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another season (or rather the completion of the current season) of SAO .. more of the same old story .. and by that i don't even mean SAO but rather the people .. wake up .. hating on SAO for the sake of hating and feeling popular is as cliched and overused as low effort isekai are right now.just be fair for once towards it instead of going to pure clear hate (like certain people giving it 1) or blind fanboying (like giving it 10)

this being a review i think it's only fair to start with the obvious ..
this is the best season of ... SAO yet.

with the first half we hit the reset and are going almost fresh in this world .. that lead to new characters (some of the best characters of SAO strictly speaking) that lead us into a conflict .. together with what was happening in the real world lead into certain consequences .. which we start up this half of the story with.

with avoiding as much spoiler as i humainly can .. we start with kirito taking a major hit and is being taken care of by alice ..doing so out of sense of responsability and gratitude .. knight alice facing the consequences of her lost memories .. and the church knights lead by berculi are facing the consequences of quintella's mistakes along with basically their world's creators setting a trial for them.

diving a bit into it the current villain is basically a 3rd party asked to do a certain job .. the guy is a psychopath .. the bad side is Sao's previous villains were bad and often categorized as psychopaths as well which is kinda off since personally all i see in them is bad written characters forced into that path which might make the current villain feel as such which is quite sad since the good part is the current villain is acutally a decent character .. as we saw he isn't' some horny villain made just to be hated ..and it doesn't seem like he's going that route at all which i really like .. he's drive is clear and his madness is explained and is believable at the very least .. which is a step up in writting villains for this series along with quintella herself.

as for the animation and art, can't say much about it .. SAO alicization is the best that SAO has ever looked ..the fights in cgi are a bit laking with thier 3 hits pre determined pattern of movement that is too obvious to be camouflaged by setting the fights in small groups and setting them to move in different times to create the illusion of them moving independently but oter than that every thing looks stunning

OST and OP/ED: i'm not that much of a fan when it comes to haruka's op especially with the treat that is asca's op last season but the ED is not only SAO's best ED and music in general as well as the best ED of this season .. but it's the best ED of this year to me..OST is as good as exxpected of SAO .. since this was one of the things mostly praised by both extremes of SAO (fans and haters).

my biggest worry i have is how is asuna's arrival would affect the story ... i do want it to be a helping factor for kirito to return .. i don't want it to be the main/the only reason for it tho since that would ruin what was basically buillt .. i'm kinda waiting and wanting a conflict between alice and asuna and i'm expecting it but i'm afraid they follow the regular comical cliched my man cat fight followed by welcome to the not harem club of rejected waifus of kirito .. i want it to be the center of conflict .. to be taken seriously and to be the trigger to explore how ar ethese flauctlights feel about knowing thier world is made up and so are they ..and hw to deal with someone unknown coming from an unknown world that seems t be kirito's world .. i hope that doesn't ruin what alicization built so far but actually enhances it .. sicne one of the biggest flaws of this show is wanting to be serious and try to build a decent 'sometimes solid even) fundation only to laze out at the end and ruin it all so as a token of my hopefullness i'll give this season 8/10 so far in hopes of it keeping that or even going higher instead of ruining it all and going down

kaguya sama: love is war .. my god what a show that was.

i must say was hooked once i read the synopsis and saw the trailer but god did the show surpassed my expectation by a landscape.

story: the stroy is quite simple .. actually as it is it's basically a standard rom com show .. two in love with each other .. a supporting cast that pushes thing around them to get the flow going .. a highschool setting. what's intruiging is how the charatcers are actually how this show differs from others .. we have two genuises dueling it out to make the ... other confess .. but despite how smart and how elaborate thier plans are the end result always goes to show how naive (to not say dumb) they seem when the are using their intellegence in a domain they know noghting of.
we get these 3 parts per episode mini stories which are hillarious and entertaining as hell and from time to time we get few hints here and there about the backstory of the characters and what made them the way they are .. the sick kaguya epsiode showed the shinomiya family idoelogie and why kaguya is so aggressive with expressing feelings .. then the 2 last episodes show us how different kaguya is from her family .. and how her friends changed her back inot a human being unlike the rest of the shinomiya. and honestly i never expected a comedy to break my heart the way this show did .. i can't praise enough the stroy of kaguya sama.

art/animation: perfect 10 (would give more if i could)
THIS IS HOW AN ANIMATION COMPANY FLEXES ON THE COMPETITION .. THEY MAKE THE 2ND ED.. seriously that ED was better animated than most good action series .. that ED alone puts everything the likes of pierrot make to shame and IT WAS SHOWN FOR ONCE ONLY.. well now that i'm done with the ED i can freely talk about the rest of the series..
the rest was no less quality than the ED tbh .. the CGI was on of the best uses of CGi in any show .. the character movements . the extreme over the top reactions were so good and the cut scenes along with the amazing visual effecrts made were splendid even tho the show didn't need any of them .. they enhanced it to even higher level by using them .. the show didn't get to feel boring .. nothing kept stall or unmoving .. the dynamic was great .. the camera movements were on point .. the is how animation is done .. A1 this is how you make an anime.. the other aspect is the art .. the art was top notch .. the backgrounds looks goreous and the cut scenes were good looking and well drown .. the faces of the characters were priceless and delivered every drop of feeling they were meant to deliver . bravo

characters: 10
what can i say .. in my mind a tsundere is not a physically violant character .. a tsundere is a character that can't understand their feeling and as such they tend to respond violently ..again not physically altho physical abuse has its own merits in comedy as we saw with the chika hitting ichigami scene..those two main characters .. both were the perfect example of tsundereand it was helarious .. that aside both of them weren't just bland characters to the point you sum them up by calling them tsuns .. kaguya seemed to be like a machine throughout her life .. and after seeing her family mato you can tell that it's because the shinomiya family doesn't allow weakness .. no feelings at all .. never feel mercy .. never feel regret . never feel love .. and after getting to know the outside people that changed ... what makes her a tsundere isn't a generic character trait .. it's that clash between her famely's ideology fight off her new feelings and personality.. miyuki on the other hand is a guy with huge ambitions and armed with hard work .. he made his hardd work pay off and joined a prestigous academy .. and despite being new his hard work made him take the title of students council president .. but despite that he's a regular person with feelings like anyone else and after spending time with a cold hearted kaguya who by the time became a sweet person ( with agressive tendencies) he fell for her yet still is worry of her at the same time .. and that's the conflict that is making him out to seem tsundere .. but this show has other character .. characters that despite being supportive they are actually more important than our main duo themselves.. chika, ichigami and hayasaka (along with others) .. i am still conflicted between hayasaka and chika as to which is this anime's best girl and man is it a hard show .. and ichigami is such a relatable character you can't not sympethize with him .. those three create such an amazing dynamic .. and these three are what made this show to what it is.

in the end .. i must say ... there was no episode of this show that i didn't watch less than 5 times .. and by god in none of these time sdid the the show fail to make me laugh.. i watched alot of comedy .. and i enjoyed alot of them .. but i can confidently say that this show competes with the best of them.. and i'm glad i had this show to lighten up my days. and so i say i give this show a total rating of 9.5/10 .