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| This was a pretty good episode. The best thus far. It was not rushed, as it felt like it has good pacing. A lot of subtle messaging, which I just love (e.g. the earrings and how Liz came to the conclusion after seeing them). And for whatever reason, Asuna seems a lot more adorable this week. 5/5 |
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Arqentum said: I've got a question about SAO itemizing. (addressed to LN readers) DR +0 is inferior to El. Assuming front line is level 60 (or even 70, everyone thinks that level 100 is the last anyway), what is the purpose of making it? Either drops from higher levels != better equipment or +1 ... n applied to a sword is really powerful? If so why not to ++ El? Requesting clarification. You kinda answered your own question in the spoiler about the purpose of making it. I don't remember much to anything about enhancing for SAO but I do recall them saying special rare weapon drops usually have better stats. According to a quick google, Elucidator was dropped from the Lv 50 boss while as the Repulser is just a smith'd item. Obviously a unique boss weapon drop would be quite good, seeing as how he's still wearing that cloak as well from like... the first boss... Gonna guess that "require" is either STR or Lv... if it's Lv, it can also back up my statement since higher level gear usually have high level stats. |
| I usually don't shit on episodes, but when I do, I really think they could have been made better. I know it's about a person's opinion, but I would really like they cut the "emo/whining" crap just by a little... They should really get the plot moving! Even if they don't, they should at least extend the duration of fighting scenes or make the dialogues less shounen-cliche. I still hope this anime will get epix as i expected it to be after watching the first 2 episodes |
Paul said: You kinda answered your own question in the spoiler about the purpose of making it. I don't remember much to anything about enhancing for SAO but I do recall them saying special rare weapon drops usually have better stats. According to a quick google, Elucidator was dropped from the Lv 50 boss while as the Repulser is just a smith'd item. Obviously a unique boss weapon drop would be quite good, seeing as how he's still wearing that cloak as well from like... the first boss... Gonna guess that "require" is either STR or Lv... if it's Lv, it can also back up my statement since higher level gear usually have high level stats. |
Paul said: Arqentum said: I've got a question about SAO itemizing. (addressed to LN readers) DR +0 is inferior to El. Assuming front line is level 60 (or even 70, everyone thinks that level 100 is the last anyway), what is the purpose of making it? Either drops from higher levels != better equipment or +1 ... n applied to a sword is really powerful? If so why not to ++ El? Requesting clarification. You kinda answered your own question in the spoiler about the purpose of making it. I don't remember much to anything about enhancing for SAO but I do recall them saying special rare weapon drops usually have better stats. According to a quick google, Elucidator was dropped from the Lv 50 boss while as the Repulser is just a smith'd item. Obviously a unique boss weapon drop would be quite good, seeing as how he's still wearing that cloak as well from like... the first boss... Gonna guess that "require" is either STR or Lv... if it's Lv, it can also back up my statement since higher level gear usually have high level stats. @arq, you practically answered your own question as to why he got an inferior sword in your spoiler @paul he isn't wearing the coat of midnight anymore, he has upgraded his equipment to the best possible equipment and iirc his current coat was also player made by ashley, it would be really stupid if a boss drop from level 1 is still handy in the lvl 70s thats just too overpowered the extremely rare demonic swords or rare monstor drops usually have superior stats to player made items but they can't be upgraded as much as playermade weapons and very good player made weapons like DR can essentially surpass them so although its +0 atm, it can increase the require is most likely the strength level to wield it as lisbets level was like 65 while kirito had probably exceeded 80, and even though she was 65ish she could barely wield elucidator which required only 61 which proves that its most likely the strength requirement as in SAO you can only invest in stats such as STR or DEX when you level up |
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| i liked this side story a lot even if it felt a bit short and i fucking love Liz! it's a shame Asuna is the female lead or i would had been rooting for her. besides the CG dragon this was overall a pretty good episode it was nice to see everyone in there final armor as far as the OP goes hopefully if they reach max level they'll get something even better later on. |
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Arqentum said: Paul said: You kinda answered your own question in the spoiler about the purpose of making it. I don't remember much to anything about enhancing for SAO but I do recall them saying special rare weapon drops usually have better stats. According to a quick google, Elucidator was dropped from the Lv 50 boss while as the Repulser is just a smith'd item. Obviously a unique boss weapon drop would be quite good, seeing as how he's still wearing that cloak as well from like... the first boss... Gonna guess that "require" is either STR or Lv... if it's Lv, it can also back up my statement since higher level gear usually have high level stats. I'm honestly having no idea what your saying. I might be over-thinking, thinking to hard or misunderstanding something. |
| pretty decent episode, the most enjoyable episode so far for me, well despite some minor details have been cut out. They could make the beginning of lizbeth journey a little bit longer :P, oh well. lizbeth brings freshness into the show, I like that. @about asuna earrings: it isn't a gift from kirito(well at least the novel hasn't mentioned it), you can think of it as either an item to boost the owner's stats, or an item to make them more darling, which will be the case because when lizbeth looked at it, she knew that asuna has someone she likes. |
| Aww i hoped liz would join the harem:/ looks like kirito isn't going to end up with a harem |
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Arqentum said: ok a bit spoilerish here as to why |
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| Poor Liz got Asuna'd; I'm sure that must've hurt for all the Liz fans. She'll forever be in the friendzone. The dragon could've looked a lot better (especially with all those still shots). I'll just assume they're saving their budget for later. Kirito's new sword, the Dark Repulsor, looks pretty badass. Though, it's also amusing to realize it's made out of dragon crap. For those that have read the LN, where did Asuna get her earrings? I don't recall Kirito giving her any. Is there any significance to it or did the anime just add that scene on a whim? |
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| good ep, i do feel a bit sad for Liz though, but it's a good thing for Asuna. I'm also confused as to what the earrings mean, though it'll probably be explained next episode or something |
kamikaze_1996 said: ok a bit spoilerish here as to why Well. Now that makes sense. Thanks. |
PirateKingz said: Poor Liz got Asuna'd; I'm sure that must've hurt for all the Liz fans. She'll forever be in the friendzone. The dragon could've looked a lot better (especially with all those still shots). I'll just assume they're saving their budget for later. Kirito's new sword, the Dark Repulsor, looks pretty badass. Though, it's also amusing to realize it's made out of dragon crap. For those that have read the LN, where did Asuna get her earrings? I don't recall Kirito giving her any. Is there any significance to it or did the anime just add that scene on a whim? she was trying to dress well and be stylish for the person she was going to meet, liz noticed her earing and wondered the reason she left the frontline and wondered why she was polishing her equipment she immediately figured out she wanted to look good for the person she is going to meet and most likely fancied him (womens intuition is scary i know) |
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Arqentum said: kamikaze_1996 said: ok a bit spoilerish here as to why Well. Now that makes sense. Thanks. no problem, it's more than likely to be mentioned later on in the anime |
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| even the author mentions this wasn't intended to be a harem, he even deeply apologized for introducing too many female characters and said that he would get more males in |
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| İ like that dragon. I don't why but fight scenes reminds me pokemon. I know sound like stupid but dragon attacks looks like an ice beam and gust... |
| They skipped out on Guess they want to reveal it all in one go. |
| @kamikaze_1996: yo dude, I'm not trying to be rude but would u mind stop spoiling, even though u put it in spoiler tag but i see your name in every pages which make me really tired just to only read your post, TBH. I mean you can post whatever u want but plz stop posting it like spamming the whole thread. Lemme read other pp comments as well. |
Takana_no_HanaAug 18, 2012 7:28 PM
| Man, because a girl doesn't open her leg and is submissive to the MC doesn't make her a tsundere. Lisbeth isn't a tsundere, neither is Asuna. So with the episode title I guess we'll see "that" next episode, likely as a cliffhanger since the plot will finally start. |
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| good episode as always a bit rushed but that's what to expect w/ the anime version So not gonna complain there's still a troll as always n ofc some haters though |
Niyawa said: tezann_t said: I'm not sure if you've read the LN, but I think this is how they have to direct the series. They have three choices: 1) don't include the side stories, 2) put the side episodes later on just as the LN had, or 3) come up with some chronology with the author's blessing. The first route would've had the fans raging all over. The second route would've created a huge gap between the first and second arc and confused everyone. I know it makes no sense now, but I still believe people will see more sense of it once the series finished. Well, yeah, I'm still on-hold on vol.1 so it was a just a guess, but your explanation makes more sense, thanks anyway. Also, forgive me for going on about this, but I also want to point out that contrary to popular opinion, these side stories are introducing characters who will show up later (I don't think this spoils anything for anyone). At least I think the anime will be smart to have them show up at the right time. Otherwise they would have been introduced for nothing. For better or for worse, the series won't just have Asuna and Kirito. In my opinion that's a good thing, although I can certainly see why people are kind of "wtf" at how little screentime each of these characters get. Trust me when I say it's not a failure of the anime alone. The LN also kind of relegates them into non-important roles. |
| Enjoyed the episode thoroughly, seeing that Liz is one of my favorite characters from the SAO arc. |
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| This episode is a huge improvement over the previous week's. The pacing is much slower this time around, which is good considering most SAO episodes feel rushed. I haven't read very far into the novels but it seems that next week we will have the main storyline back (by main storyline I mean Volume 1 in the novels). |
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Chrischunn said: They skipped out on Guess they want to reveal it all in one go. Oh so that means the main story will finally start now? Looking forward to next week. |
| As a child, I was told that society is a melting pot of talents; knowledge and experience combined to form important alloys that will contribute to mankind. When I got to highschool, however, I thought that it's more like a river in which the water represents our peers while we ourselves are the stones in the river. Constant erosion by mindless majority sheeping has made us lose our unique edge. After I hit the age of 18, I realized that I've been wrong all along. Society is no melting pot. Society is no river. Society is a person, a very skilled rapist, and he has fucked us all. |
kamikaze_1996 said: even the author mentions this wasn't intended to be a harem, he even deeply apologized for introducing too many female characters and said that he would get more males in Point in fact, the original volume had a linear romantic plot involving a single heroine (Asuna) and Hero (Kirito). It was only later that he introduced the female harem side characters. Of course, no Japanese anime would be complete without the rest of the female eye-candy, so he almost HAD to add them. dashiawia said: This episode is a huge improvement over the previous week's. The pacing is much slower this time around, which is good considering most SAO episodes feel rushed. I haven't read very far into the novels but it seems that next week we will have the main storyline back (by main storyline I mean Volume 1 in the novels). I've watched it multiple times already so it meets my approval. Again, it was almost impossible to mess up this side-story considering its original quality in the LN. My only quibble is that the skip from Kirito falling -> lying down in sleeping bags was a little too sudden but that's minor. I can definitely understand why they would skip Kirito's secret...for now. |
| main story will start from ep8, and after several episode there's gonna be another side story in between. |
Vforvendetta said: main story will start from ep8, and after several episode there's gonna be another side story in between. That's good to hear. Though I hope the side story in between won't feel out of place. |
| As a child, I was told that society is a melting pot of talents; knowledge and experience combined to form important alloys that will contribute to mankind. When I got to highschool, however, I thought that it's more like a river in which the water represents our peers while we ourselves are the stones in the river. Constant erosion by mindless majority sheeping has made us lose our unique edge. After I hit the age of 18, I realized that I've been wrong all along. Society is no melting pot. Society is no river. Society is a person, a very skilled rapist, and he has fucked us all. |
| Meh... 3/5. Plot still isn't really going anywhere though. |
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| It was okay. Still waiting for that plot.....come on.....come on... |
Vforvendetta said: @kamikaze_1996: yo dude, I'm not trying to be rude but would u mind stop spoiling, even though u put it in spoiler tag but i see your name in every pages which make me really tired just to only read your post, TBH. I mean you can post whatever u want but plz stop posting it like spamming the whole thread. Lemme read other pp comments as well. well sorry for trying to help other users with their questions <_< ive become quite the question answerer in this forum, its gotten to the point where people are actually messaging me with questions about SAO also im not trying to spoil anything for anyone, spoilers tags exist for a reason so i use it if i need to and i actually avoid using spoilers unless i have to refer to the LN to discuss something or answer a question and its not like im actually harming anyone, unlike the inconsiderate ones who openly discuss the content in the LN as they please also im not trying to spam the whole thread, i just like discussing things, i don't see how my comments are stopping you from reading other peoples comments -__- |
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| example of the last page: make sense? next time use the edit button ... 2 comments from you covered all of my laptop screen with quotations and signatures, make it into 1 post. and about those spoiling question, its the opposite, u aren't actually helping them but instead killing the fun from them. |
Takana_no_HanaAug 18, 2012 8:10 PM
| This was awful. The way they go from strangers to holding hands and confessing their love only 10 minutes in was ridiculous. It makes no sense and there's no room or reason for the viewer to give a crap about the girl and her feelings, and it's just as much a fault of the writer for trying to exploit the audience into feeling cheap emotions just because the girl cries with dramatic music playing. These romantic scenes were downright awful and all the cliched dialogue felt like something stolen directly from other shows. Heck, I predicted the confession while they were falling together before it even happened. Using the 'stuck in a cave and falling in love' cliche was bad enough as it is but they really just threw in every convention they possibly could since it seems the writer lacks the ability to do something even marginally interesting or unique. If you can't write, just steal from other anime, I suppose. It's a flawless plan. And, sadly, Kajiura's talent went to waste here with the horrible application of the tracks. All it achieved in doing was making each scene overdramatic and needlessly campy. Didn't make much sense how Kirito survived after falling from that height either when he lost half health from a much smaller fall earlier. Also, it's very convenient how they somehow couldn't teleport outside of the cave when it works everywhere else in the game world. Kirito also completely changed his goals yet again at the ending just so he could appear romantic for the nth addition to his worthless harem. Funny too, how Lisbeth completely gives up on her love right after seeing Asuna and Kirito interact for a short moment, despite everything she was feeling towards Kirito previously. I guess this episode was good as a comedy, if nothing else. |
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Vforvendetta said: example of the last page: make sense? next time use the edit button ... and about those spoiling question, its the opposite, u aren't actually helping them but instead killing the fun from them. i have no idea how that is even spoilerish when only people who opened the spoiler tag would understand what the heck i was talking about so i deemed it unnecessary to tag it unless you talking about the authors comment, but thats an entirely different thing and its not spoilerish for those who have finished watching these sidestories and already know about silica and liz i don't think im killing the fun for them when they are the ones asking, especially since i warn them beforehand of spoilers, whether they read it or not is up to them and even then i don't go into full detail that would spoil all the fun of the future episodes hell, im even being thanked for doing this, if you want to complain about spoilers, then complain to the ones who are actually giving away clues EDIT: ugh, once the reason for the double post is because people post while im typing, you yourself just edited you comment while i was typing, its not like i want to spam comments and cover the screen with my sig and my point still stands, why don't you just ignore my posts, it shouldn't also stop you from reading other comments, im not even its not like its harming anyone and its not like im attacking anyone |
ZeroKamikazeAug 18, 2012 8:36 PM
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| Goddammit, Kirito, stop leading on every single girl! =.= Is he so dense to the girl's feelings? LOL Ohey, next week is episode 8 which people said will be the main plot? I'm excited. |
| this is a really good example of how a quest styled episode without the romantic sub plot would be boring. I liked the Liz she was sweet and it was really sad that she could not have what she wants. Still enjoying sao a fair bit. |
Veronin said: This was awful. The way they go from strangers to holding hands and confessing their love only 10 minutes in was ridiculous. It makes no sense and there's no room or reason for the viewer to give a crap about the girl and her feelings, and it's just as much a fault of the writer for trying to exploit the audience into feeling cheap emotions just because the girl cries with dramatic music playing. These romantic scenes were downright awful and all the cliched dialogue felt like something stolen directly from other shows. Heck, I predicted the confession while they were falling together before it even happened. Using the 'stuck in a cave and falling in love' cliche was bad enough as it is but they really just threw in every convention they possibly could since it seems the writer lacks the ability to do something even marginally interesting or unique. If you can't write, just steal from other anime, I suppose. It's a flawless plan. And, sadly, Kajiura's talent went to waste here with the horrible application of the tracks. All it achieved in doing was making each scene overdramatic and needlessly campy. Didn't make much sense how Kirito survived after falling from that height either when he lost half health from a much smaller fall earlier. Also, it's very convenient how they somehow couldn't teleport outside of the cave when it works everywhere else in the game world. Kirito also completely changed his goals yet again at the ending just so he could appear romantic for the nth addition to his worthless harem. Funny too, how Lisbeth completely gives up on her love right after seeing Asuna and Kirito interact for a short moment, despite everything she was feeling towards Kirito previously. I guess this episode was good as a comedy, if nothing else. I loled. So much rage. Yet it is so, so true. |
Veronin said: This was awful. The way they go from strangers to holding hands and confessing their love only 10 minutes in was ridiculous. It makes no sense and there's no room or reason for the viewer to give a crap about the girl and her feelings, and it's just as much a fault of the writer for trying to exploit the audience into feeling cheap emotions just because the girl cries with dramatic music playing. These romantic scenes were downright awful and all the cliched dialogue felt like something stolen directly from other shows. Heck, I predicted the confession while they were falling together before it even happened. Using the 'stuck in a cave and falling in love' cliche was bad enough as it is but they really just threw in every convention they possibly could since it seems the writer lacks the ability to do something even marginally interesting or unique. If you can't write, just steal from other anime, I suppose. It's a flawless plan. And, sadly, Kajiura's talent went to waste here with the horrible application of the tracks. All it achieved in doing was making each scene overdramatic and needlessly campy. Didn't make much sense how Kirito survived after falling from that height either when he lost half health from a much smaller fall earlier. Also, it's very convenient how they somehow couldn't teleport outside of the cave when it works everywhere else in the game world. Kirito also completely changed his goals yet again at the ending just so he could appear romantic for the nth addition to his worthless harem. Funny too, how Lisbeth completely gives up on her love right after seeing Asuna and Kirito interact for a short moment, despite everything she was feeling towards Kirito previously. I guess this episode was good as a comedy, if nothing else. I guess you can say that 10 minutes is not enough. But, please consider that an anime is anime, things that's unrealistic can happen. like hell they should just waste more time or episodes just to tell how Kirito and Liz relationship developed just from the time they spent at the dragon nest.... But, I also felt that the emotion that they were trying to make are not perfectly delivered, yeah it was a bit forced. The soundtracks are better than the last few epsiodes imo, at least this episode soundtracks did caught my attention. Although I'm not a fan of Yuki Kajiura, her tracks are great but usually forgettable. And the teleportation thing, it's just how a MMORPG game works. I'm sure it has some limitation. Lisbeth is Asuna's friend, so she really understand what is going between Kirito and Asuna and don't you think Liz will not feel terrible If she took Kirito who Asuna (Liz's friend) likes? And the word cliche is overused.... There are almost no anime that aren't cliche these days |
kamikaze_1996 said: Vforvendetta said: @kamikaze_1996: yo dude, I'm not trying to be rude but would u mind stop spoiling, even though u put it in spoiler tag but i see your name in every pages which make me really tired just to only read your post, TBH. I mean you can post whatever u want but plz stop posting it like spamming the whole thread. Lemme read other pp comments as well. well sorry for trying to help other users with their questions <_< ive become quite the question answerer in this forum, its gotten to the point where people are actually messaging me with questions about SAO Well, here's a question I'd like to have answered: Your new avatar looks great but where did you find it? Don't worry, I'm not going to use it, I'd just like to get a copy. |
| @kamikaze: dude its not about spoilers that I complained when showing you the picture, but it's about your double post covered most of my laptop screen. And for those who like to spoil, I'm not saying anything else, as a novel reader, I only explain things up to the current episode, or unclear thing which wasn't mentioned in the anime. @Jerrychiang: it's Sinon in vol 5,6 GGO http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=File:Sword_Art_Online_Vol_06_-001.jpeg http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=File:Sword_Art_Online_Vol_05_-001.jpeg P/s: I did ignore your posts, its just that I have to scroll down more cause your posts seem to appear in every pages. |
Takana_no_HanaAug 18, 2012 8:42 PM
Vforvendetta said: @kamikaze: dude its not about spoilers that I complained when showing you the picture, but it's about your double post covered most of my laptop screen. And for those who like to spoil, I'm not saying anything else, as a novel reader, I only explain things up to the current episode, or unclear thing which wasn't mentioned in the anime. @Jerrychiang: it's Sinon in vol 5,6 GGO http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=File:Sword_Art_Online_Vol_06_-001.jpeg http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=File:Sword_Art_Online_Vol_05_-001.jpeg Ahhh, the illustrations. Thanks! |
| ^ urm, you know who my avatar is right? it was the Cover on a book in bakatsuki's forum, i forgot which one, the avatar itself was cut out from the cover and edited by me, i don't think there will be other copies like mine anywhere else unfortunately |
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| Good episode, but the next seems to be even better! I always watch SAO in 1080p and the CG looked good for me. |
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| Spends one night with a guy on a game. Confess your love next day. Girls these days... |
| By the looks of it, Kirito will be giving that sword to Asuna....cause it looks the same as the one at the end of the opening...how sweet of him. |
I am a sucker for romance!!!! ] |
Kissed said: Spends one night with a guy on a game. Confess your love next day. Girls these days... I know what you mean... but it wasn't really supposed to be so quick like that... The anime adaptation is the one to be blamed... @TPAM I don't wanna spoil...but...no. |
| Question! How much relevance to these side stories have to the main story? |
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