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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- So that guy Eugeo and Kirito ended up fighting came from an order from Alice...heh, he sure is different from the others they've encountered. Eldrie is definitely no pushover considering his experience in fighting. At least they finally managed to get those handcuffs off. About damn time. A hell a lot of info dump this episode too. |
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| His weapon is wip that can change form, and stronger than the chain. He is the winner of last year's and memory changed? Something came out of his head! That knight with armor stopping them from the memory attack. New character saved them. She doesn't introduce herself. Lots of books? Librarian? She unchained their chains. When she sent Eugeo guy to bath, she finally told main guy the truth. So she's related to the system creators. One of the four original start to think evil thought, and his descendant is the one who created the system with power and rules. She used people to build the central tower. She even used the power to return to youth when old. She also sold her own soul to devil to rule the world forever. New "chapter" next (ep.13 airing on January 5). https://moca-news.net/article/20181223/2018122300300a_/01/ |
tsubasaloverDec 22, 2018 7:43 AM
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| so thats the backstory for the Taboo Index its for Quinella/Administrator to rule Underworld forever eh |
| Interesting episode. Despite facing an integrity knight Kirito's and Eugeo's courage at choosing to stand against him was impressive. The power of imagination once more impressed me. The fight between Kirito/Eugeo and Eldrie though was impressive both in terms of Eldrie's might but also in Kirito's unconventional tactics as well. But the fight sure ended in a most surprising fashion. Cardinal's rescue sure came timely. Her tale about how the world was created sure was insightful as was the insight in Quinella's origins. Even from an early age seems Administrator was one that was driven to find knowledge it seems. To think that her search managed to not only net her the whole command list but also become a visual god as well. Ok and thats v11 wrapped up nicely. |
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Morag_23 said: Both have the same voice actress. More evident when Cardinal says the same "umu", lmao.Is this only me, or Cardinal's voice is the same as Nero "Umu" Claudius? Quinella is voiced by Maaya Sakamoto, btw. |
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| Good episode again. So it looks like the integrity knights are people who've had their original memories locked out and been made to believe that they are 'special' with a duty to perform. The fight against the Integrity knight was cool but the parts with the knights slowly remembering who he was with Eugeo was definitely the more interesting part to me. The Cardinal System, interesting. UMU! UMU!! All we need now is PADORU PADORU! XD Anyway, that was a pretty info heavy second half. We got the backstory of how the original humans are technically considered God, this part about how one of them passed down 'selfish' traits seems strange to me. Assuming the original Taboo Index was a code of ethics, how was he able to pass down unethical traits down into his successors? I guess it was more of a 'hint' rather than a 'rule' at that point since it looks like the rules were only made later. The story of the administrator was quite cool in my opinion if you think about it as a story in terms of Machine learning. For the Fluctlight to develop the desire to discover and learn new things in this case the console of the underworld was quite cool, too bad it was fueled by the desire to rule. I guess that was combined with the rule of order preservation in the Cardinal system to make her what she is now. Looking forward to more next week. |
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| Not a bad episode. The fight against Eldrie was pretty cool. The second half was quite interesting. |
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| The parts where we get informations are honestly the most interesting ones. On that note, pretty good episode. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| A great episode.. Finally they showed one of my fav characters from Alicization, tho she's the bad girl |
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| They really are flying through this arc at light speed. Where it usually takes them 14 episodes to adapt 2 books, they're into the 4th book in 12 episodes. Surprisingly, they haven't skipped much so far. Hopefully they won't skip Kirito's talk with Cardinal, which, while it was the length of an entire book put together, is very important. |
| UMU is back, baby! Aah, that alone made this episode much more enjoyable |
| Quite enjoyed this one. It kinda reminded me of Log Horizon's backstory with the admins being part of the myths in the VR world. |
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Morag_23 said: Is this only me, or Cardinal's voice is the same as Nero "Umu" Claudius? Not just you, I instantly recognized her voice simply by the "umu". Now lets hope she won't say it too often, otherwise we'll need an Umu counter again XD |
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| It seems the world was hijacked by a NPC and nobody from outside figured it out? Does it even have an outside puppetmaster? For what? Based on the Cardinal story, it will be hard to imagine one bad guy from outside fooling the entire staff of scientists controlling the system... ... or we are heading for a total conspiracy that the entire staff knows, with the exception of Asuna and Kirito, which will be the worst case for the storyline and cringeworthy |
AdrianRubinskyDec 22, 2018 10:46 AM
Lelouch0202 said: Good episode again. So it looks like the integrity knights are people who've had their original memories locked out and been made to believe that they are 'special' with a duty to perform. The fight against the Integrity knight was cool but the parts with the knights slowly remembering who he was with Eugeo was definitely the more interesting part to me. The Cardinal System, interesting. UMU! UMU!! All we need now is PADORU PADORU! XD Anyway, that was a pretty info heavy second half. We got the backstory of how the original humans are technically considered God, this part about how one of them passed down 'selfish' traits seems strange to me. Assuming the original Taboo Index was a code of ethics, how was he able to pass down unethical traits down into his successors? I guess it was more of a 'hint' rather than a 'rule' at that point since it looks like the rules were only made later. The story of the administrator was quite cool in my opinion if you think about it as a story in terms of Machine learning. For the Fluctlight to develop the desire to discover and learn new things in this case the console of the underworld was quite cool, too bad it was fueled by the desire to rule. I guess that was combined with the rule of order preservation in the Cardinal system to make her what she is now. Looking forward to more next week. Quinella made the taboo index, not the bad apple of Rath. But his tendency were transferred to his ancestors and Quinella was one of them, which then she discovered that she could level up on her authority level and then she hacked the entire system. She also made the rules about killing animals and humans to make that no one would be able to surpass her level. And then as a administrator, she made those rules part of the world in that in a normal situation no one can break them as they're paralyzed before. |
brzzcodeDec 22, 2018 11:10 AM
| Quinella is hot and evil, super combination. |
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| That fight at the start was pretty good, to think Kirito was able to hurt that guy with a chain. Seems these "Synthesis knights" have their brains washed. Same goes for Alice in this case. Kirito and Eugeo seemed to be able to bring back Eldrie's memories, for a short time before being interupted by the mysterious red armoured guy. The talk with Cardinal was quite the infomation dump (I will prob rewatch this to get a better grasp of it)... Also... Bring back the UMU Meme! |
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| idk but this ep really made me irritated. most likely the worst ep to date. (to me at least) i could go into details why but like to much of a pain to write fully. |
| A very info-heavy episode, but there were a lot of interesting revelations. I might go back and rewatch this episode to make sure I fully understand everything. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. |
| The underworld runs with japanese as common language and english as system language. This is why I recommend watching this particular anime in sub instead of waiting for dub for dub watchers. It is hard to imagine how they are going to explain it in dub when everything is in english. |
| So if 4 humans raised 8 baby "souls" or fluctlights or whatever they're called, are the kids of those also souls/fluctlights of real kids or are they just pure AIs? |
| No episode next week, if anyone curious. |
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| Good Episode! So they really fight with chains, Eldrie used a whip, Eldrie had to use their ocult power, named Release recollection to beat Kirito and Eogeo, interesting when Eogeo rembered him about her memories and he was confused and shocked, so Alice had a purple cube hiding her memories! We meet Cardinal that saved Kirito and Eogeo from the secong knight trying to kill them! I am satisfied with that amount of information we received, now we know how theiy create that world and the origins of Tabu Codex! Sadly we didn't saw Alice this episode! |
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| Great episode. With action and exposition about the origin of taboo index. The appearance of Cardinal and backstory of the Administrator. They give us insight of how the underworld is today. The fight was short but it was fantastic, we see the little power of integrity knight. And sneek peek of release recollection. Overall its a great episode, no episode next week. The next episode is on jan 5 the last chapter of book. And the new book or start of second cour is on jan 12. |
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| Nice episode overall loved the way the drew out that stuff of that 31 knight head. |
| Oh boy can't wait for the glorious sakuga fest in the coming episodes Also lol at Kirito (before he ate) just casually having a conversation even though his stomach had been slashed and he had an arrow to his foot Mattinator95 said: Well it's episode 12 out of 48/50 2nd cour looks like it's where it will pick up a bit Epiosde 13 will be the end of the first chapter on the 5th and the 2nd will start on the 12th January ( but some are saying there isn't a episode till 12th Jan ) Anyways that answers how kitro could wield the sword after the goblin fight sort and most likely be a party thing included as well which is why egueo could use it two . And why no one els in the underworld could easily level up the authority is becouse hunting and killing increases it and well so it what outlawed Intresting . Remmber kitro spent 1.5 years in the underworld at a academy so of course he's gonna know a few system commands/magic I was thinking it was gonna be ~50ish episodes at first, but given the pace, I'm thinking it might be around ~27ish episodes. A lot of the segments after this whole administrator conflict and a bit after are mostly just fighting, which may or may not be animated quickly depending on A1 Kirasaya said: Hmm interesting, what stuck out the most for me in this episode, is the mentioning of the 2 super accounts wich can be used from the outside world and have godlike authority. That gives Asuna a way to enter the game. Not just Asuna my friend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
Short_CircutDec 22, 2018 1:34 PM
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| I liked the episode because it gave me answers to things that I critiqued during the early episodes. It was clever and left me satisfied. It baffles me how this is SAO, because this feels like a completely different show somehow, which is not a bad thing |
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| That was a great episode. Loved to see the backstory of the Underworld, Taboo Index and the rules which was revealed to be Quinella. |
| moment i realized who was voicing Cardinal was like "wish she'd say umu" and bam best part of the episode for me was decent backstory didn't think we'd see the "ruler" of the Sim so soon. |
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| Taboo Index has an interesting backstory. I am surprised I was able to keep my suspension of disbelief. I hope the administrator doesn't become a part of Kirito's harem. She should just become old again and accept her death. One of the four people that had logged in were evil. Seriously? Only one of the people from Rath was evil? lol. I love rooms filled with books. The smell is so relaxing that it makes me buy more books than I will ever read. |
FuMomo-kun said: Relax dude she wont. Kirito, Eugeo and Alice will fight her in the final battleTaboo Index has an interesting backstory. I am surprised I was able to keep my suspension of disbelief. I hope the administrator doesn't become a part of Kirito's harem. She should just become old again and accept her death. One of the four people that had logged in were evil. Seriously? Only one of the people from Rath was evil? lol. I love rooms filled with books. The smell is so relaxing that it makes me buy more books than I will ever read. |
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zalapeno said: dont mind hes just joking. But i see what you did there.FuMomo-kun said: Relax dude she wont. Kirito, Eugeo and Alice will fight her in the final battleTaboo Index has an interesting backstory. I am surprised I was able to keep my suspension of disbelief. I hope the administrator doesn't become a part of Kirito's harem. She should just become old again and accept her death. One of the four people that had logged in were evil. Seriously? Only one of the people from Rath was evil? lol. I love rooms filled with books. The smell is so relaxing that it makes me buy more books than I will ever read. |
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| This episode was just an exposition dump to introduce the [supposed] main villain, who at this time isnt even relevant yet. |
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| ''Administrator''? That a bold choice for a name. More like a mod you mean. |
| That Quinella sure has a beautiful and unique name, I really love it! So she's the Administrator in that world, wow! She was awesome, although I think she's the antagonist of the series. She even created the Taboo index, but I wonder who really she is? I'm really loving the story right now, especially the way it uncovers the mystery of that world. Great episode, |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| Is the administrator on a level with the god? Was Quinella originally a human from the real world like Kirito? |
Mattinator95 said: Maybe, okay I'll watch it again.Shirokuza said: Is the administrator on a level with the god? Was Quinella originally a human from the real world like Kirito? Did you miss the part where she was born in the underworld |
| Cardinal's VA is pretty good. So we got an info-packed episode, main villian(?) Quinella is pretty crooked at a young age killing baby foxes to level up. I hope she stays that way |
Stay in yesterday 時を止めて |
| Yeap, pretty much called it last time. Kirito and Eugeo got beat in the fight and The Church was the one behind missing memories and created the taboo index to keep everyone in check from ever reaching higher power. I wonder how they're gonna deal with what basically is a Goddess of the world. Maybe Kirito is gonna to learn all the commands? if not, the only way is by outside help. Good info, ep. on the lore of the taboo index. (*・‿・)ノ⌒*:･ﾟ✧ |
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