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getchman
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 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:13 pm
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What does Nate's mom from Horizon the Middle of Nowhere have to do with this?
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Fencedude5609
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:14 pm
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| Tkags wrote: |
| phoenixalia wrote: | | Also, minimal ecchi only if there's gonna be any. |
Good luck with that...
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Err...what does Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon have to do with this?
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Chagen46
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:16 pm
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| Fencedude5609 wrote: | | Well it almost certainly can't be worse than SAO. So sure. Whatever. |
I dunno about that. An obvious copy like this could manage to be even worse by virtue of being even more hackneyed than SAO.
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eaglestorm
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:49 pm
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People should just get over comparing one series with another even before they have seen it.
It is not a rip-off of SAO. As a few had mentioned, the setting is not something new. SAO is just the latest which has been fairly successful. There's going to be more and more series which employ the virtual/game world as we get more and more into this form of gaming.
If virtual world settings is not your thing, then go watch the countless school settings, mecha, magical girls, etc. Maybe those are unique....oh wait, none of them are 
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Fencedude5609
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:52 pm
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Right, SAO isn't shit because its not unique, its shit because its horribly written trash.
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RyanSaotome
Joined: 29 Mar 2011
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:53 pm
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What SAO does have to do with this is that its gonna make it financially viable to greenlight more and more of these stuck in video game types of manga/LN due to its success... so we'll see a lot more in anime. But they've always been around in the LN and manga formats.
| eaglestorm wrote: | | SAO is just the latest which has been fairly successful. |
Being the top selling LN of the year and one of the top 3 selling shows of the year is a bit more than "Fairly successful"
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Sam Murai
Joined: 01 Dec 2006
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:02 pm
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| Quote: | | The story begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a "sword-and-sorcery world" is now the "real world." |
Sigh…this again…
Look, I get that the premise is cool and all, but it's too distinctive to hold up through continued rehashes. Even if it turns out to be good, I hope producers back away from this before it gets sucked it totally dry (yes, I know, wishful thinking…).
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thieftheodore
Joined: 24 Jan 2013
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:05 pm
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| vinamara wrote: | | Sigh, looks like a SAO knock-off. |
| Heinzendegger wrote: | | I hate when this happens, something gets popular and cheap knockoffs follow, without any value.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think SAO was good, but I'm sure this particular title worth nothing, and only gets animated because of the latter's success. |
| Thespacemaster wrote: | | Oh cmon you can tell just by reading the plotline that this is a copy of SAO sorry man SAO is the Only true Story if they had a different plotline than yeah mayby but this sounds to much like a copy |
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| danilo07 wrote: | | This "gamers trapped in virtual world" crap is new genre by now.So I wouldn't really say that it is SAO knock-off. |
It's not new, SAO just make it more marketable. Like how sci-fi exploded after Star Wars, but 2001, Planet of the Apes, Solaris, and Forbidden Planet all came way before. Hell, I'm sure we can think of examples prior to Tron (1982) that are about people trapped in video game worlds. |
pretty sure this is SAO knock-off. |
So, right now every anime with mmorpg setting become SAO knock-off, Can you guys tell me about certain anime franchise called .hack// ??? 
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eaglestorm
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:12 pm
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| thieftheodore wrote: |
So, right now every anime with mmorpg setting become SAO knock-off, Can you guys tell me about certain anime franchise called .hack// ??? |
Doubt any one of those who compared it to SAO would know
I wouldn't be surprised if these people are kinda new to the anime world (a fan for just a few years) and the only virtual/gaming world settings series they know or can think of are Accel World and SAO 
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StormSky92
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:25 pm
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"Trapped in a Game" has been a genre way before the SAO anime ever happened. It's just a thing now. Being a gamer, i'm all for it as long as it's done right.
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Bruce91
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:33 pm
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| thieftheodore wrote: |
| vinamara wrote: | | Sigh, looks like a SAO knock-off. |
| Heinzendegger wrote: | | I hate when this happens, something gets popular and cheap knockoffs follow, without any value.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think SAO was good, but I'm sure this particular title worth nothing, and only gets animated because of the latter's success. |
| Thespacemaster wrote: | | Oh cmon you can tell just by reading the plotline that this is a copy of SAO sorry man SAO is the Only true Story if they had a different plotline than yeah mayby but this sounds to much like a copy |
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| danilo07 wrote: | | This "gamers trapped in virtual world" crap is new genre by now.So I wouldn't really say that it is SAO knock-off. |
It's not new, SAO just make it more marketable. Like how sci-fi exploded after Star Wars, but 2001, Planet of the Apes, Solaris, and Forbidden Planet all came way before. Hell, I'm sure we can think of examples prior to Tron (1982) that are about people trapped in video game worlds. |
pretty sure this is SAO knock-off. |
So, right now every anime with mmorpg setting become SAO knock-off, Can you guys tell me about certain anime franchise called .hack// ??? |
Will give you a better example.
The movie TRON.
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walw6pK4Alo
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:24 pm
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Dot Hack isn't the first anime to have characters stuck in video game worlds, or have their realities warped because of video games. A little known short movie from 1991 called Exper Zenon was about a nerd getting video game characters and fighting in an competition to win. A kid show from 1988 named Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru was about a boy in a magical land reminiscent of RPGs having to fight through levels one on top of the other. Or if we're going to talk about video games becoming reality, we can discuss The Last Starfighter (1984). Point is, video games are old and fictional media about being stuck in them is nothing new.
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Tanteikingdomkey
Joined: 03 Sep 2008
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:27 pm
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so his first very work was very similar to spice and wolf, while his second work is like SAO/.hack//
To be fair for as much as mayou is compared to spice and wolf they are actually very different and even function differently it seems and is paced differently with a different focus for the series overall.
Also lets face it he would write something better SAO anyway and I would enjoy seeing a better written SAO.
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Joined: 14 Oct 2007
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:05 am
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| Fencedude5609 wrote: |
| Tkags wrote: |
| phoenixalia wrote: | | Also, minimal ecchi only if there's gonna be any. |
Good luck with that...
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Err...what does Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon have to do with this? |
...The actual cover
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CrownKlown
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 8:12 am
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SAO is basically .hack, so no one can really be bothered by something copying SAO when it basically copies from something else.
But my issue is there are a dozen or so better light novel concepts so why is this coming out (Mahou Rettousei, Vanadalis Ou are two that come to mind) . And can we please start making anime of web comics like Girls of the Wild, Noblesse, Tower of God, and others.
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