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noyoureinsane said: This is gonna turn into a harem isn't it. Well, it was better paced then the last two episodes, still wasn't all that good. I want them to get back on track and pick up on things with Asuna and whatnot. These are side stories not even the main story lol. However they are being risky by putting side stories at the start before they start the main story. |
| Another touching episode. I hope there's one soon of just Kirito doing his thing soon though.. These touching storys of side-characters, whatever may happen to them, is nice 'n all, but I wanna see one where its full on Kirito |
MidnightPride said: noyoureinsane said: This is gonna turn into a harem isn't it. Well, it was better paced then the last two episodes, still wasn't all that good. I want them to get back on track and pick up on things with Asuna and whatnot. These are side stories not even the main story lol. However they are being risky by putting side stories at the start before they start the main story. Wouldn't it be smarter to put the side stories in maybe an OVA series? You can't deny that if this anime does well it's going to get a HUGE number of sales. The light novels have already been selling like crazy for the past two weeks. Oh well, I'll just hope that next week they move on to the main plot. |
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Rexky said: That means they have a 40 dps. That guild must be a full of scrubs. but you would need to include other factors such as kirito's defence lvl and his armors defence aswell, if they were hitting a lower level person they would obviously hit higher |
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noyoureinsane said: This is gonna turn into a harem isn't it. This had more fanservice then I would've liked. Loli? Testicles? Seriously? Well, it was better paced then the last two episodes, still wasn't all that good. I want them to get back on track and pick up on things with Asuna and whatnot. testicles????? o_O and no it doesn't turn out like a typical harem, also asuna is in the next episode |
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noyoureinsane said: MidnightPride said: noyoureinsane said: This is gonna turn into a harem isn't it. Well, it was better paced then the last two episodes, still wasn't all that good. I want them to get back on track and pick up on things with Asuna and whatnot. These are side stories not even the main story lol. However they are being risky by putting side stories at the start before they start the main story. Wouldn't it be smarter to put the side stories in maybe an OVA series? You can't deny that if this anime does well it's going to get a HUGE number of sales. The light novels have already been selling like crazy for the past two weeks. Oh well, I'll just hope that next week they move on to the main plot. I'm not saying the side stories aren't needed to be added some of them are required for the future however. The order they are doing things is causing problems for the people who haven't read it. If you brought someone who hadn't read the LN and, had them watch the first episode they would only see. Epic main intro > Random story > Random story > Random story and, they are going to know even the series is just random stories about the game or if something actually happens in it. Which is why series normally do a bit of the main story then, go into side stories so you know that theres something interesting to latch onto |
noyoureinsane said: MidnightPride said: noyoureinsane said: This is gonna turn into a harem isn't it. Well, it was better paced then the last two episodes, still wasn't all that good. I want them to get back on track and pick up on things with Asuna and whatnot. These are side stories not even the main story lol. However they are being risky by putting side stories at the start before they start the main story. Wouldn't it be smarter to put the side stories in maybe an OVA series? You can't deny that if this anime does well it's going to get a HUGE number of sales. The light novels have already been selling like crazy for the past two weeks. Oh well, I'll just hope that next week they move on to the main plot. their not necessarily side stories though, they are part of the main story and part of the timeline in SAO, they are also technically in vol.2 of the LN, aria in the starless sky (ep.2) is more of a side story because it wasn't included in the volumes and its questionable whether it happened or not because it contradicts the LN slightly, also they would need to include these arcs because these characters show up in later volumes and also because they may do an OVA of kirito's "first day", its part of the main storyline but because they have a limited number of episodes, they couldn't animate it, they also cut out parts of episode 2 and rushed ep.3 because of this, its not necessarily because of bad directing |
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 Awesome pose. Continuing the three episode trend, Silica-chan is one of the worst characters thus far. How in the world do you let your "pet" die, thats like horrible and clear sign of weakness. She couldnt even defeat the normal enemies in one hit. I hope there are better characters introduced in the future, as all she really provided was allowing us to see a more warming and touching side of Kirito, which I should be somewhat thankful for. But Kirito was just plain epic this episode. Lvl 74 with all that stuff, one hit knockouts of normal enemies advanced hearing skills, detecting hidden enemies and auto regeneration with 14k HP taking hits like they arent even anything, hes close to being in the top five protagonist of the year tier.We need more episodes like this focusing on him and his skills. |
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| This series is ridiculously entertaining but I don't have feeling I know why exactly is that so :D I welcome Kirito's badassery, and hope to see some main plot moving on! |
| Damn that chick was annoying. Bring back asuna:P |
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| He's already at level 78. That part surprised me. |
| ^ he is on the frontlines most of the time :) |
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kamikaze_1996 said: ^ he is on the frontlines most of the time :) He is on the front lines solo-ing most of the time :P |
Ajunky said: Well, that was a nice change of mood from last episode. The pace felt ok too, without having read the novels. So there really are PKs here. Mind broken players or real criminals? The_Mad_Wizard said: I'm ashamed to say I understood your reference but I really laughed.Akiyama said: POMF!? ;)(*´д｀*) Tsk tsk. LOL. |
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| I'm not sure how it's going out but I'm loving how each episode is him helping/party-ing with another person/group. Feels episodic in a way, hope it stays that way while progressing the plot/story (which it hasn't really done much yet... from what I've seen). I completely lol'd when he just stood there taking all their attacks. I bet he isn't even a tank. Lmao. |
| Waiting for the "it was rushed!" people to come in :D Btw LN Badass lvl= over 9000 Anime Badass lvl= 4500 |
HauntingShockJul 28, 2012 5:22 PM
HauntingShock said: Waiting for the "it was rushed!" people to come in :D Pretty much got it out of my system previous episode and don't really care anymore to be honest, about the progression rate of the anime. |
| i liked it, can't wait for the actual main story, is next week going to be the time skip? |
| Great episode! Didn't feel rushed at all (My only problem was the Tentacle Monsters >_>;) |
-cosmic-Jul 30, 2012 2:00 AM
| Disappointed that she didn't fall asleep in his bed as she should have. But seriously, POMF!. |
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Nichibotsu-kaeru said: i liked it, can't wait for the actual main story, is next week going to be the time skip? not much of a timeskip, just an event that comes up 3 weeks later, the main story and plot will pick up in episode 7/8 from what i can see, right now their just setting pace and introducing the characters and how the game works |
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| LOL the boys from the first episode are still alive? and they became Silica's fans? XD |
| These episodes feel sooo short! |
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Master7432 said: Rexky said: That means they have a 40 dps. That guild must be a full of scrubs. And since seven players are fighting, that's an average of 5.71 dps per person. Maybe Kirito's defense is wayyy to high? He is level 74. It depends on the scaling of the game, but if you compare it to WoW's system, I'd say it's pretty harsh. There was one time where a main city I was in was attacked by the enemy faction and were all max level. I was on my level 30 character at the time and used an AoE ability on an entire room (mostly for shits) with probably 20+ players at level 85 and only did 240 dps. SAO even has the advantage of accuracy, in WoW you'd have a very high chance to miss higher level players so much, and yet that game still gives you higher output (I wasn't even playing in a dps spec either). 30 vs 85 on WoW = roughly 12 dps on one player while in a healing spec 40 vs 78 on SAO = 5.71 dps on one player while in a combat spec Final verdict = SAO scaling is pretty ridiculous. And correct me if I'm wrong on the levels for SAO, I pretty much just random guessed it. |
| The episode aside, I don't understand that obsession about brother and sister relationship in anime. I don't know how many of you have brother and sister, but I for one I never liked my older brothers that much. I mean they were just those jackasses that think because they were older can torment you as they please. |
| I hope sometime all this random information gets really important! He's leveling really fast! XD |
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27CansOfTuna said: Awesome pose. Continuing the three episode trend, Silica-chan is one of the worst characters thus far. How in the world do you let your "pet" die, thats like horrible and clear sign of weakness. She couldnt even defeat the normal enemies in one hit. I hope there are better characters introduced in the future, as all she really provided was allowing us to see a more warming and touching side of Kirito, which I should be somewhat thankful for. But Kirito was just plain epic this episode. Lvl 74 with all that stuff, one hit knockouts of normal enemies advanced hearing skills, detecting hidden enemies and auto regeneration with 14k HP taking hits like they arent even anything, hes close to being in the top five protagonist of the year tier.We need more episodes like this focusing on him and his skills. Well about Silica she could actual solo one of those mad apes w/out a problem. It wasn't shown but they have an ability to to heal one another. She was facing three so even if she was close to killing one the other two would heal it and it would only be a losing battle of attrition. She didn't even bring pots. But yeah she even admitted she was getting ahead of herself. |
grayrain said: So... what happens in jail? After reading 16.5, seeing as how there is one girl and a bunch of guys- wait I'd better not finish that sentence. |
Paul said: grayrain said: So... what happens in jail? After reading 16.5, seeing as how there is one girl and a bunch of guys- wait I'd better not finish that sentence. Paul, their not gonna be in the same cell LOL XD they receive a sentence by the NPCs and they stay in their own cell until they finish, its not specified how long they stay in jail for but apparently the Red players who have committed murder stay in jail for years The Army are the people who usually take the criminals to jail but kirito just teleported them to black iron castle where they would take care of the rest |
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kamikaze_1996 said: Paul said: grayrain said: So... what happens in jail? After reading 16.5, seeing as how there is one girl and a bunch of guys- wait I'd better not finish that sentence. Paul, their not gonna be in the same cell LOL XD they receive a sentence by the NPCs and they stay in their own cell until they finish, its not specified how long they stay in jail for but apparently the Red players who have committed murder stay in jail for years The Army are the people who usually take the criminals to jail but kirito just teleported them to black iron castle where they would take care of the rest Ya don't forget kayaba intended for them to live in SAO not just play so if you commit a crime it's safe to say you'll pay real time. |
| cool episode really liked how over leveled kirito and his white knighting in the lower zones lol normally i hate people who do that but Death is Death in SAO so it's good he stopped the gankers. but really level 78?? and it doesn't seem like hes near the max yet reminds me of those older Asian MMOs when the cap was in the late 100s |
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| Bah. Silica is too good. Way too good. Best DFC I've seen in a long time. |
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| Great episode!! So heartwarming, and I love that the fanservice is very subtle. Oh, and Kirito is such a beast :) |
| And so we add the now madatory loli... This one dosn't piss me off as much, I may acctually grow to like this one. though I really could do without the loli fanservice. Some find it appealing, though I'm not one of them. In all seriousness though I think this episode was fairly better paced than 2 and 3 and clearly explained how the game phenomenon this time worked. I just want to hurry up and see Asuna again... |
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| they are both loli's but yuniko is more tsundere |
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| i hope we get to see Asuna soon |
| So basically, A-1 Pictures do not fucking care to those who did not read the novel. That's what I understood after watching episode two, three and four. or does A-1 Pictures thought people who didn't read the novel will understand the side stories in Volume Two with just showing the introduction in Volume One? There's a reason why did the author called it "Side Stories"... I bet the 159 people that dropped SAO had a reason like "Wtf is going on here", "What's the connection to the last episode", "Who the shit is this", "Where's the character's last episode", "I don't understand a thing". I give up. Im not expecting anything great anymore. Sure they did Animate the important parts and shit. The super rushed style is inevitable if it will only have 24 episodes. Or is it? I believe they do not need to rush things if they didn't include the side stories and focused on Volume One. At first, I thought they are animating the side stories because they wanna do the chronological order so that people will have an easier time understanding it. But they are just messing it up. So why are they even animating the side stories? I can only think of one reason. They are doing it so that they can include characters like Sachi, Silica, Liz and Yui. They thought they will get higher ratings and stuff if they show a lot of moeness. The y thought the Anime will appear a lot better if there's a bunch of cute characters in it. They are certainly right but that's just so disappointing. The fact that a production studio thinks like that sucks. I hope it doesn't get worse. Just stay like this or get better. Please. P.S: I don't have any complains in the Art and Animation department though. Dat Silica bed scene! Kirito was badass. Though there should be more action than that in the Kirito vs 10 scene. Well, nvm. |
-MgZ_Jul 28, 2012 7:20 PM
| lol when the characters call kirito as The Blackswordsman remembers me Guts... but then i wake up to reality... haha that only works on Guts... wtv This episode felt better than the previous 2 but the first remains the best by far. |
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-MgZ_ said: So basically, A-1 Pictures do not fucking care to those who did not read the novel. That's what I understood after watching episode two, three and four. or does A-1 Pictures thought people who didn't read the novel will understand the side stories in Volume Two with just showing the introduction in Volume One? There's a reason why did the author called it "Side Stories"... I bet the 159 people that dropped SAO had a reason like "Wtf is going on here", "What's the connection to the last episode", "Who the shit is this", "Where's the character's last episode", "I don't understand a thing". I give up. Im not expecting anything great anymore. Sure they did Animate the important parts and shit. The super rushed style is inevitable if it will only have 24 episodes. Or is it? I believe they do not need to rush things if they didn't include the side stories and focused on Volume One. At first, I thought they are animating the side stories because they wanna do the chronological order so that people will have an easier time understanding it. But they are just messing it up. So why are they even animating the side stories? I can only think of one reason. They are doing it so that they can include characters like Sachi, Silica, Liz and Yui. They thought they will get higher ratings and stuff if they show a lot of moeness. The y thought the Anime will appear a lot better if there's a bunch of cute characters. They are certainly right but that's just so disappointing. The fact that a production studio thinks like that sucks. I hope it don't get worse. Just stay like this or get better. Please. I completely disagree. With the exception of episode 3, each episode has been paced extremely well, transitions from scenes well, and tells the story in a fashion that is both interesting and coherent. There's no rushed feeling about it. As an anime it stands very very well. Now, if you compare it to the LN, then yeah everything is going to feel rushed. The material in the LN is long and drawn out and the anime producers opted to keep the essence/core of the story intact. If you're going to make comparison then obviously the lengthy original source material will seem better but on its own SAO anime is very well done. With the exception of 3 cuz that episode was just flat out bad. |
| Good episode, predictable but I was happy nobody died for once. I'm wondering what's up with this side story talk, and it being before the main story, but I don't really want major spoilers.. |
| The people who are dropping it most likely aren't reading the forum posts. It's been said over and, over again that what we are watching atm is side stories the main stories will come latter on. This is why I am against airing side stories before the main story but, it really looks like this anime has no real plot. If I had not read the LN I would be like "wtf is going on wheres the badass story?" So be patient with the anime and, wait for the side stories to be over. We will see more of a plot develop after that and, a good one hopefully. |
Persocom said: Good episode, predictable but I was happy nobody died for once. I'm wondering what's up with this side story talk, and it being before the main story, but I don't really want major spoilers.. Without any spoilers. The first episode was the only episode that was the main story. Everything else has been side stories found in later volumes. |
kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: I completely disagree. With the exception of episode 3, each episode has been paced extremely well, transitions from scenes well, and tells the story in a fashion that is both interesting and coherent. There's no rushed feeling about it. As an anime it stands very very well. Now, if you compare it to the LN, then yeah everything is going to feel rushed. The material in the LN is long and drawn out and the anime producers opted to keep the essence/core of the story intact. If you're going to make comparison then obviously the lengthy original source material will seem better but on its own SAO anime is very well done. With the exception of 3 cuz that episode was just flat out bad. So I am just over reacting because I'm an LN reader? I wonder.. Cuz if I view it as a non-novel reader, Im pretty sure there's a lot of things that I won't understand. Episode One and Two is okay. I think I pretty much understood what happened ( non-novel reader point of view ). But episode three and four is just.. I just think adapting the side stories in volume two without explaining things is a bad idea. |
-MgZ_ said: kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: I completely disagree. With the exception of episode 3, each episode has been paced extremely well, transitions from scenes well, and tells the story in a fashion that is both interesting and coherent. There's no rushed feeling about it. As an anime it stands very very well. Now, if you compare it to the LN, then yeah everything is going to feel rushed. The material in the LN is long and drawn out and the anime producers opted to keep the essence/core of the story intact. If you're going to make comparison then obviously the lengthy original source material will seem better but on its own SAO anime is very well done. With the exception of 3 cuz that episode was just flat out bad. So I am just over reacting because I'm an LN reader? I wonder.. Cuz if I view it as a non-novel reader, Im pretty sure there's a lot of things that I won't understand. Episode One and Two is okay. I think I pretty much understood what happened ( non-novel reader point of view ). But episode three and four is just.. I just think adapting the side stories in volume two without explaining things is a bad idea. I agree with you. If I hadn't read the LN all I would be seeing is a badass first episode and, random stories with no plot following up. It makes the anime look plotless which is a let down if you haven't read the LN since the first episode of the anime built up respect. |
-MgZ_ said: kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: I completely disagree. With the exception of episode 3, each episode has been paced extremely well, transitions from scenes well, and tells the story in a fashion that is both interesting and coherent. There's no rushed feeling about it. As an anime it stands very very well. Now, if you compare it to the LN, then yeah everything is going to feel rushed. The material in the LN is long and drawn out and the anime producers opted to keep the essence/core of the story intact. If you're going to make comparison then obviously the lengthy original source material will seem better but on its own SAO anime is very well done. With the exception of 3 cuz that episode was just flat out bad. So I am just over reacting because I'm an LN reader? I wonder.. Cuz if I view it as a non-novel reader, Im pretty sure there's a lot of things that I won't understand. Episode One and Two is okay. I think I pretty much understood what happened ( non-novel reader point of view ). But episode three and four is just.. I just think adapting the side stories in volume two without explaining things is a bad idea. I'm an LN reader too. For those that haven't read the novel they're fine with what they've seen. I don't think you should speak for other people and do sweeping generalizations. It puts a poor argument and creates fallacies. Rhetoric aside, episode one, two, and four are all good. They the core elements of the plot down. You get the sense that these are random escapades as Kirito is just trying to survive in the game. It's fine. If anything you want to compare it to it'd be DtB. That show basically had no plot progression until like the last 7 episodes. So yeah. |
-MgZ_ said: Not including Liz, Silica, Sachi and Yui would have displeased a lot of novel readers. The pacing seems to be a little issue, but other than that, they don't really detract from the series. The main problem is that they're introduced so early in the story way before the actual plot. There's nothing that can be done about it though unfortunately.So basically, A-1 Pictures do not fucking care to those who did not read the novel. That's what I understood after watching episode two, three and four. or does A-1 Pictures thought people who didn't read the novel will understand the side stories in Volume Two with just showing the introduction in Volume One? There's a reason why did the author called it "Side Stories"... I bet the 159 people that dropped SAO had a reason like "Wtf is going on here", "What's the connection to the last episode", "Who the shit is this", "Where's the character's last episode", "I don't understand a thing". I give up. Im not expecting anything great anymore. Sure they did Animate the important parts and shit. The super rushed style is inevitable if it will only have 24 episodes. Or is it? I believe they do not need to rush things if they didn't include the side stories and focused on Volume One. At first, I thought they are animating the side stories because they wanna do the chronological order so that people will have an easier time understanding it. But they are just messing it up. So why are they even animating the side stories? I can only think of one reason. They are doing it so that they can include characters like Sachi, Silica, Liz and Yui. They thought they will get higher ratings and stuff if they show a lot of moeness. The y thought the Anime will appear a lot better if there's a bunch of cute characters. They are certainly right but that's just so disappointing. The fact that a production studio thinks like that sucks. I hope it don't get worse. Just stay like this or get better. Please. P.S: I don't have any complains in the Art and Animation department though. Dat Silica bed scene! Kirito was badass. Though there should be more action than that in the Kirito vs 10 scene. Well, nvm. I doubt this will get worse. Don't keep your hopes down too low man :P |
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