Sword Art Online (light novel)
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| Not a first viewer here. It's been several years since I first watched SAO and I just wanted to make a comment that the first episode is a 100/10 episode. Absolutely brilliant setup, fascinating concept, wonderful world building and a interesting MC. |
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| i i like the abrigd series a lot ints on utube and its super good i recomend it. Its super funny because ASuka is like kinda racist but its like an ongoing joeke XD |
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| Watching this in order getting myself ready for the progressive movie. Though, maybe i am too late? Yeah, the anime came in when i am still a normie without too much expectation of anime. Well not that these time i have much expectations too. So, here i am challenging myself and binge this. First looks fine enough to me, definitely not wasting their sweat time by the introduction and directly telling the objective and others info. Hopefully the rest its not as bad as 'they' said. Still, none other than myself matters. So, lemme binge this in the midst of seasonal watch, and judge later through the end. Wml... |
 Hide and seek is the best offline games on this fatamorgana-called-world-thing. Please comment nicely. I am newbie here. I'm level  on mal-badges. View my badges  |
| I'm seeing the Progressive movie later tonight so instead of seeing some actual good shows, I'm rewatching SAO... well at least the first 2 seasons since Alicization is way too long but I'll see if my mind changes later. Start feels too quick for me, would have been a lot better if Kirito's life was shown off a bit more before he logged in, or even just discovering the world more with Klein and show some appeal to the actual game there before hell broke loose with Kayaba's revelation of the truth behind SAO. I'm not gonna go too critical though about this premiere, there's more to come in the future that would irritate me so I'll be patient for then. Also, the Crossing Field OP by LiSA still is a banger. One of my favorite anime songs I've heard from her even now, given how many songs she was a part of in the past couple years, especially with successful franchises like Demon Slayer. For how much criticism I'll have for the series, this song is still really, really catchy to listen to. |
| I can't believe it, I can't fucking believe I'm watching this. After all these months, it took me just a pill of laziness and Netflix to finally watch the one and only, Sword Art Online! July 2020 was the time that made me interested to watch this because of the OP, but I guess it took me all the way to 2022 to finally pull the trigger. And I'm laughing to myself that this is the first ever anime I watch for the new year, dear help me. So what about this episode, well I can say it's a decent start. An RPG game that became a death game in disguise, and oh Lord wth is the creator thinking. Anyways Kirito ain't no fucking around, just like what I heard from all the memes and myths. Let's see how this story progresses as he tries to reach for the top. My SAO journey begins here, for better or for worse! |
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| This rewatch should be interesting, I recall enjoying the first half of season 1 and disliking season 2. |
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| damn why would you make the first ten minutes of your debut episode so boring edit: nvm turns out boring is the intended experience? |
cam_eleonJul 9, 2022 11:35 PM
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| The idea of being placed in a game that involves life or death situations, where one wrong move could mean death, is both rad and scary at the same time. The game master must be one hell of a coder to make himself appear via a ludicrous amount of blood. I agree with you Klein, Kirito does have a cute face, lol. |
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| first episode was very exciting, the concept of sword skills and scaling a massive tower is really cool (as long as you don't die in real life), and it hyped me up to binge watch this whole series. a pretty scary experience for the players though cause they have one and only one life. |
| my expectations were very low going into this but that was something else |
| Very nice first episode. I wonder what the reason behind the creator's decision is. You can't just block thousands of players for no reason. And also how is he able to do that without worrying about the police. The 100 floors part seems interesting, Kirito for now is alright and Klein is great! I'm not really that interested in Asuna but I don't dislike her. |
Alex_TheForestOct 10, 2022 12:47 PM
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| love the concept of being locked in the virtual world, this should be interesting B) |
| dont know why i felt like rewatching this. ed is great.  |
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| Wow there's been a lot of people who recently watched this. Sorta crazy. The situation sucks so much. I can't imagine not being able to escape. At least Jirito has some experience with the beta so he knows how to get around. Sucks that they will die if someone discounts them, might as well make a warning before someone else gets rid of the nervegear completely. |
 This never updates so that's cool |
Ajohnson38 said: I know this is almost a year later, but Kirito was bleeding due to a papercut he gave himself before entering the SAOVery exciting premise, but I didn't fully understand why kirito was bleeding. Is the pain turned on or was it just for drama? |
| This never updates so that's cool |
| well this was a good episode :3 I like the concept of being trapped in game. I hope this happens in real life too with tenfold amount of people being killed in the incident |
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| It's such a shame that this episode is pretty fantastic as an introduction, but then it's all quickly downhill from here. I really hope I don't hate the rest of season 1 as much as I feel I did, It's just the definition of wasted potentional. |
Reply to maki_evergarden
It's such a shame that this episode is pretty fantastic as an introduction, but then it's all quickly downhill from here.
I really hope I don't hate the rest of season 1 as much as I feel I did, It's just the definition of wasted potentional.
I really hope I don't hate the rest of season 1 as much as I feel I did, It's just the definition of wasted potentional.
| @maki_evergarden It never was that bad. |
I finished this rewatch recently and yeah it really is pretty bad, it has some really good elects like kirito and asunas relationship but outside of that everything feels rushed and barely developed upon, everything to make a great anime is here but nothings done with it |
Reply to maki_evergarden
I finished this rewatch recently and yeah it really is pretty bad, it has some really good elects like kirito and asunas relationship but outside of that everything feels rushed and barely developed upon, everything to make a great anime is here but nothings done with it
| @maki_evergarden Somethings could’ve been explored a little more, but to say it’s bad because it didn’t. I just don’t think that’s a fair assessment. |
Reply to maki_evergarden
I finished this rewatch recently and yeah it really is pretty bad, it has some really good elects like kirito and asunas relationship but outside of that everything feels rushed and barely developed upon, everything to make a great anime is here but nothings done with it
| @maki_evergarden Somethings could’ve been explored a little more, but to say it’s bad because it didn’t. I just don’t think that’s a fair assessment. |
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