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| The romantic embrace between Scheta and Iskahn was a really sweet moment during their constant battling against the enemy. I do hope they'll still be alive so that their dreams can come true. =) The rest of the episode was also bleak for our main heroes, too. On a plus point, Klein continues to be relevant and is playing a good part in helping Asuna during their fight, so as much as I do like Gigguk, his Klein meme can finally be buried into the ground for now. As for Sinon, Gabriel's return into the Underworld has given her a bit of a shock. No chance of her winning her fight against him, but I do hope she'll be okay. The other scene with the Korean and Chinese duo joining with the mob of new players to help out the "good" guys, but with their suspicions, I do wonder if they'll end up helping out Asuna's group in the end. Who knows... Sadly, Higa is now in a tricky situation, with Yanai pulling a gun and pointing it at him. Although predictable, the cliffhanger was done pretty well, so I do look forward to seeing what'll happen next. Good episode overall. |
| It's all right. Nothing note worthy tbh |
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| Finally the real enemies have been revealed. China and Korea! I love anime so much. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Koreans and Chinese vs Japanese lol. Scheta and Iskahn falling in love was cute. |
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ShoriTora said: https://imgur.com/a/j5bltcB Can someone explain how Silica's dragon from SAO was able to make it into this game, I can understand emulating coats or whatever but this is emulating an animal from another game and all its code and functions like I really dont get it. Man, the Fluctolight magic technology was not only able to develop "bottom-up" AI's, but... AI's with all the biological functions of a complex human organism, to the "cell" level. AI's wich can be pregnant and even the baby is already another AI in development (what how!? Is an AI fetus abortion a homicide?) And if you are not satisfied, this technology went all the way into religion and now the existence of SOULS are proved. AI souls. in AI afterlife. "Bottonu-heavenu" that said... i kinda guess this system can hold a Digimon uploaded from another virtual world. |
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| Eight more weeks until my suffering ends The good news is this week didn't really introduce any major new problems Just the dumb betrayal at the end so they can squeeze just a little bit more time from this awful arc/show and the Artist formerly known as Rape Emperor showing off how overpowered he is for reasons that will be even more contrived than ever before. Also lol everyone's favorite plot device (Laughing Coffin) returns to be ineffective as always. |
Red_Ranger_Wien said: Eight more weeks until my suffering ends The good news is this week didn't really introduce any major new problems Just the dumb betrayal at the end so they can squeeze just a little bit more time from this awful arc/show and the Artist formerly known as Rape Emperor showing off how overpowered he is for reasons that will be even more contrived than ever before. Also lol everyone's favorite plot device (Laughing Coffin) returns to be ineffective as always. And I thought I had criticism lol. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Squeezing time from this arc... I wish. There's barely enough included from this arc to make the story work. When you describe watching something as suffering and continue to watch it, you only show the world that you have nothing better to do. |
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ShoriTora said: https://imgur.com/a/j5bltcB Can someone explain how Silica's dragon from SAO was able to make it into this game, I can understand emulating coats or whatever but this is emulating an animal from another game and all its code and functions like I really dont get it. I liked the moment with the guy and slashing girl, hope they don't die I really liked their fight last season. This thing with all the armies showing up is really annoying me what I liked about the previous fights was the one on one duels, focused action, now its just armies fighting armies mostly offscreen. Its so tedious I'm really not a big fan, it was cool to see the perspective of people joining tho. https://imgur.com/a/WLb1wWv And of course he's a villain, I would be happy I called that if it wasnt blatantly obvious. Although I can see him being forced to do so he seemed hesitant. Overall this ep was whatever, this seasons like an unimpressive 6/10 so far, some good moments in it for sure but overall its got the direction I really hoped it wouldn't and has abandoned the people of underworld who were really interesting and engaging for spectacle and the returning harem characters. If not for seeing things like the bercoulli fight or the moment this ep with slashy girl and the guy I really feel like this season would bel ike a 4/10. Rob7 said: ShoriTora said: https://imgur.com/a/j5bltcB Can someone explain how Silica's dragon from SAO was able to make it into this game, I can understand emulating coats or whatever but this is emulating an animal from another game and all its code and functions like I really dont get it. Man, the Fluctolight magic technology was not only able to develop "bottom-up" AI's, but... AI's with all the biological functions of a complex human organism, to the "cell" level. AI's wich can be pregnant and even the baby is already another AI in development (what how!? Is an AI fetus abortion a homicide?) And if you are not satisfied, this technology went all the way into religion and now the existence of SOULS are proved. AI souls. in AI afterlife. "Bottonu-heavenu" that said... i kinda guess this system can hold a Digimon uploaded from another virtual world. Pretty sure Pina wasn't in the underworld in the novels. Unfortunately, I don't know why A-1 decided to add that over Asuna actually proving shes the heroine of the series or Sinon slaying some more foes. |
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Inorichi said: Red_Ranger_Wien said: Eight more weeks until my suffering ends The good news is this week didn't really introduce any major new problems Just the dumb betrayal at the end so they can squeeze just a little bit more time from this awful arc/show and the Artist formerly known as Rape Emperor showing off how overpowered he is for reasons that will be even more contrived than ever before. Also lol everyone's favorite plot device (Laughing Coffin) returns to be ineffective as always. And I thought I had criticism lol. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Squeezing time from this arc... I wish. There's barely enough included from this arc to make the story work. When you describe watching something as suffering and continue to watch it, you only show the world that you have nothing better to do. I've been on this ride for many years. I'm gonna make it to the end even if it kills me. |
Red_Ranger_Wien said: Inorichi said: And I thought I had criticism lol. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Squeezing time from this arc... I wish. There's barely enough included from this arc to make the story work. When you describe watching something as suffering and continue to watch it, you only show the world that you have nothing better to do. I've been on this ride for many years. I'm gonna make it to the end even if it kills me. Ironically, you'll probably be riding for many more, as there's probably more to come. According to a certain magical interview, as long as the original SAO LN continues, so will the anime adaptation. (I just felt like including magical the interview has nothing to do with index) Though, the entire anime is about incarnation or human will transcending system limits. or in otherwords, all important characters being overpowered. (It's in every arc, with zombie Kirito, ghost Kayaba, SAO Kirito overlay in GGO. Kayaba even says it outright in the movie.) Idk if you can call Laughing Coffin a plot device, as they're only other appearances were practically cameos or a few people doing their own thing. Ultimately, it's just animated drawings. It's for entertainment purposes, the story, art, and everything and anything doesn't matter if its entertaining to the audience. You'd probably enjoy it more if you stopped overthinking it. |
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Inorichi said: Red_Ranger_Wien said: I've been on this ride for many years. I'm gonna make it to the end even if it kills me. Ironically, you'll probably be riding for many more, as there's probably more to come. According to a certain magical interview, as long as the original SAO LN continues, so will the anime adaptation. (I just felt like including magical the interview has nothing to do with index) Though, the entire anime is about incarnation or human will transcending system limits. or in otherwords, all important characters being overpowered. (It's in every arc, with zombie Kirito, ghost Kayaba, SAO Kirito overlay in GGO. Kayaba even says it outright in the movie.) Idk if you can call Laughing Coffin a plot device, as they're only other appearances were practically cameos or a few people doing their own thing. Ultimately, it's just animated drawings. It's for entertainment purposes, the story, art, and everything and anything doesn't matter if its entertaining to the audience. You'd probably enjoy it more if you stopped overthinking it. See the problem is I'm barely thinking and I'm still annoyed at it. I give it points for being self aware about how shit laughing coffin guy's attempt to fool the Koreans/Chinese was but they didn't really do anything with that self awareness |
Red_Ranger_Wien said: Inorichi said: Ironically, you'll probably be riding for many more, as there's probably more to come. According to a certain magical interview, as long as the original SAO LN continues, so will the anime adaptation. (I just felt like including magical the interview has nothing to do with index) Though, the entire anime is about incarnation or human will transcending system limits. or in otherwords, all important characters being overpowered. (It's in every arc, with zombie Kirito, ghost Kayaba, SAO Kirito overlay in GGO. Kayaba even says it outright in the movie.) Idk if you can call Laughing Coffin a plot device, as they're only other appearances were practically cameos or a few people doing their own thing. Ultimately, it's just animated drawings. It's for entertainment purposes, the story, art, and everything and anything doesn't matter if its entertaining to the audience. You'd probably enjoy it more if you stopped overthinking it. See the problem is I'm barely thinking and I'm still annoyed at it. I give it points for being self aware about how shit laughing coffin guy's attempt to fool the Koreans/Chinese was but they didn't really do anything with that self awareness There's always the issue that Alicization is longer than season 1 and 2 plus cut content put together, which is crammed into 49 eps. I do agree there's been some piss poor explanation, however, it's not so far as you can't put the story together. The entire backstory of the Korean player was basically cut, so was the state of Korean VR MMO. However, with VR technology, mainly the Seed being a Japanese creation, there are no Korean made VR MMO's and the most popular VR MMO in KR is a localization of a JP VR MMO. In the novels words the players: "Oh, it’s far worse. They simply detest each other" Even without that though, there's clear anti-japanese sentiment in Korea. I can't speak for China, however, put together with the "clear" language barrier (even though everyone is speaking japanese in the anime l0l), and the fact that they think it's a server raid on a KR, CN, US collaborative mmo, it's a 'clear' case of mob mentality. heh Basically, the whole point is it isn't a shitty attempt. Although it may be hard to put that together without some cultural understanding of SEA culture, anime is a Japanese work, shrug. |
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Inorichi said: Red_Ranger_Wien said: See the problem is I'm barely thinking and I'm still annoyed at it. I give it points for being self aware about how shit laughing coffin guy's attempt to fool the Koreans/Chinese was but they didn't really do anything with that self awareness There's always the issue that Alicization is longer than season 1 and 2 plus cut content put together, which is crammed into 49 eps. I do agree there's been some piss poor explanation, however, it's not so far as you can't put the story together. The entire backstory of the Korean player was basically cut, so was the state of Korean VR MMO. However, with VR technology, mainly the Seed being a Japanese creation, there are no Korean made VR MMO's and the most popular VR MMO in KR is a localization of a JP VR MMO. In the novels words the players: "Oh, it’s far worse. They simply detest each other" Even without that though, there's clear anti-japanese sentiment in Korea. I can't speak for China, however, put together with the "clear" language barrier (even though everyone is speaking japanese in the anime l0l), and the fact that they think it's a server raid on a KR, CN, US collaborative mmo, it's a 'clear' case of mob mentality. heh Basically, the whole point is it isn't a shitty attempt. Although it may be hard to put that together without some cultural understanding of SEA culture, anime is a Japanese work, shrug. See the thing is I already knew all that. it doesn't make it better |
Red_Ranger_Wien said: Inorichi said: There's always the issue that Alicization is longer than season 1 and 2 plus cut content put together, which is crammed into 49 eps. I do agree there's been some piss poor explanation, however, it's not so far as you can't put the story together. The entire backstory of the Korean player was basically cut, so was the state of Korean VR MMO. However, with VR technology, mainly the Seed being a Japanese creation, there are no Korean made VR MMO's and the most popular VR MMO in KR is a localization of a JP VR MMO. In the novels words the players: "Oh, it’s far worse. They simply detest each other" Even without that though, there's clear anti-japanese sentiment in Korea. I can't speak for China, however, put together with the "clear" language barrier (even though everyone is speaking japanese in the anime l0l), and the fact that they think it's a server raid on a KR, CN, US collaborative mmo, it's a 'clear' case of mob mentality. heh Basically, the whole point is it isn't a shitty attempt. Although it may be hard to put that together without some cultural understanding of SEA culture, anime is a Japanese work, shrug. See the thing is I already knew all that. it doesn't make it better Well I know it's named Sword Art Online so nothing makes sense for some people whether it actually makes sense or not. You know what you are justifying what the show is doing. You won't trust the people you hate no matter what even if they provide actual good reasons. Just like you hate SAO, the Chinese and Koreans hate the Japanese. |
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biswa290701 said: Well I know it's named Sword Art Online so nothing makes sense for some people whether it actually makes sense or not. You know what you are justifying what the show is doing. You won't trust the people you hate no matter what even if they provide actual good reasons. Just like you hate SAO, the Chinese and Koreans hate the Japanese. I have no idea why you think I hate SAO. It's just a show man |
Red_Ranger_Wien said: biswa290701 said: Well I know it's named Sword Art Online so nothing makes sense for some people whether it actually makes sense or not. You know what you are justifying what the show is doing. You won't trust the people you hate no matter what even if they provide actual good reasons. Just like you hate SAO, the Chinese and Koreans hate the Japanese. I have no idea why you think I hate SAO. It's just a show man I know but people treat it like something else. Smh Anyway, adding to the original point. It's not like everyone agreed with PoH. The whole character of moonphase was there only to show the group of people that actually doubted everything. |
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| Kind of funny how they aren't mook villainizing the Chinese and Korean players they way they mook villainized the American players. |
SecretOtaku3019 said: Alright sorry if I’m getting this wrong, why the fuck aren’t they arresting laughing coffin members. They have people who know who they are. There is technically nothing to arrest them for. The only "crimes" they committed were within SAO. Even if someone told law enforcement the reasons someone else in SAO killed someone else, there is no evidence, and therefore no way to prove anyone did anything. All murder in SAO was absolved from the perspective of the law due to: A. A lack of physical evidence. B. Unreliable eye witness testimony. C. Equal Application of the law and punitive measures. C means that if they arrested laughing coughing members, they would also have to arrest Kirito, Asuna, and anyone who took part in raiding laughing coughing members, since they also technically took lives. Otherwise it would boil down to just someone going, "That guy is bad so he should be arrested, but I'm good so I shouldn't be arrested." |
| without spoiler.. i know that the motherfucker that was who installed code 871 is that with 4 eyes |
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| Is it just me or has the art style changed a bit? |
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neonie said: SecretOtaku3019 said: Alright sorry if I’m getting this wrong, why the fuck aren’t they arresting laughing coffin members. They have people who know who they are. There is technically nothing to arrest them for. The only "crimes" they committed were within SAO. Even if someone told law enforcement the reasons someone else in SAO killed someone else, there is no evidence, and therefore no way to prove anyone did anything. All murder in SAO was absolved from the perspective of the law due to: A. A lack of physical evidence. B. Unreliable eye witness testimony. C. Equal Application of the law and punitive measures. C means that if they arrested laughing coughing members, they would also have to arrest Kirito, Asuna, and anyone who took part in raiding laughing coughing members, since they also technically took lives. Otherwise it would boil down to just someone going, "That guy is bad so he should be arrested, but I'm good so I shouldn't be arrested." I would also add that players had absolutely no proof that death IG meant death IRL beyond Kayaba's initial speech, so Laughing Coffin members could also use this argument with ease. |
| Slasher girl suddenly falls in love with that pugilist for some reason, and now wants to bear his child...? Vecta guy comes back with his GGO account with a big effect and can stun Sinon just by looking at her with a rape face...? How can he do these again? Also I really hope we won't get another goddamn attampted rape scene. I'm sick of these already. Of course it's laughing coffin, as I predicted. Can't have a SAO season without them around. And of course that researcher was a bad guy, as I predicted in previous discussions. I hope at least the tech guy doesn't die. Now Chinese and Koreans arrive as well, not that it seems to be any different than American players. Where is Leafa? She really should arrive soon. I also hope Kirito wakes up soon, but I guess that won't be happening until the last few episodes. |
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| What a random romance. |
| Of course they would get more people...I hate those guys! Of course the guy would be a traitor... |
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| uww that so cute of Ishkann and Sheyta, hope they get to be a family after this war. Meanwhile, when Alice keep going to world end... Sinon will hold Gabriel on his OP subtilizer account i suppose, and Asuna and co. 'll be facing Vassago "POH" and somehow new additional wave of chinese and korea player. that felt dejavu for both of them tho Sinon BOB against Subtilizer, and Asuna and co. against POH and laughing coffin in SAO. so Yanai was the mole/traitor after all?.. |
| Much more enemies, but low level ones. |
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| Unexpected couple lmao |
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| I feel bad for the underworld players... really depressing episode but deserves 5/5 |
| Oh boy, invasion from China and Korea. Reminds me of the current MAL xD |
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| As predicted the guy that came with Higa was a bad guy. Overall not a bad episode, this has been probably the most interesting part to SAO in all three seasons. |
| Damn it, why can't things just go smoothly? The ending is gorgeous. |
| hilarious, this show cant go 5 minutes without reminding me why i dont like it |
| Wow! - Who knew, the guy so eager to help him wanted to sabotage all along! - Crazy! Not really feeling this season as much as I did the previous one. |
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Rob7 said: Stark700 said: Ah yes, even Klein is relevant this season. Sure didn't take long for trouble to start with that hooded man this episode. It seems this arc still shifts from the virutal world and the real world with its technology. Tbh, it brings an important feeling that every action in this show has some effect on each other. Not going to lie, I'm glad to see Klein getting more screentime. Suc* that Gigguk! Justice just got served.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onYSNgHbbW8 When you have basically no relevance or screen-time whatsoever since episode 1 but you still manage to be part of MC group several seasons later. |
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| the ending, so that1 coming from a mile away |
| So I'm supposed to believe that the Korean kid is the only gamer in the whole world with half a brain? The American plot was already retarded, but now of course we have Chinese and Korean as well, why not lol |
| Oh yea there was that traitor that someone mentioned before, guess he showed up now. At least the opening is amazing, everything else became a chaos. |
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| good and intense episode, Sinon helps comfort Alice, emphasizing that Kirito and Bercouli's efforts were not in vain. They were to protect Alice. Sheyta finally finds her answer as to why she slashes everything; to find who to not slash and who to protect, which is Iskhan. Nice to see Klein and Agil getting some screen time and supporting Asuna. Unfortunately, more real-world forces are coming in from China and Korea. Turns out Vassago is the leader of Laughing Coffin. Gabriel comes back in his GGO form and somehow paralyzes Sinon from a distance, which I did not expect. There is no way he is going to get away with this, that bitch. Finally, we have a traitor back at the Ocean Turtle, poor Higa, just when things were looking good to repair Kirito's fluctlight, the traitor has a weapon. |
| Aww, that was a sweet moment between Scheta and Iskahn. How did Gabriel's GGO character suddenly get superpowers? did they merge it with God Vecta somehow? Hmm... Japan vs. Korea, China & USA. hehe |
| This is kind of despairing, how many fucking people will join the battle? |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
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