Whats so great about SAO

nicobashenfaggot said:


Overrated??????? - Have you seen the score???

Bikuta-san said:
Hello, can I watch this movie without watching the series?, I don't have a lot of time to watch the whole thing, and I am interested in getting into SAO.

Conservati0nist said:
ya you are kind of right in but i didn't mean to offend SAO or anything i just asked whats great in it you can like it bcz everyone doesn't have the same taste there can be some people who think SAO is better than death note, hunter x Hunter, FMAB, attack on titan and so on and i respect that. If you really like it than okay i just asked whats so great about it nothing more than that and yeah i think SAO is overhyped bcz i think there are anime that beats SAO in everything I don't want argue with you neither did i wanted to offend anyone i just simply asked whats so great about it

Conservati0nist said:
overhyped
And overrated means people give it too much credit than ut should.

chriskor022 said:
you changing your opinions quite often it seems. And its deserved its credit. And you can see how its going strong

Conservati0nist said:
how does it deserves the hype just bcz an anime has a beautiful animation it doesn't mean its good there are other things about it like story not every anime can do everything at the same time. And i think a silent voice, Your name, Weathering with you has better animation

chriskor022 said:
its has good story and better animation than other tv anime and you comparing movie to a tv anime which is stupid. And if you want to compare the ordinal scale has great action sakuga which can equal to others. And comparing romance SOL to action anime is not good because its useless

Conservati0nist said:
ok violet evergarden has better animation, you said it has good story. I heard from my friends they said that sao 1st season was good but it became boring.

chriskor022 said:
thats their opinion just a small minority that cant make their own and jumping bandwagon hate that these days are obsolete and their just making fun off. Boring is subjective word that has no bearing because of different preferences. And your thread shows how you baiting us fans to reply to your useless and biting to it. To show that even you drop the show and posting in movie discussion that nothing to do so but to troll is stupid move.

Conservati0nist said:
Woww! I just can't believe it. You think sao is good thats your opinion, i think sao isn't that good how people think it that's my opinion. You have so much free time. The only reason sao is popular isn't bcz its good the reason is the game. Anime before didn't have this kind of isekai where you can literally enter into a game and play. Bcz of that nerve-gear its so popular. And you said im stupid I don't care.

chriskor022 said:
you cant believe because its the truth. And im saying your take is subjective and you are just jumping to bandwagon which is the reason you make the thread. And you saying idc but you care, thats why you want some attention even you make a poll which you want majority to say its bad but unsuccessful. Because its not worth it to hate SAO now. And you need to move on and SAO is a good story and your opinion is just no weight because you dont even watched it fully. And you basing your opinion because of your friends find it boring, which negates this whole farce of a thread. But its good to create this even its not the right forum because this is for the movie

Conservati0nist said:
ah about the attention thing i don't need any attention from people from an online platform. I just made it actually i was going to make this on the series but miscalculated also i don't have the time to watch sao

chriskor022 said:
you create a thread about that is attention seeking. And you create at movie discussion that you dont even watched, so its worse than baiting because that is people watched the series to troll because they have much free time. And yes before making this baity thread you need to watch the whole thing because your thread has bias to hate and no room for discussion. Its becoming a echo chamber of haters that attract this whole thing. So if you want to see what is great about it. My advice is watched the whole SAO anime it has 100 episodes and multiple movies planned

Conservati0nist said:
ah than everyone who create threads want attention. Also i don't have much free time like so yeah that was my fault im stupid im dumb i want attention and so on what you said. I don't have time to watch an anime with 100 episode which isn't even my top priority. Now don't tell me to make sao my top priority over AOT, mob psycho

chriskor022 said:
because of not proper to create threads in the movie that you dont even watch. Its easy to assume that you want attention and me and others gave it to you. Thats the problem you dont have cared to watch but you care to create this useless thread in the movie forum when it has TV series. I dont even said that this is your priority, I just said that you dont have clue what you are saying when you dont even watch the entirety of it. And you are stupid enough to ask why it is popular and labeling overrated and overhyped are you living in the rock it past its popularity. Its stable now

Conservati0nist said:
yes im stupid enough that i don't care. I will delete this forum. Btw how to delete a forum.

chriskor022 said:
you cant delete the forum but mod can locked, but these past days they dont bother

Conservati0nist said:
Well im apologizing to every SAO fan if i offend them with this but im seeing this since i started watching anime that people really love SAO but whats so great about it. Maybe its good because i didn't watch the sword art online that much only 3 episodes maybe i didn't really find anything worthwhile and i lost my mood than dropped it. If you really wanna watch a romance isn't there other romance anime that are better than it also more better action anime theres even better isekai ni matter what i really can't see any reason for it to get this much hype i think its overrated. Ok i don't wanna write much but whenever a new series or movie comes of SAO people becomes really excited and SAO gets a hype. Is it really worth the hype. Most of the anime of SAO have a score of less than 8 some even have 6 score. The new movie came out maybe its good it has good score and maybe its good. I already said at first that im not someone to talk about because i didn't watch SAO. Sorry if i anyone by saying these things. But really I don't think its that great.

MickDH said:


tbh dude i have seen many "Romance" anime where the love interests do not even approach anything like Kirito And Asuna, Hell 99% of Romance anime the love interests don't even get together and then 99.99999% of romance anime the "Love Interests" never share a kiss or anything physical, It says a lot when an Action Fantasy anime like SAO that's main focus isnt even romance actually explores romance much deeper than as previously stated 99% of of romance animes out there. and another thing you said was that the show is "overrated" its without question the most DESPISED anime out there so that statement is just impossible....

HeDD3n said:
Well im apologizing to every SAO fan if i offend them with this but im seeing this since i started watching anime that people really love SAO but whats so great about it. Maybe its good because i didn't watch the sword art online that much only 3 episodes maybe i didn't really find anything worthwhile and i lost my mood than dropped it. If you really wanna watch a romance isn't there other romance anime that are better than it also more better action anime theres even better isekai ni matter what i really can't see any reason for it to get this much hype i think its overrated. Ok i don't wanna write much but whenever a new series or movie comes of SAO people becomes really excited and SAO gets a hype. Is it really worth the hype. Most of the anime of SAO have a score of less than 8 some even have 6 score. The new movie came out maybe its good it has good score and maybe its good. I already said at first that im not someone to talk about because i didn't watch SAO. Sorry if i anyone by saying these things. But really I don't think its that great.

vampirenazuna said:

these threads are pointless, if you dont like it just move on

Tharuth said:
The anime’s just okay/good (depending on arc if I’m being frank); sure there’s issues; but it’s definitely not lower than a 5/10 by any metric for people who actually watch their fair share of anime.

The LNs on the other hand are actually pretty good/great (admittedly upto LN 9, the writing is kinda shoddy), and for Alicization onwards and Progressive, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone that’s actually read it to disagree it’s bare minimum a 7-8.

The anime cuts fuck tons of content and exposition, mis-portrays Kirito, up-plays harem aspects which simply aren’t written that way (ie. Sinon’s introduction to Asuna, Alice and Kirito’s interactions as vegetable, etc. to the point where anime-onlies genuinely believe Alice is in love with Kirito) to the detriment of the KiriAsu dynamic (which is a major focal point, and gets shafted time, and time again), and is all around a mediocre adaptation; I’m not gonna lie and say it’s a bad adaptation, it gets “most” major plot points down, and does it reasonably well, and action scenes are second only to really Wit or ufotable (and MAPPA, but only some of them); but a good chunk is cut and not properly explored; Alicization is pretty brutal in this regard, bastardizing nearly all the characters, both major and minor). The adaptation is lacking and it shows.

As for why it got popular, nothing was better suited for success than a story about living in a digital world at the height of the VR craze, mark that with Crunchy’s introduction into the streaming space, riding the coattails of SAO’s success in the LN market and marketing it to the West and boom, you have a springboard.

Most of the criticism, I find, comes due to a failure of expectations to properly execute it’s premise (in the Aincrad stage); which I understand, but it also needs to be said that most of SAO is filled in through it’s side stories, it’s written as a one shot, and it shows. LN 1 (and the WN) is basically written as Kirito and Klein meet, introduction to Kayaba’s plot, then fast forward to F74 and Kirito finding the Ragout Rabbit; then 74 bossfight, Kuradeel intro, Heathcliff fight, Kuradeel K, marriage, then boom F75 boss fight. Everything from Sachi, Liz, Silica and even Yui, is added in via side stories. It feels disjointed, because it ultimately is. Pretty much everything is added after the fact. (Also, to note, the anime misportrays Kirito and Asuna’s relationship in that Griselda/MitSZ side story

This is where Progressive comes in, it’s a revisit into Aincrad Floor by Floor, like what the fans truly envisioned with SAO’s premise (one thing to note, is Reki has so far taken care not to retcon any major events thus far (such as Kirito joining the MBC, and Asuna joining the KoB), it’s considered canon and not a reboot.

I think that’s the best way to kinda describe SAO as a whole; basically anime = okay, LNs = good; it’s popular because right place, right time; and is undoubtedly one of the most influential series of all time, or at least the 2010’s. Without SAO, you may not have your KonoSubas, Re: ZEROs or Mushoku Tenseis, being produced.

jjrocks24 said:
Regardless of whether or not you enjoyed Sword Art Online, it was a trailblazer and will go down in the Anime Hall of Fame. This anime paved way for the isekai genre to prosper. SAO is honestly one of the better isekais in contrast to most we see today. i.e. We don't speak about the second half of the first season.

boukendesho said:
A couple of gems worth quoting that were missed in the midst of calling-each-other-dumb shouting. Love it or hate it, SAO is incredibly influential - arguably we are still in its era.

Claymore_Ranbu said:
yep bcz i Don't like isekai in the first place but i consider other isekai better than it bcz the fight scene were good and for me thats a crucial part if im watching an anime which have action.