Sword Art Online (light novel)
What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
35.1%
616
4Liked it!
28.6%
501
3It was OK
23.1%
405
2Disliked it
7.0%
123
1Hated it
6.2%
109
Average 3.8
1,754 votes
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| A few more hours to go, I'm not even sure what to expect from this.... Oh well. We'll see what happens. I was watching the live stream from CR today and it looked pretty fun. |
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| Hey guys, is reading the LN recommended or necessary to catch up with this S2? :x |
Kuzame said: Hey guys, is reading the LN recommended or necessary to catch up with this S2? :x No, I'm also pretty sure that you don't even need to have watched season 1 for season 2. |
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| Episode 1: 10% Romance, 20% Exposition, 1% Diabel-lite, 4% Traps, 30% Sinon, 15% Lightsabers, 5% Guns and 15% Absurdly spent animation budgets. Opening was ok, but I still love Crossing Field more. LiSA is a great singer lol. Lots of good hints peppered through though. As for the episode, they really went all out. Quite faithful to the source I think. I hope they continue this because I was somewhat disappointed with the last cour. ALO lost a lot of the subtlety :( Also LOL at the kneejerk 1/5 votes. |
| As bad as expected. |
 Lol, they played the OP song at the end of the episode along with Sinon and her handy dandy gun. Whatever. I didn't find the first episode to be any special. The Asuna and Kirito moments were cheesy. Animation looks solid though. |
Stark700Jul 5, 2014 8:06 AM
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| I heard that "Kamiya-san" is voicing a character who appears in ep.1, and he appeared immediately! So he's really HiroC!! And that mysterious guy... Dating time with Asuna and meeting that megane guy in the restaurant. lol~ so expensive! Mentioning of the incident the death inside the game is affected in real life. The real goal is to send him to investigate that mysterious guy. Wow, that online game purchase is so expensive! Zaskar? That new girl... OP as ED. |
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| Even for someone who has read the LN (me) that was fucking boring as hell. How can anyone consider that a good episode? |
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| Really boring. Though the bullet flying through the internet did give me a few laughs. Not too fond of the OP either. Hope it improves. |
Amarrez said: Even for someone who has read the LN (me) that was fucking boring as hell. How can anyone consider that a good episode? The first one is here :> Seriously though LastChapter said: Overall, an amazingly great start, especially since it was perfectly adapted from the novels, one of my biggest worries about the second season now gone. It's just the first episode, so it might be too soon to say. |
EasyGo-er said: Amarrez said: Even for someone who has read the LN (me) that was fucking boring as hell. How can anyone consider that a good episode? The first one is here :> Seriously though LastChapter said: Overall, an amazingly great start, especially since it was perfectly adapted from the novels, one of my biggest worries about the second season now gone. It's just the first episode, so it might be too soon to say. What works for a novel does not necessarily work for a television show. This isn't blind hate, it's genuine criticism. The episode was 90% exposition and recap of shit we already know. |
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| Not seen yet, but I wonder how SAO II will respond to the popularity of NGNL. This season will be very good, or it will fail hard! What will it be! |
“The One With The Stronger Heart, Always Wins The Battle!!!”  [i]Let's Go Out of Here..... Together..... (Yes, that red-car with a mustache is my car :D ) |
Sung-Hwan said: It's a long road to go anyways. SAO's first season was pretty good until ALO anyways. Think of it like this for the people who are gamers to get the references. SAO arc is basically Devil May Cry 1, ALO is Devil May Cry 2, so will this be new anime the great Devil May Cry 3? Hope so. I wonder which one will be DmC lol. |
Sung-Hwan said: It's a long road to go anyways. SAO's first season was pretty good until ALO anyways. Think of it like this for the people who are gamers to get the references. SAO arc is basically Devil May Cry 1, ALO is Devil May Cry 2, so will this be new anime the great Devil May Cry 3? Hope so. Think of the next few arcs as ALO but worse.... |
Sung-Hwan said: EasyGo-er said: I wonder which one will be DmC lol. This season is only one arc isn't it Isn't it 24 episodes for this season? GGO for the first half, and other arcs for the second half? |
VortrexSx said: Not seen yet, but I wonder how SAO II will respond to the popularity of NGNL. This season will be very good, or it will fail hard! What will it be! Considering SAO's history... Aren't you setting the bar a bit too high? I'm just curious to see if the rating will hit 8.5. |
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LastChapter said: Unlucky-kat said: No, I'm also pretty sure that you don't even need to have watched season 1 for season 2. It's a direct sequel to season one, you would need to watch it to understand what is going on in season two since At best you probably only need to read a summary of the first season to understand, there are a few minor details left out but that shouldn't matter much if you just wanna understand what is going on. |
ByonKunJul 5, 2014 9:03 AM
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| Thread Cleaned. Post that were made before they watched the actual episode were removed. Those posts are just speculation on how episode 1 and/or the entire series will turn out and are considered as spam as they were not discussing about the actual episode. Posts that were made to "reserve" are also removed as they are also considered as spam. Lastly, refrain from asking users where you can watch the full episode. |
| Let's just hope they also adapt "Mother's Rosario". Also the first ep was cool, still somewhat prefer " Crossing Field" over " Ignite". " Startear" was amazing though. |
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| Aight aight, its just the start started slow but I know what to expect now. That last scene and ending song was great. I died when I saw 俺がペロリストだ! in the intro comments scroll by. |
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| As a neuroscience otaku Kirito's speech at the park made me shed tears |
| 現実と仮想の差は情報量の大小しかない |
caiosnif said: which speech are u reffering to?As a neuroscience otaku Kirito's speech at the park made me shed tears |
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| Should be more interesting than ALO |
| I pretty much only liked the first and last few minutes of the episode. I mean the rest wasn't exactly bad, but it was just a bunch of talking. And kirito and asuna on a date. Hopefully there talking about something meanful. I don't know because I only watched it raw. Well I guess its just the first episode. so far a 6 for me. |
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| Wow i`m kinda impressed, Shinon is now saving the show, i`m expecting the 1st cour will be GGO arc and 2nd cour is Mother Rosario arc? i hope it`s not rushed. Mod Edit: Removed unnecessary remark. |
julyanJul 5, 2014 10:05 AM
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olha2 said: caiosnif said: which speech are u reffering to?As a neuroscience otaku Kirito's speech at the park made me shed tears The one where he basically says the real world is just signals inside our brains (of course he didn't use these words), and that when the technological breakthrough comes we wont be able to distinguish the real world from VR |
| 現実と仮想の差は情報量の大小しかない |
| I hope this episode will be Asuna's last appearance until GGO arc is finished. |
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| the hype realy is real, the crunchyroll forums crashed haha |
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Coincidence, maybe ? |
| It wasn't too bad. The KiritoxAsuna moments made me fangirl...I just wish she could be more prominent within this season, but I've been told that won't happen. I guess it was pretty interesting, and I liked how they talked about Aincrad being the "center of space and time" for the virtual worlds. They're integrating this new season really nicely with the previous, and I appreciated that. Kirito saying, "It's like someone is telling me not to forget," was really insightful. That's what made me accept his return into the virtual world, even though I thought I'd feel meh about it. Welp, I'm not exactly hyped, but I'm mildy more excited for this season than before. I watched on crunchyroll, but when I refreshed to go watch Alnoah.Zero...looks like the site crashed. Wow. Hope it's back up soon. Just shows the surprisingly continuing power of SAO. xD Honestly surprised at how many people dislike Asuna. I thought their romance and the action sequences were some of the only redeeming aspects of the first season. |
fishergirl16Jul 5, 2014 10:07 AM
| Quite easily the best first episode I have ever seen. Truly masterful. |
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| Loved it. I'm surprised at myself at how excited I got before it started. I never considered myself that much of a fan, hmmm. |
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| Well that was brilliant...would have liked to have seen more of Sinon though. Looks like it is going to be a good series. |
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| Decent first episode. Lots of exposition for what amounts to Light Yagami seems to have discovered MMOs. I can't wait to find out more about this Shinon character though. She actually might be the first fleshed-out character in the series! Those credits though with Trap Kirito and a lightsaber. Yeah, completely inconspicious in a game that only uses guns. Oh, but we can't deprive the special snowflake of the only kind of weapon he'll ever use. |
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| I didn't think the first season was good, and I can't say they have progressed much. (though, it is somewhat enjoyable to watch). I dislike the glorification of virtual reality in this episode, but at least the visuals were good. I'll keep watching it though, since the hate and hype storms are hilarious. |
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