The story in SAO has way too many time jumps to make the viewer feel any change the characters went through. That is what ruins even the good ideas it had in it.
If you ever wondered what possible relationship to reality the science fiction aspects of the Gurren Lagann "scaling" had, read MM. The scaling was never "over the top" to me (that's probably because my normal is everyone else's over the top), primarily due to the fact that I had seen it done elsewhere.
As for Mistborn, the plot is very similar to the first part of Gurren Lag. You'll be amazed at the similarities, so if you want to read a dramatic story with similar events, but different world logic, setting, and characters, that is one series you should check out. I won't give you any more clues than that, but it'll be interesting to see whether you can figure it out or when you figure it out.
Both are novel stories set in the Epic Heroic story mode, where enemies get stronger and stronger, and so do the stakes.
Part of why Gurren Lagann feels natural to me (other than the artwork and battle logic), is because I've read a lot of heroic sagas. Gurren was just another heroic saga, done well and in a modern entertaining fashion like Bleach or Naruto. An epic heroic saga from the Japanese is normal to me. An american epic heroic saga about patriotism or American exceptionalism... that would be abnormal.
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But the two formats seem much closer together to my mind than the anime format at least.
Dude... thats just awesome XD
Hope to see you (and probably kill you) on there =D
Mutineer's Moon: http://www.baen.com/library/0671720856/0671720856.htm
Other formats also available if you go to the root link.
And Mistborn Trilogy from Brandon Sanderson.
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/portal/Mistborn-Trilogy
If you ever wondered what possible relationship to reality the science fiction aspects of the Gurren Lagann "scaling" had, read MM. The scaling was never "over the top" to me (that's probably because my normal is everyone else's over the top), primarily due to the fact that I had seen it done elsewhere.
As for Mistborn, the plot is very similar to the first part of Gurren Lag. You'll be amazed at the similarities, so if you want to read a dramatic story with similar events, but different world logic, setting, and characters, that is one series you should check out. I won't give you any more clues than that, but it'll be interesting to see whether you can figure it out or when you figure it out.
Both are novel stories set in the Epic Heroic story mode, where enemies get stronger and stronger, and so do the stakes.
Part of why Gurren Lagann feels natural to me (other than the artwork and battle logic), is because I've read a lot of heroic sagas. Gurren was just another heroic saga, done well and in a modern entertaining fashion like Bleach or Naruto. An epic heroic saga from the Japanese is normal to me. An american epic heroic saga about patriotism or American exceptionalism... that would be abnormal.