Sword Art Online II Episode 7 Discussion

Jenko01 said:
A classic set up episode which principale caracteristic is : make most of the kikoos watching while fapping and those who are just completely stupid go wild.("Ouiiinnnnnnnn i don't have any action"," f*cked episode where is kirito kicking ass","I don't want side characters just show me some action",...). This thread shows it quite well ^^.

Concerning the episode, well quite disapointed that shinkawa is turning toward the "jerk way" , wanted him and sion to be together.(HOW do i know he is going to end a jerk? After having read/watch more than 300 different mangas/animes, you starting to anticipate things rather quickly and accurately since the pattern is always the same).

Liked seeing old characters and showing asuna being over worried about kirito. And that the other girls respect that Asuna is Kirito only love interest( won't hide that i'm rather worried with sion gradually falling in love with kirito).

Not that much material in this episode but liked it. Still giving 5/5. For thos who don't understand how can i give 5/5(i give it every time as long as there is not a matter that REALLY piss off me. Example : Kimi no iru machi(finding out that Yuzui new boyfriend was Haruto new friend. well it's was for the manga but that's the idea.)

PS : For those who have read it completely, I'm sorry about my english which is as you can see not really good.

cri7ica1 said:
When did MC become such a bitch. He literally has a fucking harem of girls that fawn over him. And all he does is bitch and whine about shit that happened a year ago. Fucking irritating.

Objurgo said:

How was Shinkawa "turning into a jerk"? Or did you mean he's going to to turn into one, yeah I can see that happening it's a pretty common thing to see the rejected guy over react the shit over a rejection

Insertanamehere said:

Not sure if troll.

He's not the MC and he's trying to get with the female MC of this arc.
Of course nothing good will come of it.

lucidbrandon said:
Did Kirito tell Suguha that her salad was going to get cold...... .?

kei78 said:
Slow and boring...

Kirito could have banged the nurse. Would have been better

j0x said:
Sinon just friend zone the only male friend he have in real life

Seryril said:
This Episode was decent, but not horrible... and I think that support characters should have way more time in episodes (like Klein I really like this guy), but there is still time for that I hope.
PS. Thx LN readers for not spoiling here, I still havent seen any big spoilers(yet) :D

Sapewloth said:
I'm also wondering, where are Kirito and Sugu's parents? We like, never see them or anything. Which is a bit strange considering the amount of time spent in their house during Alfheim. It also seem strange that the first person Kirito would turn to in his period of trauma would be a random nurse.

Gokussj4thebest said:
Wtf they are fucking up all the action just damn 7 episodes of troll

Sapewloth said:
I'm also wondering, where are Kirito and Sugu's parents? We like, never see them or anything. Which is a bit strange considering the amount of time spent in their house during Alfheim. It also seem strange that the first person Kirito would turn to in his period of trauma would be a random nurse.

-Robunaga said:
So many people going on about how this episode was boring, I for one quite liked the exposition in this episode, it's nice to see Kirito can be broken down a little rather than simply being the online version of god with his insane combat skills! Also I liked seeing some of the old faces popping up. Anyway for all those people waiting on the action I'm sure you're all about to get hit in the face by a whole load of action in the next episode!

Sapewloth said:
I'm also wondering, where are Kirito and Sugu's parents? We like, never see them or anything. Which is a bit strange considering the amount of time spent in their house during Alfheim. It also seem strange that the first person Kirito would turn to in his period of trauma would be a random nurse.

Takuan_Soho said:


The nurse isn't random, she was the one who helped him with his rehabilitation, so they were already pretty close.

Kirito's parents died when he was 2 or 3, he has been raised by Sugu's parents, his aunt and uncle. I know that the aunt has a pretty intensive job as a leading computer programmer (this is where Kirito both got into computers had why he had access at such an early age to a full dive machine), not sure what the uncle does (or if he is even still around).

But Kirito probably would not have confided in his step mom anyway. He has felt a bit distant from them when he found out that he wasn't actually their child.

Insertanamehere said:

I believe he was referring to the aunt and uncle anyway, but called them his parents because, well, they are.
And the uncles still around, he's just mostly abroad. He show's up muuuuch later, near the end of the Web Novel.

But yeah, agreed on your points.

Sapewloth said:
Indeed I was talking about Sugu and Kirito's "parents" knowing that they weren't Kirito biological parents. Didn't know that his actual parents died either, since that was never mentionned.
But fair enough.

Fireego said:
Sugu, Asuna, and others! <3
I don't see how Klein doesn't get any; I mean he spends a lot of time with the harem.
But then again, it's Kirito's harem.

Insertanamehere said:

I'm fairly certain it is mentioned sometime in the anime, by Suguha's mom. Why else would he live with them, anyways? >.>

Sapewloth said:
We caught a glimpse of her telling Suguha how Kirito learned he was adopted, but never the reason why specifically. I imagined they were dead, but she was telling her story with such a joking tone, I had doubts. :/

Fai said:
Ahh, the good and old secondaries complaining because episode had actual depth and complexity instead of mindless action.

Because remember, guys and gals - in MAL, unless its filled with action sequences, "nothing happens".


For what?
Mindless action? Sengoku Basara is that way.

A1 actually decided to do this season properly unlike S1, which means actually portraying characters as PEOPLE instead of random personalityless killing machines.

DancingJack said:
Kirito's little harem world where he only has to interact with cute girls that have thing for him sure gets annoying fast~... (It was already incredible stupid in Sword Art Online where it completely contradicted a point that was made in the first episode).

If Sinon also falls for him for no reason while the other guy gets turned into a "overly possesive creep" to "make it okay" I will probably just stop the episode right there, turn it off and try to wipe the anime from my mind entirely.

I had really, really hoped Asuna gets to see the little scene at the end of their battle where Kirito pulls Sinon creepily close for someone who has a girlfriend he wants to marry and basically "a child". But Kirito never has to deal with conflicts like that. And it's totally okay for Sinon to lose her mind over Kirito and getting pulled close by him, standing there with eyes wide open... but if "the only person who really understands her" wants to hug her, she is not ready for that... >_>

The pacing was again all over the place but this time really slow... and with the "trauma" part played to death. Yes, we know now that he feels bad about it, jeez... it's like a few episodes back when they needed to point out that "Kirito is special" over and over again. People actually have a brain, the point of a visual medium is that you can figure stuff out by looking at it, not by repeating something over and over again while also shoving it into your face with obvious, extra dialog (maybe some signs pointing to Kirito with "I'm sad now!" written on them would help if you are really going for that).

Edit.:

Isn't kind of funny btw. that alot of commenters here feel that Sinon's friend seemed a bit "creepy and crazy" because it was presented that way while last episode when Kirito did about exactly the same, pulling her close for no reason at the end of their fight people reacted like it was the "cutest thing ever"?

L-Ryoshi said:
Awfully slow episode this time around. I'm kinda glad it happened though. We needed the change of pace as well as the connection to the "Outside world", since we haven't really seen it since episode 1. Kirito is still suffering from guilt and all that jazz, I was quite surprised what with all the crazy stuff going on in his mind that he didn't actually crash his bike in the real world.

Sucks to be Spiegel. The only real friend that she has in real life, and he loses out to the godly Beater "Sword" of Kirito :P
Not that it wasn't expected of course. The dude is way too forward with his advances. If Shino actually had more friends in real life than him, I would bet a million bucks that she would have reacted with disgust when he went in for the hug. Oh well, he's gonna lose out anyway, but the characterization of him leaves a lot to be desired. He comes off obsessive and stalkerish, even in this episode. I wonder just how much worse he'll get once he finds out that Sinon has been stolen away by Kirito's Lightsaber.

It was good to see Sugu, Asuna and the rest of the gang again, though I would have wanted a little more interaction still. Sugu threatening to break down Kirito's door was hilarious. I think personally Klein has a worse role than Spiegel, he's pretty much the nanny to Kirito's harem when he's away. Now if that role ain't the most depressing, I don't know which role would be.

Can't wait for the action to drop next episode!

Oh and yeah, I'd take Nurse Aki to the Harem any day!

Satan-sama said:


Yeah, all Kirito's harem is in ALO and I really -just like you- gets annoyed when I saw them xD ALO is really so vivid compared to GGO, It's like watching two different anime, watching Kitito's hot and cute harem killing cute monsters using cute skills, while in the other hand, Kirito's suffering from trauma, there's a psycho who's after him and he entered a tournament for pro gunmen. I see that so amusing.




Shinkawa wants to take the advantage of being Sinon only friend, He's so stubborn even though she pushed him when he surprisingly hugged her, and she did the same when he tried to hold his hand, He's like "I'll make you mine no matter what happen". I hate these kind of people, but Kitiro won't let him touch his harem.