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[B-Dubs]

That SAO bias really showing. This is actually a pretty sad scene. Probably the least offensive drama SAO will ever have.

Honestly, it was fine when it started but when the whole world showed up for reasons that killed it for me. It was just too over the top for a scene that should have been very personal.

 

[Shard]

Yea, I will give it to SAO here, this is about as close to genuine emotion as it is ever going to get and between this and Akame Ga Kill really showcases how important VA work is.

 

[kewlmyc]

Is "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" as bad as it looks? It looks pretty fucking bad.

 

[Doctor Decimate]

can we just watch that one Shippuden episode again

 

[Dominican Power]

So much feels.

 

[Moaradin]

Honestly, it was fine when it started but when the whole world showed up for reasons that killed it for me. It was just too over the top for a scene that should have been very personal.

Pretty minor mark at an otherwise pretty good scene.

 

[Seda]

Oh shit, THERE IT IS, THE YURI

oh, two female characters opened up to each other emotionally

clearly it is yuri

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Is "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" as bad as it looks? It looks pretty fucking bad.

Every AS show is bad.

 

[UltraGunner]

when i die of super aids

i hope this happens to me

If I die of Super AIDS, I want a super funeral, with my dead body wearing a cape and spandex

 

[BatDan]

Like I still don't even know what to make of this scene, it's so well acted and animated and in a bubble it's a superb death scene... but then I remember this is in SAO a show that frequently has all manner of laughably bad writing and all the characters outside of Yuuki have such laughable baggage from previous arcs that it's hard to take seriously.

Bingo.
It doesn't really feel like SAO has earned a scene like this.

 

[Amikami]

Honestly, it was fine when it started but when the whole world showed up for reasons that killed it for me. It was just too over the top for a scene that should have been very personal.

.

As many emotional scenes are in SAO.

 

[Crocodile]

Some of you guys are heartless.

I (and I assume everybody else) has seen some legit great death scenes in anime. This does not rank among them, sorry. Not that there was anything wrong with the acting or animation or anything (*cough* AgK *cough*) it was all very respectable but...........nah.

 

[kewlmyc]

Yea, I will give it to SAO here, this is about as close to genuine emotion as it is ever going to get and between this and Akame Ga Kill really showcases how important VA work is.

While they are expensive, Aniplex really does do good dubs, unlike Sentai.

 

[Grexeno]

oh, two female characters opened up to each other emotionally

clearly it is yuri

Everything is always yuri

 

[TUSR]

Peace sign.

Your final moments will be me consistently talking shit about Dota and that oppai is better. XP

since when isnt oppai better?

 

[Line_HTX]

I remember Asuna's VA also nailing a sad scene early in Darker Than Black too.

She's in Darker than Black? Now I kind of want to see how she performs.

 

[B-Dubs]

Pretty minor mark at an otherwise pretty good scene.

Yea but it just takes me out of it. I feel like it would have been better if it was just Yuuki and Asuna.

There's been way better death scenes in anime that have really got the tears going, a few of which are coming to shows on Toonami right now in a few years.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

WATCHING
FROM THE EDGE
OF THE CIRCUS
FOR THE GAMES TO BEGIN
GLADIATORS
DRAW THEIR SWORDS
FORM THEIR RANKS
FOR ARMAGEDDON

 

[Moaradin]

I remember Asuna's VA also nailing a sad scene early in Darker Than Black too.

There's a scene in Steins;Gate where she kills it.

 

[Raxus]

So does Yuki start over from the save point?

 

[BassForever]

That SAO bias really showing. This is actually a pretty sad scene. Probably the least offensive drama SAO will ever have.

Yep

There's still half an episode to go, still enough time for an awkwardly placed rape scene.

Nah we get something arguably worse then another rape scene

Spoiler

another scene of the series trying to justify a serial killer

 

[GaimeGuy]

Like I still don't even know what to make of this scene, it's so well acted and animated and in a bubble it's a superb death scene... but then I remember this is in SAO a show that frequently has all manner of laughably bad writing and all the characters outside of Yuuki have such laughable baggage from previous arcs that it's hard to take seriously.

Pretty much. It's not a bad scene by any means, but it's hard to take it seriously or givei t the respect it deserves coming from Klein thirsting after NPCs and "ASADA-SAN! ASADA-SAN! ASADA-SAN!"

Among 100 other scenes

 

[Man God]

since when isnt oppai better?

 

[Seda]

She's in Darker than Black? Now I kind of want to see how she performs.

Not a main character. In eps 3&4.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Oh right. She was catholic or something, right?

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Everything is always yuri

 

[Hellwarden]

Everything is always yuri

If girls briefly exist in the same room, and make eye contact, it's yuri.

 

[Shard]

Yea, all of this genuine emotion is undone with two words, SUPER AIDS!

 

[Doctor Decimate]

Bingo.
It doesn't really feel like SAO has earned a scene like this.

honestly i think the melodrama kills it even in a vacuum

 

[Mizerman]

Like I still don't even know what to make of this scene, it's so well acted and animated and in a bubble it's a superb death scene... but then I remember this is in SAO a show that frequently has all manner of laughably bad writing and all the characters outside of Yuuki have such laughable baggage from previous arcs that it's hard to take seriously.

Pretty much.

I realize that this was supposed to be a tragic scene and kudos to the VA for making the effort, but I cannot take it too seriously.

 

[Zonic]

Oh hey, least the show had the guts to not find some way to somehow make her well again.

 

[illmatic22]

Yea, I will give it to SAO here, this is about as close to genuine emotion as it is ever going to get and between this and Akame Ga Kill really showcases how important VA work is.

I can agree with this. The VAs sold it well enough and arent shitty like Akame's dub

 

[skLaFarebear]

There are some anime/VN/manga tragic/death scenes that hit really hard.

This definitely wasn't one of them, but it was done as well as this show could possibly do it.

 

[Gucci Messiah]

surprise i'm a middle aged woman!

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

Who?

 

[Grexeno]

Asuna why aren't you dressed up for the funeral like EVERYONE ELSE

 

[Line_HTX]

You gave it and it's deep into my heart.

 

[kewlmyc]

I'm surprised someone who's been in the hospital most of her life and has no family had such a huge funeral turnout.

 

[TUSR]

u gave me something

aids

 

[Imperial Bishop]

She's a megane in the real?!

 

[LOLDSFAN]

SUPER CANCER!

 

[Zonic]

So.............instead of Super AIDS, it's Super Lukemia....

 

[BatDan]

Asuna why aren't you dressed up for the funeral like EVERYONE ELSE

"My school uniform is black. Good enough!"

 

[MetatronM]

You're not gonna die?!

I DEMAND A REFUND!

 

[Jarate]

I only had regular aids, not super aids

 

[RagnarokX]

"This is too awkward... let's put on VR gear."

 

[Schadenfreude]

She's a total Qt 3.14. And also a total faker. She's not dying.

 

[Grexeno]

"J/K I actually was totally fine"

 

[TUSR]

super leukemia

this is so depressing

she jobs harder than kirito

 

[Moaradin]

My grandma died of Leukemia a couple months ago. Cancer sucks