In the Light Novel is explained how the power of will can affect the virtual world, when Liz creates swords if she put a lot of mental work the swords have a lot of great buffs, here was the same, Asuna's determination to save Kirito let her break the system and Kirito's determination to save everyone (and Asuna's sacrifice) let him brek the system and defeat Kayaba
Yeah, this is really not an important detail, I understand why they never told about his. Jokes aside after 10 years, I finally got my answer for this question, thanks bro!
God bless u both, cuz i was a bit afraid that you'll get harrased for just liking/loving SAO, cuz the hate is STILL very strong, even after alicization.
I want to tell you how Asuna and Kirito were able move like that in the end of the battle. It's called Incarnation, which allows to use sheer willpower to temporarily overload and bypass the system of a game in order to perform unnatural feats beyond even the scope of the system. When Kirito used «Incarnation», it allowed him to cheat death just long enough so that he could deliver one final attack on Kayaba. Asuna used it too, when she moved to protect Kirito. In the original light novel Kirito never fell apart to yellow pieces.
@@Roronoa_Ze0Yes and no, Underworld is based in SAO's Cardinal System, the Incarnation in SAO is the beggining of how Incarnation works, in Underworld is all the potential Of the Incarnation being used
So many people seem to be unable to use common sense with this scene. Him exploding is literally the same self-image as in the first episode; he didn't actually disintegrate until after he beat Heathcliff, and this should be patently obvious with just some basic analysis.
If the episode and series ended in the goodbye scene were they both dissapeared, i think that would had left a scar on me for life and i wouldve cried for weeks, maybe months
Would have been interesting to see other seasons with the perspectives of new main characters (for example, ALO arc with Leafa as mc or/and Yuuki just dealing with their shit, GGO with Sinon, Alicization with Eugeo and Alice). You can't convince me that it would be that bad
You know, the best thing that the author of SAO, Reki Kawahara can do is to make you feel as if you were offered to eat huge cups full of first-class shattered glass, and you will like it. Some missing context under the terms of "fair use". 01:15 This was mentioned in the last episode. The assault group has already started to lose people due to lack of motivation, because they are used to living in Aincrad. 08:28 Although at first Kirito decided that he would not use the swordskills, later he panicked and activated the most powerful skill, called "Eclipse" in the novel. You can notice the activation by the glow of the swords (SAO greatly abuses the formula "show, don't tell"). However, the more powerful the skill, the longer the system will make the player freeze in place after its completion. In addition, Kayaba personally developed all the skills, and was preparing for a fight with the "Hero". Kirito himself did not like this skill before because of excessive dependence on the system. But, in the end, he mistook Kayaba's cold concentration for self-confidence, only to discover his mistake the next moment after swordskill activation. 11:00 Let me introduce you to the concept that a strong will can overwrite the data of the virtual world. Strong influence of the film "The Matrix". 11:19 Kayaba finally finds The Solution. 11:45 Lisbeth's POV, the only part of her story not included in the show. "[The game will now be entering forced administration mode. All monsters and item spawns will be suspended. All NPCs will be dismissed. The hit points of all players will be fixed to their maximum amount.] A system error? Did some fatal bug appear...? That was what I thought for an instant. My heart was gripped with unease. But in the next moment- [Aincrad Standard Time, November the seventh, fourteen-fiftyfive, the game has been cleared.] -And the system voice reported thus. The game, has been cleared. I could not understand the meaning of those words for several seconds. The other players around too, stood still with their expressions frozen. However, upon hearing the line it led to, all of them sprung up. [All players will be logged out in sequence. Kindly wait at your current location. I repeat...] Suddenly, “Wooah!”, and such huge cheers of joy erupted. The ground, no, the whole of the Floating Castle Aincrad trembled. Everyone was hugging each other, rolling about the ground, shouting out loud with their hands raised towards the sky. I didn’t move, didn’t say a word, simply standing in front of my store. I somehow managed to lift up my hands, and covered my mouth. So he did it. He-Kirito did it. With his usual recklessness...That was what I believed. After all, the foremost frontlines were still at the seventy-fifth floor, but with the game cleared like this, this absurd, thoughtless, act of foolhardiness was definitely Kirito’s deed.I felt like I heard soft murmurs close to my ears. -I, kept my word... “Yeah... Yeah... Finally, you did it...” With that, hot tears spilled from my eyes. Without bothering to wipe them away, I thrust my right hand up with all my might, jumping up and down without stop" On top of that, for more contrast, it remains to add only a one-second long scene of the boss's room, with a bitter sea of men's tears. 13:40 Kirito and Kayaba talk about slightly different "It". Unfortunately, Kayaba's way of thinking will be revealed much, much later, so many viewers have already forgotten this scene by that time, and do not catch the connection. Now I can only say that Kayaba wanted to do "something", but in the process he was completely disappointed in his idea, and that now he is talking more to himself. 16:40 Disabling the possibility of death for Asuna was Kirito's requirement before the duel. Kayaba, of course, is a psycho, but he is an honest psycho.
They hint at asunas true strength of will in the light novel, she was able to reach kirito before he was killed by kuradeel by moving faster than she should have been able to.
in the new movie she is given a necklace by Argo (I think) that makes her immune to paralysis, So you could argue its either of those reasons or both of them
@@TheCipherUK 1. Wasn't Argo but not canon anime original character which already should tell you that this isn't what affected this episode. 2. It was necklace against a poison from lower levels of Aincrad - not only it wouldn't work against *anything* on a floors 70+, but would never work on admin-made paralysis. Where do people even come up with these ideas from?...
“Wtf commander, why did you paralyze me?” “Really Asuna? Even now I’m not convinced you won’t try to set me on fire with your mind.” “You’re trying to do it right now, aren’t you?” “STARE!!!”
This was a very emotional episode for me! Kirito remembering those who died when he realized who Kayaba was, talking to Agil and Klein before he fought and them him requesting from Kayaba that Asuna not be able to kill herself and of course Asuna throwing herself in front of Kirito and dying. The music just makes it that much more tragic!
Please for the love of god people in the comments who keep telling Neel to skip the second half of season 1 (ALO), or skip GGO, or skip all the way to Alicization, or just stop watching now, etc. just stop! Stop assuming you already know how he is going to feel about something. Just because you may dislike it doesn't mean he is going too. Clearly the man is enjoying the anime, stop trying to take that from him! Neel, if you read this. There is an explanation of sorts given later as to how and why the events that happened in this episode unfolded the way they did. Its a bit of a ways away though. However, worth the watch imo. Hope you enjoy the rest of SAO! And as others ay have told you, Season 3, or Alicization, is fantastic. There are some slow parts in-between now and then, but I recommend you keep at it. Its a good story and I think you'll like it. :)
Kirito defeated the system himself, he did not accept that he died and it was with a very strong determination, so he activated a skill, this skill is called 'incarnate', the stronger the determination and imagining of something, then it will happen, skill 'incarnate' You can understand this in Sword Art Online Alicization, where willpower and imagination are the basis of strength.
That's why they have the ability called the "Incarnate Arms" Can't wait Neel to react on that part I want him to reach Alicization that's shit is Peak when my first time watching it
The reason why Kayaba made Sword Art Online, why he made the death trap that killed 4000 people, is very simple. Because it made it real. By making death a reality, it not only stopped being a game, it because their real life. As people say, "death is what gives life meaning", after all. Kayaba dreamed of a castle in the sky, of a world different from his own. But he is only human, he isn't a god, so he can't go there. That's why he made it himself, he used all humans can to make not a game, but a genuine and truly real other world. It's funny really, that mentality of his, that drive, is exactly what made SAO such an incredible game, what made it the unbelievable landmark that it was. What made it have this incredible quality and attention to detail, was no other than the exact same thing that killed thousands of people. Sword Art Online was a game made with unbelievable love from it's creator, and that very love made it an atrocity. Morbidly beautiful isn't it? That's why I love this guy as a villain.
One thing that is never mentioned in the anime. The Bosses on Floors 25, 50, 75, 100 all have huge difficulty scaling. That's why we went from Kirito practically Soloing Floor Boss 74 and Then Floor Boss 75 causing 14 casualties, took Arguably the 2 strongest players in the game working together to Block its main attacks, The Hax god blocking main attacks, and Elite players all working together to take it down. Keep in mind, only a few 100 players actually fight on the front lines at this point in time. Now this is more speculation then actual facts. Based on the pacing, they would have probably hit a wall by Floor 90, losing nearly all front line players, and be forced into talking lower level players into getting geared up and level up to join them in what's essentially suicide. We're talking maybe another 2-5 years to clear the game. They Lost 14 players in that fight, several of which got 1 shot. That Victory came with the bittersweet realization for everyone in that room that they were facing an uphill battle. If that same group took on another 5 floors together, probably 80-95% would have been killed and replaced with different players.
My fan theory is that The Cardinal System decided to play a little bit of favoritism in this episode. As Yui explained, the Cardinal system is in control of every aspect of the world. Its primary goal is to ensure fairness without the need of human interaction. So why not give Kirito a little bit extra time against the final boss that is being fought 25 floors early. Then Kirito was allowed to live because the Cardinal recognized that he and Ausna had beaten the final boss. Remember that the revival item he got from the Santa boss works up to a certain amount of time. This implies that they do not die immediately, but are instead added to a queue So the Cardinal simply removed Ausna and Kirito from the Kill Queue since the game was over.
The revival item actually implies that they do die immediately after the death animation. "can be brought back to life during the brief period (roughly ten seconds) between death and the conclusion of the disintegration visual effect." If anything, what happened in the end shows that Kayaba never actually intended to kill a single person by his own sword. Instead, he programmed it to teleport whoever will be slain by him after death animation into the prepared space for watching the end of Aincrad. If one listens to what Kayaba says - he only ever planned to cross the swords to end-of-life battle with whoever will face him on floor 100. He has all this planned a long time ago, Kirito and Asuna simply broke his plan 25 floors early :)
While I generally agree with most of your posts, I wouldn't discount his theory completely. Reki has shown several instances of not just humans overcoming the system, but the AIs doing it as well. Yui, Cardinal and Adminstrator as well as many fluctlights, Metatron and some.of the other bosses in BB (AW), and even Kizmel and other NPCs in Progressive. This could have well been a moment where Cardinal also interfered. Kayaba is not operating any console except when he firsts turns his immortality off and starts the duel. It was one on one and he was not expecting outside interference. So even if he planned to teleport Kirito instead of killing him (which I don't believe Kayaba would do unless he lost or Kirito showed something beyond Kayaba's expectations), it is highly doubtful he would have anticipated what was going to happen and set the sword to telepoet all, plus show the health bars, and change the teleport effect to look like a death (when they teleported back to 75 it did not look the the same). Unless you also saying he is Aizen. I could see him (although the time is very limited) setting Asuna to an immortal object but can go down to like .0000001 HP while setting up the duel, but not the teleport and death effect. Moreno I think he sent a command to not fry Asuna's brain so that when she died in game she was put in limbo (this is my interpretation and it is valid considering this hasn't 100% been explained even in the light novels, or at least the translation I read). And I feel this way because I think he intended to let Kirito actually die. That moment when Kirito is broken, Kayaba acts very much like "I had hopes for you, but you are just pitiful now. I'm going to end it now." That look on his face is pure disappointment before he stabs him. When Kirito suddenly fights back that is when Kayaba realizes Kirito overcame the system (or changed it, or since we now have an in-game basis for his yellow eyes from his Meditation or whatever skills it is), he smiles and allows Kirito to stab him. And since Asuna was in limbo when the game was defeated, she was not killed by the NerveGear. I'm not saying Cardinal did do something, but I do think it's possible. I do think Kayaba fully intended to kill Kirito if Kirito didn't do something amazing. And the teleport was triggered by meeting the victory requirements and not the sword. Regarding the revive item, which wasn't an issue here, again just my hypothesis, but, after AW's recent developments as well as the recent short story (not so recent but volume 22 I think?) as well as other events, I think the revive item could only be used while there was some part of the body remaining in the game (even if it was only dispersing particles), but real-world death still took a bit more time as the computer worked to store everything before sending the signal. Not a long time, but some lag. This would also be a possible explanation for Asuna surviving as she was still being processed when Kayaba was defeated and thus spared. I know you have your theory and it's all tied in a nice bow but I see it differently. Reki has definitely started to blur some lines (no one could go back to BB after it was uninstalled, memories lingering from SAO going to the Seed and reaching out to Asuna in ALO, the potential image of the wife way back in the first season, some elements in Underworld), lots of subtle hints that there's more there. So I have a different interpretation about how it went down, and so does this other guy. It doesn't make it wrong, unless Reki specifically outlined everything that happened. If he has I have not seen it.
@@madcat1738 I mean, everyone is free to live with their headcanons and theories, but the simpler the solution the more likely it usually be closer to the truth. It's a fact that 3 people ended up being teleported into a same place that can only exist if was made prior to events that we witness. Given that 1 of these people is the one to set up the rules - the simplest solution is to assume his involvement in the process. Does the plan he explained to other 2 contradict what happened? No, it goes nicely in line with it. Now, in details. Kayaba himself says that he saw Kirito and Asuna doing something more than he believed was possible. He directly says that they broke the rules of the world he established. No mention of the Cardinal as one to show him something new. On contrary - Cardinal was the one to look after the rules not to be broken in his world, so if Cardinal had direct involvement in breaking the rules - it would've been noted. I would even go as far as to say, that if you wish to find some poetic justice from Cardinal - there's more too look into in ALO, rather than SAO where it's portrayed as a villain alongside Kayaba. "t is highly doubtful he would have anticipated what was going to happen and set the sword to teleport all, plus show the health bars, and change the teleport effect to look like a death" in programming, you oftentimes write functions as set of instructions, algorithm you then can reuse many times by using just a single line - call of that function by name. The fact that Kayaba was teleported himself shows that he had a function to teleport a player to the position outside Aincrad. In that case, all he needed to do, is to make his own avatar an exception, not making exceptions every time he may encounter someone he doesn't wish to kill. If you follow the idea so far - his actions are as simple as replacing the call to brain_fry() function by end_game_teleport() function of some sort, all inside the avatar_death() function (he doesn't need to change anything about death animation and etc, only the last act in the algorithm). We know he planned SAO incident for years. We know he had a special plan to be a final boss of the game. We know he made a place outside Aincrad to teleport to, and that same teleportation has been made 3 times, or in other words - same function has been called 3 times. So, what makes more sense - him planning use of this function only for himself in case of death, or apply this function to whoever he may kill in the process as well? Something he has to write down in code once, before SAO even starts, rather than try and change the rules for every exception he sees like Kirito and Asuna, or even for Cardinal to interfere in all this? Maybe it's me as programmer seeing it in a different light, but that's how I would've wrote it for simplicity of it. " I don't believe Kayaba would do unless he lost or Kirito showed something beyond Kayaba's expectations" - I think, you're forgetting how involved Kirito was supposed to be with Heathcliff in Kayaba's plan. Well, whichever player that met the planned requirements, which Kirito ended up to be in our story. Heathcliff jumped at the first opportunity to see Kirito's strength, at first opportunity to get him into his guild (and him being rush about it is what uncovered his identity). What does it look like? If all went as planned without early reveal - Kirito and Heathcliff would've been 2 strongest players leading the rest floor through floor up and up, until at some point, Heathcliff for his dramatic narrative, would reveal that he's Kayaba. He planned to be close to such a player, thus reveal would be as strong a betrayal as possible. He then planned to meet such a player in a duel at floor 100. One he himself made a rival, by giving both unique skill and personal hatred from betrayal. Now, do you still think, Kayaba wouldn't wish to speak to such a player in the end? Do you still think, he needed to do anything extra, to be invited on that island outside Aincrad? On top of it - if it wasn't events of SAO making Kirito to wall up himself from others and hide the dual wielding for a very very long time - he most likely would've fought alongside Heathcliff on frontline even earlier than 75 floor. In original Kayaba's plan that is. " I think he sent a command to not fry Asuna's brain so that when she died in game she was put in limbo " you're contradicting yourself - "Kayaba is not operating any console except when he firsts turns his immortality off and starts the duel" so when would he do this? Nor do I agree that the place she was sent was a "limbo". She ended up in the same place as Kirito and Kayaba. And that place, if anything (and especially if you read the novel) - is a stage. A place with a nice view on the end of the world Kayaba created. Everything about it screams that it was planned to be this way, prepared a long time ago. " feel this way because I think he intended to let Kirito actually die." now, imagine for a second, that Kayaba knows exactly where Asuna is. That she's not dead, but is teleported into a place he prepared long ago. Thus his lack of concern for killing her - he simply didn't. Now, what would this make his act of "killing Kirito" into? Yes, he was disappointed there wouldn't be continuation of the duel. Yes, "killing" Kirito is a mercy at this point. But what type of mercy? If he knows he teleported Asuna, if he knows by stubbing Kirito he would teleport him too? What does it mean? Means, that mercy is not in killing him, but in reuniting him with Asuna. He simply stubbed him to send him into same place as her. What to do with them after? It would be after him. The act is both a mercy and end of the duel. If the system had such a long lag that Kirito had a time to listen to Kayaba, slowly take the rapier, do a few steps, wait for his a ton of HP to end - the players would've been saved from outside by pulling the helmets quick enough. The only way to ensure this doesn't happen - make the helmet being capable of killing a player in a time it takes to very quickly pull the helmet off, or, in like half a second. Revival item directly says that it's impossible to revive a player after end of death animation. Thus the most logical outcome - death is almost instantaneous after end of death animation. This goes in line with Kayaba's logic of death being final in both his and real world. Leaving a player time to think about his life between death animation and brain fry doesn't make sense in that logic and is simply cruel.
@@madcat1738 Just to be clear - I'm having fun in discussing the possibilities of how to interpret the events, if I wasn't open to think about them or to question my own - my own understanding of it never would've evolved. So in case my reply may be seen as some personal attack on your theory for it being different than mine - it's not, it's just a next logical step in the discussion based of what you said :)
@@Leuncode first off, while you may not think so, your tone is highly condescending, especially with your little emoji smile and your lack of conceding any other theory could be correct when we do not have a full authorial explanation. You are free to believe what you like, and as I said I agree with many of your arguments on other areas. But it is hella arrogant to not even say I can see your theory could work even though I disagree. Nope. You just go right into explaining how your theory is incontrovertible like we are all 5 year olds. Was Reki an accomplished programmer or was he a novelist coming up with things in his imagination? Your experience may not mean anything if Reki wasn't intending that. Occam's surprisingly doesn't apply just because someone wants it to. Lots of people think accounting is easy because everything equals out and adds up. Until they get into leases, or pensions, or valuation or a number of other things which explains why we need a license to do what we do. Your headcanon sees it all in this nice little box. But that is what it is.....your headcanon. You don't even bother to tell the people that on these posts. You just say they were teleported by his sword exactly the way you described when that is not confirmed. You sound just like the Danmachi fans who swear Bell is immune to curses just because he is immune to charm and one ambiguous event in the second season. And why would the person be conscious between game death and real death? If there was some type of process they could very well be unconscious during that time. And since the bodies are data that can be formed anywhere, Asuna could have been in a bodiless state of limbo, unconscious until either real death occurs or in this case Kayaba or the system recognizing victory stops the death process and sends her to the platform. Even the most meticulous planners miss things, and they cannot account for every possible outcome. Considering his age, even if he dreamed of his castle in the sky, he was not likely dreaming of the Incarnate system all those years. And even if he had some foresight into it, he could not predict when or if it would happen. So while you seem to think he was flawless in his planning and accounted for everything to come down to a moment he didn't even predict, that logic is highly flawed to me. He's human. He might have saved Asuna, but he intended to kill Kirito in that moment. Maybe not at the beginning of the duel (although Kirito felt it was kill or be killed and I agree) but definitely at that moment the intent to kill was there. Did he make Asuna unkillable right at the moment Kirito asked? Possibly. We don't see him. Did Cardinal decide to save her because she broke the paralysis and Cardinal needed to figure out how the system was overridden? Also possible. And also possible is a short time lag between game death and real death but long enough for Kirito to overrule the system and Kayaba let himself get stabbed. Even one other possibility...since he deemed Kirito to be the hero to fight the Demon King, then Asuna became his princess and Kayaba secretly makes her immortal but can take damage essentially to 0 HP. He intended to kidnap her when he made his big reveal to make the emotionz stronger and really pour on the betrayal just like a big game twist. But he gets found out early. So now he plans to defeat Kirito without killing him, and to further humiliate him and in his role as Demon King, capture Asuna as further incentive to fight on. And Asuna breaking the paralysis and stepping in front of the blow plays right into his hands, so he has her teleported (programmed when he made her immortal) at that moment. But then he sees Kirito utterly broken and decides to kill Kirito and figure out what to do with Asuna later. But Kirito snaps out of it and surpasses his limits and unicorn rushes the rapier into Kayaba. And his reward for winning is saving his princess. Unlikely but fits in with a lot of fantasy game themes. It's also possible under your scenario. I don't agree but it is a valid theory. But I'm not going to present my theory as undisputed fact. Because unless and until Reki explains what happened (even if he's changed his mind about it or evolved his position on it), all we have are theories. And discussing them is fine. But when you see someone tell you they see where you are coming from but disagree and make their point, explaining your point that they already understood (especially after reading it over and over in the other comment threads) comes across like "You really don't understand because if you understood you would agree with me because I'm obviously correct. Let me explain it to you again because I'm sure this time you'll see how dumb your argument is and how brilliantly beautiful my argument is." To riff off a very annoying member of House Vermillion. I might have tried a Fire Force reference, but I got tired of all the firefighter comparisons in the other thread. And it's been a good while since I watched it.
Okay so, since it ain't canon and its just speculation, beware, but: At 11:40, the reason why Kirito was able to still attack after "dying" is because assumedly Klein never used the revive item he got from the Santa Claus thingie that Kirito gave him. Its the only logical explanation there is to why Kirito was still able to attack after "dying", because he got instantly revived right after by Klein. Anyways, this is just my speculation, but ay', better than no explanation.
The explanation is the power of Will and the Incarnation thats is used in Alicization and Accel World, you can imagine and use your mind to change the logic and rules of the virtual world
Look up episode 1, right after Kayaba's speech - Kirito imagines himself dying. Here, they used the same animation (which doesn't correlate to the sword being stuck in his head) to show that he imagines it again. But this time, he doesn't accept this fate, thus symbolically "comes back" in his mind. There was no resurrection because there was no death :)
No it's actually explained in another comment here. He and Asuna were able to overload the system with their willpower. That's why she was able to ove while paralysed and why Kirito was able to hold his body together just long enugh to deliver the final blow on Kayaba. The light novel explains it a bit better than the anima.
no cuz of the power of Will and the Incarnation that is used in Accel World, and nervegear sent the info to the brain directly, if they have strong enough will power, they theoretical can control the system.
Promise you man, The next half of the season is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It is rather entertaining, tho not as goo as s2/3/4 if you ask me. Enjoy, you got a hell of a ride coming up. Also: Yellow Eye Kirito, is whenever he breaks the system. Youll see it occasionally from here on. Itll make sense as it goes.
Feels like this would have been the perfect time to bring back that revival item. It was long enough ago and during such an emotional moment that bringing it back for Asuna would have been a great callback cause it makes sense they'd have it and finally it gets used to save someone important to him.
The way that they both didn't die after disappearing to my understanding is because Kirito had just cleared to game so I think the system didn't have the time to kill them before it started dismantling itself.
I understand why people get confused about the anime after kirito get's stabbed...tldr explanation: the short scene where he falls down and "dies" before "revivinge" to kill kayaba was only in kiritos mind... You can see that after that short scene, the real kirito holding Asunas rapier has only just started to "dissapate"...
They did not die by a system in the game, if you remember the episode when he beat an event monster on 24th december called Nicholas the Renegade cause that monster was dropping an item to revive a player cause he wanted to revive Sachi. It only works till i think it was 15 minutes after the player died, which means Nervegear does not fry someones brain instantly when they die, but only after some time passes after they die. Since he completed the game in that time they are both alive.
Its 10 minute before someone got their HP to zero. Tho didnt Kirito give it to Klein? U saw in the episode he threw it to Klein and said "if someone dies close to you some day, use it." But yeah it makes sense he should had kept it.
@@Y0sh1no5am He is not referring to the use of the item, he is referring to the 10 minute rule. If the item could be used to revive a player who died in-game up to ten minutes later, that means that in reality that player still wouldn't have their brain fried up to ten minutes later. And yes, Klein must still have the item, but I've come to see many people on other channels spreading the idea that they used the item on Asuna, when this is completely false.
@@maac_5104 Look up the end of Kayaba's speech in episode 1. Kirito imagined himself dying there. Exact same animation is in this episode in total disregard to how the physics works recreating the boar hit in it. Meaning - there was no resurrection, for there was no death - Kirito imagined himself dying, and to symbolize him disagreeing with the outcome, he imagined himself coming back. If anything, it's revival of his willpower after Asuna's death. As for revival item - Kirito specifically asked Klein to use it on the first person he sees dying in front of him. So much time has passed since then - he would've used it already.
People give this show a lot of shit but Ithink the last 2 seasons that came out were pretty fire and theses first few early seasons really flesh out the world and emotions that make the latest season hit. Cant wait for more reactions!
@@theunwanted7_716aincrad could have been way better if they didn’t rush the shit out of it though. I love that alicization had 2 full season to really flesh everything out and it was amazing
I have my theory that Klein used the rare item that Kirito gave him to revive a player within 10 seconds of their death. I remember Kirito gave it to him and we never heard anything about him using it.
You better remember what kayaba said about his castle still floating in some other world it will be mentioned in the future and also that was kirito's God mode and it's really hard to explain so I'll just say that you can say that he gets stronger i wish i could explain it in simple words but i can't 😅😅😅
I read about a lot of theories about this episode. The one i didn't see is about how asuna didn't die. I think it's because of the promise kayaba made to kirito about asuna killing herself. Jumping in front of the attack to save kirito is suicide. And about kirito, my favorite theory is about the 10 seconds after death rule in the game (so you can be revived with an item) klein has the item with him but i don't think he used it because he was paralyzed and kirito wasn't revived he disappeared after killing kayaba. I think it was his willpower that made him overcome the system in the 10s window he has. He was able to hack the system before to get yui's heart. So i think the game system isn't perfect and can be overwritten.
I think its nerve gear doesnt instanly burn the brain after the player died, remember drop item from nicholas that can revive player within 10 minute? I think there's some spare time before the brain got seriously damaged
@@saskara6641 There was no need for resurrection. Look up episode 1, right after Kayaba's speech - Kirito imagines himself dying. Here, they used the same animation (which doesn't correlate to the sword being stuck in his head) to show that he imagines it again. But this time, he doesn't accept this fate, thus symbolically "comes back" in his mind. There was no resurrection because there was no death :) As for why Asuna didn't die, we can only guess, but there was a high probability Kayaba never intended to kill anyone by his own sword and just teleported her as players imitated in the murder mystery episode :)
@@Leuncode No the light novel makes it pretty clear that he and Asuna died. Kirito was just able to hold his body together on pure willpower to kill Kayaba as well. And they both survived because that was Kayabas reward for defeating him. He just didn't want them to die after they both broke the system with their willpower and defeated him. That's what's interesting about Kayaba. Yes he is an asshole for even starting this death game but he is also honorable and would never let the warriors who defeated him die after clearing the game.
@@She-Devil94 " hold his body together on pure willpower to kill Kayaba as well" this is after the scene I was referring to. Half the comment section believes Kirito died twice in this episode. I'm saying - no, only once. You're saying that Kirito dies which, if in singular, doesn't contradict what I said.
@@She-Devil94 As for what happened in their "death", if factual - in literal sense neither of them died and was simply teleported away. Unlike players in the murder mystery - Kayaba, as creator of the game, didn't have to rely on tricks to do this - he simply went them through all the same animation as death, but teleported them at the stage of algorithm that was supposed to fry their brains. He didn't do it because they broke the system. He let them live *after* teleportation because of it. He *let* Kirito kill him because of it. But at the moment of Asuna's death, when the act was singular - he didn't pay attention to what he saw. He was too excited about the duel to pay attention, especially knowing he didn't actually kill her. And only when the system was broken a second time in front of him - did he realized what happened. Not earlier. All the same applies to the novels, I've read them, you can check.
There are several theories about this episode. Kayaba temporarily canceled death in life from death in game within the boss room. Kirito was able to come back to life because of an item from Santa that Klein probably has. Also the Cardinal system that controls the game may have given a way to overcome the paralysis (we saw it with Kirito earlier).
I’ve never heard the theory that Klein used the revive item from the Santa Claus event on Kirito. While it conflicts with the idea of “incarnation” that’s being set up for future series content, it’s still a really good theory and I’m filing it away in my head for later.
And all those theories miss the one that was explained by the anime itself, 15 minutes, thats the time span between the player dying and the Nervegear frying his brain. There is an item to revive players in game and Kirito got it trying to revive Sachi but it was useless to him since several months passed since Sachi died. Obviously if there is an item in game allowing to revive there is a system in place to no instantly fry a players brain when he dies causee than revival would be pointless.
What happened should have been explained in Season 4, but it's not... but don't look for it online cause it will spoil parts of Season 3 and 4. That's why the adaptation is all the action and non of the context.
Couple days ago i stumbled across a german dude, calls himself animetrix, makes nerdcore music. He has two songs about SAO, "Retter dieser welt" about the aincrad arc and "hol dich raus" about the second half of S1. Its in german, and usually i dont listen to songs in others languages, but tbh those songs are bangers. Depends on if you like the genre vut i can reccomend the songs :) he also does some demon slayer songs :)
I will never forget when I watched this anime during the release, many of the episodes destroyed me emotionally but this last one was terrifying at the time because anime at the time did not have coverage of the situation, if it was going to continue, if it was the last episode, I myself believed it was going to end that way, even today it makes me feel extremely distressed even knowing what happens and the future of the show, I still shed a few tears.
I gotta say that ending scene with the two and Kayaba he kind of gave me a déjà vu vibe of the near ending scene of ready player one if you know what I mean
No more than a legend - Kirito didn't need saving by revival item in the first place :) Check episode 1 right after Kayaba's speech - Kirito already "died" there once. Well, he imagined himself dying, with same exact animation, but this time he didn't accept his fate thus "came back". So people have to accept 1 of 2 options - either they believe Kirito died and came back in this episode and thus had died and didn't came back in episode 1... Or both cases happened entirely inside his head :)
I never read the SAO LN, I wonder if in that, Kayaba explains how Kirito and Asuna are still alive after being dead. I think the CLOSEST thing that explains is is in the chapter Kirito goes find the item that revives a player, and the item says you need to use in the what, three minutes after the death? So I imagine your virtual body or your mind is transported to a place where you have to see a fucking countdown or something of the time you have left before the Nerve Gear destroys your brain. I dunno what or how, but believe me: Reading the LN would help a lot more. Or a better addaptation of the animations, like they did with Alicization.
if you are wondering why kirito came back after he died fighting kayaba you saw his eyes turn yellow (the yellow eyes are anime only) but what it means is he overpowered the system with his willpower in game its called incarnation you will see once you watch the other seasons of Sao Specifically the 4th season either way great reaction love sword art online fr
If you are wondering why Kirito "came back" you need to check the end of Kayaba's speech back in episode 1, when Kirito is shown to die... Or, to be precise - Kirito imagined himself dying. In same exact animation of boar hitting him as in this episode now. Him "coming back" is symbolic way to show his willpower coming back after him seeing Asuna's death. The entire thing happened in Kirito's head. Although after it - Kirito's willpower did help him to prolong his death animation (which only started after what happen in his head, if you actually check it) long enough to hit Heathcliff.
When a player die in the game There is a time before they die in Real life i don't remember i think its 30 seconds something They don't die instantly IRL So in short Kirito manage surpass the system to keep alive by the power of his will and kill Kayaba just before that time
There's no such delay. The delay many mistook for it, starts when the avatar starts to crumble after HPs reach 0 - in other words - death animation. And this is the key part - Kirito lost his willpower after Asuna's death. Got his avatar killed - when HPs reached 0, he did exactly same thing he did in episode 1 right after Kayaba's speech - imagined himself dying. They even reused the animation to point this out (because for season 1 they preferred this way instead of voicing internal thoughts of characters). Kirito imagines his own death, and this is the point when he felt the anger, injustice of what has happened to Asuna and him. His willpower comes back and thus in his mind, symbolically, death animation is reversed and he's back. Entire scene is in his head. Only after that does the actual death animation starts. Through his willpower, Kirito manages to prolong this animation long enough to take Kayaba with him. Who just saw 2 people breaking the system one after another, thus agreed that he lost as the ruler of that world and took the hit instead of dodging. As for why neither Kirito or Asuna died in the end - it's evident, that Kayaba simply teleported them after the death animation. We may even theorize that he never intended to kill a single player by his own sword and programmed his sword to do the teleportation a very long time ago. After all, he only ever planned to fight a single player to death on the 100th floor.
I think Asuna was still alive even after dying in the game , because earlier Kirito told Kayaba not to let Asuna to kill herself. I think Kayaba disabled the ability to kill her at the beginning of their fight
The Will Incarnate System explains why Asuna was able to move despite the paralysis effect and why Kirito put off dying to strike at Kayaba. As for why Asuna didn't get her brain fried, that would be the most fair plot hole critique I've heard as no solid explanation is given. My take is that Kayaba temporarily suspended it pending the outcome of the duel. So anyone who dies out in the game world while the duel is taking place is put into limbo until the duel is concluded.
Taking this as a plothole is going at the events backwards. No, this fact is left to create understanding of the character, not the other way around. If we listen to Kayaba - he only ever intended to have a single duel to death in this game. With whoever will face him at the floor 100. The plan didn't work out all the way there, but he had no time to adjust anything about it. Thus, the platform in the end was made prior to it. Was made in preparation for his original plan. Thus, it stands to reason, that his blade was always programmed to teleport whoever he will "kill" with it, after death animation instead of brain frying. This is why Asuna's death didn't phase him - he knew she was simply teleported.
@@Leuncode Very good point. I can certainly see Kayaba wanting to chat with the person he duels, win or lose, so I can see his fatal blow not triggering the nervgear. I'm hoping the progressive series covers it in clearer detail.
you know when I first saw it this episode it made me wonder what happened right there when asuna was there with kirito because we thought she was dead, but to me as it turns out what if Kayaba actually pause the shock procedure of her nervegear because he wanted to see how kirito will fight him to defeat him and then that moment came when Kayaba gets defeated and then decides to cancel the shock procedure of asuna nervegear telling the two that yes she still alive.
To anyone confused about Kirito "coming back to life", please check the end of Kayaba's speech in the very first episode. Back then, you can see Kirito "dying", because he imagined it. Imagined how he was hit by a boar. If you compare - animation here is exact same. It doesn't make sense for a sword stuck in his chest to push him same way, because it didn't happen. Because - Kirito simply imagined dying, a future awaiting for him in a moment, and then his willpower (lost with Asuna's death) came back and thus he disagreed with imagined outcome and "came back". Nothing superficial, no revival items or anything. Simple act of one last defiance against the fate.
It’s simple, cheer WILL FUCKING POWER! Plus imagine your one of the 14 that died literally minutes before kirito has the clutch of the century and clears the game. RIP😢
10:12 Dont know if anyone mentioned it but, Kirito broke the system at that point. Dual wielding is designed to allow you to wield 2 swords yet Kirito was able to wield Asuna Rapier together with his sword which the system should have prohibited. Kayaba smiled because he found someone who was able to overcome the system.
Kirito didn't use the Dual Wielding with the rapier, system doesn't prohibit you from having 2 swords in your hands. Dual Wielding is a skillset with animation based attacks, which all of the Swords Skills are essentially. You start the motion, system recognizes it if all conditions met - such as having 2 one-handed swords, and then starts animation and light effects. When Kirito used rapier - there was no light effects, he simply pushed it with his hand, not Sword Skill :)
I hope you like this season cuz the next part is what for most of the 1st season drop the show, at least the next season somehow fix it but it's at the 3rd season that we feel SAO original arc vibes again
Neel, after you've finished watching SAO, you really should read SAO as a light novel. Because the anime missed a lot of the details of the novel. But that's up to you. Sincerely, Miras. I'm sorry for my English.
All these dudes talking about stuff that is best left for later. If I remember the term...spoiler? Right? Let the dude experience it himself. I know stuff got cut out, or should have been inferred, but something like special circumstances for "why things happen" gets covered eventually, basically, and I personally found it most fun to find out when the anime decided to reveal those things. Speculation is one of the joys of animes and such. Just because we know stuff doesn't change that we didn't know when we first watched it, unless a LN reader, whom shouldn't ruin stuff then for others. Sad fucking face.
For as much confidence as Kayaba has that they would all reach floor 100 to face him, I’m not sure they ever would - not after Kirito exposed him. And it has less to do with them not having Heathcliff anymore as much as it has to do with “how do you come back from this kind of betrayal?” KoB is a dead guild at this point - nobody would ever have faith in them again. Not to mention it’s hard enough to unite the floor clearers since they represent so many different guilds with different underlying interests. It’s my hot take that if Kirito didn’t defeat Kayaba right here and now they never clear the game and everyone dies.
I don't know. The fronline fighters were never a unified group. They only united to fight boss monsters. And the bosses on floor 25, 50 and 75 would be the hardest to beat in the entire game. That's explained in tehe light novels. So they would most probably manage to defeat all the bosses up to floor 100. If only to get their revenge on Heathcliff for decieving them. I don't know, if anyone would be strong enough to defeat Heathcliff though with Kirito gone after losing this duel.
when kirito got the revive item it said that, after the game character died, the real person would die after 8 minutes, that's why kirito didn't die in reality
No such thing. There's roughly 10 seconds between HPs dropping to 0 and character disappearing. Basically - time of the death animation. No minutes, not even a single second after full death of character. Only a few after the HPs shows 0 to you. Thing is - there's no need for any of this in the episode. First - just like in episode 1, Kirito imagined himself dying, even the animation is the same. But then went against the fate thus symbolically in his mind he returned. With his willpower he managed to prolong the death animation long enough to land the hit. Second - why did he and Asuna survive? It's evident, that Kayaba never intended to kill anyone with his own blade. The only person he ever planned to duel to death was supposed to be a player at the floor 100. He didn't have time in this episode to prepare the place where Kirito and Asuna ended up with him. He made in advance. Meaning - his sword was already programmed to teleport whoever will be killed by it instead of brain frying part.
Thanks for reactiion and gotta know, can't wait for future episodes. I mean I know some people who doesn't love next arc, but it's still good (and yes I love 2 season also my lil haters... but not Calibur of course)
In the Light Novel is explained how the power of will can affect the virtual world, when Liz creates swords if she put a lot of mental work the swords have a lot of great buffs, here was the same, Asuna's determination to save Kirito let her break the system and Kirito's determination to save everyone (and Asuna's sacrifice) let him brek the system and defeat Kayaba
Aka the early version of the "Incarnate" system that's used in Accel World.
@@ryuushinzo3559it is basically the origin of accelerated world and incarnation system
Yeah, this is really not an important detail, I understand why they never told about his. Jokes aside after 10 years, I finally got my answer for this question, thanks bro!
@@misipapa3626SAO as an anime adaptation is so Bad because they skipped a lot Of explanations because is a Light Novel :/
@@Der0310no that not the reason there many anime that are based on light novels it was written for a short story tournament
Its been years since I watched SAO but I still teared up a bit. This show never left my heart
SAO was the first anime I saw and im glad it was, It has a very special place in my heart, Ill remember it for the rest of my life
God bless u both, cuz i was a bit afraid that you'll get harrased for just liking/loving SAO, cuz the hate is STILL very strong, even after alicization.
Same i cried
I want to tell you how Asuna and Kirito were able move like that in the end of the battle. It's called Incarnation, which allows to use sheer willpower to temporarily overload and bypass the system of a game in order to perform unnatural feats beyond even the scope of the system. When Kirito used «Incarnation», it allowed him to cheat death just long enough so that he could deliver one final attack on Kayaba. Asuna used it too, when she moved to protect Kirito. In the original light novel Kirito never fell apart to yellow pieces.
@@trapgalaxy1374 Yes, actually in Alicization the Incarnate System is the base from all the logic in Underworld
@@Der0310 but Incarnation in sao and underworld are much different
@@Roronoa_Ze0Yes and no, Underworld is based in SAO's Cardinal System, the Incarnation in SAO is the beggining of how Incarnation works, in Underworld is all the potential Of the Incarnation being used
So many people seem to be unable to use common sense with this scene. Him exploding is literally the same self-image as in the first episode; he didn't actually disintegrate until after he beat Heathcliff, and this should be patently obvious with just some basic analysis.
Except that Kayaba EXPRESSLY SAID he didn't make a system that could do that. That's just more terrible writing.
If the episode and series ended in the goodbye scene were they both dissapeared, i think that would had left a scar on me for life and i wouldve cried for weeks, maybe months
Would have been interesting to see other seasons with the perspectives of new main characters (for example, ALO arc with Leafa as mc or/and Yuuki just dealing with their shit, GGO with Sinon, Alicization with Eugeo and Alice). You can't convince me that it would be that bad
You know, the best thing that the author of SAO, Reki Kawahara can do is to make you feel as if you were offered to eat huge cups full of first-class shattered glass, and you will like it.
Some missing context under the terms of "fair use".
01:15
This was mentioned in the last episode. The assault group has already started to lose people due to lack of motivation, because they are used to living in Aincrad.
08:28
Although at first Kirito decided that he would not use the swordskills, later he panicked and activated the most powerful skill, called "Eclipse" in the novel. You can notice the activation by the glow of the swords (SAO greatly abuses the formula "show, don't tell"). However, the more powerful the skill, the longer the system will make the player freeze in place after its completion. In addition, Kayaba personally developed all the skills, and was preparing for a fight with the "Hero". Kirito himself did not like this skill before because of excessive dependence on the system. But, in the end, he mistook Kayaba's cold concentration for self-confidence, only to discover his mistake the next moment after swordskill activation.
11:00
Let me introduce you to the concept that a strong will can overwrite the data of the virtual world. Strong influence of the film "The Matrix".
11:19
Kayaba finally finds The Solution.
11:45
Lisbeth's POV, the only part of her story not included in the show.
"[The game will now be entering forced administration mode. All monsters and item spawns will be suspended. All NPCs will be dismissed. The hit points of all players will be fixed to their maximum amount.]
A system error? Did some fatal bug appear...?
That was what I thought for an instant. My heart was gripped with unease. But in the next moment-
[Aincrad Standard Time, November the seventh, fourteen-fiftyfive, the game has been cleared.]
-And the system voice reported thus.
The game, has been cleared.
I could not understand the meaning of those words for several seconds. The other players around too, stood still with their
expressions frozen. However, upon hearing the line it led to, all of them sprung up.
[All players will be logged out in sequence. Kindly wait at your
current location. I repeat...]
Suddenly, “Wooah!”, and such huge cheers of joy erupted. The ground, no, the whole of the Floating Castle Aincrad trembled.
Everyone was hugging each other, rolling about the ground, shouting out loud with their hands raised towards the sky. I didn’t move, didn’t say a word, simply standing in front of my store. I somehow managed to lift up my hands, and covered my mouth.
So he did it. He-Kirito did it. With his usual recklessness...That was what I believed. After all, the foremost frontlines were
still at the seventy-fifth floor, but with the game cleared like this, this absurd, thoughtless, act of foolhardiness was definitely Kirito’s deed.I felt like I heard soft murmurs close to my ears.
-I, kept my word...
“Yeah... Yeah... Finally, you did it...”
With that, hot tears spilled from my eyes. Without bothering to wipe them away, I thrust my right hand up with all my might, jumping up and down without stop"
On top of that, for more contrast, it remains to add only a one-second long scene of the boss's room, with a bitter sea of men's tears.
13:40
Kirito and Kayaba talk about slightly different "It". Unfortunately, Kayaba's way of thinking will be revealed much, much later, so many viewers have already forgotten this scene by that time, and do not catch the connection. Now I can only say that Kayaba wanted to do "something", but in the process he was completely disappointed in his idea, and that now he is talking more to himself.
16:40
Disabling the possibility of death for Asuna was Kirito's requirement before the duel. Kayaba, of course, is a psycho, but he is an honest psycho.
They hint at asunas true strength of will in the light novel, she was able to reach kirito before he was killed by kuradeel by moving faster than she should have been able to.
in the new movie she is given a necklace by Argo (I think) that makes her immune to paralysis, So you could argue its either of those reasons or both of them
@@TheCipherUK 1. Wasn't Argo but not canon anime original character which already should tell you that this isn't what affected this episode. 2. It was necklace against a poison from lower levels of Aincrad - not only it wouldn't work against *anything* on a floors 70+, but would never work on admin-made paralysis.
Where do people even come up with these ideas from?...
“Wtf commander, why did you paralyze me?”
“Really Asuna? Even now I’m not convinced you won’t try to set me on fire with your mind.”
“You’re trying to do it right now, aren’t you?”
“STARE!!!”
Hahahhahahahahh i see u are a man of culture aswell
This was a very emotional episode for me! Kirito remembering those who died when he realized who Kayaba was, talking to Agil and Klein before he fought and them him requesting from Kayaba that Asuna not be able to kill herself and of course Asuna throwing herself in front of Kirito and dying. The music just makes it that much more tragic!
Please for the love of god people in the comments who keep telling Neel to skip the second half of season 1 (ALO), or skip GGO, or skip all the way to Alicization, or just stop watching now, etc. just stop!
Stop assuming you already know how he is going to feel about something. Just because you may dislike it doesn't mean he is going too. Clearly the man is enjoying the anime, stop trying to take that from him!
Neel, if you read this. There is an explanation of sorts given later as to how and why the events that happened in this episode unfolded the way they did. Its a bit of a ways away though. However, worth the watch imo. Hope you enjoy the rest of SAO! And as others ay have told you, Season 3, or Alicization, is fantastic. There are some slow parts in-between now and then, but I recommend you keep at it. Its a good story and I think you'll like it. :)
THANK YOU. omg people just need to stop
Kirito defeated the system himself, he did not accept that he died and it was with a very strong determination, so he activated a skill, this skill is called 'incarnate', the stronger the determination and imagining of something, then it will happen, skill 'incarnate' You can understand this in Sword Art Online Alicization, where willpower and imagination are the basis of strength.
That's why they have the ability called the "Incarnate Arms" Can't wait Neel to react on that part I want him to reach Alicization that's shit is Peak when my first time watching it
The reason why Kayaba made Sword Art Online, why he made the death trap that killed 4000 people, is very simple.
Because it made it real. By making death a reality, it not only stopped being a game, it because their real life. As people say, "death is what gives life meaning", after all.
Kayaba dreamed of a castle in the sky, of a world different from his own. But he is only human, he isn't a god, so he can't go there.
That's why he made it himself, he used all humans can to make not a game, but a genuine and truly real other world.
It's funny really, that mentality of his, that drive, is exactly what made SAO such an incredible game, what made it the unbelievable landmark that it was. What made it have this incredible quality and attention to detail, was no other than the exact same thing that killed thousands of people.
Sword Art Online was a game made with unbelievable love from it's creator, and that very love made it an atrocity.
Morbidly beautiful isn't it? That's why I love this guy as a villain.
Image being killed right before everyone gets out 😂
I've seen SAO many times, but it doesn't matter, the sentimental scenes never fail to make me cry. They really know how to make us feel bad
Heatcliff/kayaba akihiko smile at the end when kirito stab him, yep thats truly tell his goal already achieved
One thing that is never mentioned in the anime. The Bosses on Floors 25, 50, 75, 100 all have huge difficulty scaling. That's why we went from Kirito practically Soloing Floor Boss 74 and Then Floor Boss 75 causing 14 casualties, took Arguably the 2 strongest players in the game working together to Block its main attacks, The Hax god blocking main attacks, and Elite players all working together to take it down. Keep in mind, only a few 100 players actually fight on the front lines at this point in time. Now this is more speculation then actual facts. Based on the pacing, they would have probably hit a wall by Floor 90, losing nearly all front line players, and be forced into talking lower level players into getting geared up and level up to join them in what's essentially suicide. We're talking maybe another 2-5 years to clear the game. They Lost 14 players in that fight, several of which got 1 shot. That Victory came with the bittersweet realization for everyone in that room that they were facing an uphill battle. If that same group took on another 5 floors together, probably 80-95% would have been killed and replaced with different players.
My fan theory is that The Cardinal System decided to play a little bit of favoritism in this episode. As Yui explained, the Cardinal system is in control of every aspect of the world. Its primary goal is to ensure fairness without the need of human interaction. So why not give Kirito a little bit extra time against the final boss that is being fought 25 floors early.
Then Kirito was allowed to live because the Cardinal recognized that he and Ausna had beaten the final boss.
Remember that the revival item he got from the Santa boss works up to a certain amount of time. This implies that they do not die immediately, but are instead added to a queue So the Cardinal simply removed Ausna and Kirito from the Kill Queue since the game was over.
The revival item actually implies that they do die immediately after the death animation. "can be brought back to life during the brief period (roughly ten seconds) between death and the conclusion of the disintegration visual effect." If anything, what happened in the end shows that Kayaba never actually intended to kill a single person by his own sword. Instead, he programmed it to teleport whoever will be slain by him after death animation into the prepared space for watching the end of Aincrad. If one listens to what Kayaba says - he only ever planned to cross the swords to end-of-life battle with whoever will face him on floor 100. He has all this planned a long time ago, Kirito and Asuna simply broke his plan 25 floors early :)
While I generally agree with most of your posts, I wouldn't discount his theory completely.
Reki has shown several instances of not just humans overcoming the system, but the AIs doing it as well. Yui, Cardinal and Adminstrator as well as many fluctlights, Metatron and some.of the other bosses in BB (AW), and even Kizmel and other NPCs in Progressive. This could have well been a moment where Cardinal also interfered.
Kayaba is not operating any console except when he firsts turns his immortality off and starts the duel. It was one on one and he was not expecting outside interference.
So even if he planned to teleport Kirito instead of killing him (which I don't believe Kayaba would do unless he lost or Kirito showed something beyond Kayaba's expectations), it is highly doubtful he would have anticipated what was going to happen and set the sword to telepoet all, plus show the health bars, and change the teleport effect to look like a death (when they teleported back to 75 it did not look the the same). Unless you also saying he is Aizen.
I could see him (although the time is very limited) setting Asuna to an immortal object but can go down to like .0000001 HP while setting up the duel, but not the teleport and death effect. Moreno I think he sent a command to not fry Asuna's brain so that when she died in game she was put in limbo (this is my interpretation and it is valid considering this hasn't 100% been explained even in the light novels, or at least the translation I read).
And I feel this way because I think he intended to let Kirito actually die. That moment when Kirito is broken, Kayaba acts very much like "I had hopes for you, but you are just pitiful now. I'm going to end it now." That look on his face is pure disappointment before he stabs him.
When Kirito suddenly fights back that is when Kayaba realizes Kirito overcame the system (or changed it, or since we now have an in-game basis for his yellow eyes from his Meditation or whatever skills it is), he smiles and allows Kirito to stab him. And since Asuna was in limbo when the game was defeated, she was not killed by the NerveGear.
I'm not saying Cardinal did do something, but I do think it's possible. I do think Kayaba fully intended to kill Kirito if Kirito didn't do something amazing. And the teleport was triggered by meeting the victory requirements and not the sword.
Regarding the revive item, which wasn't an issue here, again just my hypothesis, but, after AW's recent developments as well as the recent short story (not so recent but volume 22 I think?) as well as other events, I think the revive item could only be used while there was some part of the body remaining in the game (even if it was only dispersing particles), but real-world death still took a bit more time as the computer worked to store everything before sending the signal. Not a long time, but some lag. This would also be a possible explanation for Asuna surviving as she was still being processed when Kayaba was defeated and thus spared. I know you have your theory and it's all tied in a nice bow but I see it differently. Reki has definitely started to blur some lines (no one could go back to BB after it was uninstalled, memories lingering from SAO going to the Seed and reaching out to Asuna in ALO, the potential image of the wife way back in the first season, some elements in Underworld), lots of subtle hints that there's more there. So I have a different interpretation about how it went down, and so does this other guy. It doesn't make it wrong, unless Reki specifically outlined everything that happened. If he has I have not seen it.
@@madcat1738 I mean, everyone is free to live with their headcanons and theories, but the simpler the solution the more likely it usually be closer to the truth.
It's a fact that 3 people ended up being teleported into a same place that can only exist if was made prior to events that we witness. Given that 1 of these people is the one to set up the rules - the simplest solution is to assume his involvement in the process. Does the plan he explained to other 2 contradict what happened? No, it goes nicely in line with it.
Now, in details. Kayaba himself says that he saw Kirito and Asuna doing something more than he believed was possible. He directly says that they broke the rules of the world he established. No mention of the Cardinal as one to show him something new. On contrary - Cardinal was the one to look after the rules not to be broken in his world, so if Cardinal had direct involvement in breaking the rules - it would've been noted. I would even go as far as to say, that if you wish to find some poetic justice from Cardinal - there's more too look into in ALO, rather than SAO where it's portrayed as a villain alongside Kayaba.
"t is highly doubtful he would have anticipated what was going to happen and set the sword to teleport all, plus show the health bars, and change the teleport effect to look like a death" in programming, you oftentimes write functions as set of instructions, algorithm you then can reuse many times by using just a single line - call of that function by name. The fact that Kayaba was teleported himself shows that he had a function to teleport a player to the position outside Aincrad. In that case, all he needed to do, is to make his own avatar an exception, not making exceptions every time he may encounter someone he doesn't wish to kill. If you follow the idea so far - his actions are as simple as replacing the call to brain_fry() function by end_game_teleport() function of some sort, all inside the avatar_death() function (he doesn't need to change anything about death animation and etc, only the last act in the algorithm). We know he planned SAO incident for years. We know he had a special plan to be a final boss of the game. We know he made a place outside Aincrad to teleport to, and that same teleportation has been made 3 times, or in other words - same function has been called 3 times. So, what makes more sense - him planning use of this function only for himself in case of death, or apply this function to whoever he may kill in the process as well? Something he has to write down in code once, before SAO even starts, rather than try and change the rules for every exception he sees like Kirito and Asuna, or even for Cardinal to interfere in all this?
Maybe it's me as programmer seeing it in a different light, but that's how I would've wrote it for simplicity of it.
" I don't believe Kayaba would do unless he lost or Kirito showed something beyond Kayaba's expectations" - I think, you're forgetting how involved Kirito was supposed to be with Heathcliff in Kayaba's plan. Well, whichever player that met the planned requirements, which Kirito ended up to be in our story. Heathcliff jumped at the first opportunity to see Kirito's strength, at first opportunity to get him into his guild (and him being rush about it is what uncovered his identity). What does it look like? If all went as planned without early reveal - Kirito and Heathcliff would've been 2 strongest players leading the rest floor through floor up and up, until at some point, Heathcliff for his dramatic narrative, would reveal that he's Kayaba. He planned to be close to such a player, thus reveal would be as strong a betrayal as possible. He then planned to meet such a player in a duel at floor 100. One he himself made a rival, by giving both unique skill and personal hatred from betrayal. Now, do you still think, Kayaba wouldn't wish to speak to such a player in the end? Do you still think, he needed to do anything extra, to be invited on that island outside Aincrad?
On top of it - if it wasn't events of SAO making Kirito to wall up himself from others and hide the dual wielding for a very very long time - he most likely would've fought alongside Heathcliff on frontline even earlier than 75 floor. In original Kayaba's plan that is.
" I think he sent a command to not fry Asuna's brain so that when she died in game she was put in limbo " you're contradicting yourself - "Kayaba is not operating any console except when he firsts turns his immortality off and starts the duel" so when would he do this? Nor do I agree that the place she was sent was a "limbo". She ended up in the same place as Kirito and Kayaba. And that place, if anything (and especially if you read the novel) - is a stage. A place with a nice view on the end of the world Kayaba created. Everything about it screams that it was planned to be this way, prepared a long time ago.
" feel this way because I think he intended to let Kirito actually die." now, imagine for a second, that Kayaba knows exactly where Asuna is. That she's not dead, but is teleported into a place he prepared long ago. Thus his lack of concern for killing her - he simply didn't. Now, what would this make his act of "killing Kirito" into? Yes, he was disappointed there wouldn't be continuation of the duel. Yes, "killing" Kirito is a mercy at this point. But what type of mercy? If he knows he teleported Asuna, if he knows by stubbing Kirito he would teleport him too? What does it mean? Means, that mercy is not in killing him, but in reuniting him with Asuna. He simply stubbed him to send him into same place as her. What to do with them after? It would be after him. The act is both a mercy and end of the duel.
If the system had such a long lag that Kirito had a time to listen to Kayaba, slowly take the rapier, do a few steps, wait for his a ton of HP to end - the players would've been saved from outside by pulling the helmets quick enough. The only way to ensure this doesn't happen - make the helmet being capable of killing a player in a time it takes to very quickly pull the helmet off, or, in like half a second. Revival item directly says that it's impossible to revive a player after end of death animation. Thus the most logical outcome - death is almost instantaneous after end of death animation. This goes in line with Kayaba's logic of death being final in both his and real world. Leaving a player time to think about his life between death animation and brain fry doesn't make sense in that logic and is simply cruel.
@@madcat1738 Just to be clear - I'm having fun in discussing the possibilities of how to interpret the events, if I wasn't open to think about them or to question my own - my own understanding of it never would've evolved. So in case my reply may be seen as some personal attack on your theory for it being different than mine - it's not, it's just a next logical step in the discussion based of what you said :)
@@Leuncode first off, while you may not think so, your tone is highly condescending, especially with your little emoji smile and your lack of conceding any other theory could be correct when we do not have a full authorial explanation. You are free to believe what you like, and as I said I agree with many of your arguments on other areas. But it is hella arrogant to not even say I can see your theory could work even though I disagree. Nope. You just go right into explaining how your theory is incontrovertible like we are all 5 year olds.
Was Reki an accomplished programmer or was he a novelist coming up with things in his imagination? Your experience may not mean anything if Reki wasn't intending that. Occam's surprisingly doesn't apply just because someone wants it to. Lots of people think accounting is easy because everything equals out and adds up. Until they get into leases, or pensions, or valuation or a number of other things which explains why we need a license to do what we do.
Your headcanon sees it all in this nice little box. But that is what it is.....your headcanon. You don't even bother to tell the people that on these posts. You just say they were teleported by his sword exactly the way you described when that is not confirmed.
You sound just like the Danmachi fans who swear Bell is immune to curses just because he is immune to charm and one ambiguous event in the second season.
And why would the person be conscious between game death and real death? If there was some type of process they could very well be unconscious during that time. And since the bodies are data that can be formed anywhere, Asuna could have been in a bodiless state of limbo, unconscious until either real death occurs or in this case Kayaba or the system recognizing victory stops the death process and sends her to the platform.
Even the most meticulous planners miss things, and they cannot account for every possible outcome. Considering his age, even if he dreamed of his castle in the sky, he was not likely dreaming of the Incarnate system all those years. And even if he had some foresight into it, he could not predict when or if it would happen. So while you seem to think he was flawless in his planning and accounted for everything to come down to a moment he didn't even predict, that logic is highly flawed to me.
He's human. He might have saved Asuna, but he intended to kill Kirito in that moment. Maybe not at the beginning of the duel (although Kirito felt it was kill or be killed and I agree) but definitely at that moment the intent to kill was there.
Did he make Asuna unkillable right at the moment Kirito asked? Possibly. We don't see him. Did Cardinal decide to save her because she broke the paralysis and Cardinal needed to figure out how the system was overridden? Also possible. And also possible is a short time lag between game death and real death but long enough for Kirito to overrule the system and Kayaba let himself get stabbed.
Even one other possibility...since he deemed Kirito to be the hero to fight the Demon King, then Asuna became his princess and Kayaba secretly makes her immortal but can take damage essentially to 0 HP. He intended to kidnap her when he made his big reveal to make the emotionz stronger and really pour on the betrayal just like a big game twist. But he gets found out early. So now he plans to defeat Kirito without killing him, and to further humiliate him and in his role as Demon King, capture Asuna as further incentive to fight on. And Asuna breaking the paralysis and stepping in front of the blow plays right into his hands, so he has her teleported (programmed when he made her immortal) at that moment. But then he sees Kirito utterly broken and decides to kill Kirito and figure out what to do with Asuna later. But Kirito snaps out of it and surpasses his limits and unicorn rushes the rapier into Kayaba. And his reward for winning is saving his princess. Unlikely but fits in with a lot of fantasy game themes.
It's also possible under your scenario. I don't agree but it is a valid theory. But I'm not going to present my theory as undisputed fact. Because unless and until Reki explains what happened (even if he's changed his mind about it or evolved his position on it), all we have are theories.
And discussing them is fine. But when you see someone tell you they see where you are coming from but disagree and make their point, explaining your point that they already understood (especially after reading it over and over in the other comment threads) comes across like "You really don't understand because if you understood you would agree with me because I'm obviously correct. Let me explain it to you again because I'm sure this time you'll see how dumb your argument is and how brilliantly beautiful my argument is." To riff off a very annoying member of House Vermillion.
I might have tried a Fire Force reference, but I got tired of all the firefighter comparisons in the other thread. And it's been a good while since I watched it.
Okay so, since it ain't canon and its just speculation, beware, but:
At 11:40, the reason why Kirito was able to still attack after "dying" is because assumedly Klein never used the revive item he got from the Santa Claus thingie that Kirito gave him. Its the only logical explanation there is to why Kirito was still able to attack after "dying", because he got instantly revived right after by Klein.
Anyways, this is just my speculation, but ay', better than no explanation.
The explanation is the power of Will and the Incarnation thats is used in Alicization and Accel World, you can imagine and use your mind to change the logic and rules of the virtual world
Look up episode 1, right after Kayaba's speech - Kirito imagines himself dying. Here, they used the same animation (which doesn't correlate to the sword being stuck in his head) to show that he imagines it again. But this time, he doesn't accept this fate, thus symbolically "comes back" in his mind. There was no resurrection because there was no death :)
No it's actually explained in another comment here. He and Asuna were able to overload the system with their willpower. That's why she was able to ove while paralysed and why Kirito was able to hold his body together just long enugh to deliver the final blow on Kayaba. The light novel explains it a bit better than the anima.
no cuz of the power of Will and the Incarnation that is used in Accel World, and nervegear sent the info to the brain directly, if they have strong enough will power, they theoretical
can control the system.
"Did they pop off on the animation this episode". Man, I can't wait for you to watch Alicization
Promise you man, The next half of the season is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It is rather entertaining, tho not as goo as s2/3/4 if you ask me. Enjoy, you got a hell of a ride coming up. Also: Yellow Eye Kirito, is whenever he breaks the system. Youll see it occasionally from here on. Itll make sense as it goes.
Feels like this would have been the perfect time to bring back that revival item. It was long enough ago and during such an emotional moment that bringing it back for Asuna would have been a great callback cause it makes sense they'd have it and finally it gets used to save someone important to him.
The way that they both didn't die after disappearing to my understanding is because Kirito had just cleared to game so I think the system didn't have the time to kill them before it started dismantling itself.
He literally went god mode when eyes turn yellow
I understand why people get confused about the anime after kirito get's stabbed...tldr explanation: the short scene where he falls down and "dies" before "revivinge" to kill kayaba was only in kiritos mind... You can see that after that short scene, the real kirito holding Asunas rapier has only just started to "dissapate"...
They did not die by a system in the game, if you remember the episode when he beat an event monster on 24th december called Nicholas the Renegade cause that monster was dropping an item to revive a player cause he wanted to revive Sachi. It only works till i think it was 15 minutes after the player died, which means Nervegear does not fry someones brain instantly when they die, but only after some time passes after they die. Since he completed the game in that time they are both alive.
Its 10 minute before someone got their HP to zero. Tho didnt Kirito give it to Klein? U saw in the episode he threw it to Klein and said "if someone dies close to you some day, use it." But yeah it makes sense he should had kept it.
@@Y0sh1no5am He is not referring to the use of the item, he is referring to the 10 minute rule. If the item could be used to revive a player who died in-game up to ten minutes later, that means that in reality that player still wouldn't have their brain fried up to ten minutes later.
And yes, Klein must still have the item, but I've come to see many people on other channels spreading the idea that they used the item on Asuna, when this is completely false.
Actually is Just the Incarnate System that Will be used in Alicization and Accel World
@@maac_5104 Look up the end of Kayaba's speech in episode 1. Kirito imagined himself dying there. Exact same animation is in this episode in total disregard to how the physics works recreating the boar hit in it. Meaning - there was no resurrection, for there was no death - Kirito imagined himself dying, and to symbolize him disagreeing with the outcome, he imagined himself coming back. If anything, it's revival of his willpower after Asuna's death.
As for revival item - Kirito specifically asked Klein to use it on the first person he sees dying in front of him. So much time has passed since then - he would've used it already.
@@Y0sh1no5am can't tag more than one person, but I just explained what happened here in the comment above :)
Sao season 1, my top 1 anime for sure, absolute masterpiece
He did ACTUALLY die. It was basically just his imagination
People give this show a lot of shit but Ithink the last 2 seasons that came out were pretty fire and theses first few early seasons really flesh out the world and emotions that make the latest season hit. Cant wait for more reactions!
On god, The only arc I don't really like is Alfhiem Arc, Gun-Gale Arc is a little better but Aincrad Arc and the Alicization Arc are both gas
@@theunwanted7_716aincrad could have been way better if they didn’t rush the shit out of it though. I love that alicization had 2 full season to really flesh everything out and it was amazing
I have my theory that Klein used the rare item that Kirito gave him to revive a player within 10 seconds of their death. I remember Kirito gave it to him and we never heard anything about him using it.
Next Arc is also really good don't let anyone tell you otherwise
Sure, if you like rape and incest.
This is my 14 time finishing and this episode still makes me cry way harder still😢❤❤❤❤
Dude your gonna love the next episode
Yo i didn't expect an sao reaction as well today
Bruh...you will bawl your eyes out for Mother's Rosario if this episode made you cry.
dont forget the finale of alicization too (the best arc sao for me)
@@funtastic9401 you know that "()" this is spoiler basically? Edit for atleast plz.
@@funtastic9401 nah bruh, most of each arc of Alicization is a tearjerker.
This is such a great series its drops a bit in the second part of the series but it picks up again later
Thanks you so much for reacting to this sir ! It means a lot to me
You better remember what kayaba said about his castle still floating in some other world it will be mentioned in the future and also that was kirito's God mode and it's really hard to explain so I'll just say that you can say that he gets stronger i wish i could explain it in simple words but i can't 😅😅😅
I read about a lot of theories about this episode. The one i didn't see is about how asuna didn't die. I think it's because of the promise kayaba made to kirito about asuna killing herself. Jumping in front of the attack to save kirito is suicide. And about kirito, my favorite theory is about the 10 seconds after death rule in the game (so you can be revived with an item) klein has the item with him but i don't think he used it because he was paralyzed and kirito wasn't revived he disappeared after killing kayaba. I think it was his willpower that made him overcome the system in the 10s window he has. He was able to hack the system before to get yui's heart. So i think the game system isn't perfect and can be overwritten.
I think its nerve gear doesnt instanly burn the brain after the player died, remember drop item from nicholas that can revive player within 10 minute? I think there's some spare time before the brain got seriously damaged
@@saskara6641 There was no need for resurrection. Look up episode 1, right after Kayaba's speech - Kirito imagines himself dying. Here, they used the same animation (which doesn't correlate to the sword being stuck in his head) to show that he imagines it again. But this time, he doesn't accept this fate, thus symbolically "comes back" in his mind. There was no resurrection because there was no death :)
As for why Asuna didn't die, we can only guess, but there was a high probability Kayaba never intended to kill anyone by his own sword and just teleported her as players imitated in the murder mystery episode :)
@@Leuncode No the light novel makes it pretty clear that he and Asuna died. Kirito was just able to hold his body together on pure willpower to kill Kayaba as well.
And they both survived because that was Kayabas reward for defeating him. He just didn't want them to die after they both broke the system with their willpower and defeated him.
That's what's interesting about Kayaba. Yes he is an asshole for even starting this death game but he is also honorable and would never let the warriors who defeated him die after clearing the game.
@@She-Devil94 " hold his body together on pure willpower to kill Kayaba as well" this is after the scene I was referring to. Half the comment section believes Kirito died twice in this episode. I'm saying - no, only once. You're saying that Kirito dies which, if in singular, doesn't contradict what I said.
@@She-Devil94 As for what happened in their "death", if factual - in literal sense neither of them died and was simply teleported away. Unlike players in the murder mystery - Kayaba, as creator of the game, didn't have to rely on tricks to do this - he simply went them through all the same animation as death, but teleported them at the stage of algorithm that was supposed to fry their brains. He didn't do it because they broke the system. He let them live *after* teleportation because of it. He *let* Kirito kill him because of it. But at the moment of Asuna's death, when the act was singular - he didn't pay attention to what he saw. He was too excited about the duel to pay attention, especially knowing he didn't actually kill her. And only when the system was broken a second time in front of him - did he realized what happened. Not earlier. All the same applies to the novels, I've read them, you can check.
There are several theories about this episode.
Kayaba temporarily canceled death in life from death in game within the boss room.
Kirito was able to come back to life because of an item from Santa that Klein probably has.
Also the Cardinal system that controls the game may have given a way to overcome the paralysis (we saw it with Kirito earlier).
And asuna is not able to kill herself because that what kirito requested to kayaba (sorry bad english)
I’ve never heard the theory that Klein used the revive item from the Santa Claus event on Kirito. While it conflicts with the idea of “incarnation” that’s being set up for future series content, it’s still a really good theory and I’m filing it away in my head for later.
@@jdoggivjc I have heard about it a couple of times and it is a pretty cool theory
And all those theories miss the one that was explained by the anime itself, 15 minutes, thats the time span between the player dying and the Nervegear frying his brain. There is an item to revive players in game and Kirito got it trying to revive Sachi but it was useless to him since several months passed since Sachi died. Obviously if there is an item in game allowing to revive there is a system in place to no instantly fry a players brain when he dies causee than revival would be pointless.
Klein didn't use the item on kirito because he was paralyzed.
this episode was a helluva trip XD one fo the few anime epis that made me tear up. it was on a level of certain scenes from other animes
hope you can get through the next few arcs because they’re what cause most people to drop the show before getting to peak sao
now we move to the 2nd part from season 1
If you already find this episode such a roller coaster then wait for a later one in this season because there are also one or the other.
What happened should have been explained in Season 4, but it's not... but don't look for it online cause it will spoil parts of Season 3 and 4.
That's why the adaptation is all the action and non of the context.
Couple days ago i stumbled across a german dude, calls himself animetrix, makes nerdcore music. He has two songs about SAO, "Retter dieser welt" about the aincrad arc and "hol dich raus" about the second half of S1.
Its in german, and usually i dont listen to songs in others languages, but tbh those songs are bangers. Depends on if you like the genre vut i can reccomend the songs :) he also does some demon slayer songs :)
When kirito eyes change it color from black to gold, that mean kirito is in the cheat mode😂
hacks mode: on
Funny thing, I just realized that Asuna survived because Kayaba honored the promise to not let her kill herself given to Kirito :o
I will never forget when I watched this anime during the release, many of the episodes destroyed me emotionally but this last one was terrifying at the time because anime at the time did not have coverage of the situation, if it was going to continue, if it was the last episode, I myself believed it was going to end that way, even today it makes me feel extremely distressed even knowing what happens and the future of the show, I still shed a few tears.
I just love you, keep working hard
11:18 Golden eyes are in Japan a symbole for God like creatures
Btw 32 players raided the Skull Reaper. With 14 deaths, almost half of them were KIA. That's a LOT!
I gotta say that ending scene with the two and Kayaba he kind of gave me a déjà vu vibe of the near ending scene of ready player one if you know what I mean
After that Kirito never found asuna and went to bleach as sternrriter F- As Nodt to destroy byakuya :DD
But there are healthpots and that special event gave him a revive crystal that can be used for like 10 minutes or so after death.
THANKKKKSS MANNN
Legend has it, klein used the revival itemdrop to save kirito
No more than a legend - Kirito didn't need saving by revival item in the first place :) Check episode 1 right after Kayaba's speech - Kirito already "died" there once. Well, he imagined himself dying, with same exact animation, but this time he didn't accept his fate thus "came back". So people have to accept 1 of 2 options - either they believe Kirito died and came back in this episode and thus had died and didn't came back in episode 1... Or both cases happened entirely inside his head :)
He doesnt have the item anymore, used it to save Kirito right after he got it. But its not in the anime
A: What do you know. Looks like it's finally my turn.. to make you cry.
K: A..Asuna..
A: It's ok. Go on. Cry. Cry your little bi*ch... tears...
10:09. Just look at Kirito. He had someone to fight for and lost her. He’s broken entirely.
I never read the SAO LN, I wonder if in that, Kayaba explains how Kirito and Asuna are still alive after being dead.
I think the CLOSEST thing that explains is is in the chapter Kirito goes find the item that revives a player, and the item says you need to use in the what, three minutes after the death? So I imagine your virtual body or your mind is transported to a place where you have to see a fucking countdown or something of the time you have left before the Nerve Gear destroys your brain.
I dunno what or how, but believe me: Reading the LN would help a lot more. Or a better addaptation of the animations, like they did with Alicization.
The reason they both live is simply because Kayaba kept them alive. They showed him something he previously thought impossible, so he spared them.
if you are wondering why kirito came back after he died fighting kayaba you saw his eyes turn yellow (the yellow eyes are anime only) but what it means is he overpowered the system with his willpower in game its called incarnation you will see once you watch the other seasons of Sao Specifically the 4th season either way great reaction love sword art online fr
If you are wondering why Kirito "came back" you need to check the end of Kayaba's speech back in episode 1, when Kirito is shown to die... Or, to be precise - Kirito imagined himself dying. In same exact animation of boar hitting him as in this episode now. Him "coming back" is symbolic way to show his willpower coming back after him seeing Asuna's death. The entire thing happened in Kirito's head. Although after it - Kirito's willpower did help him to prolong his death animation (which only started after what happen in his head, if you actually check it) long enough to hit Heathcliff.
Sao is so so good just wow it makes me cry so much everytime
When a player die in the game
There is a time before they die in Real life i don't remember i think its 30 seconds something
They don't die instantly IRL
So in short Kirito manage surpass the system to keep alive by the power of his will and kill Kayaba just before that time
There's no such delay. The delay many mistook for it, starts when the avatar starts to crumble after HPs reach 0 - in other words - death animation. And this is the key part - Kirito lost his willpower after Asuna's death. Got his avatar killed - when HPs reached 0, he did exactly same thing he did in episode 1 right after Kayaba's speech - imagined himself dying. They even reused the animation to point this out (because for season 1 they preferred this way instead of voicing internal thoughts of characters). Kirito imagines his own death, and this is the point when he felt the anger, injustice of what has happened to Asuna and him. His willpower comes back and thus in his mind, symbolically, death animation is reversed and he's back. Entire scene is in his head. Only after that does the actual death animation starts. Through his willpower, Kirito manages to prolong this animation long enough to take Kayaba with him. Who just saw 2 people breaking the system one after another, thus agreed that he lost as the ruler of that world and took the hit instead of dodging.
As for why neither Kirito or Asuna died in the end - it's evident, that Kayaba simply teleported them after the death animation. We may even theorize that he never intended to kill a single player by his own sword and programmed his sword to do the teleportation a very long time ago. After all, he only ever planned to fight a single player to death on the 100th floor.
though all us fans celebrated Nov. 6, 2022(irl date for us, and the date when the Death Game began), i just wonder what we'll all do in 2024.......
I think Asuna was still alive even after dying in the game , because earlier Kirito told Kayaba not to let Asuna to kill herself. I think Kayaba disabled the ability to kill her at the beginning of their fight
1:00 famous last words
don't feel embarrassed Neel, we were all the same way on this episode, and others to come.....
The Will Incarnate System explains why Asuna was able to move despite the paralysis effect and why Kirito put off dying to strike at Kayaba. As for why Asuna didn't get her brain fried, that would be the most fair plot hole critique I've heard as no solid explanation is given. My take is that Kayaba temporarily suspended it pending the outcome of the duel. So anyone who dies out in the game world while the duel is taking place is put into limbo until the duel is concluded.
Taking this as a plothole is going at the events backwards. No, this fact is left to create understanding of the character, not the other way around. If we listen to Kayaba - he only ever intended to have a single duel to death in this game. With whoever will face him at the floor 100. The plan didn't work out all the way there, but he had no time to adjust anything about it. Thus, the platform in the end was made prior to it. Was made in preparation for his original plan. Thus, it stands to reason, that his blade was always programmed to teleport whoever he will "kill" with it, after death animation instead of brain frying. This is why Asuna's death didn't phase him - he knew she was simply teleported.
@@Leuncode Very good point. I can certainly see Kayaba wanting to chat with the person he duels, win or lose, so I can see his fatal blow not triggering the nervgear. I'm hoping the progressive series covers it in clearer detail.
Season 1 part 2 has one of the most detestable character ever in SAO for me. I can't wait for you to see it...
you know when I first saw it this episode it made me wonder what happened right there when asuna was there with kirito because we thought she was dead, but to me as it turns out what if Kayaba actually pause the shock procedure of her nervegear because he wanted to see how kirito will fight him to defeat him and then that moment came when Kayaba gets defeated and then decides to cancel the shock procedure of asuna nervegear telling the two that yes she still alive.
To anyone confused about Kirito "coming back to life", please check the end of Kayaba's speech in the very first episode. Back then, you can see Kirito "dying", because he imagined it. Imagined how he was hit by a boar. If you compare - animation here is exact same. It doesn't make sense for a sword stuck in his chest to push him same way, because it didn't happen. Because - Kirito simply imagined dying, a future awaiting for him in a moment, and then his willpower (lost with Asuna's death) came back and thus he disagreed with imagined outcome and "came back". Nothing superficial, no revival items or anything. Simple act of one last defiance against the fate.
Honestly I like the wording of the english dub more than the original japanese. I've watched both but i like the dub for the comedy.😂
I love this episode so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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They glitched the game through willpower, that's what I thought when I first watched it but I hate that they don't explained it well here.
SAO gets way better during alicization , u will love eugeo ngl if u can reach that far
It’s simple, cheer WILL FUCKING POWER! Plus imagine your one of the 14 that died literally minutes before kirito has the clutch of the century and clears the game. RIP😢
10:12 Dont know if anyone mentioned it but, Kirito broke the system at that point. Dual wielding is designed to allow you to wield 2 swords yet Kirito was able to wield Asuna Rapier together with his sword which the system should have prohibited.
Kayaba smiled because he found someone who was able to overcome the system.
Kirito didn't use the Dual Wielding with the rapier, system doesn't prohibit you from having 2 swords in your hands. Dual Wielding is a skillset with animation based attacks, which all of the Swords Skills are essentially. You start the motion, system recognizes it if all conditions met - such as having 2 one-handed swords, and then starts animation and light effects. When Kirito used rapier - there was no light effects, he simply pushed it with his hand, not Sword Skill :)
saoa gives you a better reason then "I forgot why i did it" .....
Shits about to change bigtime. This is why I love SAO . Somethings gonna change bigtime ,well see it's only the half of the show.
I hope you like this season cuz the next part is what for most of the 1st season drop the show, at least the next season somehow fix it but it's at the 3rd season that we feel SAO original arc vibes again
Kirito: Nah, I'd adapt 🗿
Neel, after you've finished watching SAO, you really should read SAO as a light novel. Because the anime missed a lot of the details of the novel. But that's up to you. Sincerely, Miras. I'm sorry for my English.
Keep watching Neel, you’ve gotta make it to SAO Alicization. It’s peak SAO
Onward to the next arc!!!
Next we'll head into a new story, eagerly awaiting your reactions 😊
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All these dudes talking about stuff that is best left for later. If I remember the term...spoiler? Right? Let the dude experience it himself. I know stuff got cut out, or should have been inferred, but something like special circumstances for "why things happen" gets covered eventually, basically, and I personally found it most fun to find out when the anime decided to reveal those things. Speculation is one of the joys of animes and such. Just because we know stuff doesn't change that we didn't know when we first watched it, unless a LN reader, whom shouldn't ruin stuff then for others.
Sad fucking face.
just dont drop sao at any point
coz sao alicization has one the best animation and story line
so dont drop it
it might get bit boring but dont drop
For as much confidence as Kayaba has that they would all reach floor 100 to face him, I’m not sure they ever would - not after Kirito exposed him. And it has less to do with them not having Heathcliff anymore as much as it has to do with “how do you come back from this kind of betrayal?” KoB is a dead guild at this point - nobody would ever have faith in them again. Not to mention it’s hard enough to unite the floor clearers since they represent so many different guilds with different underlying interests. It’s my hot take that if Kirito didn’t defeat Kayaba right here and now they never clear the game and everyone dies.
I don't know. The fronline fighters were never a unified group. They only united to fight boss monsters. And the bosses on floor 25, 50 and 75 would be the hardest to beat in the entire game. That's explained in tehe light novels.
So they would most probably manage to defeat all the bosses up to floor 100.
If only to get their revenge on Heathcliff for decieving them.
I don't know, if anyone would be strong enough to defeat Heathcliff though with Kirito gone after losing this duel.
I love this anime so much
when kirito got the revive item it said that, after the game character died, the real person would die after 8 minutes, that's why kirito didn't die in reality
No such thing. There's roughly 10 seconds between HPs dropping to 0 and character disappearing. Basically - time of the death animation. No minutes, not even a single second after full death of character. Only a few after the HPs shows 0 to you. Thing is - there's no need for any of this in the episode. First - just like in episode 1, Kirito imagined himself dying, even the animation is the same. But then went against the fate thus symbolically in his mind he returned. With his willpower he managed to prolong the death animation long enough to land the hit. Second - why did he and Asuna survive? It's evident, that Kayaba never intended to kill anyone with his own blade. The only person he ever planned to duel to death was supposed to be a player at the floor 100. He didn't have time in this episode to prepare the place where Kirito and Asuna ended up with him. He made in advance. Meaning - his sword was already programmed to teleport whoever will be killed by it instead of brain frying part.
Now the time to watch Season 1 of SAO Abridge
One of the best episodes 😊
Your hands are really beautiful 😂
Thanks for reactiion and gotta know, can't wait for future episodes. I mean I know some people who doesn't love next arc, but it's still good (and yes I love 2 season also my lil haters... but not Calibur of course)
I want you watch this anime to end season or season 4..
a very relatable reaction, certainly hits different when you first see it... the show is indeed flawed, but god damn was it enjoyable way back then...
this is the most enjoyable part of season 1
if you say this episode is roller coster i cant wait on second half season 2 i say nothing more because no spoilers 😂
16:40 bro thinks he is aki lmao
My boy kirito did some madarad type shit
9:40 XD