| The first time I heard of it was at an anime streaming website. Then I started watching it on there. It was already about 4-6 episodes in when I started. Now, I'm up to date with the series. Can't wait for the 21st episode today! |
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| i guess im the only one who discovered SAO through twitter buzz lol |
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| I watched the first and second ep without knowing what it was.In the 2nd ep I thought that it would be a mediocre adaptation at best.After reading the LN I think I was too optimistic about the anime. |
| I looked at the summer 2012 anime list and than I got interested. The end. |
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Ebi-kun said: I'm pretty sure there's at least one more person out there that find out SAO same way you didi guess im the only one who discovered SAO through twitter buzz lol |
| "You're making too much of me. All I am these days, is the poor owner of a small time candy store."-Kisuke Urahara |
| Honestly, I don't know how I started to like SAO ..XD Hehe, I remember seeing this in the net, watching some snapshots and took the first peek watching it in episodes..then I've realized I wasn't that bad then start watching episode 6 until I read the LN and waited for the episode to came.XD |
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| my friend recommend it to me, he says that this anime is good that's why try it and i got addicted to it. |
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| I pretty much stumbled over it while I was looking for a good anime to watch..:D |
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| Was on facebook looking through some anime pages I liked, saw SAO, and I was like "Hmm..." Then I was on Chia Anime and I saw SAO and just decided to check it out ._. |
| I saw the first 2 episodes of SAO, not knowing wtf it was. Well of course, the first two were just before the pacing issues so I didn't have any complaints about it. After getting hooked on the anime I did some research and found Baka-tsuki... 2 days later all 9 books had been read... Yeah I'm a freak. |
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| I noted when the first episode was released around 6 months ago. And then finally started to watch it 2 days ago on the 17/12/12. Got hooked on it and now I'm up to date with the anime. ^_^ What drew me to watching the anime was the fact that it was similar to my dream 5-7 years ago of making something similar to the VRMMORPG. |
| The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don't wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did. |
| I found out about SAO when i was searching internet.I kinda liked what i saw so decided to watch it. |
| "What a drag." -Shikamaru Nara |
| It was recommended to me by a friend, I gave it a try when I was bored after a while and immediately loved it xD. |
| It was two years ago when I was new with animes as my best friend had introduced me to them. I think I had watched only one or two animes so far. Then he said, I should try watching his favourite anime, Sword Art Online, as it is completely exciting and it has also romance in it, and as he know, I like romance. So i took his recommend and watched it. And yeah, I guess you know how i liked it... Or otherwise I would not be in this club. ;) |
| "If the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix |
| Light novel |
| I had come across it when I was browsing on Netflix... |
| I first watched it when the English dub was airing on Toonami back in 2012. I thought it was pretty decent and intriguing for a first episode, but as the episodes progressed, I started loving it A LOT more. |
| If most toxic anime fans' criteria and standards for considering problematic instances in anime "acceptable" were made into books, they'd be full of plot holes. |
| The movie is gonna be in theaters here in Italy next month, therefore I binged the whole series to prepare to it. |
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| Watched the anime, then read the manga, then read the light novel |
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| I heard someone talking about it on Instagram. I didn't think much of it. However, I was browsing Netflix a few weeks later, and I saw Sword Art Online. Since I had remembered that name in the back of my mind from seeing posts about it, I decided to watch the first episode. At the time, I had just finished a really good RPG and was still on a high from that. So the story was intriguing. I'm so glad I decided to watch it back in 2014. |
"There's no such thing as a painless lesson, they just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah... a heart made fullmetal." |
| I had just moved to another country and I was feeling incredibly lonely and missing home, so I spent quite a lot of time on Netflix. I watched the first episode of the anime and I became obsessed immediately, so I told all my friends back home to watch it. Most of them (or at least the otakus) had already heard about it but they weren't watching it yet. Everyone LOVED it. We finished all the anime's seasons (multiple times) and then read the novels. Now every time I meet my friends we discuss SAO and I like to remind them that I was the one to introduce them to the anime. I have to admit we're quite excited about the live-action adaptation and we're waiting for Netflix to do something decent with it, but I know that's asking a lot. |
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| I was more into games back then and my brother recommended it to me. Then I discovered anime again, for the second time after going through anime as something alien during my childhood. |
| SAO triggered me to become an otaku and I'm thankful for that because these titles (SAO, K-ON, and Accel World) helped me recover from depression. |
| I began with the anime spring break of 2017 and it was really my true pilot into all of anime and I'm glad of SAO for that. |
| SAO was one of my first anime aside from Naruto. It happened around 2012-2013, my one of the 3 only person in the class who watch anime told me about SAO. He describes kinda describes about it like saying the main character is trapped in a game where if you die in the game, you die in the real world as well. As a primary school student, who would've not interested by hearing that? So yeah, as someone who just knew another anime aside from Naruto, I really liked it. After watching SAO, I asked from my friend, does he have another anime recommendation, and that it goes like that, I watch what he gave me. At 2012-2015 I watch some animes, but I don't know the community is big as I know now. Fast forward to 2016, I found MAL then instantly thinking about SAO. I thought to myself "this anime must be the number 1 anime here". Yes, as you have probably guessed, I was completely wrong about that. I was wondering to myself, "why? Why are people hating it? It should've been the best anime". Now at 2020, I still think that SAO is not as bad as what people say, it maybe not the best anime ever, but its also not as bad as what people said about it. |
| Episode 22 (repeated it many times lol) |
| I was indifferent to the franchise for quite a few years despite its incredible popularity and only got interested when Alicization's marketing campaign began. Some people get into something because of a trailer, a music track or a particular character, and I got into Sword Art Online because I found the promotional artworks to be nice... |
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| Hmm. It was definitely the anime. I think it might've come up in the new anime feed on AnimeLab and I just started from the start... and didn't stop. At that time there was only one season, but I was hooked right away. It seemed to me to be a pleasant blend of the in-game stuff that I knew a lot about and also the real-world consequences and social commentary, which was missing from other 'magic portal' anime. Although I felt like this balance wasn't struck as well in later seasons, I still like it. |
| I saw it on Netflix and I started watching. Also this was one of my first anime. |
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