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| And now Gabriel has checked all the requiriments to be a legit SAO villain: A. Rape. Come on, in his mind he basically cummed over the dead body of that Lipia. It's enough. B. Intent of Mass Murder by war. SAO never disappoints us. |
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Rob7 said: And now Gabriel has checked all the requiriments to be a legit SAO villain: A. Rape. Come on, in his mind he basically cummed over the dead body of that Lipia. It's enough. B. Intent of Mass Murder by war. SAO never disappoints us. hahaha what the fuck is that damn argument. How can anime only people be so retarded with things like this? He cummed over the dead body of Lipia because he's overjoyed to have killed a person? What the fuck. hahaha Not only that but rape never happened in SAO, only sexual assault and this fucking thing here isn't RAPE NOR SEXUAL ASSAULT YOU DUMBASS. How the fuck can you ever reach a level of interpretation like this? It's absurdly stupid that I have to read this. Only in anime I have to read things like that, not in the manga or LN community, those things just happens when those works get anime adaptations, because delusional people like you comes from the bottom of hell to make arguments like those. Darikan said: caio_brb said: This arc has nothing to do with "season 1 and 2". It's more clear than ever that you didn't read shit for the LN and just put completed (even if the series is on volume 22), you're just an anime-only that is butthurt that your wishful thinking didn't hold true. I think that SAO should prefer male characters rather than one-dimensional ones like Alice, Silica or Lisbeth. Alice has no personality except that they fight well and the others did not exist in the original SAO. The best arcs are Aincrad and Deathgun. The first part of Alicization is a copy of the Aincrad Arc (1-24) and the second part (25-47) of the Fairy Dance Arc. Now Kirito must be saved, with the power of friendship. And good animations can not compensate for these weaknesses and the LN Vol. 18 disappointed me. The other volumes are just Sidestory of Alicization or a new Arc. Thanks for confirming that it's literally wishful thinking. Also, the best arcs are Aincrad and Death Gun (which is just the name of the antagonist, the name of the arc is Phantom Bullet). I have to laugh to read this when SAO is completely average or literally bad outside of Mother Rosario, Alicization, Unital Ring or the side series Progressive, which is the actual good Aincrad arc as it's not just one volume and has the entire foucs on it. |
brzzcodeNov 2, 2019 1:58 PM
| this season will be dark as fuck. man, this villain is far more dangerous than any other villain from the show. I am actually scared. |
“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin” . |
I know you guys are worried how Alice, Kirito, Asuna and their knight pals probably will merciless slaughter a bunch of that random cute & busty & innocent Dark Mage Waifus, right? |
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| What a scary man....a monster since childhood...like Johan Liebert (yet people love Johan to death and never criticized HIM so I fail to see the problem here?) I thought he was gonna squish the head of that poor innocent praying mantis so I was yelling "DON'T" but he kills the little girl instead. Oof. xD RIP older couple. :( |
ChiibiNov 2, 2019 2:05 PM
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That was an amazing episode, I loved everything! By the way, it's funny how people say things completely wrong like "it was a rape", or something similar, come on. Nothing like that happens. It's sad to read such stupid things. Same thing goes for people who don't know anything about the novel but talk about it. It was sad that they cut the backstory of Lipia and Vixus, also Alicia. |
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Darikan said: Reki Kawahara just does not learn from his mistakes. If you haven't read Progressive, I advise you to shut your face. :| |
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Rob7 said: And now Gabriel has checked all the requiriments to be a legit SAO villain: A. Rape. Come on, in his mind he basically cummed over the dead body of that Lipia. It's enough. B. Int... Point A... so you make stuff up to bash a show? Doesn't seem very efficient. YizelTro said: this is pg 13 series m8. look at the previous season. 2 girl almost got rape and pg 13 ? whats is that even mean. the fact that the killing method is like that and the only victim that we can see is girl, and whats more is that this series is pg 13.... Regardless how the bad deeds are conducted in this anime, the lingering undertones clearly mark them as wrong. Which should be educational. Its quite a difficult matter, to specify an age after which learning to recognize right from wrong is best absorbed - especially these types of things. Ahem, but that scene where young Gabriel questioned about the thoughts of an insect and its soul was scary because I couldn't tell that those were sociopathic tendencies (perhaps irl, I could see more ques, but perhaps not). Well, you could easily tell when he observed Alicia with those questions in his thoughts, but irl unless you can read minds, next chance for recognizing them is after something or someone dies. After seeing him pierce into Alicia's head, I wanted him gone :D But unfortunately, there are people like this in this world who remain with or without this character. |
Rob7 said: caio_brb said: (....) Not only that but rape never happened in SAO, only sexual assault and this fucking thing here isn't RAPE NOR SEXUAL ASSAULT YOU DUMBASS. You must be fun at parties. No, I am fun at places where people know what rape, abuse and sexual assault are. I'm a lawyer, which is for the very exact motive that I'm pissed at how you all put all of those terms as if they are the same thing, when they aren't, at all. SAO had two sexual assault scenes in the original LN, and three in the anime. That was it, nothing more nor less. With of course, you inventing a garbage argument like you did in your post which will just spread misinformation to people reading. Darikan said: caio_brb said: hahaha what the fuck is that damn argument. How can anime only people be so retarded with things like this? He cummed over the dead body of Lipia because he's overjoyed to have killed a person? What the fuck. hahaha Not only that but rape never happened in SAO, only sexual assault and this fucking thing here isn't RAPE NOR SEXUAL ASSAULT YOU DUMBASS. How the fuck can you ever reach a level of interpretation like this? It's absurdly stupid that I have to read this. Only in anime I have to read things like that, not in the manga or LN community, those things just happens when those works get anime adaptations, because delusional people like you comes from the bottom of hell to make arguments like those. Thanks for confirming that it's literally wishful thinking. Also, the best arcs are Aincrad and Death Gun (which is just the name of the antagonist, the name of the arc is Phantom Bullet). I have to laugh to read this when SAO is completely average or literally bad outside of Mother Rosario, Alicization, Unital Ring or the side series Progressive, which is the actual good Aincrad arc as it's not just one volume and has the entire foucs on it. Unital Ring has only 2 volumes at the moment. This Arc also has stereotypes and increases the harem of Kirito. So typical SAO. Reki Kawahara just does not learn from his mistakes. There's no mistakes like these and also there's no "harem of kirito". Kirito is only with Asuna, only loves her and is with her since Aincrad and the other girls liking him or not is irrelevant outside of their own arcs in the past, which were just romantic interests, no different than Batman and Spider-man who had many interests in a same comic book. Not only that, but the story itself much like on Alicization and Mother Rosario is good. Like I said before, there's nothing bad for the motives you insist. You just isn't getting what you want from what the novelist wants to tell and write. It's just wishful thinking that are not being realized and you're saying it's bad because he's not doing what you want him to do. The only wrong thing that he had to stop was the sexual assault scenes, which he stopped in 2006 with the one on alicization and then never did that ever again. |
Chiibi said: Darikan said: Reki Kawahara just does not learn from his mistakes. If you haven't read Progressive, I advise you to shut your face. :| Course, when an author do a great job in a last arc, all the shit plot holes or weak character chosing or development in the previous stories must be forgiven, right? hmm  Anyway, i love SAO, and this fails are exactly the style of this series which i'm already used. Point the fails without be angry with it is not even bashing. It is just sarcasm (okay, it is something some cultures have a hard time to understand). |
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| Well, (seriously) rate harenism in SAO may be not wrong BUT sounds so forced, since one of the most special and singular things in SAO (also one of the features that attach me to this series) is the absolutely faithful, exclusive, defined but still CHILL relation between Kirito and Asuna. This kind of maturity is very rare to find in animes/mangas of this genre. |
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I kinda feel bad that Lipia's role ends here and so as her commander/ lover Shasta.    |
Horn_dawg_2019Nov 2, 2019 3:27 PM
| I actually like the main villain more than the main protagonists xD |
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Did you see that the leader of Dark Mage Waifus, Dee Eye, just has lost one leg due to that Shasta's "berserk" last stage skill or something? Remember from the previous episode that Dee was said to be the one who discovered the immortality of the Administrator and is not trustable for her great ambitious. Now she is a disabled. (joke alert!) |
Rob7Nov 2, 2019 3:20 PM
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Darikan said: that may be true, but he also had to introduce there more female characters who are no longer important later and some fan service The novels won't sell without fanservice though. |
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Chiibi said: Rob7 said: Course, when an author do a great job in a last arc, all the shit plot holes or weak character chosing or development in the previous stories must be forgiven, right? I'm certain the novels don't have ANY of those things? Oh sorry, but i guess you are lost. https://myanimelist.net/manga/21479/Sword_Art_Online (Novel) Bon Voyage! :D |
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neonie said: YizelTro said: I'm gonna stop here and to sums up overall series from the beginning until now the author likes to sexually and physically abuse a woman >Losing a feminist watching SAO. >Nothing of value was lost. im just uncomfortable watching it. is that wrong ? even if it'a a guy who got assault it would be uncomfortable either |
YizelTroNov 2, 2019 3:28 PM
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Rob7 said: Did you see that the leader of Dark Mage Waifus, Dee Eye, just has lost one leg due to that Shasta's "berserk" last stage skill or something? Remember from the previous episode that Dee was said to be the one who discovered the immortality of the Administrator and is not trustable for her great ambitious. Now she is a disabled. (joke alert!) It was a mistranslation by the subs. She didn't discover any immortality thing, people just compared her for Quinella. |
Rob7 said: Course, when an author do a great job in a last arc, all the shit plot holes or weak character chosing or development in the previous stories must be forgiven, right? hmm Anyway, i love SAO, and this fails are exactly the style of this series which i'm already used. Point the fails without be angry with it is not even bashing. It is just sarcasm (okay, it is something some cultures have a hard time to understand). Progressive isn't a "last arc". Progressive is a different series focused entirely on Aincrad as the actual arc was just one volume due to certain cicurmstances. |
Rob7 said: Oh sorry, but i guess you are lost. https://myanimelist.net/manga/21479/Sword_Art_Online (Novel) Bon Voyage! :D Yes, I read them. Please point out these so-called "plot holes" and "weak characters" then. You still didn't explain what "character chosing" is. |
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Horn_dawg_2019 said: I kinda feel bad that Lipia's role ends here and so as her commander/ lover Shasta. Now, why her body didn't disappeared like that rapist sexual abuser killed by Kirito in the last season? Eugeo also disapeared, so it should be a rule. Okay, let's assume that frozing it in glass or something prevents that. |
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Rob7 said: Horn_dawg_2019 said: I kinda feel bad that Lipia's role ends here and so as her commander/ lover Shasta. Now, why her body didn't disappeared like that rapist sexual abuser killed by Kirito in the last season? Eugeo also disapeared, so it should be a rule. Okay, let's assume that frozing it in glass or something prevents that. You already responded your question. |
| The part at the end was amazing to watch, the art style, the visual effects and the animation were superb in my opinion. |
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Lol he kinda went all Wolverine, didn't he. xD It was a cool scene though. Man-tornado. |
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The pencil moustache x massive eyebrows From which anime is that second guy from? Same studio? |
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Rob7 said: The pencil moustache x massive eyebrows From which anime is that second guy from? Same studio? Might Guy from Naruto.. lol |
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| Damn, didn't expect an episode like that, that new villain is creepy, we saw some of he rpast, and he just murdered a friend, damn, but if he got her soul, i looked like being in a game! I suspected that Lipia and the comander of dark knights would finish in a tragic way, feel bad for Lipia, but atleast he didn't rape her! Alice realized they are running out of time, can't wait for next week! |
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| Gabriel being over the top evil bad guy makes it hard to take him seriously, like I much prefer his subordinate who just wants ot battle and have a good time over him. I mean for Gab its clear that there will be no persuading or chance for him to have any sort of redemption or type of surrender since hes all, wanna eat souls. He even potentially is the weak link in their own plan if he does eat Alice then spend an extra night for his subordinate to have a good time. I just feel the subordinate dude is weak willed enough that they could bargain or persuade him. Pugilist leader is really cute, Need art. I do always laugh when characters just go around saying "land of darkness, we live in the land of darkness" like IRL why would you keep that for your countries/kingdoms name even with the connotations that "darkness" has. Also writing continues to be confusing, dont understand how a character says "all of these are artificial fluclights, wow so many humans" an artificial fluclight is not a human though. |
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| I'm guessing they are cutting out a lot of the useless exposition that Reki inserted in the LNs regarding the generals of the 10 tribes because holy shit. Like I get the need for the introduction of named characters and the like but man...we got like full backstories of each of the 10 generals that took up pages of the LN for no good reason. Especially since it was all forgettable information about forgettable characters. That was really a problem in Alicization as a whole anyway. Also...I swear that one chick with the warrior monks gawking at the werewolf is doujin bait. |
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| I kinda figured this Gabriel was not right in the head, but god damn this guy is fucked up... to do that to your friend at such young age. So cruel, so utterly inhuman.. curiosity got the better of him. Well that's 2 characters gone before we got to know them even. That animation of the guy transforming though. The gate is breaking apart, this is gonna get real. |
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| Wow that was enjoyable as Akame ga Kill! I should have know when Alicia first appeared. So sweet and endearing. What a freak, this guy Gab. He’s two for two. One IRL and one online plus who knows how many more. I hope the next episode is better. |
| I feel that Kirito has had plenty of development. Just compare the beginning episodes of Aincrad to season 2; he goes from an antisocial loner to a boy surrounded by friends whom he'd give/has practically given his life to protect. He learns new things with each arc, like every protagonist should. Aincrad arc= he learns to trust in Asuna and commits himself to only her. Alfheim arc- he learns it's okay to rely on multiple people for help Gun Gale- he is suffering from PTSD but learns to forgive himself for committing the murders in Aincrad. Then Asuna, Eugeo, and Alice are focused on instead from that point. Which is fine, really because I'm not sure what else we can do with Kirito at the moment. |
ChiibiNov 2, 2019 5:15 PM
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| Wow! Gabriel is an empty soul huh, alive but dead inside. For some reason I think he's cool, I like villains who embrace their nature and believe in their narrow course. The way he killed Lipia and Alicia was shivering, shit, what a cold empty man. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
Chiibi said: I feel that Kirito has had plenty of development. Just compare the beginning episodes of Aincrad to season 2; he goes from an antisocial loner to a boy surrounded by friends whom he'd give/has practically given his life to protect. Yes, he’s a different person than it was at the start. He’s grown up. |
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| With all my criticism i love SAO, but i never will read any novel, since i don't enjoy novels at all. It is kinda annoying that here in this forum for the anime, we cant discuss about the episode without somebody come to spoil "no you are wrong, i know it will never happens", "relax, he will not die", "i wouldn't be happy about her..." For exemple, about Kirito's devenlopment, from what happened in SAO anime/movie until now, i would say that his fate seems to turn himself in a 100% virtual human (it looks he will never recover from the brain damage), and his relation with Asuna will accept this circumstance, probably with (official?) marriage. The moral of Kirito in SAO always was about respect the virtual beings. If you guys remember from the first Arc when he opposed the idea of the (pre-dating) Asuna about use the NPC as prey to monsters. Then came his "daughter" Yuna. Then they met Yuuki... and finally, the virtual legit living humans of Alice system. It is all about leaving of the real world and acceptance of exclusive virtual life. Then... of course the novels already tell what happens, but please, let the others just wonder and have a full enjoyment of the work, just as these readers did when they read the novels for the 1st time (in my opinion, losing all the impact of the visual art). - Watch a show you already spoiled to yourself reading the novel is very FAR from the experience of who didn't. Maybe spoil it to others a little bit is a kind of vengeance for that. |
Rob7Nov 2, 2019 6:05 PM
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| Gabriel, what a pitiful bastard. Would be really great to see this scum fall in his own despair of never been able to see his soul. |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
| SAO inputs another 1 trick cheap villain, among its other constantly reused box-standard cliches of said creepy guy doing creepy things to women. At least Quinella had some depth beyond being a psychopath. The episode itself was perfectly fine, but fucking lord if the main villain isn't a total disappointment. @Hegar Don't both with him, he's probably on the spectrum and feeling better than randos on the internet because he read a book is the only validation he gets. Dude's actually claiming he's a lawyer, psychologist and probably a fairy too, but acts like this. |
YautjaNov 2, 2019 7:31 PM
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