Sword Art Online (light novel)
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| I really liked his game planning. Very good first episode! |
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| Amazing start I must say, really nice setting and concept behind this all, the art and animations are also very well done and put together in this fantasy world! I do think the huge talk about this series was right, so lets see if it's impressive like they said! |
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| this is badass good first episode |
 張大です for 張大勇督察 |
| Wow, it's been a long time since I had such high expectations in anime and so far 1st ep fully meets them! 10/10! |
 top 3 anime: Code Geass | One Piece | Death Note |
| Woah, woah, woah! That was one hell of a first episode. I really love the setting too ^^. This is going to be epic. I could care less about what other people say, I'm going to judge this for myself. 5/5 Let the game begin. (Oh yeah, Sanji's Seiyuu FTW!) |
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| I understand that this is an anime, but taking the established reality/world they've presented to us this is one of the most nonsensical/ridiculous premises I've ever encountered... |
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| This was one awesome episode. No log out and 100 levels! Can't wait to see how this goes. Many have died. |
| How come that Klein dude looks cooler irl? I'm not dissing the long hair he had, but that dude was wearing that awesome bandana going into the game. Well it doesn't matter. If they play this game like a real mmo, they would've spent 5 hours trying to tweak and customize their avatar, only to come to the realization that everyone's going to wear bulky armor that covers up their faces anyways -_- |
Kasane_Ted said: How come that Klein dude looks cooler irl? I'm not dissing the long hair he had, but that dude was wearing that awesome bandana going into the game. Well it doesn't matter. If they play this game like a real mmo, they would've spent 5 hours trying to tweak and customize their avatar, only to come to the realization that everyone's going to wear bulky armor that covers up their faces anyways -_- If its anything like a certain other game, their personal appearances were generated randomly. |
Solvite said: well that's not fair! Every time I pick a 'random generation' I always get some hairy beast creature! These guys are lucky to look so normal!Kasane_Ted said: How come that Klein dude looks cooler irl? I'm not dissing the long hair he had, but that dude was wearing that awesome bandana going into the game. Well it doesn't matter. If they play this game like a real mmo, they would've spent 5 hours trying to tweak and customize their avatar, only to come to the realization that everyone's going to wear bulky armor that covers up their faces anyways -_- If its anything like a certain other game, their personal appearances were generated randomly. |
Kasane_Ted said: Solvite said: well that's not fair! Every time I pick a 'random generation' I always get some hairy beast creature! These guys are lucky to look so normal!Kasane_Ted said: How come that Klein dude looks cooler irl? I'm not dissing the long hair he had, but that dude was wearing that awesome bandana going into the game. Well it doesn't matter. If they play this game like a real mmo, they would've spent 5 hours trying to tweak and customize their avatar, only to come to the realization that everyone's going to wear bulky armor that covers up their faces anyways -_- If its anything like a certain other game, their personal appearances were generated randomly. I meant |
Solvite said: Oh you've seen this series before? Oh ok. So ALO is a game they mention later in the series or a game they go into? (if it doesn't spoil the plot too much)Kasane_Ted said: Solvite said: well that's not fair! Every time I pick a 'random generation' I always get some hairy beast creature! These guys are lucky to look so normal!Kasane_Ted said: How come that Klein dude looks cooler irl? I'm not dissing the long hair he had, but that dude was wearing that awesome bandana going into the game. Well it doesn't matter. If they play this game like a real mmo, they would've spent 5 hours trying to tweak and customize their avatar, only to come to the realization that everyone's going to wear bulky armor that covers up their faces anyways -_- If its anything like a certain other game, their personal appearances were generated randomly. I meant |
Kasane_Ted said: Solvite said: Oh you've seen this series before? Oh ok. So ALO is a game they mention later in the series or a game they go into?Kasane_Ted said: Solvite said: well that's not fair! Every time I pick a 'random generation' I always get some hairy beast creature! These guys are lucky to look so normal!Kasane_Ted said: How come that Klein dude looks cooler irl? I'm not dissing the long hair he had, but that dude was wearing that awesome bandana going into the game. Well it doesn't matter. If they play this game like a real mmo, they would've spent 5 hours trying to tweak and customize their avatar, only to come to the realization that everyone's going to wear bulky armor that covers up their faces anyways -_- If its anything like a certain other game, their personal appearances were generated randomly. I meant |
Solvite said: Really? intriguing... I really gotta get farther in this series so I can talk about it about without spoiling itKasane_Ted said: Solvite said: Oh you've seen this series before? Oh ok. So ALO is a game they mention later in the series or a game they go into?Kasane_Ted said: Solvite said: well that's not fair! Every time I pick a 'random generation' I always get some hairy beast creature! These guys are lucky to look so normal!Kasane_Ted said: How come that Klein dude looks cooler irl? I'm not dissing the long hair he had, but that dude was wearing that awesome bandana going into the game. Well it doesn't matter. If they play this game like a real mmo, they would've spent 5 hours trying to tweak and customize their avatar, only to come to the realization that everyone's going to wear bulky armor that covers up their faces anyways -_- If its anything like a certain other game, their personal appearances were generated randomly. I meant |
| Well, it's my second time starting this. I've put it on hold after watching the first ep back when only two episodes were out. The main reason being that I hate waiting, so I never watch airing shows. Back then it really made me mad how it was the like the #1 anime only after 1-2 episodes. I still don't understand how that was possible, but I'm sure it was mainly because of the fans of the novel. After the huge hype it got pretty much everywhere, and also a lot of negative feedback who were kind of like me and didn't want to believe that something could get such scores with only a few episodes out, and even now get a lot of hype, I now think it's time to see who were right. Unfortunately I heard some bits of the story already, but nothing major. I'm still very skeptical about this and I'm going in with a minor prejudice. I think I can understand why a lot of people liked this so much, like it being about an mmorpg (not that I don't like them though) and some more guesses. But I will try to watch this through as objectively as I can. |
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| Still early days, and I know the majority of people loved the first few episodes, but I really can't imagine what this anime could have done to make it go from being ranked in the top 30, after only airing 10 episodes or so, to being the most hated, notorious anime on MAL. |
| Konbu is important |
kingfelix92 said: What are you smoking?i knw tht alot of girls play games now but in this first episode of sao the girls out number guys coinsiderably its kinda odd |
| strong unrealistic sausages to vaginas ratio here's my guess of the plot after the first EP Boring predictable plot: The main people get to last boss and get help from the real world (based off the little girl hacker floating in the space room thingy from he song). After they got out, they find the creator, he goes crazy, they accidentally kill him or he killed himself. Twisted plot: The creator of the game is actually kirito's dad and no one really dies in the real world. Kirito's dad left the family b/c of this ambition to create a virtual world and kirito is a sad panda. His dad also helps kirito secretly along the way to beat final boss. Then his dad apologizes and say that helping kirito through this game and experience it to the fullest is to make up for his past mistakes and all the time they could have spent together now that his dad has realized how important his family is to him. Kirito's mom then pops out of nowhere and stab dad to death (b/c she's a woman and most of them are coo-coos). The End. --- interested to see why all the hate against this asuna chick though. She seems harmless to me... |
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| ^ for only 10000 players it is quite realistic.I doubt girls would wait that long to buy both the headset(even if it came out earlier) AND the game. And simply answer to all |
| Sure escalated quickly. |
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sirhcnil said: Sure escalated quickly. It's an MMO... what do you expect? Beauty queens? Lolis? Mary Sues? Kirito being surrounded by tons of girls? |
NidhoeggrMay 19, 2013 4:31 AM
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| Wow amazing first episode, probably the best first episode for any series I've watched in my life. Kirito seems pretty gay tho. |
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Vindictive said: Elaborate.Kirito seems pretty gay tho. |
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Red_Keys said: Vindictive said: Elaborate.Kirito seems pretty gay tho. Here we go. |
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Red_Keys said: Vindictive said: Elaborate.Kirito seems pretty gay tho. That homolust during his farewell scene with Klein, those tears. His gay motions while running away. His feminine appearance doesn't help either. |
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Vindictive said: Oh my.Red_Keys said: Vindictive said: Elaborate.Kirito seems pretty gay tho. That homolust during his farewell scene with Klein, those tears. His gay motions while running away. His feminine appearance doesn't help either. You are so homophobic, you purposely portray gayness onto characters who do not show it, just so you can go "ewwey" to it. Do you have any male friends? Just curious.. |
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Did anybody else notice the MAL parody in this first episode? |
ichigoteguz said: Did anybody else notice the MAL parody in this first episode? Lol, what a find. Never knew MAL was popular in Japan. |
| well its pretty interesting 1st episode i hope this will be good so i will not drop this.. haha |
| Don't know if you guys noticed it but Asuna, Silica and Lisbeth all appear in the first episode. Here's Asuna, the other 2 appear right after. Thought I'd just come here and put it, forgot all about it when I first watched it came out over a year ago^^  |
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| Oh god, I don't think I ever found something so eye-candy that I started crying. If this game was real, I'd play it. Who cares about logging out? Your-life-on-the-line experience would be so thrilling. I'm so looking forward to watching the rest of this. I think I'm abit weird. Like, really weird. |
| Watching this on adult swim, hehehe ignoring logic, this was pretty good so far. /would be part of the 2,000 that died the first month |
| Now that the dub is out i've finally given it a watch; i have pretty fair expectations of the anime, and I can tell it's gonna be pretty sick, yet I can't ignore the mountains of hate this anime gets. A year ago people thought this was the absolute stuff, now it's infamous for having a divided fanbase. I can't help but feel like Attack on Titan is in a similar position; while the anime is wildly different, I get the feeling that some plot twist or decision with the characters down the line is gonna potential divide the AoT fans, just like with what happened in SAO apparently.AoT is this year's 'it' anime, and it deserves it for high production values and excitement, but i've seen more popular things become the most hated before...not that I want it to happen, i never like to see good things die in a fanbase. Despite all that, i'm really looking forward to seeing more episodes, i'm just entertained and that's what matters to me. |
| --- Twitter: @JusticeSoulTuna Wordpress: JusticeSoulTuna Youtube: JusticeSoulTuna I'm literally JST everywhere |
| SAO!!! Kirito's voice was a bit strange at first, but I've gotten used to it. Klein's is pretty much what I expected. As long as Asuna's voice isn't botched the dub seems like its going to be pretty good actually. I'll take all the SAO they will give me :D |
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| Welp, this got real fast. 2000 in in the first month? Crap. So it seems pretty cool, but the hate I've been hearing about SAO has got me pretty cautious. |
| <i>When all else is lost, the future still remains</i> |
| I watched it dubbed and thought it was really great and can't wait to watch the rest of it to see what happens. It exceeded my expectations. |
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| ive heard mixed reviews about SAO, however i can already tell that it suits my fancy. |
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| Ooh I think this has the potential to be an amazing series! |
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Hstar said: Ooh I think this has the potential to be an amazing series! It had.It really had |
| Oh my god. This is amazing. As a gamer and anime fan, I have high expectations for this anime and so far they have been easily exceeded. One of the best openings to an anime yet. |
| The first episode was amazing. Then we all know later on it went bad. If only they didn't focus so much on the romance. Good thing this years anime is amazing. |
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| 41 pages? Wow. At first I was dissapoined to know that this is just a virtual game. I'm happy that this ain't just a game for them... but rather their life is at stake. Hope to see some awesomeness. |
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| Omg, i am really loving this series, it opens up with such an interesting Episode. Kind of reminds me of .hack, but this seems to be a virtual reality world with the sole purpose of surviving and unable to log out. I like how they use so much terminology involved in real MMORPGS i can relate all these experiences cause i use to play so many MMO's back in the day, great stuff. Can't wait for the next episode. |
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