Sword Art Online (light novel)
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Welp, I kinda expected this to happen someday...a destined meeting between Asuna and Alice in-game. It was just a matter of time. Sure didn't take long for them to cross swords against each other either. At least she got the chance to reunite and see Kirito again. That was part of the main reason why she even bothered to log in from the Stacia account. |
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| A bit before, showing that girl before entering. So the character she's using has a goodies? Though too much burden in exchange. The kouhais letting her see Kirito guy, who had some response. She's honest about being not from this world. Alice girl came to attack her, suspecting her as enemy. The green hair knight stopped since she led him alive. Explanation to everyone. Alice girl doesn't want to leave this world. After explanation, the green hair guy suspecting the enemy boss is that another side. Left eye and the code 871. From enemy side? Surpassing that code is probably reason enemy wants Alice girl... They need to fight the matter here before Alice girl is carried to real world. Now the girls are fighting over private matters. lol @ Kirito guy's kouhai and his senpai join! Girls talk. |
tsubasaloverDec 14, 2019 8:51 AM
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| For once the anime did things better than the LN. |
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| Alice Stans, we here: https://imgur.com/a/QQVh58d It’s here. Finally. I’ve waited YEARS to see most of the scenes in this episode animated and was not disappointed at all. What an episode, seeing Alice and Asuna duke it out, the two getting jealous, everyone coming forward with their feelings about Kirito, phew. A-1 have spared no expense this season and have reached unlimited budget works level of sexiness. Begs the question, what does it take to push it over an 8 on MAL? The number of 5 and below reviews are shocking. If you don't like SAO at this point, you never will, just give up the hating, lol. What a week for SAO. Kirito tops top male characters of the decade list from NewType, volume 23 drops, SAO it’s top of AnimeTrending list, whew. The hate circle-jerk against SAO seems to be dying or at least getting pushback. Alicization is exploding. |
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| goddamn Kirito's harem growth never fail to amaze me the two waifus Asuna and Alice clashing then Ronnie along with his knight senpai lols |
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| Lmao Alice and Asuna fighting over Kirito |
| Good episode. Alice and Asuna fighting over Kirito. About time we see that and it didn't take too long. The girls trading information on Kirito at the end, I find that cute. |
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| This is becoming so great I loved this episode 5/5, Asuna moment with Kirito was too awesome |
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| Kirito's harem,assemble. LOL! Asuna vs Alice for Kirito. |
| It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person. |
| And the harem gets bigger and bigger boys. |
| I knew this was coming, but I was still disappointed at the forced harem part near the end. |
| Just an avid anime watcher of 20 years, not much else I could say about myself (that I don't want to reveal, of course, just ask if you wanna know more!) "So...look up, face forward, toward your chosen horizon and just...walk on." - Noah, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 |
| Appropriate that the account that Asuna chose was one that gave her both the look and powers of a goddess. Still it must be heartbreaking for Asuna to see Kirito like this though. Though brief the battle between Asuna and Alice was pretty amusing given how protective Alice has gotten of Kirito. Given how Gabriel's team managed to infiltrate the turtle that easily its logical to assume that there is more than one traitor thats helping them. Still the meeting sure allowed Asuna to provide both the knights and us with plenty of valuable intel though one that will be difficult to swallow. The little chat between Asuna, Alice and the girls that Kirito managed to have an impact on sure was fun. But it shows just how much Kirito's kindness has impacted the their lives. Its nice to see Sortiliena sempai again so she's a knight now huh. Overall a calm ep that while featuring some brief action was one that focused on plot advancement via Asuna's explanation to the knights that served to set the scene for the final stages of the war. |
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| Wow this went so peacefully, I was surprised that Alice didn't snap after hearing Asuna and Kirito were dating. Well I wanted to see more catfight between them but this is nice too. All of the girls gathered together to exchange info about Kirito, SWEET. |
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| Whoa that did took long for alice and Asuna to cross swords, thought it didn't took long, they still hate each other............... Ok, given that Asuna will take Alice to the real world, would Alice have a human form or be inside a USB storage once she reaches the real world ???? IMAO Asuna should've also said that she and Kirito have already make out with each other and that they both shared showers and time in the onsen completely naked that would have pissed Alice for sure. |
| The forced harem situation and especially the little exchange between Asuna and Alice were hella cringy. Last episode was so gar and now we're back to this shit lol. |
FMmatronDec 14, 2019 9:50 AM
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Good episode. They should've treated us to some more of Asuna and her powers. xD The Asuna Kirito reunion was very nice. :) Asuna and Alice fighting over Kirito was amusing. I still can't get over the fact that Kirito has a harem. Surprised that all the fluctlights kind of readily accepted Asuna's explanation and interesting theory that there's a mole in Rath. That last scene, Asuna was totally just provoking Alice. xD When the rest of the girls showed up, I felt that the harem situation got out of hand. |
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| smh when will Kirito wake up and hug Asuna. |
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| Oh no. There you go with the harem. Classic Sao. I'm so used to seeing some great, flashy fights in every Sao episode that this was kinda a let down and filler-like. 😂 Ok, now let's be serious. The first half of the episode was a heartwarming part. The second was kinda boring with all the info dump and the harem shit. Come on Sao, I'd love a love triangle over a harem any day. But I'll take it this time. Sao has impressed me a lot this season. We need to go back to plot next time. |
Biswa_29Dec 14, 2019 10:20 AM
| SAO PROGRESSIVE ANIME HYPE |
| Whenever I see that white sword, makes wish Eugeo was still in the series! I hope I will get to see Alice in the real world, because next week is obviously going to be an all out war. While the twelve episode might be an epilogue of some sort, but maybe they'll squeeze it in. I'm really how this whole series will end, especially for Alice's existence. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| How much time does Eugeo spent with Kirito? Is it longer than Asuna? |
| It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person. |
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MonkeyDHunterDec 16, 2019 7:05 AM
Gorochu said: How much time does Eugeo spent with Kirito? Is it longer than Asuna? they spent around 2 years in Academy together so no Asuna beats him too (live everyone else) Ah the final battle Shiny Gold-Tsundere vs White Godly-Tsundere |
| well that's just my opinion..... |
| Good episode. Lots of information. So there's a mole in Rath. Too bad Asuna can't use that useful power more. So they need to win the war before Asuna can take Alice to real world. Asuna's Stacia outfit looks so pretty. <3 But her hair is too long, like when she was Titania. Asuna and Kirito meeting was so heartwarming. Poor Kirito, it's hard seeing him like this, that he can't even hug her. I can't wait for him to wake up so they can be reunited after more than 2 years (from his POV). Alice and Asuna fighting over Kirito was annoying. Especially since Alice knows nothing about Kirito because she knew him for ONE DAY. Ok, so she cared for 6 months about him, but she was like his mom LOL. She still knows nothing about him and has no right claiming him as hers. The girls trading information on Kirito at the end, that was also annoying. We saw nothing about Ronie and Kirito's senpai/sensei being romantically interested in Kirito, so what is this forced harem? And from all these girls Alice has known him the least, so she should STFU and GTFO. Only 2 more episodes! T____T And then the long wait. Hope it won't be too long. |
| Waiting for Gundam SEED Movie..... (ಥ‿ಥ) Waiting for Sailor Moon Cosmos..... o(≧▽≦)o |
Gorochu said: How much time does Eugeo spent with Kirito? Is it longer than Asuna? In the underworld Kirito grew up with Eugeo and Alice but he doesn't remember it. He only remembers the time that he goes there after getting injuried, so he was together with Eugeo for 2 years while with Alice he was one or two days before being on coma for 6 months with alice, so only her remember this part. Asuna is now 3 and half years with Kirito. |
| Even when basically being in a coma he manages to get increasingly popular Sasuga |
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| Kirito's harem went from 0 to 100 really quickly Even in a vegetable state, he gets all the girls. Good job, braindead guy. |
| Well the actions of last episode turned out to be a melodrama this episode. Made it seem like the war never started. Though the interactions between Asuna and others was worth it. Also are we gonna get a flashback now or is it moving on to the next step? |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
Darikan said: Superns18 said: Alice Stans, we here: https://imgur.com/a/QQVh58d It’s here. Finally. I’ve waited YEARS to see most of the scenes in this episode animated and was not disappointed at all. What an episode, seeing Alice and Asuna duke it out, the two getting jealous, everyone coming forward with their feelings about Kirito, phew. A-1 have spared no expense this season and have reached unlimited budget works level of sexiness. Begs the question, what does it take to push it over an 8 on MAL? The number of 5 and below reviews are shocking. If you don't like SAO at this point, you never will, just give up the hating, lol. What a week for SAO. Kirito tops top male characters of the decade list from NewType, volume 23 drops, SAO it’s top of AnimeTrending list, whew. The hate circle-jerk against SAO seems to be dying or at least getting pushback. Alicization is exploding. Accept that there are other opinions. Again, if some people don't like SAO, they can still watch and rate it. Objectively speaking, SAO is not a good series compared to others. By the way, criticism is not a hate. What and who defines what's objectively good or not? It's only your preferences that brings you to say that. You think it's not good, it's not objective, it's your opinion. When you can give an objedtive measure of what is good or what is not good, then you can say you're objective for real. In that case, we talk about an enterteining product, so how can we find the objectivity? Our opinion are based on our experience with a series which came from how much we can enjoy the show, everything here seems to me subjective. |
| YES, the one thing that was hyped for this season has finally happened. Asuna and Alice meeting each other and boy was I not disappointed. As expected Alice would go in the attack as she swore to protect Kirito. Alice's jealousy was so cute. I am honestly surprised how honest Asuna is about coming from the real world, maybe cause now there's too much at stake as to when Kirito joined the Underworld. So, the Underworld Harem is also a thing now, 4 girls going to be talking about Kirito. I better hope that gets animated or atleast part of it. |
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Darikan said: Famegher said: What and who defines what's objectively good or not? It's only your preferences that brings you to say that. You think it's not good, it's not objective, it's your opinion. When you can give an objedtive measure of what is good or what is not good, then you can say you're objective for real. In that case, we talk about an enterteining product, so how can we find the objectivity? Our opinion are based on our experience with a series which came from how much we can enjoy the show, everything here seems to me subjective. An approximation for a definition would be FMA, Death Note, Code Geass, Steins Gate, Monster ect. You could use that as a guideline. That's why I wrote "Compare to others". Important point: A harem in a series just makes it worse because it leads to a Mary Sue. Your important point is important for you, for me is a very stupid point. You use the word 'approximation' that destroy any objectivity you was trying to define. An objective thing isn't an apporximation and isn't such a personal thing like an enumeration of casual series you like. |
| Man, that sword fight sounded like someone smacking together two metal pipes. Please Japan, please, get some good sound engineers. That aside, I love the glorious "Kirito's a vegetable but still has a harem" meme. It's so damn funny. I respect the commitment to keeping Kiriito all frozen, but this harem cat fighting, my god... it's a little too "SAO" for me and kinda cringey. Though I doubt it'd not be here even if he wasn't a veggie. That code 871 and unlocked evil account stuff really needs some good explaining and justifications sooner or later cuz as of right now it seems too convenient. Those kinds of things would be really hard to miss for any development team. It'd especially be pretty hard to miss someone sabotaging things like that. Other than that, this is again pretty solid, all things considered. |
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| Oh yes, cringe and childish "fight" for Kirito's D Missed it so much Aside from that it was a good episode though |
-Aincrad-Dec 14, 2019 12:09 PM
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| Judging from som comments I was expecting more scene with Asuna and Alice but it wasn't like that. It's an interesting episode, I'm very curious of which kind of episode we'll have next week!! |
| Kirito's harem in Underworld have a gathering like in ALO. It's OK, but one of them, Liena, came of nowhere after disappeared for 2 cours is kinda disturbing. |
| By the way, Asuna is amazing with this design. I'm really excited to see her in Underworl! I can't wait to see next episode! |
| Even when Kirito is a potato, he can still make a harem. |
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| Good ol' waifu wars, that smug Alice wanting to one up Asuna was really great. |
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