when that girl/.guy couple changed after they pulled out their mirrors. Just...... XD |
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Rabadash said: Do you really think Kayaba didn't take everything into account when creating this scenario? Surely he did as this is his final work and wants to see it be completed(i.e., reach 100th floor) so any countermeasures to stop his project, he probably made sure to have it all covered. After all, he is the genius who created the Nerve Gear that taps into the brain's signals and makes the player feel he is in the game.belatkuro said: Rabadash said: Someone who created the Nerve Gear and a VR game that completely revolutionized the gaming and computer industry in 2022. He planned all of this to create the world of Aincrad, down to the very last detail. Surely he has countermeasures against those tricks so that he can continue this game.Oosran said: Rabadash said: Wasn't that because he went into hiding in some cottage somewhere or something like that?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? That's why I said that its 2022, you'd think that they would be able to find him. The satellites we have now can find people based on their faces in some cave in the middle of nowhere, so why is it so hard to find a celebrity? He has scientific countermeasures, what he doesnt have is legal countermeasures. No matter the ability of a single individual, theres no possible way he could he able to just flee into the japanese wilderness without 1: His company knowing where he is 2: His family 3: Real estate agents if he bought a cottage 4: The government if he left the country All would leave a paper trail. And even if he had assistants helping him, there are 10000 lives at stake, if they found 1 person who knew where he might be, he would certainly be interrogated or even tortured. |
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| The show is simply amazing and scary at the same time, players have to clear the game before logging out thats interesting. |
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| I love it! Kore wa genjutsu da! *-* |
Do you really think Kayaba didn't take everything into account when creating this scenario? Surely he did as this is his final work and wants to see it be completed(i.e., reach 100th floor) so any countermeasures to stop his project, he probably made sure to have it all covered. After all, he is the genius who created the Nerve Gear that taps into the brain's signals and makes the player feel he is in the game. With the explanation given, it's 100% unreasonable. to many hurdles to cover. |
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| Now that's an interesting premise. But one thing bothers me. In the future MMORPGs won't have respawnable monster areas? Really? Or is it just that he fears too many people will be there so they won't be able to farm? But he also said there's limited amount of gold and exp they can farm, so it should be the first. Hmmm, and maybe I'm just overthinking it. Eagerly waiting for more. So far best opening series this season for me. |
| Kirito reacted rather upset when he learned that Klein had some friends that were also online at the same time and rejected the offer to get introduced to them. This and his obsession with SAO indicate that he is probably quite asocial in reality and seeked a way to compensate for his lack of social life with success in the virtual world. Though that are just assumptions for now... Anyway, I'm glad I dropped Accel World since SAO seems to have an even bigger budget and the better story out of the two worksby Kawahara with a similar setting. So far, SAO is off to a great start though I'm still hesitant to call it the best of the season just yet with the mature Natsuyuki Rendezvous and the potential sleeper hit Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita airing at the same time. |
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nina4life said: Now that's an interesting premise. But one thing bothers me. In the future MMORPGs won't have respawnable monster areas? Really? Or is it just that he fears too many people will be there so they won't be able to farm? But he also said there's limited amount of gold and exp they can farm, so it should be the first. Hmmm, and maybe I'm just overthinking it. Eagerly waiting for more. So far best opening series this season for me. Ofc the monsters respawn, you could even see some of the spawning. But 10k ppl competing over a few monsters, it would surely be hard to kill anything, no matter how fast they respawn. |
| Yup so far so good Love the ending(opening) sequence The only wish I need is for them not to mess up w/ the remaining episode |
nina4life said: Now that's an interesting premise. But one thing bothers me. In the future MMORPGs won't have respawnable monster areas? Really? Or is it just that he fears too many people will be there so they won't be able to farm? But he also said there's limited amount of gold and exp they can farm, so it should be the first. Hmmm, and maybe I'm just overthinking it. Eagerly waiting for more. So far best opening series this season for me. Basically there will be too many people hunting the newbie areas and the monsters will killed as soon as they spawn. What he meant by 'limited' is that with all those people attacking mobs at the same time the exp and gold won will be slow coming. Essentially as long as there is mobs the exp and gold will be there, but with all the people killing them so fast the exp and gold will be limited. Moving to a less populated place and leveling will make things easier since you'll have the mobs to yourself and relative "all-you-can-eat" exp and gold bonanza. |
| One more comment though (yes, I could have edited last one, but what the heck). What's the point of giving spoilers of what's about to happen and what happened in the novel? WITHOUT USING SPOILER TAGS. Seriously, first episode and I already know love interest (true, it may be obvious as soon as she comes, but hell, there could be more girls as far as I know) and an event that's going to happen. WHY, WHY, WHY do people keep throwing spoilers in anime discussion boards long before things happen? Sigh. Oh well, after 4 years here I should've become accustomed to that, but it still pisses me off so much. Especially when it's a really good anime (or at least promising one). Is it so hard to use spoiler tags? Is it? Hell, I still never used report button, I wonder if it does anything. Anyway, sorry for the rage. |
| YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WASN'T DISAPPOINTED...SAO WAS EPICALLY ANIMATED... I'M SOOOO HAPPY RIGHT NOW I HAVE TEARS OF JOY TOT Time to watch the episode again XD |
Barion-ZaraJul 7, 2012 11:09 AM
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| That's what I call an epic start. I couldn't find anything I didn't enjoy on the first episode. 5/5 |
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ricardo241 said: Yup so far so good Love the ending(opening) sequence The only wish I need is for them not to mess up w/ the remaining episode Same, the song was indeed catchy ^_^ |
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| WOW! What a pleasant surprise. No annoying MC. HURRAH! Definitely a keeper for this season! |
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| Well, it got serious pretty quickly, right into good things. I hope the animation quality won't decrease too fast. 4/5. |
| I feared when I first saw the chara design, but that wasn't justified. This episode is great and I can't wait to watch the next ones. 5/5 |
| The one series I hope to god doesn't go to shit after the first half. It started of PERFECTLY following the LN's first two chapter's. Sad that we won't see The First Day animated though :/ |
| I really think this was well done, even though I already read the light novels (still am). My reaction was still the same :"this guy is f**ked up, I would be pissed out of my life if that happened" ~It really did capture the drama and seriousness of the novel I think...but I'm easily impressed so :)... |
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| Do we really need to mention the animation? It's awesome. Let's drop it. What we should be talking about is how awesome of a show this is going to hopefully be!!! I would kill my *insert here* to play this game! |
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| This was my first disappointment of the season. 2.5/5 The game does look fun though. |
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Candor said: That was definitely interesting, the best part was that the game is an RPG without magic. The animation was great too, although I'm not really into these types of character designs but still was enjoyable. Good to see there's a show worth watching this summer. parfaited said: Definitely, let's hope they're gonna continue with the good animation, I have high expectations for Magi this fall, I hope they won't ruin it like they did with Fairy Tail...seriously A-1 Pictures has been doing well so far this year. c'mon, Fairy Tails manga is in itself pretty generic. (Not saying it's bad, just generic.) I wouldn't say they ruined it, not even sure if they are the ones to blame for the anime not having any blood an so on... Judging from the Trailer Magi will be nice. It probably has more to do with the budget they have (and don't forget the director). |
| Fucking amazing. 5/5 |
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| Damn, that was a surprisingly great first episode! This and Natsuyuki Rendezvous are my favorites of the season. The animation and music was fantastic. The story is extremely interesting, and hopefully it continues to impress. Also, the MC seems like he'll be one of the better ones. All in all, I can't wait for the next episode. Definitely a 5/5 start! |
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nina4life said: One more comment though (yes, I could have edited last one, but what the heck). What's the point of giving spoilers of what's about to happen and what happened in the novel? WITHOUT USING SPOILER TAGS. Seriously, first episode and I already know love interest (true, it may be obvious as soon as she comes, but hell, there could be more girls as far as I know) and an event that's going to happen. WHY, WHY, WHY do people keep throwing spoilers in anime discussion boards long before things happen? Sigh. Oh well, after 4 years here I should've become accustomed to that, but it still pisses me off so much. Especially when it's a really good anime (or at least promising one). Is it so hard to use spoiler tags? Is it? Hell, I still never used report button, I wonder if it does anything. Anyway, sorry for the rage. Yeah, you should stay away from the forums. EVERYBODY spoilers. Luckily, I read the LN for this so it's alright. On topic, EVERYTHING IS GOOD. My body is ready for this weekly doze of awesome. 5/5 |
| This is going to be epic. |
Candor said: precious said: It's not really the blood that bothered me, it was first the character designs, there's a huge difference, but I could understand that 'cause it wasn't Mashima who drew them, but still they are really.. how should I say it? normal? maybe generic as you said. 2nd it's too colorful, and those things that appear when someone uses his magic.. it just doesn't have the same feeling as the manga, not that the manga is great or anything, but they could've made its anime better. I've seen the trailer for the new movie and it looks way better than the anime, apparently Mashima drew the characters and it was abit more acceptable, I might watch it just for that reason.Candor said: That was definitely interesting, the best part was that the game is an RPG without magic. The animation was great too, although I'm not really into these types of character designs but still was enjoyable. Good to see there's a show worth watching this summer. parfaited said: Definitely, let's hope they're gonna continue with the good animation, I have high expectations for Magi this fall, I hope they won't ruin it like they did with Fairy Tail...seriously A-1 Pictures has been doing well so far this year. c'mon, Fairy Tails manga is in itself pretty generic. (Not saying it's bad, just generic.) I wouldn't say they ruined it, not even sure if they are the ones to blame for the anime not having any blood an so on... Judging from the Trailer Magi will be nice. It probably has more to do with the budget they have (and don't forget the director). and I've seen the trailer for Magi, the artwork looks good I'd say, after seeing the artwork in this episode of SAO I'm a bit optimistic about it, I'm just hoping they won't ruin it. Sorry for my few typos, just noticed them now xD Well yeah, I will agree with that. The part about when someone uses magic also bothers me (a lot actually) - it just looks really 'weird' and out of place. I think they're improving, but again, it might also be because SAO is very popular so they have a good budget to work with (so naturally the result will be nice(r)). Let's just hope for the best for Magi, I'm very excited to see it animated :3 |
| looks very promissing |
| For those who are wondering, that was the opening theme by LiSA played at the end. I remember her singing this song at Anime Expo last week |
| Have high expectations, better be better than that Accel World shit, the mc is a lot better, like the soundtrack but still doesn't compare to .hack//signs |
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| Very interesting, wtf i didn't get bored for a second thought i was just at the middle when the gm appeared. =)) read some chapters of the manga, so I hope this would be great too. :) |
| Amazing! A game like this is totally my dream. Great art and musics. Excited to see the next episode *-* 10/10 |
| Strongly reminds me of .Hack//Sign |
| are everyone going to die from hunger? 100 floors is going to be a long adventure. i'm expecting more from here on out :D great ep 5/5 |
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Perception said: Pretty much every mmo anime will do that now, instead of going in coma its death now lmao, if its the final boss from any of the .Hack games the main character will need God Mode cheatsStrongly reminds me of .Hack//Sign |
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| Wow, that was great. I love the story to this, probably because I have played MMORPGs myself. Good main character (though I liked him with the longer hair), and I also liked the friend he made with the Kotetsu voice. I also liked how this episode was actually quite serious, certainly not what I was expecting. Very pleasantly surprised, hopefully this tone continues from here on out. No moemoe harem shit PLEASE. Probably my favourite first episode of the season, looks like I'll be doing just fine with Tari Tari, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Horizon and this. |
| Ooooh boy, did that remind me of .hack~ This will be so so SO great. I wonder how long it will take for games to reach this point... Nervegear makes not going able to log out epic awesome. <3 Invisible walls, clipping, and getting stuck would be the end of the world for me if I ever played. Wow. This will be the best anime ever...I have to show tell my friends about this one. |
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 Hold on, is that what I think it is?! o.o If it was, MyAnimeList sure has gained some popularity in Japan?! |
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