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EP. REVIEW: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

I'd really like to have a least a short scene or two of her actually explaining these motivations IN WORDS. Like words, not moans. You can have a hypersexualized character without making them one-note and ridiculous and seemingly without comprehensible motivations. The show has failed at showing any of these things, and I'm glad to have them explained to me in a coherent manner (seriously, thank you), but ideally a show should stand on its own without requiring someone to read accompanying materials, go to its website, or ask around in online forums for clarification.

If they had no intention of making Freya a realistic character, they shouldn't have included her in this adaptation. IMO, as she is right now, and as an anime-only watcher, she actually detracts from the show's ability to express what it seems to be trying to express, which are its themes of family, friendship, teamwork, trust, and the desire to improve oneself both to protect those you care about and to be able to keep up with others. Freya has no place in this narrative as she is. I understand she is a driving force behind the events that play out in the novels, but you could just as easily have those events play out naturally, without her interference, and the show might be stronger for it. It's either that, or make her a real person. Of course, then LN readers would be bitching about the adaptation not being faithful, so there's that. It's a shame, because in general, this show has been good about allowing its women to be actual people.

I've actually been thinking about picking up the SAO light novels, mainly because I'm curious as to how the first season ended up so disjointed, and how it was meant to play out (or if that actually was correct), but I keep finding other things to read (mainly classic SF, lately). That skip from Aincrad to Fairy Dance was so ridiculous I thought I'd missed an episode. I think one of these days I'm just going to sit down and slam through them all in a sitting. It's on the list. Along with shampooing the carpet where the cat peed, and clearing out my backyard for summer. And at some point finding time to have a life, maybe.

Anyways, I have another question, since you've read the LN for this -- Bell seems to go through weapons and armor at a really fast rate. Is this normal? It seems like the custom knife Hestia had made for him broke almost right off the bat, and it also seems like she should still be paying it off, but since we haven't really visited her much since, I don't know if that's been dropped or what.

I thought the Hestia Knife shattered against the trained minotaur? And that's why he picked up the big ass sword? Clearly I need to rewatch.

I really hope that they at some point rename the show Familia Myth, because I almost missed out on what I see as the best show this season.

Did anyone catch the grisaia ref? I was like 'what'? 0.0

AksaraKishou wrote:

Did anyone catch the grisaia ref? I was like 'what'? 0.0

I totally didn't, what was it?

Possibly I was too busy going ZOMGLOLBBQ A TITAN BWAHAHAHA IT'S THE [s]COLOSSAL[/s] GOLIATH TITAN

Also, Welf is such a boss. Bell needs a grown-up male to look up to and bond with and learn man things from and I'm so glad he found someone decent. Good for Welf for being a good dude, and good for Bell for attracting the decent type, or should I say, attracting all types but engendering their trust and loyalty through his blind faith and loyalty to them despite their failings, betrayals, and personal feelings of inadequacy and low self-worth. Maybe Welf can teach him to be a less dense harem protagonist, and he'll come back in season 2 Yuji Kazami or Katsuragi Keima style.