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-MgZ_ said: kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: I completely disagree. With the exception of episode 3, each episode has been paced extremely well, transitions from scenes well, and tells the story in a fashion that is both interesting and coherent. There's no rushed feeling about it. As an anime it stands very very well. Now, if you compare it to the LN, then yeah everything is going to feel rushed. The material in the LN is long and drawn out and the anime producers opted to keep the essence/core of the story intact. If you're going to make comparison then obviously the lengthy original source material will seem better but on its own SAO anime is very well done. With the exception of 3 cuz that episode was just flat out bad. So I am just over reacting because I'm an LN reader? I wonder.. Cuz if I view it as a non-novel reader, Im pretty sure there's a lot of things that I won't understand. Episode One and Two is okay. I think I pretty much understood what happened ( non-novel reader point of view ). But episode three and four is just.. I just think adapting the side stories in volume two without explaining things is a bad idea. what about episode 3 and 4 is not understandable? although i would agree that episode 3 was rushed as hell, they got in all the key points and explained what was happening well, it would be hard to understand if you miss the dates that are shown at the top which show the time-skip but other than that its pretty straight-forward, although like i said it was rushed as hell episode 4, was pretty understandable in my point of view -a beast tamer's pet gets killed -kirito arrives and offers to help revive it -they encounter criminals -kirito throws them in prison -happy end they even explained the orange and reds whats there not to understand? |
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chanotek said: -MgZ_ said: Not including Liz, Silica, Sachi and Yui would have displeased a lot of novel readers. The pacing seems to be a little issue, but other than that, they don't really detract from the series. The main problem is that they're introduced so early in the story way before the actual plot. There's nothing that can be done about it though unfortunately.So basically, A-1 Pictures do not fucking care to those who did not read the novel. That's what I understood after watching episode two, three and four. or does A-1 Pictures thought people who didn't read the novel will understand the side stories in Volume Two with just showing the introduction in Volume One? There's a reason why did the author called it "Side Stories"... I bet the 159 people that dropped SAO had a reason like "Wtf is going on here", "What's the connection to the last episode", "Who the shit is this", "Where's the character's last episode", "I don't understand a thing". I give up. Im not expecting anything great anymore. Sure they did Animate the important parts and shit. The super rushed style is inevitable if it will only have 24 episodes. Or is it? I believe they do not need to rush things if they didn't include the side stories and focused on Volume One. At first, I thought they are animating the side stories because they wanna do the chronological order so that people will have an easier time understanding it. But they are just messing it up. So why are they even animating the side stories? I can only think of one reason. They are doing it so that they can include characters like Sachi, Silica, Liz and Yui. They thought they will get higher ratings and stuff if they show a lot of moeness. The y thought the Anime will appear a lot better if there's a bunch of cute characters. They are certainly right but that's just so disappointing. The fact that a production studio thinks like that sucks. I hope it don't get worse. Just stay like this or get better. Please. P.S: I don't have any complains in the Art and Animation department though. Dat Silica bed scene! Kirito was badass. Though there should be more action than that in the Kirito vs 10 scene. Well, nvm. I doubt this will get worse. Don't keep your hopes down too low man :P also, they show up in later volumes too, if they want to stay true to the story and animate the rest of the volumes, they would need to introduce those characters, especially Yui |
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kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: I completely disagree. With the exception of episode 3, each episode has been paced extremely well, transitions from scenes well, and tells the story in a fashion that is both interesting and coherent. There's no rushed feeling about it. As an anime it stands very very well. Now, if you compare it to the LN, then yeah everything is going to feel rushed. The material in the LN is long and drawn out and the anime producers opted to keep the essence/core of the story intact. If you're going to make comparison then obviously the lengthy original source material will seem better but on its own SAO anime is very well done. With the exception of 3 cuz that episode was just flat out bad. So I am just over reacting because I'm an LN reader? I wonder.. Cuz if I view it as a non-novel reader, Im pretty sure there's a lot of things that I won't understand. Episode One and Two is okay. I think I pretty much understood what happened ( non-novel reader point of view ). But episode three and four is just.. I just think adapting the side stories in volume two without explaining things is a bad idea. I'm an LN reader too. For those that haven't read the novel they're fine with what they've seen. I don't think you should speak for other people and do sweeping generalizations. It puts a poor argument and creates fallacies. Rhetoric aside, episode one, two, and four are all good. They the core elements of the plot down. You get the sense that these are random escapades as Kirito is just trying to survive in the game. It's fine. If anything you want to compare it to it'd be DtB. That show basically had no plot progression until like the last 7 episodes. So yeah. We are not really sure that they are fine with what they've seen. I am not really speaking for all non-LN readers. I am putting myself in a what if situation. What if I didn't read the novel? Will I still like SAO? Sure but not as much as I love it now. Why am I ranting about the directing about SAO's Anime? Because Im disappointed. It's acceptable if people dropped or disliked SAO because it's not their taste and such but if their reason is that they don't really understand what's going on because of the plot holes is just... madness. I give a lot of credit to Reki Kawahara for giving birth to such a masterpiece. I respect both him and NisiOisin more than anyone else in the novel industry. Don't you feel kinda mad if the work that you love is getting some hate and dislikes because of the adaptation and not the novel itself? kamikaze_1996 said: also, they show up in later volumes too, if they want to stay true to the story and animate the rest of the volumes, they would need to introduce those characters, especially Yui Sure but they need to prioritize volume one first. Because you'll pretty much understand all the basics about SAO there. |
| Good episode Kirito is badass and the tragedy in episode 3 was not for waste Silica is cute >.< Although there was not enough story development because this is a SS, this ep didn't disappoint me like the 3rd epiosde. Character development was well done and the pacing was fine. Can't wait for the main story , when it will start I wonder? |
| Dunno why they are animating volume 8 next episode ... |
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| Really nice that they pretty much hit every point this time between the source story and the episode itself this time. Since they talked about orange and red players I'm hoping the raid against Laughing Coffin will get animated. It looks like everything from the LNs involving Aincrad 1.0 is getting animated so I'm not really worried. I'm going to need a tissue for the Yui arc. I'm not sure I'm mentally prepared for it yet. |
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Yanoflies said: Dunno why they are animating volume 8 next episode ... Coz they're doing it chronologically, and that side story comes after The Black Swordsman in terms of time. |
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-MgZ_ said: kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: kayos90 said: -MgZ_ said: I completely disagree. With the exception of episode 3, each episode has been paced extremely well, transitions from scenes well, and tells the story in a fashion that is both interesting and coherent. There's no rushed feeling about it. As an anime it stands very very well. Now, if you compare it to the LN, then yeah everything is going to feel rushed. The material in the LN is long and drawn out and the anime producers opted to keep the essence/core of the story intact. If you're going to make comparison then obviously the lengthy original source material will seem better but on its own SAO anime is very well done. With the exception of 3 cuz that episode was just flat out bad. So I am just over reacting because I'm an LN reader? I wonder.. Cuz if I view it as a non-novel reader, Im pretty sure there's a lot of things that I won't understand. Episode One and Two is okay. I think I pretty much understood what happened ( non-novel reader point of view ). But episode three and four is just.. I just think adapting the side stories in volume two without explaining things is a bad idea. I'm an LN reader too. For those that haven't read the novel they're fine with what they've seen. I don't think you should speak for other people and do sweeping generalizations. It puts a poor argument and creates fallacies. Rhetoric aside, episode one, two, and four are all good. They the core elements of the plot down. You get the sense that these are random escapades as Kirito is just trying to survive in the game. It's fine. If anything you want to compare it to it'd be DtB. That show basically had no plot progression until like the last 7 episodes. So yeah. We are not really sure that they are fine with what they've seen. I am not really speaking for all non-LN readers. I am putting myself in a what if situation. What if I didn't read the novel? Will I still like SAO? Sure but not as much as I love it now. Why am I ranting about the directing about SAO's Anime? Because Im disappointed. It's acceptable if people dropped or disliked SAO because it's not their taste and such but if their reason is that they don't really understand what's going on because of the plot holes is just... madness. I give a lot of credit to Reki Kawahara for giving birth to such a masterpiece. I respect both him and NisiOisin more than anyone else in the novel industry. Don't you feel kinda mad if the work that you love is getting some hate and dislikes because of the adaptation and not the novel itself? kamikaze_1996 said: also, they show up in later volumes too, if they want to stay true to the story and animate the rest of the volumes, they would need to introduce those characters, especially Yui Sure but they need to prioritize volume one first. Because you'll pretty much understand all the basics about SAO there. its best not to care what other people think, if you like something you should pay no attention to what other people think, if they dont like it for whatever reason, it shouldn't affect your own also although it might receive some dislike, judging by the rank, polls and popularity, there is obviously more like than dislike, hell the LN sales sky rocketed, and all volumes from 1-10 made it to the top 25 sales list, with vol.10 at 1st place http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=465663&show=0 they would need to get the lesser arcs over and done with so that they can save the better arcs for last, if they just followed Vol.1 continuously and did the volume 2 stories for last, it would suck as a way to end the first cour (1-12 episodes) also the basics about SAO are all being introduced bit by bit from these past few episodes, so its not like people won't understand whats going on, also its better to get the introductions out of the way before the main story starts so that its more understandable and more enjoyable |
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Yanoflies said: Dunno why they are animating volume 8 next episode ... if you think about, its pretty effective, this way they will also they would need to animate it if they want to animate the later the volumes because the story wouldn't make as much sense without it |
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Citrix said: Just the Lizbeth and Yui side story left, my favorite ones on the 2nd novel <3. This one wasn't animated too bad; Roza looked nothing like how I expected her to look tho. i know right! :) im looking forward to them even though in the LN it said that girls in SAO are rare and pretty girls are even rarer, the anime is not doing a very good job of showing this |
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kamikaze_1996 said: Citrix said: Just the Lizbeth and Yui side story left, my favorite ones on the 2nd novel <3. This one wasn't animated too bad; Roza looked nothing like how I expected her to look tho. i know right! :) im looking forward to them even though in the LN it said that girls in SAO are rare and pretty girls are even rarer, the anime is not doing a very good job of showing this No joke especially in this episode... They made a bunch of couples which made it look like there were a good chunk of girls. |
| LOL this episode :) |
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| Based on many posts, they aren't animating the series in chronological order.... or something? |
| Okey epi. I liked the dragon... and Kiriko its already lvl 78! How much lvls exist? |
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monkeii said: Paul said: Based on many posts, they aren't animating the series in chronological order.... or something? they ARE doing this chronologically Was just asking. So I'm guessing the novel isn't...? |
Paul said: Was just asking. So I'm guessing the novel isn't...? The Novel has a large time skip, and later the Author wrote some side stories to put into this large time skip but doesn't come close to filling it up and jumps around during different times of it. These side stories are a little bit important though in ways and they are what we are getting now |
| I see. Hmm, kinda makes me want to go read the novel... to see how it is now. Strangely. |
| finally a Happy episode where No one dies, so we have PK'er now that nice to know, wonder if Titan's Hand will show up more in future, and that hp regen is crazy 600 every 10 secs omost 2000 hp in 30 sec Mad OP, there still a big gap in the story line between "Kirito lead group lvl78 im mad OP and lvl 1 Kirito", hope they shine some light on that. |
| Well that was my favorite episode so far, other than episode 2. Kirito is too badass! Health regeneration say whuuut. I thought he was using a hologram or somethin'. xD So far I like Asuna the best and then Silica and then whats-her-name-that-died. Also, interesting to know about the red player, green player thing. |
| HP Regen Cap to balance the game. umad Kirito? |
| He's fucking badass! |
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| Will someone please tell me when we get to see Asuna? Any possibility it'll be next week? Cause I'm really curious and I can't find the preview =/ |
CrossDivide said: Will someone please tell me when we get to see Asuna? Any possibility it'll be next week? Cause I'm really curious and I can't find the preview =/ It'll be next week. |
AnimeFtw1 said: Can someone tell me if it's actually going to get good? If you've seen the manga ofc. It gets good. At least in the LN it does. |
| Not a bad episode, Kirito being a badass is cool, was waiting all the episode to see what level he was xD |
| Nice episode, no one dies ._. from the usual lmao. Also Kirito Regeneration, nerf please. |
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AnimeFtw1 said: I feel like there's no main story and it's all fillers atm. Not filler, since all these stories are in the source material. These basically serve as build up and introduction to the world. In this episode, you're introduced to the concept of beast tamers and red/orange players. I read the SAO story arc chronologically rather than by the release order, and I actually preferred it that way. The only drawback is that the continuity errors are probably more obvious if you read chronologically. x_x A little worried about the next episode. Murder Case is a really long story, slightly longer than Aria in the Starless Night iirc. They'll probably only give Murder Case one ep, so I guess we should expect a butchering. I'm predicting no Heathcliff and no Laughing Coffin. |
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