'Sword Art Online II' to Air in 2014

Akanezora said:
Can't wait for the flame war. It's going to be a really exciting one, as for SAO, I don't care a little bit.

Also, why is it called Sword Art Online II, if there are no more swords but guns?
Why is Kirito a female? Why I have this sensation about overly doses of useless fanservice? Why am I crying?

This is why we have bad things and you deserve it.

Shangetsu said:


There is a difference here.
Inner dialogue are SAO's core, they ammount for about 70%-90% of every volumes and you cannot make the story without them. Yet none of that is ever present in the anime adaptation because they turned it into something that it is not.

Most LN adaptation are rushed, I agree. Still it is not that common that a LN is destroyed at it's core like SAO was. I'm not talking about scenes I wish were adapted because I liked them, I'm talking about dialogue that are essential for the story to make sense not being there.

Most LN are poor work of litterature (I said most, not all) but SAO is a LN that manage to stand out. Don't get me wrong, it's not even half as good as I make it sound and I am not saying that if it had been animated properly it would have been a great anime, far from that.

It's simply sad to see this adaptation not only 'badly adapting' the novels but completely denature the work.

Zefyris said:

4) I would say that the only reason SAO manage to stand out among LN is how much it sells? I don't consider myself to have read enough LN yet to give a proper advice on this, but according to people who read far more than me, at least that's how it seems. Again, how much LN have you read before stating that SAO is special in anything else than the sales number?

Zefyris said:

1) Inner dialogue is the core of a lot of LN that were adapted. Obviously, there's no inner dialogue in the anime version at all. SAO is nothing special.
2)Don't ever assume that SAO got the short end of the stick as far as anime adaptation goes. Butchery like the cube x cursed x curious anime adaptation completely ad utterly destroyed the original work.
3) How much LN have you read before saying that most LN are "poor work of literature"? I hope that it's far more than the 3 you have recorded in your manga list, huh. Especially since those three aren't especially known for their quality. If you choose popular LN over quality, it's your choice, but please don't judge the overall quality of LN with 'that'.
4) I would say that the only reason SAO manage to stand out among LN is how much it sells? I don't consider myself to have read enough LN yet to give a proper advice on this, but according to people who read far more than me, at least that's how it seems. Again, how much LN have you read before stating that SAO is special in anything else than the sales number?

IntroverTurtle said:
I still have to finish the first series. I guess I'll do that when it's near the airdate for the second to come out.

Zefyris said:
Most popular light novel have it. If ecchi is fairly common, the other three are mainly seen in very specific publishing labels.
Because it sells well, outside of Japan that's the light novels you'll hear the most about. Don't ever assume that it makes the majority of it.
Just like in most media, if you want to find quality, you usually need to search a bit more than in sales number.

DinadanCarleon said:


Sturgeon's law apply to everything.
Most hollywood movies is shit. Plot holes everywhere, deus ex machina.
Yes 90 percents are shit.

So what ? I admit this is shit. I like this shit and that's my own problem. Simply like that.

vilmarbf said:
jojo stardust crusaders arriving and all you fools are hyping for this shet?

Nidhoeggr said:
Great, a new 2/10 anime!
I had so much fun with this for all the wrong reasons :D

Silent-Rage said:
D: over milking another series.....

Kvshi said:


And F/N re-adaption.

Kaimon237 said:
Wasn't too impressed with SAO, but I'll probably keep up with it just because the series has an actual villain this time.

iTzGeo said:
My god, what I find the most annoying is people who say "Oh I'm going to laugh through this whole series because of how terrible it is" or "I guess I'll give it a shot." Like.. seriously? How many anime are there that you can just laugh at how terrible it is? In fact, was the first season REALLY so terrible that it was laughable? As for the people who are going to "give it a shot" or "don't have the time," what the hell are you guys going to spend your time doing? You guys are reading a thread about a show you're all bashing on when you could have finished like 3 episodes of another anime already. You all have 20 minutes a week to sit down and watch GGO. You can cut out 20 minutes of your sleep schedule if you work from sun up to sun down or are in school for that long, which isn't even possible really. Anyone who tries to justify that they don't please just leave. Either just don't watch it or spend 20 minutes watching the show which is probably more productive than something else you would have done with that time instead.

Icebreaker93 said:
2014 will be a big flame war.
JoJo, FT, Mahouka and SAO 2.
Let the haters begin to hate or fans begins to flame.

Kaimon237 said:
Wasn't too impressed with SAO, but I'll probably keep up with it just because the series has an actual villain this time.

geralt said:

Never seen anyone hating on JoJo...

Icebreaker93 said:
2014 will be a big flame war.
JoJo, FT, Mahouka and SAO 2.
Let the haters begin to hate or fans begins to flame.

_SADAHARUx said:
I loved when a new arc started in the LN, and got super excited when the fairy arc started even though I knew it wasn't better. It's probably because they're so different, for example with each one, the worry of dying got smaller. In the second arc some of your progress in travelling gets deleted along with a penalty, in the third arc I think it's just a penalty and in the last one the idea of dying is simply insane, but at the same time, it's not even a game any more.

Jamie-sama said:

If it's a 24 episode series, I wonder what they're gonna do for part 2. since gun gale will probably cover the same amount of episodes as SAO and alfheim, but alicization is a lot longer and I'm pretty sure it isn't even finished yet.

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