Reviews

Hm. Well as someone who is super new to anime and the such, SAO was definitely one of those shows I've heard about never actually seen. Until now. Well honestly I thought it was alright. Now if you have read any other reviews of this anime, you'd probably now by now that the things that made it terrible/bad were the story and characters, and I can definitely attest to that. Naturally, with any sort of narrative medium with a protagonist, there is some (or none in some cases,) plot armor to be had, but in SAO, once they had established that he was basically a god, all fear of "close situations" went out the window. Asuna is a flawless partner to Kirito. When I saw the ending of the first arc, I was pretty disappointed, but honestly if it had just ended there (maybe one more episode to tie things up) it would have been a decent 7. Nah. We got another arc, except this time it's way more rushed and felt like a slapped-on, uninspired, sequel within the season itself. Towards the end, I felt like I was just watching it to get it over with, and that is definitely something you don't want to feel when watching an anime (well at least I would assume..). However, the art and soundtrack/VA is pretty good imo.

TL;DR SAO is basically one of those hot girls/cheerleaders at your high school. Super hot, looks nice, sounds nice, but once you get to know her, it's nothing that you expected from your outside perception.