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Waste of potential
My normie friend heard I watch anime and wants me to watch it. What do?
This anime is amazing. I recommend it to EVERYONE. SAO made me super emotional and I couldn't wait to see the next episode to see what would happen. I give it a 9.5/10.
>>143566648
>normie
Fuck off.
>>143566428
>>143566428
I will never understand the massive amount of hate /a/ has for this
>>143566672
What happened to 0.5?
season 1, pretty good, not the best, the rest are shit, though gun gale online was cool still shit.
>>143566751
Some people don't like it and shitpost, then others jump on the bandwagon to fit in and this is repeated until we have the situation today.
Fuck off tripshit.
Daily autistic SAO threads with the same goddamn image by derp_commander.
>>143566771
Added to chapter 16 for glopping purposes
>>143566428
Doujins are much better than the anime
>>143566601
It never had any potential. It went from mediocre to shit in two episodes.
>>143566428
Eps. 1-12: Meh.
Eps. 12-24: Kill it with fire.
>>143567413
So you're saying Aincrad and Akihiko Kayaba were bad settings and villains?
The rules, the stakes and the psychological problems addressed were all bad?
>>143566428
SAO Abridged > SAO
>>143567130
Which is nice but also sad.
>>143567484
Dude, that guy literally said he forgot why he did this shit. And Aincrad is just a standard MMO fantasy setting with some added quirks that make no sense. It's set in multiple levels of an iron and stone tower, yet the sky is visible at all times.
It was eh up to the point when the girl just had to be older than the guy. Literally no point in saying that. LITERALLY. And I hate using that word. That just dumb as fuck.
Only thing good was the OP. But even that turned to shit when you realize how shit the show it.
>>143567759
Who cares why he did it. It was just a power fantasy for him. The tragedy is that thousands of people died. And the other thousands were forced to either risk their lives or accept the fake world as their only world.
>>143567868
The show was pretty good before it became a harem.
>>143566428
There ain't nothing to discuss except the fact that it was AWESOME. It pulled at my heart strings even though I got pretty jealous about it because I'll never find love like that.
>>143566428
As much shit as it gets, I'll admit I have a soft spot for the first arc. Something about battle couples, getting married and living in a cottage together was REALLY appealing to me. And I kind of would've liked if they HAD been stuck in the game longer and almost made peace with living there before they end up breaking out.
Everything after that's stupid though.
>>143568326
Everything good about it literally ended after the first arc because it was all based on getting trapped in the game and they were never trapped after that.
>>143567868
What's wrong with an older woman?
So what?
>>143566751
17 year olds validating their maturity by hating things 14 year olds like
>>143568583
I'm 21 and I liked it because there was no high school setting involved. However underage shit should stay off this site.
Why does this thing get so much hate on /a/ though. I'll never understand. I mean it's been popular everywhere on different sites except MAL or /a/
>>143569454
Fedora hipster butthurt, /a/ circlejerks worse shows that SAO because they are not as popular
>>143566751
>>143569454
Samefag.
Look at all these autistic normalfags redditors defending SAO.
>>143566428
In a sense it was a start to a new Era for anime.
I never thought much of it, but I got my friend into anime by telling him to watch that show and now it's his all time favorite anime
>>143569493
>implying
>>143567413
This.
>Here we got a series with an interesting series tower perma-death MMO
>Let's fuck it up by adding harem and unneeded romance scenes
>>143566428
Kazuto is best girl
>>143569714
Nobody except Klien mentioned it in episode 1. Weird shit.
>>143569714
>looks like a feminine twink
>asuna and countless other bitches fell in love with him
How?
>>143569806
Bishies get bitches
>>143569806
Did you start watching anime in 2016?
>>143569641
>Phonepster
Go figure.
>>143569873
No October 2014, if you count seriously.
Dragonball and naruto don't count if you saw them in the childhood do they?
>>143567887
>Who cares why he did it. It was just a power fantasy for him.
"Who cares why he did it" is the kind of blind apologism that only an SAOfag can peddle. Sure, his ultimate purpose is to get everybody in the setting Reki wanted but to say that his motives for doing so don't matter or handwaving it off as him just being insane is really pathetic for a writer. The whole thing just goes to show just how inexperienced he was when he wrote it.
>>143569950
How many anime have you seen, particularly ones aimed at SAO's demographic of middle-highschoolers, where the main heroine is attracted to a tall muscular adonis?
The whole point is creating an MC for the readers to self-insert to and that's much more likely to be a short slim male highschool student.
Would be better if all the characters had to use fists instead of swords
>>143570228
>>143566702
That glopping noise though.
>>143570395
Interesting but that doesn't fix the Gary Stu, his harem or his Mary Sue waifu.
>>143570395
>everybody using fists
>Kirito is still the only one who can dual wield
>nobody else can throw a left hook
>>143570634
Nobody can dual wield in runescape either. You're acting like dual wielding is something old. It isn't. It's relatively new.
>>143566428
its a great series with lots of plot holes
>>143570395
>turns into a manime
>characters scream so hard their chest equipment breaks
>the boss fights are all a binch of shirtless SAO players punching a well equipped boss
I can see this going places
>>143570634
No no. It'll be Kirito is the only one who can triple wield. I'll let you think about that.
>>143566428
good anime but even better pervert
>>143570453
Is this in the anime?
SAO revolutionized the VR MMO isekai genre with it's science based explanations. Sure it has asspulls. But thats better than explaining something using "magically transported into a fantasy world"
When VR comes out I'll spend all my time other than eating and toileting in there.
>>143570870
>SAO
>science based explanations
>>143570692
>Nobody can dual wield in runescape either.
Yes they can. They added that option years ago.
Bleach Art Online S3 will be fun
>>143570993
Old school runescape is the real runescape. The other version is corrupted.
>>143570971
>nerv gear
>cardinal system
>hospital coma
>VR
It's better than the magic asspull
>>143571181
>nostalgiafaggotry
>>143570862
In the light novel
>>143571259
You can't blame me. Although dungeoneering is like aincrad floor clearing
>>143566428
>Sword art online
>>143571592
It's cooler than you. And the 3rd season will trigger all of America and China. Because the author goes full ultra nationalist.
>>143571608
>Sword art online
>>143571434
Does the anime skip the scene but still mention that the two of them have gotten it on, or do they both remain virgins in the anime?
>>143571217
Since when listing things that happen in real life and technology count as science based explanations?
Also the way I see it a well constructed fantasy universe makes more sense than a poorly executed "realistic" story.
>>143571689
Realistic stories hung on the "possible" and therefore increase immersion for some people that don't live in a fantasy world 24/7
>>143566428yes, I realize the irony of this post.
>>143571742
I doubt that a story with such a blatant self insert MC as Kirito count as "not fantasy world"
Better than the berserk anime
I haven't watched it, and I honestly don't give a shit about what people on /a/ say, but for some fucking reason this anime i straight up disgusting to me, I made my friends explain me the plot and everything about the series but the more I knew about it the more I wanted to puke at the very taught of watching a single episode... It may be actually good because it appealed to so many people, but how can I know
>>143572380
MC is a bland overpowered faggot who gets his dick sucked nonstop by the author during entire series.
Animation is okay.
>>143572628
I know, I was studying this shit to further fuel my disdain
>>143566428
All I wanted was a story about Asuna and Kirdo not some other bitches coming in and ruining everything
![[UTWoots]_Sword_Art_Online_-_01_[720p][E986EDE5].mkv_snapshot_23.06_[2012.07.09_00.04.19].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mXHHzdF.jpg "[UTWoots]_Sword_Art_Online_-_01_[720p][E986EDE5].mkv_snapshot_23.06_[2012.07.09_00.04.19].jpg")
>>143572628
but it's really good at the waifu simulator 2022 aspect. complete with instant-daughter.
>>143566428
It's not as offensive and disgustingly hard to watch as it is boring.
It is very, very boring and I do not like it at all.
>>143566751
Because it was objectively shit.
>>143566648
>My normie friend heard I watch anime and wants me to watch it
Why does this always fucking happen? No joke I've heard variations of this from multiple people on all different times. Its like a meme I have to brace myself for every time I hear "You like anime right?"
What do?
I just warn them about the Elf shit
>>143570634
>>143570729
He's the only one that can kick stuff
>>143574208
Hey this is why you never let anyone know that you like anime. I know that the edgelords went full circle and now it's "ok" and a sign that you're "comfortable with yourself" to let the people around you know about your hobbies, but this shit will happen constantly if you don't conceal your powerlevel.
Sucks to be you.
>>143571638
She gets down to her bras and panties
>>143574475
I just wanted to share my interest with my friends so I had someone to talk to about it
>>143574409
Guess again.
Literally needed to end after defeating the guy who made the game.
>Asuna is the last one to die, just before crazy fucker
>Kirito escapes with the rest of the crew
>Find where Asuna was, attend her funeral
>Kirito becomes a programmer and honors her (Because this is a good message for the age demographic that it is meant for; stop playing video games and do something with your life)
>SERIES COMPLETE
>OVA about fairy land, maybe two. Nothing more. Only about flying and having fun, no rapist GM
>Movie about GGO, just to introduce Sinon. Doesn't involve Kirito at all.
There, I fixed the entire series.
