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Sure! If you want to know how I feel about a lot of recent stuff, I have a 2021 Animation Ranked blog on my main page. View it there if you’re curious. I’ll DM an account.

Also needless to say since then I’ve definitely soured on Alicization.

12 AM ain’t really that late

Happy birthday!

Well, despite me having better hopes earlier, the good news is that I was able to take your advice to heart when the problems reoccurred over the entire SAO season. To the point when I made my own review that got to the top spot. Thanks man!

I don't remember CGI being used badly in the Kirito/Asuna conversation scene at all. And the floor CGI only was present for at most, 3 seconds during the GGO battle scene, and it didn't look that bad since the character animation quickly blocked it. I don't see how it was worth bringing so much attention to. Maybe Episode 4 had a little bit of CGI occasionally pop up for the minion Goblins but it was thankfully blended pretty well thanks to the lighting and more kinetic sword block choreography. I don't really see the animation being choppy either. It was super smooth during the goblin battle scene in Episode 4 and throughout shows general improvement over the previous series. The CGI hand was also not on screen very long and looked at least comparable to the piano hands from Your Lie in April.

A fear of.....one syringe. ONE. That Kirito wasn't actually hurt by. The pocket protector was stupidly convenient in the moment but it does justify him not fearing syringes. If he was hospitalized over it or had nightmares of being syringed I'd get that but those were not shown. Coming from a dude who defends against sword weapons all the time. His first instinct in-the-moment was naturally to grab a sword, since he'd been doing something of that variety for 2+ years then, plus Kendo. And then to push away Asuna over himself, since he obviously wouldn't want her to get hurt. He also wasn't aiming to kill, rather incapacitate, since unlike that psycho Kirito isn't a murderer. I'm willing to let it slide on top of him only having an umbrella, being concerned to push away Asuna, and not aiming for death. At least one of those three would affect his decision in the heat of the moment.

Speaking of "that psycho", his existing and striking when they were alone at night makes sense to me. They weren't just going to walk into a dark alley after leaving the shop. They established in the previous season that there were 3 Death Guns, and one of them wasn't caught yet. So if anything I credit them for actually paying off that plot point rather than just totally forgetting about it.

Also, Asuna's role this season hasn't really been greatly tested yet. Like it or not, the Kirisuna romance and the reasons for why she is in love with him/concerned with his health have been properly established beforehand. Mother's Rosario, literally the arc before this one, was all about Asuna and how she dealt with her IRL scenario through escapism that bleeds into real life with confidence. The movie was also majorly about their relationship and attachment. It's consistent with what we've seen thus far, and I'm willing to take it if she does something significant in this arc down the road. So I can't yet knock this season for being consistent.

Regardless, the second half of the prologue is merely setting up the plot point that allows Kirito to be in Underworld in the first place, while many other things in the system and outside of it are a mystery. Four episodes in I've gotten that the bulk of this season will be Kirito exploring this new world with Eugeo as his partner, piecing memories together and providing us as viewers a sense of discovery as we see all these areas very nicely detailed. If the exposition dumps like the one in Episode 1 were constant, then I'd be more concerned, but for now, I'm willing to understand the circumstances and have more concern for the bulk of the plot rather than half of its hair end.

But anyway, I'll look forward to your review judging the whole arc when it ends in >50 episodes. Best of luck crafting it.

SAO is a 4 cours series so I'm pretty sure all reviews will be deleted. There needs to be 10 episodes before you can release a review on a 4 cours series.

I wonder how long it's gonna take for your review on SAO S3 to be taken down. Probably not long considering the contrast in the average rating of the show and your personal (seemingly negatively biased) rating.

Your review on SAO is absolute terribly. Bad CG? Poor animation? amateurish use of CG? Jesus, how can one be so wrong?

The fact that you complain about the cafe scene is laughable. It's a adaptation of a Light Novel with plenty of text and content. They need to put those details on the anime to make use of those to explain the concepts to not make it shallow. It's already terrible that a anime can't make use of internal dialogues of Kirito and other characters like it's original material is able to in the way to characterize them, but ignoring many of the aspects that explain the world and technology will only make it worse.

i like the meme review on sao (not gonna start an argument)

When did you see copious amounts of CGI? I didn’t really notice any CGI excess in the current SAO episodes. It looked fine to me, and the art style seemed to echo the movie’s style more than anything else, which is an upgrade over the first two seasons. And Kirito reaching for the umbrella seems pretty logical from my point of view, yet also kinda funny. It’s gut instinct over how much time he was either in virtual reality where he had a sword, playing AR, where he had a sword, or practicing Kendo, where he had a sword. I agree the exposition scene failed to be interestingly depicted in any way, but the episode was at least double length with the mystery tuning first half, rather than us having to wait a week for that 2nd part made up that way.

Regardless, I doubt that one bad scene is the meat of the series. I think it’s only fair to judge the series as a whole, since us as non-light novel readers do not know what the heck this new arc is even about.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!!

Seems Made in Abyss really made your day, and Isekai Smartphone made you want to die.

Yeah, Super Kid was a nightmare.

What's most irritating about Akashic Records is that there is a ton of missed potential in its first half, well that and the abysmal grope and attempted rape scenes that are the absolute worst variations of both I have ever seen.

•ZZ Gundam (3/10 and will probably be a 2/10 soon enough)
•Twilight Axis (3/10)
•Galaxy Tylor (2/10)
•Gundam Wing (3/10
•Akashic Records (2/10)
•Eromanga Sensei (2/10 and I couldn't even finish episode 1)
•Big Order (3/10)
•Every Akito the Exiled film (2-5/10 depending on the installment)
•Super Kid (1/10)

And a few more. A few mediocre movies too. Only a few anime I saw I felt were good.