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| 1 episode and Sinon is already a fucking badass. Easily the best girl after the next episode which is entirely for Sinon. Also, the pacing is really nice and slow unlike Season 1 where it rushed everything. 5/5 |
LastChapter said: julyan said: A-1 is taking this series nice and slow. It's no doubt now that this will be a better season. But the 24 ep mark still baffles me. I'm still holding on to this schedule here: After all, it's impossible to adapt 2 volumes of a light novel in 24 episodes. The first two episodes already adapted the prologue and 3 chapters out of 7 of the first volume of Phantom Bullet to put it into retrospective. I doubt they would touch Alicization, just cause then it leaves nothing for OVAs cause once the Alicization train gets started there are no stations off it |
Playing said: LastChapter said: I'm still holding on to this schedule here: After all, it's impossible to adapt 2 volumes of a light novel in 24 episodes. The first two episodes already adapted the prologue and 3 chapters out of 7 of the first volume of Phantom Bullet to put it into retrospective. Tell me in a spoiler what's this cliffhanger? What's going to happen? THIS PERSON ASKED FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN THE NEXT EPISODE WITH THAT CLIFFHANGER SO ITS IN A SPOILER BOX. DO NOT CLICK SHOW SPOILER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILT DESPITE HOW TEMPTING IT IS TO PRESS!!!! |
TyrelJul 12, 2014 11:15 AM
| I think it doesn't really make sense that Sinon didn't die at the end there. I know they wanted her to look really badass but I mean, she jumped out of a high ass tower and took heavy damage from a minigun, including having her leg blown off, and still survives. Apparently there's no fall damage in GGO. |
| Great ep. Sinon was pretty impressive to watch. All her monologue and everything about that guy with the minigun sounded great. Great part of her getting the people to actually fight back. Finally it seems its Kazuto will be entering there soon. Sent with Mal Updater |
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| Episode 2: 10% Setups, 20% Snipers, 10% Assault Rifles, 10% Energy Weapons, 20% Assault Miniguns, 30% Sinon. :D They extended a few scenes in there just to let the other girls in hehe. Though as usual there's the unnecessary fanservice tentacle rape. Anyways nice episode, I like it when it feels like it was too short rather than dragging overall. Ah love how the ending is all about the best girl. :P |
NettoAzureJul 12, 2014 10:40 AM
| That ED though...Sinon kinda reminded me of Mikasa for a moment, complete with scarf and icy personality. Sent with Mal Updater |
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| Shinon looks so badass, really like her |
skudoops said: lmao the tenticle rape came in pretty soon. Btw that whole fight didn't play out the way I thought it would, actually it had good scenes marred by pretty stupid ones. At least the ost was nice. At first I thought they were going to use tactics, but after all that planning they slowly devolved into sheer brute force. My biggest issue is why shinon(?) didn't just keep shooting from the hill at the gattling gun guy.. or better yet, why not aim at his chest? He has a movement penalty so even if he got behind cover she could pin him down for the entire fight, yet she chose to fight on his terms and run in close... As you saw in the episode with her 2nd shot, it left a large red trail showing where it'll hit. That's how he was able to dodge the 2nd bullet. After 60 seconds and moving to another location, you can snipe again without worry. But she figured out that he was no ordinary GGO player and that he had the rare mini gun (the mini gun version of Sinon's sniper in quality). The LN emphasized on the fact that when you are a sniper, there is a flaw that the first shot is the only shot that really counts. Thats why she shot first. |
skudoops said: lmao the tenticle rape came in pretty soon. Btw that whole fight didn't play out the way I thought it would, actually it had good scenes marred by pretty stupid ones. At least the ost was nice. At first I thought they were going to use tactics, but after all that planning they slowly devolved into sheer brute force. My biggest issue is why shinon(?) didn't just keep shooting from the hill at the gattling gun guy.. or better yet, why not aim at his chest? He has a movement penalty so even if he got behind cover she could pin him down for the entire fight, yet she chose to fight on his terms and run in close... He is an experienced guy so he can easily dodge all of her shots from afar. So she needs to get so close that he simply don't have time to dodge, she used to fact that he simply can't point it straight up. Giving her time to get close. It was all planed but the anime missed that part. |
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| This episode was very good. I'm extremely excited for the next episode. The whole "Sinon is a really cool badass" was pretty much expected. Hopefully Kazuto will begin to play GGO by next episode. |
| So that's how Sinon got her Hecate huh. They're a player hunting squadron going for a monster hunting squadron hm. Dat Sinon ass... Ohooo, a minigun. It looks like Sinon is going to storm that guy. Sinon really has skills and she's really motivated not run away since it's a game. GET REKT BEHEMOTH! Oh look, real life Sinon. And near the end we get to see some of Kirito's old gang members playing ALO. It looks like Kirito is going to tell Asuna about what he plans to do in GGO. |
| "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." |
adaw31 said: skudoops said: lmao the tenticle rape came in pretty soon. Btw that whole fight didn't play out the way I thought it would, actually it had good scenes marred by pretty stupid ones. At least the ost was nice. At first I thought they were going to use tactics, but after all that planning they slowly devolved into sheer brute force. My biggest issue is why shinon(?) didn't just keep shooting from the hill at the gattling gun guy.. or better yet, why not aim at his chest? He has a movement penalty so even if he got behind cover she could pin him down for the entire fight, yet she chose to fight on his terms and run in close... As you saw in the episode with her 2nd shot, it left a large red trail showing where it'll hit. That's how he was able to dodge the 2nd bullet. After 60 seconds and moving to another location, you can snipe again without worry. But she figured out that he was no ordinary GGO player and that he had the rare mini gun (the mini gun version of Sinon's sniper in quality). The LN emphasized on the fact that when you are a sniper, there is a flaw that the first shot is the only shot that really counts. Thats why she shot first. Did they explain this in the anime? |
| Speaking of booty... anyone else enjoyed this scene? |
| kirito looking pree baws last scene |
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| While I like 2nd episode overall I can't help but find this heavy on orange colour palette a little bit boring and unoriginal. Doesn't light novel version of GGO look more... grey? Anyway, I feel like this season will be significantly better than the first one. At this point it definitely feels more expensive production wise and as many of you already know has more mature (or, at least, more grounded) source material. |
dsw2biJul 12, 2014 11:06 AM
| Phahahah, SAO you can't even do your action without it being unintentional comedy, you bring up all these points just to bury yourself even deeper. Every single subtlety contradicts the dialog and narrative, I have a feeling the studio is doing it on purpose knowing that the source material they have can't be remedied by a good script. MEMEgun shall now stay for ze internet. GGO is just as badly designed as any game in the serious, making it even more laughable. And the tentacle rape, as if the OP wasn't enough to remind us it happened. 4/5 - just for amusing me |
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Unlucky-kat said: They even added a scene for the haters. Hateservice anyone? So much unnecessary fanservice...but the Japanese market requires fanbait so it has to have such things. *sigh* Though love the quote LOL. |
therandomestguy said: adaw31 said: As you saw in the episode with her 2nd shot, it left a large red trail showing where it'll hit. That's how he was able to dodge the 2nd bullet. After 60 seconds and moving to another location, you can snipe again without worry. But she figured out that he was no ordinary GGO player and that he had the rare mini gun (the mini gun version of Sinon's sniper in quality). The LN emphasized on the fact that when you are a sniper, there is a flaw that the first shot is the only shot that really counts. Thats why she shot first. Did they explain this in the anime? They did to a degree. The fact that the red trail was left made it obvious that you can't snipe people over and over again from 1500m. Like I said, its a sniper's weakness. |
| Found something interesting , i think they reused the animation from the first season ep 2 when kirito kills that red ogre http://s17.postimg.org/rtvz9ew8e/coincidenta_don_t_think_so.jpg , what do you guys think ? |
MarikGrJul 12, 2014 11:08 AM
| Great episode, I can tell Sinon will make this season for me. Lol at the smiling on the battlefield though (isn't this a game?). The scene in ALO annoyed me though. Almost made me forgot about the awesomeness that proceeded it. |
| "Listen Simon... Don't forget. Believe in yourself. Not in the you who believes in me. Not the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself." ~ Kamina (TTGL) “You should enjoy the little detours. To the fullest. Because that’s where you’ll find the things more important than what you want.” ~ Ging (HxH) |
| OMG Sinon trickshots XDD She did like 6 1/2 spins in mid-air and barrel stuffed the dude haha Hopefully Kirito moves on to GGO next ep.. |
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MarikGr said: Found something interesting , i think the reused the animation from the first season ep 2 when kirito kills that red ogre http://s17.postimg.org/rtvz9ew8e/coincidenta_don_t_think_so.jpg , what do you guys think ? The mouth is a bit off, eyes are different. But I can see where you are coming from. Good spotting. |
| Wow, I liked this episode. I prefer Sinon already over the characters from season one, the music, animation and everything else was great until the part at the end with the girls, ugh. I fear that Kirito will ruin the future episodes with his plot armor and easily becomes some amazing player in a short amount of time, which most likely will happen, hopefully it's written well so it doesn't feel boring. |
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adaw31 said: therandomestguy said: Did they explain this in the anime? They did to a degree. The fact that the red trail was left made it obvious that you can't snipe people over and over again from 1500m. Like I said, its a sniper's weakness. I meant that it resets after 60 seconds and moving to another location. I don't think they said that, and I think it's pretty important information. |
therandomestguy said: adaw31 said: They did to a degree. The fact that the red trail was left made it obvious that you can't snipe people over and over again from 1500m. Like I said, its a sniper's weakness. I meant that it resets after 60 seconds and moving to another location. I don't think they said that, and I think it's pretty important information. Yeah thats probably 1 of the few things that were left out. Think of it as tgat detail which if they put every single detail in, it'll make the show go on for an extra 10 episodes of every scene explaining stuff to the very dust. |
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| Another great episode imo; the intensity, animation, art, and action scenes were spot on and focusing on Sinon's perspective was pretty amusing to see. Not really much happen in here, just seeing on Sinon's perspective view. |
| The AI of the monsters is indeed terrible. That thing at the beginning just stood there while slowly being killed by Sinon xD I like Sinon though, a new interesting character. |
| A book and who seek it attract one another. -Dantalian no Shoka |
adaw31 said: therandomestguy said: I meant that it resets after 60 seconds and moving to another location. I don't think they said that, and I think it's pretty important information. Yeah thats probably 1 of the few things that were left out. Think of it as tgat detail which if they put every single detail in, it'll make the show go on for an extra 10 episodes of every scene explaining stuff to the very dust. That's a good point usually but in this case I was actually confused, I thought every bullet had the red trail because I wasn't paying attention to whether or not the first shot did, and I think they bullet timed the first shot anyway so it might not have showed behind the bullet. |
| we learned nothing new from this episode... we just got to see sinon in action and kirito telling asuna he wants to talk about the GGO thing |
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| nice ep.. like that action,. great to see the harem gang.. |
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Zombiespire said: I completely liked the episode, but there's just one thing that bugs me, but doesn't take anything from the show. The character Sinon is currently on the side of player hunters, or as I like to call, Professional Gankers. And if you have ever played DayZ or any PvP MMO that includes this, you know those guys are dicks. Just not a fan of those guys. This is some explanation that the anime missed. Don't know if it will be explained or not so i'll add a spoiler tag. |
ByonKunJul 12, 2014 11:40 AM
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Unlucky-kat said: Zombiespire said: I completely liked the episode, but there's just one thing that bugs me, but doesn't take anything from the show. The character Sinon is currently on the side of player hunters, or as I like to call, Professional Gankers. And if you have ever played DayZ or any PvP MMO that includes this, you know those guys are dicks. Just not a fan of those guys. This is some explanation that the anime missed. Don't know if it will be explained or not so i'll add a spoiler tag. That will probably be explained in one of the episodes, should be spoiler tagged. Edit: He spoiler tagged it. |
therandomestguyJul 12, 2014 12:07 PM
| I love how badass Sinon is! I loved all the action. |
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| nice action episode with shion :D |
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| Dont care wuts going on as long as it looks stylish and thats all that matter The Cowboy hat wanted to QQ Lol Heredity said: so, is kirito a girl? i wanna know before i pick this up. dw i'll discuss the episode later it'll be sweet. As of ep2 we know Kirito isnt the Green haired girl(Shinon) |
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therandomestguy said: That will probably be explained in one the episodes, should be spoiler tagged. Done. I just wasn't sure if I should've. skudoops said: Unlucky-kat said: He is an experienced guy so he can easily dodge all of her shots from afar. So she needs to get so close that he simply don't have time to dodge, she used the fact that he simply can't point it straight up. Giving her time to get close. It was all planed but the anime missed that part. Ah so the plan was just something A-1 left off? Ok then. yes, as per protocol by A-1 dynamitMC said: The AI of the monsters is indeed terrible. That thing at the beginning just stood there while slowly being killed by Sinon xD I like Sinon though, a new interesting character. The monster simply couldn't reach her and the ai probably didn't have a script for such situation. |
ByonKunJul 12, 2014 11:51 AM
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| Shino was awesome! Sawashiro Miyuki did a great job <3 I also loved the OST in this ep! |
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