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*The following review may containg few minor spoilers*

This show is a parody, isn't? No??? What a shame...

Really, after watching the 4th episode I was wondering about that, because Maple is literally the infamous Mary Sue.
A complete noob doing what nobody else tries to do in a game, collecting rare skills as it was leaves falling in the autumm, obtaining the skills that luckly are the one that she needs most in the moment. Her "luck" is so uncanny that even the developers are surprised.

Another point that is affected by this is the plot. Until now there is only exploring, but with no real steaks. ... We can see little effort coming from her, no loses, she can defeat any monster, levels up battling few of them, so there is no griding, winning pvp just by keep her shild standing, obtaing any needed item. Why should i root for her if I already know that she will win in the last minute with a convinient plot device?

But i have to be honest, maybe she is not the only one with the "luck", her best friend, Sally, is the other one player with it. Well, talking about her would be repeating what i said about Maple, so for short, both have the "luck", but Maple shows it in more episodes.

If you are seeking for the "Cute girls doing cute things" aspect, well, there is few of them. To be honest the only moe aspect of the show is their design, what they do are not cute things at all.

To finish this quick review, if you enjoy rpg and want to see the anime, don't do it. This anime is a slap in the face of every rpg gamer. If you are seeking for CGDCT, you should what other shows, as i said earlier, the show is not about doing cute things. And if you have literally nothing better to see, what i doubt it, watch and want to see absurd things, this anime is ok for you.

When i knew that a SAO spin-off was coming, i was very exciting. I didn't need to wait until Alicization to see that world again, one of my hyped animes of te season, but...

The half of the series prove me wrong. GGO is awful.

Let's start with some conveniences, like Pito is Elza... WTF??? the "idol" of hers happens to be the main villian (what are the odds to this really happening)... For what??? To make a cliché plot twist that was hinted since the beginning??? Also the littles kids that she always is jealous of (another bs that i talk later) are for some convenient ... plot development/weak plot twist her first foes in the tournament... That is what i call poor writing, everything was very explicit and forced to make the "epic" reveal that evryone already guessed.

About the characters, everyone is poor developed. Even Llenn, with her "anykind of complex that the main character have cliché", really that girl is very empty by the fact that she doesn't accept herself beacuse of others' opinion (if she was a high schooler i would understand, but COME ON shes's a INDEPENDENT ADULT). Also this complex is bs, sure that are a lot of ppl that bully or isolate others because of height, but she isn't in school anymore, she is cute and pretty, are you telling me that no one tried to get close, also as i said there are ppl that care, but there are those who don't dive a s*** about it, see her best friend, there aren't any other like her???? Also what about her family??? No one can confort her or teach that looks doens't matters at all??

She also have the "no friends complex" and later her supportive best friend appears, COME ON!!! It's pathetic seeing this in animes, characters complaining that have no friends and seconds later their longtime buddies appears...

It's ridiculous that the fact that her avatar being small makes her OP, she's a noob that became one of the best in less than 1 year, pretty ridiculous, and the fact that no other competitive player is like her, i mean, not even one tried to make a avatar like that, not even other tiny avatar appeared until her friend, too convinient.

Pito, as i said, is the psycophatic loli singer that Karen loves... awe...
Little girls with the reverse of main protagonist's complex cliché...
M for masochist... Also fat guy that loses weight because of some futile girl cliché...
Hyperactive cliché best friend...

Ok, let's see the plot... first episodes just explanatory story of how llenn won jam... later is a SAO rip-off of real life ppl being harmed by what happens in the game... this makes me believe that the producers wanted to make a spin-off with Kirito, but as it is a spin-off, decided to put much more fan service...

About fan service... this show gives everything that pervs likes, lolis, hotties and yuri... If i wanted to see these kind of things i'd rather being watching other genre of anime, not fiction/action...
Not to mention the forced and non-sense easter eggs to makes blind fans never forget that the show is in SAO universe.

But there are good thing too. The action was what made me going so far in this series, it's clever and exciting, one point to the animators. The opening is pretty good, Eir Aoi made a catchy song that fits pretty well the theme, the OST is not outstanding, but it's decent. The voice acting is very good, nothing to say about.

In the end the show was bad, plot not entertening, charathers with no appeal, only the action safes itself. Also not well developed, there's a Recap episode, who watched Shirobako knows what that means. To me they only comproved that GGO is just a Jackpot for the diehard SAO fans that only cares if there are Sword Art Online logo in the title. If this anime was a completely new universe, never would get so much spotlight. Also the fact that isn't the original author's story and not SAO 1 and 2 director makes this show much less SAOish.