Sword Art Online II Episode 23 Discussion

tsubasalover said:
Is that why Kirito created that communication machine last ep. (for Yuuki to be able to talk to Asuna and be able to go to school in her coma)? Yuuki is having fun there. The house that soon to be destroyed.

bunny1ov3r said:
well-handled arc

from the title of the next eps is it implied that a third season will come out next year or 2016?

bunny1ov3r said:
well-handled arc

from the title of the next eps is it implied that a third season will come out next year or 2016?

kamijoan said:


There's already a lot of material to work on from the novels...

The chances are high :3

Danpmss said:
SAO - Aincrad
7,6/10

SAO - Fairy Tail
Doesn't exist

SAO - Phantom Bullet
8,2/10

SAO - Calibur
6,7/10

SAO - Mother's Rosario
Calculating... (so far 8,6/10)


This is what I call a nice adaptation of the source content.

vince1996 said:


You mean Fairy Dance right?

Takuan_Soho said:
Again, A-1 wields a deft touch on what could have been over drama. Yuuki's situation with her family helps Asuna to finally be able to tell her mom what she wants to accomplish out of her life and that was what her mother wanted.

This is why Asuna's mother wasn't bad, Asuna's issue was that she was stuck, she was indecisive over what to do (even to an extent with Kirito), her Mother wanted Asuna to at least be moving towards some goal, which in general is what you want your children to do.

Kudos to A-1 for giving the story credit and doing a non-action episode to highlight the story instead of jamming in some flash. In today's society, for this genre, that is hard to do, but they did it well here.

Wojtini21 said:
How many volumes of novel left? Do we have material for 3 season?

Wojtini21 said:
How many volumes of novel left? Do we have material for 3 season?

derprume said:
I like how Asuna's mother didn't notice the ring on her daughters marriage finger LOLOLOLOLOLOL

mirakodus said:
Great scene with Asuna's mother (Megumi Hayashibara rulez!). BTW it's hard to accept that they have VR on sucha a great level and she didn't try it even once before (so it seems). She should be like.. wow I've got wings, can fly and stuff ;p

CookingPriest said:
That does not excuse asuna's mother's behavior though.

Hikarusuke said:
this episode was so good it made me want to cry seeing Asuna's Mom go to the virtual world. It is as good too see her have emotions.

Takuan_Soho said:


You have it backwards, Asuna is the one who did things that needed to be excused.

If a child wants to be treated like an adult, then the child needs to show that they have the maturity of an adult. Asuna did not do this, she couldn't even take on the responsibly of showing up to dinner on time.

But Asuna is maturing, that is the strength she has learned during this series. With Kirito, with Yuuki, she has come to learn what makes her happy, what she wants. Once she learned this she was able to go to her mother and explain this, and her mother, while not agreeing, was however perfectly willing to let Asuna pursue her own path as long as she acted like an adult doing it.

So no, Asuna's mother is not controlling, pushy, but not controlling. A controlling mother would have banished her from VR, a controlling mother wouldn't have even tried to go to the VR world with Asuna, a controlling mother would have never let her daughter run off and party in the real world with a motorcycle riding riff raff. But Asuna's mother allowed all this, all she wanted though was for Asuna to show some direction, not a firm direction, but that she was at least thinking things forward and not just giving up.

It is not a good parent who lets their 22 year old college dropout son continue to live in their basement and spend all day smoking pot and flapping to internet porn. That is what Asuna's mother doesn't want from Asuna. Once Asuna finally could articulate that she DID have direction, notice that her mother backed off (but not totally, saying something is not the same as doing it, and the mother wants Asuna to do it, not just say it - another sign of a good parent).

When I said Asuna's problems were "first world", I meant it. Asuna is lucky that she HAS choices. Her parents are rich, she is attractive, she pretty much can decide on any course that she wants. In short she has options, she just needed to decide which one to take. Most of the people in this world do not have those options, nor those opportunities.

Once Asuna made up her mind, the so-called problems retreated. That is the truest measure of where the fault laid. All her mother wanted was an explanation. Asuna couldn't give one before, but having experienced Yuuki, can now.

Takuan_Soho said:


You have it backwards, Asuna is the one who did things that needed to be excused.

If a child wants to be treated like an adult, then the child needs to show that they have the maturity of an adult. Asuna did not do this, she couldn't even take on the responsibly of showing up to dinner on time.

But Asuna is maturing, that is the strength she has learned during this series. With Kirito, with Yuuki, she has come to learn what makes her happy, what she wants. Once she learned this she was able to go to her mother and explain this, and her mother, while not agreeing, was however perfectly willing to let Asuna pursue her own path as long as she acted like an adult doing it.

So no, Asuna's mother is not controlling, pushy, but not controlling. A controlling mother would have banished her from VR, a controlling mother wouldn't have even tried to go to the VR world with Asuna, a controlling mother would have never let her daughter run off and party in the real world with a motorcycle riding riff raff. But Asuna's mother allowed all this, all she wanted though was for Asuna to show some direction, not a firm direction, but that she was at least thinking things forward and not just giving up.

It is not a good parent who lets their 22 year old college dropout son continue to live in their basement and spend all day smoking pot and flapping to internet porn. That is what Asuna's mother doesn't want from Asuna. Once Asuna finally could articulate that she DID have direction, notice that her mother backed off (but not totally, saying something is not the same as doing it, and the mother wants Asuna to do it, not just say it - another sign of a good parent).

When I said Asuna's problems were "first world", I meant it. Asuna is lucky that she HAS choices. Her parents are rich, she is attractive, she pretty much can decide on any course that she wants. In short she has options, she just needed to decide which one to take. Most of the people in this world do not have those options, nor those opportunities.

Once Asuna made up her mind, the so-called problems retreated. That is the truest measure of where the fault laid. All her mother wanted was an explanation. Asuna couldn't give one before, but having experienced Yuuki, can now.

kuro-ooji said:
The real world stuff is nice. When they visted Yuuki's old house, I got really sad :P I'm still sort of on the fence about this arc. I wonder what the last episode will be like...