Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online - Refrain

The only thing good about it was the little extra clips after the ending, where they pissed around with the clips. Adding weird sound effects, retarded editing and honestly it was funny as fuck.

Other than that, there is no real point to watch most of the episode unless you have memory loss or something, just watch the little ending clips.

There isn't really much else you can say about this over than ... it's a recap ... it's going to be the same thing you saw before, just edited together as if they are "Watching the battle afterwards", therefore it's only showing the tournament, not the ... back story.

This special is a recap of episode 1 to 5 from the main anime. There is no new animation whatsoever, but we have a new voice from M and Pitohui. This is basically like a reaction video from those two, watching and analyzing how the first Squad Jam goes, following LLENN. Not really interesting to watch except you somehow forget the plot line and need to watch recap from the officials. I think its better off to just watch it from YouTube. Though their reaction are counted as "new content", if that's your intention, then that's okay.

They of course reuse the animation, taking highlight clip ... here and there when there is something significant happening. Also still use the same OP and ED. And the way they use it is very clever too. Its not just randomly placed music in an anime, but the characters is actually listening to it canonically inside the anime. So should you watch this anime? Well if you're a superfan of either Pitohui or M, why not. But I reccomend you to watch it after finishing the main anime even though it is a recap, because there's a subtle spoiler about the show major plot twist. Thank you for reading my review :)

Oh, hey, another pointless recap, nothing special to see here.
For a show that spans as little as 12 episodes, it is in itself a recap, so why dedicate an entire episode just top recap like 5 episodes? Beats me.

The only thing worth checking out about the recap is the after credits compilation of some of the shots from the show coupled with the “correct” sound effects, I wish they had that on the entire episode, it would have been worth it at last.

Really, the recap is just M and Pito narrating over what went on the first Squad Jam, sort of like a couch-conversation style. ... Still, not worth your time. However, watching it through, it really shows how little happened in the first 5 episodes, truly the trashiest kind of entertainment, I love it. I can easily suck my mind out and give the dude a comfy place beside me to enjoy the show and still go over the episode no problem.