Sword Art Online (light novel)
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LordSovereign117 said: Why are you even watching this? You sound like a very pathetic and angry person lmao you went into the trouble of quoting every post I made just because I criticized your favorite series and I'm the angry and pathetic one here?  |
Arashi89Jul 3, 2017 11:41 PM
Arashi89 said: LordSovereign117 said: Why are you even watching this? You sound like a very pathetic and angry person lmao you went into the trouble of quoting every post I made just because I criticized your favorite series and I'm the angry and pathetic one here? I don't care if you criticize it. But if your criticisms are retarded then I am free to inform you of that fact. Which they are. Amd to use your own argument against you. YOU went into the trouble of posting on every thread of a show you don't like just to tell people you don't like it. Again. Pathetic and angry. Very much so |
LordSovereign117 said: I don't care if you criticize it. But if your criticisms are retarded then I am free to inform you of that fact. Which they are. Amd to use your own argument against you. YOU went into the trouble of posting on every thread of a show you don't like just to tell people you don't like it. Again. Pathetic and angry. Very much so lol you are the one forcing himself to answer angrily my posts, not me, I'm only watching this anime and telling my opinion, is that illegal or what? Nobody is forcing you to answer to every single post of mine, if you don't like what I'm writing you can just take your own advice and never post again. Your only activity in this site is angrily responding to every single user that hates SAO. You don't have a single thought of your own, people told you that SAO is great and that you should love it and you believed them. You don't actually know why you like SAO or what makes it so "great", you're just parroting what other people told you to say. You don't want to engage in discussion or prove that I'm wrong, you're mad because I've criticized your anime, and your "criticism" amounts to screaming over and over "NO U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" without articulating a counterargument. I've touched your sore spot and that makes you angry, that's why I'm posting here and why you're answering my posts. I am owning you and now I'm even more motivated to trash this shitty anime. And I'll never understand the argument that if I'm watching something and I hate it then I shouldn't continue watching it. How can I make an informed opinion I can't finish what I've started? Sounds to me that you only want to silence opinions different from your own. |
Arashi89Jul 6, 2017 12:56 AM
LordSovereign117 said: I'd be more then happy to actually debate you on any issue you have with SAO. Really now, an actual debate! Considering that your best answers that aren't "SAO is great and you are wrong" amount to: 1) "What is this faggotry" 2) "I bet you're one of those antifa feminazi morons." 3) "Fanservice exists therefore you can't criticize it. Suck it up." I doubt that you have the ability to engage someone else in debate, let alone "tear apart" my arguments. Besides, everything you ever do on this site is getting angry at people who dislike SAO, and the last thing you want to see is those people answering to your shitposting in kind. You want a debate? Then do it, don't say over and over again how stupid I am like a broken record, because that's not a debate. It's called "being butthurt". So act like an adult or stop quoting me. |
Arashi89Jul 7, 2017 7:26 AM
| Despite the fact they again jumped time and space, there's nothing straightly annoying about this episode. Just two things really caught my attention. First, Kirito's face is different depending on the shot. Like, really different. What the fuck. Also, I'm starting to imagine where this show is going to go. Besides being a pussy-magnet, the OPness seems to be his strength. That whole exhibition... I'm sure some people must have wet their pants. 3/5 PS. I assume he was following the redhead's steps into the woods and for some reason came across Silica... you know what, just ignore that shit. He needs pussies. |
LumsiNov 9, 2017 11:11 PM
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| YAY! Such an uplifting episode, I love me some happy ending and when the bad guys get fucked. Kirito was also much more likable this episode than in the last one, not havig that act of "I'm alone, I gotta stay alone". Sure, he 'used' Silica, but he helped her anyway and was always kind to her. Looking forward to him being more like this. And to say Silica is cute is a understatement, but she's kinda generic, I kept thinking of Chiho-chan from Hataraku Maou-sama with the way she talked and acted, just the generic shy cute girl. If she's gonna be a regular (probably not...), I hope for some more development for her. |
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| But where is Asuna?! |
| I find it strange that they didn't talked about Sachi after last episode. I also find strange how in a way, the game mechanics are not that important and then, we have a whole episode talking about them (Tamers, PK & The flower). What I found to most irritating in the episode was how they treated Silica. I mean, I understand why they did the scene when she got suspended upside down and she was worried about her skirt and found it pretty funny but I felt like all the episode gave that kind of joke or oversexualised that character for pretty much nothing in the end. She will only be another forgettable character by the look of it. For now, all Sword Art Online look like for me is an anime who search itself and don't really know where it's going. I am maybe wrong and I hope so but it's my feeling right now. In the end, this episode wasn't that bad when compared to the last one but still, I expect more. |
| I'm glad that Pina was resurrected. Silica is cute, I hope that we meet her again. |
| All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath. |
| So Kirito's already has a name that precedes him. This girl gives off the vibes that she's going to stick around for longer. |
| the pacing on a whole is REALLY weird, it's only episode 4 & it's suddenly a SOL-esque episode?? it felt so mundane & like nothing much happened compared to the previous episodes. what i mean is, this episode was interesting & fine on its own with decent world-building but only 3 episodes in with such heavy stuff & then suddenly this? & suddenly he is well-known for being OP?? i get that it's to introduce silica's character but the pacing is definitely off - i didn't read the source material. tha's not to say i didn't enjoy it tho, i did! and the wholesome sibling dynamic between kirito & silica is too cute! tho I WANT MORE ASUNA ALREADY |
 ꕤ but i’ll probably remember over and over again you were there and everyone else was there — the day we all searched for just one thing ꕤ |
| So now I am assuming the time skips are there just for Kirito to forget whatever happened the previous episode and become a new character each episode. 1st episode: Loner 2nd episode: "Beater" 3rd episode: Everyone's best friend and chick magnet -> Emo loner 4th episode: Super Hero, overpowered, vigilante and still a chick magnet So the driven force of the whole episode, Pina, gets shafted by Kirito faster than Pina's death....we don't even see it coming to life. She completely reduces Pina's priority after the extra lewd arm grabbing. Previous episode: No resurrections. This episode: Anyway, I started resurrecting. So, Kirito is helping Silica because he feels guilty for his sister not having freedom because of him, but then Silica destroys his world view by saying maybe she is happy and then Kirito goes, "oh yay, my sister actually might be happy"..........So he never spoke to his sister about anything and he just simply assumed........ok. (Also thematically it doesn't make sense for Kirito to save a person's life/help when what he is guilty of is restricting someone's freedom, thematically he should have freed someone........but then again he just assumed his sister was not happy, so....) |
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| So, this is where the harem grows up, eh? |
 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  |
| The pacing continues to be really frustrating and inconsistent to the degree of affecting characterization really badly. It's somehow too fast and too slow with the content of the episodes at the same time. Kirito's just leveling up on the side and he's just Lvl 78 now with no care randomly through skipped time and again and near-invincible to most people. The content here is pretty side story level stuff while not really expanding on the world in an interesting or detailed fashion. Silica's character was meh too, didn't like how she was used as tentacle bait twice in the same episode, and personality wise was just kind of meh for me too along with her awkward chemistry with Kirito here. So far, it feels like the actual meat to this anime is happening behind the scenes whereas here, it's filled with side story stuff that's not very cohesive at all with how he was feeling a couple of episodes ago. |
| Ah now we have Silica...aside from Asuna she's the cutest girl in this series so far. Yadi yadi yada, don't need to paraphrase what happened, but I do love that Kirito had a very solid friend for once on Silica, and he helped her revive his friend. ...and now let's talk about some minor BS. Um things that are surprisingly popping out about Kirito. It's clear that this show is skipping A LOT about Kirito. One day, you know he's just a beginner, and the next we learned is that he's ACTUALLY a part of the front lines, like what the fuck. At this point, this show is just an SAO presentation of Kirito in his peaceful ventures, hiding the fact that he's actually OP (first out of many times I will say OP on SAO). |
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| Silica is hot. now im horny. |
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| "im helping you because you look like my little sister" NO NO NO NO NO. Your cousin/sister Suguna DOES NOT look at all like the Silica. NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! |
Arashi89 said: What a boring episode. It's like everything that happened previously just doesn't matter anymore, Sachi died and she's immediately forgotten by the plot, and Kirito goes back to being a generic dude in a black trenchcoat. The events aren't building off each other, and thus Kirito's character can't be developed, this is just bad writing. This episode instead is just one fanservice moment after another, Silica is nothing more than a damsel in distress and she's even less developed than Sachi. And of course, since we're building up Kirito's harem, we need a little sister WHO IS NOT RELATED BY BLOOD, CAN YOU HEAR ME, THEY'RE NOT ACTUAL SIBLINGS, BOY WOULDN'T IT BE TROUBLESOME IF SHE ACTUALLY IS HIS SISTER, IT'S NOT LIKE WE WANT TO LOOK LIKE PEDOPHILES. Speaking of bad writing, the villain's motivation make no sense. Why would you create a convoluted system just to kill other players? What incentive could there possibly be? Sure, the punishment for killing a person is just a slap on the wrist, and it goes away after a day, but still, isn't it more convenient to steal from other players instead of painting a huge target on your head? And since this system was going on for months, how did nobody but Kirito notice this incredibly eye-catching woman being around other players just before they're killed? Wow. You can't even pay attention. Kirito hasn't forgotten about Sachi, plus Silica plays an important role in the story. The writing isn't even terrible at all. |
Nurguburu said: I'm glad that Pina was resurrected. Silica is cute, I hope that we meet her again. ikr i'm so happy, I loved that episode too. |
mizabeans said: We meet silica in this episode a loli idol beast tamer who is about to die until kirito shows up. Apparantly were all the way past floor 50 in 4 episodes? And Kiriro is level 78? I'm no expert in pacing but if that does not scream rushed I don't know what does. It was pretty cool to see that clan try their best to kill Kirito and not be able to do anything lol. Also the show talked about having no ressurection items, but between the Nicholas the Renegade item and now the flower that's 2 ressurection items in 2 straight episodes. Lots of problems already and I'm not a fan of this whole thing of meeting one side character per episode thing either. Tons of fanservice this episode There is a time skip, if you want to go deeper, you can read the light novels. Plus, it takes some time to level up, and it would be boring if there were a ton of episodes of Kirito grinding levels. Besides, this episode was good. It wasn't rushed. Silica plays an important role in the story. Obviously, if you don't want to die in SAO, you have to get stronger, which is why Kirito is a high level. If you were trapped in SAO, the first instinct you would have is to gain levels to survive. Indeed, I liked the part where the clan tried to hurt Kirito but it did nothing to him lol |
animejas said: The pacing continues to be really frustrating and inconsistent to the degree of affecting characterization really badly. It's somehow too fast and too slow with the content of the episodes at the same time. Kirito's just leveling up on the side and he's just Lvl 78 now with no care randomly through skipped time and again and near-invincible to most people. The content here is pretty side story level stuff while not really expanding on the world in an interesting or detailed fashion. Silica's character was meh too, didn't like how she was used as tentacle bait twice in the same episode, and personality wise was just kind of meh for me too along with her awkward chemistry with Kirito here. So far, it feels like the actual meat to this anime is happening behind the scenes whereas here, it's filled with side story stuff that's not very cohesive at all with how he was feeling a couple of episodes ago. The pacing is just fine, plus if someone wanted to survive SAO, they obviously need to get stronger by gaining levels. You wouldn't want a ton of episodes showing how Kirito got to his level, right? You can read the light novels if you want to go deeper. This episode is amazing. There is plenty of time in the anime covering the world of SAO and it's other aspects. |
| I'd follow Silica to the end of the world if I needed to. She is quite the cutie. Kirito goes out of his way to help someone else despite being a solo player. He has a heart after all, lol. He killed two birds with one stone by helping Silica revive Pina, so a win-win scenario for them both. Setting his base home at level 50... they're halfway there, ohh... |
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| it was great to see Kirito go out of his way to help Silica, and it shows that he is caring, wants to redeem himself, and do better after what happened last episode. loved how Kirito was able to easily survive against Rosalia's men and even taught them a lesson. |
| Seems like we're getting stories from Kirito's journey. This one was alright, we got to hear about his sister. Also it looks like he's in the top guild. That's a Beater for you! Interested to see if we'll get to know that clan. |
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| cute loli silica >:3 but whats with the inconsistensy in getting damaged? sometimes you see people like scream in pain or they look like they actually got physically damaged but here the swords literally went through kirito    |
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| This episode was so weird. What was with the loli character and all her weird moments when she got red? At least someone bad went to prison and for once Kirito did something good. I was fully expecting Kiriko to do something evil like usual |
 This never updates so that's cool |
| What a fun episode this was |
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