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| Fight visually looked great but substance wise, it was pretty rough. This was a better looking piece of shit that original 2 SAO season were so that is worrying. The imagination shit feels too farfetched and convenient for me. Plus Kirito was as generic as he was before. Atleast the animation looked outstanding. |
| And with that, our boys have Padawans now. Great...that means we're almost getting to THAT point in content.... |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| The fact that they actually had the flower scene made me a lot more hopeful for this SAO season. The first two SAO were really a mixed bag, beginning of alicization and part of mother rosario were good but the rest were shit especially because of kirito but this scene with the flower and not making kirito win(well lets say he did not win) against the first seat is making me hopeful, kirito might not be Jesus this season and he might even get character development. Also the fact that no harem in sight yet makes it even better. I'm pretty excited to see if the quality of alicization will keep going or they'll go back to the classic SAO shitfest. Looking forward to it! |
| pretty ok ep. I guess this one really emphasized how important of a role imagination plays in Underworld. |
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Ookami-des said: Like it's one of the most generic knights stories, but somehow it's good if it's SAO. I guess that's what people like about this show, but damn it's boring. Then... why are you here if it is soo boring? xD I mean yes, even i f for you is boring you can watch it but if you are here just to complain then.. there are other animes to watch/things to do in life... |
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| Have to say didn't really like how this LN was adapted. The first one had good pacing and really set up the atmosphere, but this one felt quite rushed in classic A1-Pictures fashion, especially over how they skipped pretty much the entire part of the Zakkaria tournament thing and the importance of the flowers in identifying the bounds of the Taboo Index and stuff This season is confirmed to adapt the entirety of Alicization |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
tottobennington said: Then... why are you here if it is soo boring? xD I mean yes, even i f for you is boring you can watch it but if you are here just to complain then.. there are other animes to watch/things to do in life... For the same reason as everyone - to discuss it, and it's not complain, it's observation. As to other stuff to watch - offline part of the story is slightly interesting so I want to see how it will be helded. |
sunnykappa said: i bet there are other good shows you can be watching in this season, instead of this shit. will both save your time and energy and brain cells. Sadly that's not true - one of the worst seasons last years, barely watch 5, none of them noticeably interesting |
| An okay episode. Best replies so far. |
| Episode was iright pretty simple like if you replaced the dude kirito was fighting with the main girl of a Battle romance LN this would've been the very first fight that she declares on the MC for seeing her naked etc lol but boy i can tell they are going to abuse this power of imagination a lottttttttttttttt |
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| - The power of imagination... hmmm it reminds me of Disney :V - the one and the most important rule for SAO : Kirito undefeated |
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| Great episode as always. I thought Kirito remembered Asuna and his friend there for a Sec. It probably won't be long till he gets memory back. Volo and Liena had some samurai stance going on. Good fight 👌. |
| Another thing that make Underworld different than VRMMO is that people's imagination can affect the world itself so yeah anything can happens. Judging by the pacing, Alice will probably appears in 2 or 3 episodes. They make it pretty clear that Kirito never beat his mentor but hey I guess your made up rule still hold up somehow. |
Kaiser-chanNov 24, 2018 11:10 PM
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| So the Levantein rule is something like a placebo effect where you feel stronger simply by beating stronger opponents. I guess in terms of game experience, that kind of makes sense. I used to be afraid of Tigrex in Monster Hunter Freedom 2. After beating it the first time, it gave me the confidence to fight it some more. And then it became my favorite monster to fight against in the series. Volo has an ugly face... Well that was a disappointing fight. Just another blade lock... Kirito revives his flowers with the power of "Imagination". We're going to see some Fantasia-level shenanigans in here, aren't we? Yep, Volo vs. Liena does it again. The sakuga animation only happens when there is only one person on screen, and then the animation slows down when there are two on screen. It looks kind of funny when you see the swords being swung in first person. |
TarotistNov 25, 2018 12:30 AM
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| *thinks about Asuna* Kirito: MAH WOOD IS GETTING BIGGER! |
Otakulover209766 said: I AM WONDERING ,WHO IS SEAT 5?IS IT KIRITO OR EUGUEO It doesn't really matter, but it is Kirito. |
| For a moment I thought Kirito might actually lose this duel. Good to see him still being OP. This episode had some great light effects :o |
| Pretty good episode although not much happened if you really think about it. That duel between Kirito and Volo didn't have much substance and yet Riena called it splendid. Volo only really swung his sword 3 times. I'm interested to see what will happen in the next few episodes. So far there hasn't been any major plot developments inside Rath, so I would like to see what sort of things will fill up the 50 ~ episodes. |
Windman said: tsubasalover said: His opponent is master of sword skill using imagination. He has many people (or multiple of himself?) behind him. Main guy thinking about many people involving with him, his sword got longer. A teacher who is superior to him stopped the fight and he's free to go. His senpai is happy that he didn't give up, so being "draw" is not a problem. Celebrating with wine (wait, is main guy old enough already?). His senpai talking about her skill and her bewilderment. She decided she won't give up for the upcoming duel The two guys who doesn't seem to like main guy looking low on him and think that it was just luck. And broke the flowers he's been tending. The voice telling him not to give up. Other flowers sharing the life. The fated duel. She finally won. The two are also advanced and got two female kouhais. Their journey continues. Masochism...why bother watching something you dont like, clearly you are the minority so just stop watching it. Everything that happened in this episode was well paced and explained. The one ass-pull is further explained in vol11, probably in 3-4 episodes. I'm... I'm pretty sure that wasn't a negative comment, just a plot synopsis. |
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Leo said: A good episode. It was nice to see Kirito duel against the first seat. It seems they ignored the little scratch Kirito made to the first seat's uniform. Liena winning was also nice to see. I'm pretty sure that he had to draw blood to win, not just leave a mark. |
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| So... thinking about Asuna made Kirito's sword grow longer. Damn... as expected of SAO. |
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| Uolo: Bankai! xD A1 really putting budget for that much flashy effects for the incarnation powers, this made me look forward for the upcoming battles of incarnation. With the dead flowers, Kirito finally realized that he miss his love ones in the real world, well its 2 years in his perspective. One volume left remaining before the the next sub arc which will be the fights with the real tough guys of underworld, very much looking forward. |
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| Anticlimactic fight, complete waste of time with the stupid bullshit imagination power crap. Yeah, watching two people stand in place and anime roar while their swords glowed was so worthwhile, not! That said, I do at least like the idea of Uolo essentially being some kind of vampire, using his blade to "drain" his foes and get stronger in the process, but we don't really see any of that in the "fight" itself. The flower thing was also moronic, but at least the show gave some decent reasoning for Kirito being so upset (while at the same time completely glossing over how vandalism almost certainly violates the Taboo Index, which we've been explicitly told is impossible for the Fluctlights to do (even Alice only violated it by accident)). I like SAO a lot, but this season is taking a direction that I'm not at all fond of at late, to say the least. |
| The flashy effects for Kirito's battle with Volo looked really impressive. He did very well to match him, but the match did end a little too quickly. Those scumbag duo just had to ruin Kirito's flower bed, didn't they? I had a feeling that they would do that in the last episode, but the fact that they did that makes me want to give them a good punch in the face. Those flowers did mean so much for Kirito since, from his perspective, it's been two years since he last saw Asuna and his friends, so seeing him cry made the scene pretty sad, but the mysterious voice spoke to him, which led to the flower beds nearby to revive Kirito's flowers. =) Liena was epic, though, not only with her talk with Kirito, but also when she finally beat Volo just before she graduated. Nicely done. =) Lastly, the new disciples for Kirito and Eugeo looked really cute. I hope we see more of them in the later episodes. |
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