This series seems to be thrown together a bit too lazily for my tastes. Throughout the series, we find the main female protagonist in multiple world lines with various men that she knows from the past, only for something terrible to happen leading to another story. Although all is brought together at the end, in terms of an outline, there was too much introduction and unnecessary information resolved in too short of a way. I still do have to admit that the series was still generally interesting, from merely a viewer's perspective. It is eyecatching and unique.

SAO Was a great series with an interesting concept. Sadly, because of this whole VRMMO concept became the main focus on the storyline of the first half of the series. If the show were to focus on the actual difficulties in clearing the game as well as the situations the characters developed and overcame while further continuing the game, it would have been a completely different story. Rather than dragging out two arcs into one series, I felt it would have better to further develop SAO to integrate the depth while still introducing all of the components to virtual reality gaming.