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| Well folks, it's over. I guess Yui hacks helped Kirito in the end? (similar distortion) Looks like Asuna also got credit for clearing the game. Smoke-poof = logout? Kayaba isn't dead then... SAO: 8/10 For the nice action adventure, but mainly for the stellar romance between Kirito and Asuna. IT'S OVER, THERE IS NOTHING AFTER THIS!! Oh, if only that were true... |
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| That was surprising. I was pretty sure Kazuto would lose,but then someone uses that revial item or something like that. Fortunately they addressed why everyone isn't starved to death by now. I guess this is the point where the anime gets much worse. It was good so far,but what's the point in continuing after this episode? |
| You know this episode would have been a pretty good ending. I might just stop here or watch one more episode. I don't give a fack about fairies, or a nerfed Asuna aka badass turned damsel in distress. MADrag0n said: Also now that their out of the game the second arc will start which I've heard is the bad part of the show. THE FIRST HALF WAS BAD! LIKE REALLY BAD! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE SECOND HALF?!! Hahaha that's the question I've been asking the whole time while watching this. I should have dropped this long ago >_> |
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| Well that resolved the boss battle pretty quickly. DAMN! Didn't see that plot twist coming, now who's going to win?... ASUNA WHAT THE FUCK OH MY GOD THEY'RE BOTH DEAD NO What a relief, the creator must have rigged it so Kirito (and I pray to god Asuna) wouldn't end up dying... He did say "congratulations on clearing the game" after all. I really hope Kirito meets Asuna (and Klein and the blacksmith) again in the real world. Though considering the show is called SAO, I'm a bit confused as to why they would resolve the entire SAO story in the first 14 episodes of a 25 episode run of the first season (and then have a second season). Seems a bit strange but I'm not complaining because I actually liked the first half. I'd say maybe an 8.5/10 |
jdimaria3Dec 6, 2014 5:04 PM
| So we still have 11 episodes to go and they already cleared the game, didn't expect that. Next episode is "Return", does that mean they'll enter that world again? Oo |
| Been a while since I last watched this, so I can't remember what I thought previously; but that really was a pathetic "win". Losing a fight, having someone else die to protect you, letting yourself get stabbed and die, then your opponent taking pity on you and letting you stab him. And they still call Kirito a "hero", afterwards. The romance between Asuna and Kirito is completely forced. The story would be better without it. Strange, I remember this being [i[much[/i] better the last couple of times I watched it. Maybe I've watched it too many times and am more critical since nothing takes me by surprise. Maybe I've just gotten grumpier and less please-able in general. It's a shame, I loved this so much the last time I watched it. |
| Wtf...I have no idea where this is headed except for him to find Asuna in the real world. |
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| A really enjoyable episode, but that is not saying much considering it was the only episode of SAO I have truly enjoyed. The concept is great, but the series has been mediocre at best.... Boring episodes, plotlines going nowhere, bland and one-dimensional characters, forced comedy, etc. I have yet the second part to watch, and I'm curious as to what is going to happen to Kirito and Asuna, but I doubt there's another episode as good as this one (and the vaillain which was the most interesting character/twist of SAO seems to be gone). |
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| Yeah this proves Kirito is immortal and deserves the title of "Jesus" -.- 3/10 so far but with SAO you never know, might be the first serious anime that drops below that rating... |
MrSideliner said: Yeah this proves Kirito is immortal and deserves the title of "Jesus" -.- 3/10 so far but with SAO you never know, might be the first serious anime that drops below that rating... I hat to tell you that, but that was the good part of the anime. Even many people that liked the first arc have big problems with the second one. |
Szadek23 said: MrSideliner said: Yeah this proves Kirito is immortal and deserves the title of "Jesus" -.- 3/10 so far but with SAO you never know, might be the first serious anime that drops below that rating... I hat to tell you that, but that was the good part of the anime. Even many people that liked the first arc have big problems with the second one. Say it ain't so... O.O |
| Really enjoyed this episode and the conclusion to a really nice arc. Well wonder what the next arc is about (let's hope I don't regret my words...). |
| The fuck? They Alive because they killed Final boss on 3/4 of full tower?:D |
| Um, okay... he won, but... there's 11 more episodes, not to mention a second series. Good ending, but.. whaaaaa? ^what? |
| Omne Solum Forti Patria |
| What the heck? This episode just ruined the potential of the Aincrad arc. Heck this arc could've easily been 25 episodes long with a bit more detail and no forced romance but nooo, the fuckers had to end it early with an insanely boring boss fight. RIP SAO's only good arc. I have seriously no idea what's coming now that there are STILL 11 episodes left. I've heard that the second arc is actually WORSE than the first one, which is only possible with SAO. You just know that they can ruin everything they have built themselves. Seriously who the fuck wrote this shit? A Bag of baby turds perhaps? I'll be grinding my teeth and watching the rest too. Onward To Glory!! |
Fate-SymphonyJan 3, 2016 9:13 AM
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| This anime surprises my every time!! Really love how its going, cant take my eyes of it and not even start writing, write between the ending song 😂just 1 minute barely 😂, dear god im so exited !! FEEELL THE RUCH, WHY SO MANY COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS! |
| cause MAL is doing there job for once. |
Riiiiight because Kirito is the ONLY MC that doesn't die when he is killed. Also, Jesus never murdered people. Goku from DBZ has more in common with Jesus than Kirito does. Lol get over yourself. |
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| I was quite surprised (and emotional) with this episode...I know that SAO has a history of exciting plot twists, but this just took it to a whole new level. Hopefully the next episode will explain some of the things left ambiguous at the end. |
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| Wow totally caught me off guard. Didn't expected them to finish the game so soon. Final battle was also tame nothing spectacular. Lets see what will happen to our players since now they have returned to the real world :) |
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| Damn, after 2 years. Will Kiritu never be able to go to the virtual world or meet Asuna irl again ? :| |
| That was easily the most retarted episode so far. The fight was super anticlimatic, Kirito reviving himself was the biggest asspull ever and the villain was so terribly written... Why do people like this show again? 1/10 |
| Up until the fighting with Heathcliff, i was saying this was a great episode. But when the bullshit illogical stuff started i changed my mind. That twist was nice, but they ruined it by breaking their own rules lol. bad writing. I guess the first arc is now finished. Can't say i look forward for the second if it is considered worse than this, because even this one isn't good. |
| I just binge watched this anime so far and with all the negative reputation it gets from the haters on Mal I had actually no expectations to this. Turned out great. I really dont see where all this hate comes from? Sure they could have been some things made different, but I was highly enjoyable to me. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| they are so cute together <3 really a sweet couple *.* but i did not expect that huge plot twist |
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| Wow, they actually tried to flesh out the villain in only a few minutes. MASTERFULLY-WRITTEN |
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| It's probably been asked before, but... How the hell did Kirito and Asuna survive? |
The final battle is so epic and amazing like everybody defeat The Skull Reaper and Kirito defeat Heathcliff. Kirito and Heathcliff HP are both zero, but fortunately that Kirito finished the SAO game mission. Finally, Kirito and Asuna kiss is amazing and touching. I loved this episode. Edit: I rated first 14 episode (Aincrad Part) 10.75/10 scores, but the next episode is about Sugou Nobuyuki is how to doing despicable behavior in this anime how bad correct the SAO game progress. The next episode is really bad/terrible (2nd part) for me. I can't wait for watching the Fairy Dance Part. |
Chi_Ho_LauMar 19, 2017 12:54 AM
| WFT Estou tentando entender esse ep até agora... ele morre mas sobrevive???????? |
| o(≧o≦)o Kimi o miteru to itsu mo HAATO DOKI DOKI ｡｡ Yureru omoi wa MASHUMARO mitai ni fuwa fuwa (✪㉨✪) リラックマ☆コリラックマ |
| How do parents know they can't take off the helmets? Oo |
| o(≧o≦)o Kimi o miteru to itsu mo HAATO DOKI DOKI ｡｡ Yureru omoi wa MASHUMARO mitai ni fuwa fuwa (✪㉨✪) リラックマ☆コリラックマ |
| So the guild chief was Kayaba all along, well the fight against him was nicely executed, his build up and revelation on the other hand not. Kirito and Asunas "farewell" was a little feelzy, but I don't get why they not just change their adress, numbers or something else :D Well, whatever as a whole the first arc was pretty good, had some negative aspects, but overall more pluss. |
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| I wonder what the second season is for. |
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| This episode. This series. This anime is an eyesore. Disappear. This anime. This anime. This anime. This anime. This anime. This anime. There is a lot to talk about this episode, but I feel nothing in it really matters as much as the final moments of Aincrad, where Kayaba finally spills the beans. And it is something. I expected the most smug, arrogant speech I've ever seen in anime considering SAO's treatment of his villains, but nothing prepared me for the following lines, that are not paraphrased at all. Kirito:"Why did you do this?" Kayaba:"I forgot."  Dude, you set up an entire 100-floor VRMMO world for these characters to live in, and even dictated the narrative yourself from the front lines, but you don’t actually have any thoughts prepared for the ending? Like, this is your actual speech? What the hell is that stuff about a castle in the sky that you can’t reach it? Are you Griffith and this is your ascension to Femto? Or this is all a convoluted metaphor about why we all play videogames now? Or is the writer trying to redeem a guy who killed thousands of people, and failing at it? And after he had his speech he just diappears in a fart. And that's it. I'm dumbfounded. Kayaba took hostage 10000 people and murdered 4000 of them. He doesn't get to walk away triumphantly after spouting three lines of nonsense. Bring back Kuradeel, seriously. The guy killed far less people in his short stint in the story, but he actually had some motivation, granted it was just "I kill people because I'm so EEEEEEEVIL", but it's still something compared to the nothing that is Kayaba. Now that I'm thinking about it, is this Kawahara giving up? Cause it feels like the author got at this exact point and just realized that he had no plan, no idea on how to frame the villain and his motivation, and just had to bullshit a way out of this. He took a deep breath and said:"Fuck it. Kayaba is mysterious and unknowable, therefore nobody can really know his motive for creating Aincrad." And as a result we have an ending that fails on every possible level. On a narrative level, it fails to bring together all the final plot elements and instead decides to solve everything with a deus ex machina that reinforces Kirito's Mary Sueness. On a character level, we ended this arc with Asuna at pretty much her worst point so far (“my life has no meaning without Kirito”), Kirito remaining his overpowered shonen hero self, and our villain ultimately… not knowing why he did any of this? I dunno, this show doesn’t really have character arcs outside of that one Asuna dictated to the audience. On a thematic level, what the fuck. We actually had a theme going there, what with the “learning to embrace the validity of digital experiences” stuff that kept cropping up even in the vignettes. And then, at the end, how does this resolve? Kirito just wills himself to not die in order to beat the bad guy, Kayaba has a completely unrelated speech about castles in the sky, and then curtain roll. This was the episode that made me realize how bad this anime is. Not because it’s dumb. Not because it’s terrible. Not because it’s cheap and lazy. Even though it's all of those things, it broke me because it’s insultingly transparent. The biggest, and arguably only, question of the story, “why does SAO exist?”, is answered with an implicit “to give Kirito something to do”. Kayaba could have just as easily been replaced with the technobabble from a Holodeck episode of Star Trek, or Zordon from Power Rangers, and nothing would have changed. It’s like the author himself forgot the theme the show was building towards, or just wasn’t actually aware of it in the first place. Say what you will about anime like Naruto or Bleach, at least those have the decency to pretend to actually be about something. This show only deserves a 1/10. |
Arashi89Jan 15, 2018 8:30 AM
Arashi89 said: This episode. This series. This anime is an eyesore. Disappear. This anime. This anime. This anime. This anime. This anime. This anime. There is a lot to talk about this episode, but I feel nothing in it really matters as much as the final moments of Aincrad, where Kayaba finally spills the beans. And it is something. I expected the most smug, arrogant speech I've ever seen in anime considering SAO's treatment of his villains, but nothing prepared me for the following lines, that are not paraphrased at all. Kirito:"Why did you do this?" Kayaba:"I forgot." Dude, you set up an entire 100-floor VRMMO world for these characters to live in, and even dictated the narrative yourself from the front lines, but you don’t actually have any thoughts prepared for the ending? Like, this is your actual speech? What the hell is that stuff about a castle in the sky that you can’t reach it? Are you Griffith and this is your ascension to Femto? Or this is all a convoluted metaphor about why we all play videogames now? Or is the writer trying to redeem a guy who killed thousands of people, and failing at it? And after he had his speech he just diappears in a fart. And that's it. I'm dumbfounded. Kayaba took hostage 10000 people and murdered 4000 of them. He doesn't get to walk away triumphantly after spouting three lines of nonsense. Bring back Kuradeel, seriously. The guy killed far less people in his short stint in the story, and he actually had some motivation, granted it was just "I kill people because I'm so EEEEEEEVIL", but it's still something compared to the nothing that is Kayaba. Now that I'm thinking about it, is this Kawahara giving up? Cause it feels like the author got at this exact point and just realized that he had no plan, no idea on how to frame the villain and his motivation, and just had to bullshit a way out of this. He took a deep breath and said:"Fuck it. Kayaba is mysterious and unknowable, therefore nobody can really know his motive for creating Aincrad." This was the episode that made me realize how bad this anime is. Not because it’s dumb. Not because it’s terrible. Not because it’s cheap and lazy. Even though it's all of those things, it broke me because it’s insultingly transparent. The biggest, and arguably only, question of the story, “why does SAO exist?”, is answered with an implicit “to give Kirito something to do”. Kayaba could have just as easily been replaced with the technobabble from a Holodeck episode of Star Trek, or Zordon from Power Ranger, and nothing would have changed. It’s like the author himself forgot the theme the show was building towards, or just wasn’t actually aware of it in the first place. Say what you will about anime like Naruto or Bleach, at least those have the decency to pretend to actually be about something. This show only deserves a 1/10. I'm just going to say that Kayaba plays a roll later in the series. The reason behind trapping everyone in SAO could be something far into the future which will be explained in a future light novel. Who knows. From what I'm seeing with SAO and Accel World and the 20 year difference between the two growing smaller and smaller it's not to unlikely that it all fits into one large story. |
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| This felt too rushed, in my opinion, but I guess there wasn't much source material they had to go off in the last boss fight. It was just irritating how they revealed Kayaba and before the revelation could sink in he was already fighting against Kirito - or Kiragaya Kazuto. It was an interesting and captivating fight sequence, so I'm not too disappointed, but I do wonder what will unfold now that Kazuto is back in the real world. His ability to stand up after 2+ years of being kept alive in a hospital after gaining consciousness was unnatural, but whatever keeps the plot moving, I guess. I am anticipating the next episode regardless! |
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| If I had to summarize this whole episode into a single word it would be for sure: bullshit! Seriously, starting with the mystery that no one could ever guess based on the hints given and then, Asuna dies, but not for real. Why? Because she's different from everyone else, she's the protagonist's main pussy and thus can't die like everyone fucking else! Kirito is not badass, he's just plot-armed beyond reason and Asuna saved him getting out of paralysis what doesn't make any sense by the way. How are they planning to deliver an emotional punch with such a contrived plot!? I'm seriously thinking about dropping this show, I don't believe it has more to offer than what it did until this point. Pathetically written. 1/5 |
| Huh, now I'm intrigued about what's left for the next 11 episodes. They're probably enter another game or something like that after reuniting in the real world. Still waiting for the killing guild to appear again. |
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