Story: 6
The story isn't anything really special it's exactly what you expect the main character just playing the game. They do some things really well like showing features of the MMORPG off, i.e cooking, PvP, boss fights, ect. Also any gamer will slightly orgasm after hearing them talk in the latest gaming lingo. The anime completely rushes through SAO their is a timeskip almost every episode. When they finally escape SAO they jump right into another world named Alfheim Online which is a god awful excuse for an MMORPG. It's just SAO with fairies, magic and a really stupid faction system. All sense of danger is lost since dying no longer really matters and the story just turns into the main character having to save the female lead from being virtually molested and being turned into a sex slave for tentacle monsters, joking.
Art: 10
Great art, fluid animation and awesome fight scenes.
Sound: 9
Killer soundtrack and badass opening theme song, voice actor really well done in Japanese. The dubbed version sucks, stay away from that garbage.
Character: 7
Kirito himself is pretty cool except he takes the second half the show way too serious going complete ape shit every fight. He's just really OP didn't see too much skill in him, unless you call grinding a skill.
Asuna(Female Lead) is introduced as some badass mysterious female gamer, but then just turns into a useless love interest.
No real development was made to any of the characters, unless you count levels.
Enjoyment: 8
You'll never really get bored the action and learning about the concepts/features of SAO will keep you entertained.
Overall: 8
It's a good anime but definitely not the best like the fanboys try to act like it is. Just watch it, you won't regret the time spent.
