I recently finished watching the first Accel World series and Accel World EX. I really liked the EX specials, so I decided to move on to the other specialseries based on Accel World: Accel World Specials. However, I dropped Accel World Specials after watching just 2 episodes. Why you ask? I'll explain.
First of all, the artwork. As many of you know, Accel World is nicely animated and has a huge variation of colours and drawstiles gathered within it (good visible when watching in HD). The 2 Accel World EX episodes were made the same way.
However, Accel World Specials is drawn in a way that you would expect to find in an American cartoonserie for people aged between 4 and 6. It's completely ruines the artwork reputation the original Accel World series has.
Second, the storyline. Except for the characters and some basics from the Accel World series, it has nearly nothing to do with the original series. these 'Accel World Specials' follow a complete different storyline, and to my opinion it's also a very dumb storyline. Especially someone who just finished watching Accel World I'd strongly recommend NOT to watch Accel World Specials. It will completely ruin your idea of the Accel World Universe.
And when we are speaking about the worse points in these series, lets not forget the characters. Even due most voice actors (in the japanese spoken version) seem to be the same, the scriptwriter sertainly isn't. The characters are doing things the characters in the real Accel World series would never do. Their feelings and characters are also completely messed up. Even due every special in this epic storyline is just a couple of minutes long, the characters will drive most of the Accel World fans crazy (in a negative way).
Lets see.... Is there anything I forgot? Oh yeah, the enjoyment.
People with lame humour and no sence of good artwork and storyline (not ment in an offending way) will probably enjoy Accel World Specials. Any other person, especially those that have seen Accel World and/or know something about anime, will almost sertainly drop these series after just 1 or 2 episodes.
Overal it's one of the worst anime specials I've ever seen.
However, I do recomment you guys to watch at least 1 episode of it. Not because it's fun, but because then you will probably perfectly understand what I'm talking about in this review.
