Sword Art Online attempts to counter its downfall by delivering oppai fondling – joining the bandwagon of breast emphasis, although still keeping away from the outcast of society known as “coherent story”.
Based off the light novels, many thought this would be the episode in which the often rumored “main plot” will actually spotted – and indeed, admittedly, it does seem that Sword Art Online finally mixes in around 10 seconds or so of such a thing, offering a sighting of this urban legend thought long lost.
First of all, this episode in its whole is predominantly a petty romance tale – it’s a conventional escapade of jealously featuring some expendable side-character who expresses immense spite towards the protagonist for no apparent reason besides a superiority complex of some sort, whilst all the while, said protagonist enjoys a generic harem evening with his blatantly obvious lover, a poorly designed female character who seconds as his place of safekeeping for two years worth of semen, according to the light novel of course.
Circumstances all so convenient manage to place the protagonist on an outing with the heroine – not any different than any other half-baked order of PowerPoint slideshow action with an excessive amount of unoriginal females who all lust over the leading male by default.
Whilst the two are together, we receive a solid segment of pointless chatter to pass time – till eventually, what takes place is the dreaded instance in which the protagonist intends to take action of some sort, and then the heroine decides she wants it done her way, to which the protagonist who defeated a dragon in a total of three still images all of a sudden become a cowardly mouse incapable of declining her forced proposal.
At least to compensate for going along with her scheme, he does manage to physically assess the feel of her chest for a gratuitous amount of time before engaging in a short contention with the aforementioned spare antagonist character – perhaps having unlocked some sort of upgrade in his attack animation as he topples the foe in slow motion matrix style this time around.
Now of all of this, the only two meager details worth actually keeping in mind is that at the very beginning of the episode, the protagonist made reference to the villainous creator of the virtual world – and then during the predictable fight, one will make note of how the camera goes out of its way to spotlight some cloaked geezer with a clown branded on the back of his hand. More than likely, as one would never have been able to piece together, that man is the creator of the game – meaning that he’s spent this entire time in hiding as a shady nobody.
Unfortunately however, that information is totally useless as it does no more than reiterate the already understood – unless this series intends to actually go somewhere with this development it has made. However, seeing as it took eight episodes for the central story to start, the series is still certainly hopeless either way.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 12:39 CDT
I think I’m biased, but after 8 eps this show now has an overpowered protagonist (with a harem he isn’t aware of), childish cliche romance, slideshow action and blatant fanservice. And the banality of the dialogue is starting to hurt my ears like AW and GC had done. The studio’d better kick it the hell up a notch in the upcoming boss battle.
And after all that talk about being careful in dungeons and not going to fight the boss, they walk straight into a boss room? They should be thankful that they’re the main characters.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 13:12 CDT
“this show now has”
It’s had a few of those things for a while. Anyone who thinks it’s biased to label garbage as garbage is delusional.
My favorite part about this episode was not only how they walked straight into a boss room – but how the entire episode was wasted on the cliched romance and oppai fondling, meanwhile, there was a fade to black followed by a half-minute leading up to the boss fight.
That’s definitely RPG gaming right there.
Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:05 CDT
Nah, I said I’m biased because I’ve never had much expectation for this series. And I said it because I don’t know why a lot of people like this series so much when I see nothing in it.
Aug 28, 2012 @ 10:44 CDT
The most expectation I had for it was in that the name sounded fairly interesting and A-1 Pictures usually doesn’t fail horribly like this.
A lot of people like the series because generic shounen action with oppai fondling will always be popular amongst those less discerning.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 13:06 CDT
Well I’m done. Can’t stand all the cliche stuff and mainly can’t stand Asuna. Even if this was a uncensored hentai I couldn’t deal with her. I’ll be back when Silica gets more screen time (minus Asuna).
Aug 26, 2012 @ 13:14 CDT
Asuna looks like some generic trash character conjured up in 10 minutes or less – doesn’t help that her personality is grotesquely annoying.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 13:26 CDT
spoiler na that will never happen….if it do happen that will be in season two….coz SAO is focus on kirito n asuna
Aug 26, 2012 @ 13:49 CDT
Hmmm considering the past episodes i’ll give this episode a 6.5/10…it was okay as it got on with the main plot..about time at that….ohh and my god..if annoying camera angles weren’t enough we get oppai service delivered too….no need for that at all…i dont think i’ll give this more than a 7/10 if it manages to hold till the end…looking at the generic art and cliched romance…i doubt that too….
Aug 26, 2012 @ 14:51 CDT
how the story should have gone:
1st & 2nd episode: Fine as they are
3rd: He still meets Sachi, however,instead he is a player hated throughout the game prior to the events before, he keeps his identity secret to sachi and gang. he gets comfortable enough around her to tell her the reason why he played sword art online so we finally get some development, then the rest of the events follow, the message however tells him that she knew who he was all along but still trusted him. He now is in despair of letting sachi die
4th: continuing from prior,he wanders the forest aimlessly and comes across the loli who was in danger, the loli then has the role of cheering him up along the way, then the same happens as in the episode except he beats them with wit, but this allows the loli to have a more important role.
5th & 6th: instead of the crap, Kirito discovers a ploy of the laughing coffin to raid the town killing anyone in the process,(the town is not a safe spot, nowhere is and kirito is not an overpowered wuss) not having the power to stop them by himself, he warns the whole town but nobody believes him, then when somebody is finally killed as a ploy of terror from mentioned organization that everybody believes him and band together to ward off the bandits. However, they were underestimated having ultra rare equipment and high levels, leaving kirito devastated as he failed to save many people, as asuna tries to comfort him, he refuses and leaves town, setting off to be loner once again.
7th:as his weapon was broken from the battle before, he goes to a local blacksmith , meeting liz, as his still has part of it he tests it ,breaking her greatest work, kirito goes on a journey to gather the materials,w/o the corny crud ,beating the dragon with instructions from kirito, he takes the materials to be synthesized creating his weapon, he leaves then asuna arrives, with liz telling her tale while asuna hasn’t has a clue that it was kirito
Aug 26, 2012 @ 16:12 CDT
I can’t wait for the next episode. Time to see the teamwork between Asuna and Kirito.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 17:06 CDT
That’s clearly groping :S
And I wouldn’t call it hopeless just yet. I mean it’s still better than Guilty Crown since no one has given in to petty affairs yet ohwaitnvm I just saw manga meat…the only thing that makes me sadder than seeing it is knowing that meat in the real world does not come in that shape.
I expect people to continue dying though. That keeps me going for a bit. And also knowing that it will happen very soon and expecting PK-ing 24/7 is the whole point of watching series like these.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 17:18 CDT
long haired angry dude definitely first to die on the list. Happens in every movie. Either that or he co-operates with aliens and destroys most of man-kind
Seemingly generic settings never fails to deliver
Aug 26, 2012 @ 23:14 CDT
Hahaha, that oppai fondling was indeed painful to watch. I really wonder what’s up with that “Two years worth of semen” thing. I’m actually curious about it now. The translation was taken down before I could read it and I don’t have skill in Japanese so I can’t confirm whether it’s real or not. Although I don’t see how that’s relevant to this episode. If it’s intended as a jab against the source material, I don’t think there’s any need to put down something you haven’t read and won’t plan to read. The anime can be judged by it’s own failings or merits.
I have to admit that one weakness of SAO is that is has a few too many contrived/convenient situations.
I don’t see why you thought that shady guy was the creator though. That brand and way of dress clearly indicates he is a member of Laughing Coffin, the PK guild that was shown 2 episodes ago. Although they were presented in a rather forgettable manner so I can understand that.
Poor Seven though, you sound as if you were trembling in rage while watching this episode, or maybe face-palming at the sheer stupidity you were seeing. Hahahaha
Aug 26, 2012 @ 23:22 CDT
“I don’t see why you thought that shady guy was the creator though. That brand and way of dress clearly indicates he is a member of Laughing Coffin, the PK guild that was shown 2 episodes ago. Although they were presented in a rather forgettable manner so I can understand that.”
If that’s the case, the statement main character made at the beginning of the episode was pointless – which is unsurprising since most of these episodes are pointless.
“I don’t think there’s any need to put down something you haven’t read and won’t plan to read.”
I don’t think there’s any need to make the assumption that quoting an actual line of text from a book to describe a character from an animation based on that book is an insult. However, the script certainly speaks for itself.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 23:44 CDT
“Based off the light novels” is what this episode did, going with it exactly as written. I do have to admit the oppai grab was out of place even in the orignial work, as it was generic fan service that had no actual purpose. Not sure if Reki Kawahara is responsible for this, as I somehow felt it was added in under pressure from the editors.
Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:38 CDT
yes, but as the kind of title this is, it was really out of place and really unnecessary to be there, it would have been better to remove it even if it was from the original work
Aug 28, 2012 @ 10:49 CDT
At this rate, the series will contain the erotic chapter of volume one – the key visuals did show nudity after all:
http://dalian.7thstyle.com/2012/03/sword-art-online-character-key-visuals-007.jpg
http://seventhstyle.com/2012/03/10/sword-art-online-key-visuals-possible-nudity/
Aug 28, 2012 @ 15:02 CDT
Lol at some of the people I notice that go:
*Some bad qualtiies happen in the anime* “ahhh! fuck you producer/director! You ruined the LN!!”
*Some material was cut in the adaptation* “ahhh! fuck you producer/director! that was a shitty adaptation!!”
*Some blatant, generic, facepalm-worthy fan service is taken verbatim from the novel and adapted to the anime* “…well, the glorious Reki-sama is not responsible for this! It must have been his editors! fuck you editors!!”
Lol I mean it’s like a battered housewife that defends her husband, no matter what he does, he’s never in the wrong. I find it funny and sad at the same time. I’ve said before that while the production team has no balls in taking creative control over the contents of the adaptation – in other words, they’ve made no effort to add anything new or rework the material into a cohesive narrative – equal blame must be pinned on the original creator for such lackluster characters and content to begin with. But the fanboys/girls see Reki as a saint! He can do no wrong!
I’m sorry liberator, I am not calling you a fanperson and I apologize if it comes off this way, but I’m just laughing in frustration on how some of these people keep giving this guy a pass for everything he writes.
Aug 28, 2012 @ 15:05 CDT
In other words, Sword Art Online was actually synonymous with feces all along.
Aug 31, 2012 @ 8:37 CDT
in other words, simply C-R-A-P
Aug 31, 2012 @ 10:46 CDT
In other words, S-H-I don’t want to type profanity.