>Hey guys, read Alicization Arc, it's better than Alfheim and GGO!
>MC is literally a higher being than everybody else around him and Asuna is now literally a goddess
I hate you /a/
Read Progressive instead.
>>139329978
sounds fun, should get an anime just for the threads.
>>139329978
>creation goddess Asuna
What the fuck happened?
Alicization is ending next year, folks.
>>139329978
Nobody said it stays good.
The beginning is promising, and when they notice WILLPOWER bullshit it turns into shit.
Guess volume 9-11 or so were good.
>>139331739
DMCA from YenPress killed it from Baka, no idea who picked it up after. Can you guys at least confirm Alicization translation is around, and that chinese pasta is a ruse. Otherwise all sources point it to be shit. Doesn't help with that awful tea time ending shit that existed when he first started Alicization.
>>139333117
It's translated all the way to the current Japanese volume.
>>139329978
>reading sao, ever
You only have yourself to blame.
>>139329978
> this guy went to read SAO
HaHaHa
>>139333904
Went half way through Alicization just because his writing style improved compared to early Accel and SAO from wn times. Nothing loss if I have the free time. practically half way through it before.
Doesn't everybody realize who the true black swordsman is? They should read this guy instead of the forced drama that is SAO.
>>139335768
Please, we don't need millenials that tried to make OC donut steel edgy character just so they can compete with Kirito.
>>139335849
Kirito is badly written. You fucked up the moment you disagreed with the fact that Guts is all the more greater character that is a million times better than Kirito.
>>139335768
How do I read hiatus?
Also no one here reads SAO for Kirito.
>>139331739two years worth of semen flowed endlessly into asuna
>>139329978
>Asuna is now literally a goddess
already sounds better than Alfheim and GGO to me.
>>139335989
Still worth rereading. Lot better than the writing mess that is SAO
>>139333117
lmgtfy.com/?q=taptaptap+SAO
>>139336119
Given that most of people reading SAO have normalfag tastes, anons here likely read Berserk too, these two aren't mutually exclusive or something.
Secondly, comparing SAO and Berserk just because they have "black swordsman MC" is pointless, SAO is completely different genre. You might as well go into Raildex threads and complain to them why aren't they reading seinen manga instead of shounen novel, unless you're baiting.
>>139336277
There is a fine distinction to what is considered good writing and genres. Yes there is that line where genres do not mix but when there is good writing and bad writing, Berserk will always win.
>>139336119
>If you read one thing you cannot read the other
How does it feel to have ADHD
>>139329978
Your fault for reading anything SAO related. That's like asking you to read Naruto.
>>139336361
Why is there need to argue about that? Some guys on youtube or MAL might take you seriously, but anons reading SAO unironically usually realise it's flaws and good points too. Berserk has nothing to do with it.
Are you lonely or something?
Lost the pasta I posted two years ago, but to sum it up
>Japs rape Koreans and Muricans with less than a tenth the numbers
>Kirito somehow invents ORIGINAL MAGIC DO NUT STIEL after being in a coma for years and one-shots everyone
>He then proceeds to turn PoH into a tree because that's literally the worst thing that could happen to anyone
>Gathers the hope of everyone in the world, Starburst Stream
>Become Gods in VR world for rest of eternity
>The End
>>139333009
>The beginning is promising
>it turns into shit.
I'm starting to see a pattern.
>>139336558
That sounds season1-level retarded. I hope it gets animated.
>>139336558
n a n i s o r e
>Vr
>gods
>>139336799
A1 says they're adapting SAO until it ends. So we'll see it happen
>>139336862
Allegedly they experience thousands of years of VR time in the lapse of one real world second or some shit like that. Maybe someone that has read more about Alicization can confirm.
Anyways, Kirito and Asuna are now eternal gods of mankind in the VR world.
>>139337005
I'm not really bothered by the fact they become fucking gods, that can be explained by setting considering the concept of Underworld albeit ridiculous, but how the fuck they did not go crazy living 1000+ years. 100 is bad enough.
>>139329978
>MC is literally a higher being
Not yet.
>>139331739
She logged into a VR world (that was not a game) using a "Goddess" account.
A lot of complicated things this arc.
>>139336558
>Japs rape Koreans and Muricans with less than a tenth the numbers
But the Japs got wrecked by the Koreans. Also the Koreans and Muricans were all using level 1 accounts compared to high-level Japanese accounts (due to the silly character transfers)
>ORIGINAL MAGIC DO NUT STIEL
What?
>for rest of eternity
200 years. Still retarded, but less silly.
>>139337102
>but how the fuck they did not go crazy living 1000+ years.
They sleep for most of the time.
Who the hell is Kawahara's favorite character after all this? It seems he changes every day.
>>139336558
People like this shit?
>>139337298
>anime
People like this shit?
At least there'll be another wave of best boy fanart when they animate this trainwreck.
>>139337450
To bad most of it will be yaoi shit. All the porn will be Kirito butt-fucking Eugeo up until the point that Quenella is introduced.
>>139337298
Bad writing doesn't mean not entertaining, I've endured alot of other bad writing shows and watched them until the end including Narutu.
>>139337153
>What?
Something about converting himself to light element or something to fly at ridiculous speeds
Don't really remember it too well, Chink translations were finished back in 2012
>>139336368
You will have a bigger ADHD from reading SAO. Fair point?
>>139336558
Haha wait what? Where the fuck do I read this shit? It sounds too good to be true.
>>139337450
I'm now extremely distraught. Is the writer actually gay or eternally waiting for the perfect waifu to come into his life?
>>139337500You say all that like it's a bad thing, anon.
>>139337584
>be told that your point doesn't make sense
>insult and parrot
Classic /a/
>>139336558
>>139336862
>>139337599
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
>>139337574
If I recall, Kirito uses Eugeo's ice sword to basically one-shot the entire army of Korean gamers, turning them into ice-sculptures.
He uses his own wooden sword to turn PoH into a tree (and lets him mind-break from the two hundred years of absolute isolation)
He then uses Incarnate to grow wings, and chase after the big bad.
>>139337719
The point is SAO is not worth reading while the better option is to reread Berserk which has far better writing than SAO.
>>139337720
This sounds like a power fantasy on drugs. Where do I read it? Are there images?
>>139337720
I'm not sure if I should call Kawahara racist for this since most of japs seem to traditionally hate Korea and China.
>>139337542
Do tell on how this trash is better than Naruto. I'm not even a Naruto fan, but tell me how this schlock is entertaining.
This is unironically, how children (and really bad writers) write their characters and stories. I don't come to this genre for "deep" and "meaningful" stories, but this literally literary trash, and the author has admitted he can't write and never tries to get any better.
I could probably go to fanfiction.net and actually find stories that compare to how this is written.
I'm perplexed, because shows that even just half as bad as this come and go. SAO takes pandering as far as it can go and the writing broke the barrel and is digging up dinosaur bones and it's doing great. The only thing I can see it has going for it is the music, animation and character design
Is that it? Is this the secret?
Pants on the head dumb yet it will make tons of money. This isn't fair at all.
>>139329978
wow it's almost like 4 years of semen glopping endlessly into the reader's brain
>>139337852
It's riding on VR hype and wish-fulfillment. It sells because idiots and children see it and think "man, that'd be so cool!"
>>139337823
You might put literally any critically acclaimed title instead of Berserk here.
>The point is SAO is not worth reading
Most of things /a/ discusses is forgetable trash full of cliches and fanservice, what now. I'll tell you more, going outside and having a life might be a better option than reading Berserk too. In that aspect, reading both SAO and Berserk is pointless.
>>139337928
It is like reading a badly written children's novel compared to reading "No Longer Human".
>>139337720
This is almost as good as Mahouka. Almost.
>>139337832
To be fair a lot of it comes from the Chinese government using Japan as a boogeyman to distract their populace from domestic issues.
>>139337928
>This isn't fair at all.
It is fair. People generally enjoy primitive, easy to understand things. Being elitist and thinking that complicated things are better isn't really superior way of living on a big scale. We're all going to die anyway.
>>139338009
Except Berserk is something that you should read if you want a real distinction of discovering good writing when you read in the real world or become an author. There are plenty of ways to go about this but Berserk will always win.
>>139337720
>they didn't think Japan is more different from Korea/China than European countries are from each other
Uh, European countries are pretty different from each other. Or does the author actually think that Britain is just like Switzerland which is just like Italy which is just like Poland which is just like Norway which is just like Germany which is just like like Portugal? Did he somehow miss the hundreds of years of European wars?
>>139338186
>Did he somehow miss the hundreds of years of European wars?
Kawahara isn't Kawakami.
>>139338108
Then you won't be able to improve. Understanding complicated aspects of life will be able to help people evolve and understand the human nature. Going by that logic, we should understand the distinctions of what is considered better.
>>139338009
>>139338108
>anon stumbles his way through an appeal to nihilism in order to justify liking a shitty cartoon
>>139338009
Well, if you put it like that, reading anything that isn't strictly education is a waste of time.
>>139338147
>you should read if you want a real distinction of discovering good writing when you read in the real world or become an author
Says who? I'd even agree if you brought up some literature classics because at least then we'd be comparing novels to novels, but Berserk is just a fantasy manga. And the writing began to sliding downhill after Golden Age.
>Berserk will always win
Dude, I'm starting to doubt your sanity at this point. No one here claims that Berserk is bad or worse than SAO, so it doesn't "win' anything because there's no contest.
>>139338186
as far as Japan is considered, everybody from Western Europe is blonde haired and blue eyed, and everybody from Eastern Europe is white haired or otherwise albino.
>>139338310
Let's stop beating around the bush.
Why do you like SAO?
>>139332887
Maybe.
But Kawahara's editor wants him to keep writing, even though Alicization was meant to be the end.
On top of that we're getting 30 more years of SAO Progressive, and will probably continue to get SAO until Kawahara dies.
>“Hey, let’s fight fire with fire, then! The number of internet shut-ins here will never lose to that of the US. Let’s make our own closed beta website, have, um… RATH or whatever, prepare some more accounts, and we’ll have thirty to forty thousand people in no time!”
>“But, there’s one very troublesome problem.”
>Agil said shortly, his log-like arms crossed.
>“What problem is that?”
>“Time difference. The time now in Japan is still 4:30 AM, which is when the smallest number of players are online. On the other hand in the US, it’s 12:30 PM in Los Angeles, and 3:30 PM in New York. In terms of online player numbers, the other side has way more of them.”
kawahara pls
>>139338496
I want thirty years of Accel World, not this shitty sword autism simulator
>>139338496
Won't SAO become dated within those 30 years when we actually reach the year 2022 and VR videogames have evolved very differently from how he envisioned?
>>139337832
It's not as racist as Mahouka's story. litterally evil americans, Koreans portrayed as ignorant monkeys and China nuked off the map as Onii-sama looks like Jesus come to judge them.
>let's clones the souls of human babies without informed consent and subject them to unethical social experiments, nobody could possibly go to jail 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
>let's not implement a level cap for anybody who isn't a GM so it becomes possible to grind for admin privileges, none of the millions of test subjects that will exist over the course of the experiment's lifetime could possibly ever abuse this
>>139338310
The psychological aspect of at least quite of few of Berserk is considered phenomenal even Griffith. The aspects of understanding the characters of Berserk was great which is good writing by adding the character's depth to the story.Why should you keep SAO despite its bullshit story and characters and cheap attempts to grab the audience rather than to read good writing? Because you enjoy it? Enjoying shit is terrible and you should open your eyes and realize that you should see the real writing quality.
I actually liked that arc in the beginning, it was probably the most interesting one for me. But it had some weak volume when they were climbing the tower and got really downhill at the point when Gabriel Miller or whatever his name is appeared. The latest two volumes were horrible in my opinion.
>>139338420
Kawahara does put work in writing the setting, and some of scenarios and plotpoints are just entertaining shounen-tier read. I also like that it avoids some of cliches, like Kirito being indecisive or dense regarding girls or being charged with solving girls' mental problems(GGO is only thing that does this VN heroine routine).
>>139338703
> great, Kirito avoiding cliche and making himself look better again despite his badly written character that cannot be fixed as shit like this cannot redeem itself. Writing like this cannot be improved by things like this anymore. Stop defending it.
>>139338634
Maybe Kawahara just thinks government are a bunch of idiots?
>missing that the new VR headsets on sale can deliver lethal brain-boiling microwaves.
>missing that the 300 players who failed to wake up are currently logged into ALO.
>missing the access logs for the known-to-be-vulnerable electronic locks at the houses of GGO murder victims.
>missing that Johnny Black was just wandering around Tokyo with his face uncovered looking for Kirito to assassinate
And now when it comes to their drone project they just have utter shit security all around, they missed that their project was infiltrated by the CIA from the very beginning, they missed that Quinella had managed to bruteforce herself admin privileges, the whole thing is an utter shitshow.
>>139338863
Crap. I forgot the enter bar. Fuck.
>>139338634
>nobody could possibly go to jail for this
Well, computer programs, no matter how sentient have no rights, so yeah.
>because we're too lazy to fly to our oil rig sometimes
It's retarded they have this set up like this, but it's also so they can have other people test their stuff without having to fly them to the Ocean Turtle. Like how Kirito was diving from 3 days (11 years) without ever knowing what was really happening.
>nothing bad could possibly come of this
To be fair, for someone to randomly say aloud, "List all commands" in English, without really understanding English as a language and just brute-forcing random sounds, is an abysmally unlikely scenario.
That all being said, RATH is the epitome of bad practice, and it makes me wonder how they this project is still afloat.
Did anybody else read vol 16 yet?
Does it get worse or will it only get better now than this retarded over powered protags shit?
>>139338649
>you should see the real writing quality
For the fourth time, no one says that Berserk is badly written. Do you seriously believe that people can't enjoy both seinen and shounen for different reasons?
>Stop defending it.
Stop pretending to care about other people's tastes, no one wastes so much time on discussing a shounen novel that has nothing to do with your favorite manga for a good reason. The only reason you're doing this is to feel good about yourself and your "real quality writing" tastes.
>>139338904
Haste makes waste. SAO must be really important to you.
>>139338634
There's surge protection but that's disabled by bomb.
And I don't think Japan have US-level law against human cloning
>>139329978
>/a/
/a/ told you to stay away from SAO because it was shit. Don't blame the board because you listened to the faggots who read LNs and like SAO.
>>139339073
the actual LN haven't reach this yet. Wait for vol.17 which is due to release next month to find out
>>139339057
>for someone to randomly say aloud, "List all commands" in English, without really understanding English as a language and just brute-forcing random sounds, is an abysmally unlikely scenario.
That really depends on what commands there are which are known to the residents of UW. If they have a sufficient number of empirically known commands some of which contain "list", some of which contain "all", some of which contain "command", and one knows the results of each command, it would be possible to use basic logic to parse the syntax and figure out what attributes might be associated with each word.
>>139339073
I found these two to be adorable together.
>>139339383
I imagine "all" is probably in a number of commands, but probably not "list" or "command".
Then again, we only have the full commands for about a dozen "spells", so can't really know.
Progressive v4 English when?
>>139339577
Late October.
patient_skeleton.jpg
>>139339493
Maybe Cardinal-tan was wrong and actually the NSA secretly slipped her a list of console commands?
>>139341585
But at that time, Cardinal and Quinella were one and the same. They didn't split until long after.
>>139341767
Then I got nothing, barring memory capacity shenanigans. It's just the infinite monkey theorem at work.
>>139341853
There're actually only ~7 kana. well you can have hundreds of millions possible arrangement for kana, but at least the chance of getting ot right is higher than some lottery, and you can try it far more times than lottery.
>>139342239
>kana
what the fuck kind of videogame has its dev commands in kana
>>139342239
*for 7 kana
>>139342295
IIRC the original novel write those commands in kana
A possible explanation would be that, they might code it in English, but devs are Japanese and they teach UW people to use commands by themselves so obviously the system would have to accept japanized english to let staffs and uw residents to use those commands
And according to http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sacred_Arts , the actual command is: Inspect Entire Command List
Is there anything RATH actually did right?
>>139342699
Government did nothing right is a stereotypes, probably more prevalent in Japan than most other developed countries
>>139342699
They proved the existence of the soul, thus answering thousands of years of philosophical and theological debate. That's kind of impressive.
>>139342239
I'm pretty sure you still need to pronounce it in proper engrish, but I could be wrong.
But 7-9 kana, in random order? That's about 109 possible syllables.
That's close to Two-Hundred-Trillion possibilities at the least.
>>139343027
*It's ~13 kana if it is "inspect entire command list", but "inspect" and "entire" should be something you can see a lot in different commands then it would cut down the randomness to 6 kana plus a few words that have similar meanings that also exist in the list of command.
>>139339493
Oh my, do you mind uploading the digital illustrations somewhere?
>>139343384
It's all on the individual volume pages on thewikia.
>>139343466
Great, thanks.
Can't wait to see the expression Alice will make when kirito kisses asuna
>>139336558
>>139337720
You guys do know that this is fake right?
>>139343878
>fake
Just wait for Volume 17 in a few weeks (and the translation next year). That's where most of the copy-pasta comes from, but the first couple lines of the long one have already happened (or is starting to happen)
>>139343466
Only volume 6 and 16 were there, but thanks for these anyway.
>>139343878It's not, though.
I wonder if Kawahara will tone down the racism.
>>139344138
I'm up to date on the LNs. Only a small part of it is actually true.
>>139344134
The color illustrations from Volume 13 are the ebook versions as well.
They'll probably upload the rest of the ebook illustrations later. I guess.
>>139344134
I assure you you are quite mistaken.http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_Light_Novel_Main_Page
>>139344219
It hasn't gotten to the main part of that yet. You are aware that SAO is a webnovel that has been complete since 2008 and there have been spoilers out forever, right?
>>139344247
>13
I meant 12.
>>139344306
Missed it, thanks.
Progressive 4 is as well.
>>139344138
>I wonder if Kawahara will tone down the racism.
Is this considered racist from japanese's point of view though? It seems even more normal to them than for american to view russian as evil stereotype.
Who cares, at least he was a vegetable at one point.
![[HorribleSubs] Sword Art Online II - 22 [720p].mkv_snapshot_11.37_[2016.03.30_23.59.08].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xWf4pzK.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Sword Art Online II - 22 [720p].mkv_snapshot_11.37_[2016.03.30_23.59.08].jpg")
I was rewatching SAO recently for kicks and something hit me that I never actually thought about before but suddently occurred to me this time because of related personal issues.
>Yuuki's doctor literally invites a stranger who walked in the door with no photo ID to look around the hospital, and spills everything about Yuuki's medical history and involvement in an ongoing clinical trial while Yuuki is in another room
Seriously, somebody please report this man to the Japanese medical licensing authority
>>139344788
A vegetable that was magically revived because brain electrocution can be cured with the power of love.
I don't give a fuck about Alicization.
Progressive 4 in english when?
>>139329978
Your fault for trusting those shitty anons.
The only good parts about Alicization were the gaybros adventures. (Prologue included)
Makes me wish Kawahara wrote more about them.
And some parts of the war. Except Alice; and the rest of the harem, fuck them.
DT pov was truly great.
>>139336558
>Becomes Gods in VR world for the rest of eternity
*almost the rest of eternity
You do know that they got extracted by the time the machine got fixed, no?Which is why Star Queen Asuna no more ;_;
>>139347473
>Which is why Star Queen Asuna no more ;_;
That'll likely be changed in the LN version, really.
>>139347576
Makes me wonder how will the LN diverged from the WN and when will that happen.
>>139338147
>Twilight and 50 Shades got published
>so did Eragon
>Self insert fanfiction known as the Divine Comedy was published hundreds of years ago
you don't need to be good; just lucky
>>139338879
He's probably right about the government being incompetent monkeys.
SAO is made of worse.
>>139347745
It diverges plenty of times, but each time it usually comes back to how the WN was.
Eugeo had to die in the LN, because the alternative was rewriting half of Alicization.
But changing a minor detail at the end of the final arc? Totally doable, without having to rewrite a quarter of the whole series.
>>139348000
So the ending of the arc will be pretty much WN-like? Also it'll not be the end for LN?So more android Alice?
>>139349516
Maybe?
Kawahara's editor wants him to keep writing, so Alicization probably won't be the end of the series, so yeah, more android Alice.
>>139338530
underrated post
SAO is mindless fun, Accel World is slightly less mindless fun with a better soundtrack
>>139349611
>more android Alice.
Alright I am in.
But considering the buildup and event flows from the Alicization arc I doubt Kawahara could make a larger impact afterwards. Any thoughts?
>>139344607
The Russians generally aren't depicted as sub-humans, as so common to depict westerners in Japanese media.
The best written ones have the Russians tear the US/West a new one before losing for semi plausible reasons.
The other thing is writing the Russian people as a whole as villainous is taboo. Usually it's renegades or people sore over the cold war.
>>139329978 k then
>>139338879
>>missing the access logs for the known-to-be-vulnerable electronic locks at the houses of GGO murder victims.
That one would be because the anime failed to mention that the people targeted had first generation electronic locks, which didn't keep logs.
>>139344817
That would be because the anime skipped them checking Asuna's idea to make certain she really was Asuna Yuuki, and barely mentioned that Yuuki had told them they could tell Asuna everything if she showed up.
>>139329978
>Asuna is now literally a goddess
Translation where? I want to read this.
>>139351262
Read the thread, also I really hope they diverge from WN ending, part of the reason why I never bothered looking up Alicization progress was the shittiness of end scenario that reminds me of his earlier writing style. This guy is a typical Japanese that can't do endings, but then again neither can a lot of western writers.
>>139344219
>I'm up to date on the LNs. Only a small part of it is actually true.
He's talking about the WN. The main plot of the LN does seem to follow the WN so the WN ending might be quiet feasible.
>>139338258
Existing is a waste of of energy if you follow that line of thinking to its terminus, so just shut up and enjoy whatever, nothing you do has ever or will ever matter.
>>139349806
Even if his editor wants him to keep going, there's not much he can do past the end of the Alicization arc short of doing something that would bridge Accel World and Sword Art Online.
>>139349516
I can't see him depriving fans of Alice.
But I could see a bunch of details of the mass player combat changing, and most of the epilogue being changed to flow into a new arc.
>>139356352
>and most of the epilogue being changed to flow into AW.
Fixed.
Really, all you have to do is not make Alice into a public figure.
>>139339057
>>139342699
>That all being said, RATH is the epitome of bad practice, and it makes me wonder how they this project is still afloat.
The Japanese Government-Industrial Complex is notoriously inept. They call it the Iron Triangle.
>>139342295
One with poor Japanese kanji IME support? Keep in mind the Japs have still yet to completely transition away from Shift-JIS to Unicode.
>>139344607
The Japanese exude a degree of xenophobia that would make Donnie feel well at home. It's something of a consequence of living without much outside contact on an island for a couple millenia.
>>139344817
You could just chalk that up to law of conservation of detail, but you'll be surprised by how much access you can get with just a room number and a friendly demeanor in most hospitals.
>>139344817
>Yuuki's doctor literally invites a stranger who walked in the door with no photo ID to look around the hospital, and spills everything about Yuuki's medical history and involvement in an ongoing clinical trial while Yuuki is in another room
The novel certainly mentions her having her photo ID checked. Anime skipped over it.
But yeah, blabbing every right off the bat is a bit much.
SAO and AW are from two different world respectively Kawahara said.
>>139338496
>maybe
But it's true! I asked him and that's what he said.
>>139329978
I like the part where they killed two people for attempted rape.
Absolute Justice, right?? :^)
But seriously the author has problems.
>>139357887
I was thinking more along the lines of whether he keeps the old Star King idea. I'm kind of expecting the non-Underworld parts of the ending to stay pretty much the same. I'm also kind of expecting the movie slots in around there, meaning he's following up on the "hey AR is kind of cool" side of Mother's Rosario first and putting the "hey fluctlights are made of magic and dreams" part of Alicization off for later.
>>139361104
>they killed two people for attempted rape.
One had his arm cut off. He lived.
The other tried to kill the people defending the girls, and had two arms cut off. He died.
Quit pretending you read it.
>>139329978
Bored Art Online
Found a preview of another big SAO poster when I was looking for a better shot of the next book's cover.
Argo up in the top left?
>>139363393
And also one of them going full weeaboo after going full westaboo in the other.
Argo in the top left corner again, Sachi in the top right. Not sure who that is in the top center background.
>>139363393
>>139363467
Yeah, these have both been out for a while.
As for the person in the back...
—Kayaba maybe?
>>139363597
Ah, much better at that resolution. Kayaba in his Heathcliff avatar, I think. Same lower face and that one long lock of hair.
>>139361583
Sorry the story just couldn't get me to care about those characters so I forgot the details. The cool characters were Cardinal and the Queen/Leader lady anyway.
Then they gave PoH a horrible bit part instead of making him actually important. Total lack of follow through there.
>>139361554
I wonder if Ordinal Scale's AR system is supposed to be a first step towards the more integrated dive of AW?
I think SAOs LN art has to be the best I've seen of any LN.
So which one of you faggots is in this photo?
Would SAO be better if Kiritos story ended in ALfheim and Sinon was the main character in GGO?
>>139364203
>The face of /a/.jpg
>>139364365
That would require anyone liking Sinon.
>>139337852
>Do tell on how this trash is better than Naruto
>Naruto
NANI SORE!
>>139364203
You welcome
>>139364203
Why can't I ever find a attractive anime fan?
>>139364877
>implying that abec and Miki aren't the suavest men you'll ever see in your lifetime
>>139364782
>.jpg
U DUN GUFD
>>139351120
>first generation electronic locks, which didn't keep logs
The sad part is that this kind of retarded design decision wouldn't be unthinkable in real life.
>>139364782
Are front row seats reserved for staff or are those Asian-Americans?
>>139366117
In 2016 maybe, given that we're just starting out into the world of smart devices and IoT. In 2025?
>>139367208
You have to remember that the electronic locks in SAO are literally a scam by the government to give them a silent backdoor (or in this case frontdoor) into everybody's houses, as part of their ongoing attempts to build a police state which includes the public face-scanning CCTV network they tried to use to find Johnny Black. The government guy Kirito works for said as much himself.
>>139363393
Cardinal-chan a qt.
>>139363393
Who's the girl in the carriage?
>>139367996
Administrator.
>>139329978
Alicalization is good without ALICE!
Revive Eugeo please
>>139364782
ABEX=BUNBUN
CONFIRMED!
>>139367996
Best girl
>>139329978
>>Asuna is now literally a goddess
>>notMAIDEN OF BATTLE~
Sans the VR aspects, Alicization is just a standard JRPG fantasy story
>in the beginning the world was created by the gods
>an evil god tainted creation and created original sin
>all the conflicts of man are irrelevant to the gods whose purpose is inscrutable to mere mortals
>everything you do is simply dancing in the palms of the hands of the gods
>who exist on another plane of reality that mortals cannot comprehend
>a single day of a mortal's life would not fill a single one of their seconds
>the apocalypse is coming for reasons only known to the gods
All it needs to complete the hurricane of cliches is for the AIs to decide to fuck destiny and kill all the gods
>>139367996
A mad genius and visionary who stepped into the forbidden territory of god.
>>139368172
>slut
>best
She is soft, though.
>>139329978
but I liked GGO 'cause Kirito was a trap in it
>>139368480
Polygons are not soft, unless Rath subcontracted their character models to Tecmo Koei.
Reading Progressive volume 2
can somebody just PK Kibaou already?
he's basically a broken record at this point, he's like those people who blame everything on immigrants but support big business that benefit from immigrant workers.
>We don't want to know anything from baters
>let's also throw a shitfit when baters know something we don't
no wonder PoH wants to kill all Japs if all Japs are this redarted.
>>139369115
Kawahara doesn't know how to write meaningful conflict, everything that happens between the beater squad and the proto-Army in Progressive relies entirely on everybody being a gibbering moron who trusts the words of random strangers because the like the sound of it.
>>139369115
Kibaou comes off looking like the lesser poison by comparison, though. Lind is king of faggots.
>>139369387
How long until everybody disappoints Kayaba so badly that he has to log on as Heathcliff and punch them all in the face?
>>139369115
You should know already that SAO villains are only moronic, childish and immature. Gotta make Kirito look the coolest remember.
>>139369631
Quinella wasn't that bad. Credit to her for recognizing that the world is a construct but not really giving a shit.
>>139337207
Sachi.
>>139369115
Kibaou's a pretty cool guy, aside from being an idiot.
>>139331739
GLOPPING
>>139369115
Scapegoating and fearmongering has been a favorite tactic of authoritarian demagogues for a long time.
>>139370482
The murder attempt was also not so great.
>>139373696
Unlike Kirito, he didn't have a hot waifu and haremettes to pick him him back up after getting his guild killed.
>>139373748
The guy was co-leader of the biggest guild. The fact that he couldn't translate virtual power into virtual poon is no one's failing but his own.
>>139373748
Neither did Kirito at the time when the Black Cats were massacred.
>>139369387
At least Lind continues contributing to game progress over the course of time instead of dicking around and collecting taxes.
>>139364203
There's me.
>>139374427
Lind has not shown up outside of Progressive, AFAIK. He may be leading up DDA, or he may be dead. There was a massive die-off at the 25th floor and an absence of leadership after Kibaou ran off, so Lind was either dead or completely sidelined by this point. Of course, this supposes that Kawahara remembers these small details of his canon. I guess we can only wait to see.
>>139375602
The wiki seems to believe that Lind is alive later in the anime, for some reason, but I think their assumption is just based on the fact he leads the DDA, without considering he may have died.
>>139376465
The fact that there was a leadership vacuum after the 25th floor would suggest that he's dead. There would be no pressing need for the KoB's ascendance if there was already a large and established clearing guild active.
Of course, this detail was first brought up all the way back in the main LN's volume 1 (I think), though the event was brought up again relatively recently in The Day Before. Progressive already represents retcons, so maybe Kawahara will change that, too.
>>139376833
Rather than Lind dying, it's possible he merely suffered a lot of casualties, but not to the same extent that Kibaou's guild lost.
>>139372011
Kibaou isn't a Trump, he's just an idiot.
>>139379260You mean there's a difference?
>>139373748
Who in SAO besides Kirito had a waifu?
>>139381791
Agil is literally happily married
Also catfight is best fight:
>Her third jab finally to parry the incoming strike. Switching to the offense, Asuna finally caught a glimpse of the attacker’s features.
She gasped in shock.
An astonishingly beautiful knight with snow-white skin, roughly the same age as she was, was glaring at Asuna. Her sapphire eyes emanated an animosity that seemed to crackle like electricity.
Her golden hair, seemingly fashioned from the element itself, billowed in the air. Her hefty armor and smooth longsword both gleamed a flaxen yellow.
From a distance, the girls looked on, eyes wide. Finally, they managed weak cries.
“Knight-sama, please stop!!”
“She is not an enemy, Alice-sama…!!”
— «Alice»!
Hearing this name, Asuna was stunned again.
This elegant swordswoman before her, wielding a weapon the weight of a boulder — was the world’s first true Bottom-Up AI, the highly adaptive artificial intelligence, ALICE? She was the goal of Project Alicization, and what RATH and the invaders both thirsted for — the center of everything.
But why was Alice attacking her?
Trying her best to block the golden blade, just as Asuna was thinking of what to say, a voice akin to the music of a famous violinist flared from Alice’s cherry-colored lips.
“Who are you?! What do you want with Kirito?!”
As soon as she heard those words.
Asuna tossed everything aside, feeling a certain emotion well up inside her. Specifically, it was a sudden fury.
Her reflexive retort only added fuel to the fire.
“Why…? Because he’s mine!!”
>>139382268
>What do you want with Kirito
>Why?
I think there is some grammar problem going on here
>>139381791
Agil, though she's off-screen.
Thinker (The Army leader), who had Yulier.
Kayaba, who had Rinko.
Caynz and Yolko look to be together?
And I'm pretty sure Bercouli is already hitting up Fanatio (Bercouli=Guy in the yukata, Fanatio=Chick in the purple armor on the left)
>>139382370
fan translations
of Light Novels, which aren't exactly bastions of prose even in their native touge
>>139382268
Anime when?
>>139329978
I've been waiting for 3 fucking years is alicization fucking done yet? Did you just spoil the fucking ending you asswipe?
>>139383849
There's one or two volumes left. According to the preview for Volume 17, Volume 18 should be the Climax.
>>139381791
There was Grimlock but then things happened. He was basically the worst type of waifufag.
>>139381791
Klein, he explicitly said Kazuto was "his style". Then another girl came along and cvcked him.
>>139384239
Skuld a qt
Can't blame him.
>>139382396
>Caynz and Yolko look to be together?
Caynz was specifically stated to be Yolko's boyfriend. As far as we know, they're still together.
>>139384563
She is a NPC, not your waifu.
>>139386095
You can't keep me away from qt NPCs.
>>139385345
Why did Rath teach the UW people to use Japanese but didn't get them to use Japanese names?
>>139387979
RATH pretty much just gave the first children names with random kana, to make it seem like some sort of western fantasy.
It's a usual occurrence in Japanese stories taking place in western-fantasy-like worlds.
I'm actually amazed that Kawahara put enough thought into it that a culture of names sprung out of it.
Oh, and Goblins actually do use Japanese words for names.
Does anything special happen to ASADA-SAN?
>>139388271
Kawahara likes to do stuff with names. Besides Kirito and Sinon's names being derived from the real names, you've got Klein whose real name is related to the Japanese term for a Klein's bottle, and Silica has a whole short story about how she got Silica from her real name Keiko. Then of course the one big twist in the murder case hinged on the similarity in pronunciation between Kains and Caynz.
>>139390352
She becomes a Sun Goddess.
>>139390406
That's a good point. "Names with meaning" seems to be a reoccurring theme in SAO, even if subtle or in the background.
Does Accel World have this pop up often?
>>139390711
Not usually in the same way given the naming scheme of burst linker avatars. "Color Noun" doesn't leave too much room for the same kind of word play. Aside from Black Lotus being nicknamed "Princess Snow Black", The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Lagoon Dolphin. Her friend kept calling her by her real name Ruka, and Kuroyuki didn't realize that at first, as she thought they were simply shortening "iruka" - Japanese for dolphin.
Other than that it's usually stuff like Silver Crow having a body with the properties of silver, Chocolate Puppeteer having a body with properties of chocolate, etc. The only one that stands out is Sky Raker. The name basically meaning 'person who sweeps across the sky'.
>>139390711
Why does Suguha log in as Leefa? The others I get because they convert their Seed accounts but she, Shinon and Asuna should be using RATH's super accounts. So why doesn't the STL just make her look like her real self like it does Asuna?
>>139329978
What the fug is even going on with this anime now, it completely diverged from the main plot
>>139374190
Kirito went pretty edgy after that.
Avocado Avoider will forever be the best Kawahara name.
>>139392932
Could have been her own preference?
Honestly, I think Abec just liked their ALO appearance, and Kawahara thought it was fine.
>>139393304
>main plot
SAO doesn't have a main plot. It has a series of serial arcs that are loosely connected by the theme of virtual vs real.
>>139396275
Context?
>>139397500
Context is Accel World.
>>139396275
But "Avacado" isn't even a color!
>>139396275
>>139397685
>Avocado
>meaning testicles
Sounds like this burst linker has quite the trauma.
