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Ventus_S said: Also every good guy suddenly lost their power for no reason XD. Are those initial aoe attack from god account like 1 time use or something? Like seriously most of them go down without even a fight. (Sinen what are you doing lol) If the god account is this weak, much weaker than Dark Emperor , I don't think these clown developers know how to manage the game. No wonder. I think the director has something against Asuna. They skipped most of the scenes where she used her goddess power, she acted badass, she was heavily injured and still continued fighting and even toned down everything she faced in this episode. Like actually she wasn't defeated physically. She could still fight. The scenes she saw in the war defeated her mentally. And if you tone down everything she saw then it wouldn't give the same impact and it would seem like she's useless which apparently the anime is trying to make her seem like. The Alicization adaptation continues to be awful. Right when I thought they were doing quite well this season. |
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| I love how there is supposed to be this shock and awe effect in the brutality of this "war" but it's like...just to make a joke here. These kids have not played enough Rated M games before, have they? But man oh man..I'm looking at this and I can't stop shaking my head with each passing episode. |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| so ronie bad or mind controlled? |
HeroSoulReaperX said: so ronie bad or mind controlled? Another adaptation failure. Looks like I can do a total list of things messed up in this episode ;-; Kirito was actually hunted by Vassago's men. Ronye actually tried to stop them but to no avail. |
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| Alicization WoU part 1 was so good but this second part is decaying pretty bad |
Rob7 said: "Nah, we are xenophobic, the audience is xenophobic, Siune just will speak and nobody should suppose its not japanese, because f* korea". [/i] Thats how these people is. Lol this explains so well how I felt in that scene. MaDmAnI said: It is embarrassing how the readers of the light novels try to badly talk the anime, even though 90% of the events have been adapted. Try to criticize the light novels (Kirito's state, nightmare scene, incompetence of all characters except harem hero Kirito, Kirito can use his incarnation to save Alice but not Eugeo, thousands of players are logged into Underworld etc.). This whole arc makes no sense from the scientific to the technical aspect. Reki Kawahara should stop bothering quantum mechanics with his stories There were enough inconsistencies with this single episode. Let's not talk about the entire arc. The first scene which was just Sinon's trauma turned into some actual choking shit. And then they totally skipped how Gabe realised about incarnations or didn't bother to explain how Sinon used incarnation to save herself or taking out the gun. It was laughable how she pulled the gun out of thin air. Lmao Then the toning down of the war gore making Asuna's mental defeat and surrender seem meaningless. And then making Ronie take Kirito to Poh just like that. Not to forget treating Vassago like any other mad villain in the series is just sad. Absolutely ridiculous! |
Biswa_29Aug 2, 2020 4:49 AM
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MaDmAnI said: It is embarrassing how the readers of the light novels try to badly talk the anime, even though 90% of the events have been adapted. Try to criticize the light novels (Kirito's state, nightmare scene, incompetence of all characters except harem hero Kirito, Kirito can use his incarnation to save Alice but not Eugeo, thousands of players are logged into Underworld etc.). This whole arc makes no sense from the scientific to the technical aspect. Reki Kawahara should stop bothering quantum mechanics with his stories I dont like japanese novels. To me are basically shitty books with very slow pace, because japanese are like this, too much "thoughts" being descript and few action. Every critic is welcome. But the thing is the at least the SAO light novel, in comparison, is very condensed already, very simple, almost like a manga. If you cut too much passages from it, which is already short, the story loses substance and meaning. The director of this season of SAO is doing a very lazy job. And ironically, people did not bashed down this season because the main plot is legit better than the first half of WoU (come on, even Kirito will come back). But if it didn't cut basic, BASIC explanations from the LN, it would be a lot better. |
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| @MaDmAnI I don't know what you mean by "try to criticise light novels". This is anime discussion. I don't see the inconsistencies you mention in the LNs. Most of what was in the light novels made sense except the explanation for the fluctlights itself. If you didn't understand anything from LN's or think LNs are bad you should ask or discuss in the LN section. Not muddle the anime forum with your prejudices.(You are also spoiling future events by trying to discuss about them) |
| Was i the only one who really wanted the kiss scene to happen?? Made me simp for the dude for like a split second... Great episode overall. You can never have an SAO season without a mentally ill and unstable antagonist, but I didn't expect it to come this soon. Haven't read the manga, but it's pretty obvious what's gonna happen in the next episode and i'm hypeeeddddd. I really need to see some kirito action soon. Leafa swooping in being a badass, I honestly don't hate her now that the incest faze is over. Character Development, Yk?? Can't wait for the next episode!! |
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| SAO is awesome. Sinon kiss scene would be hot, better if she does it with Kirito though. I would like Alice to get some screen time like season 1, I love Alice |
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| Will Kirito die? Obviously not he's the MC. But still cliffhangers Makes me exited. Can't wait for the next episode. |
TrumpMD said: don't say those kinds of shit man he has Asuna. Sinon can suck a dick.SAO is awesome. Sinon kiss scene would be hot, better if she does it with Kirito though. I would like Alice to get some screen time like season 1, I love Alice |
| I do like to see PoH again, it's always good to see about Aincrad stuff coming back, it gives so many good and nostalgic feels. I want a Progressive adaptation!!! |
| If I had to sum up this episode with one word, it would be "despair". Yanai reveals himself to be the traitor during his stand-off with a surprised Higa, who then goes on about how much he loves Quinella and how he wants to avenge her death by letting Kirito perish, just so that he carry on his old boss's main goal of warming up to the Americans. Whichever way you look at it, I wouldn't be surprised if Yanai gets killed off soon, regardless if things go his way or not. Back in the Underworld, the only sort of hopeful scenes that we got was Leafa's arrival to help out our new lovebirds and how Sinon's necklace (from Kirito) saved her from Gabriel, who is the Subtilizer who took out Sinon back in GGO before. This scene, for me, sums up how the haters misuse the term "rape" and throw it on scenes that doesn't have a single shred of evidence of back their claims up. No denying that Sinon got into a bad situation and was close to being kissed in a way that would've been sexual assault at the least, but criticisms used so haphazardly like this makes me want to question the flawed reasoning with this hysteria (AniTubers included). It sums up how much the world has gotten more spineless and woke at everything recently. =( Back on-topic, Asuna's group had no other choice but to surrender. Although Moonphase and Mei did believe their side of the story, the rest of the mob didn't and now that they've backed Asuna's group into a corner, Vassago makes his move and reveals himself as the PoH, who then tells Asuna that he's the reason why Kirito went through a lot of suffering due to him tipping off the assault team about where Laughing Coffin was so that the team would look like murderers. It was another good cliffhanger ending when Kirito was brought in front to Vassago, who them proudly shouts "It's showtime!". Now's the time to wake up, my boy... Overall, while the pacing wasn't great at times, this episode did a solid job at driving home that feeling of despair into me. Can't wait to see what happens next. =) |
Accelxration said: Damn, what a mindless ending. I don't want the last season of SAO to be like that. Fuk") It's the last season of alicization, I think the anime will continue cuz there's more content still |
| This anime shit is addictive |
Lupanthrope said: Bozar versus Hecate...I think the writer played too much Fallout New Vegas ! It's a Barrett XM500. GGO weapons are based on real ones, which the Barrett XM500 and Hécate II are, respectively from the US and France. |
KyragosAug 2, 2020 11:09 AM
| Man, these villains... always the same shit. Really can't see how this episode was amazing, in fact it seems like quite the opposite, more bad villains and the mob villains being stupid as an excuse. |
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Yautja said: Man, these villains... always the same shit. Really can't see how this episode was amazing, in fact it seems like quite the opposite, more bad villains and the mob villains being stupid as an excuse. I just hope they can do Kirito's return justice, otherwise I'm pretty disappointed with how it's playing out. |
| This anime shit is addictive |
Aelyn said: Disappointed by the fact that Vassago speaks Japanese in the anime adaptation. It just doesn't make any sense, given the context. They should've made him speak Chinese and Korean like he did in Light Novel. Kayleon said: Why the fuck are they crying over people getting hurt whereas it is only a game ? Where is the fucking OP Jesus-kun from first season, the SAO that I used to love ? 1. They lose their characters forever. 2. They can feel pain. Imagine getting your ass pierced by a sword. 3. Residents of the underworld die for real, and it's not a game for them. Are you sure you're really interested in this show? If I were you, I'd probably just drop it with this kind of an attitude. I mean, all of it should've been quite obvious, especially the main message of this arc (aka "it's not a goddamn game" and "digitized humans should have rights, and if you deny this - you're a fiend worse than the Satan himself"). 1. Which is bullshit because that's not how any of this work. When you convert information from a system A to a system B what happens is that you build what system B consider a model with data populated from system A. When you read an information from a database, it doesn't magically get consumed, it stays there while you're handling a copy of what you asked for. Even if we say that the account structure between ALO and Underworld is the same because they're both built upon the system they call the "seed" (which is already stretching it out), there is absolutely no logical explanation for account transfer to be unilateral except to create forced drama. Computers don't work this way, it'd be impractical. 2. They shouldn't, except for the people connected at the Ocean Turtle or their auxiliary branch possessing the same devices. The others aren't using the fluctlight terminals, they're using their Amusphere which has no capabilities to make them feel pain. Hell, the game shouldn't even look "realistic" to them and should have rendered graphics like any other game they're playing on their device. The entire premise that they are able to connect to the Underworld with an Amusphere or any other devices is very hard to believe to begin with because it means that the functionality to do so was built by the creator of the underworld. Again, what reason is there for that but to create forced drama? I enjoyed most of SAO, even the parts that are disliked by a lot of people. Can't say it's a masterpiece but it didn't bore me at least. I've read a good chunk of the Alicization arc before the first season even started airing (There were unofficial translations at the time, nothing from YenPress yet) and when I caught up, the war of the underworld hadn't even started. Put it on hold for a while and decided to continue with the anime instead of the novel when it was adapted. I still think that the first part of Alicization was very enjoyable but I do not like how the second half played out. Escalating the conflict of interest between the main actors to a full blown war that doesn't make sense, drama that feels completely forced and technological incoherence are ruining it out for me a lot more than I ever thought it would. It's similar to how CSI episodes use incorrect technological terminology all the time and are fueled by one ass-pull after the other (example: Zooming in a picture magically increase its resolution). You can pull the wool over the eyes of someone who doesn't know any better but it makes it unbearable for someone who does and it's impossible to take any of this seriously. Granted, Reki always did it to a certain degree but such aberration never were the basis for an entire arc before that point. I can let anything that happens in the game slide (Incarnation system, deus ex machinas, the random power of the soul the antagonist have, etc) but it's hard to let anything outside of it go when it tries to go technical on you, yet fail at it. It's a shame because there are elements and scenes that I enjoy nonetheless but the entire war of the underworld is what I consider the worst SAO has ever been. |
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| Goddamit Yanai why you gotta leak the information you ass. Honestly pretty good episode, looks like they're building up to something big that is gonna happen in the middle. Glad Leefa got more action this time saving the squad near the bridge. Siune tries to persuade the crowd that they are the ones who attack the wrong people and it kinda works. Can't wait for next week Kirito is gonna beat some ass when he is back baby. Sinon vs Subitilizer with her trusty Hectate. |
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| So basically Yanai wanted to fuck a virtual woman and cause Kirito killed her, he thinks that he deserves to die? 'Kay... good luck with that logic! Why on Earth did Ronnie wheel Kirito out of the carriage when PoH clearly wants to do him harm? Like, stay inside you baka! Lastly, why the hell is this season so rapey?! We've had tentacle rape and now we've got some middle aged dude trying to sexually assault Sinon... so unnecessary and so unpleasant |
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Avichii said: don't say those kinds of shit man he has Asuna. Sinon can suck a dick. Must have harem. Including Leafa. Alice missing here but I cannot find a pic at the moment. Admin would be a great addition too.  |
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| It was an episode more focused on developing script and characters, but it was terrible. The justifications for making the connections of the villains of this season with characters from past seasons were artificial (for the plot, to give an expository explanation), forced (lack of contextualization), and absurd (without plausible nexus). Just a few examples: stopping a war to explain; villain (Gabriel Miller) returns with a super strong account, without contextualizing the powers of this account that is from the same world as the heroine (Sinonon); everything Yanai says is absurd, the only way to try to swallow what he says is to believe that he is extremely crazy, which is inconsistent with his position. I spoke on the side of the villains, but everything that happened to the good guys was inconsistent. Terrible that the good guys have vastly more power and lose, right after they beat the Americans without so much difficulty. It was terrible that the PoH stopped the fight with an absurd explanation when Asuna was going to be hit, but that doesn’t overcome the reaction after that from Asuna and the others who were with her. And Sinonon almost kissing Gabriel, that was the height of inconsistency. I was totally thrown out of that episode. I lowered my overall grade for the season by two points. |
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Tiago_Vaz_007 said: It was an episode more focused on developing script and characters, but it was terrible. The justifications for making the connections of the villains of this season with characters from past seasons were artificial (for the plot, to give an expository explanation), forced (lack of contextualization), and absurd (without plausible nexus). Just a few examples: stopping a war to explain; villain (Gabriel Miller) returns with a super strong account, without contextualizing the powers of this account that is from the same world as the heroine (Sinonon); everything Yanai says is absurd, the only way to try to swallow what he says is to believe that he is extremely crazy, which is inconsistent with his position. I spoke on the side of the villains, but everything that happened to the good guys was inconsistent. Terrible that the good guys have vastly more power and lose, right after they beat the Americans without so much difficulty. It was terrible that the PoH stopped the fight with an absurd explanation when Asuna was going to be hit, but that doesn’t overcome the reaction after that from Asuna and the others who were with her. And Sinonon almost kissing Gabriel, that was the height of inconsistency. I was totally thrown out of that episode. I lowered my overall grade for the season by two points. This. You pretty much sums up all the glaring problem of SAO Alicization part 3. So far there's an outrage on twitter and Bibili from the East, saying how bad SAO has turn into this season, and the massively reduced score reflects it. (Score dropped from 7.9 to 5.2 in a single day) Only Mal and Crunchyroll American still like it. |
Ventus_SAug 2, 2020 5:09 PM
| Probably the worse episode of SAO, and to achieve that after WoU Part 1 is just ridiculous. I got tired of thinking "who is this guy again?" in the entire episode. They not only make a terrible job in recapitulating what happenend in previous seasons, they continue to make a terrible job in developing the current plot |
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| I guess now we'll get some filler content or focus on other characters, because the moment when Kirito has to draw his sword to stop his attack is like now? I didn't read the novel to this point so I don't know. But now it's the moment. Syureria said: unfortunately there's no rape scene to Asuna You're a sick man lol |
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| Man shit is so fucked right now. This season started really hopeful but now with Yanai on the verge of getting killed, the ALO gang just getting their asses wiped, and now Asuna and her party have been captured. I'm happy to see Leafa is now kicking ass despite how she started this season and I really hope Iskhan and Serlut make it out of this. From what I can tell next episode is either going to be hard to watch or bad ass (I hope for the latter). |
Beyond_the_GateAug 3, 2020 1:32 AM
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Where actually did it drop? It's still 7.7 on MAL |
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Read again please. I said ONLY Mal and Crunchyroll still liked it. Talking about Eastern big website. (100 times the user of Mal)  Total viewership for season 3 SAO: 34 millions. Total comments on episode 4: 25668 PS: most Chinese tend to rate stuff much lower if the plot is insulting to their intelligence or defy rationality and logic (using the concept of world setting within that anime ofc) regardless of animation/ music. If an anime didn't do that they'd usually rate 9+ easily unlike Mal. Mal only rate down ecchi even though the premise of those show is to be perverted to begin with. Yet they're ok with tentacle rape in SAO despite it breaks all immersion/tone. But at least SAO got gorgeous animation so it has to be rated an 8~9 right? That's Mal/ Crunchyroll for you. |
Ventus_SAug 3, 2020 3:49 AM
| it's SHOOOOOOOOOOOWWW TIIIIIIIIME - PoH said i knew that motherfucker yanai did the code 871 on underworld without reading the novel |
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| Ready for Ordinal Scale's cast appear... I guess Yuna & Eiji will show up as anime original content... |
| I still don't understand why people who converted from ALFHEIM etc... are hurt from the cuts/damage they receive. Was there an explanation about how the pain sensitivity was increased when they converted, or are they roleplaying for the sake of it ? |
| God this is just getting worse and worse..... Such a shame given the first and second seasons in this world weren’t that bad |
MunaXs said: katie_potaty said: Finally someone who think by herselfSo basically Yanai wanted to fuck a virtual woman and cause Kirito killed her, he thinks that he deserves to die? 'Kay... good luck with that logic! Why on Earth did Ronnie wheel Kirito out of the carriage when PoH clearly wants to do him harm? Like, stay inside you baka! Lastly, why the hell is this season so rapey?! We've had tentacle rape and now we've got some middle aged dude trying to sexually assault Sinon... so unnecessary and so unpleasant Thanks, that means a lot because someone on the KissAnime comments absolutely tore into me for my PERSONAL thoughts about this ep (y'know, like calling me a stupid bitch and stuff). |
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Ventus_S said: Read again please. I said ONLY Mal and Crunchyroll still liked it. Talking about Eastern big website. (100 times the user of Mal) Total viewership for season 3 SAO: 34 millions. Total comments on episode 4: 25668 PS: most Chinese tend to rate stuff much lower if the plot is insulting to their intelligence or defy rationality and logic (using the concept of world setting within that anime ofc) regardless of animation/ music. If an anime didn't do that they'd usually rate 9+ easily unlike Mal. Mal only rate down ecchi even though the premise of those show is to be perverted to begin with. Yet they're ok with tentacle rape in SAO despite it breaks all immersion/tone. But at least SAO got gorgeous animation so it has to be rated an 8~9 right? That's Mal/ Crunchyroll for you. Well I just asking where. Lol And anyway if the ratings can fluctuate there this easily then it should go up after a well adapted episode again. if it actually happens lol |
Biswa_29Aug 3, 2020 12:37 PM
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