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| well definitely was rushed in a big scale, but still a good episode and a sad one. They probably are doing the same thing just like when you make summary project's of a chosen story in your highschool years for your english class but on this episode 3 it was way too much stuff not animated and rushed big time Just hoping they won't cram the whole of S.A.O on 13 episodes, well even 24-26 episodes won't cut it it needs something like 50-100+ to be really good ;) xD (ye i know its just so that i get 100 saturday nights x 23 minutes of heaven when i watch the show) |
T-K-x_Jul 22, 2012 10:34 AM
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| Very rushed ep. 2/5. No original content; least they could do was to animate Nicholas' fight, no? |
| オタクなんじゃねぃよ I'm not an otaku. |
Ahri said: Kurano said: I'm kinda pissed right now. So freaking rushed. Can't stand it. Though I have to admit, the tears came to me at at that ending, but that was probably only because it was my favorite scene from the light novel. Regardless, I feel disappointed about this ep as a fan of the light novels. ......Do the lot of you not understand the need to fit so much into a 20 minute time slot? -.-.....This is only a 20+ episode anime, and they have a lot of ground to cover. /facepalm. Make it 2 eps then. God, the (lack of) reasoning of some ppl is beyond negative 9000 -.- Like I said in the previous post -- no original content; no improvements to the rushed factor in the LN. The whole LN is pretty rushed IMO, even if compared to the author's own works like Accel World. |
| オタクなんじゃねぃよ I'm not an otaku. |
| Rushed, cut out what could have been a cool fight, wasn't to sad because we barely knew any of the characters,wtf suicide how would that make your friends happy, also they skipped through a lot of floor levels without showing us anything. Even with all these negatives it was still worth watching though hopefully they don't rush it to much more. |
| If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime? |
| Glad that annoying b**ch died... |
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| It was rushed, not in a bad way like stated by few people it had the main bits it needed in this but I guess this is going to be probably another 12 episode anime, I kinda wish it would go on longer but the pace it has went through the levels skipping dozens at a time I'm guessing it'll only be a 12 episode one which is a shame cause I am enjoying this Anime alot. The Episode was quite sad tbh as well, but the Black Cats were stupid to not think ahead of what they were doing, you would normally in a game & thus it caused their demise & I felt said when Sachi died ;3; Also it was a bit sad when the other member who went searching for the house came back & found out they were dead so he jumped of the edge to kill himself ;3; |
gillbobjones said: Glad that annoying b**ch died... hope you get flamed T_T |
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| Mediocre episode at best. Kind of disappointed with this anime so far. |
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| It was rushed, there is no doubt about it but it was good anyway. I like kirito's self-reckoning and i also like that annoying girl's died. But i think this episode was preparation for other episodes. Because Kirito understood that; No lies no loses! And i think in the future kirito must be guild leader becasue when he manage a hunt, people hunt easily but when kirito prefer stay-back, everythings gone crazy! sorry for bad english.... |
| I hope Asuna reappear soon... |
| Amazing episode! So beautiful. I liked Sachi :( I didn't think the episode was as well done as it should have been, and the entire thing was depressing. To see my full review of this episode: http://animeordie.blogspot.com/2012/07/sword-art-online-312.html |
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| That was hardcore. |
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lobkestar said: Rushed but that was to be expected, the episode's could be a tearjerker if this was 2 episode's long. But the rush we didn't really got to know the guild and his members and so the dead of the guild didn't made me cry. Yeah that's how i felt. We didn't see enough of those guys to feel their loss. |
| Best episode until now. Sachi. ;_; |
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| I am dropping. The content of the anime is good but its rushed to ludicrous amounts that it makes the anime seem bad, cheesy and filled with forced emotions. Ill go read the novel. |
| I think this episode is definitely rushed, but not to the point that it was bad or terrible Being a novel reader has its advantages and disadvantages |
| actually i think they might give a little more detail in the later episodes about the red nose reindeer arc |
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| Now I must read the novel. Its a bit... rush. But this is a adaptation, so... |
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Vizi_Reality said: I think this episode is definitely rushed, but not to the point that it was bad or terrible Being a novel reader has its advantages and disadvantages I never read the novel and i thought it was rushed to a huge extent because of plain bad writing/presentation. This anime is hyped to oblivion. |
| It was cool she hummed an English song I actually knew >.> |
| Real Hell is inside a person-Ai Enma (Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae) Do you know where hell is? Inside your head-Chrona (Soul Eater)  |
| Very touching episode and similar to Muv Luv TE's second although not as gruesome I can relate a little to it with Diablo 2's Hardcore mode When perishing it's all over Sachi's Lulaby was good Didn't know Kirito was OP compared to his former guild members Being able to conceal your own level to others is like a woman's age |
Elite60 said: I just hate character deaths that you just met in the same episode. Not enough punch there. Still, Sachi was a damn cute girl. Such a shame. ^ my thoughts exactly.. I still cared though, which is impressive (in terms of the storyboard) since I barely got used to her character.... ...enjoying this and looking forward to next week. :) |
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eldon2 said: My main issue with the episode was the horrible pacing due to the time skips and the overall tone. At least seven months passed in the episode and nothing really happened beyond a small guilds death. The world was clearly changing around them and the amount of utilities available ruined the gritty vibe the first episode left. Based on what I saw in this episode everyone has access to warp gates meaning the rush out of of beginners town seems pointless. Why not just wait for the most powerful guild to unlock the next level and harvest its resources? Now all the players who took up skills like blacksmithing have access to nearly limitless amount of materials. This professional players not only have access to the starters zones but every level unlocked. Unless the next episode solves this problem of there being no reason not just let the big guilds continue doing all the real work, everyone even the worst fighter no longer lives in the non renewable resource environment mentioned in the first episode. Which at the time explained why the beta players all left the beginners town immediately after learning they were trapped in the game. Right now being passive and not fighting seems much more profitable. lastly I loved the first episodes for keeping a solid storyline and eventually ending with the main character being isolated by the other players. It just seems wrong that after the second episode which ended on a superiority speech given by the main character, that the first episode opens with him joining a guild. If this is a really side plots the show is getting out of the way fine. The readers of the manga know whats going on but the average anime only fan is losing interest. Keep the story nice and chronological and I really hope Sachi was not supposed to be main driving force now for Kirito. Based on anime she was not significant and she did not have enough screen time to warrant me caring about the character. they could go on to the the next level but if they haven't gone out and levelled up properly they wont be able to take on the monsters that are of a much higher difficulty and wont be able to fully explore hunting zones without endangering themselves, they also wont have as much experience with fighting mobs like the clearers also to smith and craft you would need to get materials, that means you would have to go out hunting to obtain these materials so you can sell them or you can buy the materials from other shops/player but it would cost a lot of money, also you need to rent out or purchase your own workspace in order to sell/build your items efficiently, also you will be in competition with other players selling their own items so it will be difficult to earn a decent living unless you work hard to level up your smithing skills by spending large amounts of time or money, being a merchant,smith or craftsman can earn you a decent living without having to risk your life as much the clearers but they are by no means richer than them the clearers (people in the frontlines) are in the dungeons most of the time and have a bigger chance of obtaining valuable monster drops or treasures that are worth vast amounts of money, a smith could spend weeks to earn 100,000 col but if you are at the frontlines fighting high level monstors and they drop a rare item such as a rare sword, they could sell it and earn double that amount in half the time the clearing guilds are probably the richest people in aincrad, the only ones who can compete are the solo player clearers like kirito who dont need to share monster drops or treasures, however they have the shortest lifespan as they are fighting monsters alone i wont go into detail about the driving force for kirito for obvious reasons but i will tell you that the story is going in chronological order unlike the LN but for some reason it needed to rush the story in order to cover other parts of the LN i think this is the only part that will be rushed, the rest of the story will be at a much better place judging from the titles of the episodes, although i am sad that they didn't go in to detail about the black cats and kirito's relationship |
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helderplus said: OMG! What dos klein love so much about Kirito? xD Cline's background isn't mentioned very well.. |
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| Good episode, but I can tell this could've been 2 really great episodes, if they stretched it out just a bit, but I supposed I got enough to feel sorry for Kirito, I mean making that sort of promise and then watching her get killed in front of you is rough. |
| Didn't care about Sachi's death. She was barely developed. |
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| They got the main points in this episode very well to the point so I don't feel that Sachi's life and death was rushed at all. In fact, it adds to the effect of life being so frail in SAO. I'm enjoying this anime very much; it's reviving the MMO blood in me. |
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kamikaze_1996 said: they could go on to the the next level but if they haven't gone out and levelled up properly they wont be able to take on the monsters that are of a much higher difficulty and wont be able to fully explore hunting zones without endangering themselves, they also wont have as much experience with fighting mobs like the clearers also to smith and craft you would need to get materials, that means you would have to go out hunting to obtain these materials so you can sell them or you can buy the materials from other shops/player but it would cost a lot of money, also you need to rent out or purchase your own workspace in order to sell/build your items efficiently, also you will be in competition with other players selling their own items so it will be difficult to earn a decent living unless you work hard to level up your smithing skills by spending large amounts of time or money, being a merchant,smith or craftsman can earn you a decent living without having to risk your life as much the clearers but they are by no means richer than them the clearers (people in the frontlines) are in the dungeons most of the time and have a bigger chance of obtaining valuable monster drops or treasures that are worth vast amounts of money, a smith could spend weeks to earn 100,000 col but if you are at the frontlines fighting high level monstors and they drop a rare item such as a rare sword, they could sell it and earn double that amount in half the time the clearing guilds are probably the richest people in aincrad, the only ones who can compete are the solo player clearers like kirito who dont need to share monster drops or treasures, however they have the shortest lifespan as they are fighting monsters alone i wont go into detail about the driving force for kirito for obvious reasons but i will tell you that the story is going in chronological order unlike the LN but for some reason it needed to rush the story in order to cover other parts of the LN i think this is the only part that will be rushed, the rest of the story will be at a much better place judging from the titles of the episodes, although i am sad that they didn't go in to detail about the black cats and kirito's relationship Thanks for the explanation :) |
| People really need to stop expecting all the storytelling from the LN to make it into the anime. They've hit the main points with the last two episodes, and considering how both these stories weren't even in the original LN just be happy we got them at all. The staff could have just animated what was in the first volume, and be done with it, but they've shown the good grace to give us content from volume 2 and the extras. It would have been nice to see some of the character building scenes expanded on, but enough was kept in to flesh out the SAO sotryline, so joy to the world and all that. Sacchi got her screen time to compound Kirito's loathing. Same with the events of the first floor boss. Now the next ep 'The Black Swordsman' will be all the sweeter. |
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Morbyllan said: Very nice episode. That part in the end, while she was humming... I can understand Kirito completely, because I would've cried until I was dehydrated if I were him, and I personally almost got to tears here. Would've completely lost myself if I had known Sachi better before, though. I'm just a bit (a lot, actually) annoyed at these overpowered time skips. I can understand that they may be running on a half season's episode limit, but I feel that SAO is so great I wouldn't mind even if they held back at these mad time skips, and had more seasons. I don't know if the Light Novel is like this too, and if anyone here has read it, please tell me. If it isn't, looks like I'll be reading it soon. I wouldn't mind even if this anime showed a lot of other random things, like they clearing other floors, hunting together, "day-to-day" things in the game. For an example, they didn't show what Kirito did to save the Kuronekos (they could and should have, despite I being able to understand it), nor showed him spending the time I presume he spent with them, because of what Sachi said in the end. And is it just me or Kirito was definitely 'romancing' Sachi? It looked like sleeping together became a habit for them. Anyway, I sense a lot of potential in this anime, and I'm expecting much. I'd hate to get frustrated :( the LN has a large timeskip, but it gives flashbacks and it has many side stories that fill in the blanks on what had happened, the anime is going in chronological order unlike the LN and has skipped out some content such as kirito's "first day" a story that happens as soon as he leaves behind klein and they also rushed aria in the starless and left out content that would of made it last 2-3 episodes, they also did the same with "red nose reindeer" and shortened it when i could of lasted a good two episodes also kirito and sachi didn't have a romantic relationship, they were just good friends or "two black cats licking each others wounds" they were similar in the fact that they both didn't want to die and even though they were anti-social they feared loneliness but trust me the story does get better and now that they have rushed enough, they can get the good story arcs up and running without needing to skip out any parts, although i am slightly upset that they chose to rush "aria in the starless sky" slightly and to skim "red nose reindeer" |
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Tatarata said: Thanks for the explanation :) no problem, they explain it in the LN but to be honest if you are an MMORPG player like me you would already know these kinds of things |
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kamikaze_1996 said: ScarletMuse said: |
MidnightPride said: kamikaze_1996 said: ScarletMuse said: |
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| Rushed as hell, but not in a completely bad way. I could care less about Sachi, but her guild in general was sad to see die. In a way it's realistic because in video games, no matter how high-level, you could easily die out of nowhere. Also wtf he already met up with Clain before? I wanted to see their reunion. Still a good episode though. I have a feeling that revival item is going to be used on Kirito at the end of the series. I'm probably wrong though since i've never read the LN. |
| Can't say i had any problem with the episode or its pacing. Then again i'm one of those that hates dragged/padded out stuff. The episode got all the key points across, and made enough Saachi/Guild screen time to generate empathy from viewers without dwelling or wasting time. Overall i like it...a lot. |
| so uh.. where the hell did asuna go? watching the OP i thought this was gonna be like.. KIRITO AND ASUNA TAKE ON THE WORLD.. but it seems.. i dont know. who was that sachi person? why were they sleeping in the same bed....?? IS ASUNA JEALOUS? why has a year passed with no contact between kirito and asuna? or are we just supposed to assume that they've met each other between march and december.. where the hell did klein come from? who are those dragon people? am i supposed to be so confused? god i dont really get it lol. apparently it would be better if i read the LN or something (which i have no intention of doing)... whatever. i'll just watch the anime for now but if this shit continues like this... |
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