First episode : Welp i'm going to train myself. Second episode : Now. I'm as powerfull than hell. *diamond sword, netherite sword, armor, hacked potion (infinite), enchanted stuff. Asuna : Wow he is soo strong ! he's number is soooo big. Goku : Hey mister sword, wanna fight ? Kirito : ??? Goku : ???
Literally back in 4th grade my spoiled brat friend mya who wants to be every single main character to rule the fucking spotlight. Well- she was my friend for 2 minutes until she ganged up with some grill named Hailey and fucking beat the shit out of me. Then she asks to be my friend again that sassy bitch
The moment that broke me was when they skipped half of the tower to the final boss and easily defeated him in the middle of the season. There was no reason why, they just deleted all the tension and worldbuilding up to that point FOR NOTHING.
Filler is something I dread in anime, it's what makes Dragon Ball, Naruto, and One Piece a challenge to truck through, but SAO is one anime where I belive it would have benefitted GREATLY. They always talk abt important stuff that happened between episodes which left me wondering, plus they have a damn solid supporting cast, like Klein, and Agil are so fun and I wish we had more time with them in some filler episodes.
exactly! i stopped before season 1 ended because they were skipping everything all the time that was interesting for me and instead showed boring unnecessary BS in detail like another girl falling for kirito! WTF?! :D
@@abtimus i feel cheated out of the skull reaper fight. and how exactly did asuan become vice commander of the strongest guild in the game? i also would have loved to see more of society in sao away from the front lines. there's just so much potential in both the parts of the story the plot skipped over and the concept of having to build a new civilization in a video game.
@@hollowshield2315 yep, all was just rushed to oblivion and pushed aside like it was completely unimportant but i think that is exactly what makes you engage more into a world and the story! especially when you witness a journey of the people of this world from the beginning to the end…instead we skip so many parts of world and charakter bulding and by the middle of the season the whole game and world was finnished…so it never really mattered and therefor why should i care for other games and worlds and charakters in the SAO universe?
Yes, I mean he was on a time limit and he didn't know where the log out was or if it was there but knew how to convert Yui and was in an emotional state, but yes, he should have had a completely cool head and used his amazing super speed to scroll through every option and then hack the entire system to force a logout.
I’m more concerned with how Kirito saved Yui when she was already in the middle of being deleted. He obviously didn’t cancel the deletion process, so how was he able to store all of her data into an item?
my favorite part was when you said he could have made a log out button instead of saving the code. Just imagine Asuna wakes up from the game crying over and then kirito just says 'bro she was an AI, get over it.'
He was a beta tester so he already knew the tips and tricks of the game. HAVE YOU ACTUALLY NEVER PLAYED A GAME WHERE YOU CAN FIND SOME OP WEAPONS/ARMOUR/SKILLS etc RIGHT AT THE START??!?!?
“Everyone over the age of 12 hates this show”. Actually this was a twilight like thing. Reki kawahara made it for teenage boys with raging hormones to project themselves on this. Edit: I’m not trying to defend this show I hate it
The thing I REALLY hated (character wise) about Sao is how Asuna went from a strong, bad-ass chick to a damsel in distress once she started crushing on Kirito. Fcking annoying...
Pie God trust , the only original thing kirito as and asuna is that unlike many anime couples they BOTH were strong and badass. I actually enjoyed the way they relied on each other when fighting and their perfect sync until Kirito literally became a God and Asuna became Boring
They went wrong precisely at.... Episode 2. Episode 2 shouldn't have been the first boss. We should have seen Kirito doing his solo run, operating on the fringes, but seeing other characters, even whole groups getting wiped out, while Kirito continues on. We should have SEEN Lisabet's party building up, and then seen it get wiped out. Let us see the Moonlit Black Cats as they start, and how they end up meeting Kirito later on, so that we get a better sense of things, and have time to invest before the deaths start happening. Hell, SHOW us Kirito's memories of the Beta Test, maybe he saw a GM use one of the consoles before, and is actually SEARCHING for one of those consoles that he can access, because there might be a window where he could get an item that might get him out, or at least give an edge to someone to end the death game. Giving that extra time, would've also had the effect of slowing Kirito's rise, while we get to see the other characters really get to do some things. So we see Asuna join the Knights of the Blood Oath, and rise in power to where we see her later, we see Laughing Coffin get rolling, we see the rise of Titan's Hand, forces that will come up later in the story. Klein actually gets to do things, as opposed to.... every other scene with Klein in it.
Aincrad had so much potential, but then they had to stifle it with so much timeskips. Everything from Kirito's strength escalation, the romance plot, character devlopment, and so much more like the stuff you mentioned. It's ridiculous when you cram your titular arc that the show is all about in just a few episodes just so you can make room for another one within the first season.
@@chidori7234 For one, I would have likely stretched out the time with Sachi, built her up as a character more, have them fully fall in love, and make people believe she's a regular recurring character for a bit before viciously ripping it away. Include her and others in the opening theme standing with Kirito, basically selling that the Black Cats are going to be his regular team, right up until they get wiped, and then altered the opening to show them as black silhouettes behind him.... I may be slightly evil. Then we get the "Christmas Arc" over three episodes, where Kirito starts out barely moving (This would echo later in the fight with Kayaba after Asuna's death), until he hears about the possibility of an item that can resurrect a dead player at the end of part I, him on the hunt for the item, with whole guilds moving to secure it first for part II, with Klein and company arriving just before Kirito loses his life to the one guild, and standing in for him so he can go take down the boss, who drops just before we cut to part III. He gets the item, of course, but here, we get an entire episode of the fight, giving us a much needed action sequence where we see one of the first times thus far where Kirito goes all out as a solo player, no holding back to disguise his skill.
In my opinion it was as soon as they settled down for 2 years and got married.. ruined all kind of build up and completely changed the tone of the show
As someone who studied programming in C# CSS and javascript for nearly 10 years, I can confirm what he said in the video, It would be impossible to not only take apart the game's code and stored billions of lines of code in a few seconds, not only that but it would also be impossible to do all that and not cause a single glitch that could potentially break the game killing everyone inside it. Programming is anything but simple.
What is funny, is when you zoom in on what he is doing at the computer interface, it is obviously just random gibberish that seems like it is supposed to represent digital information. So it isn't even actual code. I don't think a human could even read what was displayed on the screen. Which makes sense, if the admins are AIs and no actual humans were accessing the code from in game.
Honestly this video made me appreciate why SAO Abridged made her death a prank gone wrong. Originally I thought it just undermined it, but now I see it was the only way to make her basic immortality and resurrection not seem stupid in contrast to her death scene
never really saw it that way, huh. thanks for the different persepctive. her "death" in abridged hit suprisingly really hard, so the "it was a prank" made me feel betrayed
They also fixed Yui's motivation for inserting herself into Kirito and Asuna's lives because they are they most fundamentally broken people she's ever seen yet still manage to have something halfway resembling a nontoxic relationship. This contradiction inspires her to get closer to the action so to speak to find out what the hecks up with that. As opposed to, you know, them being able to experience positive feelings in a fucking death game
@@hollowshield2315Personally, I thought that the fridge horror aspect of Yui being trapped and forced to watch again was pretty compelling. Plus, I felt like it added to the whole Yui being psychotic thing they have going on in Season 2.
They don't mention it in the show (I think; I've only watched the abridged version since my second pass of season 1 and first pass of 2), but there was a delay built in in case of loss of power/internet that basically let the government go around and collect all the players so that they could be put in hospitals to ensure they had both of those and keep the players alive during the years without any ability to eat. S'why Protag McDualwield wakes up in a hospital at the end of the first arc.
For me, the romance ruined this show. They turned badass Asuna into a damsel in distress, and instead of the tension, fear of dying, and battle with monsters, the show goes on a vacation trip. Then once the two love birds are done that shit, they go back and they get out of this world. Asuna is never badass again. SAO 2 had the same problem. They had a really go start, then half way through the spirit dies off after ANOTHER sexual assault scene. This show needs to pick a direction it wants to go.
gudhaxer41343 That's right. Then after the SAO arc, they changed the arc. They did the same thing in season 2. Why can't they just pick an arc and stick with it?
There is actually more wrong with Yui than just that. Yui basically acts as emotional blackmail against Asuna. Asuna is now emotionally tied to Yui as her "Mother" and Kirito was chosen as Yui's "Father". Meaning, If Asuna didn't love Kirito she'd still have to remain with him to play the "Mother" role for Yui. Which allows Kirito to keep his harem. Which, is something a few Harem Anime seem to have done. Introduced a "precious" little girl who sees the Main Character as her 'Father" and ALL the girls in the Harem as her "Mothers". Meaning none of them can leave otherwise it'll break the "precious" little girls heart. Which they can't do. Aside from that would Yui acts as a cheat code for Kirito. Kirito has to start back at level 1? No! Just have Yui restore him (pretty much) back to what was at in the last game. She also is something that no other player CAN have: an AI assistant. Kirito pretty much goes through the game just plain cheating.
Even if Yui is a trash character it hasn't a blackmail on Asuna. In fact Asuna was the one who wanted her like daughter. Yui always put the pression on Kirito. the harem isn't even present. It is more the girls who still love him even everybody and themselves know it is useless.
When did it start sucking? During the first when Klein was all "Want to be bros and go on cool adventures?" and Edgerito was all "Nah I'm going to time skip and one hit everything with a harem of lolis :^)"
MY PEE PEE HARD Kirito: done right how? I have no coherent comprehension skill? Guts: I hate obligations of any kind, including binging your show. *Slice*
Now imagine if Kirito had saved a *single* guy, that would’ve made it at least mildly interesting, seeing as every single girl he’s saved has fallen in ‘love’ with him
SAO was one of my first animes and I loved it at the time. However, the more I watched the more I was like "wtf". I still liked it, cause I thought the premise was cool and was optimistic. Once I got older I was like "yea this show sucked". I wish there would be a remake of this show with a different protagonist, kinda like ggo alternative. I like the story of SAO but I dont like how it was told.
Might be a little late but something the same but different is Sword Art Online Abridged which actually gives the characters depth/personality and is hilarious I really recommend watching it if you haven't already
Love the truth behind the story, not how it’s told! I’m guessing that a lot of books and movies are based on a truly amazing real guy, as opposed to the books and movies that probably portray him as a woman or g@y…
@Champa since when are gamemasters able to view and copy sourcecode and create new Items, also why were gm accounts in SAO when there were never any moderators or admins
Totally Nameless literally said why 10 minutes into the show. because the would send a signal to fry your brain if you tried to remove the gear. There was no log out on the menu either. so idk why I gotta explain this. maybe anime fans are trash. I watch got 3-4 times to get all the details and y'all can't watch a show for more than 10 minutes without thinking there are plot holes. you gotta finish a show before you can comment on the entire plot. then rewatch and make sure your plot holes are actually plot holes before you look like an idiot online.
Victor Unger Oh my god, you moron. Kayaba said that people would die if their avatars died OR if anyone from the OUTSIDE REMOVED THEIR NERVE GEAR. They also couldn't just cut off the power cause the nerve gear had an internal battery that would also fry your brain if the power is cut off. Now, if people wanted to get the players to the hospital, which they would really need to cause they would need to be provided nutrients from outside otherwise they'd die anyways, it would be almost impossible. So, Kayaba gave them a time lag. After like 15 minutes of running on its internal battery the nervegear would kill the players unless it's connected to a power source within the time limit. LOGGING PEOPLE OUT DOESN'T KILL THEM. That's why Kayaba removed the log out feature in the first place. Kirito could've restored that since they'd actually found a GM console and could access the source code. And didn't YOU see the anime? Kayaba logged out the 6k remaining people after Kirito killed him. HE LOGGED THEM OUT. I'll say this again, logging people out doesn't kill them. If you got to end of the show without knowing this, you have no right to call someone else an idiot.
Kurose Ryōta yes logging out doesn't kill them but it was impossible to log out. the release of the game didn't have it. only the beta did. Any method of quiting the game short of beating or the system logging them out would kill them. yes they survived because they were logged out but that was never an option or planned. so in all intents and purposes logging out of the game didn't exist.
@@Depersona244 i think they killed him, not just to become a sword, but to remind kirito, that theirs a bigger threat than saving that world, but he has to save his waifu, which he will do, because thicc anime plot armor ftw
Lol everyone dies in AOT is just cannon foddler not even in main cast died except Erwin which is basically in SEASON 3 ENDING WHAT THE SHIT PLOT ARMOR IS TYAT
Sword Art Online is basically about a gamer who got a bunch of girlfriends while playing a game, and for some reason Kirito and his girlfriend meets a little girl (an A.I actually) and thought of her as a daughter while they lived together in a game. Kirito and Asuna were around the age of 14-16 as well so the unrealism is quite high.
It's amazing how much the abridged series looked at this, basically said "I agree" and instead of getting rid of it, they made it make sense (for the most part). I mean, let's be honest, it still doesn't really explain how Kurt (or actual Kirito for that matter) could save Yui as an in-game item and have it flagged to be "saved to his NervGear" (why is this even a feature unless you want cheating to occur?). But, now knowing that Yui was faking it, it makes sense how he was able to access the data without some or all of it being locked or just plain missing already. It also fixes the whole "only two that love each other" problem, helps them develop their character, and much more.
Cant lie SAO brought me into anime, loved it BUT ONLY the first arc. Man did that show go downhill from there to utter trash. Also Japan gotta chill out with that incest.
Yeah basically the moment when they got out of SAO it went from ok to bad. It was like my second anime ever so I thought it was pretty good at the time but looking back I probably wouldn't think that now.
Mingfei D. Yeah. The Japanese took a lot of the letters from the Chinese. Sorry. I'm learning Katakana and Kanji right now, and I'd like to learn fro every chance I've got xD
Oh god! We're working on that story arc for our abridged series right now, and we didn't fully realized just how stupid that programming scene is! We didn't think it was possible for the writing in this show to get WORSE! Thanks for pointing that out. We mostly thought this arc was shit because it did things like introduce a character only to immediately kill her off (as you said), but also because they spent a truly absurd amount of time on Yulier's exposition, despite the fact that NONE of it is ever mentioned again! *Sigh* Alright, rant over. Great episode man! Always love your analyses :)
You guys are already doing a much better job of developing character (which in turn creates dramatic stakes since we have people to care about) than the original series ever did. Thanks for salvaging a genuinely entertaining experience from the wish-granting harem fest that the anime became
Super hyped for the next one. And luckily for you, there's more content you can work on now for this arc thanks to this bit of enlightenment. I'm looking forward to being surprised at what you crazy codgers can wriggle up next.
Wait hold on I came up with something much better (reference is from sao abridged) "Are you sure you want to pick" WHATEVER YOUR SAYING I DONT CARE, LEMME GO SAVE MY WIFE...
The absolute worst thing about the show is the lack of exploration. There's this ginormous world and we don't see any of it. It's even worse in the fairy arch. Kirito chooses the assassin class and starts defying everyone's beliefs about the class when he uses the magic in intuitive ways, but he only does that twice. It should be called "Wasted Potential Online"
Or the fact that he is "I'm playing a game for first time and still i'm the best player in it, also I don't care about strenght or the weakness of item, just about it's appearence" Like the heck? Even if we believe that he is so pro gamer that he beats the crap out of every game, it's still stupid for "pro gamer that want's to save his wife" to take the worst possible equipment to show how badass he is -.-
maniakowski Trolowski To be fair, his stats were way above everyone else. He probably could have gone naked with fists only and still beat everyone up.
You have awoken Deleto Blue In the DBZ world, emojis are illegal and disgusting. I'm the product of what happens when you post a cancerous emoji. DELETE THAT SHIT N O W
Deleto Blue Emoji Bad, TH-cam Good. Your comment contributes nothing to the conversation and shows that you only wanted to comment because you hate emojis.
The first 10-15 episodes of this show were amazing. Even though this anime isn’t that good, it’ll always have a special place in my heart cuz it was the first anime I watched. The songs they used in this anime are also amazing
At first, I actually kind of liked SAO... but the part where they suddenly got *married* ticked me off. Like...??? What??? Just like that? then *boom* everything went downhill from there.
Reminds me of Gigguk's SAO in 5 mins vid Asuna: "Can we keep it?!" Kirito: "NO" A:"But I waaaaant ooooooone" K:"NOOO" A:"Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaasse" K:"NO" A:"I'm not having sex with you for a MONTH" K:"Ok geez fine just make sure you feed it and take it for walks" Yui:"Are you my mamma and pappa?" A:"YES!
Kirito is the worst Main Character EVER! What I most hate about him is that he acts like a hero who is special and has OP power, but he is actually a NORMAL teenager who loves games (even if he was stuck in one) and has cheat codes to become an OP game character. It’s NOT his own power!
Yeah, especially when one of them was killed off and the other two were ONE EPISODE OF AINCRAD EXCLUSIVES. Also Silca creeped me out because it felt like she was coded to be a child.
Jatin Gurav because when she met kirito she became happier and took everything less seriously and then she just stoped being like that but they pulled a lot of bs on that one I agree with you
@@sookiez1269 yes bro asuna became dependent on kirito. Asuna was the only character of sao which was badass for me ,not kirito coz he look somewhat cute like a child . Its just my opinion dont offend.
@@sookiez1269it was for others not for u. With ur reply on my first comment i came to know that our opinions about sao are same . Have u watched sao alicization ? Is it good?
@@DrGandW why do you assume it didn't have a built in functionality? It kinda already did. Remember Silica's dragon Pina? It also was an AI that immediately turned into an object on death.
i hate how kirito is like: yo i'm so hawt. every girl even his sister: oh my god i fell in love with him. me: the faq i'm out. edit: oh wow this comment felt so long ago, sorry for my cringe old self lmao
Only the latter half of that is even true. Kirito's only confidence is in his gaming talent. He never had self-esteem in any other department, maybe except kendo and farming salvia. Edit: I previously said radishes. That was Goku. However, not knowing what salvia was, I just assumed every anime boy that farms something will farm radishes.
Old Head spy kids was good and I like sao not everyone dose but that’s ok but I don’t think there is any reason to say it is the worst it was amazing and a lot of people like it
Could of been such a dark anime, it kept me on edge the whole time. with the whole concept, the idea of it basically. Like when I saw that guy walk off the ledge In the first ep, Seeing it actually made me get chills... But then it turned into a harmless harem anime.
i have a little soft spot for sao, because it was the first anime my friends had me watch, and i enjoyed it. although.... kirito being able to do *everything* and forced into *anything* is kinda aids. the fairy mmo made some logic, your waifu is trapped by a creep that wanted to uhhh ya know, to her. and of course him being a creep, the ai got his creepiness, with all the sexual assulting. of course, the entirety of all of the fairy world, fucked. them removing the "you could LITTERALLY die" aspects, fucked. THEM MAKING KIRITO STILL GO INTO FULL DIVE TECH, WITH UNREAL PTSD! ABSOLUTELY FUCKED! dude should be living the fucking life, and be charging big money to even touch an mmo, but nope. hes just invited into top secret areas with insane risk, and threat levels, for what seems like free. and of course, no one dies because the plot armor is thicker than a snicker.
Sword art online had so much potential. They could've just show the whole adventure not going like. Episode 1: floor 1. And then we have episode 2: floor 37. They could've have shown all the boss battles and have a good story line. And they ruined it. For me the only good arcs in Sao are only these 2 The aincrad arc and the alicization arc
Also the ending should've been just them exiting out of the game and not any more. Like why do I want them to try and trap themselves again. That's stupid.
Yeah i liked the anime more when the couple where fighting back to back and when Asuna wasn't a damsel in distress in the first season she was painted to be strong and capable makes me wonder if the feminists are making a article about this
I think SAO should have been a slow burner. Kirito slowly becoming stronger and learning abilities/items. The dark start of the game where everyone was frantic and looking for quests and xp. The guild factions slowly rising to power so we have further character back story. The potential this anime had was endless but it’s like they filled in the rough sketch to what could have been a truly amazing anime spanning multiple seasons and keeping audiences very engaged. Also SAO should have stayed in SAO not Alfhiem or Gun Gale Online. They really messed up a good story.
Imagine an anime where the main character is a hacker and their only objective is to troll new players And declare war on bases disguised as the bases ally leader. Or basically 2b2t's history.
Wasn't Yui also a therapeutic AI or something? That kind of sounds important, so assuming that her code was tied into the game, and Kirito yeeted her code into an item, how did the game not have some kind of error somewhere? I'm not a programmer or a coder or anything like that, but I'd assume that removing some lines of code from a game could potentially break it in some way.
Let's be honest, it got bad when the show turned into Asuna and Kirito Domestic Love Life, Lovo, Love-o, Love-Love. It lost all sense of tone, and horror when it turned into a major romance.
@@matthewlaxon828 To each their own. I hate the romance genre as a whole, and didn't realize the dark, action series I signed up for was actually going to be a total romance after a few episodes. If had just been a side of the story, it would have been fine, but it really hijacked the rest of the series.
dude imagine if the show stayed depressing and dark af. Imagine if Kirito developed some personality disorder or went crazy or ANYTHIN The show would be much better
I only liked the abridged SAO because it was hilarious. Honestly I liked the show when it started then it went downhill fast. How does Asuna go from a badass to being captured by an asshole and then later his fuckin sister want to be with him? Like wth?
I've read the light novels back when they first made the gun version of the anime (don't care what it's called) and watched this and the Alfheim series. The thing that kind of peaked my interest was the concept of gesture shortcuts, to get around training for literal years to learn a fighting style. SAO was uninspiring and bland, but I have a large ability for suspension of disbelief. Alfheim, on the other hand, just broke all of the things for me. He obviously didn't understand anything about anything he put into the game. Didn't understand how business' worked, how basic fantasy MMO systems worked, or how basic human beings worked, much less how they work on the internet to fulfill this horrible story he built up. No business would touch tech that has proven to kill people in the entertainment industry, much less build another game on the exact engine that trapped people in a death game. He also didn't get that being a CEO for a multi-international company ISN'T a hereditary position. In a traditional MMO setting (which is what Alfheim felt like it was supposed to be), there are really two things that show what a great player are. The ability to process a lot of information and make informed decisions about said information, and resource management. The information processing has been covered in another of his videos, but the ability to manage cooldowns, aggro, and whatever your innate resource is (mana, rage, combo points or whatever they use) is a huge part, and Alfheim didn't have ANY resources to manage. At all. Everyone in SAO became a tight knit group after they got out, ignoring any real world motivations. I'm not going to get into that can of worms, but instead I'll dive into the one thing that broke my suspension of disbelief harder than anything else. Being an MMO player myself, I understand how horrible people can be in these settings. *HE WENT ON FOR A NOT INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME ABOUT DEATH TRAINS BEING THE WORST SOCIAL THING PLAYERS CAN DO TO EACH OTHER*. Death trains, for those who don't know, are when a higher level player runs through a low level area aggroing everything they run through going the shortest path, creating this train behind them of things to kill that is way beyond anything that a player of a level the content was created for. Eventually, they stop trying to kill said higher level player and move at crazy speeds back to their original positions. Apparently this is worse than calling a female avatar a 'cum guzzling wh0re' for either not stripping down to the basic underwear options and using the dance emote or for doing so. This is actually some of the milder interactions that I've ran across. Death trains are also apparently worse than loot ninja'ing (which is worse in most MMO players eyes).
She went from bases with weapons to trapped in a cage with no weapons when the guy who was to forcibly marry her had locked her in the game with no exit like the original Sao so kirito had to go beat him to pull her out of the game like an award for beating the final boss
That would make sao a real movie. A real story in the beginning. İf they just kill someone important instead of doing this yui shit.thought of it. Then kayaba never would seen as a friend. So the bullshit plot about alfheim online if it ever written wouldn't be that suck, too..
Honestly though, I've felt this about basically every protagonist in the animes I watched, so I wasn't that thrown off by it. I just expected the stupidity that was Kirito. What ruined it for me was when they completely took away every badass thing about Asuna and turned her into yet another overly sexualized female character in anime.
I believe it was Hayao Miyazaki who said about today's stories and character developments that today's mangakas/anime writers don't create characters that are real relatable people, and that these writers don't know what real people are like because they don't talk to enough real people. I believe Miyazaki was referring to these waifu characters like Asuna, Nami, Orihime, Fairy Tail characters, etc. Because just think, Miyazaki's movies never objectified its female characters. He knew real people, and wrote relatable characters. Now we get these objectified waifu characters or these unrelatable protagonists *sigh*
The fact that the escaped SAO in less than 20 episodes thanks to a time skip is like if there was a time skip right when Deku started in U.A to when Deku is already the number 1 hero and we saw his story from there
Yui's transformation into an object as a substitute for death could have been a really good story opportunity. Maybe when it first happens, they're both reassured by this, the story treats it as her being temporarily incapacitated but will be okay in no time, and then when all the action has cooled down they bring her back, and... she's completely broken. Her character model is glitching all over the place, her voice distorts constantly, and her memory and ability to respond to her environment is worse than ChatGPT. Maybe in compressing her, Kirito "corrupted her software" and the thing he did to save her ultimately caused her current state. Kirito and Asuna would both be horrified by this, their relationship would be dramatically changed, and Kirito would be forced to reckon with a personal failure of his. Wracked with guilt, shame and longing for his daughter back, he becomes obsessed with finding a way to fix her, something that drives him into isolation once again, but this time instead of it making him powerful, it's caused and continued by the fact that he's *powerless*. It doesn't exactly mesh well with the core theme of the show and might mess with the tone, but it could easily add some really good drama, it would let other characters step up and fill the team role that Kirito would struggle to fill, and most importantly, make her death and resurrection meaningful and have consequences.
First episode Kirito:
Im weak i need to get stronger
Second episode Kirito:
"So I did some mining off camera"
Sao in a nutshell
This deserved more
First episode : Welp i'm going to train myself.
Second episode : Now. I'm as powerfull than hell. *diamond sword, netherite sword, armor, hacked potion (infinite), enchanted stuff.
Asuna : Wow he is soo strong ! he's number is soooo big.
Goku : Hey mister sword, wanna fight ?
Kirito : ???
Goku : ???
Too underrated lmao 😂😂😂
@Hitiyourboi kinda but ainz was already max level
kirito is like every child's character during a roleplay they want to be overpowered as hell
I have not found a better way to describe him thank you
Well if you want preferably live and your stuck in an RPG I'm sure you'd want to gain levels as quickly as possible, right?
@T_games LMAO
Literally back in 4th grade my spoiled brat friend mya who wants to be every single main character to rule the fucking spotlight. Well- she was my friend for 2 minutes until she ganged up with some grill named Hailey and fucking beat the shit out of me. Then she asks to be my friend again that sassy bitch
Lol that was me before I started trying to actually write a story
Kirito: *saves a girl*
Every saved girl: Holy shit, I love you.
[Kazui] Kanz tbh that’s every damsel in distress movie or tv show
Except Yuuki
Toilet OnYT yeah but once you watch later into it, ie the final episode of season 1 her and liz admit to liking him
Kirito?: Are you unharmed milady?
Silica: Uh wha?
Kirito: I said, could you stop staring at me! It's creepy!
Silica: *_falls in love_*
@@theofficialcosworthracingt8987 You don't say?
The moment that broke me was when they skipped half of the tower to the final boss and easily defeated him in the middle of the season. There was no reason why, they just deleted all the tension and worldbuilding up to that point FOR NOTHING.
Filler is something I dread in anime, it's what makes Dragon Ball, Naruto, and One Piece a challenge to truck through, but SAO is one anime where I belive it would have benefitted GREATLY. They always talk abt important stuff that happened between episodes which left me wondering, plus they have a damn solid supporting cast, like Klein, and Agil are so fun and I wish we had more time with them in some filler episodes.
yeah it all went down in ep 14
exactly! i stopped before season 1 ended because they were skipping everything all the time that was interesting for me and instead showed boring unnecessary BS in detail like another girl falling for kirito! WTF?! :D
@@abtimus i feel cheated out of the skull reaper fight. and how exactly did asuan become vice commander of the strongest guild in the game? i also would have loved to see more of society in sao away from the front lines. there's just so much potential in both the parts of the story the plot skipped over and the concept of having to build a new civilization in a video game.
@@hollowshield2315 yep, all was just rushed to oblivion and pushed aside like it was completely unimportant but i think that is exactly what makes you engage more into a world and the story! especially when you witness a journey of the people of this world from the beginning to the end…instead we skip so many parts of world and charakter bulding and by the middle of the season the whole game and world was finnished…so it never really mattered and therefor why should i care for other games and worlds and charakters in the SAO universe?
“Why didn’t he globally reactivate the games logout function” this is a very good point
Yes, I mean he was on a time limit and he didn't know where the log out was or if it was there but knew how to convert Yui and was in an emotional state, but yes, he should have had a completely cool head and used his amazing super speed to scroll through every option and then hack the entire system to force a logout.
Third_Eye_of_The_Slav But then we won't have 15 more episodes of... whatever SAO is considered.
You don't seem to know a lot about code or how it is structured. Also what stops him using the terminal twice?
I’m more concerned with how Kirito saved Yui when she was already in the middle of being deleted. He obviously didn’t cancel the deletion process, so how was he able to store all of her data into an item?
Scorpio The Scorpion maybe her core files were getting deleted, and all he did was dump the cache containing the same data into an item.
"But no, preserving his wife's tamagotchi is a lot more important than that!" That was pure gold right there.
Very comment. Much like. Wow.
nyasshole Couldn't breathe, I was laughing so hard
nyasshole agreed priceless...but hey i saw it coming...
LOVED IT
nyasshole got me so hard
my favorite part was when you said he could have made a log out button instead of saving the code. Just imagine Asuna wakes up from the game crying over and then kirito just says 'bro she was an AI, get over it.'
I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW KIRITO WENT FROM “I must train harder to get stronger” TO ONE OF THE MOST FEARED SWORDSMAN IN THE GAME *IN ONE EPISODE*
MMO moment
Trash ass game progression
I have always liked the show until I watched that specific moment now I absolutely hate SAO
@@blackman-vo5vv When was this moment? Sorry, I haven't watched this show in some time.
He was a beta tester so he already knew the tips and tricks of the game. HAVE YOU ACTUALLY NEVER PLAYED A GAME WHERE YOU CAN FIND SOME OP WEAPONS/ARMOUR/SKILLS etc RIGHT AT THE START??!?!?
When I first watched found SAO, I thought it was gonna be 100 episodes for each level lol
Wait for Progressive
@@eightan9589 You should watch War of underworld it’s the newest 2 seasons land it isn’t all that bad. I enjoyed it a lot
@Galaxy Lunarr Where?
@Galaxy Lunarr what your school library has manga?????
@Galaxy Lunarr damn
Watching someone hate on something is so much frikin fun.
especially when it's SAO
At 1.25 speed is even better xD
There's this one channel called "I Hate Everything" ...
Oh god, I LOVE that channel.
"SOA is so dense, every single scene has so much going on..."
"PRESERVING HIS WIFE'S TAMAGOTCHI"
amazing
Mia Philip he should have logged everyone out
“Everyone over the age of 12 hates this show”. Actually this was a twilight like thing. Reki kawahara made it for teenage boys with raging hormones to project themselves on this.
Edit: I’m not trying to defend this show I hate it
Tell that to the MG2001 person wondering around in a couple comment sections. They kinda be hella annoying lol
@@Iisho yep
That is literally the perfect description
@@twentystars6116 thank you
@@Iisho you are more annoying
"Preserving his wife's tamagachi is a lot more important than that"
I almost spat out my drink
Greg Kuchta I lost my shit there omg
Show is called sword art online.
Has an entire arc dedicated to guns
Anime logic
If it makes you feel better, there are light swords...
@@johnblack4924 Lightsabers. And no, it doesn't.
@@6ixlxrd A sabre is a type of sword.
な6IXLXRD *electromagnetic high powered plasma blades
The thing I REALLY hated (character wise) about Sao is how Asuna went from a strong, bad-ass chick to a damsel in distress once she started crushing on Kirito.
Fcking annoying...
no. That bitch was never a strong, bad-ass chick to begin with. She's a fucking princess peach
Pie God I always hated her to be honest
Just like your mom?
Pie God ikr
Pie God trust , the only original thing kirito as and asuna is that unlike many anime couples they BOTH were strong and badass. I actually enjoyed the way they relied on each other when fighting and their perfect sync until Kirito literally became a God and Asuna became Boring
The creators even killed Eugo (a valuable character) just for Kirito to have his sword and do dual-wielding.
Kirito is an self inserting protagnist
He was? Uhhh
@@mastereconomist1 yes, but theres only one thing hes been inserting, some BDE to save all the chicks. change my mind lmao
@@BradTheTryHard maybe because to be alive
You know which season is getting review?
Kirito has a fidget spinner on his costume...
Pyrrhocratic oh fuck off I can't unsee
Pyrrhocratic Just noticed that today 😂
Your point is?
Im pointing out he has a fidget spinner on his costume...
Pyrrhocratic Doesn't answer my question
"His wife's tamagotchi" I started laughing with that line.
"True Facts"
Agreed XD
Same here ! Hahaha
about your tamagotchi.
I know lol
Kirito's Job Application for protagonist:
- Beta Tester
- Neet
- Sword skills
- Rage is my Ultimate
- PhD in Computer Science
- Btw 14
-Harem Magnet
-Complete Lack of Any Personality
Kirito’s actually 16-17(well at the end on season one or two)
😂😂😂
@Anthony8851 - You might wanna look up the actual definition of a ''NEET'' :P
@@cressy7395 i can't believe they left off reaction time, which is pretty much kirito's "superpower" of sorts.
They went wrong precisely at.... Episode 2. Episode 2 shouldn't have been the first boss. We should have seen Kirito doing his solo run, operating on the fringes, but seeing other characters, even whole groups getting wiped out, while Kirito continues on. We should have SEEN Lisabet's party building up, and then seen it get wiped out. Let us see the Moonlit Black Cats as they start, and how they end up meeting Kirito later on, so that we get a better sense of things, and have time to invest before the deaths start happening. Hell, SHOW us Kirito's memories of the Beta Test, maybe he saw a GM use one of the consoles before, and is actually SEARCHING for one of those consoles that he can access, because there might be a window where he could get an item that might get him out, or at least give an edge to someone to end the death game.
Giving that extra time, would've also had the effect of slowing Kirito's rise, while we get to see the other characters really get to do some things. So we see Asuna join the Knights of the Blood Oath, and rise in power to where we see her later, we see Laughing Coffin get rolling, we see the rise of Titan's Hand, forces that will come up later in the story. Klein actually gets to do things, as opposed to.... every other scene with Klein in it.
Aincrad had so much potential, but then they had to stifle it with so much timeskips. Everything from Kirito's strength escalation, the romance plot, character devlopment, and so much more like the stuff you mentioned. It's ridiculous when you cram your titular arc that the show is all about in just a few episodes just so you can make room for another one within the first season.
@@chidori7234 For one, I would have likely stretched out the time with Sachi, built her up as a character more, have them fully fall in love, and make people believe she's a regular recurring character for a bit before viciously ripping it away. Include her and others in the opening theme standing with Kirito, basically selling that the Black Cats are going to be his regular team, right up until they get wiped, and then altered the opening to show them as black silhouettes behind him.... I may be slightly evil.
Then we get the "Christmas Arc" over three episodes, where Kirito starts out barely moving (This would echo later in the fight with Kayaba after Asuna's death), until he hears about the possibility of an item that can resurrect a dead player at the end of part I, him on the hunt for the item, with whole guilds moving to secure it first for part II, with Klein and company arriving just before Kirito loses his life to the one guild, and standing in for him so he can go take down the boss, who drops just before we cut to part III. He gets the item, of course, but here, we get an entire episode of the fight, giving us a much needed action sequence where we see one of the first times thus far where Kirito goes all out as a solo player, no holding back to disguise his skill.
In my opinion it was as soon as they settled down for 2 years and got married.. ruined all kind of build up and completely changed the tone of the show
Kirito: *Breathes*
Every girl within a 20 mile radius: *_w e t_*
would like to point out jotaro can do better than that
Hello FBI nothing serious here
Very true 😂
S O F T A N D W E T
Kirito is def a gary stu
As someone who studied programming in C# CSS and javascript for nearly 10 years, I can confirm what he said in the video, It would be impossible to not only take apart the game's code and stored billions of lines of code in a few seconds, not only that but it would also be impossible to do all that and not cause a single glitch that could potentially break the game killing everyone inside it. Programming is anything but simple.
Preach
I like the way you speak, computer man.
What is funny, is when you zoom in on what he is doing at the computer interface, it is obviously just random gibberish that seems like it is supposed to represent digital information. So it isn't even actual code. I don't think a human could even read what was displayed on the screen. Which makes sense, if the admins are AIs and no actual humans were accessing the code from in game.
It would have been really fun if he had failed and when she came back she was all corrupted and evil, but no that didn't happen.
Its a fucking make believe anime. God people like you are the basement dwellers the internet makes fun of.
Honestly it should’ve ended after they cleared sao. Considering how it’s called sword art online
but money
@@SkyBlade79 maybe they could have made the seasons taking place where they cleared floors and didnt just travel 2 years in time
@@ZeloticMemes or they could have make new protagonist with the story of SAO that take different perspective of that game. Just like .hack series
@@yanjirujan193 Yes. Everything instead of flying incest girl simulator
@@ZeloticMemes agree that would be best solutions it felt rushed how fast they were clearing floors
Honestly this video made me appreciate why SAO Abridged made her death a prank gone wrong. Originally I thought it just undermined it, but now I see it was the only way to make her basic immortality and resurrection not seem stupid in contrast to her death scene
never really saw it that way, huh. thanks for the different persepctive. her "death" in abridged hit suprisingly really hard, so the "it was a prank" made me feel betrayed
They also fixed Yui's motivation for inserting herself into Kirito and Asuna's lives because they are they most fundamentally broken people she's ever seen yet still manage to have something halfway resembling a nontoxic relationship. This contradiction inspires her to get closer to the action so to speak to find out what the hecks up with that.
As opposed to, you know, them being able to experience positive feelings in a fucking death game
@@hollowshield2315Personally, I thought that the fridge horror aspect of Yui being trapped and forced to watch again was pretty compelling. Plus, I felt like it added to the whole Yui being psychotic thing they have going on in Season 2.
@@emmanuelpena2228 true. like mother and father like daughter
what happens if you're in SAO and your internet goes out shouldn't should you be logged out?
If that happened and got people killed, I wouldn't last two weeks.
You're putting way too much thought into the show. More than the writers did, I just learned to accept that the show is garbage lol
HolyAurora you right.
They don't mention it in the show (I think; I've only watched the abridged version since my second pass of season 1 and first pass of 2), but there was a delay built in in case of loss of power/internet that basically let the government go around and collect all the players so that they could be put in hospitals to ensure they had both of those and keep the players alive during the years without any ability to eat. S'why Protag McDualwield wakes up in a hospital at the end of the first arc.
It was mentioned in the show, the player's bodies just slumped over unconsious while they were being moved to the hospital.
“If the show was kill happy-“ immediately starts showing AOT😂
Tachibana unfortunately you couldn’t be more right.
@@danjoredd it's just that titans aren't even in that anime anymore
@@Leseulmecsansnom They're not important anymore. Spoilers, they eradicated them.
@@danjoredd Have you read the manga? People start dying like fucking flies
@@drfifteenmd7561 *laughs in latest chapters*
For me, the romance ruined this show. They turned badass Asuna into a damsel in distress, and instead of the tension, fear of dying, and battle with monsters, the show goes on a vacation trip. Then once the two love birds are done that shit, they go back and they get out of this world. Asuna is never badass again. SAO 2 had the same problem. They had a really go start, then half way through the spirit dies off after ANOTHER sexual assault scene. This show needs to pick a direction it wants to go.
SAO would've been much better if it focused on the sao arc rather than making the shitty fairy arc BS
gudhaxer41343 That's right. Then after the SAO arc, they changed the arc. They did the same thing in season 2. Why can't they just pick an arc and stick with it?
What arc did you not enjoy in season two?
TylerThePirateKing every bit of it was boring tbh and only watched it cuz i hoped it would be better but nope
4 or so scenes were good in season 2 the rest was garbage
There is actually more wrong with Yui than just that. Yui basically acts as emotional blackmail against Asuna. Asuna is now emotionally tied to Yui as her "Mother" and Kirito was chosen as Yui's "Father". Meaning, If Asuna didn't love Kirito she'd still have to remain with him to play the "Mother" role for Yui. Which allows Kirito to keep his harem. Which, is something a few Harem Anime seem to have done. Introduced a "precious" little girl who sees the Main Character as her 'Father" and ALL the girls in the Harem as her "Mothers". Meaning none of them can leave otherwise it'll break the "precious" little girls heart. Which they can't do.
Aside from that would Yui acts as a cheat code for Kirito. Kirito has to start back at level 1? No! Just have Yui restore him (pretty much) back to what was at in the last game. She also is something that no other player CAN have: an AI assistant. Kirito pretty much goes through the game just plain cheating.
I am so glad I never watched this anime cause oh my god.
Even if Yui is a trash character it hasn't a blackmail on Asuna. In fact Asuna was the one who wanted her like daughter. Yui always put the pression on Kirito. the harem isn't even present. It is more the girls who still love him even everybody and themselves know it is useless.
@@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zo I'm surprised after a year anyone would respond.
What actually happened:
Kirito types in those very few seconds:
“Turn Yui into rock”
Hackerman
Lmaoo Im ded
Good thing he didn't turn "Turn into Monke" or the series would have been very different.
@@PissedGrunty if yui was turned into monke she would've been the best character
If (yui=0); don't
When did it start sucking? During the first when Klein was all "Want to be bros and go on cool adventures?" and Edgerito was all "Nah I'm going to time skip and one hit everything with a harem of lolis :^)"
R.I.P. Klein's character development
"edgirito"
Legendary
best girl Klein got no development. #feelssadman
loli fucking like a baus
The show started sucking the moment they decided to make Klein less than a secondary character.
Kirito: Who are you?
Guts: I'm the black swordman done right
MY PEE PEE HARD Kirito: done right how? I have no coherent comprehension skill?
Guts: I hate obligations of any kind, including binging your show. *Slice*
lol this is true
nope
You made it look like Guts came later. lmfao.
do not compare that fuckboi to our glorious Guts
In conclusion: watch the abridged series and treat it as canon.
Yyyyyyuuup
No L
@@jamfingers55 L
@@MGNew L
Seriously though 😂
“Save his wife’s tamagotchi”
that line killed me
Now imagine if Kirito had saved a *single* guy, that would’ve made it at least mildly interesting, seeing as every single girl he’s saved has fallen in ‘love’ with him
Eugeo could not make it so does not count
Klein best girl
Probably whenever Kirito saving a guy he always failed. When it’s a girl he going all out and save all the girl and let the guys die lol
I hate this TH-cam video I hate is so much😤
he made reasonable points...still everyone can have their own opinions.
“ his wife’s tamagotchi “ LMAO
svdd sosa same
That one's funny, but personally I'm a little fonder of "Little Baby Skynet".
Anastas1786 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm so fucking done
SAO was one of my first animes and I loved it at the time. However, the more I watched the more I was like "wtf". I still liked it, cause I thought the premise was cool and was optimistic. Once I got older I was like "yea this show sucked".
I wish there would be a remake of this show with a different protagonist, kinda like ggo alternative. I like the story of SAO but I dont like how it was told.
the alicization seasons where pretty good. if they had done that to begin with it would of been so much better
Might be a little late but something the same but different is Sword Art Online Abridged which actually gives the characters depth/personality and is hilarious I really recommend watching it if you haven't already
same lol
@@hiraeth9589 My turn to be late. I have watched it! Perhaps 3 or 4 times at this point? It is very good 😂😂😂
Love the truth behind the story, not how it’s told! I’m guessing that a lot of books and movies are based on a truly amazing real guy, as opposed to the books and movies that probably portray him as a woman or g@y…
Yui: So you brought me back?
Kirito: Yes.
Yui: What did it cost?
Kirito: The lives of 6000 people.
@Champa since when are gamemasters able to view and copy sourcecode and create new Items, also why were gm accounts in SAO when there were never any moderators or admins
@@treatfox3161 I actually think there might (?) be admins but they aren't relevant to the anime-
@@Amacchii there was not and yui was not an admin just a health monitor
4000 Lives
@B.J that sounds very funny. I don't know what a virgin goes through that they want to kill theirself. Probably got their body pillow burned
"why didn't globally activate the log out function!?" I lost it.
cuz it would have killed everyone. why is it these "plot holes" were explained in the show and ignored in the youtube vids?
How would it have killed everyone to enable them to log out? It's not like it was the logging out that was killing them, it was their avatars dying.
Totally Nameless literally said why 10 minutes into the show. because the would send a signal to fry your brain if you tried to remove the gear. There was no log out on the menu either. so idk why I gotta explain this. maybe anime fans are trash. I watch got 3-4 times to get all the details and y'all can't watch a show for more than 10 minutes without thinking there are plot holes. you gotta finish a show before you can comment on the entire plot. then rewatch and make sure your plot holes are actually plot holes before you look like an idiot online.
Victor Unger
Oh my god, you moron. Kayaba said that people would die if their avatars died OR if anyone from the OUTSIDE REMOVED THEIR NERVE GEAR. They also couldn't just cut off the power cause the nerve gear had an internal battery that would also fry your brain if the power is cut off. Now, if people wanted to get the players to the hospital, which they would really need to cause they would need to be provided nutrients from outside otherwise they'd die anyways, it would be almost impossible. So, Kayaba gave them a time lag. After like 15 minutes of running on its internal battery the nervegear would kill the players unless it's connected to a power source within the time limit. LOGGING PEOPLE OUT DOESN'T KILL THEM. That's why Kayaba removed the log out feature in the first place. Kirito could've restored that since they'd actually found a GM console and could access the source code. And didn't YOU see the anime? Kayaba logged out the 6k remaining people after Kirito killed him. HE LOGGED THEM OUT. I'll say this again, logging people out doesn't kill them. If you got to end of the show without knowing this, you have no right to call someone else an idiot.
Kurose Ryōta yes logging out doesn't kill them but it was impossible to log out. the release of the game didn't have it. only the beta did. Any method of quiting the game short of beating or the system logging them out would kill them. yes they survived because they were logged out but that was never an option or planned. so in all intents and purposes logging out of the game didn't exist.
Kirito S1: I'm a f*cking badass loner
Kirito in the rest of the season: ASUNA
Fanbom be like: BeSt CoUpLe EvEr!!!!!!!
@@saadmirza4221 yesss
@@saadmirza4221 for real
@@saadmirza4221 in abridged, probably the best in anime lel.
watch SAO Abridged if you haven't.
true but don't use Asuna like that
“No one important will ever die”
*Eugeo dies*
“This video didn’t age well”
@@Clown-tf8jp Thats just false 🤣 He was the most important person besides Alice
@@Depersona244 i think they killed him, not just to become a sword, but to remind kirito, that theirs a bigger threat than saving that world, but he has to save his waifu, which he will do, because thicc anime plot armor ftw
From LN Volume 24, Well about that...
why didnt kirito hack his friend to come back huh dissapointing anime
@@klajdisinanaj3977 Why didn’t he hack? His friends to come back? What are you even saying lmao.
"It's hard to get attach on characters when they just go in and out."
Everyone that literally died in attack on titan: Pathetic
How about Hokuto No Ken where almost every character in that show dies or Akame Ga Kill where the entire fucking cast dies
Yo attack on titan is just on another level.
Lol everyone dies in AOT is just cannon foddler not even in main cast died except Erwin which is basically in SEASON 3 ENDING WHAT THE SHIT PLOT ARMOR IS TYAT
@@청국-i5o you dont seem to quite understand how plot armor works
girl have you heard of berserk?
When I first watched SAO I thought Kiritos name was kitty toe
Depressed& Stressed same im like "why are they calling him kitty toe?" and I realized im such a dumbass
Im fucking weak lmao
Depressed& Stressed lol
I literally thought the same thing, I had to google it
You were probably 11 at the time like me lol
Sword Art Online is basically about a gamer who got a bunch of girlfriends while playing a game, and for some reason Kirito and his girlfriend meets a little girl (an A.I actually) and thought of her as a daughter while they lived together in a game. Kirito and Asuna were around the age of 14-16 as well so the unrealism is quite high.
@SpoopNook Right now yes, but then at the start of Aincrad Asuna was 15 and Kirito was 14. Apologies for not being precise at first.
You talk about realism in anime’s?
some roblox online dater who's age is currently 12 or younger : ......
Kirito is 16 and Asuna 17 during the ending of SAO
@@k.c-8271 in almost every anime there’s at least 2 things u can relate to in reality while sao there are literally none
It's amazing how much the abridged series looked at this, basically said "I agree" and instead of getting rid of it, they made it make sense (for the most part).
I mean, let's be honest, it still doesn't really explain how Kurt (or actual Kirito for that matter) could save Yui as an in-game item and have it flagged to be "saved to his NervGear" (why is this even a feature unless you want cheating to occur?). But, now knowing that Yui was faking it, it makes sense how he was able to access the data without some or all of it being locked or just plain missing already.
It also fixes the whole "only two that love each other" problem, helps them develop their character, and much more.
Cant lie SAO brought me into anime, loved it BUT ONLY the first arc. Man did that show go downhill from there to utter trash. Also Japan gotta chill out with that incest.
Yeah basically the moment when they got out of SAO it went from ok to bad. It was like my second anime ever so I thought it was pretty good at the time but looking back I probably wouldn't think that now.
Looking at you Hentai
Mother's Rosario arc was really good. Loved it.
Same.
Except the incest was just a misunderstanding.
We know only one thing for sure
Everyone hates the elf arc
Lmao its the only arc i hate
Yep
and they kept showing them in sao war
of underworld. like cmon i dont care.
Well i didn't think i would ever say this but i think you are actually right, DIO
@@dmxl48 They should've let Asuna to deal with the problems of the outside and Alice with the war of the game
How to make SAO better:
Don’t
Just watch SAO Abridged
ಠ_ಠ ok
Nahh, SAO is a great anime, one of the best isekais out there.
@@andreslara6854 i wonder if you even listened to this video
@@aetavism838 he didn’t it’s the only anime he’s watched so he has no basis😂
@@andreslara6854 its just a glorified power fanasty
We know the reason why all the girls fell for him
Charisma hat +50
A fellow fan of SAO: Abridged I see
Nice one^^
Thank you for reminding me why I liked this show in the first place, and then reminding me why I am never going back.
You can have a few good memories. That Kobold fight was epic, at least.
so true
What does your profile pic say? That's Kanji right?
lol that's my name (part of it, at least)
and no, I'm not Japanese. I think Chinese might have some of the same characters as kanji
Mingfei D. Yeah. The Japanese took a lot of the letters from the Chinese. Sorry. I'm learning Katakana and Kanji right now, and I'd like to learn fro every chance I've got xD
“All of them are wrong. All of you are wrong. I’m right. Listen to me.”
-The Internet
Doesn't help that Yui has been purposely designed to look like the child of the main two characters just in case you were in doubt...
I like the concept of the GGO. There's a mystery feel to it. And using potassium as a way of murder behind gaming is genius.
Would've been better if he had extreme PTSD from the deaths of his friends in the trap
Subaru:
Abridged kirito : SACHIIIIIIII
GhostRifter lmfao
@@Nacknone4he be like "let me introduce myslef"
He DID have extreme PTSD! He still hasn't gotten over it, even after 4 years. He silently broods whenever he remembers.
Oh god! We're working on that story arc for our abridged series right now, and we didn't fully realized just how stupid that programming scene is! We didn't think it was possible for the writing in this show to get WORSE! Thanks for pointing that out. We mostly thought this arc was shit because it did things like introduce a character only to immediately kill her off (as you said), but also because they spent a truly absurd amount of time on Yulier's exposition, despite the fact that NONE of it is ever mentioned again!
*Sigh* Alright, rant over. Great episode man! Always love your analyses :)
Can't wait for the next episode
Ayyyy! Just my favorite channel to spot in these comment sections! Looking forward to seeing if Kirito survived Asuna's bed!
You guys are already doing a much better job of developing character (which in turn creates dramatic stakes since we have people to care about) than the original series ever did. Thanks for salvaging a genuinely entertaining experience from the wish-granting harem fest that the anime became
Super hyped for the next one. And luckily for you, there's more content you can work on now for this arc thanks to this bit of enlightenment. I'm looking forward to being surprised at what you crazy codgers can wriggle up next.
Good luck guys!!! Keep up the great work! I'm really looking forward to the next episode!
This is the first time I saw this. As a programmer, it hurts watching this scene lmao.
mamkin programmer
Ehh different for everyone also a programmer here and enjoyed that scene
@@EmperorBob of course, each to his own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mouri Ran As a student programmer it hurts too. I mean I’m not a master but holy shit.
None of you are programmers. Shut up
>Person I barely knew for 2 days
>50 thousand people
Are you sure you want to pick person you barely knew for -
Yes.
Wait hold on I came up with something much better (reference is from sao abridged)
"Are you sure you want to pick"
WHATEVER YOUR SAYING I DONT CARE, LEMME GO SAVE MY WIFE...
Yeah, thankfully the progressive ln fixed most of the shitty plot from the aincrad arc
It sucked because after yui's appearance sao went from a power fantasy show to a "Dad's struggle to save his familly" show
That whole arc was a mess, and I was waiting for it to end with Yui's death, but it never really did.
I kinda hated yui from the start and that ruined the show 4 me :/
SAME i thought i was the only omg
“When a character dies and is brought back”
*Isekai protagonists have entered the chat*
*Natsuki Subaru joined the chat*
Kazoma desu
@ItzFuZeUltra Avdol too
@ItzFuZeUltra Ahh yes, the king of asspulls will never die
Don’t forget about goku
The absolute worst thing about the show is the lack of exploration. There's this ginormous world and we don't see any of it. It's even worse in the fairy arch. Kirito chooses the assassin class and starts defying everyone's beliefs about the class when he uses the magic in intuitive ways, but he only does that twice. It should be called "Wasted Potential Online"
*****
Being locked in a death game can do that to you. Not really a valid complaint there, pal.
No, that's probably one of the tiniest bad things about the show, but you're entitled to expect what you want from a show.
Or the fact that he is "I'm playing a game for first time and still i'm the best player in it, also I don't care about strenght or the weakness of item, just about it's appearence" Like the heck? Even if we believe that he is so pro gamer that he beats the crap out of every game, it's still stupid for "pro gamer that want's to save his wife" to take the worst possible equipment to show how badass he is -.-
*Laughing Hysterically* What I agree to you!
maniakowski Trolowski
To be fair, his stats were way above everyone else. He probably could have gone naked with fists only and still beat everyone up.
Even after 6 years, I still think about this video.
Very good.
And then Ballsdeep69 was introduced and single handedly saved the show from all the bad plot elements. THE END
Kitten amen!
I was going to like but I want to keep it at 69.
Nice reference
My name is Klein
“Saving his wife’s tamagotchi” bruh I’m weak 😂😂😂
ItsPabloYT i am Literally, LITERALLY crying because this rant is amazing
@@MrMjthe3rd amazing...ly inaccurate lol
@@beastunleashed657 nah, its pretty spot on
You have awoken
Deleto Blue
In the DBZ world, emojis are illegal and disgusting. I'm the product of what happens when you post a cancerous emoji.
DELETE THAT SHIT
N O W
Deleto Blue Emoji Bad, TH-cam Good. Your comment contributes nothing to the conversation and shows that you only wanted to comment because you hate emojis.
“I’ll admit it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be”
“IT WAS WORSE”
Snakes and stuff insert annoying dog theme
Just because someone says its bad doesn’t make it bad. You can still like it. Dont be a sheep
it started to get really bad so cringe
i'd have to agree with him on this one this show was way worse than the internet led me to believe.
@@vyesvbino agree thank god i stoped watching from Middle of season 2 it was so annoying!
The first 10-15 episodes of this show were amazing. Even though this anime isn’t that good, it’ll always have a special place in my heart cuz it was the first anime I watched. The songs they used in this anime are also amazing
The title: sword art online
Sao director: this is an anime only swords
*adds guns*
Uhh you know actually this anime was once a light novel
Director just liked the book that's all
i know, thats the worst thing about the hole series except they added streets you fcn ernenr jcj gara niggggggiaaa
Sao season 2 guns
That's not what the series is about. The series is about the impact of virtual reality on society you block
*add haxes and masses* this is sword, this is good stuff
At first, I actually kind of liked SAO... but the part where they suddenly got *married* ticked me off. Like...??? What??? Just like that? then *boom* everything went downhill from there.
Vya same it just got bad when they actually left sao
because it just ended so suddenly like what?
Same for me, idk if the writers rushed for a bigger audience without thinking over actual plots
Vya I can agree but I still love kirito
Once they got married. And had a “child” I was like nah I’m out. But even if they didn’t get married and just dated I still don’t like them together
‘Sword art online is ass’
What a great opening
.......I like SAO, even the later arcs......
Sorry, I was feeling salty that this anime is so widely despised for seemingly bullshit reasons.
My opinion.
the best part is the zoom ejpidsjgjgpojod
He's not wrong.
“Preserving his wife’s tamagotchi is much more important than that” had me screaming
7:44 the "not fucking" showing two pandas got me so hard.
dragonbretheren your comment made me realize how hilarious that was, thank you
I only just got that holy fuck.
dragonbretheren I don't get it
IndominusMosa Gaming The main reason why pandas are endangered is that they aren't having babies.
dragonbretheren
"Preserving his wife's Tomagatchi" I FUCKING LOST MY SHIT THERE
that's the best line of the video XD
lmfaooo ok mee too hahaha
Reminds me of Gigguk's SAO in 5 mins vid
Asuna: "Can we keep it?!"
Kirito: "NO"
A:"But I waaaaant ooooooone"
K:"NOOO"
A:"Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaasse"
K:"NO"
A:"I'm not having sex with you for a MONTH"
K:"Ok geez fine just make sure you feed it and take it for walks"
Yui:"Are you my mamma and pappa?"
A:"YES!
yea me 2 i was dying complete lmfao
😂😂😂😂
I think the reason Pre-Teens love this show is because they want to be Krito. Be super OP, get all the girls and such.
uh
yeah
yeah
there's also the great fight animation. no one can take that away.
allied006 Actually that's the reason why anime like this, Re: Zero and Tokyo Ghoul (all of these suck) are so popular.
tokyo ghoul anime is bad but the manga is better (which is a common thing for story and other things)
Nickagevscapcom Wtf who wants to be subaru? xD
Kirito is the worst Main Character EVER! What I most hate about him is that he acts like a hero who is special and has OP power, but he is actually a NORMAL teenager who loves games (even if he was stuck in one) and has cheat codes to become an OP game character. It’s NOT his own power!
Sao would've been better if it didn't focus on Kirito's 9291 girlfriends
Yeah, especially when one of them was killed off and the other two were ONE EPISODE OF AINCRAD EXCLUSIVES. Also Silca creeped me out because it felt like she was coded to be a child.
i 10000% agree
Dont merge harem with shonen thats a really fucking bad idea
waifus
Wrong, his 177013 girlfriends
"But no, preserving his wife's Tamagotchi"...He just called Yui a Tamagotchi...my fucking sides...
gold!
I absolutely lost it when I heard that. Oh my lord XD
TAMAGOCHI, ITS A TAMAGOCHI, NOT A TOMAGACHI
*//End rant//*
That was 10/10 perfect XD
Best part of the video.
“Preserving his wife tamagachi is much more important than that !”
lol that line made me laugh out loud, FUCK THIS SERIES
@@kyotheman69 just watch overlord
I lost my shit on that comment
@@kyotheman69 maybe no
everytime yui talked throughout the entirety of SOA, i died a little inside.
This anime became worse for me when alfheim online arc started and the badass asuna turned into housewife.
Jatin Gurav because when she met kirito she became happier and took everything less seriously and then she just stoped being like that but they pulled a lot of bs on that one I agree with you
@@sookiez1269 yes bro asuna became dependent on kirito. Asuna was the only character of sao which was badass for me ,not kirito coz he look somewhat cute like a child . Its just my opinion dont offend.
No sorry if I made you feel like your opinions didn’t matter sorry I agree wth you tho
@@sookiez1269it was for others not for u. With ur reply on my first comment i came to know that our opinions about sao are same . Have u watched sao alicization ? Is it good?
No but I read the manga
When u can convert an AI loli into an inventory item in a few seconds, but can't programme an exit button in 2 years
Dude try changing the .zip file to a .rar file, then try writing an ACTUAL code. You will see the difference.
@@beastunleashed657 an AI that could feel emotions IS NOT as simple as .zip files
@@beastunleashed657 dumb
saumil padwal ok but change file types without any actual tool or built in option for it
@@DrGandW why do you assume it didn't have a built in functionality? It kinda already did. Remember Silica's dragon Pina? It also was an AI that immediately turned into an object on death.
i hate how kirito is like: yo i'm so hawt.
every girl even his sister: oh my god i fell in love with him.
me: the faq i'm out.
edit: oh wow this comment felt so long ago, sorry for my cringe old self lmao
Only the latter half of that is even true. Kirito's only confidence is in his gaming talent. He never had self-esteem in any other department, maybe except kendo and farming salvia.
Edit: I previously said radishes. That was Goku. However, not knowing what salvia was, I just assumed every anime boy that farms something will farm radishes.
@@EatAnOctorok bruhhh 👌👌👌😂😂😂I couldn't agree more..
The true hero of this story, that doesn't even appear, does not cheat, he only have a BIG sword and some armor on him :
GRIFFITH !!!!!!
_DRawP _ how so?
HE HAS NO PERSONALITY, HOW DO PEOPLE EVEN LIKE HIM?
I actually stope washing SAO when SHE came to the picture , in some point I felt like I was washing a fanfiction
Lol samee
Wait the ai daugher or tsuandre girl
Kirito in a nutshell (probably spelled that wrong)
LOOK AT ME IM COOL
LOOK AT ME IM COOL
LOOK AT ME IM COOL
dude just no.
Mooomy the otha kid Bully bc i play with invincibility and my game sucks
Ah no wait that's another Kirito
Sao is basically spy kids 3-D the anime directed by Tommy Wiseau
Except spy kids was good
Old Head spy kids was good and I like sao not everyone dose but that’s ok but I don’t think there is any reason to say it is the worst it was amazing and a lot of people like it
yOU ARE TEARING ME APART ASUNA
Chelidon oh hi kirito
Jojo W. yOU’RE NOT MY FUCKING MOTHER
Could of been such a dark anime, it kept me on edge the whole time. with the whole concept, the idea of it basically. Like when I saw that guy walk off the ledge In the first ep, Seeing it actually made me get chills...
But then it turned into a harmless harem anime.
i have a little soft spot for sao, because it was the first anime my friends had me watch, and i enjoyed it. although.... kirito being able to do *everything* and forced into *anything* is kinda aids. the fairy mmo made some logic, your waifu is trapped by a creep that wanted to uhhh ya know, to her. and of course him being a creep, the ai got his creepiness, with all the sexual assulting. of course, the entirety of all of the fairy world, fucked. them removing the "you could LITTERALLY die" aspects, fucked. THEM MAKING KIRITO STILL GO INTO FULL DIVE TECH, WITH UNREAL PTSD! ABSOLUTELY FUCKED! dude should be living the fucking life, and be charging big money to even touch an mmo, but nope. hes just invited into top secret areas with insane risk, and threat levels, for what seems like free. and of course, no one dies because the plot armor is thicker than a snicker.
Crazy Gamer HD exactly after season 1
Is not
It peaked at episode 10
I agree
Sword art online had so much potential. They could've just show the whole adventure not going like. Episode 1: floor 1. And then we have episode 2: floor 37. They could've have shown all the boss battles and have a good story line. And they ruined it. For me the only good arcs in Sao are only these 2
The aincrad arc and the alicization arc
Also the ending should've been just them exiting out of the game and not any more. Like why do I want them to try and trap themselves again. That's stupid.
"Little baby skynet" my kidney omg
they should have just had asuna wake up after they won, had a nice romance scene, and finished the anime before ALO
Fuck you ALO, you ruined a potentially good show
Yes but still ENHANCE ARMMAMENTOO
@@PokeSnipes I am convinced yhey stole that from one piece
@@TheTrashMobileGamer ACTUALLY?
BUT SWORD ART ONLINE ALICIZATION WAS SOO GOOD
The thing that i hated about SAO was when they locked away Asuna and almost raped her. Also those tentacle scenes were just unnecessary and weird.
Yeah i liked the anime more when the couple where fighting back to back and when Asuna wasn't a damsel in distress in the first season she was painted to be strong and capable makes me wonder if the feminists are making a article about this
Kickstar Gaming i agree
David Medrano they did rape her not almost rape her THEY DID RAPE HER
Berserk Ripoff Indeed.
She was raped and that must have been scary for kirito
I think SAO should have been a slow burner. Kirito slowly becoming stronger and learning abilities/items. The dark start of the game where everyone was frantic and looking for quests and xp. The guild factions slowly rising to power so we have further character back story. The potential this anime had was endless but it’s like they filled in the rough sketch to what could have been a truly amazing anime spanning multiple seasons and keeping audiences very engaged. Also SAO should have stayed in SAO not Alfhiem or Gun Gale Online. They really messed up a good story.
Imagine an anime where the main character is a hacker and their only objective is to troll new players And declare war on bases disguised as the bases ally leader. Or basically 2b2t's history.
Then there will be an etika arc
I would absolutely watch this
that kind of reminds me of the webtoon winter moon. i hope it gets an anime adaptation someday cause it's pretty funny.
That needs to happen.
If 2b2t was an anime, it would be a million times better than sao and I would watch it
"All of them are wrong, all of you are wrong. I'm right. Listen to me."
Why do I love this guy? XD
lol fr though xD
He's our waifu
Haha
Hahahaha
Nahh, SAO is a great anime, one of the best isekais out there.
At least it spawned a great abridged series
YES
PFSrainer Absolutely the best.
More likeable characters
More plot
It's actually funny
More character development
Wair what series?
look up "Sword art online abridged series" and thank me later. You re welcome.
BULLSHIT
Wasn't Yui also a therapeutic AI or something? That kind of sounds important, so assuming that her code was tied into the game, and Kirito yeeted her code into an item, how did the game not have some kind of error somewhere? I'm not a programmer or a coder or anything like that, but I'd assume that removing some lines of code from a game could potentially break it in some way.
Let's be honest, it got bad when the show turned into Asuna and Kirito Domestic Love Life, Lovo, Love-o, Love-Love. It lost all sense of tone, and horror when it turned into a major romance.
I thought it was a nice little break of all the violence
@@matthewlaxon828 To each their own. I hate the romance genre as a whole, and didn't realize the dark, action series I signed up for was actually going to be a total romance after a few episodes.
If had just been a side of the story, it would have been fine, but it really hijacked the rest of the series.
@@AdelardRen that's fair
dude imagine if the show stayed depressing and dark af. Imagine if Kirito developed some personality disorder or went crazy or ANYTHIN
The show would be much better
@@painteverything7188 agree
I only liked the abridged SAO because it was hilarious. Honestly I liked the show when it started then it went downhill fast. How does Asuna go from a badass to being captured by an asshole and then later his fuckin sister want to be with him? Like wth?
I've read the light novels back when they first made the gun version of the anime (don't care what it's called) and watched this and the Alfheim series. The thing that kind of peaked my interest was the concept of gesture shortcuts, to get around training for literal years to learn a fighting style.
SAO was uninspiring and bland, but I have a large ability for suspension of disbelief.
Alfheim, on the other hand, just broke all of the things for me. He obviously didn't understand anything about anything he put into the game. Didn't understand how business' worked, how basic fantasy MMO systems worked, or how basic human beings worked, much less how they work on the internet to fulfill this horrible story he built up.
No business would touch tech that has proven to kill people in the entertainment industry, much less build another game on the exact engine that trapped people in a death game. He also didn't get that being a CEO for a multi-international company ISN'T a hereditary position.
In a traditional MMO setting (which is what Alfheim felt like it was supposed to be), there are really two things that show what a great player are. The ability to process a lot of information and make informed decisions about said information, and resource management. The information processing has been covered in another of his videos, but the ability to manage cooldowns, aggro, and whatever your innate resource is (mana, rage, combo points or whatever they use) is a huge part, and Alfheim didn't have ANY resources to manage. At all.
Everyone in SAO became a tight knit group after they got out, ignoring any real world motivations. I'm not going to get into that can of worms, but instead I'll dive into the one thing that broke my suspension of disbelief harder than anything else.
Being an MMO player myself, I understand how horrible people can be in these settings. *HE WENT ON FOR A NOT INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME ABOUT DEATH TRAINS BEING THE WORST SOCIAL THING PLAYERS CAN DO TO EACH OTHER*. Death trains, for those who don't know, are when a higher level player runs through a low level area aggroing everything they run through going the shortest path, creating this train behind them of things to kill that is way beyond anything that a player of a level the content was created for. Eventually, they stop trying to kill said higher level player and move at crazy speeds back to their original positions.
Apparently this is worse than calling a female avatar a 'cum guzzling wh0re' for either not stripping down to the basic underwear options and using the dance emote or for doing so. This is actually some of the milder interactions that I've ran across. Death trains are also apparently worse than loot ninja'ing (which is worse in most MMO players eyes).
midnightsun111493
The abridged is so much better! Legitimately funny and it gave Kirito a personality and an arc. It's the asshole arc but it works.
midnightsun111493 Wasn’t it his cousin
She went from bases with weapons to trapped in a cage with no weapons when the guy who was to forcibly marry her had locked her in the game with no exit like the original Sao so kirito had to go beat him to pull her out of the game like an award for beating the final boss
I am a Unicorn Kirito the Asshole is the best!!!!
Imagine if the writers weren't afraid to kill off any of their characters and went the Game of Thrones route.
artix548 That would've been fucking amazing. So satisfying watching all these terrible and/or bland characters die.
artix548 it will solve a lot of problems
like Attack on Titan?
*cough* Akame Ga Kill *cough* *cough*
That would make sao a real movie. A real story in the beginning. İf they just kill someone important instead of doing this yui shit.thought of it. Then kayaba never would seen as a friend. So the bullshit plot about alfheim online if it ever written wouldn't be that suck, too..
7:06
Watching Asuna nod her head for about 30 seconds
Honestly though, I've felt this about basically every protagonist in the animes I watched, so I wasn't that thrown off by it. I just expected the stupidity that was Kirito. What ruined it for me was when they completely took away every badass thing about Asuna and turned her into yet another overly sexualized female character in anime.
Also, when they fucking turned Kirito into a girl or something? Like wtf?
Mikayla Healey
I was pissed too but, they did bring her badassery back during the Mother's Rosario arc.
Ikr?
I believe it was Hayao Miyazaki who said about today's stories and character developments that today's mangakas/anime writers don't create characters that are real relatable people, and that these writers don't know what real people are like because they don't talk to enough real people. I believe Miyazaki was referring to these waifu characters like Asuna, Nami, Orihime, Fairy Tail characters, etc.
Because just think, Miyazaki's movies never objectified its female characters. He knew real people, and wrote relatable characters. Now we get these objectified waifu characters or these unrelatable protagonists *sigh*
Mikayla Healey This.
The fact that the escaped SAO in less than 20 episodes thanks to a time skip is like if there was a time skip right when Deku started in U.A to when Deku is already the number 1 hero and we saw his story from there
@Void no
You actually explained it perfectly lol
@Barshan samanta it's coming out in animation soon.
"All of you are wrong, I'm right."
ME ON ALL LEVELS
And that's when I subscribed
rice
+Mr. Kippy -is amazing
Yui's transformation into an object as a substitute for death could have been a really good story opportunity. Maybe when it first happens, they're both reassured by this, the story treats it as her being temporarily incapacitated but will be okay in no time, and then when all the action has cooled down they bring her back, and... she's completely broken.
Her character model is glitching all over the place, her voice distorts constantly, and her memory and ability to respond to her environment is worse than ChatGPT. Maybe in compressing her, Kirito "corrupted her software" and the thing he did to save her ultimately caused her current state. Kirito and Asuna would both be horrified by this, their relationship would be dramatically changed, and Kirito would be forced to reckon with a personal failure of his.
Wracked with guilt, shame and longing for his daughter back, he becomes obsessed with finding a way to fix her, something that drives him into isolation once again, but this time instead of it making him powerful, it's caused and continued by the fact that he's *powerless*. It doesn't exactly mesh well with the core theme of the show and might mess with the tone, but it could easily add some really good drama, it would let other characters step up and fill the team role that Kirito would struggle to fill, and most importantly, make her death and resurrection meaningful and have consequences.