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Sword Art Online II: Phantom Bullet - TV anime confirmed for 2014!
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HolyBaikal
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I'm not quite sure what you mean, and how to respond to you, either. :/
That seems a little kind.
This is how I feel (Firehawk too): Sword Art Online. This is the worst show ever to have been produced by a culture. Take the solipsism of The Newsroom, the depravity of K-Town or any other reality show of that ilk, and the sad humanity exhibited exhibited in shows like Honey Boo Boo and you’d STILL get a show that is morally, ethically, and spiritually more justifiable than Sword Art Online. The bar has been set so low that I can even see merit in a show like OniAi. Fuck you SAO… just fuck you.
In what universe? Half the first episode was exposition, USELESS exposition about things that didn't matter at all to anyone watching.
insignia16
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Wut?? Is there a valid reason as to why?
Trojita
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He chose a girly looking avatar.
Of course he doesn't realize he did for some reason.
This is even funnier when you realize that he just watched the two hour special. Defining hatewatch since 2012!
Razgriz-Specter
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Well brownish on the poster but its supposed to be black.
Why would he do that?!?!
That's thrown out the window in the first episode where the lead designer of SOA removes their avatars and reveal their true identity...your main characters still look like waifu material rather then average joes or janes, rainbow colored hair and eyes and all.
Razgriz-Specter
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Lol
The Silver
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jesus christ.........
Yeah, I'd be interested in at least knowing what to look up. Despite all the mocking, I think it is impressive if the author started this whole thing off as a 14-year-old.
Nvm 2 dumb 4 Mii.
To be honest, I had never even thought about something like that as worlds become more and more nuanced. It's not really comforting at all, but hopeful those game creators wouldn't try to achieve perfect parity with the real world.
Who fills in the role of Ayase is what I want to know.
It gets you hyped with the first two episodes, and then goes to complete not-self-aware bad for the rest of the show.
No it isn't, it feels like something a 14-year-old with too much time on his hands would come up with. If it was actually well written then it would be impressive.
Trojita
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Space Dandy can't stop this beater train.
lazybones18
Banned
Nah, it was given another lifeline. I welcome more SAO with open arms
He started putting it up online in 2002 or so. He was nearly thirty years old by then.
Then he should have known better.
This right here was where I called it quits on the show. It already had a bunch of issues before but episode 14 was the one that broke me.
Whenever people say it gets worse after that, I always laugh.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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The 2-3 second scene in question happens when the creator of SAO changes every player's avatar body to one resembling their actual one. You see a male and female change and the female is revealed to actually be a male which surprises the other player in the scene. There wasn't any mocking involved IIRC, just a player being surprised by the reveal.
In SAO you wear the nervegear and go to sleep when the game boots you into the virtual world. I think the psychological urge to regard one as how they appear to you to be even stronger in something that can completely render a world before you.
I think it's possible that people would regard playing as characters differently in a case like this considering you are controlling the character from a first person perspective just as you are controlling your body now versus using a gamepad and staring at a monitor. You essentially inhabit another body when playing the game.
I think it would be interesting if an actual game like SAO existed. The dynamics concerning how people react and think/address others in virtual bodies would be fun to read about and discuss.
CornBurrito
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I'm curious as to what SAO brought to anime that gave it a lifeline in your opinion. Even ignoring the many negatives of the show, what good does it do that other shows haven't done?
It does get worse though.
The second arc has Kirito going into a completely new game, but he magically gets to keep all of his stats so without any fucking effort becomes the strongest person in the fucking game, AGAIN. Then we get the rapist villain, and the incest sub-plot.
The second arc also has the ridiculous plot where a 16 year old girl is comatose. And her father decides that the best hing to do with his comatose daughter is to forcibly marry her off. Like holy fucking shit. Does Japan actually allow that in real life? Are you allowed to marry off your children in forced arranged marriages? Does Japan let parents marry off comatose children? Are you allowed to be wed to a person at the age of16 without your consent?
The Silver
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the worst anime of all time manages to get worse, most impressive
He made a shitton of cash so I guess the quality of his work doesn't really matter to him.
It gets so much worse, if it weren't for ToonamiGAF those of us in that thread would never be able to make it through.
I'm tempted to say that it's all a cynical cash-in, but this probably is what he likes and what he wanted to write. It went unpubbed for years online, so it wasn't like he tossed it up there to make money.
Yeah. By stopping at episode 14 he missed the
bad guy so evil he licks Asuna's tears and some -almost- tentacle porn
To be fair, I'd say that part 2 is more entertaining than part 1 because of that stuff.
CornBurrito
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Don't forget the father of the year and amazing Japanese legal system that allow for a comatose 16 year old girl to be married off as part of a business deal (i think it was for a business deal).
Razgriz-Specter
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Don't agree with him, but I don't think Log Horizon would have been adapted to anime if it wasn't for SAO.
So im thankful for that at least.
Nope, it was just because the guy loved her. No business deal or anything. Which makes it millions of times worse.
ThatObviousUser
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Don't forget it ended with a fucking timeskip for no reason.
CornBurrito
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You're kidding me right? I forget, how did he convince the father that she loved him back? And even if she did love him back, WHY oh WHY is it somehow legal to marry off your daughter while she is comatose?
The author was born in 1974. He wrote Sword Art Online in 2002. Do the math.
Funny point, though. He wrote SAO for a writing competition but, being the shitty writer he is, failed to actually meet the requirements of the competition and went over the word count limit and thus was not allowed to enter it into the contest, which is why it wasn't properly published until 2009.
Oh those timeskips missed me off so much.
Nope
He told her dad she loved him, that's how. Apparently she actually hated him. No idea on that last one.
Doctor Decimate
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i gave it the benefit of the doubt for trying to explain its gameplay mechanics (though let's be honest here, the only thing worse than playing a tutorial is watching a tutorial). the second episode had the stupidest "beta testers are cheaters" shit, but it had a pretty good fight scene so i let it slide.
then the third episode was fucking garbage.
Then where do I keep hearing that he was 14 when he wrote it? Strange.
I will agree with the people that say SAO is the "Twilight of anime". Especially on the part of being pandering bullshit.
Because it's way more believable than a 28 year old writing it.
if this is true, then I suppose I can bear SAO existing
I have a hard time believing it was written by someone older than 15.
HolyBaikal
Banned
Log Horizon sounds interesting. Maybe I should watch that.
The last serious near-future science fiction anime I watched was Time of Eve/Eve no Jikan. And it was pretty good. I would like more anime like Time of Eve.
The last serious near-future science fiction anime I watched was Time of Eve/Eve no Jikan. And it was pretty good. I would like more anime like Time of Eve.
Nah man. Main character is going to have Aim and Wall hacks. The whole series, he's going to be staring into a corner shooting.
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