Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season

The final battle against the Dark Territory drags on, as players from all over the world flood the Underworld's servers and plunge the Human Empire into utter chaos. Asuna Yuuki and her friends defend their new allies with everything they have, but their numbers are falling. Meanwhile, Alice Zuberg heads toward the World's End Altar while Gabriel "Vecta" Miller relentlessly pursues her.

Meanwhile, members of Rath strategize a plan in an attempt to restore Kirito's damaged fluctlight. However, the intruders occupying the main control room have other plans. Surrounded by death and despair, when all hope seems to be lost, one voice reaches out to Kirito—a familiar one saying, "I will always be by your side."

Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season is the epic conclusion to Akihiko Kayaba's dream of creating artificial human intelligence. Now it is up to Kirito and his friends to protect this collapsing world from the people that still think it is just a game.

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Kirigaya, Kazuto Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Yuuki, Asuna Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Zuberg, Alice Main

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Asada, Shino Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Eugeo Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Konno, Yuuki Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Yui Supporting

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Kirigaya, Suguha Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Tsuboi, Ryoutarou Supporting

Hirata, Hiroaki Japanese

Ayano, Keiko Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Kaneko, Atsushi Producer

Futami, Yousuke Producer

Kawakami, Ryuutarou Producer

Niwa, Masami Producer

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Aug 29, 2024

kireikana

Recommended

story:

- i see the peak of the virtual VRMMO game, where tens of thousands of players from different countries gather and wars together. the creation of A.L.I.C.E, the world’s first AI with a soul and a brain like a human, is wild. a walking piece of metal wanting human rights? of course, the government isn’t going to agree that easily. they just see it as a hunk of metal run by a program. they don’t see it from kirito’s perspective.

- kirito got nerfed and became paralyzed. yep, this is what all the fans who followed the series wanted. hopping between games and always having OP ... stats and strength. it’s pretty annoying because they never showed kirito grinding to level up his skills. he always just shows up with some new power that no one else has. honestly, i was getting bored of him if he didn’t get nerfed and always stayed the main star.

- THE RAPED scenes... seriously? why do japanese people love putting in this kind of crap? from season 1 with asuna, season 2 with asada, and now suguha in season 3; almost every girl in SAO has been raped by some crazy guy, covered in tentacles, hugged, or almost kissed by a psycho. no one likes the fcking scenes like that except in doujins, damm'it!!! it really pisses me off seeing women’s dignity and morals being messed with, just to fit some weird japanese fetish. sure, it’s an avatar in a game and what happens to their bodies doesn’t affect their real bodies... but that’s not the point; it’s about what’s shown.

- vassago/PoH, the villain, isn’t just some psycho who loves killing. i didn’t expect to see a backstory explaining his hatred for japanese players. i always thought he was just some crazy killer, but yeah, there’s always a reason behind actions.

- what do you think is the hardest thing to erase in this world? money? wealth? or a job? no, the hardest thing to erase is your data once it’s uploaded to the internet! akihiko akaba shows up again out of nowhere, and how is that possible? it’s a copy of his mind, his personality data stored on the networks. it’s not going away because copies keep being made and spread everywhere. just like when you upload a photo to facebook, it gets copied, backed up, and spread across data centers all over the world.

- not many stories like this exist, where the main character fights alongside the heroine/woman he loves for multiple seasons. ahh, how lucky kirito is; he’s got someone who’s stayed by his side for hundreds of years, but on the other hand, he’s also got a bunch of women who are super sympathetic towards him.

- the last 4 seconds showed "kirito will return." is this a sign of a sequel season? if so, i hope they make a movie about asuna and kirito’s life for 200 years in the underworld; i really want to see it, a world where it’s just the two of them.

- the series ends with the underworld becoming a sci-fi genre in outer space. instead of fighting and flying with wings and swords, they’re using fighter jets and missiles. such a fast development, i don’t even know how many generations have been born in the underworld. (i’m not curious enough to start imagining it from the novels).

quality:

- the animation is still as good as the first cour, especially the effects like the smoke in every battle—it’s awesome. the duel between captain bercouli and vecta left me speechless lol, such a noble fight upholding the knight’s honor.

- the opening from "Reona - ANima" fits perfectly, burning with the theme of war in this series.

- the rest is the same as cour 1.

i’m sick of rape scenes; it really very annoying!! if i had to choose, i’d prefer gore scenes like metal piercing through the head or losing both legs & blood splattering everywhere. (leafa, sinon)

score: 7/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 19, 2024

Whe3333

Mixed Feelings

Spoiler-less, TL;DR, fast, simple, and easy-to-digest review:

"Mom can we have Avengers: Endgame?", "We have Avengers: Endgame at home", Avengers: Endgame at home:

5/10

Animation? Excellent (+++)
Crisp, hype, and jaw-dropping fight scenes. This season might have the best fights in this series. This is peak animation in SAO so far. Good job animators!

Characters? Ok (+)
FINALLY OMG!!! MY BOI KLEIN FINALLY HAD HIS MOMENT! HIS ENTRANCE IS SO FCKING AWESOME!!! THE WAY HE DROPPED IN IS LIKE ME DROPPING INTO THE WARZONE AS SNOOP DOGG WITH NICKI MINAJ AND JOHN WICK FROM FORTNITE! YEAH GET EM KLEIN!... oh for other characters? Pretty decent. Most of them do not disappoint... ... some are... maybe like a handful of them are unbearable I guess.

Story? Meh (-)
The only payoff in the story are the fights... and that's it... and they also blew it! Like come on! Less talk, more fight! The entire war is just Avengers: Endgame ripoff. Also, the conclusion is... meh.

Pacing? Bad (--)
Can we please have less talk, more fight moments? This is supposed to be the most important fight in the series yet you guys can't stop blabbering. At least JoJo talking and fighting are iconic and less annoying (in fact, its fun to hear them fight with body and words to feel the menacing aura within them).

OST? Good (++)
The war drums are kept bangin' and bangin'! BGMs really helped in hyping up the battles.

Enjoyability? Meh (-)
While the fight scenes are great, it's just not it. I want to like it but it's just not it man. idk the feeling but it's not just it man. You may enjoy the fights, but if you really want SAO:AWoU just for fights, there are Youtube compilations.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 23, 2025

owisty

Not Recommended

To start talking about Sword Art Online, let me make it clear that, in my opinion, it is a completely mediocre anime, with occasional flashes of becoming a good work.

Now, let's get into the details. SAO is a collection of dramatic catchphrases and "cool moments" that might impress a seven-year-old. We don't even need to dig too deep to see how the characters lack personality and are utterly incapable of standing on their own. It gets downright frustrating how shallow their interactions are.

As for the story told in SAO Alicization War 2, it’s just as weak. The villains feel like something written by someone lacking ... creativity, and the previously established rules are constantly broken, rendering everything illogical. For example, the villain enters the game with a super-powered account and is warned that if he dies, he will return with a standard account or his old one. He dies—but then comes back with his own account, which turns out to be absurdly stronger than the previous one, even surpassing the Pontifex, without admin privileges. You might think, "Oh, he was strong in GGO, he won the BoB tournament," but then why didn’t Sinon, who also won and entered with a super account, defeat him? How does that make any sense?

To me, SAO is an anime for those who don’t have much patience and aren’t really interested in well-developed characters or a genuine story. It's the kind of show you watch if you want to see girls fawning over a generic protagonist who wields dual swords and is the world's ultimate savior.

Personally, I felt like my time was completely wasted—I couldn’t even enjoy watching it. And that’s the sad part. I can see that it had—or could have had—potential. The world, the technology, are intriguing, but the inconsistencies pop up every five minutes, making it really hard to take the story seriously.

To wrap it up, I truly didn’t find any enjoyment in it. Nothing carries weight, nothing makes sense, and the characters are so shallow that it’s almost laughable how little significance anything has. Even Kirito, Asuna, and Sinon—who I once thought had the most potential for growth—feel like the same people from the beginning.

P.S. Kirito crying more over an AI's death than being separated from his sister, Asuna, and the rest? That’s rough... At that moment, I reflected and regretted my decision to start watching this anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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