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A bit of a slow episode in the beginning with a lot of talk. Also, a lot of ugly toad like monsters but you know, Kirito slices them up like butter. Also dat soul reaper/shinigami like being but Yui shows that she's a badass here so no problem.

Also, Yui says she's some sort of a program? Uh...weird. But ya,

7 seconds after ED plays

Yuriel looks like Riesbyfe from Melty Blood. Sinker looks bland as hell. Can't believe they'll end up together, seeing as they're holding hands when K&A left.
Dem frog legs.
And Yui being badass, burning that shinigami boss like nothing.
Nice touch on showing the first death of the game by suicide. Too bad they didn't animate the side story about the second death.
My heart though when she remembered everything and disappeared. Yui ;_;
Kirito makes a good save though. Nice.
Next episode is the predicted title then. This side story is just the calm before the storm. Should be good.

inb4 .hack ripoff
inb4 wtf Kirito is a hacker
inb4 why didn't he just hack out of the game
inb4 more and more complaints
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"Calm before the storm" as in the the setup to the next arc that's coming soon? I'm noticing this now as we're half way into the series now.

This episode was very impressive of Yui. I was quite stunned as a deadly trap happened upon the rescue of Yuriel’s lover. However the fact that Yui did in the spoiler amounting to the following,

Proves easily she is a AI. That is due to seeing that the object was Immortal and hence can never be killed as a normal monster can be. It is there to kill you till you are dead and you can’t kill it. I know these traps and many times I died in some games due to them. Only to save point and not go in there ever again. Yui was quite impressive in the spoilerin terms of display. Showing out a Fire Aura and a Huge Fire Sword most likely that no player can wield from how big it is.

Asuna’s face and Kirito in the spoiler were both quite shocked and well shown along with the engulfing of the Immortal Trap monster that burns off. The proof of Yui being a AI in the spoiler was known by me quite easily. I knew it and now I have my confirmation. Which makes anyone having Yui God Mode like in the game as she can most likely control all aspects of SAO.

About Asuna’s breaking down, from the moment in the spoiler started, I knew Asuna would break down. As it goes by she does indeed in the following,

That kind of O_O got me. Basically shocked and still am that such a attachment was done and such was felt. Asuna should have known better that Yui being not something like the others would not have disappeared but due to her feelings, it’s deliberately shown to the viewer that Asuna’s feelings are so strong that she can even be affected by something not human when it goes away. This IMO is not good. Asuna has a major flaw of attaching herself to things only to cause her emotional problems.

I hope she does get over it rather quickly and at least it does not linger her mind too much as it could derange her in her game performance, which could cause her death when doing Bosses. Despite all this I liked her pose in the spoiler and no worries she is well taken care of when she asks to be in such a position.

In general it was quite impressive of Yui’s FIRE SWORD/FLARE attack that engulfed the Reaper. Might edit later.

BTW End Art in the spoiler

is a very MOE/Happy family. Might I add it’s very heartwarming in its presentation.

Speculations for ALO in the spoiler

Nope.While you could be right about ALO,shit will hit the fan before we reach ALO.And I guess not everything has been spoiled to you which is good.

@Yumekichi11

Unless the anime changed something, you got it backwards. Yuk was the one with te immortal object tag, not the monster.

OK so I am wrong then. Damn! I though I was close to this one.

Still Yui can sure change loads of elements in the game if she wants to. Seems it might have from how it proceeded. I had to see again the visuals to see that it looked like Yui ID the monster being not killable.

LoL arent you happy to be wrong?I know that sometimes people cant help their curiosity but dont you want to be, at least a little bit, surprised by the plot?

Still you arent entirely wrong either.

No it's just that I was thinking Yui had something to do with it. However I see she has other plot elements to come.

That episode was pretty terrible. I would say it's easily the second worst episode in the series, right behind episode 3. Pacing was meh, the actual narrative was meh, the action was bad and it was hard to actually care about Yui's relationship with A&K.

I guess Asuna isn't too fond of frog legs...lol Too bad Yui had to disappear though.

Pretty interesting. But no Frogs legs cooking for you Kirito. LOL

Strange, I didn't pay much attention to this part in the novel but from what I can remember, weren't both of them immortal objects? The only reason she was able to defeat it was because she has admin/GM abilities or something. Probably remembered it wrong. Haven;t watched the episode yet.

/torrenting the episode right now.

I'm fairly sure that the monster was just very high leveled; he shouldn't have had the immortal object tag.

lol, i was expecting kirito and asuna to go beast mode after they got beat down, but out of no where yui came out and i genuinely said "wtf" . that was an epic suprise.
btw how long did that sword have to be?

how can they use data saved in his nerve gear to create a physical person I don't get it

They can't, you really didn't get it -q

lol please explain

This was by far the worst episode yet.

Boring. Trash. Sigh.

Pointless side story that was very predictable. Yeah I mean who didn't see Yui being some AI program coming? Really?

I really couldn't have cared less about Yui the boring loli program.

Not to mention why is Asuna straight up crying and so emotional about an AI PROGRAM they spent so little time with? People died right in front of them, and they didn't give that kind of reaction.

Hopefully the next episode goes back on track, because this episode was awful. I've enjoyed everything besides this arc.

That's what I though but was its energy bar even shown?

The Reaper looked like it was some ELITE lvl 100. It pawned badly Kirito and got Asuna into yellow. First impression was TBH a trap that kills you and you cannot kill it.

It would have added better to the scene if Asuna was red and Kirito yellow IMO.