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Obviously cuts need to be made, but cutting important things should not be done which they do. There are also small cuts made that can make a big difference as well, so not everything is a massive speech that can't be fit in like you are referring to. Replacing things with worthless content like I mentioned should also not be done. The Sinon example I gave is honestly perfect because cutting it saved no time at all, but they did it and replaced it with fanservice.

I also don't intend to single out A1 at all because LN adaptions being poorly handled is a common thing, but I am absolutely going to say A1 did a poor job when they don't handle things well. They don't get forgiven for doing a poor job just because other studios do a poor job with some of their stuff as well.

I've always argued against these complaints. Any LN adaptation is going to cut out some stuff (sometimes for practical reasons involved with the adaptation, other times to correct inefficiencies in the original writing), and SAO's adaptations have cut out less than most. I never read the source books for Fairy Dance and GGO, but the Aincard, Calibur, and Mother's Rosary arcs were all quite faithful to the novels, and Alicization didn't skip much; yes, there was one entire chapter early in the Alicization arc which got eliminated, but that was the only major omission that I can think of, and that ultimately didn't significantly impact the story.

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Obviously cuts need to be made, but cutting important things should not be done which they do. There are also small cuts made that can make a big difference as well, so not everything is a massive speech that can't be fit in like you are referring to. Replacing things with worthless content like I mentioned should also not be done. The Sinon example I gave is honestly perfect because cutting it saved no time at all, but they did it and replaced it with fanservice.

If you're referring to the GGO arc scene then I can't comment further on that because - as I mentioned before - that's one of the few novels that I never got around to reading.

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I also don't intend to single out A1 at all because LN adaptions being poorly handled is a common thing, but I am absolutely going to say A1 did a poor job when they don't handle things well. They don't get forgiven for doing a poor job just because other studios do a poor job with some of their stuff as well.

Guess we're going to agree to disagree, then, because we apparently have wholly different conceptions of what constitutes a "poor adaptation job." As a major SAO fan since the beginning, the anime adaptations have been done well enough to satisfy me.