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CONTAINS SPOILERS
Synopsis Season 1
Virtual reality made huge steps and the mmorpg Sword Art Online (SAO) launches in the year 2022, limiting it's players to 10000 people. Kirigaya Kazuto aka Kirito aka the dark emo boi is a teenager, who enjoys staying at home to play games. He's lucky enough to be one of the first ones to get their hands on the game and joins Aincrad, the world of SAO. However, shit starts to go down and players realize that they can't log out, which is a intended feature of SAO. In order to escape the world, they have to complete all 100 levels of the game. You die in the game = you ded in real life.
Review
Well, first I'd like to say SAO was the first anime that I've ever watched so I'm hugely biased. It will always have a special place in my heart
I think everyone had this moment, where we thought that SAO's concept is genuinely good or at least interesting. Did the writers made a good anime out of the concept? Hell naw
The first 3 episodes are pretty solid and they do follow the concept of a dark isekai, where it's about survival or death.
But nope, this is the start of Kirito's harem: Asuna aka the female protagonist (of the first half of the anime (WHY ONLY FIRST HALF)) aka the only relevant character for me aka the hot gamer girl that every gamer boi dreams of, is introduced. Love is in the air and they start to date, making half of the arc more to an romance anime...
...Which I ENJOY. It's sweet, cute and wholesome and everyone who denies it has no heart ...but sadly Kirito cares more about his harem instead of his girlfriend, so we get more and more unnecessary screentime of more or less irrelevant characters, cause they only show up in one or two episodes anyways...
I don't wanna go into detail about Kiritos OPness, so yeah I don't mind about that part. What I do mind about is what's happening in the second arc...
First of all, what the fuck.
Asuna isn't the female protagonist anymore.. it's Kirito's COUSIN who confesses her LOVE to him after falling in love for him in real life and in game, +1 to Kirito's Harem
This is the most boring and worst arc and I don't even wanna think about it. The elf thing was so unnecessary and that cousin relationship got too weird for me.
In conclusion I can say that yes, the anime is trash, BUT
it is very entertaining trash and I absolutely love it for that (maybe not the second arc cuz that was straight up boring at some points)
I do demand for more Asuna screentime though and less adding new girls to Kirito's harem... but we know how it will end up in season 2 anyways .
10/10 from a trash anime point of view
6/10 from an anime point of view
This will be the start of my anime review threads
I'll post the season 2 review soon, just wait
CONTAINS SPOILERS
Synopsis Season 1
Virtual reality made huge steps and the mmorpg Sword Art Online (SAO) launches in the year 2022, limiting it's players to 10000 people. Kirigaya Kazuto aka Kirito aka the dark emo boi is a teenager, who enjoys staying at home to play games. He's lucky enough to be one of the first ones to get their hands on the game and joins Aincrad, the world of SAO. However, shit starts to go down and players realize that they can't log out, which is a intended feature of SAO. In order to escape the world, they have to complete all 100 levels of the game. You die in the game = you ded in real life.
Review
Well, first I'd like to say SAO was the first anime that I've ever watched so I'm hugely biased. It will always have a special place in my heart
I think everyone had this moment, where we thought that SAO's concept is genuinely good or at least interesting. Did the writers made a good anime out of the concept? Hell naw
The first 3 episodes are pretty solid and they do follow the concept of a dark isekai, where it's about survival or death.
But nope, this is the start of Kirito's harem: Asuna aka the female protagonist (of the first half of the anime (WHY ONLY FIRST HALF)) aka the only relevant character for me aka the hot gamer girl that every gamer boi dreams of, is introduced. Love is in the air and they start to date, making half of the arc more to an romance anime...
...Which I ENJOY. It's sweet, cute and wholesome and everyone who denies it has no heart ...but sadly Kirito cares more about his harem instead of his girlfriend, so we get more and more unnecessary screentime of more or less irrelevant characters, cause they only show up in one or two episodes anyways...
I don't wanna go into detail about Kiritos OPness, so yeah I don't mind about that part. What I do mind about is what's happening in the second arc...
First of all, what the fuck.
Asuna isn't the female protagonist anymore.. it's Kirito's COUSIN who confesses her LOVE to him after falling in love for him in real life and in game, +1 to Kirito's Harem
This is the most boring and worst arc and I don't even wanna think about it. The elf thing was so unnecessary and that cousin relationship got too weird for me.
In conclusion I can say that yes, the anime is trash, BUT
it is very entertaining trash and I absolutely love it for that (maybe not the second arc cuz that was straight up boring at some points)
I do demand for more Asuna screentime though and less adding new girls to Kirito's harem... but we know how it will end up in season 2 anyways .
10/10 from a trash anime point of view
6/10 from an anime point of view
This will be the start of my anime review threads
I'll post the season 2 review soon, just wait