Our studio team had WAY too much fun putting the 'bat' in 'combat casualties'. RIP Little Hero. Don't fail your DPS checks. Big thanks to the Something Witty Crew for bringing us on
I HAVE GOT TO ask: How many times did you have to redo the final lines until you could say: "Private BigOlNuts, if you would ... lay dear squeaker to his rest." without laughing.
Honestly yeah he should've totally yelled that during that final attack while getting PTSD flashbacks of Gary. And then failing miserably. Like "WE MUST SAVE MY FA-", then hit the ceiling.
"The bandits are coming!" "is that important?" "No they just say that every 3 seconds" "Always remember to jump. JUMP!" "and he's from the tutorial... (it's not a very good tutorial)"
@@KFP_Prophet Yeah. This is an arc that I can actually say is good. But then again, SAOA has being consistent in It's story, so who knows. It may come out just as good, or even better.
I love how all the spells are like "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" until Recon comes along with "A toll for the living, a toll for the lost" and the entire "Fear is the mind killer" mantra.
@@rosebythecreek SWE said that the spells have more complicated source materials as they get more powerful (to go with the theme of Alfheim being an educational kid’s game). They said this during the post premiere stream, but idk if that’s still up.
"Hail Grievous, amiright?" Love the nod to the fact that they're B1 battle droids and that Sugu was the one to realize and reference it, she really is the sister of Kirito.
kirito had already noticed when he made a reference to phantom menace with his "army of racial stereotypes" (the gungans) quip but suguha is referencing either revenge of the sith or the clone wars show bc grievous isnt in phantom menace
I love how both siblings took accountability for their part in the problems while also excusing the others parts. It's the most satisfying resolution possible IMO
"Grandpa divorced Grandma cause she asked one time for him to eat an orange so he wouldn't get scurvy." Kirito, I think your family is more messed up than you realize.
Even in the original, I kinda got "this is Grandpa's fault vibes". It even fits the stereotype. A lot of MMO junkies have really horrible relatives. It's kinda how we got this way.
It was so brilliant that the MOMENT after they said the said the salamanders had a ""personal"" thing I guessed it was the funeral the milisecond before the cut (bc I mean what ELSE would they care about)
So recon not only had the badass moment in the fight, which bought time for the cavalry to arrive, but in the "I gotta tell everybody" moment, it was when he sent everyone Kazuto's tweet, which made the cavalry come to begin with. he's gotta be checked for scoliosis after this, cause MY BOY RECON WAS CARRYING THIS TEAM SO HARD
@@winst7765 Yeah... when i saw it was 18 minutes and knowing what the first 6 were i thought it'd be some rug pull he gets to the top and asunas like oh yeah no he's like super dead, lets go home.
I can’t believe they took a silly throwaway joke with the tweet at the start of this season and called it back as actually part of the plot. And actually using the fact that Kirito well known and is seen as heroic for saving people’s lives to tie it all together. MADLADS. It does suck that it takes so long in between episodes but no wonder. We aren’t abridged anymore. We’re straight up re-writing the show and essentially re-shooting the damn show as well
I believe the folks at Something Witty Entertainment said during the live feed that the reason it took so long was that they were working on 18, 19, and 20 at the same time. I'm hoping that means 19 won't take a year to see.
@@MamaCeelin True but wasn't that resolved within about a week, or did the dispute start a significant amount of time before it was mentioned publicly?
Ngl I forget that Kirito actually saved THOUSANDS of people from a death trap, and even when all of that was over it STILL wasn’t over bc of Sugou. And the Cait Sith and Sylph leaders being like “hey kid, you saved SO many of our loved ones. Of course, we’ll help you save your wife” I am on the verge of tears it was so beautiful.
R(ec)on was going to be spiders. He just was. He wasn't proud of that, but it was going to be hard to not have spiders all over his body after all is said and done. From Harry Potter and the portrait of what looked like a large pile of ash.
The fact you can hear Schmitt talk about the "meat tobogan" stuff around the 1:45 time is awesome (if you can't hear it turn on captions) such amazing attention to detail, good god
CC is *SO* underrated in this Abridged, dude, you're basically telling people to get another full-sized helping just to try a seasoning in one piece of the meal
"For the one true Kirito!" Gonna be honest, I was PRAYING that it turn out that way. Now to wait for the return of 'Pissed off nerd with admin privileges!'
...I will be unable to stop chuckling at the fact the entire salamander race was occupied giving a funeral for a familiar NPC. Like that is just absolute loyalty to the bit.
"His dear wife Zelda, and their 2 beautiful children, Nathaniel and Superfly" Wooooowwww that is a deep cut! Weird Al Yankovic's Albuquerque? What a good reference!
To be fair, this was more character development that happened at the start of the arc, not here, as even when they first left the city Kirito was a bit defensive of Recon.
What’s really impressive is everyone read his tweet and immediately responded. I can’t get 2 people to meetup for canoeing with a months notice yet this dude pulls in 2 armies in 3 hours.
Their apology is so genuine and honest that I sometimes forget that this is an abridged and not the actual series. But I will treat this as the actual canon cause you deserve it.
@@WishMakers Your friends were right to warn you away from it. I wish I could bleach the canon of this show out of my head. The abridged is WAY better. In the canon, Kirito's sister has romantic feelings for him. That is somehow NOT the worst thing the canon did.
Damn they actually communicated to resolve their issues. Incest was avoided with ease. They gave a really damn good reason for those other groups to show up and support them, and a good reason for the Salamanders to not. Overall just really nicely done.
13:27 IS THAT THE FEAR DUNE QUOTE. for thos that missed it he whole thing is. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
In honor of Schmitt's reappearance: You hear that, Asuna? "Meat toboggan". Try getting _that_ image out of your head. Grippin' his entrails like the reign of Santa's sleigh. Streaking through the fresh morning snow on a trail of bile and gore, as his eyes beg the same question as the horrified children in his wake... _"Why?"_
Love the Litany against Fear bit. Absolutely hilarious that a spell that ends with "only I will remain" is a suicide spell. Doubly funny because the game leaves you as a spirit where you die for a while, so the line might be literally true if you manage to take out all your enemies with the spell.
I hope Kirito removes that gosh darn profanity filter because FUDGE that’s getting old! Kirito: By the way I disabled the profanity filter! Have fun with that~
@@thecatladytm7172 oh or Kayaba: hey Kirito. time to show Sugo a pissed of nerd with admin privileges. Here's my account. Have fun with that. 2 callbacks in 1 line
i posted on the first episode of Aldheim that the first thing hes gonna do is turn off profanity filter and rip a 90 second string of comebacks he held in after their first meeting.
AYOOOOO it was a MASSIVE honor to get to do a lot of the sound design for this! (also when I voiced those armor bros weeping, I was thinking about the loss of happy flute HD, rip forever)
I remember realising that this series had transcended the source material and become it's own sort of series during the first season, but every episode just takes that further and further. The characters are more fleshed out, the jokes land so much better and the story beats feel way more natural. Well fucking done SWE, the work everyone involved has put into this series has been 100% worth it in my opinion. Plunge that Clunge.
Okay but can we talk about the voice acting? SWE has always had stellar voice work, but oh my god Recon's Mind Killer and Kirito's final push scream sound so crisp and professional it's just *chefs kiss*
I wouldn't say always. First couple episodes were kinda rough with some of the side characters, and Asuna's voice was decidedly mid in the first episode. Still, I've heard worse in professional productions. (Not to say they're not a professional production now.)
The whiplash of that perfect anime "Go get her, bro" with the music swelling and everything, *immediately* undercut by "plunge that clunge!" is peak. You guys are on some shit.
"I must not fear" "Fear is the mind killer" "Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration" "When the fear is gone, there will be nothing. ONLY I WILL REMAAIIIINN!"
godamn, the others pulling up to save them because Kirito liberated SAO makes so much more sense than what actually happened in the show, where he just pulls a pile of money out of his ass. The abriged series continues to have orders of magnitude better story telling than the actual show.15:24
@@Someone-or8tpno he didn’t they helped him because for one he helped them when the salamanders were about to ambush them and two they were already planning on taking on the quest but they didn’t have everything they need so when he gave them the money it was enough for them to get everything they need the original comment dumbed it down to make it seem like it was something less than it actually was
yeah, i didn't like that joke very much, okay, they love eachother, which was already stated, and up to the babe part, it was fine, but it was going for so long i was expecting Kirito to shout about this not being the time.
This series is officially the definitive way to experience sao and no one can tell me otherwise. Love to see youve stuck with it for so long as someone whos been here since episode 3-4 of season 1
Reminds me of a song warning people not to be jerks No one's gonna cry at your funeral No one's gonna drink at your wake No one's gonna sigh with a tear in their eye And no one's gonna miss you And no one's gonna notice And I'll enjoy the silence... When. You're. Dead.
I am so curious to see how they handle Reckon here. SWE specifically set up the fact that he’s using a faulty NRV Gear and the original series completely forgets about his existence after his “heroic sacrifice” (I don’t remember him ever making an on-screen appearance after this, though I only got as far as the end of the Excalibur filler arc of the original series). Assuming he doesn’t come back post-Alicisation SWE has basically been handed the ingredients for an excellent emotional gut punch on a silver platter and they’ve already proven adept at delivering those to us.
@@atoth62I had to look that up myself; Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead. Looks like he writes YA Dystopias, including the deeply disturbing Unwind series.
*Refresher for why Suguha is bullying Kazuto:* Suguha and Kazuto used to be best friends but Kazuto abandoned his kendo lessons, resulting in their sexist grandfather abusing Suguha during her lessons to get her to quit but she pushed through. Their grandfather never wanted Suguha to learn kendo. Suguha initially tried her best to get Kazuto to come back to their lessons, but he shut her out to play video games. She then began to resent Kazuto for abandoning her and started to take great pleasure out of bullying her brother to get back at him, although she tried to hide this by calling him a "quitter" for abandoning their lessons. TLDR she hates him for abandoning her to suffer the abuse of their grandfather and mocks his hobbies to get back at him.
The brain is a little wriggly bastard that makes people cry at weddings and laugh at funerals. I laughed at my grandpa's funeral. I didn't mean to, but i did.
Holy shit, you guys brought back Kirito's crashout in episode 4. That's amazing. "My wounds _heal faster_ than you can _make them."_ "We can't keep up with this! They're making wounds faster than we can heal them!" That aside, this episode has already been worth the 2 (3?) year wait, just with that opening alone, & the resolution of their damaged relationship. That was beautiful. I'll probably edit this in case anything else pops up, but that "Karma, you vindictive bitch! Now is not the time for this!" was *_amazing._* I wouldn't have thought anything of that exchange otherwise.
I love that the Tweet joke from the beginning season 2 episode actually came back as a plot point to motivate the other players to help Kirito! The genius writing of this series, I swear to god!!!
Zelda, Nathaniel, and Superfly. Was not expecting a Weird Al reference, but I'm totally here for it! Amazing work, guys. As much as we don't like to wait, you always make it worth it. Thanks for all your hard work in creating this masterpiece.
The ending of Episode 17 had me crying for like an hour afterwards because that’s pretty much exactly what happened to me and my sister in my own life.
You have done what few others could do, transcend from simple comedic parody into proper narrative that has evolved well past the story it sought to parody in the first place
7:50 I grew up in foster care. My sister, to this day, blames me for not keeping the three of us together...despite the fact that like suguha said, I was a toddler.
I… My sister doesn’t want to talk to me because of some stuff I did when I was 8… 24 years ago… we are children of a divorce… What was I supposed to do at 8 that I haven’t taken care of and resolved in that time?
@@blackchibisan8116 Nothing you could've done but know that she is definitely hurting from it herself, she shouldn't blame you but she probably just doesn't know how to mentally resolve it. You should tell her how you feel about it if you haven't.
WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY Batchest Batchest Batchest Edit : Having watched the episode finally I gotta appreciate the Recon development , Kirito getting recognition for his heroics and the much better sibling relationship It's just the best parody series ever
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Our studio team had WAY too much fun putting the 'bat' in 'combat casualties'. RIP Little Hero. Don't fail your DPS checks. Big thanks to the Something Witty Crew for bringing us on
PAINNNN
LMAOOOO bat in combat casualties
Poor Zelda, Nethaniel and Superfly
@@winst7765 reference to Albuquerque by Weird Al Yankovic by the way
I HAVE GOT TO ask: How many times did you have to redo the final lines until you could say: "Private BigOlNuts, if you would ... lay dear squeaker to his rest." without laughing.
Kirito really ended up becoming his own Gary in the end.
"We must save my family!"
thus is what we call foreshadowing but HOLY FUCK a set up either 11 YRSRS TILL PAY OFF that is a huge commitment to the bit
😂
@@DomTheeeFoe wait remember when he met Leafa… THE BANDITS ARE COMING
Honestly yeah he should've totally yelled that during that final attack while getting PTSD flashbacks of Gary. And then failing miserably. Like "WE MUST SAVE MY FA-", then hit the ceiling.
"The bandits are coming!"
"is that important?"
"No they just say that every 3 seconds"
"Always remember to jump. JUMP!"
"and he's from the tutorial... (it's not a very good tutorial)"
"Has anyone ever told you you're TOO humble? "
"No they have not... and how dare they."
abridged Kirito at his best right here
i missed this attitude
That is such an abridged Kirito thing to say!
God if only Asuna could’ve heard that one 😂
Oh god, noo.... there's no way the "Kirito is Always Right Foundation" actually has members
Can’t wait for them to abridge alicization in about 35 years
Real. I’ll be here waiting.
I'll be there the moment i come back after finally letting go
Same.
As long as this series keeps going, I'll be following along.
Kinda curious about them abridging Mothers Rosario, because that's actually a brilliant arc.
@@KFP_Prophet Yeah. This is an arc that I can actually say is good.
But then again, SAOA has being consistent in It's story, so who knows. It may come out just as good, or even better.
I love how all the spells are like "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" until Recon comes along with "A toll for the living, a toll for the lost" and the entire "Fear is the mind killer" mantra.
IKR? I wonder if players can edit the incantations for person use so long as it goes with TOS
@@rosebythecreek SWE said that the spells have more complicated source materials as they get more powerful (to go with the theme of Alfheim being an educational kid’s game).
They said this during the post premiere stream, but idk if that’s still up.
@@rosebythecreekwe all know that optimizers would make them as short as possible
bro I love dune hearing that quote almost gave me chills
They're more advanced spells
Short king becomes confident after acquiring his girlfriend..
Yeah that checks out 😂
5’7 is average height.
Apparently not "Short" if Suguha is to be believed
It's happened before. Remember Krillin with 18 in Abridged?
In the real world he is actually taller than suguha i think but leafa is a giant
Cant believe that made him almost cool for a moment
I love that Sugoha is in a regular relationship instead of being in Kirito's Spurned Women's Club.
Incest is only wincest in Crusader Kings
For given definition of ‘regular relationship’ that is. Still, 1000x better than the original theme.
Balls is still in the club though
A club with only her and Liz is not really a club.
@@Tasty_Tango45 And the gun gale girl, and the dragon girl, and-
"They're making wounds faster than we can heal them" ROFL I was not expecting a callback like THAT
KARMA, YOU VINDICTIVE BENCH! NOW IS NOT THE TIME!!
Ow... right, I can see that being a callback. Did not think about it.
@@shadowpriest2574 that moment from episode 3(?) lives rent free in my head.
@@keyblademasterclarkep 4 I believe. Ep 3 was the guild death.
@@AC_Hurdles WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY
"Hail Grievous, amiright?"
Love the nod to the fact that they're B1 battle droids and that Sugu was the one to realize and reference it, she really is the sister of Kirito.
kirito had already noticed when he made a reference to phantom menace with his "army of racial stereotypes" (the gungans) quip but suguha is referencing either revenge of the sith or the clone wars show bc grievous isnt in phantom menace
I love how both siblings took accountability for their part in the problems while also excusing the others parts. It's the most satisfying resolution possible IMO
Brought me to literal tears....
Yeah, usually it goes with only one side apologizing, so it's good both know they were in the wrong but also too harsh on one another
let's not forget granpa
Legit better character portrayal and deveolpment than 95% of animes.
@@chasevalliere Scurvy was too good for him, I say.
Wow, that did NOT feel like 20 minutes. but DAMN THAT CLIFFHANGER, THAT IS ILLEGAL!
Even worse is that they just split one episode into two…abridged my foot!
I HATE IT HERE! TWO CLIFFHANGERS IN A ROW!
:3 I'll be 45 by the time episode 20 is out.
I KNOOOOOW
pretty nice cliffhanger, if i say so myself
"Grandpa divorced Grandma cause she asked one time for him to eat an orange so he wouldn't get scurvy."
Kirito, I think your family is more messed up than you realize.
Even in the original, I kinda got "this is Grandpa's fault vibes".
It even fits the stereotype. A lot of MMO junkies have really horrible relatives. It's kinda how we got this way.
And then he died due to scurvy. Fucking perfection right there.
After seeing the squeaker funeral sceen i can see why this might have taken a while to make. Crist let it be known they comit to the bit.
I still cant believe that they made that themselves
It was so brilliant that the MOMENT after they said the said the salamanders had a ""personal"" thing I guessed it was the funeral the milisecond before the cut (bc I mean what ELSE would they care about)
@brightstar5988 my mind was thinking they massacred them, hence no more race war
@@kel000001You're thinking of the Spriggans, aka all the Kiritos
@@kel000001 You have also read that one fanfic, right?
Kirito's angry tweet from the start of the arc saving him in the end is brilliant
RIP Squeaker
It has been years since the start of the arc, would you mind referencing the specific chapter?
@@GustavoMartinez-op9gsyeah I don’t remember which one
@@GustavoMartinez-op9gs it’s episode 12, around the 9:20 mark
@@fkhendrickson9425Thank you so much man
Squeaker lore goes HARD
So recon not only had the badass moment in the fight, which bought time for the cavalry to arrive, but in the "I gotta tell everybody" moment, it was when he sent everyone Kazuto's tweet, which made the cavalry come to begin with.
he's gotta be checked for scoliosis after this, cause MY BOY RECON WAS CARRYING THIS TEAM SO HARD
AND helped keep Kirito healed for 3 HOURS! Boy's got some stamina to be sure!
@LucianDevine Prime lebron numbers, I tell you
Don't worry, he's going to get rewarded THOROUGHLY. 😂
@@LucianDevine 14:02 And apparently he is well hung as well. A total package deal.
He even got the girl, my man had so many Ws
Somewhere, somehow, Gary is laughing at Kirito trying to 'save his family'. I just know it.
"Surely they wouldn't cut this on a cliffhanger again!"
i fucking hate myself for saying this in the pre-premiere chat
They padded it out pretty well. I thought it’d be 10 minutes if they did it like this
Literally went in this thinking it was the season 2 finale 😂
@@winst7765 Yeah... when i saw it was 18 minutes and knowing what the first 6 were i thought it'd be some rug pull he gets to the top and asunas like oh yeah no he's like super dead, lets go home.
Whelp. See you all again in 2026
Yeah, we should've seen that one coming
I can’t believe they took a silly throwaway joke with the tweet at the start of this season and called it back as actually part of the plot. And actually using the fact that Kirito well known and is seen as heroic for saving people’s lives to tie it all together. MADLADS.
It does suck that it takes so long in between episodes but no wonder. We aren’t abridged anymore. We’re straight up re-writing the show and essentially re-shooting the damn show as well
I believe the folks at Something Witty Entertainment said during the live feed that the reason it took so long was that they were working on 18, 19, and 20 at the same time. I'm hoping that means 19 won't take a year to see.
@@thatjeff7550 There was also an issue with a copyright dispute with this episode that had to get resolved so it could be released.
Please, let it be soon. I can't wait that long again. I was beginning to lose hope.
@@MamaCeelin True but wasn't that resolved within about a week, or did the dispute start a significant amount of time before it was mentioned publicly?
Ngl I forget that Kirito actually saved THOUSANDS of people from a death trap, and even when all of that was over it STILL wasn’t over bc of Sugou. And the Cait Sith and Sylph leaders being like “hey kid, you saved SO many of our loved ones. Of course, we’ll help you save your wife” I am on the verge of tears it was so beautiful.
Recon is about to get so lucky tonight he is about to be spiders.
All the spiders. ALL of them
Recon the is the Krillan in f this series
R(ec)on was going to be spiders. He just was. He wasn't proud of that, but it was going to be hard to not have spiders all over his body after all is said and done.
From Harry Potter and the portrait of what looked like a large pile of ash.
@WhatIsThatThingDoing it looked like a large pile of ash, but what was it really
@@Kairukurumi A large pile of ash. Which makes sense really.
"to save his online wife from the real life version of that rich dude from Titanic"
I never made that connection before today...
CAN WE LIVE A REAL LIFE?! A REAL LIFE?! OR DO WE EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?!?!
CAN WE LIVE A REAL LIFE?
AND KNOW PEOPLE OUTSIDE MACHINESSS
CAN WE LIVE A REAL LIFE,
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DIGITAL SEA?
@@Ferko_795Oh so that’s the line… I thought it was “Outside the chains” for some reason”
Alright time for a season one call back. Join in everyone!
Ahem.
TO THE RIGHT, TO THE LEFT
@@howlinallen7720
WE WILL FIGHT,
TO THE DEATH!
Leafa "STOP LETTING PEOPLE ABUSE YOU"
**saying while punching him**
Shes the one person allowed to 😏😏😏😏
she's one to talk
Hey, Leafa is new at this whole "being open with your emotions" and "being nice to people" thing
Recon and Kirito shaking hands with "My wife punches me during sex"
peak sister behavior tbh
Alright ladies and gentlemen, Yall know what this means.
Binge watch the series all over again in preparation for the new episode.
You say that like I haven't watched the entire series about once a month this year 😂
Once a month? Amateur. Try once every two days
@@Brevyn-ev8ce Every 2 days? Why not in a single one?
Aye aye Captain!
Wlep. It can't be helped. Time to rewatch and keep up the tradition
The fact you can hear Schmitt talk about the "meat tobogan" stuff around the 1:45 time is awesome (if you can't hear it turn on captions) such amazing attention to detail, good god
Omgg that's one of my favorite parts from the beginning of Abridged!!!! I love knowing it's brought back!!!! 😂😂
The captions make all of abridged so much better fr.
My favorite this time was :
*The Black Swordsman That's Not Guts Has Entered The Chat*
CC is *SO* underrated in this Abridged, dude, you're basically telling people to get another full-sized helping just to try a seasoning in one piece of the meal
"the worst she can say is no"
[punches him down the stairs]
Well, she did say 'yes'
"...and I was *right!*"
"For the one true Kirito!"
Gonna be honest, I was PRAYING that it turn out that way.
Now to wait for the return of 'Pissed off nerd with admin privileges!'
Yep. Oberon is f*cked.
Knowing how the show plays out, they HAVE to reference that at a certain point
Oh... oh no. They're totally going to do that with the scene with Oberon...
@CaptainCFalcon I would be upset if they don't
@@Pokemaniak180 I would LOVE for it to be Kayaba that says it.
...I will be unable to stop chuckling at the fact the entire salamander race was occupied giving a funeral for a familiar NPC. Like that is just absolute loyalty to the bit.
and squeakers wife and kids are named after the weird al song albequerque XD
While playing a funeral version of Darude Sandstorm on a Doodlesack
@@tortiboy142 THATS WHAT THAT WAS?!!!
@@tortiboy142 NO FREAKING WAY!!!!! IT IS!!!!!
16:45
this implies there was a bat 9/11.
Nah, its the first collapse of the giant pinwheel that just happened to be the same date. Squeaker was air search-and-rescue 🫡
This implies there was an ALO 9/11. Wouldn't put it past Sugou
"Well hung fool" I can't stop laughing. Jesus her brother is RIGHT THERE! Not even Kirito deserves to hear that.
Brother AND Niece, Yui was still there
"you've earned my brown flower tonight"
@@anzol4523 earned an audience with my brown flower, which is somehow worse. 😅
So much worse
@@anzol4523You think SWE would do SAO:A of the SAO bloopers??
The copywright jail breakout now has a timetable.
That’s what I was thinking. Also copyright jail is shorter than I thought.
@@technology5979 looks like somebody posted bail
@@sudowoodo9579early release for good behavior
Trust me I know the pains of CR hell
So that's what happened
THEY’RE MAKING WOUNDS FASTER THAN WE CAN HEAL THEM
11:05 One of the greatest callbacks executed to perfection
@@AC_Hurdlesthat and the schmit reference in the beginning, the writing of this whole series is really perfect
Roger Roger
KARMA YOU VINDICTIVE BINCH, NOW IS NOT THE TIME!
*Sugo, laughing his ass off:* "There's no need to wonder where your god is, because he's right here, and he's fresh out of mercy"
The amount of effort that was put into making a payoff to the Squeaker gag alone was enough to be worth the 1 year wait by itself
"His dear wife Zelda, and their 2 beautiful children, Nathaniel and Superfly"
Wooooowwww that is a deep cut! Weird Al Yankovic's Albuquerque? What a good reference!
Wonder if they were members of the Columbia Record Club...
I was DYING when I realized what they were referencing!
Nice catch! I completely forgot about that. I should listen to that song again. It's such a wild ride.
Huh, neat
@@stewartlynton9942 He may be a hero, but he's not ready for _that_ kind of commitment.
I love how much Kirito adores Recon, he treats him like his baby brother which he technically will be one day
Its because he sees himself in Recon, minus the reflexive arrogant snark
They have the same taste in women
He is like I must nurture him from the smug
@@DomTheeeFoe "I must nurture him from the smug, because it is the only way he will survive my sister"
I thought he reminds him of sachi because of the glitching nerve gear similar to hiw sachi was always lagging.
"Has anyone ever told you that you are too humble for your own good?"
"They have not and how dare they?"
I wonder why???????
@brightstar5988 Definitely something that "The Kirito is Always Right Foundation" should investigate.
I did NOT want to hear Suguha speak about her "brown flower" but here we are, dope episode, cute bat funeral xD
I think I would end my life out of embaressment if I heard my sister say that
"Yeah it was, it was scurvy" is amazing. Setup and delivery
HOW IS THIS SERIES WORTH THE YEAR WAIT. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
Because they're just that much better at writing than the official one lmao
They care about fixing Reki Cowabunga's plot.
It's not an abridged, it's a rewritten SAO :)
@@andrewgray573 Much better than Annie Plex Oosuh's rendition.
Points to Kirito's character development on "no one tell him" while full of excess iron
To be fair, this was more character development that happened at the start of the arc, not here, as even when they first left the city Kirito was a bit defensive of Recon.
18:32 "As he plunged into Asuna's clunge" - Something Witty Enttertainment SAO chapter 16.5
I gagged, cackled, and screeched simultaneously when I heard that 16.5 reference
Oh...oh dear GOD
WERE RIDING THE MEAT TOBAGGAN WITH THIS ONE BOYS
UP THE RIVER STYX
well, suguha will be at least.
MeatToboggan is my username because of this abridged lmao
If I recall the original ending of the alfheim arc the abridged could have Kirito turn what's his face into a meat toboggan with the scenes available.
🗣🥩🛷🗣🥩🛷🗣🥩🛷🗣🥩🛷
Nagata: “I gotta tell everybody!”
Nagata out there about to assemble the Avengers by dropping Kirito’s Location
What’s really impressive is everyone read his tweet and immediately responded.
I can’t get 2 people to meetup for canoeing with a months notice yet this dude pulls in 2 armies in 3 hours.
@@jonsmitt9769 Try saving 6,147 lives then we'll talk.
Their apology is so genuine and honest that I sometimes forget that this is an abridged and not the actual series.
But I will treat this as the actual canon cause you deserve it.
It's better than the actual canon anyway.
never watched the original out of fear from friends, this is my canon
Both of them deserved this treatment. And I needed this treatment.
It was rushed. The confrontation was literally last episode.
@@WishMakers Your friends were right to warn you away from it. I wish I could bleach the canon of this show out of my head. The abridged is WAY better.
In the canon, Kirito's sister has romantic feelings for him. That is somehow NOT the worst thing the canon did.
13:55 "Only I will remain!" Proceeds to explode
He did not, in fact, remain
Dear lord Recon somehow kept on stacking Ws this episode.
Poor boy has needed a win!
My man pulled a Krillin this episode!
@@Ellebeeby trust me, he's already has a heavenly reward waiting for him in Leafa's Secret Garden, LOL.
@thatjeff7550 dude there's other people here! XD
It put a massive smile on my face
Damn they actually communicated to resolve their issues.
Incest was avoided with ease.
They gave a really damn good reason for those other groups to show up and support them, and a good reason for the Salamanders to not.
Overall just really nicely done.
rip squeekers :(
@@Jenson_Beachthe one and only
It's so good that this feels like a re imagining more than an abridged
@@michaeltima5007 Poor guy was just 2 days from retirement...
"You are BEIGE as a person!"
Like that. Taking that. Using it as an insult.
same
So taking this
I thought it was also a stab at all of the Kirito lookalikes that popped up after SAO's success.
13:27 IS THAT THE FEAR DUNE QUOTE. for thos that missed it he whole thing is. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
Haha, I was thinking the exact same thing! Can't believe we got a Dune reference here.
17:12 "Two beautiful children: Nathaniel and Super Fly."
Didn't realise we were in Albuquerque
Underrated reference. Maybe this is Weird Alfheim online?
and the wifes name was also Zelda
I was thinking about that song like, an hour before I watched this. Wild timing.
Knew I knew Nathanel and Superfly from somewhere. Makes sense it was Weird Al.
Came here to post this
In honor of Schmitt's reappearance:
You hear that, Asuna? "Meat toboggan". Try getting _that_ image out of your head. Grippin' his entrails like the reign of Santa's sleigh. Streaking through the fresh morning snow on a trail of bile and gore, as his eyes beg the same question as the horrified children in his wake... _"Why?"_
god, kirito is such an asshole! 🤣
One of my absolute favorite parts from early SAOA!!!
The updated relationship dynamics completely change the vibe and make the story so much nicer. absolutely incredible
13:57
Alfheim Clankers: Do we take prisoners?
Recon: I don’t.
Leafa: Recon always did hate that place.
Love the Litany against Fear bit. Absolutely hilarious that a spell that ends with "only I will remain" is a suicide spell. Doubly funny because the game leaves you as a spirit where you die for a while, so the line might be literally true if you manage to take out all your enemies with the spell.
"IN A KIDS GAME!"
@@Fedorchik1536 Yeah, a cool kids game
I hope Kirito removes that gosh darn profanity filter because FUDGE that’s getting old!
Kirito: By the way I disabled the profanity filter! Have fun with that~
I can see Kirito doing this before his fight with Sugo.
@darkmage9252 wait what if kayabas ghost drops by just to use his ghostly admin privileges to remove the profanity filter
@@thecatladytm7172 oh or
Kayaba: hey Kirito. time to show Sugo a pissed of nerd with admin privileges. Here's my account. Have fun with that.
2 callbacks in 1 line
i posted on the first episode of Aldheim that the first thing hes gonna do is turn off profanity filter and rip a 90 second string of comebacks he held in after their first meeting.
after logging in with kayabas Credentials that is.
AYOOOOO it was a MASSIVE honor to get to do a lot of the sound design for this!
(also when I voiced those armor bros weeping, I was thinking about the loss of happy flute HD, rip forever)
Thanks for helping them bring this all together, y'all have done an amazing job!🎉
Excellent addition to the video
@@MyToasterIsMoist phenomenal work!
Ty for the stellar contributions
stand proud, ya cooked
I remember realising that this series had transcended the source material and become it's own sort of series during the first season, but every episode just takes that further and further. The characters are more fleshed out, the jokes land so much better and the story beats feel way more natural. Well fucking done SWE, the work everyone involved has put into this series has been 100% worth it in my opinion.
Plunge that Clunge.
YOU ARE WORTHY OF SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SPIDERS IN MY SKIIINNNN!!!!
I'm glad they are still using that bit! 🤣
Okay but can we talk about the voice acting? SWE has always had stellar voice work, but oh my god Recon's Mind Killer and Kirito's final push scream sound so crisp and professional it's just *chefs kiss*
Don't forget Leafa! The VA is NAILING that role!
I wouldn't say always. First couple episodes were kinda rough with some of the side characters, and Asuna's voice was decidedly mid in the first episode. Still, I've heard worse in professional productions. (Not to say they're not a professional production now.)
The whiplash of that perfect anime "Go get her, bro" with the music swelling and everything, *immediately* undercut by "plunge that clunge!" is peak. You guys are on some shit.
They require more blood to pay the debt owed from voicing over 16.5
They gotta pay their debt
"I must not fear"
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration"
"When the fear is gone, there will be nothing. ONLY I WILL REMAAIIIINN!"
Hearing her sobbing with a slow version of the regular opening playing over it hits so hard
Kirito is basically a legend to these people. While now back to waiting for another 6-9 months for episode 19.
You’re rather optimistic on wait times
Bold of you to assume it'll be less than 18.
Plus he's even the most humble person in the world...maybe the universe...scratch that, DEFINITELY the most humble person in the universe.
@@CiaranMaxwellin all fairness, they don't have the squeaker funeral scene to animate this time.
See you guys next Christmas.
I appreciate the one guy who said "For Gondor" instead at 15:58.
7:04 I love this part, Suguha and Kazuto apologizing to each other, acknowledging where they both messed up, and reconciling their relationship.
godamn, the others pulling up to save them because Kirito liberated SAO makes so much more sense than what actually happened in the show, where he just pulls a pile of money out of his ass. The abriged series continues to have orders of magnitude better story telling than the actual show.15:24
wait... THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN THE OG SHOW??? HE *BUYS* THEIR HELP???
@@Someone-or8tpno he didn’t they helped him because for one he helped them when the salamanders were about to ambush them and two they were already planning on taking on the quest but they didn’t have everything they need so when he gave them the money it was enough for them to get everything they need the original comment dumbed it down to make it seem like it was something less than it actually was
@@topshotta1727 the abridged is still way better
@@j.corbygaming I personally think the main show story line for this scene is better this one is just more fun
@@topshotta1727 i am curious, why do you think that
Kirito: fighting for his fudging life to the point of mind-break
Suguha & Nagata: busy enacting a... surprisingly romantic... bit? with innuendo.
yeah, i didn't like that joke very much, okay, they love eachother, which was already stated, and up to the babe part, it was fine, but it was going for so long i was expecting Kirito to shout about this not being the time.
Recon's VA is incredible. The line read on "THEY'RE IN MY SKIIIIIN, LAYING THEIR EEEEURRGGGGGS" was just... *Chef's kiss* poi-fect
This series is officially the definitive way to experience sao and no one can tell me otherwise. Love to see youve stuck with it for so long as someone whos been here since episode 3-4 of season 1
8:15 imagine being such a bastard that everyone hated that you dying doesn't even come up in conversation anymore
Reminds me of a song warning people not to be jerks
No one's gonna cry at your funeral
No one's gonna drink at your wake
No one's gonna sigh with a tear in their eye
And no one's gonna miss you
And no one's gonna notice
And I'll enjoy the silence...
When. You're. Dead.
Goals am I right.
You. You who put the slowed version of the opening at the beginning. You're paying my therapy bills in tears.
HOW LONG WE HAVE AWAITED FOR THE TIME OF *RECKON*ING, PREPERATIONS SHALL BE MADE, REWATCH WE SHALL.
You know how long I’ve been waiting for this?
Oohimabouttomakeanameformyselfhere.
I’ve been waiting 8 months
I am so curious to see how they handle Reckon here. SWE specifically set up the fact that he’s using a faulty NRV Gear and the original series completely forgets about his existence after his “heroic sacrifice” (I don’t remember him ever making an on-screen appearance after this, though I only got as far as the end of the Excalibur filler arc of the original series).
Assuming he doesn’t come back post-Alicisation SWE has basically been handed the ingredients for an excellent emotional gut punch on a silver platter and they’ve already proven adept at delivering those to us.
@@skeletonpatch... oh no....
Oh my god the wounds line followed up by "karma you vindictive birch" That was priceless!
Litany against fear does make for an awesome spell chant.
Lost my mind a little there.
Recite the litany of hate brother
It's an amazing moment, made even funnier because Kirito recognized it instantly - probably watched the old movie, the 1984 one
What's that other chant Recon does before the Littany against fear?
@@atoth62I had to look that up myself; Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead. Looks like he writes YA Dystopias, including the deeply disturbing Unwind series.
I have a 45 question final due tomorrow night.
But I also have a youtube series about a rock to binge in preparation…. _Decisions._
Frfr
Frfr
Tomorrow night? Plenty of time.
Indeed
Honestly, the binge can wait. Finals cannot. Believe me.
Kirito: “We must heal my family…..”
Bro…that’s deep
To help the subtitlers:
Yui seems to call Recon a "Green Haired Invalid"
*Refresher for why Suguha is bullying Kazuto:*
Suguha and Kazuto used to be best friends but Kazuto abandoned his kendo lessons, resulting in their sexist grandfather abusing Suguha during her lessons to get her to quit but she pushed through. Their grandfather never wanted Suguha to learn kendo.
Suguha initially tried her best to get Kazuto to come back to their lessons, but he shut her out to play video games.
She then began to resent Kazuto for abandoning her and started to take great pleasure out of bullying her brother to get back at him, although she tried to hide this by calling him a "quitter" for abandoning their lessons.
TLDR she hates him for abandoning her to suffer the abuse of their grandfather and mocks his hobbies to get back at him.
AND she feels bad for it because he was just a little boy who had no way of knowing better.
Yes but in this version they gave Kirito asthma so he was forced to quit by his mom.
@@natenorthern375wait he did? Huh.
No need for reminders bro - surely everyone followed the SAOA tradition to rewatch everything before a new episode
@@MedK001yup. Since episodes come out almost yearly...
1:28 “God Himself could not sink this game” LOL
Titanic refernce!
I love how there's two Titanic references in this episode
I'm sure a certain night janitor's riding this compliment still
Pretty sure by then Kaiyaba was talking about the night janitor Reki, what with being all 48 hours sleep deprived and all.
@@GraveRobbinJake it was two weeks of uninterrupted consciousness, not two days.
I never need to hear the words "Colonel Daddy" from anyone except Yui EVER AGAIN
It's probably the most innocent way to say it, too
Ah yes, let us now watch the entire series AGAIN since a new episode dropped.
Tis tradition you see.
Tis only just
Tis the way
I have laughed at two funerals in my life. One I regret, and one that deserved it.
jesus what did that guy do?
@@BetoPerez999 I can't say, just that I made that shot of Sideshow Bob becoming Springfield's mayor look restrained and dignified.
The brain is a little wriggly bastard that makes people cry at weddings and laugh at funerals.
I laughed at my grandpa's funeral.
I didn't mean to, but i did.
Holy shit, you guys brought back Kirito's crashout in episode 4. That's amazing.
"My wounds _heal faster_ than you can _make them."_
"We can't keep up with this! They're making wounds faster than we can heal them!"
That aside, this episode has already been worth the 2 (3?) year wait, just with that opening alone, & the resolution of their damaged relationship. That was beautiful. I'll probably edit this in case anything else pops up, but that "Karma, you vindictive bitch! Now is not the time for this!" was *_amazing._* I wouldn't have thought anything of that exchange otherwise.
I love that the Tweet joke from the beginning season 2 episode actually came back as a plot point to motivate the other players to help Kirito! The genius writing of this series, I swear to god!!!
Zelda, Nathaniel, and Superfly. Was not expecting a Weird Al reference, but I'm totally here for it!
Amazing work, guys. As much as we don't like to wait, you always make it worth it. Thanks for all your hard work in creating this masterpiece.
EPISODE 17 WAS OVER A YEAR AGO, FINALLY WE'RE HERE AGAIN!!!!
See you again next year!
@@BryanWest92 acc I heard they were planning to release a few in succession.
This was a weirdly emotional episode. Had to send my sister a text saying shes dope after the first half
The ending of Episode 17 had me crying for like an hour afterwards because that’s pretty much exactly what happened to me and my sister in my own life.
@@meapyboy12345*hugs*
Aww! 🥰
Suguha’s and Kirito’s relationship in the Abridged is literally godlike 🥲
Nagata scores and uses the fear Dune incarnation? Gosh darn it!
Love how Kirito wanted Recon to think his sacrifice was worth it. He really has become a better person after SAO.
I love how they lampshade just how DANGEROUS nerve gear is! And they put it on the heads of CHILDREN!
Two words: Lawn darts
5:33 Yes, but now He's YOUR Dork.
Good for him
MY MAN SECURED THE W.
Happy for that man
Yeah, now you've gotta feed him and clean him and take him for walks to the game store/DIY store
I love the fact that Schmitt is credited as a real voice actor in the description of this video.
You have done what few others could do, transcend from simple comedic parody into proper narrative that has evolved well past the story it sought to parody in the first place
7:50 I grew up in foster care. My sister, to this day, blames me for not keeping the three of us together...despite the fact that like suguha said, I was a toddler.
Hugs
I…
My sister doesn’t want to talk to me because of some stuff I did when I was 8… 24 years ago… we are children of a divorce…
What was I supposed to do at 8 that I haven’t taken care of and resolved in that time?
Sounds like your sister has a very sadistic and narcissistic coping technic
Share this with her, see how she feels after that
@@blackchibisan8116 Nothing you could've done but know that she is definitely hurting from it herself, she shouldn't blame you but she probably just doesn't know how to mentally resolve it. You should tell her how you feel about it if you haven't.
Well surely he's got this. Did you see all those stat boosts??
F=MA
@@type1eagle994 what does "F=MA" mean?
@@laucha1615 It's a physics equation. Force = mass x acceleration
@@TruElf98 oh, *"sees speed stat"* ooohhhh, oh he's got this.
“A toll for the living, a toll for the lost, a toll for the wise ones who shall pay the cost” goes kinda hard
WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY
Batchest Batchest Batchest
Edit : Having watched the episode finally
I gotta appreciate the Recon development , Kirito getting recognition for his heroics and the much better sibling relationship
It's just the best parody series ever
GARY!!!!! CHOKE ON MY VENGANCE!!!!! HOW DOES IT TASTE!!!
Oberon: "See some of them have famil..... (deranged) Kirito!"
@@duusu2608Do mien eyes decive me? tis foreshadowing!
IS it a parody? Or is the original a parody of the abridged? 😮
It was the Schmidt heads we made along the way
I love how they put the litany against fear in a kids game lmfao
10:30 subtle foreshadowing