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[Man God]

Hit him with his own bro.

 

[Mik317]

too stronk

 

[Raxus]

Poor Shikamaru was just trying to get Closer.

 

[BassForever]

The other party wouldn't have made it to the boss room then. It can't be a coincidence that the episode that has an implied Kirito loss is also the first good SAO episode.

Technically it's his second loss this arc, first was to Yuuki in their duel

 

[BatDan]

Hitchcock Attack!

 

[GaimeGuy]

YOU'RE LATE

 

[MetatronM]

I don't get this reasoning. I mean, these are all new characters introduced in this arc and Yuuki is a pretty likable character. What, because it's in SAO it doesn't count?

Yuuki is pretty likeable, but the show is still cringeworthily terrible at handling anything "game-like" (even if the fight animation itself is pretty good), the dialogue is still generally garbage, I can't take Asuna seriously as a character at this point pretty much regardless of what's going on, there are literally no stakes on the line whatsoever, and the show has thoroughly run out of opportunities to receive the benefit of the doubt at this point.

Having said that, that was pretty much the closest thing to a competent episode in the entire series so far.

Unfortunately they've also already telegraphed that the Sleeping Knights are all dead or in a coma or some ridiculous melodramatic shit along those lines at this point. They also had icons next to their names on the monument when it looked like Asuna did not, so some shit is going on. We'll see where they go with this next week.

 

[Grexeno]

SUDDENLY ALFRED HITCHCOCK

 

[Hellwarden]

Oh man....

...this animation is rough.

 

[Man God]

Itachi is here?

 

[zedreamcast]

Really though, if the ninja's didn't do him in, his smoking would have

But he just gave them up D: he was also two days away from retirement

 

[UltraGunner]

Wasn't his power to control bugs?

 

[Regiruler]

I thought we were seeing itachi action for a second

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Ino the bae.

 

[Seda]

the cavalry doesnt always come in the nick of time

 

[BassForever]

That's part of it.
The bigger part is that there's waaaay better sandwich places out there.

Fair enough... the problem is I live in the middle of NOWHERE and I don't have another option for a good sandwich show unless I want to wait for the slow ass local grocery store to make one (30 minutes away) or go 45 minutes to Jimmy Johns.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Crow summoning seems to be the least threatening of the summons.

 

[Amikami]

Oh man....

...this animation is rough.

You do know you're watching Naruto Shippden right?

 

[MikeMyers]

Ino the bae.

lol.

 

[MetatronM]

Naruto Birdemic

 

[Raxus]

Spoiler

If only Naruto Jesus was here to give him enough chakra to save his life!

 

[Crocodile]

Asama's heart is still beating? How?

I don't get this reasoning. I mean, these are all new characters introduced in this arc and Yuuki is a pretty likable character. What, because it's in SAO it doesn't count?

What's not to get? Drama works better when it involves well written characters you're invested in. I like Yuki, mostly for her spunk and skill, but all this drama is ringing hollow to me. I couldn't even tell you the name of most of the people in that crew. The good parts of the episode was the fighting. The "who cares" part was the awkward drama.

 

[Mik317]

naw bitch my moneh

 

[skLaFarebear]

ITS MY MONEY, AND I WANT IT NOW.

 

[GaimeGuy]

ino why aren't you healing him already. you suck at this medical thing

 

[Regiruler]

Wasn't his power to control bugs?

Different person.

 

[BatDan]

Animation!

 

[LOLDSFAN]

lol.

 

[grandjedi6]

Crow guy is already doing better than the jobber ninjas

 

[UltraGunner]

Dem two frame fight moves

 

[ckohler]

Naruto Birdemic

Truly, this is Shock and Terror.




In a funny coincidence, I bought Birdemic from RiffTrax yesterday.So funny.

 

[Hellwarden]

You do know you're watching Naruto Shippden right?

Of course, but the last couple episodes were pretty passable.

Hell, as bad as the fillers have gotten recently, at least the animation has been at least consistently good.

 

[Moaradin]

that voice doe

 

[Ultratech]

That's certainly pretty ominous-looking.

 

[Mizerman]

eeeh I don't get that. SAO is shit most of the time but give credit where credit is due. This arc is pretty decent, SAO or not.

It might not as bad as the previous arcs, but that's not really saying much after going through all that previous crap.

One character alone isn't enough to change that.

 

[Htown]

MEANWHILE, IN WARHAMMER 40K....


Seriously, what is the tech level here?

 

[blitzwolf215]

WTF is with that fight animation.

 

[BassForever]

Yuuki is pretty likeable, but the show is still cringeworthily terrible at handling anything "game-like" (even if the fight animation itself is pretty good), the dialogue is still generally garbage, I can't take Asuna seriously as a character at this point pretty much regardless of what's going on, there are literally no stakes on the line whatsoever, and the show has thoroughly run out of opportunities to receive the benefit of the doubt at this point.

Having said that, that was pretty much the closest thing to a competent episode in the entire series so far.

Unfortunately they've also already telegraphed that the Sleeping Knights are all dead or in a coma or some ridiculous melodramatic shit along those lines at this point. They also had icons next to their names on the monument when it looked like Asuna did not, so some shit is going on. We'll see where they go with this next week.

Guild icon, if you looked at the other names each name had a different symbol to represent their guild. Each guild leader during a boss raid gets their name and clan icon on the wall, that's why they did the raid solo so they were all considered "guild leaders", Asuna is not in a guild hence she doesn't have a symbol.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Oh hey, it's

Spoiler

the guy who should have been

the Akatsuki leader!

 

[Crayolan]

It's always nice to see an episode of SAO with little to no Kirito.

The first half of the episode was actually pretty decent.

 

[BatDan]

Oh hai

Spoiler

Pain

 

[Seda]

First time seeing Pain not in rainbow projector form thing?

 

[Raxus]

Hey there leader of the big bads!

 

[Grexeno]

I mean, that doesn't scream "evil supervillain lair" at all.

 

[Schadenfreude]

And I thought Luffy had a weird resting spot.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Awww yea best Akatsuki member.

 

[zedreamcast]

AHHHHH SHIT ITS THE LEADER OF THE AKATSUKI WITH THE BEST SETTING IN THE ENTIRE SERIES AWWWW SHIT

 

[GaimeGuy]

PAAAAAAAAIN-SAMA~~~~~~

(｡◕ ∀ ◕&#65377

 

[lazybones18]

Aww, I wanted to see more murder

 

[ckohler]

I think I saw some ninja skyscrapers.