SAO 1st arc (9/10)
Story: A 14 year old kid named Kirito bought a game called SAO along with the NerveGear. Only 10,000 copies were sold to the players and he's one of them. Kirito is a beta tester of the game so knew what to do once he entered SAO. Later on, players found out that the log out buttons were gone. The developer did this intentionally and now these players have to clear all 100 floors to get out of the game alive. There's a twist though, once you die, you can't revive and you're dead. The NerveGear is also going to fry your brain once you die in game meaning you also die in real life.
Art/Animation: The Animation design was wonderful and well designed. Even the character designs are good
Sound: Whoever composed the soundtrack, great job to you. The soundtrack actually fits in the battle and most of the time, it gave me goosebumps. Especially the opening soundtrack. The best opening soundtrack I've heard yet. The emotional scenes had some pretty good soundtrack too
Character: A whole range of characters are going to be introduced in this arc. Kirito/Kazuto, the main protagonist of the show and a "beater" (beta tester/cheat). He didn't get a character development. He's somehow perfect from the start. They do explain why. Asuna, the supporting character of the show and later becomes the "second-in-command" for the Blood of the Knight Oaths. Silica, a supporting character and a beast tamer. She has a familiar called "Pina". Lizbeth, a supporting character and a blacksmith. Yui, a supporting character and an AI characters who happens to have human emotions and acts like a real human. She is a "Mental Health Counselling Program" Codename "Yui" designed to help players through a difficult time. Asuna and Kirito later became the in-game parents of Yui. I won't introduce the antagonist of the show. You'll have to watch the show.
Enjoyment: I truly enjoyed the show. I don't care what the SAO haters says, I'll never hate this. I can watch this arc all day and not get bored
ALO 2nd arc (6.5/10)
Story: 2 months after the SAO incident, 300 SAO Survivors along with Asuna has not woken up yet. Kirito received a picture from Agil. The picture shows of what looks like to be Asuna. Kirito got in ALO and decided to help her.
Art/Animation: It was pretty much the same. Not that I'm complaining or anything.
Sound: New soundtracks were introduced along with some re-used/improved soundtracks. Again, the soundtrack was amazing. The soundtrack never failed to give me goosebump. The opening soundtrack was good but not better than SAO's opening soundtrack. The ending soundtrack was a bit better.
Character: Only 1 supporting character was introduced in this arc along with many sideline characters that aren't that important. Suguha was introduced in this arc. She is Kirito's sister/cousin. While Kirito was still in SAO, Sugu found out that Kirito is not her real brother. She later fell in love him but got heartbroken after finding out that he is in love with Asuna. There's Leafa who is Sugu's avatar.
Enjoyment: I enjoyed the first few episodes of the arc. After that, I was just shocked at the rape scenes. They showed it at least every episode until Episode 24. That's the reason why I didn't enjoy this arc as much as the SAO arc.
Overall (9/10)
One of the best anime's I've seen. It has one of the best stories out there and one of the best soundtracks.
Pros:
-Great story
-Great characters
-Great soundtrack
-Great animation
Cons:
-The rape scenes
