| HA. what a joke i could write a few paragraphs about how stupid SAO was. now there's a second season good lord. |
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Fai said: That's good I guess, hope it does well. I found SAO quite disappointing like many others, but at least it entertained me for the most part. Can't wait for the crazy forums lol.Rastafa21 said: To the people who have read the LN, is this upcoming arc better than the second half of the first season? If not, I'm not gonna even bother watching it. Its arguably the best story arc in the whole thing. far closer to the fist half of SAO in terms of tone. |
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zdude18 said: The PV showed ass. That's information enough for plenty, I'm sure.Why are people already rating it? It hasn't even come out yet. This is stupid. |
| omg!! c: I wait for this series *n* the guns are my principal reason eue <3 maybe the final villain will be best..... |
SkyKyz said: I'm hoping so, but I think it will air in the Fall Season. Please god, air it this summer!It'll probably air in the Summer Season. I really loved the first season, I'm going to die of anxiety before it starts :c I'm feeling a year with great animes like 2013, I hope GGO its one of them. JAPAN DAISUKI! |
Fai said: Rastafa21 said: To the people who have read the LN, is this upcoming arc better than the second half of the first season? If not, I'm not gonna even bother watching it. Its arguably the best story arc in the whole thing. far closer to the fist half of SAO in terms of tone. I thought it was one of the worst and that it started to get repetitive with this arc. Aincrad, Mother's rosario and Alicization are the best arcs in my opinion. If this second season is two courses then I do hope that Mother's rosario will take the second half. kuuurt said: Hm.. this kinda makes me want to pick up the clusterfuck that is the first season... Should I? Probably not. If you enjoy reading then I'd recommend you to skip the anime altogether as it is a poor adaptation. You should read the novels. If you don't enjoy reading well... I'd also recommend you to skip the anime altogether. The only reason I'm watching and enjoying it is because I've read the source material. The anime discarded the thoughts of the characters which make up for roughly three quarter of every volume. This way you end up with undefined and badly developed character doing flashy things with some loldrama. It's a poor experience for anyone that didn't read the source material in my opinion. I guess that's a recurrent problem as far as light novel adaptation goes but this time they really did a bad job. I don't mean anything subjective as 'Oh I liked that scene and it should have been in the anime !' but they clearly cut everything that defined and developed the characters into pieces. I bet Mahouka will suffer a similar fate, sigh. |
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| First season wasn't spectacular but I'm going to follow it anyway :P |
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KurizenT said: I couldn't agree with you more. I can't wait!!!Yes! I'm hyped once again :D I hope the sequel of Accel World will come :)) |
| What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about? |
Shangetsu said: If you enjoy reading then I'd recommend you to skip the anime altogether as it is a poor adaptation. You should read the novels. This. SAO LN is actually decent compared to most fantasy LN out there. The next arcs (GGO and mother's rosario) are actually pretty good. Watch it getting screwed up and all the characters being emo in the adaptation though. In the novel, the inner struggle of the characters are EXTREMELY detailed. In the anime, it will just look they are all emo :/ |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
| Yep. All the hype for s2 for me is Sinon and Sawashiro a.a |
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| Can't wait for GGO. Extra edition was a nice recap too, Just what i needed before the Sword Art Online II. |
| I hated the first season, but I'm still pretty excited to watch this! I've heard some pretty interesting threads about GG, |
| YES!!! It's here!!! Please let it air in the Summer. Since it aired in the Summer 2012 why not Summer 2014. : ) Whoa it took 2 years for SAO season 2 to be announced/air. Similarly to how Kirito beat SAO in 2 years. Coincidence??? : 0 |
AnimeFan500Dec 31, 2013 8:35 PM
| Hoping for Mother's Rosario arc. It's the best one. |
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| It was just a matter of time, but I'm looking forward to it and on that note... All in all, SAO II should be a better watch with a nicer source material imo and if A-1 decides to do a better job this time round. Either way, I think this will be relatively solid. |
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| I'd rather play Dark Souls 2 and die and die again than to watch this. But good for the fans i guess. |
RedgraveGilver said: I'd rather play Dark Souls 2 and die and die again than to watch this. But good for the fans i guess. I'd rather play Dark souls 2 than doing a lot of things in life. wakka9ca said: In the novel, the inner struggle of the characters are EXTREMELY detailed. In the anime, it will just look they are all emo :/ All of my '^this'. They should have taken the first whole season to do the Aincrad arc. A lot of people would be surprised but SAO's novel feel closer to Bakemonogatari in term of character development than your usual shounen. I'm not kidding when I say that three quarter of every single books is about inner thoughts of the characters. |
AversaJan 1, 2014 12:42 PM
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| I never could finish the second part of the first season, better get to finishing it then.. |
| —Actually, nevermind. |
| God. As much as I disliked SAO, I know I'm still going to watch the second season. |
| I'm not really hype for this, but I'll watch it once it comes out. |
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| Even though it was pretty much a certainty that they would announce a second season for this, I'm excited now that they have announced it. :D |
| It already lost its direction after the first arc, and now we're getting more? I've got a feeling '14 is going to be a good year. |
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| Where's the sword Man, when Timmy jumped into Moby Dick only to find that it was a giant duck, they AT LEAST made sure the name of the book was different. It didn't stay Moby Dick even if there was a duck. |
| Yay I hope we get more "power of love will save you even in a MMORPG" finales /trollface |
| will watch just because i watched the first season i guess... |
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| I guess it's time to remove SAO from my dropped list :P I'm gonna finish the first season so that I can enjoy the hilarity that is this next adaptation =D |
What do you think? The meaning of our existence. Why do we continue to live? ~Iris Rain Umbrella, my favorite robot  |
| Gross. I guess it'll be fun laughing at how awful it is like I did with the first one. |
Shangetsu said: wakka9ca said: In the novel, the inner struggle of the characters are EXTREMELY detailed. In the anime, it will just look they are all emo :/ All of my '^this'. They should have taken the first whole season to do the Aincrad arc. A lot of people would be surprised but SAO's novel feel closer to Bakemonogatari in term of character development than your usual shounen. I'm not kidding when I say that three quarter of every single books is about inner thoughts of the characters. NO NO NO NO Monogatari's char development is WAY different(and better) than SAO's(any volume). Yes it does a better job than shounen like Naruto,FT and Bleach but Monogatari?No. |
| plan to watch, but wondering where the hell they are going to get a story for this from |
| my avatar is the bus driver from Rosario + Vampire |
| SawaMiyu voicing main character? I'm in. |
| Wow, the news is just from yesterday but there's already 21 pages commenting it... I'll watch it but hope they don't mess it up Dx |
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ssjokg said: Yes it does a better job than shounen like Naruto,FT and Bleach but Monogatari?No. You can't really compare SAO with Monogatari and SAO with Naruto/Bleach. 1) Monogatari is a different style of writing mostly focused on the different state of mind of the characters. The whole plot and oddities are driven by each character's personality and inner struggles. 2) Naruto/Bleach are manga, not to mention action shounen. You can't do the same you do with novels in an action shounen manga very easily. Why? Because you don't hear the character's thoughts much in a regular manga = overall superficial characterization. Only true masters mangaka can integrate good characterization in a subtle way in an action shounen. 3) SAO LN is a first-person narration mixed with third person omniscient narrator. Most of the novel describes what Kirito feels and experiences in a first-hand manner. The other half of the novel is describing what other character feels and experiences. In fact, most of the novel is all about what the character thinks and feels about the situation, not like an action-driven LN such as Highschool DxD for instance (in that regards DxD would be like a shounen action). That being said, this does not necessarily mean SAO is better. In fact, it chose the easy way out by using the simplest narrator solution to help shaping the characterization. Over 90% of this, which actually made SAO LN enjoyable, is all lost in the adaptation. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
wakka9ca said: ssjokg said: Yes it does a better job than shounen like Naruto,FT and Bleach but Monogatari?No. You can't really compare SAO with Monogatari and SAO with Naruto/Bleach. 1) Monogatari is a different style of writing mostly focused on the different state of mind of the characters. The whole plot and oddities are driven by each character's personality and inner struggles. 2) Naruto/Bleach are manga, not to mention action shounen. You can't do the same you do with novels in an action shounen manga very easily. Why? Because you don't hear the character's thoughts much in a regular manga = overall superficial characterization. Only true masters mangaka can integrate good characterization in a subtle way in an action shounen. 3) SAO LN is a first-person narration mixed with third person omniscient narrator. Most of the novel describes what Kirito feels and experiences in a first-hand manner. The other half of the novel is describing what other character feels and experiences. In fact, most of the novel is all about what the character thinks and feels about the situation, not like an action-driven LN such as Highschool DxD for instance (in that regards DxD would be like a shounen action). That being said, this does not necessarily mean SAO is better. In fact, it chose the easy way out by using the simplest narrator solution to help shaping the characterization. Over 90% of this, which actually made SAO LN enjoyable, is all lost in the adaptation. The fact that I can feel and understand more about the chars remains even if the format is different. And I said that Monogatari is different. |
layfonkun said: you mean that badass woman who turns into a useless housewife? yeah if she's not there it might actually turn into a great story.I'm only going to watch for the battles, GGO has some nice sequences. If nothing else, it will at least be a fun watch. Curious to see how those who haven't read the LN will react, since there is considerably less Asuna. |
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| I loved the first series, i don't know why people hated it so much. I just don't get it, can't even wrap my finger around why. Over popularity i guess? Anyways im excited for a 2nd season, bring on more SAO :) |
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| Even though i didnt really liked the first season I will probably watch the 2nd one because who would miss watching a trainwreck right ? |
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| Well, here we go! Overhype there, Overhype here.... Every McDonald's livestock will going rock. Hello Fanboys! How do you do? Fine? Oh, silly me. GGO is coming, and even today is the first day on 2014 (here), I already know where is this going, yes....the hype of 2014, despite this fact : clockz said: Sword Art Online II Score: 8.40 (scored by 119 users) Somehow the population of Time Travelers have been increasing significantly these days... Oh what I'm babbling about? right.... Back to the topic, I never take interest in GGO arc after I read the summary on the wikia, but GGO is the part of the story and I will be damned if I skip to the Alicization arc already, so this is going to my PTW list (and for that reason only). Trap Kirito and Sinon, that's the only magnet I see in this arc (and for some people, it's the sniper). A story of people get sniped in the Online World and dead at the same time in the RL never interest me... |
Pusswookie said: This, cressidaaa said: Levi and Eren should be bro's. I'm rooting for their friendship! is truth. |
Sourire said: layfonkun said: you mean that badass woman who turns into a useless housewife? yeah if she's not there it might actually turn into a great story.I'm only going to watch for the battles, GGO has some nice sequences. If nothing else, it will at least be a fun watch. Curious to see how those who haven't read the LN will react, since there is considerably less Asuna. You forgot that it was the author that made that badass woman into a useless housewife just so he could prolong the story and make useless harem shenanigans. |
Sourire said: layfonkun said: you mean that badass woman who turns into a useless housewife? yeah if she's not there it might actually turn into a great story.I'm only going to watch for the battles, GGO has some nice sequences. If nothing else, it will at least be a fun watch. Curious to see how those who haven't read the LN will react, since there is considerably less Asuna. This is my biggest pet peeve with this series. Sure, she still occasionally display her strength. However, she has taken a more mother figure from now on. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
| Well it's my favorite arc in the LN so yay And trap Kirito lol |
| Season 1......... Nothing special Season 2............... It's Sawashiro Miyuki-san!!!!!!!!!! For this seiyuu I'll watch this... (Insert Lambo's famous quote) And... No AW season 2? Aw :( Ooguro_Ryuuya said: Well, here we go! Overhype there, Overhype here.... Every McDonald's livestock will going rock. Hello Fanboys! How do you do? Fine? Oh, silly me. GGO is coming, and even today is the first day on 2014 (here), I already know where is this going, yes....the hype of 2014, despite this fact : clockz said: Sword Art Online II Score: 8.40 (scored by 119 users) Somehow the population of Time Travelers have been increasing significantly these days... Oh what I'm babbling about? right.... Back to the topic, I never take interest in GGO arc after I read the summary on the wikia, but GGO is the part of the story and I will be damned if I skip to the Alicization arc already, so this is going to my PTW list (and for that reason only). Trap Kirito and Sinon, that's the only magnet I see in this arc (and for some people, it's the sniper). A story of people get sniped in the Online World and dead at the same time in the RL never interest me... Lol time travelers All of them just too hype.. Even if there's too many (More than 100, yeah that's too many) |
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| I hope they plan to make at least an OVA on Mother's Rosario. Alicization arc is still incomplete but I feel they are going to adapt it too in the future. |
| I will watch this for Kajiura. If she does the OST again, that is. |
| Can't wait for this... I'm guessing it will be Autumn (fall) anime... |
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