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Sword Art Online Ep 7 - I like the way they managed to completely avoid spoiling the reveal in this episode by making the viewers come to their own conclusions about why Kirito wanted a sword with similar stats to the Elucidator.

Judging from the title of the next episode, we'll be moving on to the main story and Kirito will be taking on The Gleameyes. Come to think of it, that boss fight really did occur really early on, but it seemed to take place a whole lot later simply due to the fact that the author needed time for characterization and stuff.

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The next episode will have to cover at least Chapter 5 to Chapter 11. The end of Chapter 11 seems a nice place to end off seeing as it's a cliffhanger, so that's probably where they'll end the episode. The problem, however, is Chapter 5 to 10; there's quite a fair bit of content in there, pretty much all tied to Kirito successfully killing a rare Ragout Rabbit at the beginning of Chapter 5 (Asuna forces him to let her cook and eat it, forces him to party her in the 74th Floor dungeon to scout out the boss, jealous bodyguard duels Kirito over it), culminating in Kirito taking out The Gleameyes with "Starburst Stream" spam.

Anyway, the whole rabbit -> duel -> dungeon scouting thing seems a little much to cram into one episode, and I'm not sure they can cram most of it in even if they cut out the scouting and go straight to the boss fight. They can't cut out the rabbit -> duel part because the bodyguard returns with a vengeance later on. I hope they don't cut out the part where the squad from "The Army" gets slaughtered by The Gleameyes because it's what eventually pushes Kirito into berzerker mode and perform the abovementioned spam. My guess is that they'll skip the whole "switching" tactic for the anime and just opt for Kirito going nuts on the boss.