2014-09-11, 07:32 AM
Honestly this is what SAO SHOULD have been, even if you hate it, I really really reccomend you watch the full series it's frekin hilarious
[video=youtube;Oh8AsXWcBbc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8AsXWcBbc[/video]
Honestly I tried SAO, but it was blatently obvious what I got myself into after episode 1. Seriously that's how flat it fell from the get go. You have a main character who tries to play the lone wolf persona and instantly makes anything with a vagina fall in love with him because of his "skill" and "sasuke-esque" personality without the whole "I WANT TO MURDER EVERYONE". The very character is a trope of "wannabe bad assery". He had this atmosphere of being a douchebag because he knew he was better than you, but tried so hard to be humble about it.
But Asuna was the greatest tragedy at all. They killed her character off as soon as she found out his name. After that it was "I can cook for you" and "I cosplay as princess peach". It would have been different if she taught herself how to cook because Kirito actually inspired her from feeding her that bread with some condoment, but come to find out she's some master chef irl. She completely loses her backbone and any redeemable qualities at all. You want to watch a real female protagonist, go watch Kill La kill, those two charactes were fantastic.
But even disregarding every goddamn character flaw, and trust me I just covered those because I don't have the patience to cover the other frekin 12 "one episode introduction than dissapear" personalities, you have a character that surpasses god because of will power? He himself becomes a "glitch" from sheer will? That was plot armor with a different name. Not ONLY that, but why the hell would the main antagonist even KILL them, he literally just finished explaining he made a "chosen one" to combat him at the end, then finish the ENTIRE thing based off a "Der hur, well I guess you found me out, let me kill you now then!". I mean, jesus, the only other redeemable quality was the animation and somewhat interesting combat scenes (until that point) even though it was just becoming asuna/kirito soloing everything with a GM, and they even stripped that half way in just to say "Oh kirito, you have surpassed the equilavent of god by your sheer "chosen one" strength, only to expand on the least liked aspect of the story, the frekin middle school romance. Seriousuly we had an entire arc of incest to rescue sleeping beauty against some deranged ceo who made it into a fetish series.
Oh and f`ucking fairies.
[video=youtube;Oh8AsXWcBbc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8AsXWcBbc[/video]
Honestly I tried SAO, but it was blatently obvious what I got myself into after episode 1. Seriously that's how flat it fell from the get go. You have a main character who tries to play the lone wolf persona and instantly makes anything with a vagina fall in love with him because of his "skill" and "sasuke-esque" personality without the whole "I WANT TO MURDER EVERYONE". The very character is a trope of "wannabe bad assery". He had this atmosphere of being a douchebag because he knew he was better than you, but tried so hard to be humble about it.
But Asuna was the greatest tragedy at all. They killed her character off as soon as she found out his name. After that it was "I can cook for you" and "I cosplay as princess peach". It would have been different if she taught herself how to cook because Kirito actually inspired her from feeding her that bread with some condoment, but come to find out she's some master chef irl. She completely loses her backbone and any redeemable qualities at all. You want to watch a real female protagonist, go watch Kill La kill, those two charactes were fantastic.
But even disregarding every goddamn character flaw, and trust me I just covered those because I don't have the patience to cover the other frekin 12 "one episode introduction than dissapear" personalities, you have a character that surpasses god because of will power? He himself becomes a "glitch" from sheer will? That was plot armor with a different name. Not ONLY that, but why the hell would the main antagonist even KILL them, he literally just finished explaining he made a "chosen one" to combat him at the end, then finish the ENTIRE thing based off a "Der hur, well I guess you found me out, let me kill you now then!". I mean, jesus, the only other redeemable quality was the animation and somewhat interesting combat scenes (until that point) even though it was just becoming asuna/kirito soloing everything with a GM, and they even stripped that half way in just to say "Oh kirito, you have surpassed the equilavent of god by your sheer "chosen one" strength, only to expand on the least liked aspect of the story, the frekin middle school romance. Seriousuly we had an entire arc of incest to rescue sleeping beauty against some deranged ceo who made it into a fetish series.
Oh and f`ucking fairies.