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katsu044 said: think that's why i've stuck with it after all these years like the arcs groundwork has something to build off into something good but it just shit's the bed every time by the end Agreed. Even Ordeal War is like this too. Start off promising/ interesting -> end in bullshit asspull. First half -> hey, Kirito actually suck this time cuz it's in real life and using real human physical capability! Other characters can finally shine for once. We're talking about someone who can get tripped while running in flat ground. Last half: Just kidding. Kirito just not really trying in first half. He conveniently reach top 10 ranking within one day after retraining his kanto for 1 single day (despite getting out of touch for kanto in ages with shit stamina). He suddenly able to do super human action in real life and able to one shot 1 million mobs in one blow. Guess the writer of SAO just despise effort / hard work and try to spit on it every chance he gets. |
Ventus_SAug 22, 2020 11:23 PM
| It comes to surprise to everyone that in this episode, Eugeo is still confirmed best gril. Kirito is basically God-tier and can do basically whatever the fck he wants. Bros before hoes. |
| Welcome back, the blackswords man Kirito! Time to lay the final draw stakes! The leftover battle against PoH a.k.a Vassago from Aincrad, and Eugeo's push only made things EVEN BETTER for a reawakening. A force logout to the other innocent players to spare their early death sentences, and achieving God-tier status (heck, just call him immortal) once again in the World Seed. The PROPER fight between Kirito and PoH, nothing short of extraordinary spectacular, as to be expected of A-1 Pictures' top-tier quality. And converting him into the EXACT SAME tree in Alicization, that was a fitting end to their feud from Season 1. The last instance for Kirito and Asuna: to find Alice and save her from Vecta a.k.a Gabriel Miller, whilst things in the Ocean Turtle only keep getting worse. A life expectancy of 200 years over vs. saving an STL to restore normal operations, the choice is obvious. Alice's final farewell to her dragons on the World's End Altar, it's loyalty to the very end. In the nick of time, Kirito shows up in full Aincrad suit to face Miller, it's gonna be epic. Onto the last quarter of Alicization, and the hype only keeps going. |
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Inorichi said: I just can't. I've lost all hope. What the fuck is this. I'd rather have waited 3 years than get this. I agree with your post. A1 and Ono seem to outright be sabotaging SAO this cour. They fucking cut a great KiriSuna scene yet kept shit like the tentacle scene (which they made even worse by implying things that never happened in the LN), they did a half-ass job of explaining incarnation to anime onlies which is why you see so much whining in these threads (to be fair there still would be even if they did) and we couldn't even get some good animation and drawings this week. I'm scared that they will just keep cutting more things and rush scenes at this point. Alicization deserved better. |
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| Yo Vassago! Nobody expect Kirito to turn someone into a tree. |
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| Kirito is getting way too overpowered, and should I feel surprise about that... But still, decent ep, good music, stunning effects and fight scenes. 4 more episodes to go, hope that A1 will finish this well. |
| Liked a lot this episode. I'm always glad to see Eugeo and we finally see Kirito's sword Release Recollection. I will sure remember the fight between Kirito and PoH, it's the last word on a long story from long time ago. Now, there's the future to look to. I'll wait the next episode!!! |
| Amayori’s farewell got me quite emotional tbh, I wasn’t expecting that lmao. I was almost in tears Good episode but somewhat slow |
| Jesus-kun the savior is back! this episode is so ridiculous tbh but understandable since a lot of cuts from the source... also no more sakuga like previous episodes, i was expecting some then i guess they are focusing on the final fight between Kirito v Subtilizer |
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| I just realized that Kirito alone is much better than with friends. All account conversions just to make Kirito have this scene waking up and saving everyone, why didn't the rest of the people do anything? They are literally players from another game with full gear set and skills and just did nothing. This would be a good time to give screentime to the rest of the characters but they only serve to cry and shout 'Kirito save me.' Kirito from Alicization part 1 was the best. Would anyone know why the guy emanates black smoke and everyone goes insane? Why the villains convert the characters from another game and are so much stronger than everyone else who converted too? |
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| Kirito is finally back after being gone for a season and a half. Liked the part where Eugeo came back and helped Kirito fight PoH. Now its time for the real fight. |
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| As far as punishments go, the way that Kirito made sure that PoH could never log out of the game BEFORE turning him into a tree from his swords was a brutal, but deserving way for PoH to be defeated. Their overall battle wasn't blessed with the same animation quality as some fights prior in this season, but that doesn't mean it was bad. It was still rather good. As for Alice, she wanted the two dragons with her to go back to the capital and have a quiet life, but they were willing to sacrifice their lives in order to buy Alice more time. Thankfully, Kirito arrived in time, along with Asuna, which now sets up a proper showdown against Gabriel, with such a small time limit to do it in, after what happened back on the Ocean Turtle. A pretty good episode overall. =) |
Y do you do dis to me 😢 |
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Of the entire episode I liked this scene: |
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| dropped the anime after this episode. So, Kirito can transform people into trees, forcing log outs, heal everyone and even fly. This is trash |
GuifoliveiraaAug 23, 2020 1:33 PM
| Of course, Alice didn't see Kirito carrying his waifu, but yay PoS PoH is finally "defeated". If PoHdoesn't make it out in 8 minutes, his brain will be fried. Welp. Sounds like he'll enjoy life as an NPC. That said, kind of confused on how the world will get 200 years older when they've barely finished cleaning up. Will Kirito make it out with everyone? Can he even tell? Sounds like he didn't tell Asuna the whole truth, although for what's important...that's enough I guess. |
| RIP PoH, being turned into a tree is the most brutal way to die combined with the power of accelerated time-dilation in the Underworld. Happy Asuna is best waifu, as the couples carry off into the sunset. It's fun watching the tears of all triggered autistic snowflakes. |
| it was okayish not too overdramatic... 3/5. |
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| That was some harsh punishment Kirito gave to PoH but he deserved it for sure! I was so happy when Kirito & Asuna finally reunited... so romantic ❤ It hurts me every time Eugeo appears again so can they stop with the whole 'Eugeo's ghost' thing?! |
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Ventus_S said: CrossBlack said: If there was any kind of power balance in this world, this season just made sure to ruin it. Kirito is basically a god at this point, even though he's not even an administrador (maybe the characters who helped to bring him back all saw him as a god), characters are killed but they don't die ( Emiya was right all along!), ass pulls happening every episode, Kirito back to acting as the total badass that he is, expect now he's somehow even edgier. One thing I don't understand is how they manage to give Kirito his suit every fucking season, just why??? The reunion was nice, I was sure they would kiss but ok. Alice is finally back and I hope she gets more screentime now. I hope they give us another epic fight in the next episode. Yeah, season 2 is the only season with the best fighting I guess cuz Kirito is not there to ruin the balance as hacker. (Well Victors' tropes are hackers too) I guess I only enjoy the fight that was fought by UW NPCs themselves cuz it seems to make the most sense. (Knights vs Dark Territory) Any other fights related to Kirito/ Victor's tropes are asspull. One big hacker slaughtering a bunch of bad hackers = SAO story in a nutshell. Well tbh we needed some OP guy to fight the OP villain. At least Kirito levelled up from 0 to get here. Subtilizer entered OP. Lol. Both of them are at the same level of strength. Next week's fight will be something. |
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| Fine episode overall, but... Kirito vs PoH battle scene isnt as good as what I hoped to be, the battle with Eiji is still million times better, probably the best one. ..and those crying scenes...ugh so cringyyyy, why are everyone there crybabies? well anyway still much better episode than previous almost useless melodramatic episode.  |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| I was expecting an awakening and I got one. Heck, the eps title was testament to our prays. Its no SAO 24 awakening, but its enough to keep me glued to the screen. Love it! Aleph199X said: I'd hate to be an anime-only this season. I'm sure to most people it seems that everyone has random superpowers. They did explain incarnation throughout the first half but then again, judging from the MAL forums, I doubt anyone remembers. Fool. You insult anime only watchers and somehow feel superior. What gives you the right to talk down on us? |
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Roch2001 said: I was expecting an awakening and I got one. Heck, the eps title was testament to our prays. Its no SAO 24 awakening, but its enough to keep me glued to the screen. Love it! Aleph199X said: I'd hate to be an anime-only this season. I'm sure to most people it seems that everyone has random superpowers. They did explain incarnation throughout the first half but then again, judging from the MAL forums, I doubt anyone remembers. Fool. You insult anime only watchers and somehow feel superior. What gives you the right to talk down on us? I wasn't really insulting anime-onlies. I was a. criticizing A1 for giving up on trying to explain things this cour and b. making fun of a lot of MAL posters who for the entirety of Alicization, they have tried to post "criticisms" when most of the things they complain about could be explained through the anime itself. |
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| Finally the battle against the PoH guy is over. Now the true final battle against the main antagonist has begun |
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| I expected the action to be lackluster because of the comments, but it was fairly good. It wasn't Bercouli vs Vector level but it was fast paced and lasted long enough. That little bit of info dump should have been done by someone like Sortiliena. Yuuki only exists in Asuna's memory and she shouldn't know anything about underworld. The explanation for PoH becoming a tree wasn't skipped fortunately. The last few minutes were setting up the stage for next episode. The episode wasn't half bad actually.(4/5) |
Arin-san said: For some of the idiots in this thread- https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/iekoy8/sword_art_online_alicization_explaining_the/ Go learn what incarnation is, and stop with the "Kirito overpowered" bullshit Incarnation is a lazy copout that A1 didn't bother explaining well. It just lets Reki/A1 handwave whatever they want as they change the rules to suit the plot. Other than that my only new complaints are A) Why did stabbing the hole in psycho man's chest suddenly hurt him, B) No Kirito you can't keep him from logging out. That's not how any of this works. and C)"Age of a human soul" SAO you need to choose between being grounded scifi or full fantasy scifi. |
DrivZone said: -Stray said: also Yuuki, you dead right? STAY DEAD! Stop fcking appearing ep after ep and talking like you fking mother Mary or some angel shit. Really explained how i feel about this shit, she was so random at appearing in the story to start with, and now she comes out to say some dramatic shit everytime an ant breath. I too wish they'd stop unnecessarily desecrating the only good character in SAO's grave |
| The second I saw eugeo's hair I started chanting his name omg, its nice seeing your favorite SAO character of all time even after he dies. |
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| Lol, I actually got worried about the dragons for a moment there. Kirito can now fly, lol. |
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Aleph199X said: Roch2001 said: I was expecting an awakening and I got one. Heck, the eps title was testament to our prays. Its no SAO 24 awakening, but its enough to keep me glued to the screen. Love it! Fool. You insult anime only watchers and somehow feel superior. What gives you the right to talk down on us? I wasn't really insulting anime-onlies. I was a. criticizing A1 for giving up on trying to explain things this cour and b. making fun of a lot of MAL posters who for the entirety of Alicization, they have tried to post "criticisms" when most of the things they complain about could be explained through the anime itself. Ah, apologies. I've been feeling a bit prickly recently as MAL has been consumed by people who thrive on negativity and its encouraged by there staff. Let us view this weeks episode and enjoy it for what crazy spectacle it brings! |
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| The fight itself was cool, and Eugeo sort of helping Kirito, although I don't really get how Kirito gained all these new powers again. Turning the villain into a tree and forcing him to never be able to log out for some reason, while on the other hand easily logging out anyone else. Now he can fly and heal anyone as well. But at the same time, even the two villains had these crazy powers for no reason at all, since these are supposed to be their SAO accounts, not the god mode accounts... But okay. I keep reading about this incarnation stuff as an explanation, but it doesn't really help that the anime didn't explain this (or maybe I forgot?). Final fight then. I wonder if this 10 mins will be the Dragon Ball sort of 10 mins which will actually be 3 episodes. Still, I hope that the fight will be cool at least. Also, please move on Alice when your dragons are clearly trying to buy you time. Yuuki... please stay dead. I liked you a lot, and a small cameo like Asuna imagining her helping with the 11-hit combo was great, but we really don't need her talking and stuff. No need to ruin her character and sad passing. |
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| PoH's fate was quite satisfying, doomed to be a tree forever or for many years at least. Looks like the final battle is there. We're close to the end! |
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| Im not sure if kirito is just OP Asf for alice has just become fatigued. Iirc they were on par. |
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| both best bro and best sis at each of Kirito and Asuna sides, that really soothing. Dual wield ( night-sky + blue rose) + blackwyrm coat + "Find your swords in this land" BGM + great battle animation. Wonderful battle between Kirito and POH, and somehow in the end He prevented PoH from logout by turned in into another cedar. and.... after the reunion.. where is the KISS !!!! XD haha, it's unfortunate that they didn't adapted KiriSuna kiss, still that was okay. The way their embracing each other and touching each others faces + hugging already satisfied me :DD well... time to beat the last boss and bring Alice to real world ..... |
| SCUFFED OBITO vs. BLACK SWORDSMAN next EP |
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| Poh deserved that, he can stay there forever. |
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| That's really nice how Yuuki gets a little bit screen time. I honestly thought Yuuki wasn't going to appear again. |
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