NEW SHOW LET'S GO😤Let's aim for 350 LIKES to make this a weekly series on TH-cam!! We're currently on Episode 7 over on our Patreon patreon.com/tglreacts and genuinely loving it so far! It's actually surprised us more than anything😂
To clarify your concerns: 80% of the hate comes from the second arc of season 1, that’s where it became weird and I can kinda get that… but immediately after that season 2 and season 3 were so damn good 👌🏻 The problem is people were so focused on hating the second arc of season one that’s where they didn’t even get a glance at how cool it became after that! And don’t even try to watch critics of it online. Everyone will say they dropped it before season 2 and that’s stupid (and makes their opinion useless). Not to forget there are many other TH-camrs who reacted to sao recently and THEY ALL didn’t regret it the slightest bit ❤ clearly overhated do to false expectations and to high popularity
Fr! Season 3 is absolutely PEAK! Plus GG isn’t bad. There are some weird moments like you said, but SO many other Anime have just as weird, if not weirder stuff. Like Mushoku Tensei. SAO is one of my all-time favorites.
and that problem is mainly on western country, in jp,SAO is really really popular, and in asia, it is not that much haters compare to western.i think may be that is cuz of culture different. but i know it have weird ep but i don't think that ep deserve that much hate. mushoku tensei,best plot of isekai anime have weird stuff too lol.but no one complain that. and loses his virginity to Eris in what? age 13????
bro sao gets a lot of hate, but their AMBIENCE, the small game sounds, the music, the world, everything feels so much like a game like no other anime and that is fkn awesome. Watching this as an 11 year old was probably the highlight of my life
the show isn't that bad (a little bit in the later seasons) but calling it peak cinema? This anime is far from being the best thing in the world and it's actually quite generic apart from the premise, honestly there are so many other isekais that are so much better that it's a bit of an overestimate to call this one a peak
I wouldn’t really classify SAO an isekai. At its core, the series is a Sci-Fi about exploring VR: how it effects on people, and how it’s blurring the lines between it and real life.
@@animusfoster4712 well. BIG SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3 The whole sao alicization is It's technically an isekai. they were in another world, a virtual one, but still another world with actual people with lifes.
I think the first season of this show is one of the best anime I've ever watched, but I also played 100,000 hours of mmorpgs. It was wish-fulfillment at its very best. It was my fantasy universe. I got really attached to all the characters and it had a heavy emotional impact. It made me emotional a few times. I am so glad you guys are watching the real version. I am always so disappointed when people watch the abridged. No emotional impact in that one at all. The characters don't care if they live or die, which is literally the whole point of the show. This is the true version that actually has weight.
Sword art online and Overlord are the Mother and Father of the isekai Genre. Yes they were not he first isekai but they were the first to be super successfull at their times. Which helped to make the isekai genre go viral at the time.
The main reason for the hate isn't because it's the worst show ever, because it clearly isn't the worst and is even pretty good in some parts. It's more because it actually had potential to be really amazing and then it just became bad and wasted all that potential so the disappointment was huge. Tho there are still some later parts that I think are pretty good, but many people dropped it by then.
Really glad youve decided to do a reaction to the show 😊 Hope you enjoy the show without being bothered by the trolls in the comment section, looking forward to your future reactions! All the controversy aside still one of my fav series. There are flaws but what shows doesnt have flaws? My biggest counter-argument is that SAO was one of the first web-novels that the author wrote. The author admits the flaws and wanted to make up for it by rewriting parts of the original series and actually writing the stories one floor at a time which has now become the new SAO movie adaptations. Personally i think people made too big of a fuss about it and if you enjoy it you do, if not turn away simple as that 👍
This was the first anime I saw and I think it's really good, I like all the main cast, the constant change of the story, the comedy and even if I know it has ups and downs, it's still a very enjoyable show, it's very underrated for the SAO haters.
2012, the first VR anime that came about a month or two prior SAO was Accel World and was pretty good. It's supposed to take form about 40yrs after SAO world. But the first VR anime trapped in a game was .hack//Sign
It's a great series if they only focus on Sword Art Online arc. Try to surviving in this game, rather than rushing the Arc and move to another game that don't related to the first game at all. Again they should be have trauma why they try to play a new game after that shit event.
Personally, I really enjoyed just about everything I watched of this series. S1 I really enjoyed all the way through (though I do see why some people wouldn't like arc 2 as much), S2 was fun for the most part (though I don't remember much of the later episodes, but that's probably more so the effect of the years it's been since I watched it rather than purely a reflection of the content itself), and S3 part 1 (and what I saw of part 2) were easily some of the best parts of the series for me. Not to mention the movies, which I loved as well.
This show is good idc what anyone says. Sure, there are parts that aren’t good, but I think the good outweighs the bad. Namely season 3 and first half of season 1. Plus GG isn’t bad.
since you guys are gonna watch this anyways, you should watch the abridged one afterwards! It improves a LOT of things in the storytelling, next to the whole parody comedy stuff.
My favourite thing about the couple that had the guy pretending to be the girl, is that they actually continued hanging out, whether as friends or as a couple idk
hell yeah lets keep those likes up. I genuinely hope yall make it past some of the "weaker" seasons ( i still loved it all) it gets up again. There is also my favorite arc outside the first one somewhere in the middle
Congratulationa on SAO reactions 😉 They did dirty to some of those heroines but things end up getting good later on...Season 1 pretty decent,season 2 I love it for some reasons....and season 3 nightmare thanks to certain characters but loveable
This show is done by the same studio that did Solo Leveling, Fate Strange Fake, Mashle, FGO all PV, Nier Automata A-1 Pictures the goat unlimited budget They also did comoposite CGI on the latest episode of Demon Slayer for ufotable They share the same team
Don't listen to people that say it wasted its potential or went bad. The hate for the show is for one reason. It is very successful for being an above average pseudo isekai. It is a wonderful show whose only flaw is being a 7/10 and not a full 10 but is still very popular. Its up to you guys if you want to see the abridge but personally it starts to take mocking the original from a more light hearted place in the first half of season one to being more mean spirited later on. Basically if you watch the show without expecting it to be terrible or excellent you will have fun with it.
I’m of the opinion that it’s overhated. When it got popular it got a little too popular and people started picking it apart. In reality it’s just a fun time - nothing deeper.
and i can say that when you come to Mother's Rosario arc and later arc, all better and better, peak animation,peak song effect,peak op and ed, and i know plot is not the best out there but better than 80% of trash isekai anime.
Watch only season 1 and then immediately switch to the Abridged. Trust. I showed my friend the Abridged first and she thought it was the actually anime
I really hope you guys manage to at least make it through Season 1 of this - 'cause then you can properly appreciate the Abridged version, which is f***ing hilarious!
SAO is the reason why I despise living in this world. Compared to the majestic and unforgettable world that is SAO, this world that we currently live in is so mundane.
This is a harem anime with a "isekai game" coat of paint written as a light novel by a person who barely knows anything about games, let alone MMOs. + The protag is a Gary Stu. Just giving you heads-up.
tbh I only watched the first season of the anime. seems like they milk the hell out of the series and feel like they should've stop on just one season.
Fair warning, this show gets really, really weird. And I'm talking like bad weird, not good weird. Otherwise, it's alright, certainly a good beginner anime.
Objectively, it’s a pretty trashy anime. Reki Kawahara doesn’t know how to write. It was cool and new when it came out though, and I’m pretty sure it was a first anime for lots of people. I loved alicization though. One of the only season that I actually thought the writing was good.
NEW SHOW LET'S GO😤Let's aim for 350 LIKES to make this a weekly series on TH-cam!! We're currently on Episode 7 over on our Patreon patreon.com/tglreacts and genuinely loving it so far! It's actually surprised us more than anything😂
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To clarify your concerns: 80% of the hate comes from the second arc of season 1, that’s where it became weird and I can kinda get that… but immediately after that season 2 and season 3 were so damn good 👌🏻 The problem is people were so focused on hating the second arc of season one that’s where they didn’t even get a glance at how cool it became after that! And don’t even try to watch critics of it online. Everyone will say they dropped it before season 2 and that’s stupid (and makes their opinion useless).
Not to forget there are many other TH-camrs who reacted to sao recently and THEY ALL didn’t regret it the slightest bit ❤ clearly overhated do to false expectations and to high popularity
Fr! Season 3 is absolutely PEAK! Plus GG isn’t bad. There are some weird moments like you said, but SO many other Anime have just as weird, if not weirder stuff. Like Mushoku Tensei. SAO is one of my all-time favorites.
@@titanjake9058 that’s so true
and that problem is mainly on western country, in jp,SAO is really really popular, and in asia, it is not that much haters compare to western.i think may be that is cuz of culture different. but i know it have weird ep but i don't think that ep deserve that much hate. mushoku tensei,best plot of isekai anime have weird stuff too lol.but no one complain that. and loses his virginity to Eris in what? age 13????
@@kirito-of8ne that’s what I think too 👍🏻
100% best way put!
bro sao gets a lot of hate, but their AMBIENCE, the small game sounds, the music, the world, everything feels so much like a game like no other anime and that is fkn awesome. Watching this as an 11 year old was probably the highlight of my life
Which is completely uncalled for. Majority of the SAO fans are people who don’t even engage with the community due to how whack their opinions are
Guys, I can’t express how excited I am that yall are watching this. This is the anime that got me into anime.
ignore the ignorant haters. this is PEAK CINEMA isekai, and i would die on that hill.
the show isn't that bad (a little bit in the later seasons) but calling it peak cinema? This anime is far from being the best thing in the world and it's actually quite generic apart from the premise, honestly there are so many other isekais that are so much better that it's a bit of an overestimate to call this one a peak
@@davisiotta489 Everyone says that, but no one ever drops a single name.
I wouldn’t really classify SAO an isekai. At its core, the series is a Sci-Fi about exploring VR: how it effects on people, and how it’s blurring the lines between it and real life.
@@animusfoster4712 Alicization is more akin to an isekai than seasons 1 and 2. The first two seasons are more LitRPG IMO.
@@animusfoster4712 well.
BIG SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3
The whole sao alicization is It's technically an isekai. they were in another world, a virtual one, but still another world with actual people with lifes.
I think the first season of this show is one of the best anime I've ever watched, but I also played 100,000 hours of mmorpgs. It was wish-fulfillment at its very best. It was my fantasy universe. I got really attached to all the characters and it had a heavy emotional impact. It made me emotional a few times. I am so glad you guys are watching the real version. I am always so disappointed when people watch the abridged. No emotional impact in that one at all. The characters don't care if they live or die, which is literally the whole point of the show. This is the true version that actually has weight.
Sword art online and Overlord are the Mother and Father of the isekai Genre. Yes they were not he first isekai but they were the first to be super successfull at their times. Which helped to make the isekai genre go viral at the time.
I know many people hate this show, but I would always recommend a friend that new to anime to watch SAO. The first episode really hook u up
Crossing Field by Lisa is still the best opening in the franchise and my top 5 favorites opening in anime.
what about ADAMAS
I prefer Ignite, but it's cool.
@@ricardovao.3479 all the openings are great, but CF has the nostalgia factor that made me feel happy every time i played.
The main reason for the hate isn't because it's the worst show ever, because it clearly isn't the worst and is even pretty good in some parts. It's more because it actually had potential to be really amazing and then it just became bad and wasted all that potential so the disappointment was huge. Tho there are still some later parts that I think are pretty good, but many people dropped it by then.
sexual assault online is the biggest argument that i heard
@@xsfanberscretcer92which is dumb because of how popular berserk and goblin slayer and redo of healer are
@@ultrainstinctshadow isn't redo of healer way more hated than sao in this regard?
imagine if they made SAO a long running anime that covers floor 1 to 100 instead of skipping literally almost everything 😢
@@ultrainstinctshadow berserk and especially goblin slayer plot is literally about SA, while SAO is about VR games so having SA was so unnecessary
Ok but now you gotta watch the abridged version, it's GOATED, absolute peak SAO
Really glad youve decided to do a reaction to the show 😊
Hope you enjoy the show without being bothered by the trolls in the comment section, looking forward to your future reactions!
All the controversy aside still one of my fav series. There are flaws but what shows doesnt have flaws?
My biggest counter-argument is that SAO was one of the first web-novels that the author wrote. The author admits the flaws and wanted to make up for it by rewriting parts of the original series and actually writing the stories one floor at a time which has now become the new SAO movie adaptations.
Personally i think people made too big of a fuss about it and if you enjoy it you do, if not turn away simple as that 👍
This was the first anime I saw and I think it's really good, I like all the main cast, the constant change of the story, the comedy and even if I know it has ups and downs, it's still a very enjoyable show, it's very underrated for the SAO haters.
2012, the first VR anime that came about a month or two prior SAO was Accel World and was pretty good. It's supposed to take form about 40yrs after SAO world. But the first VR anime trapped in a game was .hack//Sign
Great seeing you get onto this amazing show!
fun fact:
2:03 the Ost playing if you put words to it it sound like this
"Cooooooffeeeee soooooodaaaa tooofeeee paaaastaaaa give me Coffffeeeeee"
gigguk
First time experience for this series was something else.
It's a great series if they only focus on Sword Art Online arc. Try to surviving in this game, rather than rushing the Arc and move to another game that don't related to the first game at all.
Again they should be have trauma why they try to play a new game after that shit event.
@@InstanRamen dont related?? every arc was connected.
Personally, I really enjoyed just about everything I watched of this series.
S1 I really enjoyed all the way through (though I do see why some people wouldn't like arc 2 as much),
S2 was fun for the most part (though I don't remember much of the later episodes, but that's probably more so the effect of the years it's been since I watched it rather than purely a reflection of the content itself),
and S3 part 1 (and what I saw of part 2) were easily some of the best parts of the series for me.
Not to mention the movies, which I loved as well.
this is why I love you guys, Sao is a top anime for me, kirito will always be the goat
This show is good idc what anyone says. Sure, there are parts that aren’t good, but I think the good outweighs the bad. Namely season 3 and first half of season 1. Plus GG isn’t bad.
since you guys are gonna watch this anyways, you should watch the abridged one afterwards! It improves a LOT of things in the storytelling, next to the whole parody comedy stuff.
The music in this anime is so great.
The Pebble of Pig Slaying..
My god. I've stumbled upon the most powerful weapon in the game
ah all the memories coming back this was one of starting animes highly recommend watching the abridged series
My favourite thing about the couple that had the guy pretending to be the girl, is that they actually continued hanging out, whether as friends or as a couple idk
the last few seasons are extreme good pick
i love this show
Very happy to see you guys reacting to SAO , my fav anime ❤
wow new journey begin!!
I'm pretty sure Klein's VA is the same as Sanji's, Hiroaki Hirata
hell yeah lets keep those likes up. I genuinely hope yall make it past some of the "weaker" seasons ( i still loved it all) it gets up again. There is also my favorite arc outside the first one somewhere in the middle
I still think this was a great show. Especially season one. Sort of lost the plot a bit after that, but season 1 is iconic.
Congratulationa on SAO reactions 😉 They did dirty to some of those heroines but things end up getting good later on...Season 1 pretty decent,season 2 I love it for some reasons....and season 3 nightmare thanks to certain characters but loveable
Make it until Alicization
This show is done by the same studio that did Solo Leveling, Fate Strange Fake, Mashle, FGO all PV, Nier Automata
A-1 Pictures the goat unlimited budget They also did comoposite CGI on the latest episode of Demon Slayer for ufotable They share the same team
Try giving the English dub for this a watch as well. Personally I prefer it over the sub. The English voice actor for Kirito is incredible
I’ve seen them accidentally start an anime and immediately restart it when they heard English dub. I doubt they’re gonna do that. Lol
Watch the gigguk vid about sao in minutes when you are finished watching sao
Klein's va should sound familiar..
are you guys doing noragami on youtube?
Finally
To have the best experience watch the 2 progressive movies then skip to ep 3.
Could you watch World Trigger please?
Watch full sao now
Just a heads up: Your playlist is ordered completely the wrong way around. Episode 1 is the last playing!
finally
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Don't listen to people that say it wasted its potential or went bad. The hate for the show is for one reason. It is very successful for being an above average pseudo isekai. It is a wonderful show whose only flaw is being a 7/10 and not a full 10 but is still very popular.
Its up to you guys if you want to see the abridge but personally it starts to take mocking the original from a more light hearted place in the first half of season one to being more mean spirited later on.
Basically if you watch the show without expecting it to be terrible or excellent you will have fun with it.
People hate it for no reason 😅(Well, they do that cuz it's "popular" and cuz of memes about it being so bad).
I’m of the opinion that it’s overhated. When it got popular it got a little too popular and people started picking it apart.
In reality it’s just a fun time - nothing deeper.
and i can say that when you come to Mother's Rosario arc and later arc, all better and better, peak animation,peak song effect,peak op and ed, and i know plot is not the best out there but better than 80% of trash isekai anime.
Watch only season 1 and then immediately switch to the Abridged. Trust. I showed my friend the Abridged first and she thought it was the actually anime
I really hope you guys manage to at least make it through Season 1 of this - 'cause then you can properly appreciate the Abridged version, which is f***ing hilarious!
SAO is the reason why I despise living in this world. Compared to the majestic and unforgettable world that is SAO, this world that we currently live in is so mundane.
The day NerveGear unexpectedly releases, will be the day that I back out on this opinion.
This is a harem anime with a "isekai game" coat of paint written as a light novel by a person who barely knows anything about games, let alone MMOs.
+ The protag is a Gary Stu. Just giving you heads-up.
Deadass thought this was the abridged reaction lol
I thought the first season was good. The later seasons can't keep up with it.
Bruh season 3 is literally the best season lol. Season one is right up there though.
tbh I only watched the first season of the anime. seems like they milk the hell out of the series and feel like they should've stop on just one season.
Fair warning, this show gets really, really weird. And I'm talking like bad weird, not good weird. Otherwise, it's alright, certainly a good beginner anime.
its good to much harem, lost potential
peak until ep 15 or 16 ( i dont remember)
I love SAO but don't like the love story between Kirito and Asuna, too cheesy for me
Objectively, it’s a pretty trashy anime. Reki Kawahara doesn’t know how to write. It was cool and new when it came out though, and I’m pretty sure it was a first anime for lots of people. I loved alicization though. One of the only season that I actually thought the writing was good.
The worst anime to pick for reaction