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While animation wise it looks like a couple of TV episodes the film is still a great alternative to Your Name.

Most of the great animated scenes can be seen in the music video par a scene near the ending.

It feels like two or so somewhat boring slice of life episodes and then turns into a time travel like story.

The music was great though.

While in some moments you can feel Akiyuki Shinbo's style the rest feels like some low budget CGI weekly series. Shame but the movie itself was pretty great.
Some of the scenes are cheesy like the musical scene out of nowhere that ... looks like some vaporwave video.

Was a decent movie but it likely would have worked better as a TV movie ala Ocean Waves than being released at the cinemas.

Part action,part romance,thriller and part Black Mirror this original story set in the world of the light novel/anime franchise titled Sword Art Online.

The villain is not one-note like what you have seen in the past and how the plot kicks in is both unexpected and gives an anti-hero vibe.
Great action scenes done by various studios beside A-1 Pictures such as MAPPA (Yuri on Ice,Punchline,Rage of Bahamut fame) and P.A Works (Angel Beats!), A story both embracing and warning of the dangers of what while is unlikely could happen to such technology and with themes about PTSD/dementia.

Fan service while in it was only minor compared to ... even other Shounnen films such as Fairy Tail Dragon Cry and the show itself.

I found SAO to be a mixed bag arc wise but this film is just a fun time to both watch as a story and just as an action flick. This is likely A-1 Pictures masterpiece.

Also stay for the post-credit scene.

While I had the series downloaded for a year at the least I found this while wasting time in Sanity the other day and grabbed it since it was cheap. It’s such a great show with great moral and even Christian* (rare for anime) themes like how you can’t just wait to expect help and that you need to talk to somebody about such things or that sickness and disability is bad but you can spend your life helping others. As somebody who has (and still do slightly) hid their pain and have multiple disabilities the themes of the show really resonated with me. Yes ... I’m aware of the interviewer where Yoshitoshi ABe says it’s somewhat religious but not based on one religion but just on how he feels a God is. This is like one of the few anime that I could call one of my favorites and got impressed with. I watched it with the dub for once and it was one of the best dubs I seen despite most of the cast being complete nobodies in the scene. The soundtrack was pretty great for anime in general let alone a weekly series. Now I have even more of a reason to check out the video game Shadow of the Colossus. I haven’t played Ico but the backgrounds at some point made me feel like this is kinda like a Team Ico made anime.
This is a bonus credits in the extras on the DVD but I end with linking this End of Eva like song (which wasn’t in the series).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qha8ujj8io0

While yes I found Azumanga a bit boring when I watched it a few years back the manga is so funny,well paced and can be sad at times (like how it ends which has a uplifting but sad ending in the same vain as something like Wrinkles). I don’t normally like these type of stories these days or even the smart person gets worship (personal reasons) but this was great.
Manga just seems like a better art form overall then anime. I’m glad I picked this up since I love Yotsuba. Didn’t expect to enjoy it that much years ago when I was thinking of reading ... it.
Now I’m off to read the three chapters YenPress didn’t release (which they should have) and hope they are at least half good as the original.
8/10