Aug 11, 2014
Looking for a show with brilliant, unique characters and a deep, incredibly meaningful story with beautifully executed plot twists that'll have you coming back for more and more?
You'll have to look somewhere else, because personally, the only reason I came back for more and more after maybe, the tenth or eleventh (?) episode was to laugh at how absolutely bullshit the show had gotten.
Don't get me wrong: it's not like I wasn't bursting with excitement the first couple episodes. I went through the first six episodes so fast that I almost took a piss in my pants because I didn't want to
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stop watching. The art and more importantly, the animation, was stunning. The soundtrack was pretty great, too, and they totally added that extra spark to every battle scene.
Now, if you've so much as even watched an episode of SAO after Kirito and Asuna get married, you'd know that exact moment where everything went downhill. Now, I'm a huge fan of shoujo, but if I wanted some mushy romance, I would've watched some mushy romance. I have never, ever, in my whole life seen a show where character development could be completely halted by the union of man and wife---that is, before I watched SAO.
To be honest, after the show started using married life as a basis for plot development, I kind of turned off my brain and started watching the animation. Holy shit, that's some quality work. You don't know true talent until you know what animators go through, trying to animate twelve knives coming at one guy without a single kink. Cheers to animators everywhere. Great job, guys.
Don't get me started on the ALO arc. Really, I'm not even going to get started. I don't known what that was, and honestly, I have a feeling that if I find out what that bullshit was, I'll be more disappointed than I've ever been before.
I'm watching SAO II this season for some unfathomable reason, and I hate myself for it, but it's still better than the ALO arc. I keep coming back for more, to laugh at it, but the fact of the matter is that the pure awfulness of SAO kind of has a special place in your heart once you've gone through the hell that is twenty-six episodes of total ass, and it can never be replaced by any other shitty show.
Do I recommend this show? Not under any circumstances. But if you do watch it, or have watched it, and understand me, hit me up. I never miss a chance to laugh about how awful SAO was, but it's always with a certain fondness in my heart.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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