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To the small number of people who haven't seen this show man i actually feel bad for you. You must be so confused as to what quality SAO actually is because all people ever say about SAO is that it is the second coming of anime christ or the spawn of satan. But god knows neither side is right.

Sword art online is neither as good or as bad as those two sides would have you believe. SAO has its fair share of "HELL YEAH!" and "What the hell?" moments that make sword art online sword art ... online.The world is generic the concept is nothing new and there are all kinds of character tropes and archetypes benched on the sideline until it's their turn to have a brief encounter with the protagonist kirito who does his best to not come of as unoriginal as well. now you would think that right there would be enough to turn away even the most resilient anime watcher.

But so long as the execution aint half bad then much of the mundane can be forgiven and execution is something SAO does right.You are constantly aware that what you are watching is nothing new but its fun nonetheless. You will also come to care for the characters regardless of how unoriginal they are.

Forced romance is a term that gets thrown around a lot when it comes to sword art online but honestly compared to other shows of the same genre SAO handles its romance pretty well at least between the two main characters.there is a gradual progression and you feel like something is actually at stake when they are in danger.

Then there is a pretty sick end fight and a sort of he wasn't really the bad guy monologue and the credits roll.
Now this would make sword art online very good but this is not where the show ends and because of this it looses points because at this point in the show there's nothing else you can do to make the show any better. but A1 pictures tries to any ways and fails horribly as after episode 14 when they get out of sword art online the shows gets dumbed down recycled and just devolves into something lesser.

that's about all SAO has going for it now here is everything wrong with sword art online and im going to try to avoid spoilers.

1. Everything after episode 14
2. Forced love triangle
3. Forced INCESTUOUS love triangle (with his dumb ass sister)
4. just got out of a video game induced coma.Lets go play some video games!
5. cliched plot twist
6. fairies yo
7. More ass pulls than you can shake a stick at
kirito is still the strongest at base level because technology.
random beast transformation because magic
bullshit op magic that the characters randomly get
8. Completely irrelevant political subplot with cardboard characters
9. Tentacle rape?
10. Good villain is replaced with a boring one
11. Unexplainable game breaking feats
12.Long heart to heart between siblings while crazy man with a knife is on his way to the hospital to possibly rape or kill your girlfriend after you humiliated him in a video game ,likely by motor vehicle while all you have is a bike but hey lets just sit here and flirt with our stupid ass sister
13. SURPRISE! That's exactly what happens.
14.crappy ending and opening themes replace the good ones as if to subtly mock the viewer for continuing to watch the show

All of these things are what stop sword art online from getting anything higher than a 7 from me because although episodes 1-14 are well done everything else i just ridiculous. its also worth mentioning that the animation is pretty good and i liked the soundtrack as well.

this show based off of vocaloid so the soundtrack is pretty amazing and it complements the tone and story. it also gives the show an exceptional introduction the tone of the show is a mix between serious somber and upbeat and this has to do with the way the story is told which is very hard one to follow as it jumps around.

the show has a single focal point and this is good as the show is only 12 episodes. the problem is that the show does not explain it at all until episode 9 so about 70% of the show is exposition by off ... screen characters. now don't get me wrong the show definitely isn't bad but in order for it to receive anything higher than a 7 it has to have a season 2 or at the very least 1 more episode as it explains nothing after the main villain is defeated .before we move on to the conclusion its time for a little damage control i really did enjoy this show and do believe it has potential,

ok now that i have that out of the way
this show to me felt like a bunch of wasted potential to an otherwise spot on planning but the delivery wasn't that good but i would still definitely recommend this show but i cannot emphasize enough that it needs more episode(s).