Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season

The final battle against the Dark Territory drags on, as players from all over the world flood the Underworld's servers and plunge the Human Empire into utter chaos. Asuna Yuuki and her friends defend their new allies with everything they have, but their numbers are falling. Meanwhile, Alice Zuberg heads toward the World's End Altar while Gabriel "Vecta" Miller relentlessly pursues her.

Meanwhile, members of Rath strategize a plan in an attempt to restore Kirito's damaged fluctlight. However, the intruders occupying the main control room have other plans. Surrounded by death and despair, when all hope seems to be lost, one voice reaches out to Kirito—a familiar one saying, "I will always be by your side."

Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season is the epic conclusion to Akihiko Kayaba's dream of creating artificial human intelligence. Now it is up to Kirito and his friends to protect this collapsing world from the people that still think it is just a game.

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Kirigaya, Kazuto Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Yuuki, Asuna Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Zuberg, Alice Main

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Asada, Shino Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Eugeo Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Konno, Yuuki Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Yui Supporting

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Kirigaya, Suguha Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Tsuboi, Ryoutarou Supporting

Hirata, Hiroaki Japanese

Ayano, Keiko Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Kaneko, Atsushi Producer

Kawakami, Ryuutarou Producer

Futami, Yousuke Producer

Niwa, Masami Producer

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Aug 29, 2024

kireikana

Recommended

story:

- i see the peak of the virtual VRMMO game, where tens of thousands of players from different countries gather and wars together. the creation of A.L.I.C.E, the world’s first AI with a soul and a brain like a human, is wild. a walking piece of metal wanting human rights? of course, the government isn’t going to agree that easily. they just see it as a hunk of metal run by a program. they don’t see it from kirito’s perspective.

- kirito got nerfed and became paralyzed. yep, this is what all the fans who followed the series wanted. hopping between games and always having OP ... stats and strength. it’s pretty annoying because they never showed kirito grinding to level up his skills. he always just shows up with some new power that no one else has. honestly, i was getting bored of him if he didn’t get nerfed and always stayed the main star.

- THE RAPED scenes... seriously? why do japanese people love putting in this kind of crap? from season 1 with asuna, season 2 with asada, and now suguha in season 3; almost every girl in SAO has been raped by some crazy guy, covered in tentacles, hugged, or almost kissed by a psycho. no one likes the fcking scenes like that except in doujins, damm'it!!! it really pisses me off seeing women’s dignity and morals being messed with, just to fit some weird japanese fetish. sure, it’s an avatar in a game and what happens to their bodies doesn’t affect their real bodies... but that’s not the point; it’s about what’s shown.

- vassago/PoH, the villain, isn’t just some psycho who loves killing. i didn’t expect to see a backstory explaining his hatred for japanese players. i always thought he was just some crazy killer, but yeah, there’s always a reason behind actions.

- what do you think is the hardest thing to erase in this world? money? wealth? or a job? no, the hardest thing to erase is your data once it’s uploaded to the internet! akihiko akaba shows up again out of nowhere, and how is that possible? it’s a copy of his mind, his personality data stored on the networks. it’s not going away because copies keep being made and spread everywhere. just like when you upload a photo to facebook, it gets copied, backed up, and spread across data centers all over the world.

- not many stories like this exist, where the main character fights alongside the heroine/woman he loves for multiple seasons. ahh, how lucky kirito is; he’s got someone who’s stayed by his side for hundreds of years, but on the other hand, he’s also got a bunch of women who are super sympathetic towards him.

- the last 4 seconds showed "kirito will return." is this a sign of a sequel season? if so, i hope they make a movie about asuna and kirito’s life for 200 years in the underworld; i really want to see it, a world where it’s just the two of them.

- the series ends with the underworld becoming a sci-fi genre in outer space. instead of fighting and flying with wings and swords, they’re using fighter jets and missiles. such a fast development, i don’t even know how many generations have been born in the underworld. (i’m not curious enough to start imagining it from the novels).

quality:

- the animation is still as good as the first cour, especially the effects like the smoke in every battle—it’s awesome. the duel between captain bercouli and vecta left me speechless lol, such a noble fight upholding the knight’s honor.

- the opening from "Reona - ANima" fits perfectly, burning with the theme of war in this series.

- the rest is the same as cour 1.

i’m sick of rape scenes; it really very annoying!! if i had to choose, i’d prefer gore scenes like metal piercing through the head or losing both legs & blood splattering everywhere. (leafa, sinon)

score: 7/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 19, 2024

Whe3333

Mixed Feelings

Spoiler-less, TL;DR, fast, simple, and easy-to-digest review:

"Mom can we have Avengers: Endgame?", "We have Avengers: Endgame at home", Avengers: Endgame at home:

5/10

Animation? Excellent (+++)
Crisp, hype, and jaw-dropping fight scenes. This season might have the best fights in this series. This is peak animation in SAO so far. Good job animators!

Characters? Ok (+)
FINALLY OMG!!! MY BOI KLEIN FINALLY HAD HIS MOMENT! HIS ENTRANCE IS SO FCKING AWESOME!!! THE WAY HE DROPPED IN IS LIKE ME DROPPING INTO THE WARZONE AS SNOOP DOGG WITH NICKI MINAJ AND JOHN WICK FROM FORTNITE! YEAH GET EM KLEIN!... oh for other characters? Pretty decent. Most of them do not disappoint... ... some are... maybe like a handful of them are unbearable I guess.

Story? Meh (-)
The only payoff in the story are the fights... and that's it... and they also blew it! Like come on! Less talk, more fight! The entire war is just Avengers: Endgame ripoff. Also, the conclusion is... meh.

Pacing? Bad (--)
Can we please have less talk, more fight moments? This is supposed to be the most important fight in the series yet you guys can't stop blabbering. At least JoJo talking and fighting are iconic and less annoying (in fact, its fun to hear them fight with body and words to feel the menacing aura within them).

OST? Good (++)
The war drums are kept bangin' and bangin'! BGMs really helped in hyping up the battles.

Enjoyability? Meh (-)
While the fight scenes are great, it's just not it. I want to like it but it's just not it man. idk the feeling but it's not just it man. You may enjoy the fights, but if you really want SAO:AWoU just for fights, there are Youtube compilations.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 11, 2023

Resting_Bonfire

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Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season


Well, the first part of this war was already a disappointment, but to bring this to a new level is something you didn't see coming.
Not sure how many times I joked about what we watched and what happened this season. If anyone has experience with Kingdom Hearts Writing and the Youtube Channel "Just a Pancake", that person will know what I'm getting at. This season is a pure definition of "Random Bullshit Go" "That's not even my Final Final Form" and "Okay I believe you" - these 3 memes represent the entire plot of this ... season. And having Simito fight the Anti-Miller at the end made me completely cry. How and why did one almost end in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann? What's with the ending of Alice? Why, why, why?

The ending of this war had the potential to deliver one of the BEST dramatic scenes there could be, but it was ruined and spat on while it was still on the floor. God's sake such potential and then just "Nah Timeskip".


Well, this season follows directly from the previous one and the war enters its final round. The season starts with the best and most epic battle of the whole season so far. Bercoulli not only had one of the most interesting skills seen in Shounen but also a good execution of it and a massively dynamic fight. Honestly, I was shocked at what I saw, every single moment of this fight was breathtaking. Not only visually, but also in terms of pure dynamics.
Unfortunately, this was the only standout performance of the entire season.
Right after this spectacle, the plot continues to revolve around some poorly written war that makes no sense whatsoever and feels more like the never wanted Digimon season where everyone goes to the Digiworld to fight a war. To make matters worse, the villains are endlessly overpowered, always having a new buff that makes them even stronger. Each character has a boss rush moment to show how cool they are, only for the boss to show that they are not yet defeated and get stronger again. And this drags on until Kirito-Kami-kun wakes up and... the cycle continues.

In the end, there is a final fight between Simon and the Anti Spiral and yes. I honestly don't even know what else to say about it.

Conclusion 3

I'm anything but a fan of this series, but Sword Art Online still entertained me well enough. We used to sit and watch 2-3 episodes every night while we had dinner. It was alright, nothing great, just an average show to enjoy. But with this season it became one of the best comedies out there. It's a shame really, but making fun of it also had a certain charm.

[Enjoyment 3]

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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