What am I in for boys?

What am I in for boys?

A very mediocre show that triggers the fuck out of autists because it was unusually successful for what it is.

First episode is ok. That's about it

A great show.

...

No where near as bad as autists make it out to be, no where near as great as fanboys make it seem. I should know, I just finished it yesterday.

glop

1. An unusual level of rape and sexual deviancy in villains
2. The feeling of being assimilated late
3. Fun

A crazy ride,I didn't want to see SAO for a long time because "its shit" but I'm so glad I saw it.
It's the best worst anime I have ever seen!Even if SAO has a good idea they some how mange to fuck it up.Strangely through the last part of SAO 2 was unironically good.

One time some guy tried to me it was good deep psychological anime!

SAO is fun, it's a harem anime about people stuck in a video game don't expect more and you'll have a good time.

Its shit but watch it with a group and its not so bad.

watch the first half of the first season and stop

boring badly written show

Cute girls with nice action scenes
The MC turns into a cute girl too in S2
As for the story - Sup Forums says it's bland boring etc but it's not that different from your average isekai show
All in all a 6/10 with lots of fap material

Was this written by the author?because I know that he did write a sex scene that wasn't in the books.

Cute girls.

Have some cold ones and don't take it to seriously. And you may have a good time.

If you stick around all the way to the movie you get to see a nipple. From the reaction I've seen online that was very important

First three. But then there's no reason to continue.

Sometimes good people have to die to make enjoyable stories, user. Let her go.

No one cared when that bitch Sachi died, faggot.

I watched it with normalfag friends who usually love stuff like that.

They fucking hated it and nonstop made fun of how big of a faggot kirito is.

I'm pretty sure everyone cared and called the show out because of her. Fuck you.

He's one of the more non faggoty MCs - I wonder how your normalfag friends reacted to Subaru from Re:Zero

mediocre show with high production values
writing that is both poorly-paced and just simply poorly done
villains that act like grossly-exaggerated caricatures of themselves
cute girls
what-ifs for futuretech
kirito is not a bad MC other than being subject to the author's writing

>Caring for a charater with less than one episode of screentime
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>writing that is both poorly-paced and just simply poorly done
This applies to a lot of anime
Otherwise good summary

Just look for the lewd fanarts

the show is complete fucking trash, mostly becasue it pairs dogshit writing with horrible visuals. ordinal scale however is legitimately good. it has a decent narrative and fair visuals as well as some noteworthy amounts of character development.

You should realize there's a very good reason why Kirito illicits a bad reaction from normies while Subaru and similar types invite sympathy. You even figured it out already.

>SAO anime
>horrible visuals
Is this nigger serious? The movie looked great in some scenes and completely QUALITY in others. Anime visuals were more consistently decent in that regard

Completely fine anime that is somehow also the worst harem anime ever made.

Still had more personality than all other female characters in the show.

>SAO
>harem
This meme never gets old.

youre one of those people who says
>great animation see pic related
and posts a still frame, arent you?

The beginning of evolution

Drop at ep14 just like did

>this projection
Cool it

Most of them were laughing at BEATER and him acting like a complete faggot autist in episode one.

I completely forgot about the MC becoming a trap

Well OP I just watched this for the first time last month and I already wouldn't have remembered the second season if I hadn't read through the thread. It wasn't bad, but like said the writing really held it back. Could've been an anime you recommend people watch for the quality and not just for the "this is the one that gave us the isekai genre" bit.

>acting like a complete faggot autist in episode one
Was he that bad? It's been years but all I remember about Ep 1 is Klein calling him cute
IIRC he only acted faggoty in the Sachi episode

Lol no, she was a literal doormat.

One thing I really did not like about OS was the very washed out color palette that some "artistic" studios like to do now. Too harsh, too thin lines, too sterile. Asuna's face looks real derpy in that one shot of her on the bed, can't seem to find a proper screenshot. Hope that A-1 doesn't reuse this exact style for S3.

best girl dies before christmas

MC thats unlikable
Main female thats unlikable
Video game isekai written by someone who admitted he never played an MMO before
Villain who FORGOT WHY HE DID EVERYTHING LOL
>I dont want to die so bad I wont die!

Lots of rage if you're autistic. Otherwise, mindless fun.

lots of semen

>Villain who FORGOT WHY HE DID EVERYTHING LOL
Was this ever explained in the LNs?

This, I wish I had read this post before watching SAO
Listen to this post OP, contains wise words

Its also been years but off the top of my head
>Kittietoe sperging out when Klein invited him to play with his friends

Silica being a cutey and then fucking off

>I dont want to die so bad I wont die!
Explained in Alicization.

To be honest, the Excalibur arc in S2 was pretty good.

>Kirito at beginning of SAO
>introverted awkward twink whose only passion in life is video games
>lands himself a beautiful waifu

>Klein
>a well-adjusted member of society, gainfully employed, social and outgoing with many friends, brotastic
>has no luck with ladies which is a running gag
I now realize that scene was meant to pander to the main audience like everything else

He has no luck with ladies because all his friends are also incel gamerbros and he hangs around a group of high-school students and one black guy.

>implying Kayaba forgot that

It's just autistic lobotomites and the "lel anime cringe" youtube crowd nitpicking over stupid shit, because the thing he says what his reason for doing everything was right after that. He did it all to bring the castle of steel floating in the sky to life, and to make it the grandest possible experience imaginable for everyone involved. He also says this in the very first episode too.

mostly fun if you aren't expecting much which you shouldn't be.

Sachi is so shit they didnt even bother to revive her in the gameverse. Meanwhile Yuki came back, really makes you think.

>this will never be you
why even live?

>Yuki
Who?

His reason for ditching Klein was because he didn't want to deal with being the idiot wrangler for a bunch of clueless noobs to whom he has no personal connection whatsoever. At the same time, though, he felt bad for making this decision to ditch Klein both because Klein is a good guy and also because Klein ended up becoming a successful and important player anyway. The whole thing is less him being an autist than him being a self-serving person as opposed to your typical moralist for whom the world bends over backwards.

Yuuki. AIDS-chan

That's the one

>author never played an MMO before

Not really that bizarre, if its a true statement. Only a short handful of MMOs had even been available in Japan when he started writing it. Outside of actual MMORPGs, the other most-similar video game was Phantasy Star Online, which is explicitly not an MMORPG by definition, even though it shares many features and experiences.

Ragnarok Online had just barely started existing when he wrote it, and prior to that was Everquest and Ultima Online. The other games from the time (AO, AC, DAOC, and a few others) had almost no presence in Japan. UO had dozens of Japanese server to kill Orc Loads on, AO had 3 servers in Japan I think, I'm not aware of EQ, AC, or DAOC having Japanese servers, but I'm not certain.

When season 3 tho

>episode 1: 10 minutes of exposition
>episodes 2-15: bland wish fulfillment fantasy that looks pretty and has some interesting elements that will never be elaborated on
>episodes 16-25: more bland wish fulfillment, this time with rape and incest and without any of the moderately redeeming qualities of earlier

I forgot Lineage in there. I don't know if it was big in Japan or not.

>Not really that bizarre, if its a true statement.

It's a distortion of a true statement. At the time he wrote Sword Art Online, the author had played Final Fantasy XI casually. What he had never actually done was high end raid content in an MMO, because this was the pre-WoW era and the things that your typical latecomer to MMOs takes for granted--gaining experience through any means other than camping zones, not having to camp notorious monsters on a spawn timer, being able to do anything meaningful without the help of others, reaching max level, etc--were not a thing. There was a massive and insurmountable divide between the elites and the scrubs in old MMOs, and the former category was entirely composed of only the most hardcore neckbeards.

>bland wish fulfillment
>with rape
Huh

I know right, it's utterly boring even with rape and incest

A great start followed by an amazingly rapid downhill plummet.

>What am I in for boys?
drop it at chapter 12
then Youtube best sinon scenes.

It was all right until the second cour
No amount of imouto tits can salvage that one

Sometime in 2018.
That's really all we know at this point.
Realistically, it's probably not till Spring/Summer at the end of the year though.

The author of SAO based it on his own experience playing Ragnarok Online. Which was his favourite MMO of all time.

Thinking that the stakes are high and anyone could die at any moment, until Yui pops up and gets asspulled back to life. This is when you realise that nobody important will ever die again, making the show forever dull and flavourless.

I hope that Kawahara has the presence of mind to write Yui out (or at least re-write her to be less of a series ruining plot device) when he eventually reaches that point in SAO Progressive.

Why was Yui so shit? She ruined the entire show

Right, FF11 was out in Japan for some time before it was released in NA, that slipped my mind in regard to the timeframe.

I played on Midgardsormr at NA release and was helping to organize some of the first NA progression teams.

The cutest girl (male)

hot VR sex

>MC thats unlikable
>Main female thats unlikable
>tfw I like both Kirito and Asuna

>introverted
He's not past the first couple of episodes.

Suguha is the worst character. Good fapbait, obnoxious personality.

When the FUCK is vol 5 going to drop? Progressive is fully realizing the potential that the series has and I WANT MORE. HURRY THE FUCK UP REKI.

He has said before that he doesn't get to work on Progressive as much as he'd like to because he has to spend most of his time writing the main SAO series Light Novels.

Hopefully this arc is the last one in the main series and he'll have more time to focus on progressive when it's over.

Starts off fine but I feel it devolves into a fan service harem anime by the time he plays the fairy game. Season 2 is even worse with it

A nipple in addition to one of the best anime asses ever.

Volume 5 comes out on the 10th.
But Floor 6 won't be cleared until Volume 6, because of how long the current story is taking.

>Ragnarok Online
Pretty sure most of his MMO experience comes from Ultima Online. At the very least, there was an interview where he and some Tekken dev reminisced about playing it.

UO was huge in Japan, so it wouldn't be surprising.
There were almost as many Japanese servers as there were NA servers.

I played on one for a while to PK Japanese guys. I suppose it seemed fun and edgy at the time, even if it's just immature in hindsight.

SAO is like if you took a kid with ADHD and surrounded him with all of his favorite toys
he runs towards one then notices another and run towards the other one, repeating the cycle and never getting to a point

I knew some people who started watching this that aren't even really that into anime because of the first episode. They quickly dropped it though.

>Hangs out with a lot of little girls
Nah, Klein is winning at life.

Best girl not showing up until halfway through season 1.

>people actually think this
>I actually think this
I'd be team silica if she had any character whatsoever, but imouto is my second choice over loli.

The best lolis won't even appear until Season 3.

>be me can't swim
>got put into swim team for a quick relay race on the spot
>said race would be across the pool
>team leader got it wrong its actually the full length
>spahgettilegs.gif but if I back out now the team won't be able to participate
fuck it
>decided I am to go first up
>not even half way, splashing water like a maniac
>hear team cheering me on
>between breathes thinking if I should call out the life guard to help
>didnt want to look like a wuss so just kept on swimming
>dead silent now from my team. realise im pretty far behind
>don't care must finish my lap
>made it, tagged out
>was embarrassed and went to the stairs at the corner of the pool
>two bros came over and sat next to me
>small chatter and lifted my spirit
>stop worrying and walked out of the pool with my head held high
>hear people gossiping
>dont care cause i was proud of myself for giving it a shot

that picture triggered some memories.
/blog

Overall mediocre. First half is fun to laugh at but the second one is just bad.

It's pretty shit, but the visuals could be a lot worse