And this his how Sword Art Online (or SAO) starts: with the promise of fighting, violence, supervivence, blood and death. However, time passes and nothing of this occurs. Nobody dies and the characters never care about their potential deaths.
Story:
First of all, I want to say that this show's story has a LOT of potential. Wasted potential, of course, because the story is the most awful thing I've ever seen in an anime series. They only play a game, and nothing more. Well, there are fights and battles, but these are too short and that causes a lack of excitement in the spectator.
So if you want to watch how some people play a MMORPG, give a opportunity to this. If not, then abandon it. Because in SAO, nothing happens. I promise.
Characters:
All characters are just pathetic. The protagonist is a bad-ass boy that always wins ever fight and knows every secret placer or weapon or everything in the game. And his companion is a stupid girl that has no special hability. Well, you won't find any reason to love (or like) them.
And that's all. Those two are the only characters in this show. There are more, of course, but they appear in a chapter and dissapear forever. No character developing, yeah. And not even the opportunity to know them better.
Of course, there are some positive points in this: art, music and animation are good. But, as I said before, the most important things (story & characters) are simply horrible.
I don't recommend this to anyone but my worst enemies (and I'm not sure if I even recommend SAO to them, because it's a cruel punishment watching this series).
