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Sword Art Online II (TV).

Gina Szanboti wrote:

Does he spoiler[ride a bike] irl? I can't remember, so I couldn't tell if his brush-off of her amazement was true (I played similar games) or not admitting he was a guy (since girls never spoiler[ride motorcycles] irl) or if he was just concealing his Mary Stu/Gary Sue powers.

Yes in the SAO extra it showed him giving Sugu a ride to school on his bike. Starting at 40 secs.

(BTW, we don't need to spoiler-tag the fact that Kirito is in a female avatar, since that's been well-advertised by the OP and promotional materials.)

WhiteHairGirls wrote:

Gina Szanboti wrote: Does he spoiler[ride a bike] irl? I can't remember, so I couldn't tell if his brush-off of her amazement was true (I played similar games) or not admitting he was a guy (since girls never spoiler[ride motorcycles] irl) or if he was just concealing his Mary Stu/Gary Sue powers. Yes in the SAO extra it showed him giving Sugu a ride to school on his bike. Starting at 40 secs.

So option two then. :/

I was wondering if the type of game avatars will be important later on. Seeing that guy freaked out when he figured out kirito's was a rare game avatar. And what type of abilities do the different ones have.

Bright_Spear wrote:

I was wondering if the type of game avatars will be important later on. Seeing that guy freaked out when he figured out kirito's was a rare game avatar. And what type of abilities do the different ones have.

I wanna point out I haven't read ahead in the LNs but I highly doubt avatars ascribe specialized abilities. The differences between avatars, even rare ones compared to regular ones are most likely purely cosmetic and nothing else.

Past wrote:

Bright_Spear wrote: I was wondering if the type of game avatars will be important later on. Seeing that guy freaked out when he figured out kirito's was a rare game avatar. And what type of abilities do the different ones have. I wanna point out I haven't read ahead in the LNs but I highly doubt avatars ascribe specialized abilities. The differences between avatars, even rare ones compared to regular ones are most likely purely cosmetic and nothing else.

Really? The game doesn't seem like the type to get a lot of hat collectors. But that's just me. I was thinking it was a scaled down version of the race system in alfheim online except for the faction bit.

or not admitting he was a guy (since girls never spoiler[ride motorcycles] irl)

That really wouldn't work. The threat of death was to keep people in the real world from interfering just as much as it was a motivation to the players in the game.

Do you really think any of the people who died in-game would just let their buddies keep thinking they are in a death game?

Well at least they explained

Also, are light saber sound effects under copyright or anything? Just wondering if they'd get in trouble for using them so blatantly.

The chances of him meeting Sinon . . .

I know I've had the same problem while playing Destiny the past few days.

IS the tournament called "Bullet of Bullets" or "Ballet of Bullets"? The sub I watched used "Bullet of Bullets" but I thought it was the other when I read the tvtropes page for SAO.

Does he spoiler[ride a bike] irl?

An M-9000 is a rare avatar that guys get that makes them appear feminine as opposed to an M-1300

I was wondering if the type of game avatars will be important later on. Seeing that guy freaked out when he figured out kirito's was a rare game avatar. And what type of abilities do the different ones have.

But its played up too much how no one uses swords in GGO so Kirito is going to show everyone how it can be an amazing weapon.

I think they overdid it a little in how Kirito is so conveniently good at certain things. I know there will still be a struggle for him in other areas like he has no experience with guns. But its played up too much how no one uses swords in GGO so Kirito is going to show everyone how it can be an amazing weapon.

Well they did explain it in ALO too, spoiler[it was because his SAO account was converted over, and in a super glitchy manner so most of it was junk but he ended up with a ton of gold. Come to think of it they might not have been clear on that in the anime, but it was explained in the books.]

Just to clarify things in case this might turn up confusion about the nature of Kirito's avatar: He is not in a female avatar, the avatar itself is a trap. This distinction is made clear with the guy that wanted to buy it. An M-9000 is a rare avatar that guys get that makes them appear feminine as opposed to an M-1300 which girls get that make them appear androgynous (which he presumed first because he thought Kirito was already a girl). Also apparently the gender choice restriction harkens back to post-launch SAO in which ones avatar had to match the players assigned sex. Therefore its reasonable to say its not possible for him to have a female avatar, per the in-game restrictions.

From what I'm told that wasn't explained in the books either. He just had a huge bag of cash with enough to fund an army for some reason. It's not stuff he brought over from SAO, since him and Asuna used pretty much all of their money on that house.