Reviews

This was my first anime ever, which says a lot comparing it with my score. I feel that this anime is a good entry anime to a newbie. I'm more of those casual watchers, watching for fun, but sometimes I am critical. On this one I feel more than I critic, mainly because it is my first anime. How I would critic something is if I myself learned something meaningful from the anime, which is a combination of story and characters, if I relate to them or not.

I don't find the story generic or cliche, probably because of my little experience of anime, but I think that everything is a remix of something. However the story can be tweaked on a lot of areas, especially Alfheim Online. Speaking of ALO, I think that arc was simply not as enjoyable as the Aincrad arc, I didn't like Suguha, maybe even despised her, and I didn't like how they just went to a different game, but it was nice to see that the main characters reunited.

Art was nice and crisp, with visual effects everywhere that made it very entertaining to watch, enough said.

Sound, a very nice soundtrack that goes along with the correct moments.

Characters were lacking in a lot of the cast, for example Klein, Lisbeth, Silica, and Agil. I felt like they would make a better background cast if they were to get more development since the little time they got were to showcase the potential that they could've gotten. Even though I am a fan of this anime, Kirito is not my favorite character of this series. Not because he's OP, but mainly because he doesn't relate to me to make me feel much emotion for him. Asuna is my favorite character, mainly because she has her own struggles that I can relate to. Now I don't think that she was degraded from the beginning arc to the other, I think she was just placed at a different challenges that she has to overcome, which I believe that she's the one to improve most from the experiences and I actually relate to. Not so much the rape part, but the idea that she wants to get stronger to protect others is what I'm more about.

With that said, I will just say that I watched this anime as my first, and I did take something out from this. I understand the hate for the show considering the many flaws, but nonetheless I still love it for what it is. I definitely don't believe that this is the "best anime ever", that just seems ridiculous. This show also hit my tastes, with gaming and a romantic story mixed in, I just enjoy that stuff. Made me enjoy it enough to be come a fan and read ahead of what's been adapted, and I feel really optimistic for this show.