GR Anime Review: Sword Art Online
GR Anime Review: Sword Art Online
A Glass Reflection Anime Review of Sword Art Online
Originally Released: January 7th 2013
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September 18, 2018 @ 7:31 pm
Do you think you will ever review an abridged series, like the glorious SAO Abridged
September 18, 2018 @ 7:33 pm
So should i like watch this or what?
September 18, 2018 @ 7:33 pm
WHAT ARE YOU TLKING ABOUT SAO IS THE BEST ANIME EVER IS PERFECT STOP HATINGON IT JUST BECAUSE ITS POPULAR U IDEOTS
September 18, 2018 @ 7:35 pm
Honestly, I think Asuna safed Kirito more often than he safed her
September 18, 2018 @ 7:35 pm
Camp #1 – BEST THANG EVAR
Camp #2 – DONKEY D**K
Camp #3 – It’s ok. It’s just… ok
Which camp are you guys in?
I’m in Camp #3. I mean, yeah it’s not the best, but animation is nice, voice acting is ok, and the action scenes are pretty good. It just fails where it needs to succeed: characters are bland, hollow and uninteresting, and the plot, despite having an incredibly interesting and intriguing premise, quickly spiralled downhill
September 18, 2018 @ 7:35 pm
1 out of 10
September 18, 2018 @ 7:35 pm
I would give it a 6/10
September 18, 2018 @ 7:36 pm
Why is this the best video and truest video everrr
September 18, 2018 @ 7:36 pm
I do love this show. I would never ever call it a good show. it is awful, in plot and execution, the actual game physics would suck and it is just plain crap. but I have a sentimental attachment to it, so I like it, despite it being absolute garbage.
September 18, 2018 @ 7:36 pm
I love this show so much that I’m trying to hate it because this show is all I can think about
September 18, 2018 @ 7:37 pm
Did anyone notice the mouse at 6:51
September 18, 2018 @ 7:38 pm
Sao needs a reboot
September 18, 2018 @ 7:38 pm
I loved the concept and some of the episodes, like murder in the safe zone or whatever, but lots of potential missed and wasted with useless characters.
September 18, 2018 @ 7:39 pm
Ur hair is Rad (i’m trynna be hip lol)
September 18, 2018 @ 7:40 pm
the cringe is real
September 18, 2018 @ 7:46 pm
see kids video games do kill
September 18, 2018 @ 7:50 pm
I agree with most of what you said. Personally, I like the main characters fine, but it was a little unsettling that Asuma to be rescued during the second half after seeing her be this awesome fighter in the first half. The first half it’s where I found myself more enjoying the show an awful lot, but once it got to the second half it went downhill. Dearh in the game had little effect, the world is less interesting, Asuma had to be rescued like I said and so much uncomfortable sensual content, it was a major downplay for sure. Second half is only good for the finale where at least we do get a satisfying ending with everyone living happily ever after. Honestly, if the entire show was set in the original game like I thought it was, this could have been so much more, but as it is, it’s okay. It’s just a shame that the second half damaged it so much because I was starting to consider viewing this as one of my favorite shows of all time. I’m glad I saw it, but I intend to remember it only for most of the first half from the action to then animation, to the intro song to even the romance between the two lead characters.
September 18, 2018 @ 7:52 pm
7:08 Is that a motherfucking gigguk reference!?
September 18, 2018 @ 7:52 pm
I don’t even have the incentive to get into this show. Every time I get a bit of it (go to a friend’s and their watching it, someone sends me a clip) it just seems cringeworthy and annoying.
September 18, 2018 @ 7:52 pm
Okay so the soundtracks are nice and the animation is pretty decent and the fight scenes and concept are cool but for me these all together can’t pick up the show beyond 3/10 lol I’m sorry if fans will find me rude but the amount of harem and fan service was absurd and the storyline and dialog only made me question the age of the author because even though I know they are an adult with respective careers I still can’t help but find their mentality to be of a 10 years old in regards to SAO creation, I personally couldn’t finish the show because of the silly time jumps and fillers and heavy fan servicing in the show and the main character kid who was cocky and annoying as fuck :/
September 18, 2018 @ 7:53 pm
Wanna hear a joke? What did the librarian say to the student
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September 18, 2018 @ 7:53 pm
So…. how come you wanna trap thousands of players in this game?
Pffft I don’t know.
Seems legit.
September 18, 2018 @ 7:55 pm
It could have been good, i really wish it was but… Nope?
September 18, 2018 @ 7:55 pm
The worst part about SAO having a shit ton of flaws is that a lot of them are easily fixable in a second draft with some research. You might not notice if you’re not an avid gamer, but SAO as a game has lots of technical problems that are easy to fix if you know the genre, are familiar with game development, or understand how the game functions. I mean how do you have an RPG without magic, ranged weapons, or job classes??? First of all it’s a horrible design for an RPG. Secondly, having job classes could actually justify specific characters having specific skills no one else has, like Kirito being the only player with dual-wielding. Why is it an MMO if they’re meant to eventually beat it? MMOs aren’t meant to be beat, hence why they’re usually endless. This isn’t even all that’s wrong with it, just some of the most obvious.
September 18, 2018 @ 7:56 pm
What is he talking abouT? Sam abridged deserves a 10/10
September 18, 2018 @ 7:56 pm
I can’t say anything cuz I watched it when I first started watching anime, and I haven’t seen it since.
September 18, 2018 @ 7:57 pm
Am I the only one like sao , sao 2 and sao ordinal scales?
September 18, 2018 @ 7:57 pm
That begning of the video tho ???
September 18, 2018 @ 7:58 pm
I give it: mediocre/10
September 18, 2018 @ 8:00 pm
Im honestly really on the fence about SAO. There were alot of parts that really caught me and made me wanna like it, but generic harem moments and cardboard cutout charachters really turned me off of it.
September 18, 2018 @ 8:00 pm
Honestly I’m kind of in the “mysterious fourth camp”
Yes the show is trashy and it story and characters are crappy, but we like the music and we like the action scenes (they are pretty) and there is a lot of good fanfiction for this show
so let us sit back and watch a trashy action romp (and then go write really good fanfiction)
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it
September 18, 2018 @ 8:02 pm
You should review SAO Abridged right now.
BTW: It takes 3 episodes to get good, 5 episodes to lean towards perfection and 11 episodes to become genuinely emotionally impactful.
September 18, 2018 @ 8:03 pm
When I first decided to explore the franchise of SAO, I found the concept very interesting, and I wanted to see this idea of people being trapped in a video game being explored in the anime (it’s the first anime I came across that dwells on this subject in my experience). however, when I red about what happened in episode 24 of season 1, I was really disgusted with the route the show took, and that was before I saw even one full episode. I enjoyed the parody version of the series a lot, but I couldn’t bring myself to fully enjoy the show itself, when I started actually watching it, because I dreaded of what will eventually happen to Asuna. that, and the combination of the parody being a lot more entertaining than the actual show, combined with the massive amounts of very negative reviews of the second season and movie, made me abandon the franchise. was this a bad decision to check out from the start what will happen in the show in it’s later stages? yes, but even if I hadn’t done that, the Alfheim story arc would’ve nonetheless left me with a very bad taste about the show and what became of it, and season 2 wouldn’t have helped. However, I am also very sad to leave the franchise, because it had SO MUCH good potential and ideas, but they were executed so poorly that it hurts. Many good elements in the show, like the flashy animation, the amazing music, and the love story that was built in season 1’s first half were sadly not enough to keep me going when the Alfheim story began, and the show changed into this really uncomfortable and downright abhorrent bad-fanfic-kind of a story. And in season 2, many of the characters become boring, Kirito is presented as some kind of a god among mortals, and any character development for him is halted to give Sinon her own development, which also ends up being boring, and all of that just takes away from me every desire to even see the movie to it’s fullest. the fight scenes in it are good, but it’s not enough. I really wanted to love SAO, and I honestly DO love a lot of it’s elements, but it’s just not enough for me to love it as a whole, because for me, it feels like a huge let down, as a result of it’s potential being wasted.
September 18, 2018 @ 8:03 pm
I don’t know why so many people don’t like SAO
September 18, 2018 @ 8:05 pm
Sword Art Online the great anime Glover think that’s not can go suck it
September 18, 2018 @ 8:06 pm
I don’t like SAO but I don’t hate it. It got shit after they *spoiler* left sword art online. The show simply wasn’t as good and it felt like a job for me to finish watching it. Which is a shame since I quite liked the first arc.
September 18, 2018 @ 8:06 pm
i thought yui was incredibly annoying. So when navi’s voice appeared i died of laughter
September 18, 2018 @ 8:06 pm
I loved this show with all it flaws
September 18, 2018 @ 8:07 pm
I give it 1.5/10
September 18, 2018 @ 8:09 pm
2022? Isn’t Soylent Green also set in 2022?
September 18, 2018 @ 8:10 pm
1:40 god…help him
September 18, 2018 @ 8:12 pm
1: Deathnote
2:Tokyo Ghoul
3:SAO
4:PsychoPass
5:blue Exorcist
My favorite Animes and you hate 2 of them (As far as i know)
September 18, 2018 @ 8:13 pm
It was entertaining but almost everything about it s shit
September 18, 2018 @ 8:13 pm
It seems I’ll have to envolk the power of the fan to disperse any and all who dislike.
U sae wot bruv!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
September 18, 2018 @ 8:18 pm
Fantastic anime my score is 20/10, now SAO Alicization season 3 is camming which will be also fantastic.
September 18, 2018 @ 8:19 pm
I love SAO I know it has a lot of flaws but I love the show (season 2 and the movie included) and I don’t care what people say I think it is one of the best anime I have ever watched (I haven’t seen much anime) good review as well
September 18, 2018 @ 8:22 pm
So there is filler even before episode 5? Wtf is wrong with the creators
September 18, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
I got the feeling that the creator trapped everyone in SAO because he was insane. At the end he as that whole monologue about how he always dreamed of his "castle in the sky" and how he wanted to find it, which sort of made me go. "Well this guy is absolutely insane." He did also say that thing at the beginning about wanting to control the youth or something, I don’t know take your pick.
September 18, 2018 @ 8:29 pm
Award art online is so Beautiful I just love how at first they hate each other and fall in love I just envy Kirito and Asunas love
September 18, 2018 @ 8:31 pm
This anime is for 15 years olds, man