>Kawahara did say that he was told as long as he keeps writing, A-1 pictures will animate anything he writes. They didn't exactly say they would animate Progressive, but Kawahara did go on to say he'll be writing Progressive for probably another 30 years so that will give us plenty to look forward to.
Are you ready for 30 more years of SAO?
More porn
Yay
>>139211766
Anime is saved once again.
>>139211766
Given that he said 30 years, instead of something like 70, will Progressive probably end some time after Sachi's death, or something?
Or will Kawahara start pushing out two volumes a year?
On that note, Progressive Anime when?
How much can you even jerk off to your own characters? I think now story I would create would ever be great enough to to writemore of it for 30 years. I mean he isn't even the slow mangaka type whose manga just never ends, he actually plans to write the same shit for 30 years from the very beginning.
Not that Progressive is bad, it's better than the rest of SAO, but that doesn't make it some masterpiece worth the amount of novels he's planning to do. I still read it but I wouldn't wonder if it would become too boring to follow with vol. 10 or something. Even 3 was already a bit weaker than 1 and 2 in my opinion.
>>139211766
>Sword Art Online
>the novels have been in the top 10 most sold since five years ago
>two years in first place
>anime dubbed to every relevant language in the world
>BDs and merchandise selling more than what 99.9% of seasonal animes sell
>easily one of the 20 most successful and influential animes of all time
I know you're butthurt because it's not 'muh super kewl seekrit anime' anymore, but you're retarded and have shit taste. Go back to blogging about how every popular anime is shit and keep watching seasonal light novel adaptations, I'll enjoy my 30 years of SAO.
>>139212612
*now = no. I should go to bed before 3 AM.
>>139212709
You should never write something so retarded, not even as bait.
>>139212709
>I know you're butthurt because it's not 'muh super kewl seekrit anime' anymore
OP here. I am not at all mad about this. I just find fun to poke at those who might be. Also nice to have 30 more years of Argo.
>>139212709
nice bait friend
I will never understand why people keep hanging onto their first series so much for such a long time. I hate it when good ideas that could be used for new series get shoehorned into one of thousand arcs of a series that already exists, just to use the same fucking MC again.
>>139213068
Well, Kawahara did originally stop, back in 2008, and then started on Accel World. But his editor made him publish SAO, and seems to be making him continue the main-series, along side Progressive.
>>139213068
He literary said in the afterword of volume 2 that he was not good enough as a writer to write a female character that does not lust after the MCs cock, why do you think does he want to make things easy for him when it prints money with 0 effort or risk.
>>139213281
I wonder if he'll at least finish the main series but since they removed this "last arc" bit I kinda doubt it. It might be just me but I thing that Alicization is going downhill for quite a while already and I doubt another game with Kirito would be interesting after that.
>>139212593
>Given that he said 30 years, instead of something like 70, will Progressive probably end some time after Sachi's death, or something?
Or he has planned on doing multiple floors in later stories.
>>139211766
>30 years SAO Progressive
Fuck yeah.
>>139213524
>Or he has planned
No.
Maybe it will end if people get tired.
I wonder if he could write more stories. I actually like AW, more than SAO. But on the other hand I don't like his other new series, what ever the name was.
>>139212593
Have you considered the possibility of him speeding up and not releasing 1 progressive volume per year instead?
>>139212855
>30 more years of Argo.
I regret ever considering suicide at one point. Life is now as good as solved.
>>139213707
Well he clearly has some sort of plan where he is going with progressive since we know he has marked floor 9/10 as being important in the near future with Asuna and Kirito. With longer term being 25/50.
>>139213763
See:
>Or will Kawahara start pushing out two volumes a year?
>>139213836
Yes, I'm retarded, my bad.
>>139213836
Yeah that's why I hope he'll finish SAO or else I doubt he'll will be faster unless he takes more hiatuses for AW but this is something I don't want.
>>139212709
Damn people just really love saying the most exaggerated shit
>>139211766
>Kawahara did go on to say he'll be writing Progressive for probably another 30 years
>30 years
He was kidding, right? It's like saying "I could do this for a million years and not be tried of it" or "I'll be here forever", right?
>>139211766
Well that's pretty much how A-1 works so no surprise there
Sure are a lot of obvious fake opinions in this thread
>>139213811
Eh. I think you're probably giving him too much credit. Those are little details he threw in as potential hooks for future exposition, but he's definitely not committed himself to a greater plan.
Honestly, I don't foresee Progressive lasting for too many more volumes. You can only stretch out a finite amount of narration so much. Honestly, while I like it, I find it pretty ridiculous that 4 years later, we are only on floor 5.
At the very most, I think maybe floor 10 is the most likely stopping point with Kawahara picking up the pace per volume. I've said before that floor 25 is the more natural stopping point, but I feel like that's unlikely unless Kawahara REALLY speeds up. And I'm not sure everyone would be up for 24 volumes of heavy flirting.
>>139212612
FKMT has been writing the same arc of akagi for the last 18 years or so
>>139211766
source?
>>139214243
Something he said at Sakura-con, according to someone who was there.
>>139214068
Sadly, no.
Progressive volumes only include 2 levels at best per volume. So considering that there were 100/75 levels or whereever SAO ended, we probably need another 70 years for it to finish since Reki said he wanted to do all levels. 70 is a bit much so I guess he might consider skipping a few or writing volumes that deal with more than just 1 - 2 levels.
But yeah, 30 years.
>>139214557
I like Progressive but that just doesn't sound feasible. For one thing that would be a massive undertaking, bigger than Oda's "15 more years of One Piece" or Berserk. He'll definitely run out of ideas or lose his thread or burn out.
>>139212709
the only good thing to come out of SAO was SAO Abridged. Just saying.
Asking once again, would anyone be willing to OCR and translate some raws I have? I'm getting sick of the absolute lack of activity on manga volume 4.
>>139214557
Good news is that it'll develop characters more thoroughly than 1 LN volume can.
>>139214736
Same here. I enjoy it but there is no way he can push it for so long. Not to mention that the volumes always had some game related main theme till now. Like the forging of weapons, the upgrade system, shit like that. There is no way he'll find enough topics to write books for another 30 years.
Im happy, SAO is really good.
>>139214870
Eh, could just wait for someone to rip YP's manga volume 4 when it comes out.
>>139214880
Yes but there is a limit to how much you can develope Asuna and Kirito. And the rest will be new female characters who will be hot for Kirito again like that dark elf.
>>139212855
>30 more years of Argo.
Not too big a fan of her anime voice. Might grow on me later after 30 years though.
>>139214870
>would anyone be willing to OCR and translate some raws
Yes, but not for you.
>>139215123
Then don't think of it as doing it for me; think of it as doing it for the board.
>>139215182
Post a MF link, dumb /pol/ack poster.
>>139214870
I know a bit of moon, more than most I'd say. I'd be willing to do it just because the artist is so good
>>139214870
>cutest outfit was when Asuna was still going solo
>we will never see animated Asuna in that outfit
>tfw all of her subsequent outfits (except in Blood Oath guild) are bland as fuck
>>139215294
Hold on, I have to get it packed and uploaded first.
>>139215382
Maybe we can split the work after this bozo >>139215587 uploads the raws.
>>139215106
Looked at some gameplay from the games, and she seems to sound alright there.
>>139211766
>30 FUCKING YEARS OF SAO
JUST.
I would take 60 of Naruto over that.
>>139215720
Oh right, she's in the games. Is it still the same VA?
Ask a faggot who was at the con with SAO guy Kawahara anything, I just might know the answer
If he's running out of Kirito / Asuna ideas, he can make another clearing group with new hero / heroine as the main focus for a while.
Although the possibility of them being killed is really high for the drama, etc.
I think SAO peaked at episode 3, it's a death game, not a dating sims so it should stay near its root.
>>139214208
I agree 10 is the nature ending point since that was the floor that Kirito never got past in the Beta. but you can't deny he has put long term arcs into play such as Laughing Coffin playing everyone against each other (and eventually emerging from the shadows) and the quest with the Dark Elves that ends at Floor 9.
>>139215806
Seems like she is. Her voice seems a bit different, but probably cause she's voicing her differently?
>>139215834
What's the upcoming movie about?
>>139211766
I don't care for SAO but I have to say this guy really made it big, it's impressive and enviable.
>>139215764
At least SAO has cute girls. Or rather cute character designs.
>people talking about how they want to bang trap Kirito when GGO aired
Kishimoto's art was never good and only got worse. He even admitted Sakura wasn't cute.
>>139215979
Do not think I can reveal more details than what the panel gave or Aniplex will have my head. I can say that the ending is currently still under production and the plot is far from finalized.
>>139214835
Are you 12? Because SAO Abridged uses comedy that would appeal to a 12 year old.
>>139216026
Poor author though, he may have fame and fortune, but he works 7 days a week, no vacation time or social time. I feel really bad for him.
>>139216101
>the plot is far from finalized
>anime movie
>plot
>>139216168
He likes what he's doing so it probably isn't that bad. Is he married?
>>139215979
All we really know is that Ordinal Scale is about an AR game that takes place in the real world.
http://sao-movie.net/us/story/ordinal-scale.html
>>139216230
>Is he married?
Nope.
Strangely, he still has time to answer questions on twitter, even for english speaking fans. Sometimes at 3 in the morning (in Japan)
>>139216230
He likes it but it's punishing to do something on a schedule with little choice for when you want to do something else.
>married
Unfortunately, no. He doesn't have the free time to date and the company is comprised of men and married women.
>>139216296
>real-world PVP with ladders and shit
Hah.
Wonder if it's gonna drop some more tech that further links the technologies in SAO and AW.
>>139216369
>it's punishing to do something on a schedule with little choice for when you want to do something else
Maybe he doesn't want to do anything else. A lot of these mangaka/LN writers are probably mildly autistic and wouldn't do anything else. They also tend to be the most successful ones. Look at Kamachi and Oda. Whereas Kubo has other hobbies and it shows in his work.
>He doesn't have the free time to date
IIRC he's always really awkward and quiet at the Dengeki Fest streaming events.
No write-ups of the SAO movie panel at Sakura-Con yet? There was actually new info released
>>139216560
>awkward and quiet
I won't deny that he's a very betamax introvert, but he does come out of his shell if you talk to him for a while
>>139216609
None of the usual outlets have made an article about it, and the only source at the moment, outside of what's on the official site, is a subreddit post.https://www.reddit.com/r/swordartonline/comments/4c7k72/what_i_learned_at_sakuracon/
Except, he's a little autistic.
>When I finally got to walk up to him I said, "Kawahara-sensei, Sword Art Online changed my life and I just wanted to thank you for creating it. Thank you, thank you." After this Kawahara and his aide both just looked kind of stunned for a moment, then they said wow and started thanking me profusely and Kawahara shook my hand. I was not in any way prepared for this, so after freaking out for a moment I thanked Kawahara one last time after the signing and left because I didn't want to hold up the line. Best day ever.
I feel like this has been answered before but does Kawahara have a favorite character in his work? Who's his waifu?
>>139216560
He has at least one hobby - biking.
>>139216836
chiyo.jpg
>>139216818
>Kawahara-sensei, Sword Art Online changed my life and I just wanted to thank you for creating it.
This sounds like sarcasm or satire.
>After this Kawahara and his aide both just looked kind of stunned for a moment
I don't blame them.
>>139215294
>>139215692
Ok, finally done:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/92hmt25dafx6qzm/spm4.7z
Password is: glop
>>139214835
fuck you progressive is amazing
No more SAO this is trash
>Q: Will Progressive start coming out faster once you finish Alicization? A: 'I'd like that. I think if I focused just on Progressive I could get through 3-5 floors per year. But I asked my editor, Miki what I should do after Alicization and he said to keep going, so I might continue with the main series after Alicization. Progressive might never come out faster.'
pls
>Q: Did Argo die? A: 'You see her alive in the game, but as I'm writing Progressive if I need a dramatic death something might happen to Argo.'
wat
>Q: Question for both Kawahara and abec, who are your favorite characters? abec's answer: 'Suguha. She had a very touching story and I like her boobs.'
pls
>Q: If you could remake the Aincrad arc, what's the thing you'd want to change the most? A: I'd make Kirito more faithful to Asuna.
Fucking manwhore.
That was a pretty nuanced answer to the fantranslations question. Nice.
>>139217319
>Password is: glop
Well done.
>>139216504
I guess you could say AR in general is a link to AW.
>>139217543
>But I asked my editor, Miki what I should do after Alicization and he said to keep going, so I might continue with the main series after Alicization. Progressive might never come out faster
God dammit Miki.
I thought Argo was the one writing the All Accounts of Aincrad book in lore.
>>139211766
What's the difference between SAO and Overlord?
Nothing. They're both self insert garbage.
>>139217737
>I thought Argo was the one writing the All Accounts of Aincrad book in lore.
Completely fancanon, AFAIK.
>>139217625
Probably. It would have to talk about the infrastructure needed to make widespread AR a reality.
But seriously, how is fighting around the streets of Tokyo a good idea?
>They said that awhile back they decided they wanted to make a movie, and they had two ideas for it. One, they could make an entirely new story, which is of course what they decided on, or, they could remake the Aincrad arc.
>they could have made a movie for Aria
Maybe they could animate First Day too already, fuck.
>>139216818
>a little autistic
Understatement right there
>>139211766
I would rather have 30 more years of .hack instead.
> VR is now a reality
> Not making The World
I don't understand... don't this people like money or something?
>>139217543
>>139217737
>>139217900
The Argo one doesn't make sense, seeing as she appears at the end of SAO, in The Day Before. Kawahara must be asking to be knifed, if he kills her.
But yeah, it is pretty much fanon that she was the one who wrote the Aincrad book.
>And for anyone curious about abec's live sketch. He drew Asuna in less than an hour. He also drew Klein's face because whenever Klein was mentioned the crowd went nuts. He was drawing on a little tablet thing, so several times when Klein's face was on the big screen he picked the image up and started moving it around like one of those x intensifies gifs.
Dammit, I want a gif of this.
>Kawahara's favorite character is Sachi
Better expand on their guild in Progressive.
>>139218236
I had forgotten about that. Thank goodness, Kawahara can't kill best girl now.
>>139218236
Exactly. Kawahara isn't the best about remembering minor details of his canon, but that'd be especially bad.
>>139218403
Kirito meets the Black Cats months after the 25th floor clearing. In the unlikely event Kawahara actually intends to write all 75 floors, I hope you enjoy waiting.
>>139217543
>But I asked my editor, Miki what I should do after Alicization and he said to keep going, so I might continue with the main series after Alicization. Progressive might never come out faster.'
Miki ruins everything. I'm tired of that bum already.
>>139217543
>abec's answer: 'Suguha. She had a very touching story and I like her boobs.'
>She had a very touching story
Really.
>>139218854
I touched myself a lot to her story.
>>139216560
>>139216890
He also went to a Sphere concert a few weeks ago and played fallout 4 for a bit
>>139218932
No, you touched yourself a lot to her PLOT.
>>139217319
>no Asuna action until p53
Oh well.
I'll work on this intermittently. Can you edit? Because I can't. Should I just make a thread and dump raws with TL when I'm done with a chapter?
I don't understand. Is SAO good or bad? If I were to watch/read it, which parts should I skip?
>>139219321
Why don't you decide for yourself?
>>139219439
Go away Nagi
>>139219478
Who's Nagi?
>>139219575
Go away newfag
Also lurk more.
>>139219654
Why would you call me a new homosexual?
And why would I "lurk"?
>>139219957
Go away Nagi
I wish I can talk about how awesome the author is with someone. Does he have a fan club?
>>139220172
You can go back to Rebbit >>139216818
I wish we could discuss SAO without autists shitting up threads. Yeah we know you all have to fit in with the hivemind, and SAO is not perfect, but can you shut the fuck up for once?
>>139220351
They'll probably shut up around the same time Madoka and Fate fans shut up.
>>139220351
We have good threads when people like you ignore them.
>>139211766
>tfw there will be no Sinon in this
Fuck me, guys. I don't care about who Kirito ends up with, but I really like Sinon though.
>>139220618
>tumblr gif
I just hope the manga gets to Suguha so Himura Kiseki can work his magic
>>139212709
Genuflect before you get rekt.
>>139213068
It's not bad when you at least try to improve on the original source material as he has done with Progressive.
>>139220701
>caring about where an image comes from
>>139221032
You need to work on your false flagging, it's too obvious.
I just want SAO 3 already. Fuck the movie.
>>139221056
What the hell are you talking about man? I don't feel as though I'm trying to deceive anybody here.
>>139220618
>current year
>using gif
>>139211766
30 YEARS WORTH OF SEMEN
Is Progressive any good? Worth a read? I watched SAO and while I thought it was pretty bad, I didn't hate it.
>>139213292
There's nothing I hate more when people admit that they can't write and then don't bother to try to improve.
What does it say about a writer that can't imagine how to write characters that aren't lusting after the main character or telling him how cool he is all the time?
I mean, for fuck's sake. This is fanfiction level writing. Shit, is fanfiction even the bottom tier of writing anymore? It seems like any half-wit can get an anime as long as he gets a good artist on board.
>>139222340
The original SAO was less of a MMO and more of just an action-adventure story. Progressive is a remake of the original SAO Aincrad arc and makes it more MMO-like and Asuna is a better developed character.
>>139222340
Reviews of Progressive seem to be worlds better than the main series. So maybe read the first volume and see what you think?
>>139222404
That was volume 2 of the original series. He has since then improved. Read Progressive.
>>139222414
>>139222440
Will do. Thanks.
>>139222404
>Shit, is fanfiction even the bottom tier of writing anymore? It seems like any half-wit can get an anime as long as he gets a good artist on board.
You haven't been paying attention to the recent trend of light novels? Web Novels are getting published merely for having a fan following on what is effectively the japanese version of wattpad or fanfiction.net
Arifureta, a web novel that is effectively a massive self-insert power-fantasy like no other, was picked up by a publishing company, and was assigned Takayaki was his illustrator.I bought it for the loli lewd though.
>>139211766
We better get 30 more years of Klein, he is best boy.
>>139222264
Fuck I forgot to ask him about glop
>>139223030
It's already been asked before.
>>139222404
I don't know, the author is constantly bombarded by fans telling him how great SAO is and how they love him, so he's drawing from real life experience after all.
>>139223057
I meant a live reading or even the proto-SAO published in a porn rag around 2000. I had the opportunity and I chickened out
>>139211766
YEES
>>139215834
Is Sinon ever going to show up in the GGO Spinoff?
Kirito falls in love with Asuna. Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of MMO.
>>139223425
NervGear finds a way
>>139220618
Sinon is in the movie. You can see her design on Anime News Network article about the movie. The only one who does not show up for the movie in Kirito harem is leafa aka suguha.
>>139216560
>Whereas Kubo has other hobbies and it shows in his work.
>Sneaking up behind people
>Hard counters
>Broken powers
>Asspull
>Glacial/Breakneck pacing
>Religious and mythical trivia
>Fashion
Why does that make him sound like a YGO player?
Why though?
>>139223425
FIND A WAY
30 more years of SAOAccel World will never have a follow up :'(
>>139223309
Think I remember hearing she has a cameo, but that's it?
>>139224656
Sinon a qt in any outfit.
>>139225414
Sure it can. Sunrise just needs to stop being selfish and give up the anime rights so A-1 gets it.
>>139223425Threadly reminder that you should stop posting that because it's a thing.https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/
So no Alicization until 2018, it seems. They're not even gonna start work on S3 until the movie is out (apparently)
Im not even joking we neec to kill kawahara. History will thank us.
>>139217543
>Q: Did Argo die? A: 'You see her alive in the game, but as I'm writing Progressive if I need a dramatic death something might happen to Argo.'
But Hollow Fragment
>>139217543
>That was a pretty nuanced answer to the fantranslations question
What fan translations question?
>>139228430
During the Q&A, they were asked their thoughts about fan translations.
Don't have exact wording of the answer, but here's what a redditor posted about it:
>Q: How do you feel about fans translating your work into other languages, and do your feelings on fan translations change after an official version comes out in that respective language?
>I'm gonna post this answer in a bit of a different format, because Kawahara, Miki and Kashiwada talked about this for at least 10 minutes, so there's no way in fuck I can paraphrase even 50% of what was said.
>Kawahara said that it's his personal opinion that fans translations are both a good and a bad thing. He's very touched that fans are so passionate about his work that they want to share it with the rest of the world, and surely without dedicated fans like that SAO would not be what it is today. On the other hand it does create legal issues and such for the people he works with so that's kind of the bad side of it.
>Kashiwada and Miki basically said that fan translations kind of exist in a grey area and that there's positives and negatives for them existing, but they think that there's a way for fan translations to co-exist with the official ones. They also wanted to be very clear that this is not an official statement from any of the companies that they work for or are affiliated with, this is simply their personal opinions on the matter.
>Kawahara went on to say that he frequently gets asked by fans on Twitter if they can get his permission to make an SAO game or some other kind of fan creation, and he doesn't really know how to answer these questions because at this point so many people are involved with SAO that that's not really his permission to give. At the same time though, he's not going to go out of his way to hunt you down or stop if you if you try and make something like that.
Does the title "Ordinal Scale" actually mean anything or does it just sound cool?
To me it sounds dangerously like some kind of tournament ranking is involved.
>>139228796
>To me it sounds dangerously like some kind of tournament ranking is involved.
That's more or less how the game works.
http://sao-movie.net/us/story/ordinal-scale.html
>>139229158
>in this system, each player’s status is determined by their rank which is indicated by an ordinal number instead of a cardinal number.
But isn't this how ranking normally works anyway? Ordinal literally just means you rank things in order.
>>139211790
Frankly, as long as there'll be more Kiri-ko doujins in the future, I won't mind itthat much.
>>139211766
Wait what? Isnt progressive about the details of what happened in sword art online? How the fuck does he have enough content to write about that for 30 years. Id understand it more if it was for the series as a whole.
>>139229363
Over 70 floors in between the start and the end of the Aincrad death game means theoretically he could keep doing Progressive volumes at the current pace of 1-2 floors per volume.
So far he's managed to keep it interesting but I doubt he'll actually keep going for 30 years because it would get a little stale.
>>139229363
>Wait what? Isnt progressive about the details of what happened in sword art online? How the fuck does he have enough content to write about that for 30 years
Volume 1: How Floor 1 and 2 were cleared
Volume 2: How Floor 3 was cleared
Volume 3: How Floor 4 was cleared
Volume 4: How Floor 5 was cleared
Volume 5: TBA
I think you see the pattern.
>>139229426
Well no shit. We already have large amounts of information about what happens after sao. As interesting as it mightbe to learn of the floors, itll always feel as if we're stuck in place in the story as a whole. We already know how Kiritos and Asunas relationship develops. We know what happens at the end of the game, we know who the bad guy is.The story will never be interesting enough to want it for 30 years.
>>139229477
I think I'm going to be sick. So much time lost and wasted on nothing.
>>139229502
Don't worry. Kawahara's editor says he has to continue working on the main story for all that time too!
Eventually, the real world time-line will overtake the story's timeline, and kawahara will no long be writing about a close scientific future, but a depressing dream of the past!
>>139228796
Wait if Kirito is the one-hander in the forground, then who was background dual wield?
>>139229627
Probably also Kirito.
The larger version of the background from the main site shows that the swords are Elucidator and Dark Repulsor, Kirito's swords from SAO.
>>139211766
If it's really going to be that long it will surely be hated as much as Naruto in the future
>>139219306
I can do editing on the English side of things. Whatever method is most convienent for you will work.
>>139227089
Would anons prefer an S3 to be about Alicization, or to be about Progressive?
>>139230487
Honestly couldn't decide.
The two are probably my favorite arcs at the moment, though maybe I'd go with Progressive, just to get more Argo.
>>139211766
Cool. I really missed the asspulls and besides there aren't a lot of series with 600+ episodes that would have the very first episodes in HD and not some 360/576 shit.
>>139211766
>30 years later
>One Piece still not found
>Naruto is now talking about Boruto's great great great great grandchildren
>Detective Conan is still a little kid
>SAO is still going
>>139211766
Definitely not. I wish he and A-1 continued Accel World since it could use a continuation waaay more than SAO, stop dragging that shit any further.
>>139230853
Only way to stop it is something more popular appeared in the future and SAO is not that popular anymore
>>139230853
Nevermind, Sunrise adapted Accel World not A-1.
>>139216121
Isn't that the same thing SAO itself does, minus the comedy?
>>139231109
It is, makes you wonder how Abriged is so shit.
>>139212709
Sao s1 was ok/good tier till Kayaba Akihiko died and even than it has shit moments like the ghost story, that shit is so retarded that it ruined everything and not enough, OPirito was dead and killed him as what wonder, ghost. DISGUSTING
>>139231153
If you can't think of any reasons why you hate something, maybe you're not supposed to hate it at all.
>>139231109
There is no comedy in SAO. There is in the abriged, though.
>>139231462
The reason is right there, appealing to 12 year olds, amazingly shitty jokes, sucking their own dick and more.
The only Abriged series that was remotely funny were parts of Gantz Abriged and miniscule parts of Yu-Gi-Oh.
>>139213611
Sao aincrad has so much potential, sao progressive should be the realization of that potential. I'm ready for 30 years of it.
>>139231619
the guy writing it is a talentless hack, there is no potential to begin with.
>>139229180
>cardinal
>the cardinal
Kawahara pls.
>>139225537
Just because it existsas someones fanfiction that has literally zero chance of ever getting animateddoesn't mean we should stop posting it. I fail to see your logic.
I hope Kawahara will find the Asuna of his life one day. He deserves to be happy.
>>139212846
but its not retarded
>>139231704
Haven't you seen this guy replying to, like, EVERY mention of this shit? He is the author of this fanfiction and tries to get clicks, don't fall into it. Just ignore.
>>139231521
I respect your opinion. None of us are the original SAO's target audience either, so I'm not blaming you for preferring one to the other. Tastes and senses of humour differ and all.
>>139232454
What are you talking about, both are shit.
There is no problem watching something, but if you can't admit that it is trash just because of subjective preference you have no right to an opinion.
>>139232531
>you have no right to an opinion.
>because you don't agree with my opinion
Well, I guess I shouldn't expect much from manchildren.
>>139232646
Yes, if you can't be objective, your opinion is trash, but tell to yourself whatever you like to hear.
>>139232692
>you can't be objective about opinions
This is why I visit SAO threads. Not because it's good, but because of this gold
What do female readers think about sword art online?
>>139212709
I'm glad that SAO fans will get more anime (I still want Index III) but SAO is below average, please, fuck off.
>>its 2046
>>be op's son with his waifu
>>everyone in my class watches SAO
>>SAO has been airing for 30 years now
>>It has become the DORAEMON of its generation
>>Kirito has been a 20 yr old neet for a good 30 years.
>>Still accompanied by Asuna and their cockblock brigade of girls.
>>Has devolved into episodic narratives that begin and end in 15 mins or less just like all prime time anime
>>young androgynous boys are popular in school
>>girls in my class all confessed to the popular boy that already has a girlfriend
>>they are happy to be cockblocked because TV says its ok
>>NTR becomes mainstream for doujin and manga
>>life is alright at nipponland
Innovation? Too many sylaburus.
>>139233005
This is too unbelievable. Thanks.
>>139233005
>>
Fuck off.
>>139233005
>implying there will be children in 30 years after the anime virus removed everyone's desire to have children
>>139232868
A couple I've talked to seem to just want a Eugeo or Bercouli.
>>139233222
what?
>>139223425
http://www.youdubber.com/index.php?video=JcVGDV67L-g&video_start=0&audio=MwxiSGv9gh4&audio_start=0
>>139233317
A boy toy.
>>139233222
>not wanting a nice hunk of a black dude who will provide for you
Some of the Dark Territory underlings are also pretty qt.
>>139233317
I've talked to a couple female readers of SAO. My impression of what they feel about SAO is varied, but it doesn't seem much different from any other fan, with their waifus and husbundos.
That sentence just felt appropriate when thinking about them.
>>139233514
>Some of the Dark Territory underlings are also pretty qt.
I want a qt Pugilist/Fist Fighter.
Also, it never really occurred to me that all of the Dark Territory residence were various shades of dark-skinned (either black or apparently mexican), until the very end of Volume 16.
Would find it amusing if "racist" became another term people used to berate SAO.
>>139223425
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keit-ai-finds-a-way/
Let your meme go the way of the Ghost Slide.
>>139233775
Dark Territory is a better place to live than Administrator's fantasy police state.
>>139233775
They don't need the Dark Territory to be Mexico for SAO to be racist. They already have the NSA's secret weapon, an army of murderous Koreans.
>>139220351
Has anybody even read vol 16 yet? I saw nobody who's ever talking about it.
>>139234072
In America, racism is painted in terms of skin color, so racism is typically against black and brown people and you can even decide a Hispanic person is white if it fits your narrative. They can't tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, and think that them hating each other is just national tensions and not racism.
>>139234166
There's also the bunch of Americans who think it's the best thing in the world to go kill a bunch of people because that's what we do here in Freedomland.
And then there's PoH.
>>139233775
I am more interested in the Dark Territory. I wish the enemies wouldn't be the edgy crazy type of villains again. Also, Reki really seems to hate males. Everyone who isn't Kirito is either irrelevant, crazy fucking evil or dies. Fuck this shit.
>>139234207
>There's also the bunch of Americans who think it's the best thing in the world to go kill a bunch of people because that's what we do here in Freedomland.
That's not racism, that's the target demographic of GTA Online.
>>139234072
>an army of murderous Koreans
The west isn't gonna care about that. They'll completely forget that SAO is a Japanese work that doesn't quite understand our views on race.
As such, there will probably be someone who over-analyzes how the Dark Territory represents Latin America and Africa, with Gabriel as some the White Master. Not to mention that the Dark Territory residence are all barbarians that measure everything by strength.
On the other hand, they might see it as SAO being Progressive by the fact that the Dark Territory is like that because the government made them like that, and that it's not their fault.
Honestly, there's plenty of ways to analyze the whole race thing in SAO, even if there's nothing really there.
>>139234207
>There's also the bunch of Americans who think it's the best thing in the world to go kill a bunch of people because that's what we do here in Freedomland.
When I read about the summaries, I thought this was gonna be really stupid, but you know what? It made sense to me in the story.
Kawahara predicted that 2022+ America was going to outlaw VRMMO games that showed excessive gore or violence.
Fuck yeah I'd join an underground game just to spite my government for keeping fun away from me.
>>139223425
FINDS
>>139234295
>2022+ America was going to outlaw VRMMO games that showed excessive gore or violence.
SCOTUS already said that you can't do that. They had Scalia write the opinion and everything.
>>139234334
You can't do that NOW. But all it takes is a Supreme Court ruling to change their minds. With VRMMOs putting you right in the center of the gore, and how there was that huge terrorist attack in Japan with 10,000 held captive for two years, it's not that hard to believe that certain types of VRMMOs would be banned in the US, especially with the rise of stuff like PC culture. (I doubt they'd be able to ban VR completely though)
>>139234420
>Laughing Coffin and the Death Gun incident is the new "school shooter played Counter-Strike"
>>139233775
how do they feel about the blatant self insert harem MC? or the fact that female characters like asuna just blatantly lust for the MC's cock?
>>139234420
Neuro-VRMMOs would probably be regulated by the FDA as medical devices, since anything that alters the CNS like that would easily be classified as such.
>>139234581
Most of them think the same about that as most of the male readers do. It's retarded.
Speaking of it, I think it got really ridiculous with Alice who only interacted with Kirito for - what? A day? But loves him more than anything nonetheless up to the point when all of her thoughts revolve around him who is basically just a puppet now. Hell she barely even cared about the Knight who died in the last volume, she's already busy talking about Kirito and bitch fighting with Asuna a few hours later.
Just letting people know, that in an hour it'll be March 29th in Japan. The day that Yuuki dies. For any of you that care.
>>139234826
>But loves him more than anything
It's hard to deny this, yet the author still denies it.
https://twitter.com/kunori/status/689349046775906304
>>139234826
>Alice who only interacted with Kirito for - what? A day?
Didn't they grow up together?
>>139211766
>Are you ready for 30 more years of SAO?
Fucking. . .
He can't be serious. It'll collide with Accel World timeline, what's the point of that?
>>139235019
Reading sure is hard.
>>139234919
>Mukatsuku!(I can't translate)7%
Exasperation? Infuriation?
>>139234826
but most male readers are otakus who love the self insert harem MC
>>139213611
>LOTS more Progressive
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
>30 years
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>139235004
Technically. But Knight Alice doesn't have any of her childhood memories, they're basically two different persons or souls. The old Alice left with Eugeo when he died.
>>139234826
>I think it got really ridiculous with Alice who only interacted with Kirito for - what? A day?
Reminder that the exact same thing happened with Liz. A bunch of hussies, the lot of them.
>>139235004
Both child and present Kirito and child and present Alice are essentially different people.
>>139235059
Dunno, most males seem to hate the Kirito lusting as well. Actually, most other male readers I've seen prefer Klein or other guys over Kirito and wish they'd get some girl for once. Whenever a new male appears that seems interesting they either die like Eugeo or are crazy at the end like Sinon's friend.
>>139235270
if they hate the mc why do they give the author money
>>139223425
I liked this meme better when it was called Ghost Slide.
>>139223119
Well, clearly.
How often do you have someone walk to an the writer of a big seller, regardless of quality and have them tell the writer that they think it's shit?
I've never heard of such a thing happening, because social tact tells us that we're not supposed to be doing that sort of thing. Even if I met the author in the middle of the street, I wouldn't be like SAO IS THE WORST THING I'VE EVER READ IN MY LIFE, YOU FUCKING SUCK.
>>139235316
Most people read Tap/Defan's translations. The only thing some buy is Progressive due to a lack of scans.
>>139234919
>Mukatsuku!(I can't translate)7%, and a secret emotion 3%.....
Confirmation she wants the D.
>>139234238
>Also, Reki really seems to hate males. Everyone who isn't Kirito is either irrelevant, crazy fucking evil or dies. Fuck this shit.
This is how newer harem series write males that aren't the main character.
>>139235464
>The only thing some buy is Progressive due to a lack of scans.
And yet, SAO managed to be a best seller for a while.
>>139234238
Pretty much all male characters in Alicization die, if they seem remotely interesting.
>>139235464
>The only thing some buy is Progressive due to a lack of scans
Apparently, someone finally OCR'd the first 3 volumes of Progressive for the masses so you don't have to give YP shekels for the volumes that are already out.
>>139235058
Likely Tsundere.
>Hey Guys, read SAO, it's great and totally NOT a Gary Stu self insert fantasy!
>MC is a special snowflake with a super great ability only he can use, in a fucking MMO
>Hey guys, read Alfheim Arc, MC isn't a complete Gary Stu in it!
>MC literally starts with all his SAO stats for some reason and literally has the Ghost of Kayaba give him cheats for the final boss
>Hey guys, read GGO arc, it has Sinon who is a strong independent womyn who don't need no Kirito!
>Sinon is a PTSD wreck who has to be saved by Kirito in the real world and in the game
>....Hey guys, read SAO Progressive, it's WAAAAAAAAY better than SAO!
>>139235988
I had more problems with the shitty enemies. The only okay one was the SAO fag, all others are the same shit. Insane fags who lust after Kirito's girl (first Asuna, then Shinon, now Alice). What you mentioned is shit though, yeah. Also, fuck all these breaking of the own rules. If the MC is supposed to find another cheat, deus ex machina, whatever to override given rules then don't even establish any rules to begin with.
>>139235988
SAO is not deep show, you just need to turn off your brain to enjoy it, it's a simple action show with gaming elements in it
>>139236262
That is not completely wrong, but you can write a simple story without shitty writing.
>>139235988
>Hey guys, read GGO arc, it has Sinon who is a strong independent womyn who don't need no Kirito!
Said literally nobody because the core of Sinon's character was PTSD.
>>139235988
Hey guys, read SAO Progressive, it's about elves and scamsters and communist demagogues.
>>139235988
>Hey guys, read Alfheim Arc
No one ever said this.BAWWWWWW HE'S ACTUALLY MY ONII-CHAN
>>139236872
And the elf has of course a thing for Kirito since he's super special and she's the only elf who actually developed an AI because it was Kirito fighting her.
>>139235988
>Hey guys, I came up with a greentext quoting stuff that no one ever said to trigger the SAOfags!
>>139236931
Is that what happened? There goes my hypothesis that "sapient" NPCs are actually just Cardinal-tan ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
>>139237247
It's not as extreme as with most other characters, probably due to her calm character, and she doesn't hang out with Kirito and Asuna all the time but it's still there and of course she never interacts with other males aside Kirito unless they're NPCs.
>>139234826
From a biological perspective is it possible for a virtual disembodied brain to have a sex drive without any gonads producing sex hormones?
>>139237979
That's actually a good question. Maybe yes since the real people like Kirito are basically still connected with their body, same as people who have a sex drive in dreams or astral shit. Regarding the Underworld people I guess the programmers just gave them some equivalent of a sex drive since they are supposed to reproduce in that world.
I kinda wonder why they gave them the need to eat food and things like that anyway. They could have just programmed them to live without that. There is no real sense for food. Maybe they had to regulate the growth of the population to avoid too many people being born in this small world.
>>139235988
>Hey guys, read Alfheim Arc
I honestly think nobody has said this before.
>>139238223
muh immersion
>>139238223
They're trying to make AI that understand general human concepts, I guess.
>>139238223
>I kinda wonder why they
There is no need to "wonder" why Rath does anything. It's plainly obvious that they're just retarded.
>let's clones the souls of human babies without informed consent and subject them to unethical social experiments, nobody could possibly jail us and our sponsors for this
>let's run our social experiment on a server farm that has external network connection capabilities so we can to dive into our experiment from Tokyo because we're too lazy to fly to our oil rig sometimes, no enemies of ours could possibly ever exploit this
>let's build the machine we use to dive into the experiment with no surge protection so any disturbance to the electrical wiring could easily fry the brains of whoever is using it, this couldn't possibly ever actually happen
>let's give all the test subjects dev console access instead of coding a proper magic system, nothing bad could possibly come of this
>>139238831
>>139238697
Why didn't they just use some Japanee Patriot Act bullshit to subpoena the ALO company to hand over Yui? Whether top down or bottom up I'm pretty sure Yui is more or less at the point where those two would converge to produce an AI that is of sufficient complexity for military purposes.
>>139238831
The whole thing is bullshit, same with the whole Alice-disobedience stuff. And I couldn't really believe that they're just able to turn this shit into a MMO in mere minutes and make that thousands of players can just log in without any trouble. It's kinda retarded that this super secret project is just a Seed sprig to begin with. There is no way that nobody could ever figure out how Seed actually works and make his own version of it without using the Seed hardware.
>>139238831
>let's clones the souls of human babies without informed consent and subject them to unethical social experiments, nobody could possibly jail us and our sponsors for this
To be fair, there's a very long history of unethical human experimentation for military purposes, not only in Japan, but also in plenty of other places like the US. They probably know they won't be jailed, because those sponsors you speak of are the Japanese government itself.
Wouldn't be the first time national security has been used as an excuse to violate the rights of innocent people, and it sure as hell wouldn't be the last.
>>139239410
>There is no way that nobody could ever figure out how Seed actually works and make his own version of it without using the Seed hardware.
Isn't Cardinal the incomprehensible black box? I thought Seed was the stripped down open source freeware that anyone can use.
>>139239499
>because those sponsors you speak of are the Japanese government itself
Yes, nobody in the history of democratic government has ever been scapegoated/arrested/impeached in response to public outcry as dictated by political expedience.
>Wouldn't be the first time national security has been used as an excuse to violate the rights of innocent people
This isn't a matter of urgent national security, Japan isn't in the middle of a war for its existence. Kikuoka was just jealous of Obama's drone fleet.
