Sword Art Online (light novel)
DualSabers said: Probably half of the reviews here will be negative: https://myanimelist.net/anime/11757/Sword_Art_Online/reviews You'll surely find plenty of reasons why people disliked SAO.I know many people hate this anime. I would like to know why? |
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| It was the 2nd anime that I ever watched and I loved it because it was so interesting and Kirito was a badass to me but after rewatching the first season after 3 years, its definitely not as good as I thought it was... I still consider it a good anime but it definitely has a lot flaws that you can't just overlook. Haven't rewatched the 2nd season(my favorite season of SAO) so i don't know how good that season actually is. |
| oh gosh, i watched sao when i was 15 and i completely fell in love with it. now i can see that it's not a perfect anime or anything, but in my personal opinion it's still not as horrible as a lot of people keep saying over and over again. |
 Ｓｗｅｅｔ♥I guess, as long as I have life, all I can do is fight with all my might. |
| Filthy marty stu of a main character. |
 I don't believe in the Devil. You should. He believes in you. |
| Well I guess I'll repost my opinion again. I dropped the first season because I didn't like the "trapped in a virtual world and if you die here you die in real life" premise. I never watched past the first episode, so I dropped it for reasons different from the usual reason that other flamers who dropped it did. I watched the first half of SAO II and enjoyed it. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| It wasn't as cringey as Overlord, so there's that. Also hate on SAO is like Boku no Pico, a dead meme. |
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| I made it through 10 episodes before dropping it. Absolutely hated the pacing. Wasn't particularly fond of any of the characters even after 10 episodes and the ridiculous levelling up rate really irritated me. |
| It's okay lol, it was boring and a bit thrashy but it's not horrible |
  Don't worry about being lame now, you were always lame anyway!  |
| The concept of SAO was most likely taken from the .hack series, with the major difference that in SAO, people were downright trapped in the video game and dying after their health reached 0 rather than the death suggestion slowly putting them in a coma and eventually killing them. It got a lot more popular than any .hack show rather quick. But then the Aincrad arc ended in a rather dissatisfying plot twist. In the ALO arc, the main characters totally lost it (Kirito becoming less interesting while Asuna being reduced to little more than a damsel in distress). And the second season was... an eyesore, in lack for better terms. |
| Silently waiting for WW3 to come and kill everyone while I die smoking weed and drinking coke 🚬👌 |
| To be honest, i only made it 10 minutes into the first episode and then dropped it. I've seen hours of videos explaining why it's bad though. That's given me more entertainment than watching the actual anime probably would've. It's pretty crazy that even the creator admits that there's plot holes. Log Horizon is definitely SAO done right. |
| The board is at full blast today I see. |
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| SAO was a poor adaption of the source material. The source material up to a certain point was flawed. The are a lot of good reasons to not enjoy the first few seasons but the source material in SAO:A is much better and the team working on it is completely different. The director of SAO:A seems at least mostly competent as opposed to what we got in the first two seasons so I'll give SAO:A a chance. |
| better than legends of the galactic heroes |
| Season 1 , liked Kirito, OP swordsman rise the way to the top. Harem and romance was bonus, but didn't care, only Kirito my favorite. Season 2, the downpoint of SAO for me. GGO sucked, Kirito sucked, everyone sucked, don't really care if he beats anyone. Only liked Excalibur arc because it reminded me of Season 1. Alicization, liking like Season 1 but on a different note. First I actually really like the SAO girls in this one for once, Alice, Selka and/or more. Kirito lost his one man OP power in this one. But Tagging team with Eugeo is cool. Kirito proven still can be badass. |
 張大です for 張大勇督察 |
| People hate it because a work that's basically just decent (5/10) is one of the most popular series of all time. |
| Moved from Anime Discussion Having only watched the first and second seasons, there's a tendency with Kawahara's writing to implement a lot of suffering into his stories in ways that are frustrating to watch. I otherwise don't particularly have a problem with his writing, though it doesn't strike me as something I'd come back to watch. I will say that the second half of the second season was my favorite, though primarily because I liked the idea of using VR and AR for rehabilitation and medical purposes. It also was more side story-ish, so it allowed the characters to do more for themselves, rather than being pushed and pulled around by the plot. |
| SAO (the anime) is one of those things you have to look back with eyes unclouded by hate. Alicization gave me the excuse to reminisce about the series and well for the most part how I saw SAO back then and how I see it now still holds true for the most part. The first season was mediocre at best. The Aincrad arc could have been handled better and definitely suffered due to the source originally being a oneshot. Perhaps a possible adaptation of Progressive may give us the Aincrad we deserve, but I suppose that depends entirely on how successful Alicization will be. Now the ALO arc...well I can't really say much about it as it's largely forgettable, but overall still entertaining enough. Would I go so far as to call it "shit?" Eh in terms of substance sure, but I was entertained well enough so does it really matter? Now the second season is where things truly get interesting. SAO S2 is arguably the best LN adaptation to date in terms of episode to content ratio. While the quality of the GGO source is up for debate, it can't be denied that the anime did the source justice. Even the short story Calibur was done as well as it could have been. But truly the shining gem of the entire franchise to this point was wonderfully adapted in the Mother's Rosario arc. If I could rate just that story arc alone then SAO S2 would be a solid 10/10 for me. You'd have to be so far entrenched in the SAO hate train to not have any FEELS at all after watching that. So TLDR? A lot of the SAO hate is largely undeserved and just people jumping on the hate train bandwagon. If nothing else it can't be denied that SAO nailed the dismount. Some people may have had to trudge through some unpleasantness to get there, but boy did SAO nail the dismount. |
| Alot of people can't think for them selves and go with popular opinion. Youtube channels like Digibrony and Shill's Basement hate on it because youtube clicks and easy money even though they praise worse shows. Most of those youtube critics go with the hype or hate-train to generate views. It has gotten to a point where you're likely to be made fun or heavily criticized if you dare talking about it and that's shame  |
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| This is one of the most annoying and disrespecting anime ever,see sao s2,you basically see kirito easily beat assault rifle player in a br,wtf kirito,lte me beat you with mp5 no nose breaker |
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| Started S2 and i really don't understand the hate with the series, first season was really enjoyable for me along with season 2 |
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