Okay, after "attempting" to rewatch this anime to question myself why I gave it a 9, I realized that it isn't as great as my past self thought it was. I made the review around the start of the year, and Sword Art Online was probably one of the first anime I watched. But... I couldn't really bear watching past episode 5... again.
Sword Art Online would of been an okay series, but after episode 2 things start to pace a little too fast. Episode 1 and 2 were great episodes, but past that, the whole series wasn't that good. The Aincrad part was okay... but the second half, ALfhiem? Yuck. I'd never watch that ever again.
The ALfheim arc is one of the worst arcs in Anime history. There may be worse ones, but I absolutely hate the ALfheim arc, and I'm not going to explain why. And, you know what? Why not let's have it again... in the frikkin' second season?! I'm pretty sure that's a good idea... yuck.
The story is probably the worst part about this series, I reckon any 7-year old kid can think of this story. A bunch of players are stuck inside a game... and they need to escape, that's the first arc story. Literally. That. Is. It.
The story of the second arc, Fairy Dance arc, is that Asuna is trapped inside of ALfheim... and then Kirito goes to save her. The story sounds good, yes, but... it's not. This arc happens to be one of the most dreadful, horrible, worst arcs in anime history. I may be exaggerating when I say that, but, again, opinions, man, opinions. The story for the overall series, I'd say, is... yuck.
The art style is one of the more better things about the series, being actually pretty good. But, I don't have much other things to actually say about the art style and animation, just that it's pretty good. That's all I have to say about it, I'm not gonna explain with 84 paragraphs of why the art style is good.
The music to the anime series is okay, but it's not that good. It's almost in the middle, being a bit above the middle, so it's good, I'd say. The opening to the Aincrad arc, it's okay, the opening to the Fairy Dance arc, again, okay... the background music played, don't remember it considering... Been almost a year since I've watched this.
The characters in the series, from which, I do not like many of them. I only like the main character, Kirito, because, the other characters seemed rushed? I don't know. I don't know. Help. This series... it hurts.
So, overall, I'd give the series a 3/10. You think that's a bad score? Nah. I was being generous. People give this anime 1 and 2's. If they could, some people would probably give this anime a 0. I'm not lying, people probably would.
So, why'd I change my mind from recently giving this anime a 9? I had no idea what a good anime series was back then, but after watching several series like Monster, Death Note, Hunter x Hunter, I realized that a 7 year old could think of this story, when in Hunter x Hunter, that story is so detailed, I think of the mangaka as the most imaginative person in this universe. I couldn't think of that awesome story... in like... 20 years.
