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

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Synonyms: Sword Art Online: Alicization 3rd Season, Sword Art Online III 3rd Season, SAO Alicization 3rd Season, Sword Art Online 3 3rd Season, SAO 3 3rd Season, SAO III 3rd Season, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld - The Last Season

Japanese: ソードアート・オンラインアリシゼーション War of Underworld

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Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 12, 2020 to Sep 20, 2020

Premiered: Summer 2020

Broadcast: Sundays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Egg Firm, Straight Edge, Kadokawa

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Theme: Video Game

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.49¹ (scored by 355,245 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #1910²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #352

Members: 614,331

Favorites: 3,212

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Synopsis

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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Background

Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld is an adaptation of volumes 15 through 18 of Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online light novel series.

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Prequel:	Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Recap

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Characters & Voice Actors

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

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Kaneko, Atsushi

Producer

Futami, Yousuke

Producer

Niwa, Masami

Producer

Fukuda, Eishou

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Opening Theme

"ANIMA" by ReoNa (eps 1-10)

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Ending Theme

	1: "I will..." by Eir Aoi (eps 1-10)
	2: "ANIMA" by ReoNa (eps 11)

Reviews

Dec 25, 2023

Mon_Panache

Recommended

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“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
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SAO is, at heart, a love story. It encompasses all kinds of love -- romantic, familial, platonic, fraternal, compassionate -- and it is romantic in every sense of the word. “What is romanticism, after all, but a bold cry about how life should be, not about how it is?”, and SAO embodies this sentiment through ...

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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... ...

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Apr 11, 2023

Resting_Bonfire

Not Recommended

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

Well, the first part of this war was already a disappointment, but to bring this to a new level is something you didn't see coming.
Not sure how many times I joked about what we watched and what happened this season. If anyone has experience with Kingdom Hearts Writing and the Youtube Channel "Just a Pancake", that person will know what I'm getting at. This season is a pure definition of "Random Bullshit Go" "That's not even my Final Final Form" and "Okay I believe you" - these 3 memes represent the entire plot of this ... season. And having Simito fight the Anti-Miller at the end made me completely cry. How and why did one almost end in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann? What's with the ending of Alice? Why, why, why?

The ending of this war had the potential to deliver one of the BEST dramatic scenes there could be, but it was ruined and spat on while it was still on the floor. God's sake such potential and then just "Nah Timeskip".

Well, this season follows directly from the previous one and the war enters its final round. The season starts with the best and most epic battle of the whole season so far. Bercoulli not only had one of the most interesting skills seen in Shounen but also a good execution of it and a massively dynamic fight. Honestly, I was shocked at what I saw, every single moment of this fight was breathtaking. Not only visually, but also in terms of pure dynamics.
Unfortunately, this was the only standout performance of the entire season.
Right after this spectacle, the plot continues to revolve around some poorly written war that makes no sense whatsoever and feels more like the never wanted Digimon season where everyone goes to the Digiworld to fight a war. To make matters worse, the villains are endlessly overpowered, always having a new buff that makes them even stronger. Each character has a boss rush moment to show how cool they are, only for the boss to show that they are not yet defeated and get stronger again. And this drags on until Kirito-Kami-kun wakes up and... the cycle continues.

In the end, there is a final fight between Simon and the Anti Spiral and yes. I honestly don't even know what else to say about it.

Conclusion 3

I'm anything but a fan of this series, but Sword Art Online still entertained me well enough. We used to sit and watch 2-3 episodes every night while we had dinner. It was alright, nothing great, just an average show to enjoy. But with this season it became one of the best comedies out there. It's a shame really, but making fun of it also had a certain charm.

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