Story: 6/10
The show's story is one that has been told over and over again to me, and is very unoriginal in my opinion. However, due to the fact that not many pieces of art have portrayed the idea of how difficult it may be to survive in a virtual realm, I have decided not to instantly drop this show. Progressing in the show, the story massively drops and does not promise much more. I was honestly thinking of dropping after the first 14 episodes, as the rest just felt milked straight from the cow's utter, but managed to go through to the end. Story was fair, but could have been better.
Also, a more interesting part of the plot, Akihiko's reason for creating such a workd was NEVER REVEALED. That was truly disappointing.
Art: 9/10
What can I say? Just like Anohana, this show portrays the potential of how much better many animes can be drawn. Beautiful art.
Sound 7/10
Now dont get me wrong here, alot of the show's music was extremely well done; however, the show does not promise much memorable music, and require visualization to be listened to which really doesn't do it for me. What I mean is that the music is only something I would listen to while watching the show, and I do not plan on downloading any mp3's off of it or anything like that.
Character 3/10
Some of the characters in this show are just god awful, and have no reason to be in the story's plot whatsoever. The main character, Kirito, is a cool antisocial guy, yet happens to be followed around by a bunch of girls who just instantly fall inlove with him for no reason whatsoever. I mean, the guy is portrayed as a complete loser in his real life. Why on earth would amazingly hot women (which do not exist in real mmo's) just happen to fall inlove with this antisocial kid who technically couldn't even hold up a conversation. Also, Asuna, who is primarily portrayed as a powerful lone woman who depends on nobody but herself, magically changes into princess peach, who requires to be saved by a man everytime. the 5/10 comes not because I didn't enjoy watching these characters, but it obviously shows that the developers sided with fan service. Theres forced love all over the place and major personality changes over the course of 5 minutes. Obviously done in their mastermind plan of milking the show. (think about it if fanservice didnt exist in this show the 2nd season would not have been milked out in the first place). AND FINALLY, Yui...What? She became a main character? O.k..... she was literally born out of a filler episode.
Enjoyment 7/10
Besides all the negativity towards this show, Sword Art Online kept me on my seat at some points. The great fighting scenes, the hope Kirito brings to Asuna, the great art, FLYING IN SEASON 2, the mastermind Akihiko. Etc.
On a side note, one thing that still doesnt make sense to me till this day is how did Akihiko even manage to trap 10,000 people in the first place? I mean did they all happen to log on at the same time? Did some get trapped before others logged in until everyone was trapped? Maybe, but if thats the case, how come the people who died when they realised they were trapped werent reported to the news BEFORE the rest put on their nerve gears? What is that?
