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| Great opening with Kibaou after talking in favour of equality and justice becomes a spawncamper and player killer because Reki Kawahara wants it. “We tried to give things to people equally, but this only ended up empowering people who don’t want to try hard, and without an incentive to try hard, those people will in turn oppress others.” Amazing reasoning, Ayn Rand. So what's this episode about really? Yui? Oh, I'm sorry, am I supposed to be surprised that Yui is secretly some kind of god-child? Am I supposed to be surprised that she's not a real person, but a program, right after we saw her being affected by static noise? What is the point of this episode, if it just confirms stuff that was really obvious from a first glance? I won't be surprised when she reappears later in the series either, that's for sure. Everything related to Yui is saccharine, manipulative, and over the top crap that I hate the most in anything. "I'm a fake. Even these tears." she says, while the tears she's shedding sparkle as they fall. "What's this?" "Yui's heart" This isn't tragedy, this isn't good writing, this is just a Skinner Box. You introduce cute, helpless things and then run a car over them to make the audience cry. It’s trite and fake and condescending. |
| So Asuna, who some episodes ago suggested attracting a Boss to a village full of NPCs in order to achieve victory, is now sad because a Program is finished? Damn, that's some hypocrisy right there. Also, since when Kirito is a hacker? I can't believe they tried to go for an emotional punch within 2 episodes involving a barely fleshed out character. Pathetic. 2/5 |
| Lol I saw this episode torn apart in a review, so I kinda knew what was gone happen. OP Kirito ftw >>> |
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| What the hell, if Kirito could change the program why didn't he just put in the logout button? That doesn't make any sense to me, Yui was a program why do they care? I don't see why three days with her made them so attached. |
| meh... still don't see how they can be so attached to her. they was no build up in the relationship. right from the beginning they were acting as if Yui was their own child. |
| All that Yui stuff was badly written in my opinion, just like the Moonlit Black Cats. We just can't care about her since there's nothing to make us get attached to her. Sword Art Online tries way to hard to be emotional when it's clearly not it's strenght. |
| Okay, there were a lot of things I enjoyed about this episode, but some parts that stood out as really important kind of bugged me. I can see them getting attached enough to her to cry about the situation. Maybe it was a little over-dramatic, although that wasn't what stood out to me. It's just... the past few episodes have been too fast-paced in my opinion. It's like Kirito and Asuna suddenly become romantically involved in THAT quickly after nothing like that happening for two years or so? It seemed like they didn't get any closer after all that time, and then they're suddenly married in the game and wanted someone to fill the role of a child in their home. Maybe I can see some reasons for why it was written like that, but it doesn't sit well with me. And it'd be nice to have some explanation as to how Kirito knew what to do with the computer thingy Yui exposed before she was gone. That's all I can think of for now. Yui wasn't a bad character in my opinion, and I liked the explanation for what happened in the guild and to the children in the game. |
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| Damn all these comments are filled with negativity. I'm currently rewatching it, although I've watched both seasons some weeks ago and I'm still enjoying it. |
zerotwosdarlingSep 23, 2018 4:18 PM
| I thought this a decent enough episode. I did like Yui being a badass to that monster. |
| Yui being a badass was great. So, she's Artificial Intelligence...A bit sad, indeed. |
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| Well that was a little emotional to watch.. even the 3rd time through. I've never quite fully understood the weird hate towards SAO but I'd imagine in this case the lack of any real appreciation for the Yui character is mostly by those who don't have kids. It wouldn't matter if you're a parent for 2 weeks or 20 years - the emotional impact on any parent would be huge so I think that part was written quite well. |
| Emotional episode. Imagine if later Kirito realizes he has some GM access left-outs from this incident. |
| jesus the pacing is soooo off why is kirito suddenly this cheery & upbeat ????????? why would they bring yui along?????????? why is asuna suddenly so attached to her??????????????? it was supposed to be emotional but it didn’t hit me at all. im glad this is over tbh it felt so forced ☹ like as if them suddenly getting together getting married suddenly moving to some cottage wasn’t rushed enough LETS THROW IN A GROWN ASS KID TO THE MIX |
 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 |
| Episode begins: Army plot exists. Halfway through the episode: Army plot proceeds to YEET/teleport itself. Kirito & Asuna: 'We don't need to know what happened to the army, who cares. We almost killed ourselves but who cares. Yui could have died from it but who cares, she's already dead'. Honestly where the hell did that plot go? Nowhere. All those 8-year-olds shouldn't be in SAO and it's their parents' fault but a full orphanage of kids is extremely unlikely, maybe like 5 in 10000 people. Also, this makes Kayaba Akihiko unredeemable no matter what his goal was, he brought in children[This is the modern world, not the dark ages]. All these advanced computer systems but not a feature to recognize whether the player is underage, especially with that mirror thingy. SAO is not realistic so it could have some way of doing it, but Kayaba clearly didn't care for the potential death of underage children[We also have living breathing AI, so]. To me, this episode cemented the fact that this entire franchise is unredeemable. The creators of the show and the characters in the show all though it would be a bright idea to take a child into a battlefield when the child said she wants to. FUCK OFF. I don't care she's an AI or some shit, the entire basis of these two episodes has been the insanely dramatic love Kirito and Asuna have for Yui[even though it is still bullshit in my eyes] and then still they decide to take her to a battlefield. WTF do the show expects me to feel, I was conflicted, to begin with, but now I am enraged. And then the child actually dies[thank god]. Throughout the whole Yui is going to die section I was impersonating Light Yagami's 'I Win' laughter because I was actually enjoying Kirito and Asuna's tears, In my eyes, they found her in a forest, spent one day with her and then killed her. I wonder what happened to Kirito's Sachi flashbacks? "Oh who cares, child must die to make viewer cry", pfft. Yui being an AI with emotions is bs because rushed, Kirito.......I mean god, having hacking abilities is bs, Hacking the game in the first place is asspull bs. Kirito and Asuna's overtly dramatic 'I love Yui' scene is rushed bs. But.......... I am actually passionately angry and actually having a good time ripping this show apart, I think that is why I can't look away. I want to see the entirety on this dead-horse. I know why people love this franchise, there are many reasons for it. I myself love the very first anime I've seen[after Pokemon and Naruto]. That's Tokyo Ghoul, to me it's a 10/10, but I clearly know it shouldn't be. |
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| Uuugggghhhh, this is where this show went from pure mediocrity to cringy garbage. You can't introduce an annoying character and kill her off in the same episode and expect people to care. Awful pacing, awful writing. Just bad. Sure, I'll still watch it, but that has more to do with the slim pickings of anime on netflix than anything else. |
| Will Yui ever be back? Love Art Online continues. |
| Yeah i know it Yui was important to the game, and actually she's a mental health program that created first to help players mental. However, since the system was a jerk, ofc it won't let Yui going free out there said hello to the poor players. Somehow, with the charm of mc, she get attracted and searching for them whole two years. Then after they met, feeling happiness, shit happened, and forced her to be deleted. I mean, wtf? Now after all that flash shocking value, suddenly Kirito power of the mc reappeared without a good explanations 'how', successfully regained her heart and turned it into an item. Like, seriously? I am not surprise if that item actually hold some cheat-kind of power for the future event mSuch a weird introduction of the character, and how its end, and hopefully Kirito can't revive Yui because it will be a big fuckin bullshit left and right and leaving me a bad taste in the end. Guess they just don't care.... |
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| There's really only 2 more episodes for the main SAO arc after this eh. And this really was the episode before the penultimate one lol. Yui felt so thrown in to this story to clearly play a key part in the final 2 episodes of a really rushed and flat opening arc. More relationship dynamics being completely thrown in and rushed as usual from this series. Only 2 more to go. |
Fafner34 said: This is the same Asuna that a couple episodes ago wanted to take a Boss to a town, even though it would kill the NPCs but didn't care because they are just programs. Kirito at least disagrees with this plan. (it is not shown if they did it or not) Also Asuna is 16, it is pretty rare to want to be a mother and spend your life raising a child at that age, and she only knew this PC PROGRAM for 24 hours (at least in the anime, they find her, go to sleep and they go to the dungeon the next day and she dies). Even if she was dying to be a mother (which is never shown or explored in the anime up to this point) to form that kind of bond and undying love to an AI in a single day is pretty stupid and falling to the ground and crying like your life just ended is not believable and well written at all. And you are comparing this to loosing a child? Your comment speaks for itself really. You're clearly missing the point by a long way but I'm not going to get into a debate on something I wrote 2 years ago. Suggest you educate yourself and little and read up on emotional attachment, loss, trauma and any number of very real human conditions. It's not far fetched at all. |
| seeing people say that the episode "sucks" or "could care less, boring" goes to show how haters can't even pay attention and understand the importance of the story, in this case, Kirito and Asuna deepening their bond while helping sweet Yui to regain her memories and cheer her up. this episode IS very emotional and very important. seeing Yui save Kirito and Asuna was awesome and significant. |
| So this is their way of giving Kirito and Asuna a child. Yui was badass at the end, but other than that pretty boring. The first girl died after 1 episode so they gave Yui 2 episodes but it's far from being enough to make me care about her. |
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| kirito what? yui used the terminal to delete the monste rand was in turn deleted by the system and kirito thinks "ok ill use the terminal" and that "hacking" thing was so dumb :D there wasnt even any monitor first he just started typing without knowing anything and managed to turn a part of an internal program into an object in the game while said program was being deleted in that short time |
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| Asuna said she couldn't be happy without Yui. What was the point of her character and the death? I've been thinking about this a lot, why couldn't they undress themselves without having to go into the settings? |
cooldogmomJul 23, 2023 9:20 AM
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| Yui sure is very human like for a AI program |
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| So Asuna and Kirito are the only people who have found joy in SAO? Certainly what the little AI girl was implying which I don't buy. |
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