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| The final part was really suggestive, the Ending was very good with the scene. Visually is awesome, the house and its surroundings were really beautiful and colorful, they also gave me a bit of nostalgia, that house reminds me so much of another certain house. Kirito is well rendered in that state, even if I already knew it. We are at the beginning of this second part, I am very curious to see how everything will be adapted. Opening and Ending are awesome. |
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| Great to be back, been a long time waiting for this. So after the power-cut in the real world, Kirito was left in a state of coma (of sorts), lost his speech and emotions. Seems to me that his Fluctlight isn't entirely fried. Glad to see that Alice is taking care of him while being in this state. Also nice to see Selka and Alice have reunited with each other. The village chief is just too harsh for not letting Alice rejoin the village. Let's see if at the end of this season, if I like Alice better than Asuna. Animation in the OP is outstanding and I love the very calm and peacefull ED we got from LiSA this time around. Ending on Rulid Village being on fire, I guess it's time to prepare of a season full of cliffhangers! I hope we get to see very soon what actually is going on in the real world now. |
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| There was, again, interesting ideas, but all of them were executed poorly and the episode was boring overall. I did enjoy the ending tho |
BetterTasteOct 12, 2019 4:17 PM
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| I'm really expecting this to be the best season of SAO jut because there's almost no Kirito, let's see how this goes. For now the Opening and Ending are great and episode is actually great showing us the life of Alice since the last fight. |
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| We're back once again and it was pretty decent episode. Regarding my hopes for this season, I like a fair share of elements, but imo this series usually fails at wrapping up everything in a satisfying manner. So I wholeheartedly wish for a change of pace. At the very least the opening is pretty dope again. |
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| Finaly Alicization is back! Seems it will start more focused on Alice, i am glad to see that, since kirito is in that bad state, its kinda painfull to watch Kirito like that, and seems he wont forget about his swords, he is lucky aswell for having Alice take care of him! Alice sleeping with kirito was cute, and i understand her, they fight pontifex to save everyone, but Rulid village are treating them bad, for what have they fighting for, damn, i feel Alice's pain, its hard to know what to do! Eldrie found Alice, and Kirito is not the reason for her to come back, seems she is weakened! Seems Rulid village is on fire, dark territory is already taking action damn! And yeah a clifhanger in the first episode! Can't wait for next episode! Also i want to see what happened in real world! Btw, another awesome opening and ending, Lisa is always so epic! |
LimaolcOct 12, 2019 1:49 PM
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| OP and ED were straight bops. the OP was animated very well too. It’s pretty refreshing to not hear Kirito talking, with most of the dialog going to Alice. It’s not that I dislike Kirito at all, but having her as the main character was, like I said, refreshing. I am excited to see the oncoming episodes and watch it all go down. |
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| Where the fucks asuna because at the end of last season she falls from the sky |
Leo said: Nice episode. I feel bad for Kirito. He looks lifeless. Alice is taking care of Kirito. I like the OP and its visuals. Reminds me of cloud after he gets mako poisoning. |
| Best girl Alice taking care of Kirito is the best. I hope Kirito don't remain broken for too long... |
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Ashhk said: Very good start, the animation is trully beautiful. Alice is definitely the best girl in SAO after Asuna, her sleeping with Kirito was cute. Please no rape/sex scenes in this anime and it will be great. I'm really looking forward for the next episode. There's no such scenes after that one. The last one that happened was in 2006, which was the second, as the sexual assault on season 2 was anime original. Luthandorius said: Extremely boring first episode. But then again the first season of Alicization also started boring until it turned into an okayish fantasy anime. I hope Kirito is back to normal next episode - with the village burning at the end. Slower pacing would be too painful. This needs some action. -Stray said: The animation and art in the OP were great! ep starts with Alice taking care of Kirito and ends with the village burning, so will this season be about mainly Alice? will Kirito remain like a zombie for half a season? Mod Edit: Added spoiler tags; please hide plot details. |
FancyjasperOct 12, 2019 4:30 PM
| And finally the wait is over and we get more of Alicization. \o/ 1st episode was decent, it's nice of Alice to take care of Kirito like that, and his state looks really bad, hope he won't be like that for most of 2nd season and also hope to see Asuna come and kick ass as soon as possible, I don't like that there's so much Alice and so little Asuna in the opening (and almost no Kirito). Based on the opening, I'm afraid the first 12 episodes will have Kirito in a ''mini coma'' and be focused on Alice with a bit of Asuna. T___T I want more of Asuna and the non-vegetable Kirito. T___T Alice is ok, but I don't want her to be the main character for first 12 episodes. :/ At least give me lots of Asuna if I can't have Kirito. :/ And I want Asuna, not Undine Asuna, since both appear in the opening, I'm confused. Asuna looks gorgeous and is probably a lot more powerful than Undine Asuna (we've seen enough of her already). |
| Waiting for Gundam SEED Movie..... (ಥ‿ಥ) Waiting for Sailor Moon Cosmos..... o(≧▽≦)o |
| omg my boy Kirito is legit in a vegetable state props to Alice taking care of him :/ first episode and it's already emotional especially without Eugeo. |
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| Love seeing Alice as the lead for now. Hope Kirito wakes up soon though so that Alice isn't so miserable, lol. |
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| Pretty hyped tbh. Looking foward to see how this plays out. |
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| Not sure if the wounds are so fresh, or LiSA's beautiful singing, or the poor helpless state of Kirito without his Eugeo ice rose sword, but fuck. My heart hurts so fucking bad. It's a bit of a slow start for the first episode, but also good timing because any faster I think I would have burst into tears. Kirito didn't deserve this. None of them did. Praying Selka survives the night and finishes her training. No more deaths. Please. |
pretty much all i could think of that and shu from GC it's not a common trope besides mindbroken well it was SAO boring start but good visuals and lisa music, though it seems things are popping off and Alice is about to pick up that sword again |
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| the only thing i hope is that they didnt make the animation in OP really smooth then the actual fights are bad like in the previous season. almost every fights except goblin fight and vs fanatio was boring as hell |
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| Hopefully the execution of kirito being in this state of shock is done well. I dont want it to be a cae of "hey, I'm back." And then we just get a bunch of uncalled for action... because I feel like the standards of SAO has increased by some degree. |
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| MY BOY RENRI ACTUALLY MADE INTO THE OPENING. But they leaved Scheta out of it and actually put kirito friends in it??? Are you drunk, A-1? Thank god they got through the boring part of volume 15 in one episode, we can go to the interesting part already with episode 2. I feel that Eldrie scene was a little underwhelming compared to the novel, tho. And they didn't even put Eldrie's comments on how he actually respect Kirito, welp I just hope that A-1 wont shit on Eldrie, he's actually a good boy Good opening, but not so much for the ending, even tho i love LiSA LiSA just cant compete with Reona anymore 4/5. |
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| Great first episode! SAO is back! |
| The quality didn't drop as much as I thought it would. I am glad Asuna isn't here, but then what had happened last episode? I think I have said this before as well, but I really don't want Alice to be a part of Kirito's harem. Really want to see Eugeo again. He was the only SAO character that I actually liked. They could've killed one of the girls from Kirito's harem, but the unlikable characters—out of the protagonist's allies—never seem to die. |
| so it's back and it was an okay first episode |
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| I liked the ep but as per usual there´s a lot of exposition that isn´t making it to the anime and thus the story turns out bland. Poor old man Garitta, he´s the only nice villager apart from Selka but he gets reduced to practically non-existence in the adaptation. Been waiting a long time for this, if only for the AlicexCripplito doujins that are to be. The order is very important ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) You might wanna rewatch the stables section of the OP. |
BloodriverOct 12, 2019 7:53 PM
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| Wonder how long Kirito is gonna be like this. I almost want to see some more of the real world shit too. |
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| This continuation is off to a great start. I feel really bad for Kirito, seeing the state he's in and all. Same for Alice since she's now someone other than the proud knight we saw in the first half of the arc. She's just trying to live as best as she can since it's what Kirito and Eugeo fought hard for. It sucks how everyone treats them like outcasts even after all the good they've done. The music was especially great throughout this ep, capturing the settings and tone of the story so far. With the area they live nearby being under attack, I do hope Selka is ok. I'm very excited for the next episode. |
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| Woah that was pretty good. Definitely saved my week after the disappointment that was Nanatsu no Taizai. Subtle recaps instead of full on recap were also nice as I didn't watch episode 0 which was the full on recap |
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FuMomo-kun said: Really want to see Eugeo again. He was the only SAO character that I actually liked. They could've killed one of the girls from Kirito's harem, but the unlikable characters—out of the protagonist's allies—never seem to die. Wow. I found it so much random that I forgot his dead. x) |
| Great episode, we're definitely off to a flyer of a restart here! Seeing the view to the house through the forest was an enchanting welcome, for one. Art-style has been enhanced a notch and it looks even more breathtaking now, why even bother with the split-cour lol? A lot of action coming (hence the split, I imagine) I bet and the cliffhanger promises a treat for next episode as well, hopefully Selka is alright though. Sad to see how Alice and Kirito are being treated considering everything they sacrificed for this momentary peace. Alice's monologues on this, in particular, dug really deep for me. Can't wait to see Alice save the village and the leaders then question themselves consequently in the coming episodes. Alice chopping the tree in the direction of those bullies and then threatening them with the scary face was awesome to see, way to go Alice. Kirito really is a lucky man to be able to receive such a dear care from someone of Alice's calibre. Meanwhile, they're really focusing on Lady Fanatio in the Op, I've to say. Nothing wrong with that though, those are some appreciable and gratifying treats after all. Looks like Order is in chaos as expected. Aside from this, the Op visuals are dope and the song great too! Probably my favourite Op in terms of visuals and song in the franchise so far! ED seems very pretty good too, LiSA's usual greatness! |
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| holy shit that didn't even cross my mind even back then when i first read the light novel lmao |
| bwahahaha! what the hell happened to Kirito!? he looks like brain dead and vegetable body! bwahahaha! i almost forgot...Alice besto gurl...Asuna can go to trash. |
matias067Oct 13, 2019 12:55 AM
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| Op is hype af! Kirito becoming a vegetable isn’t too surprising after the end of the season. I’m curious with how long he will stay comatose. Only one episode in and we already got a cliffhanger. |
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| Loved this episode! Kirito's emotions towards Eugeo's sword are great. Gosh I still don't like how he died. |
| Any explanation is worthless to a blind hater, any criticism is worthless to a blind fanboy. |
| A very heart melting episode xD poor kirito and alice |
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| so i expected them to continue where they left us at a cliffhanger (like show us what was happening in rl then cont from the part asuna dived into the virtual world) but ended up getting the opposite thought my girl asuna would finally get more screen time too but the op had alot of alice in it so i'm guessing alice would be the main feature of it? how disappointing |
ArisaQOct 13, 2019 1:55 AM
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