Sword Art Online Episode 24 Discussion

Tensho said:
Far from exceptional but definitely enjoyable at times.

Zeally said:


The switch for pain or no pain is probably programmed in the game from the very beginning so i would say the former.

Tyestor said:
DEUSSSSSS EX MACHINAAAAAAAA

Paul said:
Out of curiosity, was anyone else bothered by the element of 'pain' that was brought into this episode? This episode pretty much tells us that there is pain in the game, even though everyone's constantly saying "there is no pain felt when damaged". So has this "there is no pain" that Kirito mentioned like in the very first or second episode been completely false?

katsucats said:
EPISODE SUMMARY

1. Yui grows up for no reason.
2. It takes morning til dawn to fly up to a birdcage Kirito spotted.
3. Save the fanfare for later... but wait no, we have to go through the cliches and wait for the bad guy to show up, and then pretend to be shocked.
4. Predictably, Suguo's one of those retarded villains that mixes business with pleasure, preferring some exhibitionist masochist sex episode to finishing off Kirito and controlling people, basically throwing years of work away for 2 minutes of pleasure. Is it even possible to take these villains seriously when they're such jokes?
5. Kirito remembers Heathcliff's login ID and password that he never had.
6. Kirito turns pain to 0 for everyone. I wonder if it affects people in the rest of the game.
7. Yui saves herself again to local memory. By the way, Alfheim Online must have the worst system security of any game since Diablo 1 if it allows users to upload whatever local program onto the server with admin-level access.
8. Kirito tries to act cool by telling Asuna it will all be over, and then haves fun torturing LV1 Suguo...
9. Apparently every game played on the NerveGear is completely compatible with every other game. Imagine importing that awsome LV5000 sword you got on Disgaea 4 PS3 to Dark Souls PS3. Yep, that's how NerveGear works...

Yeah, I know... Somehow the light novel explains all of this like cake, flawlessly like a literary masterpiece -- but it's a literary masterpiece I'm not interested in reading; nor will I ever be interested in reading Twilight no matter how much people rave about it, and I wholly judge it based on my experience with the first movie.

whatever123456 said:
1. She only took the form of a navigation pixie to prevent being spotted by the system. There is no need for that anymore after directly interfering with ingame stuff.
2. Welp, that's not actual criticism.
3. The bad guy is the admin, it doesn't matter where he caught them.
4. Sugou has an inferiority complex and likes showing his dominance whenever possible. Sure, he is really over the top and I laughed the entiry time, but he never "threw years of work for a few minutes of pleasure", there was no reason to assume Kirito could do anything.
5. No? Heathcliff told him the id and password. Did you even watch it?
6. Why would you assume it was for everyone and not just the space Sugou created? Nothing of the likes is mentioned.
7. Welp, we were over this before.
8. Everyone is "level 1" since there are no player levels. He set his system authority level to 1 to prevent him from doing admin stuff. Even if the subs fucked that up (no idea, would have to rewatch that scene),how is it even possible to not notice that after Sugou tries to use his admin powers 3 times in a row and fails right after that?
9. No? Why would you assume that? Stop making shit up that was never mentioned or implied in the slightest.

7-8/9 points are retarded and caused by your failure to draw simple connections/watch it without having your brain so focussed on finding plotholes that you ignore every bit of context.

Saturate said:
it was horrible
just horrible
how shallow can it get?
3 for the series,goddamit,if not for the first episodes,i would give it even less

FingerStyle said:

F**k shallow, seeing Asuna and Kirito re-united is exactly what I wished for through all Alfhaim Online saga. It's the one thing that would make me happy as the ending of this great anime.

FingerStyle said:

F**k shallow, seeing Asuna and Kirito re-united is exactly what I wished for through all Alfhaim Online saga. It's the one thing that would make me happy as the ending of this great anime.

Scoops said:

Why did 13 pages of posts get removed? I doubt all of it was disobeying the forum-rules? Like, I posed a gif that got removed for no reason. I couldn't find anything in the forum rules that said anything about gif file-size or anything like that.

whatever123456 said:


1. She only took the form of a navigation pixie to prevent being spotted by the system. There is no need for that anymore after directly interfering with ingame stuff.
2. Welp, that's not actual criticism.
3. The bad guy is the admin, it doesn't matter where he caught them.
4. Sugou has an inferiority complex and likes showing his dominance whenever possible. Sure, he is really over the top and I laughed the entiry time, but he never "threw years of work for a few minutes of pleasure", there was no reason to assume Kirito could do anything.
5. No? Heathcliff told him the id and password. Did you even watch it?
6. Why would you assume it was for everyone and not just the space Sugou created? Nothing of the likes is mentioned.
7. Welp, we were over this before.
8. Everyone is "level 1" since there are no player levels. He set his system authority level to 1 to prevent him from doing admin stuff. Even if the subs fucked that up (no idea, would have to rewatch that scene),how is it even possible to not notice that after Sugou tries to use his admin powers 3 times in a row and fails right after that?
9. No? Why would you assume that? Stop making shit up that was never mentioned or implied in the slightest.

7-8/9 points are retarded and caused by your failure to draw simple connections/watch it without having your brain so focussed on finding plotholes that you ignore every bit of context.

Progeusz said:
Haha, it was hilariously bad. Worst villains ever. Shittiest ending since Symphogear. At least i had a good laugh.

Nidhoeggr said:
That reminds me: Symphogear is getting another season! More fun laughing at one of my favourite trainwrecks!

Arumaru said:
cant' wait for the blu-ray! (If you know what i mean)
hehe
that revenge! so hardcore
serves him right!
so is he dead?

Nidhoeggr said:
He has some points whatever, the anime does a very poor job at explaining certain things. And the retarded concept of sharing experience, etc. with all other games really diminishes the experience as it feels like Kirito once again gains too much advantages to really think of any obstacles for him here.

ahmed_great2005 said:
Does that man that guy was killed in the real world???as he reduced the pain level to 0?

MorningGlory said:
Worst come to worst,he might fall into unconscious and will never wake up .

MorningGlory said:
Worst come to worst,he might fall into unconscious and will never wake up .

Kyube said:
That was even worse than death.
But I don't see an argument, why he should be dead, apart from everyone wishes it.

Nidhoeggr said:


He has some points whatever, the anime does a very poor job at explaining certain things. And the retarded concept of sharing experience, etc. with all other games really diminishes the experience as it feels like Kirito once again gains too much advantages to really think of any obstacles for him here.



That reminds me: Symphogear is getting another season! More fun laughing at one of my favourite trainwrecks!

CantoneseAnime said:
Hahaha, I always told my friends that Kayaba Akihiko is best, but they always said that he was evil.
As if!!!! My fav Chara is Akihiko-kun *-*

HaloGod3330 said:
I must say that the ''fight'' was really lame and short.

PauloDDD said:
Scrumbag Kirito: saves Asuna, forget 299.

Nidhoeggr said:


He is a maniac who created a death game and is responsible for the death of over 4000 human beings. And in episode 14 he said he somehow forgot the reason why he actually did program it.
This guy is one of the worst written "villians" I ever saw and the fact that the anime actually tries to paint him in a positive light (as if to make us feel sorry for him or something) is disgusting.

Volume 1, ch 24 said:
“Why— did you do this...?”

I could feel Kayaba smile bitterly. After a long silence, he finally spoke:

“Why—? I had forgotten a long time ago. Just why did I do it? Ever since I found out that a FullDive system was being created— No, even before that, I had wanted to build that castle, a place that exceeded the limits set upon the real world. Then, in those final moments... I saw even the rules of my world being surpassed as well...”

Kayaba first turned his peaceful eyes towards me, and then immediately shifted them away.

Kayaba's overalls and Asuna's hair fluttered as the wind grew stronger. Half of the castle had already been destroyed. Algade, a city full of my memories, was being scattered into the wind and absorbed by the clouds.

Kayaba continued to speak:

“Don't we all have many dreams since the time we were kids? I have already forgotten how old I was when the image of a steel castle floating in the skies began to enrapture me... it was a vision that didn't fade from my mind no matter how much time passed. As I grew older, the image became more and more realistic, more and more expansive. Leaving the real world and flying straight into this castle... that was my only dream for a long time. You know, Kirito-kun, I still believe— that in some other world, this castle really does exist—”