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| Beautiful ED <3, both the visuals and the song are soo good! |
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| The ending looks awsome! |
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| Wondering which of the A girls (Asuna or Alice) will die? Is there such a thing called best girl? I have a bad feeling in my gut from that ending. But oof that ending, literally...LiSA killing all of us ever so sweetly. Kirito forgot to backup his character fuu Does this mean that if Kirito cannot recover his fluctlight black..hole ego thingamabob - Eugeo will only be a memory... that not even Kirito can remember fully because he can't remember hisself? |
| I just wish they would focus more on the virtual world. But nonetheless it was nice to see Asuna again. That post credits scene, interesting. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| Kirito and Eugeo was very lucky fighting the Integrity Knight indoors. If the knights whip out their dragons, they don't stand a chance. |
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K1ngOfSloth said: I find the whole overworld situation way too farfetched... The attackers aren't terrorists, they seem to have at least one expert and figured out where the team is already. They took over everything except this sub control room? Does sound like it. Then Kirito is also stationed up there? But the attackers aren't able to go to them? Why? Maybe my IQ is too low to watch this. Maybe the telling is just bad. Either way, I have these questions. The attackers could break in if they blow everything up, but it was deduced that their goal is not to destroy. They want to retrieve Alice's fluctlight intact. |
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evilcorn said: makes sense. ThanksK1ngOfSloth said: I find the whole overworld situation way too farfetched... The attackers aren't terrorists, they seem to have at least one expert and figured out where the team is already. They took over everything except this sub control room? Does sound like it. Then Kirito is also stationed up there? But the attackers aren't able to go to them? Why? Maybe my IQ is too low to watch this. Maybe the telling is just bad. Either way, I have these questions. The attackers could break in if they blow everything up, but it was deduced that their goal is not to destroy. They want to retrieve Alice's fluctlight intact. |
 “I don’t like expending more effort than I have to.” – Ayanokouji Kiyotaka |
| They have done a good job with the adaptation so far. Hopefully they can maintain this throughout the season. That ed has excellent visuals. Good job in properly depicting Alice's character. They failed to do that with Eugeo thanks to skipped monologues and Zakkaria tournament. Can't wait to see |
Chrome_FalconOct 19, 2019 11:27 PM
| Alice finally back in action... Kirito get back on your feet...fight on fight on |
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| HAHAHAH! poor Asuna...and her face of dismay! 2/5. Alice should hire Goblin Slayer and not waste her precious time annihilating goblins... |
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| Alice will fall into the real world? Please someone send me a spoiler |
| Huuuge improvement over the pretty weak first episode. Fights in the first half and lots of Alice. Background about the outside world in the 2nd half. A lot better than seeing Kirito in a wheelchair all the time. Too bad Goblin Slayer wasn't here to kill some goblins ha ha. :D Are the enemy soliders chars we already knew? Or new chars? (I don't remember all the faces from previous seasons/arcs.) At the end the guy that removed his helmet probably is the main enemy in the real life world there. |
| the Ending song is a masterpiece with it's AMV. I really love it |
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| I'm always surprised by Alice, and time after time, there is still no exception that prove me wrong. Kirito is still in a "disconnected" state. Selka is having a way more huge role than she ever was in the first part. The goblins now seem to introduce bigger threats. And, I still cannot find any other "Fluctlights" are as "real" as Alice :)) I'm just wondering what happened with her right eyes. I thought it was... Nah, let's wait and see BTW, I absolutely love the OP as well as the ED. Thanks a lot for that :)) |
| So, good guys won't get backup until they've secured Alice out of the whole fluctlight bundle. Bad guys want her too. But her fluctlight is locked along with the rest, and commands from real world for her extraction are locked. Only way to extract her is to send the command from a control panel inside the simulation. The only one who would be able to it is currently a vegetable, so they need someone else to dive in and execute the command. Asuna goes inside (probably next episode), joins forces with Alice and they fight their way to that control panel, which is maybe located in some hard to reach place (dark territory?). Bad guys realize all this and send someone too - maybe the traitor who corrupted Quinella. They probably ally with the goblins side to slow down the best girl duo in the race to that control panel. Did i get it right so far? |
| Great episode! I like how in the beginning Kirito fell put of bed going to try and get his sword to go fight the raid at the village but then Alice said that she would go. Alice rekt all those stupid goblins and hog people. As for the middle, I liked how they showed the real world and Asuna getting pissed. They gave a good explanation as to why Kirito is an emtpy shell which was nice. The ending song is really good too! |
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| Alice gets to slice some goblins this episode. Now we know why Kirito became a vegetable. Now to solve how to repel the Dark Territory force and what the invaders irl want to do with project A.L.I.C.E. |
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| kirito cant do thing and became autistic is the best part from this anime !!! time to alice shining ... |
| Alice the Demon Slayer! OP with that poker look. The ED is just so beautiful with those sequences and the tune so outright feels like a Garnidelia X LiSA collab. |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
| Wow, that ED has to be one of the best I've ever seen. I absolutely love it. |
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| the only bad thing I can say bout this episode is they should have done the Mercs voices in Engrish. |
| Alice is such a badass also that ED is so amazing. |
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| Yawn...very boring so far. Love the emasculation of the male characters of SAO! its perfect for todays political agenda. Brilliant but boring AF. Might have been better with a creative way of empowering Alice over the generic level up based on her own enlightenment. (vomit) |
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| Alice is quite badass in this episode. And the ending is so beautiful! Love the visual and the song! |
| This episode gets the Goblin Slayer's Seal of Approval! Joking aside, this episode was pretty good. Alice stepped up to the occasion and made sure that the villagers knew that she was an integrity knight and she wasn't messing around, either. After evacuating the villagers, she went to thrash the goblins and orcs until they retreated. Back in the real world, the mercenary group got control of the main control room, but thankfully, Asuna's group got to the sub control room and are safe for now. Seeing Asuna getting rightfully pissed off in this scene was very understandable, but after learning about the condition Kirito is in right now, I'm fully expecting Asuna to dive into the virtual world very soon. We got a better listen to LiSA's ED song this time around and it sounds amazing. The visuals and animation for the ED are excellent, too. So far, this is my favourite ED this season. =) |
| Great episode, I like the pacing so far. The animation and art is stunning, with that backgrounds and effects. The infodump is easy to digest, and we see the cluster of souls this episode. Alice is badass and powerful with Amayori. The ED visual is amazing and the song is nice too. To the next episode |
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| Its nice too see Alice with her armor, finally she reveal as a integrity knight to the village to save them! Alice surely was badass, she obliterated with her dragon almost all of goblin's that easily with her awesome swords skill! Real world, finally we see some about after the attack and their current situation, also Kirito situation, poor Kirito! It is always nice to see Asuna, i feel really bad for her, her beloved is in a fatal state, and her expression towards that are really painfull to watch, she is starting to think about dive in underworld, i can't wait for that damn! That man at the end, remind me someone but i can't remember, but for sure is related to Laughing Coffin! Damn, this Ending is just a masterpiece, that is so perfect! |
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| Who knew that Alice could use Bankai xD she Senbonzakura Kageyoshi'd those goblins easily lol. She took her stand, and now she is moving on and fighting against the Underworld by herself to protect Kirito and the others. We got more info about what is happening in the real world (I wonder who were those masked guys? It seems they are aming for something involving the Project Alicization. Not good news). And also, they've explained Kirito's reason for being in that vegetative state. Cool sci-fi oriented explanation. Like i thought, he is almost like a total empty shell. He only has small reflexes here and there. Guess we need to wait till he recovers, because his condition doesn't look that great for now. And yesss, it's Asuna's turn to shine! It's about damn time. You go girl! Go nurse your husband nicely! |
WaterLordOct 20, 2019 7:47 PM
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| The fight scene looked cool af. also the ending is great |
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| as much as I love Gabriel's backstory, it would be just strange to put it in the second half of the episode, so I understand their decision to cut it out i just hope they put it in next epi or smth the whole alice "awakening" part of volume 15 is pretty boring to me, but in the anime they actually got through it pretty fast, so thats a bonus now we get to the good shit about the real world parts: yeah, it doesn't makes sense and it never will its sao, guys, remember that. |
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| How did she regrow an eyeball- oh right. This is a video game world so body parts regenerate when your HP/Life is restored... Poor Asuna hearing that Kirito was basically reliving his 2 years trapped in SAO all over again. So he's catatonic because his "Yes/No" personality switch is off? Ok then |
| This ep was such a saving grace for ep 1. We finally get to see what's going on in rl (which was necessary) and got to see Asuna <3 (like about damn time!!) hope to see her in action soon in the underworld |
| Damn. Alice is a badass and I love it! |
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| Don’t know what tf is happening |
| The first half was pretty good. I especially liked when she finally achieved the goal. The second half? At least they didn’t do it in a coffee shop this time. I wish they would have animated it instead of a recap in words. SFX were awesome. The animation was well done too. They blend 2D and 3DCG well in this episode. |
| Goblin attack. Colour me surprised. When the village head doubted her, as is with Episode 1, Alice stood tall and unfazed, saving Ruild Village (and somehow gaining back the eye she lost to Administrator) and eliminating raids. First half was wholesome. Second half back on the Ocean Turtle was mostly follow-up of the events of Episode 24 after Kirito lost consciousness. But knowing that he lived in there for quite sometime as his real self was a shocker indeed. How would they outride this, I really wanna know. ED ís crazily good and soothing, another LiSA banger. |
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