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REVIEW: Sword Art Online Blu-Ray 3 & 4

this one. Also was just not that exciting/entertaining. Oh well, it's shounen fantasy, and at the author's age I probably would have written something similar. Only if I could actually write fiction of course.

rydia251 wrote:

this one. Also was just not that exciting/entertaining. Oh well, it's shounen fantasy, and at the author's age I probably would have written something similar. Only if I could actually write fiction of course.

Reki Kawahara is almost 40. He wrote SAO in his 30s.

Wow, tell us how you really feel ;0

So, the only reason you dislike Kirito as a character is because he was actually dressed down by another human being and apologized ONE TIME in his entire existence? I guess you must have been hoping for Kirito to become even more unstoppable/untouchable in this season than he was in Season 1?

Like I said, I certainly agree that Suguha started off as a weak character. However, I don't think the fact that she was in love with a Gary Stu makes her a "bitch", stupid, asinine or nonsensical. I mean, you hate a character because she fell in love with and was rebuffed by the very guy you think is the coolest man on the planet? I don't think it is that hard to understand the emotions going through Suguha, the character's, head. She is a young teen girl struggling with romance/love. She has abandonment issues with her big brother, who she looks up to and who has been ignoring her for a long time. She suddenly meets this super handsome boy who is perfect in every way, and who seems to return her affections. She falls in love with him. He rejects her. Then she finds out not only was she rejected by this perfect boy, but that he was her big brother, who was thus abandoning her all over again. She becomes overwhelmed by this and lets out all of her feelings of depression, abandonment and sorrow at the person who is at least partially (and perhaps largely) responsible for those feelings.

This all makes perfect sense to me and, I think, giving us this window into Suguha's mind and her inner turmoil made her a much more compelling figure than most of the other characters in SAO. I wish we had seen more of this in the show.

As for Kirito apologizing, I am glad that he did. Not only is he a Gary Stu, but he is also arrogant and clearly negligent in his relationships with real people that should be close to him. He was also spending a WHOLE lot of time flirting with Leafa, only to reject her after his charms worked on her and made her love him. He wants to flirt with girls other than Asuna, and then boot them to the curb once things start to get more serious so he can act like he's still faithful. He's a playa. A heartbreaker. I was glad when Suguha took him down a few notches and made him realize the error of his ways. (Yes, it sucks that she was the only one in the entire show to have the stones to do it, but I don't see why that makes her a "bitch").

I must be getting trolled. This has to be a really bad joke.

I have to disagree with this part of the review. Kirito was the strongest player in SAO, and he was able to transfer over his abilities with Yui's help (I believe it was Yui). The girl that he loved, and fought for over the course of two years, couldn't make it out of the game like he promised. All of this makes it seem to me that he had every reason to put the NerveGear back on and save Asuna.

I loved the first season of SAO. I love Gary Stu characters. I love undefeatable heroes that win the day no matter what. maybe I'm a bad judge of what makes good writing or any other example someone might like to use to say that it's bad writing. But whatever, I'll always feel this way.

I also loved Kirito and Asuna's relationship, which only got more beautiful with the inclusion of Yui. Seriously, it made me cry. So, generally I'm a pushover for love.

Moving on, I did not love the second season of SAO because I detest sibling/familial love plots. As much as I love Japan and anime and manga, this is the one Japanese fetish I wish they could just drop or at least keep out of their mainstream entertainments.

Such a thing will never happen, of course, so I'll get by with just trying to ignore it, by and large.

On the plus side, Suguha did let it go in the end, to which I let out a resounding "Thank God!"

In short, Leafa was good, Suguha was just another example of a tired, worn-out(and in my case) quite creepy and off-putting anime convention.

that whole world getting a glitch and him falling in the second ep of the dairy dance arc, <snip>

jr0904 wrote:

that whole world getting a glitch and him falling in the second ep of the dairy dance arc, <snip>

That typo conjures up some really weird mental images... ^^;

Ingraman wrote:

jr0904 wrote: that whole world getting a glitch and him falling in the second ep of the dairy dance arc, <snip> That typo conjures up some really weird mental images... ^^;

Dairy Dance is what happens when Suguha goes clubbing without a bra on.

Dairy Dance is what happens when Suguha goes clubbing without a bra on.

Megiddo wrote:

rydia251 wrote: this one. Also was just not that exciting/entertaining. Oh well, it's shounen fantasy, and at the author's age I probably would have written something similar. Only if I could actually write fiction of course. Reki Kawahara is almost 40. He wrote SAO in his 30s.

He was born in 1974, and wrote the first volumes of SAO in 2002 from my understanding. That makes him 28. I guess we can split the difference. My statement still stands - a lot of men are still boys until about 27...

Utsuro no Hako wrote:
Dairy Dance is what happens when Suguha goes clubbing without a bra on.

Happy New Year All!

I predict that the developing relationship and potential psychological twists featuring Kirito/Leafa (as opposed to Kuzuto/Suguha) will be the core draw of the series this year, despite the arc line-ups in the light novel which I doubt the anime producers will exploit this time around. Anime sib-romance is hot nowadays and I suspect the producers slyly seeded it in SAO as a coy trial balloon to test the appeal. I think they know they hooked a following. They might have to pass off the Extra Edition as omake so the pair's VR truths aren't publicly known though they might whip up some way around that with a pair double life thingie or such, but as that sib VR affair set-up is pretty unique while the concept of VR adventure worlds isn't, the show might likely milk that unique off-beat interest for all it's worth. It's different and daring and that is a big attraction for me.