The Illiterati
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I'll back you up on Mayuri or whatever her name is being the most Hateable character ever in an anime. Haven't seen SAO tho.
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Sword Art Online being adapted into a live action television series
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I'll back you up on Mayuri or whatever her name is being the most Hateable character ever in an anime. Haven't seen SAO tho.
You can't say that without having seen SAO.
KenzinFive
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Never watched SAO but heard terrible things. I saw that video a few weeks ago and it did a great job of explaining an example of why everyone was so down on it.
And yet it's still popular.
How so. Beating enemies doesn't make you overpowered. He struggled to do it. Overpowered is when he took down those player killers. He escaped situations because well he's the main character and you can't kill him off. So you kill off his companions to show its his fault essentially
is that the childish girl who nicknames the main character okarin and collects those little vending toys? I AGREE SHE IS THE WORST!
No....Mayuri takes the cake mate!
At first it's got potential. Then it flushes it down the toilet.
To this day, I don't know why I kept watching it. The Gun Gale part was so bad, it was hilarious. Every part after it was just bad. I literally fell asleep.
Within the first few episodes he's already so OP that he literally has lines about how no one can hurt him. Do you see how cringe-worthy that is? The guy is treated as a godly player from pretty much the VERY START. Not to mention all the other extreme Gary Stu qualities he has. He's more or less perfection incarnate and it's boring as hell. And any actual allies have pretty much no chance of dying ever after the first few episodes. There's no dramatic stakes. Kirito can do pretty much anything he wants.
LEVEL 76, 200 HP PER SECOND or whatever bullshit he was babbling about became a recurring joke between my friends, this show is so bad.
Well there's a lot of reasons but I can boil it down to two:
In which the primary antagonist is literally unable to recall why he kidnapped 10 said:
In which Mimikyu protects your virginal eyes from the scary fairy cosplayer said:
ChasingComets
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Knee-jerk reactions everywhere in this thread.
Would it not be possible for Skydance to just make their own adaption of the story, which goes through the entirety of Aincrad? I feel like that's going to be the most likely case.
Would it not be possible for Skydance to just make their own adaption of the story, which goes through the entirety of Aincrad? I feel like that's going to be the most likely case.
It's SAO. Everything in the franchise is garbage.
"It would take you years to kill me at this rate"
Or whatever. I remember that. God. *twitches*
First off he was speaking to other players. He never said that about a boss. And also that was because he came down from the higher level dungeons to catch the killers on the request of another player. I can go play a game with a beginner player after being experienced my self. And i would wreck them. That doesn't mean I'm overpowered. I'm just somewhere o shouldn't be. And he had a reason. If he was so overpowered then he would've actually legitimately beat the game, which wasn't the case
Rushersauce
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Speedydonut
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From the co writer who brought us Terminator Genisys. This shall be a glorious shit show!
hey how come he didn't clear the game and save thousands of lives when he had admin access instead of turning the fake AI kid he met three days ago into an amiibo?
ShaoranWright
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Will this be better or worse than the anime?. I bet better, because
I'd watch a Konosuba live action adaptation.
NOTHING CAN BE WORSE THAN THAT SHIT!.
I'd watch a Konosuba live action adaptation.
I'm not sure what that has to do with our discussion
Also I didn't say the show was good overall. By that point it had already gone to garbage. I said that on the first page.
I mean of course LH is better. But season 2 was kinda bad in comparison to S1
SoundPulse
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Well... They can't make it that much worse, right?
Seconding this. Log Horizon does justice to the concept quite a bit better than SAO, and I don't even hate SAO nearly as much as most people do.
.Hack's pretty good as long as you avoid the Legend of the Twilight series, too.
Hey, at least it isn't the DEATH GUN arc.
Seconding this. Log Horizon does justice to the concept quite a bit better than SAO, and I don't even hate SAO nearly as much as most people do.
.Hack's pretty good as long as you avoid the Legend of the Twilight series, too.
Hey, at least it isn't the DEATH GUN arc.
Via Purifico
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Jesus christ, thanks for this post cause I can now stop while i'm ahead.
it's popular because the protagonist is exactly the kind of "badass" alter ego a 13 year old would draw in their notebook
that's it
somehow this is enough to propel it to immense popularity
Spiral Insanity
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..how did you think that? There's even a new game releasing every year.
I'm not a fan, but the hate in this thread seems extreme.
Banana Aeon
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While I think it was ass before, this was the point the show became irredeemable trash.
Rushersauce
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I'm sorry, but SAO started as the epitome of "Anime was a mistake"
Dark_castle
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All arcs of SAO 1 and 2 are garbage. Shit has stupid amount of plot holes and contrivances from moment to moment scenes to basic story concepts. Terrible characters too. I don't fucking understand why this series is so popular.
That already exists. It's called .hack//sign.
Personally, the biggest appeal of SAO was the setting. Even though the characters sucked and the writing sucked and the story sucked, I enjoyed it because the world was charming.
I can't see how they'll translate those visuals to a live action show, it'll all end up looking cheesy and stupid.
I can't see how they'll translate those visuals to a live action show, it'll all end up looking cheesy and stupid.
illmatic22
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Yikes
DerangedHermit
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But ... why?
striferser
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Could be better than anime....
Could be better than anime....
Hexa
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A testament to its popularity. SAO is the CoD of anime, the anime everyone seems to hate but is actually pretty good and still incredibly popular.
I'd rank it in my top 5.
OmegaSmash
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Grimgar would be better for a live action adaptation IMO.
After the initial missteps of the first two or three episodes, Grimgar was vastly superior at every single thing.
It's an unfair comparison, though, since Sword Art is such an insanely shitty show, one of the worst, but popular anime ever.
Rushersauce
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You've got to be kidding me.
In hindsight, I feel what Kawahara really wanted to write was a reincarnation/isekai story, but 2009 was before isekai was invented? Or in vogue? There are "stuck in an MMO" stories where the MMO is the important part (.hack, Log Horizon), and there are those stories where the MMO isn't important at all (Ready Player One, Sword Art Online). The latter kinds of stories eventually cut out the MMO part entirely and just throw their dimwitted protagonists into a vidya gaem world now. (Konosuba, Danmachi)
This, in my mind, explains why Kayaba is little more than a walking plot device/self insert. Kawahara couldn't care less why they were in SAO, just that they were there, making it functionally identical to isekai.
This, in my mind, explains why Kayaba is little more than a walking plot device/self insert. Kawahara couldn't care less why they were in SAO, just that they were there, making it functionally identical to isekai.
Holy shit this is drek. I'm dying.
It's funny cause it's actually garbage.
I mean, you can like it all you want but it's......*cringes*
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