Jan 1, 2014
Ya there!
This is my first time reviewing and the scoring is personal. So it's not surprising if your score with mine is different. By the way my english is not that good either so I hope you understand that. Well, whatever..
So here it goes!
SAO(aka Sword Art Online) one of the most loved and hated at the same times in 2012 era. With that being said, SAO is actually not that bad or at least not as bad as the haters said, BUT SAO is without a doubt is not as great as people said either.
Why?
Let's talk about it here.
-STORY- (6)
We have our main character(Kirigaya
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Kazuto aka Kirito) one of the few beta tester(which is not really important soon) play and then trapped in a game called SAO. And then the game creator said that the player must clear the 100th floor and defeat the final boss on the game to survive, with dying on the game lead you to death in the real world.
The concept of the story is great and the potential for this anime to be a great and unique anime is huge, but the execution of it for the rest of the episodes is bad. The most disappointed part of the story(for me) is that the author is not making use of the concept effectively, instead the author end up make a cheap romance relationship with a few shown development.
But I believe it's totally decent for most viewers. It's not great doesn't mean it's bad.
So give it a try folks.
-ART-(7.6)
I don't find the art unique, it's great and the animation is fluid but that's all. Most anime nowadays is better or as good as SAO.
Though with that being said the art fit the anime greatly.
-SOUND-(7)
As for the Sound, I just personally don't like the OP and ED so I give it 7.
It's OST is great though, as you can expect from Yuki Kajiura.
I don't know many voice actor but they're doing good.
It's probably 8 for most people.
-CHARACTERS-(4)
This is the worst part of SAO for me. I'm quite sensitive when it's about character development, so it won't be surprising if I 'kind-of-insult' it a bit.
I don't understand for people who's saying that SAO's character is deep. The story is rushing too much at some point, so there's no space for character development. All we know is that:
Kirito go help many people.
Kirito Lvl up without any process.
Kirito got the ideal girl(and harem) easily.
Most female characters fall for Kirito without any realistic reason.
I'll begin with our MC first.
Kirito's development is the most poor one. He's like totally created to be the ideal form of guy without any process, and that's the worst way to use main character effectively.
Asuna's development is poor too. At first she's a cool solo beautiful female character, but end up becoming a 'easy to get' girl and totally weak character, and again it's happening because lack of character development. what a let down.
I personally find Suguha(2nd arc)'s development is the most decent one. but again with a few development close to none Suguha's arc(ALO) is looks so stupid to me.
As for the other characters. Most of them show in each episode related to them and then thrown as if their purpose is to show how badass Kirito is.
So I end up don't remember the other characters anymore.
That should've been a strong prove enough to show that SAO's character development is poor here.
-ENJOYMENT-(5)
I personally don't enjoy SAO.
But I think SAO's quite enjoyable actually, only if you don't think the depth of it that is.
-OVERALL-(6.4)
SAO's not that bad, actually it's good. It's just disappointing that a great potential anime is poorly written.
So, there're few problems why SAO is disappointing for me:
It's concept is great but not used effectively.
The character development(again) is so poor.
The Author is throwing too many female character that was end up fall for Kirito which leads to harem-ish condition.
If you seek a easy to understand and not so in depth story with a great animation. SAO's a good choice without a doubt.
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So,I believe it's not hurt for you people to give it a try.
it's worth watching.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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