Is Sword Art Online the anime anti-Christ?

>>154771388
I can see where you're coming from.

>>154771388
It's the ultimate proof that for normalfags the mere idea of something is more important than the execution. Same goes for Harry Potter.

>>154771388
No it's where A-1 started going downhill

>>154771388
No. As shitty and overrated as it is, there's plenty worse out there.

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>>154771388
you didn't get the memo apparently..
ordinal scale redeemed the franchise and it's now highly rated on /a/
so you can stop pretending to hate it because the hive has changed its mind

>>154774047
>ordinal scale redeemed the franchise
lmaoooooooooooooo
It was absolutely terrible save for the animation. No character development whatsoever, cheap mystery plot, cringe-inducing dialogue. How anyone who's not a die-hard fan can enjoy this garbage is beyond me.

>>154774193
>Implying we enjoy it
The Rekiverse is a massive web from which there is no escape.

It REALLY makes me want to play Monster Hunter, but I can't find my goddamn 3ds.

>>154774389
it's always the last place you look, so you should start there

>>154771388
no, it's the anime big mac.

>>154774389
>not playing Monster Hunter on the Vita...
Son, I am disappoint.

>>154774431
you cheeky cunt

>>154774449
SHUT UP BEN YOU'RE NOT EVEN MY REAL DAD

Did Digibro kill Sword Art Online?

>>154771388
What does that even mean?

>>154771388
I will never understand how anyone could ever find such utter garbage entertaining.

>>154771388
There are far worse things out there. It butchered a good plot but it wasn't really good or bad since they stayed generic. I know Kirito gets a lot of hate but being generic isn't good or bad. Once you watch animes with MCs that try to be unique but fail you will see what it means to want to kill yourself every time they speak.

>>154774840
No, it was already dead to begin with.
He just made hating it the trendy new thing.

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I see it as more of the Medea of anime.

Kawahara seems to be at his strongest when writing drama between two characters. Even his interactions between weak characters are fairly entertaining. Instead of focusing hard on that, however, he keeps doing half-baked action/adventure stuff.

Similarly, Tyler Perry is a fucking great drama writer, but instead we keep getting Medea's shitty wacky adventures. Why?

Because it makes money.

>>154771388
Hating SAO is like hating Nickelback. There's lots of reasons to do so, but people mostly do it to fit in.
>>154774840
Fuck off.

>>154775127
>Nickelback

too good of an analogy

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>>154771388
>Is Sword Art Online the anime anti-Christ?
Sao is just some hot 15 year old's power fantasy. Well, I also used to like similar garbage 10 years ago, so I can understand it.
>all these teens naming themselves as Kirito in online games
sigh

what are SAO OC's like? After all an alleged Anti-Christ isn't nearly as important as its followers.

>>154775127
Nothing wrong with fitting in.

>>154775517
SAO is too hate-circle jerked to even create ironic ones. If someone did that they would be stormed upon for liking filth ironic or otherwise

>>154774193
>lmaoooooooooooooo

>>154775788
hihihi

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>>154774840
I donated to Digibro's Patreon because he's pretty much the only analytical anime youtuber who's even half-decent.

>>154775893
w-what happened to him

>>154775975
gentoo

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>>154775975
Digibro embraced his identity as a weirdo anime guy, instead of trying to pander for normal fag views by keeping up appearances. Gotta say I respect him for that heh

>>154776182
This. He doesn't worry about having to look employable since his job's making anime reviews, so he's growing wild.

>>154773768
To be fair Harry Potter has a bit more going on for it than Little Mr. Perfect and his bitches.

>>154774916
There are always waifufags and self inserters

>>154774047
Ah?

>>154776043
Penguin?

>>154773836
>A-1
>downhill

>>154776568
>Hating self-insertion
>when most of /a/ likes indulgent crap

What makes SAO worse than most of it?

>>154774945
>animes
stopped reading right here

>>154778447
It's popular with normies.

>>154778520
Even the normalfags shit on it.

Hell even the apologists who like the show see it as a 6/10 at best

>>154778447
the nickelback style hate culture that surrounds it

>>154778447
>What makes SAO worse than most of it?
It was never better, but the fact that it's reached Narutard/AoT-levels of popularity is annoying to the extreme. It's utter bullcrap that anyone considers this good.

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What would you do to a little Silica?

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>>154774047
>ordinal scale redeemed the franchise and it's now highly rated on /a/

But Progressive manga is alright

>>154776526
I'd argue it has less going for it.
>Little Mr. Perfect
What, you mean like the boy wizard who can't even break up with a chick without it being entirely based on her crazy, Asian ass having a meltdown? Potter's a complete fucking cardboard cutout.
At least Kirito has something resembling character traits. Edge lord, videogame-loving siscon.

>>154778715
Ordinal Scale went back to Aincrad flavored mediocre. As long as you're inoffensively mediocre people will like/tolerate you. Just ask Danmachi and Accel World

>>154778666
So basically if SAO died a flop and was sealed in a box never to be spoken of again the worst that'll happen is an autism video made by Digibro and DXfan

>>154774840
Not really, but he, draconismarch and other e-celebs (i hope this thread gets purged) started the trend of rightfully shitting on a show in great detail.

S1: Summary
Started of half decent with nice visuals
Time skip
By episode 2 Kirito had become an unironic edgelord by dividing the entire community and the show treated it like he was doing something good
Time skip
Transitioning to "These minor characters who were obviously going to die died OH NOOOO"
Time skip
The harem expands
Kirito is overpowered to the point of hillarity
Time skip
Asuna becomes likable
Detective plot that does nothing
Time skip
More harem even though it's obvious Kirito and Asuna are going to get together
Guy who just so happened to not like Kirito turns out to be evil
I love you so much
No I love you more
I love you so much I would rather die
I love you even more
Random daughter subplot
Kirito hacks into the game in like 7 seconds because he's so great
Asuna becomes unlikable
Time skip to the end of the plot
The fucking creator of the game had to cheat to beat Kirito because he's so great
Kirito breaks the game out of sheer will because he's so great

>>154778796
If SAO died a flop and was sealed in a box never to be spoken of again /a/ would like it.

Kirito goes into a coma because of the evil NSA.

The surviving Law guys try to train up a peasant army in preparation for the Chaos invasion (Chaos are led by the literal God of Darkness who is also an evil NSA agent who eats souls like rape).

They get rekt, but Kirito's harem save them with GM accounts and deebeezeee powerlevels.

NSA connect UW to the internet and get 50,000 American players to connect (it was advertized to them as a beta test for a new AO-rated VRMMO where you're allowed to slaughter anything and everything you like, with blood and guts), they mass murder UW residents and think it's hilarious.

To defeat them the main characters get 2,000 Japanese VRMMO players to connect. Despite the difference in numbers the Japanese are superior and win because Asian gamer damashii.

Then PoH (who is also an evil NSA agent) unleashes a zerg rush of Korean and Chinese gamers who were recruited by being told this is the a Korean VRMMO that's in beta test but evil Japanese hackers broke into the server, turned off pain dampening and are torturing their countrymen.

Even when some Japs who speak Korean try to explain the situation to them they don't listen because hurr japanese

The other NSA guys are surprised this works, they thought it wouldn't be worth it because they didn't think Japan is more different from Korea/China than European countries are from each other (hur)

Koreans and Chinese overwhelm Japs because this is every Jap's worst nightmare.

Kirito wakes up (thanks to the literal POWER OF LOVE from his entire harem) and wipes them all out in one attack though.

(Also PoH's motivation is that he's Korean and he hates Japanese so when he got stuck in SAO he decided to set up Laughing Coffin and have them and the clearers kill each other for shits and giggles because Nips killing each other is hilarious.)

Kirito and Asuna become gods because of x10000000 acceleration.

The AIs explore VR space with rocket dragons.

>>154775975
Alcoholism and depression induced by constant consumption of anime and anime-related YT content.

>>154771388
Be honest, how many of you would go gay for him?

>>154778882
Only if it gets an Asterisk-esque autism video; otherwise it just ceases to exist as hard as Hundred

Would things have been different if MC had cheat engine'd his way into the status of mary sue?

>>154778722
Dubs of truth. Harry Potter is FAR worse than Sword Art Online!

>>154778878
Kayaba wasn't going to kill his new protege, the entire reason he did the whole death game deal was to find his replacement after he scanned his brain/killed himself for the medicuboid and STL machines.
Also another important thing to take note of is that nearly the entirety of Aincrad is a bunch of disconnected short stories. They are not chronological in the LN, and bouncing around side stories in the anime wouldn't work. Also bear in mind that SAO 1, going from after Kirito's Dool Welding gets revealed to the end of aincrad, is the first thing Reki ever wrote.
In fact, the first time you see SAO without some sort of time skip is in volumes 3 and 4, Fairy Dance, which were utterly devastated by the anime.

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Say hello to the last good thing to ever come out this godforsaken series
It's a shame the universe killed her off because she was better than Jesus-kun

>>154779675
Lost Song was fun.

>>154774047
I'm hoping this is bait.

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Silicute or Silicringe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X3STnscxeM

>>154779858
Yes.

Has anyone here read the SAO progressive novels and can report on their quality?

>>154771388
Never watched it
Can anyone summarize it and why it's bad

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>>154780159
Yes what?

>>154780187
They're great. Still a bit high on the "Kirito solves everyone's problems", but I liked the original novels too, so I might be biased.

>>154771388
No. SAO's lack of quality is grossly exaggerated, since it actually got SOME things right.

Things like Umaru and Lucky Star are the industry's real low-points. Boring shows about nothing that promote hikki culture.

>>154780187
They're legitimately good. There's actual plot and character development and stuff. It will literally never be finished but it's definitely worth reading.

>>154780441
On what floor are they in the latest volume?

>>154780422
Er, LN copypaste anime is definitely close to the low point. Moeblob idol shit like KON is the trench of the industry.

>>154775893
Digi has always been a pretentious POS even back during his days of reviewing MLP.

>>154780488
Newest one is Volume 4 and it starts on floor 5. I haven't read it, so I don't know how much progress is made.

>>154780422
>>154780492
>hating on moe
>I only watch mature anime for mature person like me

>>154780524
How is someone who constantly jerks off to K-ON pretentious?

>>154780596
Thanks, i will check it out after finishing konosuba LNs.

>>154780599
There's a difference between people who can find entertainment in cute things and people who use cute things as escapism.

>>154780524
>>154775893
Digi has literally the worst taste ever. He watches an introductory episode and says at the end of it, "Yeah, not gonna watch anymore of it, not moe/pretentious enough for me"

His taste is it's got to be 'cutesy moe shit' or vicarious wish fulfillment romance' or 'pretentious artsy bullcrap'

>>154779858
only good part of the movie

>>154781380
He just advocates the 1 episode rule over the 3 episode rule. Shows with bad first episodes almost never get good when you think about it, so the 3 episode rule is just a waste of time.

>>154779858
SiliCUTE

>>154775067
I`ve never seen Tyler Perry or act in a dramatic role I don`t think, are you memeing?

>>154781582
Not even aids?

>>154781672
What?

>>154781586
It takes roughly 90 minutes to watch three episodes of an anime.

That's not very long in the grand scheme of things.

>>154780492
except K-on is great

>>154781075
Nothing wrong with any of that.

>>154778919
Goddamn, Alicization is hot garbage.
>There's finally a notable male character instead of a new girl in the harem
>He's killed off halfway through the arc.

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>>154781681

>>154781075
How is that relavant to the quality of a show?

>>154780596
Volume 4 finishes floor 5.

>>154778134
what would one do to make silica go ah!?

>>154782211
I don't know, that's why I'm asking.

>>154781380
>Digi has literally the worst taste ever
>literally the worst taste ever
>LITCHERALLY WORST, TASTE, EVER
You couldn't broadcast that you are a retarded normalfag any harder than this mate. Fuck off

>>154782471
t. Digibro

>digibro
>watched fucking my little pony and reviewed it

His opinion is not worth jackshit.

>>154782594
t. normalfag scum who calls any anime out of the mainstream "pretentious", calls any show with cute girls "moeshit", calls criticism of shit shows "ego stroking", and labels anyone who doesn't look like a McDonald's worker a "loser weeb slob"

Even if I am Digibro it doesn't make my arguments any less wrong mate. A person can be biased and still be right.

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>>154782904
calm down autist

>>154782961
>not embracing autism
>in the year 2017
Ayy

>>154781649
No, I'm serious.

The dramatic works that he produces and directs are genuinely good. They're not god-tier fictional drama or anything, but it's competent and compelling.

>get to season 2
>Kirito is introducing his sister to his comatose wife
>"she's so fast that even I can't keep up with her"

False modesty is the fucking worst.

>>154783979
Well you have to consider the little things.
Asuna uses a rapier.
Kirito uses straight swords.
You'd have to be a pretty shitty fencer to have a straight thrust slower than a swordsman's cut from a wrath guard, or even a fool's guard.
No matter how fast you are, a straight thrust from a rapier is pretty tough to beat.
Not to mention Kirito pumped his STR because straight swords get pretty heavy. Asuna on the other hand could work on DEX more because her weapon is light as all hell.

>>154784429
>Implying Kirito isn't completely maxed out in every stat and couldn't beat Asuna as well as any other player in a single blow
You better take that back before the universe decides to kill you for daring to mock the glory that is Kirito

>>154782883
MLP is actually a top tier anime though

>>154784674
Kirito wasn't level capped by the time he got out of Aincrad. Assuming stat points are given by level, naturally his stats wouldn't be either.
Also I don't know about players If there were better players than him, why would Kayaba make Kirito his protege?, but he seriously just about got his ass handed to him by the guard in the first floor dungeon.

>>154784892
Obviously the game creators were intentionally trying to limit his power or else he would destroy the entire game with his limitless skill

>>154784956
Kirito was good, but he was no Touch Me.
I'll just remind you that the devs of Overlord's game actually nerfed his playstyle in direct response to how gamebreaking Touch Me was using it.
And he was still the best player in the game by far.

>>154774047
>ordinal scale redeemed the franchise
>only SAOfags have watch it because they are the only idiots who will pay for it
>it's highly rated on /a/
Yeah, sure go back to sucking Kirito's dick.

>>154775975
He stopped watching mlp

>>154778878
It's amazing how SAO abridged turned that sappy shit into the greatest love story ever told.

>>154786723
It reminds me of a better Konosuba and even then I still don't think it's perfect; just significantly above average

>>154778931
traps arent gay
i wanted to have more "kirito has become a cute girl" plots in sao2 but it never ended up being relevant except for initially pissing off the sniper lady

>>154787063
>traps arent gay

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>>154787262
literally true
only if they're 2d though

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Whatever your favorite Isekai adaptation anime is, I can guarantee you that SAO is better than it.
Wanna know why?
SAO will actually be finished, when all is said and done.

>>154788004
The author is dead, but ZnT is finished. And guess what, it finished FIRST.
Not to mention that it's overall a better series.

>>154788004
Noone gives a shit about the original SAO. I want SAO progessive to be finished but that will never happen.

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>>154788795
>Not to mention that it's overall a better series.
>MC is a horny teenager
>main heroine is the worst kind of tsundere on top of being an ugly loli
>MC's power is to be super good with any weapon without prior knowledge
>harem builds up because "MC is nice"

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>>154788971
>Worst kind of tsundere
>Ugly loli
Even if the rest of your points were objective and true, you've just voided your entire post.
You also made it very clear that you never bothered with the LN.

>>154789126
Didn't really try to hide it, I was mainly talking about the anime.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings mate, but Louise, much like Shana, is shit.

"Hating on sao" meme will never die isn't it?
Not even alicization will be able to fix it

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>tfw actually enjoyed ordinal scale

It was cool.

>>154779546
She is legit my one favorite character and im glad they didnt kill her off in the games

Mirai Nikki is worse than SAO.

>>154778578
>Even the normalfags shit on it.
Of course they do, they expect to get vidya themed shonenshit and end up getting haremshit.

>>154789337
Alicization is trash.

>>154791773
Only bad thing about alicization is extreme lack of Asuna

>>154792060
It's alright at best until administrator dies. The war arc is garbage and I'm still mad that Reki killed off Eugeo. Main series Asuna isn't a particularly good character anyway, so that's irrelevant.

>>154778722
> Boy stuffed in closet becomes healthy, well adjusted human
Yeah okay.

>>154789440
are there even any subs out yet for ordinal scale? can´t seem to find them anywhere, besides russian subs.

>>154775893
I liked this one the most
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9nmLa2VO08