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unless ive missed something, which i dont think i have, the whole plot of this show is just one massive hole.

just watched the start of ep 4, saw the date and thought of this; they have been in that virtual world for 2 whole years! how are they eating and drinking in real life?! are tehy all hooked up to machines which have tubes going into their stomach? i doubt it, so unless ive missed something, how they hell are they alive. (if i have missed something then tell me im confused)

also, in 2 whole years, no one has been able to hack into this thing and save everyone from the outside?! hundreds of ppl have died, and no one has been able to stop the guy who made the game?! is the government doing nothing?!

so does anyone have any ideas how these plot holes can be explained?

also btw, i do still like the show, i can overlook these (major) plot holes and still enjoy it. its just that the show is currently ranked 44th, so im just a bit surprised cos it has these 2 huge plot holes and is still so popular.

A friend of mine who's reading the novel told me that every player was brought to hospital and since then they've been on a drip feed. This was not explained in the anime, strangely, and I had the same problem as you with this detail.

As for the game hacking, it's probably very difficult, maybe because it's operating on a separate server. At the same time, there's the risk that by hacking the game the players could die because of the NerveGear they're wearing.

Oh look another one that thinks he's a smart ass.
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=465909

right, thanks haseo-san



and "smart-ass"? no, im just pointing out potential plot holes since i havent read the novel. next time you try to insult someone, at least get it right

I really don't know why they skipped this. It was mentioned at the beginning of the novel. All they needed was one sentence of clarification.

Yeah I can also confirm that this was clarified in the novel. It was strangely left out of the anime...seems a little important to leave out.

I agree, the fact that they didn't mention how the players are taken care for in the anime just shows how weak the plot actually is.
For someone who hasn't read the LN (or manga) you're left in the dark about how those people even eat.

Sure you can assume how they're taken care off but even that's not a well thought-out explanation.
You suddenly have I-don't-know-how-many people to take care off that are stuck in a game.
Do you actually think (kaimax) that the hospitals have the resources to take care of that many people? Because they certainly have not.

SAO was overhyped from the first episode (which I agree was pretty damn good) but after that it just lacks. A lot.

yeah lol, i hate noticing plot holes, but now there isnt any haha, cheers

and yeah, thousands of basically coma patients is too much to handle, but it is the future there, so ill assume they can do it lol

That's because you're not supposed to think about the outside world. One of the themes is how entrancing the virtual world is and how many people forget the real world entirely. That's why it's virtual.

>2 whole years
>2 years
>2 years

not sure what ur trying to say...

I wish I could not think about that. Because if they added stuff from the real world it would've been more interesting.
All that happened in the episodes after the first one were timeskips that explained nothing and single episodes that hardly took the main story (or what I believe to be the main story) forward.
I just hope it doesn't go on like this because that's just boring.

One thing I wonder about is whether or not PKers get punished in the real world for homicide. So far most of the possible issues have not be explored.

Inb4 read the LN.
We are judging the ANIME here.

I've only read the first 4 chapters, but I'm with a lot of other people on this thread. It doesn't make sense that they'd cut out such simple explanations the way that they did. It wouldn't have taken up much time or anything. Eh, maybe it'll get explained to the rest of the viewers who are still confused later on.

i know right, surely the police are looking for him, and can it be that hard to find the huge servers or whatever he must have which run SAO, he could be threatening to kill every player if they do anything i guess, but they should say that in the anime if he is

he must have some damn ingenious evil plans to stop anyone from interfering for the potentially many years it takes for the players to clear all 100 floors, and i would like to know these plans, there could be a whole spin-off series about the ppl trying to save everyone from SAO and the evil genius keeping them imprisoned in the game.

It's anime, I don't care about logic :P

These so called "plot holes" are easily explained if you took even a moment to think about it...As far as "realism" in this fictional anime is concerned, the answers to your questions require no more suspension of disbelief than the fact that a perfect virtual reality game world was created.

Read over the episode 1 discussion and, episode 3 discussion every question about the plot is basically answered in one of those two threads

i wonder what if they definitely removed the fact about the Kabaya telling the players about how they will handle their bodies, what if the director see this fact as a hindrance for the players themselves to feel that they really need to survive the game, well its one plot hole for us viewers but if we were to look at the perspective within the anime itself, it seem more logical to do so, so the players would have the full will or desperation to finish the game

and i think they are saving that revelation about the fact how are they surviving after SAO has been finished, like for example Kirito waking up and his relatives would tell how he end up there,

well this are just assumptions that came up to my mind recently

Maybe because it's not hard to guess how they're alive? I haven't read the novels but I could easily guess how they're still living after they mentioned the internal battery in episode one. You guys must all be oblivious to how people in comas live...