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| smh when will Kirito wake up and hug Asuna. |
 All the best people are crazy! |
| Oh no. There you go with the harem. Classic Sao. I'm so used to seeing some great, flashy fights in every Sao episode that this was kinda a let down and filler-like. 😂 Ok, now let's be serious. The first half of the episode was a heartwarming part. The second was kinda boring with all the info dump and the harem shit. Come on Sao, I'd love a love triangle over a harem any day. But I'll take it this time. Sao has impressed me a lot this season. We need to go back to plot next time. |
Biswa_29Dec 14, 2019 10:20 AM
| SAO PROGRESSIVE ANIME HYPE |
| Whenever I see that white sword, makes wish Eugeo was still in the series! I hope I will get to see Alice in the real world, because next week is obviously going to be an all out war. While the twelve episode might be an epilogue of some sort, but maybe they'll squeeze it in. I'm really how this whole series will end, especially for Alice's existence. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| How much time does Eugeo spent with Kirito? Is it longer than Asuna? |
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MonkeyDHunterDec 16, 2019 7:05 AM
Gorochu said: How much time does Eugeo spent with Kirito? Is it longer than Asuna? they spent around 2 years in Academy together so no Asuna beats him too (live everyone else) Ah the final battle Shiny Gold-Tsundere vs White Godly-Tsundere |
| well that's just my opinion..... |
| Good episode. Lots of information. So there's a mole in Rath. Too bad Asuna can't use that useful power more. So they need to win the war before Asuna can take Alice to real world. Asuna's Stacia outfit looks so pretty. <3 But her hair is too long, like when she was Titania. Asuna and Kirito meeting was so heartwarming. Poor Kirito, it's hard seeing him like this, that he can't even hug her. I can't wait for him to wake up so they can be reunited after more than 2 years (from his POV). Alice and Asuna fighting over Kirito was annoying. Especially since Alice knows nothing about Kirito because she knew him for ONE DAY. Ok, so she cared for 6 months about him, but she was like his mom LOL. She still knows nothing about him and has no right claiming him as hers. The girls trading information on Kirito at the end, that was also annoying. We saw nothing about Ronie and Kirito's senpai/sensei being romantically interested in Kirito, so what is this forced harem? And from all these girls Alice has known him the least, so she should STFU and GTFO. Only 2 more episodes! T____T And then the long wait. Hope it won't be too long. |
| Waiting for Gundam SEED Movie..... (ಥ‿ಥ) Waiting for Sailor Moon Cosmos..... o(≧▽≦)o |
Gorochu said: How much time does Eugeo spent with Kirito? Is it longer than Asuna? In the underworld Kirito grew up with Eugeo and Alice but he doesn't remember it. He only remembers the time that he goes there after getting injuried, so he was together with Eugeo for 2 years while with Alice he was one or two days before being on coma for 6 months with alice, so only her remember this part. Asuna is now 3 and half years with Kirito. |
| Even when basically being in a coma he manages to get increasingly popular Sasuga |
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| Kirito's harem went from 0 to 100 really quickly Even in a vegetable state, he gets all the girls. Good job, braindead guy. |
| Well the actions of last episode turned out to be a melodrama this episode. Made it seem like the war never started. Though the interactions between Asuna and others was worth it. Also are we gonna get a flashback now or is it moving on to the next step? |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
Darikan said: Superns18 said: Alice Stans, we here: https://imgur.com/a/QQVh58d It’s here. Finally. I’ve waited YEARS to see most of the scenes in this episode animated and was not disappointed at all. What an episode, seeing Alice and Asuna duke it out, the two getting jealous, everyone coming forward with their feelings about Kirito, phew. A-1 have spared no expense this season and have reached unlimited budget works level of sexiness. Begs the question, what does it take to push it over an 8 on MAL? The number of 5 and below reviews are shocking. If you don't like SAO at this point, you never will, just give up the hating, lol. What a week for SAO. Kirito tops top male characters of the decade list from NewType, volume 23 drops, SAO it’s top of AnimeTrending list, whew. The hate circle-jerk against SAO seems to be dying or at least getting pushback. Alicization is exploding. Accept that there are other opinions. Again, if some people don't like SAO, they can still watch and rate it. Objectively speaking, SAO is not a good series compared to others. By the way, criticism is not a hate. What and who defines what's objectively good or not? It's only your preferences that brings you to say that. You think it's not good, it's not objective, it's your opinion. When you can give an objedtive measure of what is good or what is not good, then you can say you're objective for real. In that case, we talk about an enterteining product, so how can we find the objectivity? Our opinion are based on our experience with a series which came from how much we can enjoy the show, everything here seems to me subjective. |
| YES, the one thing that was hyped for this season has finally happened. Asuna and Alice meeting each other and boy was I not disappointed. As expected Alice would go in the attack as she swore to protect Kirito. Alice's jealousy was so cute. I am honestly surprised how honest Asuna is about coming from the real world, maybe cause now there's too much at stake as to when Kirito joined the Underworld. So, the Underworld Harem is also a thing now, 4 girls going to be talking about Kirito. I better hope that gets animated or atleast part of it. |
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Darikan said: Famegher said: What and who defines what's objectively good or not? It's only your preferences that brings you to say that. You think it's not good, it's not objective, it's your opinion. When you can give an objedtive measure of what is good or what is not good, then you can say you're objective for real. In that case, we talk about an enterteining product, so how can we find the objectivity? Our opinion are based on our experience with a series which came from how much we can enjoy the show, everything here seems to me subjective. An approximation for a definition would be FMA, Death Note, Code Geass, Steins Gate, Monster ect. You could use that as a guideline. That's why I wrote "Compare to others". Important point: A harem in a series just makes it worse because it leads to a Mary Sue. Your important point is important for you, for me is a very stupid point. You use the word 'approximation' that destroy any objectivity you was trying to define. An objective thing isn't an apporximation and isn't such a personal thing like an enumeration of casual series you like. |
| Man, that sword fight sounded like someone smacking together two metal pipes. Please Japan, please, get some good sound engineers. That aside, I love the glorious "Kirito's a vegetable but still has a harem" meme. It's so damn funny. I respect the commitment to keeping Kiriito all frozen, but this harem cat fighting, my god... it's a little too "SAO" for me and kinda cringey. Though I doubt it'd not be here even if he wasn't a veggie. That code 871 and unlocked evil account stuff really needs some good explaining and justifications sooner or later cuz as of right now it seems too convenient. Those kinds of things would be really hard to miss for any development team. It'd especially be pretty hard to miss someone sabotaging things like that. Other than that, this is again pretty solid, all things considered. |
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| Oh yes, cringe and childish "fight" for Kirito's D Missed it so much Aside from that it was a good episode though |
-Aincrad-Dec 14, 2019 12:09 PM
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| Judging from som comments I was expecting more scene with Asuna and Alice but it wasn't like that. It's an interesting episode, I'm very curious of which kind of episode we'll have next week!! |
| Kirito's harem in Underworld have a gathering like in ALO. It's OK, but one of them, Liena, came of nowhere after disappeared for 2 cours is kinda disturbing. |
| By the way, Asuna is amazing with this design. I'm really excited to see her in Underworl! I can't wait to see next episode! |
| Even when Kirito is a potato, he can still make a harem. |
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| Good ol' waifu wars, that smug Alice wanting to one up Asuna was really great. |
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| Great episode! Asuna and Kirito reunion was heartwarming, and really wonderfull! Asuna and Alice fighting because Kirito was funny! So they want to change information about Kirito, even Ronie and Liene joined to that pijama party, poor Asuna, everyone wants her Kirito xD |
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biswa290701 said: Oh no. There you go with the harem. Classic Sao. I'm so used to seeing some great, flashy fights in every Sao episode that this was kinda a let down and filler-like. 😂 Ok, now let's be serious. The first half of the episode was a heartwarming part. The second was kinda boring with all the info dump and the harem shit. Come on Sao, I'd love a love triangle over a harem any day. But I'll take it this time. Sao has impressed me a lot this season. We need to go back to plot next time. I feel the same way as you do. Classic SAO. They have good premises, killer animation but then they go and do weird unnecessary stuff that makes you facepalm. You have a perfectly good triangle with two awesome female characters and then you have to shoehorn a fecking triangle into it. I hate these little SAO "let us girls sit down and rave about Kirito" group sessions. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| So the true fight of SAO Alicization will start now, an all-out battle royal for the Kirito's dick and 3.6L of "crème de Kirito" Worst episode so far, it give basically the same feeling as SAO S1. I was hoping that they will end the trashy harem parts in Alicization... |
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| Woah! Alice goes really on rampage if her closeness with Kirito is taunted... I really would like to not see her flock like the others tho |
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| That girl talk at the end... i hope it's not a set-up for another recap episode next week. JiangHaoyi1979 said: Ok, given that Asuna will take Alice to the real world, would Alice have a human form or be inside a USB storage once she reaches the real world ???? Human form would require an actual body - unless they get some braindead donor and manage to shove her in, it won't happen. It'll probably be either something like Yui, or just static USB storage at first. Then, when a suitable robot is ready, she'll become the Terminator, lol. |
| Give back my boyfriend xD... |
| Great episode, it’s very good to see Asuna in Underworld. The scene with Kirito and Asuna was wonderful. |
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| oh for next episode we getting all girls talking about past edgy kirito huh? well ok then. |
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kuroneko99 @ep3 said: In this episode, a certain extent of my question was solved. But it's not persuasive enough to seek Alice so badly. Although they need a highly developed autonomic software for AI weapons, it's too much for AI weapons to have (such a strong) will.So the main story has started in this episode after the two introductory episodes. The logic that connects the virtual/game system and real world seems smooth and persuasive. Although AI weapons today would be only targeting systems using shape recognition, the Soul Translation Technology enables machines to have ego/self-images like human. STS works as a self-image incubator with accelerated time. Although the audience understand the importance of STS like this, why Alice, only a sample of synthetic individual, is so important wasn't explained reasonably in this episode, I think. It may come from that I had been watching SAO:Alicization series as a battle entertainment avoiding to hear bothersome explanation to date. |
kuroneko99Dec 15, 2019 4:35 AM
| Let's all be honest that ending would get an entire audience laughing hard. Heck I be laughing hard on it too. XD |
Farabeuf said: biswa290701 said: Oh no. There you go with the harem. Classic Sao. I'm so used to seeing some great, flashy fights in every Sao episode that this was kinda a let down and filler-like. 😂 Ok, now let's be serious. The first half of the episode was a heartwarming part. The second was kinda boring with all the info dump and the harem shit. Come on Sao, I'd love a love triangle over a harem any day. But I'll take it this time. Sao has impressed me a lot this season. We need to go back to plot next time. I feel the same way as you do. Classic SAO. They have good premises, killer animation but then they go and do weird unnecessary stuff that makes you facepalm. You have a perfectly good triangle with two awesome female characters and then you have to shoehorn a fecking triangle into it. I hate these little SAO "let us girls sit down and rave about Kirito" group sessions. There's no "freaking triangle". Alice and Asuna are the only ones relevant characters. Those 4 characters weren't there because they love him, Ronye was there because she was his kouhai and Liena because she's his senpai, along Alice who he knew there. Those were the three people along Eugeo who's dead that Kirito mostly connected in the underworld and it was to show their connection with him. That's the literal intention of the scene but amazingly, most people can't interpret this and just throw terms like harem here and there. Which I'll repeat, none of those characters outside of Asuna and Alice have romantic feelings for Kirito. greed2 said: Stark700 said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Welp, I kinda expected this to happen someday...a destined meeting between Asuna and Alice in-game. It was just a matter of time. Sure didn't take long for them to cross swords against each other either. -Aincrad- said: Oh yes, cringe and childish "fight" for Kirito's D Missed it so much Aside from that it was a good episode though I think this is the point where Kirito should be thankful that there is a system that allows him to create "digital clones" of himself. If I was in Kirito's situation, and if my digital clones are able to understand that the anger of Waifu is worse than Self-Destruction, I think having "digital clones" satisfy each Waifu would be a good idea at this point; with the exception of Asuna, the rest of this Episode's Waifu are "digital" On the side note, Asuna is right, the REAL WORLD is ugly beyond description Every Kirito would love Asuna |
KhayalCorp88 said: Kirito's harem in Underworld have a gathering like in ALO. It's OK, but one of them, Liena, came of nowhere after disappeared for 2 cours is kinda disturbing. She didn't came out of nowhere. She appeared episodes ago in the reunion of the war. BlakexEkalb said: Asuna is worst girl confirmed. Her only purpose is to make girls flock more over to Kirito and become jealous. Cringed when they all started trying to say how much time they spent with him, lol. Please, take her back to the real world. This series is much better without her. Asuna is one of the best characters along Alice and she's here to stay, even more when Unital Ring arc happens in the anime in a decade or more. If you can't handle a minimal banter and comedic scene to the point of dislike, it's time to watch some other things. 3 seasons of this anime and there's still people like you and others who insist on watching a thing they hate, it's certainly amazing. |
The quarrel between Alice and Asuna would have been better if this kiss had happened |
| But in Kirito's eye,we all know Eugeo>all his other harem. |
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