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| Minus the random, uneeded, and overly-long tentacle scene, this episode was great - its nice to see some slower, character-development focused episodes and Asuna, finally got to do something. The end of episode as always, though, was chilling and awesome. 4/5, with one point deduced for ANOTHER tentacle fanservice scene(since its one of those scenes, alongside all the objectification of Asuna, on why I love SAO arc way way more than alfheim both in anime and ln. Alfheim has its moments but how Asuna is treated for the most of the arc is insulting) ihateeveryone said: Someone please explain how rape is excellent, modest, and nice. Please. THIS SO MUCH. Whoever implied that seriously reeks of misogyny. Then again, this is MAL, half the community is sexist. |
AhenshihaelNov 24, 2012 1:36 PM
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| This episode was ok. The end of the episode makes me think, they decided to skip some part of the light novel. Unless I'm going crazy, in the novel I think Kirito and Suguha got lost in the underground before reaching the city. On the other hand, can't wait for next episode, if they follow the novel, it should be quite good. |
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| Only watched 5 mins so far. Did they just skip the entire chapter 5? |
| I hate that this series has become more about tentacle molestation and Suguha's boobs than the actual storyline. |
curiouser and curiouser :) |
| Tentacle monsters, tentacle rap-ish scenes. DAFUQ? If there won't be some serious brain-rewrite action in the coming episodes. I can easily say that SAO -> ALO. And the SAO arc was meh. I don't think i will rate this Anime higher than a 6.5, seriously... And this Anime had the potential to be a good Anime... |
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| *-* Asuna was too CLOSEEEE to loggin out, and Kirito was right there in the hospital agsdfo;agksjdf ugh!!! so frustraiting And a School for the SAO students? Lisbeth, Silica, Sachi, everyone at the same school that would be cool to see :DD |
| It wasn't a bad episode (better than previous Alfheim ones) and Asuna actually appeared for more than 20 seconds so that was nice. Not a fan of suguha and I'm still (somewhat) patiently awaiting the episode where Kirito finally saves Asuna And I still don't understand how people can enjoy tentacle fanservice =.= |
EvalonNov 24, 2012 2:01 PM
| Good episode, but I hated the tentacle part.. It was a bit akward.. Stupid cliffhanger, can't wait for the next episode O-O |
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| Tentacles? |
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| Damn, the ending of this episode was so badass :) i loved it |
| I guess this is getting interesting.... but if it has the shitty ending like it did when they died in SAO game, I'm gonna drop the score of the anime even more -.- |
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| gotta wait for next week again :( |
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| I was really pissed that Asuna didn't pressed that button a little bit quickier, the slime thingies were so creepy, and tbh, I didn't found the tentacle part fun or interesting at all... it was really disturbing, but ok, I can live with at least that little. Also, I feel sorry for Suguha, I don't really care about her tbh but it must be really awful to feel heartbroken both IRL and in game because of the same person, poor thing. |
| Aside from the tentacle thing, good episode, as for the skipping over jotunheimr, they could just make it a separate episode or stand alone prelude up to Caliber SS in the next season. Yes we all know if any anime is getting a second season it is likely this one, out of all the other anime currently airing. |
| Amazing how Suguha can't recognize Kirito irl and ingame when they have so many similar features, disregarding the hair. i mean cmon.. (i know they can design how their avatar looks ingame), but atleast be a bit suspicious >_> |
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| the alo part is way better than the sao part and i like sugu better than asuna. if Sao doesn't get a sequel then it would be weird to end the anime with only two female leads.the ln had atleast. i wish for 2nd season. now about this episode, it was average compared to the last episode.only contained with two siblings emotions.i am waiting for the showdown.  |
i laughed at this part |
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| Folks, I think we can all learn a lesson from Suguha's apparent heart break. Do not fall in love with your older cousin/brother/whatever-they're-still-related. |
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| 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. |
| Am i the only one who likes Suguha/Leafa more than Asuna? And that tentacle part was hilarious, i knew Yumekichi would write something like this xd |
| *Tentacles* Wow way to beat a dead horse A-1. |
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| Questions to anyone who read the LN: About the high school for the ones who were inside SAO... is that really going to happen further in the story? Also, does Kirito ever meet up with Silica and/or Liz in real life? |
| Asuna should have been an awesome character, but I get negative utility at the sight of her. I'm neutral with Sugu but... I get plenty of positive utility with Lyfa-chan. What is wrong with me? |
| Hyouka and real-life Takayama comparison blog: Completed 31/10/2015 http://hyoukaorigination.blogspot.com/ Aria the Animation and real-life Venice comparision blog: http://veniceorigination.blogspot.com |
| Kinda sad they skipped and entire part..but I guess I don't mind that much, it was still a good episode, maybe they can use it as OVA material? |
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| This episode was decent, even though the moment I first saw the Tentacle guy's, I already knew where this was going. Especially the way she gives up all methods of stealth and goes straight for the system controller. |
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| This episode was sort of bad and it should feel bad. The thing bad about the episode was the fan service that the episode gave out. The tentacle slim rape thing that some hentais have, was ACTUALLY in the episode. Asuna gets out of the cage and tried to escape. She found the experiment hanger and found out that Sugou trapped at least 300 players from SAO in brain experiments. The slimes come in when she found out and she tried to access the console. As she ran there and nearly logged out, with like a 0.5 SECONDS close to the log out button, the slime comes and hang her upside down. While they were showing us the hanging, we nearly saw up her skirt and her boobs were nearly out. While one of the slimes go to inform Sugou, this one sumbitch slime hanging her, used his tentacles and was wrapping around the body. He wrapped around her legs and waist. The tentacles were also shown nearly touching her v****a. Well, I'm FUCKING done with the unnecessary fan service. It's fucking unneeded and it should just be wiped out. It's just ruining how great SAO was as a novel than it was as an anime. Another thing bad about the episode would have to be how dense Kirito could get. He said all those things about going to the hospital and crying over about Asuna all in FRONT of SUGUHA. Suguha also has feelings for him but being the dense person he is, he never notices SHIT. The part when he said he was going to see Asuna and how happy she'll be if Suguha visits was just too painful for me to watch. The episode had some good points though. Kirito pulling a prank on Suguha was a reliever before all the drama, hentai and seriousness starts. I felt so bad for Suguha in this episode. She finally realizes her feelings and was sad to find out that she may never win against Asuna. She cries in ALO with Kirito (Seriously? Still can't tell?) and lets out all her sorrow in the world where she can be herself. Then after all that crying, they set out for the World Tree. Yui, being the awesome AI she is, senses Asuna nearby and Kirito immediately flies like a jet to see her. He just left Lyfa there after all she went through. SMFH. Considering how the episodes are progressing I can deduce that |
ShinoAsadaNov 24, 2012 3:19 PM
Limechan said: Questions to anyone who read the LN: About the high school for the ones who were inside SAO... is that really going to happen further in the story? Also, does Kirito ever meet up with Silica and/or Liz in real life? Actually you sort of get that answer in this episode when the Suguha and Kirito are talking on the bus. that all the school age survivors of SAO are offered a special private school that has advantageous merits that will help them catch up for lost time. And, as Kirito pointed out, it will help keep young SAO survivors in one place so the government can secretly keep an eye on them for psychological trauma. You know Silica would most likely attend this school. As for Lizbeth it's dependent on age. I'm assuming she's Asuna's age. Bertock said: Takuan_Soho said: Bertock said: Maybe it's just me, but I have found the fact itself that Asuna was able to escape from the cage idiotic. I mean, Oberon really needed a system so stupid to take her caged like a password? Couldn't he just write the code of the game in a way like: "Asuna can't go anyway but inside the cage"? Suguha has said that there are areas where the characters can't enter. Couldn't Oberon make all that area (but the inside of the cage) off-limit for every non-admin character? Yes he could have, but Sugou is the type of person who is so in love with his own intelligence that he assumes everyone else is a complete idiot. The passcode was set up deliberately to torture Asuna. Notice the way he smirked when he entered the code: he thought himself so clever having it seem so simple, but yet making it impossible for her to figure it out. That she could figure out a method would have meant that she was in some way smarter than him, and his ego could neither accept or even imagine that possibility. As such using a system command would never have even occurred to him People have such blindspots. It is related to the psychological concept of cognitive dissonance. If you have the opportunity to see one in the real world, you will find it absolutely amazing (and in some cases downright scary) how far it can extend, and how far the person will take it rather than confront the truth they don't want to accept. Plus Sugou isn't exactly playing with a full deck. So you are basically telling me that the Big Bad of this arc is someone that will do everything he can to lose just because he is crazy/idiot. Probably it's the only way they could prosecute with the plot, since every normal person, once that will find out that Kirito is there to save Asuna, would just ban him forever No he's saying Sugou is a sadist and likes giving false hope to someone so he can crush it. Having the keycode there but not being able to see it is exhilarating for a sadist. He purposely made it so Asuna couldn't directly stare at the keycode pad without it blurring her eyes. But as with all programing logic, if you don't give perfect instructions there's always bugs. The bug was Asuna being able to stare at the reflection in the mirror. The program not seeing that as looking directly at the keycode disregards the blurring effect. Also, Sugou isn't a brilliant man. He's a control freak sadist who's driven by greed and power. Most of Alfhiem is just a big copy of SAO with minor changes. Kirito was even able to retain most of his skillset from SAO which made him uber-powerful from the start. It's obvious Alfhiem was a hatchet job to serve Sugou's purposes. Your whole argument is why even have the keypad there. The counter-argument is that Sugou is a sadist and put it there to torment Asuna. |
CirrisNov 24, 2012 3:37 PM
| The pacing is much better on ALO story. I thought it would have ended sooner, lol. Glad it didn't. |
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| So... why did Asuna just run out open in the hallway again? Right. Plot. |
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Cirris said: Limechan said: Questions to anyone who read the LN: About the high school for the ones who were inside SAO... is that really going to happen further in the story? Also, does Kirito ever meet up with Silica and/or Liz in real life? Actually you sort of get that answer in this episode when the Suguha and Kirito are talking on the bus. that all the school age survivors of SAO are offered a special private school that has advantageous merits that will help them catch up for lost time. And, as Kirito pointed out, it will help keep young SAO survivors in one place so the government can secretly keep an eye on them for psychological trauma. You know Silica would most likely attend this school. As for Lizbeth it's dependent on age. I'm assuming she's Asuna's age. Yeah, I know, but I was asking if he will enroll that school in the future. It would be really cool if Kirito attended the same school as Asuna, Liz and Silica, though. |
Limechan said: Questions to anyone who read the LN: About the high school for the ones who were inside SAO... is that really going to happen further in the story? Also, does Kirito ever meet up with Silica and/or Liz in real life? Don't click spoiler if you can hold off 4 more episodes(as I'm pretty sure they'll anime it), but if you can't be bothered that long and love to be spoiled: |
| really?! tentacle rape?! it just felt so out of place and weird lol...wait i feel like i seen this before in SAO already. |
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| Oh man, oh man, she located mommy at the end, and Kirito went up flyin' high. I bet those "Angel" beings up there will put up a good fight against Kirito. |
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Takuan_Soho said: As for banning Kirito. Why on god's earth would he even care? Kirito is no one in his world. A pathetic little gaming grub who thinks he married Asuna in some other game. Sugou is a successful business executive, leading a multi-million dollar project that he believes will give him infinite power over the minds of the gamers. In the real world, Kirito would be less of a threat than a cockroach. Only someone who can't distinguish between fantasy and reality would think otherwise. |
| so... Asuna gets caught again. Suguha admits that she can't confront Kirito about her feelings (surprise surprise, MC can't ever ever choose a girl besides the main one). Nothing that occurred in this episode was unexpected. Yeah... Really lame episode imo. |
كنت تهدر وقتك عن طريق ترجمة هذه. mattbenz99 said: Christians and Satanists are technically the same thing |
| loltentacles, episode was okay. Surely Asuna could squeeze through the gaps in the bars of that cage anyway... Also fgs it is SO obvious Kirito is Kirigaya whyyyyyyyyyy is Suguha still oblivious. |
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