But if you are from people who expect a game like Sao anime have stock, a good development of the history, evolution of characters, memorable battles and epic deaths, then Sao will disappoint.
Having said that I must say that I was disappointed and Sao tremendously, because when I started to see it had great expectations of this anime thanks to its appealing main argument (death in the game = death in real life). And if I ended up seeing it full, it was because I wanted to see destroyed what could have been a great anime.
Here's why Sword Art Online anime is bad for me.
ANIMATION AND MUSIC
Perhaps the only decent Sao, a correct animation containing both Aincrad beautiful landscapes and Alfheim. The animation was well achieved fights generally nothing to reproach in this criterion. The opening and ending acceptable, although there was no particular topic memorable.
HISTORY
In this part the trouble getting a story that was initially appear attractive is decaying in each chapter progresses. You cut many important parts of the story (SPOILER as fights with bosses floor 4 of 100), Putting chapters that have nothing to do with the main plot, chapters were a real torture. I think if they wanted to tell the daily lives of the protagonists, they had not done an anime of 24 chapters makes the story as being too short and lose fluidity and sense. The plot development is generally very chaotic, you do not know because they get to fish (instead of leaving the game) and the next chapter are in a fight to death with a floor manager (trying to get out as quickly as possible game). Oh my God!
And speaking of Alfheim, it comes down to "Rescue the princess castle." If the first arc of Sao was bad the second is worse, not worth watching, because this has all gotten clichés and for an anime. The whole story worked really too bad.
CHARACTERS
This is definitely the worst Sao problem. Kirito-sama (Uncle is the strongest in and out of the game) is positioned as one of the worst characters I've seen in an anime. His poor charisma and personality, coupled with his incredible appeal with all the girls in Sao, make Kirito-sama a little boring to look credible and character. But the part that generated more questions than answers me was, how became so strong ?, in the anime will not explain or tells you. In my view all the anime revolves around Sao Kirito, even enemies depend on it. This is not bad if you know how to give the right touch (Samurai X is one of the best animes I've seen and where the weight of the series is the protagonist, who is one of the best) but if the protagonist does not " size ", happens what happened to Sao. The other point are the secondary characters (Asuna) that do not add anything new or interesting to anime.
The romance between Kirito and Asuna (although very cloying my taste) is more than 80% of Sao, that is, Sao anime is a game, fight, action and end up showing us an anime where the romance is more important. Please. None of the characters is saved bringing empty clichés and characters galore.
Finally, I want to say that Sao is bad, but not the worst anime I've seen (and I've seen worse), has many, many errors within the structure of the story. The lack of creativity and originality when creating the characters passed the bill to Sao. I have thought to see the second season to see if it improves or worsens. Cheers
