Jul 4, 2013
For me, Sword Art Online was a guilty pleasure. As a huge fan of video games, especially online mmos- I went into watching this with an excitement that could not be contained! However, a few episodes in, this excitement quickly faded away. The visuals were stunning, so I continued to watch- but the story was full of skips that did not give the characters the necessary time to grow or for the relationship between characters to seem genuine. The story which started strong, was very mediocre. I would have also liked to see some of the minor characters who had all of an episode or
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two arcs, what happened to them, and more about them. Because the pace of the anime was so fast due to the skips, they just felt very replaceable. I went into watching this anime excited and hopeful but by the end I was very disappointed.
I would have liked to see a lot more in the show that dealt with what was actually advertised. It's not to say that it was all bad, the visuals as I said before were stunning, and the sound and music was great. There are some touching scenes, some cool scenes, some scenes that make you go huh... but not enough to make me feel like it was completely worth watching. I probably won't rewatch it, as it was a guilty pleasure and too much of a guilty pleasure is well...too much. ;) If you're looking to watching something that passes the time and doesn't take much thought, then Sword Art Online is for you. However if you want something that gives you a little more than flashy visuals and a mediocre story I would point you to other Animes in the same sort of genre of Sword Art Online- such as Accel World(which is not without its fault, but I found was much better than Sword Art Online).
Some animes deserve the hype that surrounds them, however, sadly, Sword Art Online does not.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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