What went right?

>>139968952
Nothing.

>>139968952
Mindless entertainment and self-insertion

>>139968952
The plot, the characters, the art, literally everything.

two years worth of semen

episodes 1-14 were good, everything after is shit

episode 1-2

>>139968952
Glorious OST and animation, revitalized a specific genre. Basically a highly successfuly and game-changer show.

>>139968952
>cool MC
>Interesting original world
>Cute girls
>Great battles
>Good Villians

Whats not to like?

>>139969092
>self-insert MC
>stereotypical one sided villans
>deus ex machina battles

>>139968952
Good doujin. That's about it.

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muh self-insert, muh duel-wielding.

>>139969155
sword of asuna?

>>139969190
>self insert
Would you rather the main character was a complete loser? It would have been harem from the start
>dual wield
Was bretty cool until Fairy Shit when he learned his skills from SAO were gone, then he fucking used dual wield anyway

>>139969191
Quite a few if you're into mindbreak.

Log Horizon does the MMO setting better and .hack has a more interesting twist(? dunno what to call it really)

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>>139968952
Memes
Pic related was hilarious

The GGO arc wasn't that bad

>>139969061
>>139969050

I like these

>>139969453
Really? I'm on the fence about watching it.

>>139969495
Go ahead and watch it

Goes back to being trash after 14 though

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Animation
Hilariously cartoony villains
Trap Kirito

>>139969061
Close. So close. That second sentence just ruined all semblance of believability.

>>139969562
>Trap Kirito

Frankly, this.

>>139968952
Kirito and Asuna actually got together in an explicit romantic relationship in the first half instead of spending forever and a half pussyfooting around their feelings after getting close. The animation was nice. I wasn't offended by the OST, but I'm not a huge fan of Sawano.

>>139969012
/thread

everything before ep 15

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>>139969041
The first arc was half decent. I mean two of the episodes involved a fucking murder mystery that was kind of painful to sit through. Good is too strong a word for the first arc.

>>139969040
condensed into 2 seasons

>>139969293
>Was bretty cool until Fairy Shit when he learned his skills from SAO were gone, then he fucking used dual wield anyway
This show gets harder and harder to pick back up.

>>139968952
Well, romantic part is decent. More or less fresh. They actually live together and enjoying life with each other instead of this generic tsundere bullshit that ends only in the last episode (if you are lucky). Second half is turboshit though.

>>139970430
Finished season 1 a couple days ago, gonna take a looooong break before I consider II

I'm about to re-watch some parts of this series. Wish me luck. Bye.

>>139970715
Link START!

I don't understand all the romance fags here. Whatever good (if at all) of that relationship got thrown aside for Kirito's harem just cause.

>>139968952
Unfortunately, most anime viewers out there are dumb enough to think that this is, dare I say, "good". Like, they really think that this doesn't have flaws and everything that happens were plausible and interesting.

I'm not saying that one can't enjoy it, but the story is crap, seasonal harem tier, why of all of them normalfags like this and only this and hate the others is very hard to explain. But I guess that the secret is really putting a "strong" girl to be MC's girlfriend, some people liked Calvary for that same reason after all.

>>139968952
The plot, cause it went right out the window

>>139971135
>why of all of them normalfags like this and only this and hate the others is very hard to explain

You took the words straight out of my mouth.

It's crazy how they defend SAO like it's the best thing ever and rain down shit on shows like IS (understandable, but still) and DxD.
Hypocrisy at its best

>>139971135
>and everything that happens were plausible
Do you take all your anime this seriously

>>139971005
Despite the lolharem/being kinda middle school tier there was effort put into it.

It effectively is anime romance in general is so shit that mediocre writing with effort in it is worshipped

>>139969064
I read it all the way through this time and the climax was definately worth it.

>>139968952
The NTR doujins, for some reason there are lots of those

>>139971135
Because those that think SAO is masterpiece are still kids and teenagers. Hell I used to think DBZ is the best anime ever when I was 12. Adults that think SAO is good though, I don't know what to say.

>>139968952
It ended.

>>139968952
The fact that it went wrong.

>>139968952
The side girls I suppose

The animation, that's it.

>>139968952
abridged

>>139968952
>great premise and setting
>awesome art style, animation and music
>good and hype fights
>cool, non loser MC
>actually gets together with the girl

bad things
>filler episodes
>shit pacing
>first arc ends too soon and is weirdly time skipped
>harem
>story isn't very complex

after first arc it goes to shit pretty fast though (except Mother's Rosario arc)

To be honest, this anime got me pretty depressed for a long time since nothing like sao will ever exist in our lifetimes

>>139971761
It's possible to be plausible even in a fictional environment.

>>139969114
>self-insert
i hate this meme, and i hate people parroting it as their main point of contention even more

it's beyond asinine to yell at authors for writing qualities that they admire and/or desire into their characters

>calling kayaba one-sided
it's like you never even understood what he was actually trying to do from the start

>deus ex machina
check out accel world first to see how those mechanics are justified

>>139973313
depends on how old you are, anon
BCIs are a pretty hot topic for military and the government right now actually, NASA in particular

once it's developed, it's only a matter of time before it disseminates to the rest of the world. same thing happened with flight simulators, CAT scan machines, lasers, hell even microchips and the internet

VR is only just taking off, don't write off the ship before it leaves the harbor

>>139973979
Complaining about self insert protag in Sword Art is grasping at straws, when there are already so many straws handed to you.

Why would anyone want to watch a character who doesn't win?

I wonder if people have the same problem with NGNL.

>>139974149
do you think we will be able to precisely emulate all sensory inputs, not even talking about level of detail and complexity of a game engine that could be used to feel like real world?

>>139974225
>I wonder if people have the same problem with NGNL.
they do sadly

>>139974149
VR won't be anything more impressive than just 3D and whatever your computer can render(far less in 3D).

It won't be anything impressive before we have digital to neural impulse conversion and then we're like two steps behind GITS territory. That's way, way fucking far in the future.

>>139974225
>why would anyone want to watch a character who doesn't win

maybe because it makes for a more engaging story? look at atla's season 2 finale
a good story is about hurting good characters and seeing how they react

>>139974318
>>139974344
don't step on my dreams

>>139974610
I have the same dream, but you have to accept that it just won't happen anon. I did accept it, it was bad for a while, but I got used to it and now I feel much better than just holding onto some weak hope that I don't really trust anyway.

>>139969092
And which is this anime you speak of, anon? ;)

>>139974318
Kind of a shame. NGNL's charm was "this man will not lose, now watch him win in fantastic ways". It was incredibly dumb, but I loved it and really want a season 2.

>>139974576
>give boy a wonderful girl
>hurt him by taking her away
>put her in the clutches of one of the creepiest antagonists
>he tried to go solo to save her but gets destroyed
>takes a literal army to back his ass up

I mean, he still godmoded his way into the world tree. But the struggle looked real for about two seconds.

>>139968952
They made a sequel.
They need to make another one soon. There should be enough material to do it.

>>139974828
I feel sceptic about Alicization though. Has anyone here read it?

>>139974828
Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale won't be out until 2017.

>>139969412
>Log Horizon
Aw yeah. It has a slower pace, but I love the worldbuilding, like justification for a lot of things we take for granted in MMOs (how players perceive the world vs. how NPCs perceive the world, and where does all that fucking gold come from?).
>>139969453
>>139969495
>>139969530
Yeah, GGO arc was probably the best so far. And I don't even like shooters all that much.

>>139975360
>Yeah, GGO arc was probably the best so far. And I don't even like shooters all that much.
No, it's actually third best arc, after original and cancer-chan.

>>139974881
yes
barring mother's rosario, it's loads better

just yesterday with the release of volume 17 in japan, alicization alone has now surpassed the entire rest of SAO in length

>>139968952
> To the righttt
> To the lefffft

>>139975564
I heard it's just an AR world that looks like real one and the characters don't even know they're not in reality.
Is there any action, or is it just drama with a little sci-fi added?

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>>139968952
Alright, i'll bite.

>right

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>>139974754
hit the nail on the head
nobody likes the fairy dance adaptation, not even the fans

in the novel, sugu's onii-chan trouserlust isn't so ham fisted, asuna is far from a helpless prisoner crying for her man to come save her, and kirito's fight to the top of the world tree feels like an actual hard-won struggle instead of 'jesus-kun says i win'
the anime fucked up some of the most important parts of that arc

at least the music and art direction were both tip top, pic related

>>139975640
kinda, but also kinda not. it's fully immersive VR. AR in this case wouldn't be 'augmented reality', but a literal 'alternate reality'.

there's a lot of action, it's really worth the read, and if you're going to read it i don't wanna spoil anything because it's honestly surprisingly good

>>139975867
Shit I meant VR, I'm just retarded and thought of "artificial reality". I might just read it since they're not going to adapt this into an anime for a long time. Next SAO is some made up movie about AR in 2017, I'd die of old age before watching adapted alicization.

I liked season 1 & 2, but season 3 was awful. Then again I like fantasy RPG more than Sci-Fi FPS.

>>139975926
all of us will, considering A-1 might do progressive first

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>>139975787
Sword Art Online looked fucking incredible.

>>139975787
I'll take your word for it on those LNs.

>>139968952
The porn

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>>139976155
yui is not for sexual

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sinon
and not the shitty ALO version

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>>139976334
>jay peg
here anon

>>139976412
>>139976334
>>139976155
Aaand OP out.

Thanks for a decent SAO thread guys. Surprised me that it didn't turn into rampant hate and shitposting.

>>139976046
A polished turd is still a turd mate

>>139976802
it's all in the opener

you ask 'why is it the greatest thing ever' and people will yell about how that's false

you ask 'what went right' and people will talk about what they liked about it

only people who want to join the thread will do so in the latter case

>>139968952
The first four episodes.

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U havin a giggle without me m8s?

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>>139974694
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you share with others is reality.

I've actually studied this, and I think it's totally plausible. Us humans have done more audacious things before.