Sword Art Online (light novel)
| I've been trying to understand what it is that makes this anime so polarising for the longest time now, and I have come to zero conclusion. The closest I've watched to this was a Chinese SAO, and that was pretty boring because it has literally nothing of substance. Not far in tho atm. I don't usually agree with community consensus on some things to do with anime, so if anyone would like to say anything coherent, that'd be cool. The only reason I am not watching this now is that I have 750+ different shows I am watching simultaneously (real). |
| After 1st arc series goes downhill and continues this slippery slope until Alicization. It's not Promised Neverland level of downgrade, but it's close. It made very good first impression, had pretty visuals and that's how it became popular but eventually it established itself as the King of Trash. |
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| How I rate shows enjoyable=good boring=bad |
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| It's not that bad nor that good. Characters are bland. Pretty land. There is no thing such a good character here. The plot is... not good either. Though you can enjoy it enough if you don't think too much. But... the show itself is entertaining, the animation and the soundtrack use to be good... so it's overall an enjoyable anime. |
| What I like in SAO: 1) Good episode 1. Great setting. 2) Agil best character. What I dislike: 1) Broken game MMORPG mechanics. The main reason why most of the gaming communities are cursing and swearing at SAO. 2) Gary-Stu Protagonist. He is not as big as Shiba Tatsuya but one of worst ones. 3) Harem is annoying. I don’t dislike harem at all. Some of the LNs I enjoyed are harem genre. I will stick to LNs for isekai for now~ |
| S1 p1 was good but too short ig, pt2 was straight doodoo S2 was boring S3 was easily the best S4 pt1 was good as well but p2 felt rushed near the last few eps |
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki I rate by enjoyment |
| Just watched the entire thing, and I couldn’t figure out the “bad” everyone was talking about. It was consistently above average. The only time it was great was at the beginning of Alicization. (I’ve yet to watch Progressive because it didn’t air here) |
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| It is a good show, 7.2/7.6 isn't a bad rating overall. And with all those criticisms it's a fact that almost everyone in the SAO wiki doesn't mind rating. It has its flaws, and it fixes its flaws in the later arcs, it also made a different series aka Progressive to fix the MOST CRITICISED PARTS of the show. And it is doing pretty well, that's the reason the Progressive series have got a good response since the beginning and it's been a decade but the rating didn't fluctuate much. As for the main series, the ratings decreased drastically, as for Alicization it's still fluctuating because of it's flaws & fixes. |
| WISHED I COULD ALSO GET TRANSPORTED TO A WORLD FULL OF MAGIC And DUNGEONS, please take me there too if you could (β β ββ βΏβ ββ β )β β‘ |
| Characters are dog shit save for maybe a couple, plot isn’t the greatest either. Had way too many time skips in the first arc, I feel they should’ve just focused the whole first season on Aincrad. While I don’t mind Suguha, the Alfheim arc was terrible ππ same thing can be said for GGO though I liked the setting and gun theme of the game. The Excalibur arc or whatever is completely forgettable. Now Mother’s Rosario? Personally what I think is the best arc of the whole series, I seriously wish we could’ve gotten a full 12 episodes of this arc alone, Yuuki best girl hands down fight me. Alicization is definitely the second best arc, I actually had a lot of fun watching this one, its no masterpiece but it was very entertaining. The War of the Underworld WAS amazing, was a contender for my new favourite arc… until they introduced Asuna into the world. Felt so damn corny to me ππ TL;DR shit characters, awesome concept. Also a LOT of up’s and down’s and Yuuki best girl |
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| Was very promising at the beggining but it had terrible writing. Can't speak about s3 and onwards cause I haven't seen them. I heard they are better. |
| Its bad.Why?cause of Everything,i would argue |
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| The show is not that bad, neither that good What happened: basically the show was somewhat innovative and pandered the anime/gamer demographic, the action was good, good animation, the opening was good, the soundtrack was good, lot of waifus, somewhat thrilling...a lot of people really loved the show in the beginning (really high MAL score for the time the show aired) but after the show aired and more people watched the show(speaking about the first season), people started to notice all the negative point, lot of the conplaints are quite childish i must say, becouse lot of the weak points in the show are commonly present in anime, people was basically overreacting, still today in the anime community you see this kind of childish behaviour every time a new show go to the top, overanalyzing where you shouldn't etc. |
| It has an interesting concept but poor execution. People liked it a lot back in the day until a youtuber made some video about it. |
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Yabai_desuOwO said: It incest π I’m sorry but I can’t with the ice scene π that’s why I stopped after S1. I bet the rest of it is good too π« hmm try watchin Yosuga no Sora. it's a good anime to watch if you hate incest π |
| Just as many users have already stated, it offered an interesting and innovative premise but very poor execution. I've only watched the first season and immediately dropped part 2 after 2 episodes. It's just not even worth sticking around at this point. The story was downgraded as fuck in the later parts of the season and didn't have the charm of the first half. Kirito lacks depth and is one-dimensional, it's like his only defining character trait is being overpowered - but wait, it is. As a result the show lacks suspense in the battles since the protagonist is so powerful he can win any match... and defeating the game creator confirms it. That's a major flaw. The series tried to be two completely different things at once - not only in its story elements (if we can even call it "story"), but in the game mechanics as well. We have a medieval fantasy MMO game first, a futuristic cyberpunk-like setting with guns as its defining characteristic the next. There's an entire arc full of battles and exploration first, and immediately after it tries to be a cheesy romance show where even the characters involved are shallow. Not to mention it mainly consists of this later on and fails miserably at doing so. And don't get me started at the incredibly generic, badly-written main villain in the later parts and how Asuna's entire character was butchered... Now she's as flat as a cardboard. Okay that's enough ranting for today... |
nyxxaxaJul 20, 2022 3:16 AM
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| The first arc was really entertaining (while they were actually in SAO) but afterwards everything just seemed meaningless, and it would’ve been much more satisfying if they’d beat level 100 and that was it |
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