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1. The white sword in his left hand froze a wide range of targets and released their life into the air. The black sword in his right hand absorbed life from the surrounding air and converted it into energy.It was an extremely simple, yet consequently peerlessly powerful synergy. The perfect pairing. The best partnership. No commentary needed 2. Kirito flying all of a sudden looks a little silly, especially with the explanation skipped. Kirito learned from Charlotte (the spider, Cardinal's familiar): Every Art is naught but a tool to channel and adjust your Incarnation... your imagination, as you call it. You don't need incantations or mediums anymore. She calls it the "truth of this world". Starting with the battle against Administrator, over the span of about half a year during which Kirito was unconscious, he's established an extremely deep connection with the "truth" of this world (He demonstrated this once by blocking Bercoulli's incarnation blade while unconscious). He can now wield the elements surrounding him freely without incantations. He uses the aerial elements to cancel air resistance and to propel himself forward. The only other person (aside from Solus) known capable of flight was Quinella. Incarnation on the highest level renders all numerical values pretty much meaningless. Your strength is not comparable to even Integrity Knights. But don't forget that Subtilizer, while he doesn't have the same connection and understanding of incarnation, is quite the... "natural" with his wicked imagination. For some of the people who think they are debunking huge ultra level plotholes, those are not really plotholes, maybe try paying a bit more attention to it? |
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Rob7 said: I was thinking "ow shit, Kirito is back and now he will avoid to kill any enemy"... And then, how great way he did to "not kill" Vassago, but actually killing him for good. Nice fight scenes, but i already gived up to care about any logic in this anime. Now Kirito can FLY? So why all that hard time to climb the Tower in Alicization? SAO = Skills Asspulled Overplot Kirito flying all of a sudden looks a little silly, especially with the explanation skipped. Kirito learned from Charlotte (the spider, Cardinal's familiar): "Every Art is naught but a tool to channel and adjust your Incarnation... your imagination, as you call it. You don't need incantations or mediums anymore." She calls it the "truth of this world". Starting with the battle against Administrator, over the span of about half a year during which Kirito was unconscious, he's established an extremely deep connection with the "truth" of this world (He demonstrated this once by blocking Bercoulli's incarnation blade while unconscious). He can now wield the elements surrounding him freely without incantations. He uses the aerial elements to cancel air resistance and to propel himself forward. The only other person (aside from Solus) known capable of flight was Quinella. So yeah, not really an asspull |
I said keep your hands on the table |
| Can't believe Kirito turned him into a damned tree haha and then he proceeds to princess carry Asuna away. Not really hyped for this final fight, doubt Subtilizer will stand a chance. |
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| People, read it and LEARN: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/iekoy8/sword_art_online_alicization_explaining_the/ Learn how the SHITTY adaptation of this series was completely UNABLE to explain all this mambo-jambo about the plot. Forcing the fandom to throw pages like this over the people who legit just wanted to WATCH a good adapted anime with a round plot, without have to search for explanations in other media. |
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| Jesus- kun is finally back in all his glory and the ladies literally swoon in his godly presence. To top it off, he's gone beyond walking on water and can now fly with his beloved above the heads of all the plebs. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
Arin-san said: JiangHaoyi1979 said: Oh c'mon so what if all those players die in that game, it's not like that they're gonna die in the real world anywayz, besides those players were nothing more than just FPS that uses programs, binaries and algorithms in their desktops or consoles . Wrong, Underworld doesn't have a pain limiter so people can still feel pain when they are injured or when they are dead, Kirito didn't want them to feel that pain But they're not gonna die right? If so, then that STL is nothing more than just programs, binaries and algorithms played from individual desktops or consoles . [/quote] |
| I loved this episode. It was so nostalgic and that's beautiful. The ending is always gorgeous to watch amd the OSTs are always amazing. I'm so hyped for the final battle, I'm looking forward to the next episode! |
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| Yeah baby, Kirito is back. <3 In the beginning he had some trouble fighting Vassago but then Eugeo appeared for him like Yuuki did for Asuna and helped him. <3 That double Release Recollection was so cool! :O And then the Blue Rose Sword is whole again and we can have dual wielding Kirito, hell yeah! <3 Kirito logged out all the bad red players (only 4 were good I mean still sane? O_o). But Vassago can't use their life resources. Ok, this time Yuuki appearing was really unnecessary. :-/ Then Kirito uses Release Recollection of his sword to absorb the sacred resources and gives himself the Aincrad outfit. I love that outfit the most. <3 The fight against Vassago wasn't that great, I was expecting it to be cooler. It was cool though how Kirito prevented Vassago from logging out of Underworld by turning him into a tree. :D You deserved that Vassago. Stay a tree for a long time. Then Kirito healed everyone's wounds, ok that was a bit too much (even growing their limbs back). Klein crying in Kirito's "arms" was kinda unexpected, Asuna was supposed to do that. XD And after him was Ronye. XD Asuna comming at the end and their little reunion was so sweet. But why no kiss? You'd expect him to wanna kiss her after not seeing her for years that he spend in the Underworld. :-/ Also, an explanation about why he can now fly would be nice... Back at the Ocean Turtle the bad guys fucked up the time acceleration and now Kirito and Asuna have 10 minutes to beat Gabriel and log out with Alice using the console at the World End Altar or they are in danger. That pressure was unnecessary. And now suddenly Kikuoka can communicate with Kirito, way too convenient, LOL. Alice has reached the World End Altar and says goodbye to her dragon and its brother. But the dragons attack Gabriel instead (like Bercouli's dragon did too). Kirito arrives just in time to save the dragons. And now to wait for a week to see Kirito vs Gabriel fight... Hope that one will be cool. |
| Waiting for Gundam SEED Movie..... (ಥ‿ಥ) Waiting for Sailor Moon Cosmos..... o(≧▽≦)o |
_MushiRock11_ said: I don't understand how supposedly all of the foreign real-life players are out now though. Didn't Kirito just freeze up only about a 100 or so players? And what was with that rain of healing and whatevs, where'd he get that from? He basically killed them by syphoning their lifeforce and converting into spatial resources. Spatial resources are needed to cast sacred arts. Kirito sucked it all into his sword and used it to heal his friends and allies. To clarify, he decided to go that route because it would be the most painless way to go. The foreign players would get logged out with as little pain as possible. Rob7 said: I was thinking "ow shit, Kirito is back and now he will avoid to kill any enemy"... And then, how great way he did to "not kill" Vassago, but actually killing him for good. Nice fight scenes, but i already gived up to care about any logic in this anime. Now Kirito can FLY? So why all that hard time to climb the Tower in Alicization? SAO = Skills Asspulled Overplot He didn't have the authority to cast it. It's an art. Quinella could fly. Now that Kirito killed her, he can too. |
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| Are they gonna adapt Moon Cradle aswell? |
Aleph199X said: He basically killed them by syphoning their lifeforce and converting into spatial resources. Spatial resources are needed to cast sacred arts. Kirito sucked it all into his sword and used it to heal his friends and allies. Right, so that's what it was. I doubt I'd be able to pick this up even with a re-watch if you didn't let me know, so thanks! |
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| Kirito is back alright and how! Fight with PoH was pretty good, just didn't feel like it lived up to the battles before this. Perhaps they will actually go all out against Vecta next week. Kirito turned PoH into a tree, good riddance! XD He was getting pretty annoying! Kirito and Asuna's reunion was pretty good, but it was definitely missing that kiss I was hoping for and by the looks of a lot of comments above, it was skipped. Shame! Kirito sure caught up pretty damn quick with Alice and Vecta! Alice has surely missed Kirito and it was shown! Now I can't wait to see what will happen next week!! Aleph199X said: I'd hate to be an anime-only this season. I'm sure to most people it seems that everyone has random superpowers. They did explain incarnation throughout the first half but then again, judging from the MAL forums, I doubt anyone remembers. As an Anime-only, I get what you're saying! It can really look that way but they had explained the incarnation system pretty well before so I still knew about it either way. |
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Rytakahashi09 said: One idiot down. One more to go. I also said it at the end of the episode..but the idiot I replaced it with bastard.. |
| - Higa-san, this project to create an legit "bottom-up" AI is really amazing. - Sure, we made a complete society to devenlop the AI's, just like the real world human societies devenloped itself. All the scenario is necessary to devenlop the human feelings, human cultura, ethics and anti-ethics, dogmas, miths and disbeliefs. Because we want AI's that can be like legit humans. - Right, it even have elements that a similar to what we believe are the "human souls" and afterlife. Really complete scenario. But why the is system allowing that some AI's after certain conditions are capable to have asspull magic skills totally from the free imagination, calling it "incarnation"? Was not the idea try to imitate the conditions of the real world? - YES. Just kidding guys! Higa is a weeb and otherwise Kirito could not be Jesus. We learned from Ordinal Scale that offline Kirito is just a gamer boy with bad-cardio. |
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-Stray said: also Yuuki, you dead right? STAY DEAD! Stop fcking appearing ep after ep and talking like you fking mother Mary or some angel shit. Really explained how i feel about this shit, she was so random at appearing in the story to start with, and now she comes out to say some dramatic shit everytime an ant breath. |
| This season just gets worse and worse. So many things that are wrong with this episode. Eugeo's ghost starts walking and everyone sees it. And Asuna still talking to Yuuki's ghost. Eugeo's sword gets restored and the sheaths teleport to Kirito with SAO uniform o_o Klein acts like a little girl and runs to Kirito's embrace! Kyaaaa! (not) and Kirito straight up starts flying lmao. At this point, I'm not surprised anymore by how bad this is. At least now we get to see Alice in action. See ya at next week's rant! |
 Kal'tsit: Is that... really worth it? Amiya... Amiya: Even if no one understands me... I'll keep going on the path I choose. Maybe it will incinerate me to dust... But if I don't do it, no one can. Arknights ▵ Crylix#0810 |
| I'm really disapointed that Kayaba Digital Ghost is not going to say hello again along with all the other digital ghosts like Yuuki, Eugeo, Yunna, and why not the Bercouli, Eldrie and even Cardinal and Quinella? |
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| a-1 really tried to protect the harem thots, they removed the kiss AND the oath to stacia scene LUL mah boy eugeo so fucking beautiful, and renly finally getting more screentime IDK, the night-sky sword release recollection looked more badass in the novel, but eh, its fine time for final battle, and thank god it looks like they will just ignore moon cradle 4/5 |
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| PoH was just a warm-up and turning him into that tree was quite savage. |
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| I'm really starting to see why people called him a Beater (Beta-testing-cheater) back in SAO lol. Now that he's awake the main antagonists are falling left and right. What an oddly fitting end for PoH. Turned into a demon tree and doomed to spend the rest of his soul-life in the Underworld. Seriously though, Kirito's incarnation skills at this point are just too OF pls nerf |
| I'm always happy to see more Eugeo and Alice. |
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| Jesus fucking christ. Kirito is a fucking psycho. I mean I get that he killed people but mate, you really went overboard. Turned a person into a tree so he would be stuck probably forever in this game. |
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YeeYeeAss said: Jesus fucking christ. Kirito is a fucking psycho. I mean I get that he killed people but mate, you really went overboard. Turned a person into a tree so he would be stuck probably forever in this game. That dude has been stalking him and his girlfriend for years and was perfectly happy with murdering/traumatizing anyone he met on the way. He had to be stopped. |
Vysarine said: YeeYeeAss said: Jesus fucking christ. Kirito is a fucking psycho. I mean I get that he killed people but mate, you really went overboard. Turned a person into a tree so he would be stuck probably forever in this game. That dude has been stalking him and his girlfriend for years and was perfectly happy with murdering/traumatizing anyone he met on the way. He had to be stopped. I mean that is true but he could have just killed him. He gave him a fate worse than death. |
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| damn no sakuga action this time but still good enough Prince of Hell cannot logout there eh thats a convenient power of Kirito |
YeeYeeAss said: He literally just promised he would hunt them down even after he was logged out.Vysarine said: That dude has been stalking him and his girlfriend for years and was perfectly happy with murdering/traumatizing anyone he met on the way. He had to be stopped. I mean that is true but he could have just killed him. He gave him a fate worse than death. |
| Wow! great episode. But the fights are not as epic as before, they battles are too short now. they are trying to compress to much into one episode. |
Aleph199X said: I'd hate to be an anime-only this season. I'm sure to most people it seems that everyone has random superpowers. They did explain incarnation throughout the first half but then again, judging from the MAL forums, I doubt anyone remembers. I also would add that incarnation is kinda obvious since like...S1? lol |
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| What a disappointment, especially since the past 2 seasons were actually pretty decent. They had Klein actually point out that Kirito hogs the spotlight lmao. I guess they're self aware of this after all, which makes things worse. |
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rilo03 said: They skipped the Asuna kiss scene :( At least we got to watch Leafa get raped. |
| Everyone gangster until Jesus-kun turns you into a tree. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Cheezy fucking episode, it wasn't even that crazy of an episode people make it out to be. Everything was predictable from the start (including the Opening) and why can't they even kiss like a couple they are when reunited, well it just became a whole lot cheezier when kirito picked her up like that. The last satifiscation I got from this show was back in the first season of Alicization. |
antonn said: rilo03 said: They skipped the Asuna kiss scene :( At least we got to watch Leafa get raped. Haha, the Light Novel Asuna really doesn't care for PDA, even being japanese. The hug and that cute demonstration of effect was convincing enough, considering that the situation there was not so romantic and the battle is not finished yet. I always thought too forced these kiss scenes in middle of combat. Nobody, from any culture, actually would do it, unless it was a farewell kiss. |
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| Great episode, Kirito is savage this episode, the fight is nice. Klein quoting Kirito " that he is hogging the spotlight" haters felt that lol. That foreshadowing for the next arc in the end scene about time acceleration tho. Looking forward for the fight of two OP characters Kirito vs Subtilizer. To the next episode |
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Urg! This might hurt a bit :V |
| PoH turning into a tree was the best part of it lol |
| i'm so tired at this point i no longer have the will to make a fuss about anything that pops up lol i just accepted this is SAO and it will always be like this with all it's cheese god i'm just thinking back to the early days of ALICE thinking "hmm this is kinda interesting". |
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katsu044 said: i'm so tired at this point i no longer have the will to make a fuss about anything that pops up lol i just accepted this is SAO and it will always be like this with all it's cheese god i'm just thinking back to the early days of ALICE thinking "hmm this is kinda interesting". The writer has the gift to start a good idea and then turn into a hot mess. |
| Kirito's so OP. It looks like he has everything back even from his Aincrad days from outfit to skills/abilities. Great animation quality this episode. Also, the least you could do is kiss the girl that's been supporting you all this time instead of just picking her up and flying away. I bet everyone he left behind is thinking "so what do we do now?" lol Also, he literally just turned a guy into a tree. Too OP. Who're the South Korean/Chinese players that didn't log out? I don't remember them being apart of the SAO franchise. |
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AdrianRubinsky said: think that's why i've stuck with it after all these years like the arcs groundwork has something to build off into something good but it just shit's the bed every time by the end katsu044 said: i'm so tired at this point i no longer have the will to make a fuss about anything that pops up lol i just accepted this is SAO and it will always be like this with all it's cheese god i'm just thinking back to the early days of ALICE thinking "hmm this is kinda interesting". The writer has the gift to start a good idea and then turn into a hot mess. |
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katsu044 said: think that's why i've stuck with it after all these years like the arcs groundwork has something to build off into something good but it just shit's the bed every time by the end Agreed. Even Ordeal War is like this too. Start off promising/ interesting -> end in bullshit asspull. First half -> hey, Kirito actually suck this time cuz it's in real life and using real human physical capability! Other characters can finally shine for once. We're talking about someone who can get tripped while running in flat ground. Last half: Just kidding. Kirito just not really trying in first half. He conveniently reach top 10 ranking within one day after retraining his kanto for 1 single day (despite getting out of touch for kanto in ages with shit stamina). He suddenly able to do super human action in real life and able to one shot 1 million mobs in one blow. Guess the writer of SAO just despise effort / hard work and try to spit on it every chance he gets. |
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