Sword Art Online
I will rate this after I am done with other anime and stuff
It is just your typical release day. Lines crowd the stores as people camp out waiting to be one of the 10,000 people to pick up their copy of the first MMO to ever use NerveGear technology. Special virtual reality technology that basically reroutes all your brain perception into the game. A nice quiet day comes to an end as you play the new game. When you realize all of the sudden that you cannot log out.
As it would turn out the inventor or the NerveGear and the game is completely insane. He has used these new tools to lock everyone who bought the game into the game. With this special gear you cannot logout without a command. So if that command is removed you are trapped. Now to add Insult to injury. No one is allowed to break the link in the outside world. Doing so will result in death. Also dying in the game will result in death. So basically you now have a new life goal. That goal is the get to clear the game.
Season 2 Episode 19
The New That Is Not So New
Ah crap, please do not do this PLEASE do not do this... what am I saying it is already done. I do not want the series to change focus over to Asuna. I mean really why do we have to do this? She is not that interesting of a character. Well I do not like her I am pretty sure that people are going to kill me for that kind of stuff. Anyway, why are we replacing Kirito. I mean yeah he is a bit strange what with this whole pretend house routine, but you know he is at least thoughtful and interesting. Not like any of the other girls in the group...Man... really why are we doing this, even worse they are making Kirito a Female.
You all saw it right, the Zekken person is actually a female with a striking resemblance to Kirito? You know the black motif the single sword style the bad ass fighting skills. Why are we doing this too? I mean geez if we are going to get away from the main party. Why does there have to be another Kirito? In most shows I have seen replacing a character with the same character never works out. I guess it is not as lazy as the intro
I love the magic of computer technology I really do. I mean holy crap, they just did some find and replace for the opener and everyone is magically there. I mean really, they just drew over the original party and replaced it with the new one. I guess they want to keep the opener dynamic, but seriously could they have not just reanimated it? Closers are constantly being reanimated with new content. Why does this opener have to be the same basic thing with different characters? It is not that cool... oh well I guess that I just have to deal with it.
Season 2 Episode 15
I Hate This Kind of Crap
Screw you guys over there at SAO. I am not wasting my time on this transitional recap bull crap. Geez.... why do we have to do this stuff? I mean really is it so freaking hard to make another episode and keep the show moving? You know if we wasted less time on cutting together crap like this we might actually get stuff done. However, on the plus side it is time for me to start watching all the new anime that I have been avoiding because Id o not really want to write 50 descriptions. Oh life is so annoying sometimes.
Season 2 Episode 3
Yes, Go Much Slower
Seriously, is there a reason why we are wasting so much time in this season? We did not need to get Asuna's full back story until after the initial arc actually ended. So why are we wasting so much time on this crap? I mean really nothing is happening.... There has not been any kind of investigation, violence, story... nothing. I do not care about Kirito lying to everyone about his gender and fumbling around trying to figure out this new game. We did not have any of that in the first season. Let's get on with it... Well at least they kept the whole "Sword" part in this.
I do have to say that I got a good laugh when I saw the Light-Sabers in the show. Way to validate the title, you know instead of wasting time with the whole trying to make a game about gun violence seem like it some how has something to do with the series other than being a game that spawned as a result of the series. I do like how they solve the whole usefulness of the weapon like a sword in a world of guns. I would totally play a game that gives me Jedi powers to knock away bullets.
Season 2 Episode 1
The Thing That Confuses Me
You know I have this fascination with this whole romance between Asuna and Kirito... I mean... it makes some sense in the sense that they are just kids. However, at the same time it makes no sense. I mean they are still just kids... I mean yeah I guess they are close to that age... but they just sort of seem to have given up on being kids. The main thing I do not understand is their sudden desire to adopt this... uh... software as a child.
I mean really that is the one thing I do not get.. they wanted to have a kid.. you know without actually doing any of the fun kid making part or anything. I mean yeah I guess it is just software and you can just reprogram it when you do not like it.. but still... why waste time playing house when you have school to finish and that kind of stuff.. I mean I guess they lucked out and get to live in the golden age of childhood. You know that age between the age of being a toddler and right before being a teenager. I guess I am just a bit strange in thinking that maybe they are stupid.
I guess that is why I started to hate them towards the end of season 2. Before they started playing married, they were like normal decent people. You know they were a part of a cause that was saving the bunch of people. They worked hard and were well-known. Then out of no where they decide to start dating and all of the sudden they are too big for all the other losers out there who you know.. kept playing the game. Well whatever... I guess you cannot do away with the cast that made the first season good in the first place.... lets hope that this season turns out better than other seasons.
Season 1 Episode 14
Not The End
Is this something that is allowed just because this is a light novel? I do not know, to be honest this ending makes no real sense to me. Then again, closing one arch and starting another is never easy. I mean if the world was deleted. Why the hell would you be able to return to the game? Why the hell would you want to return? I mean, seriously, whenever crap like that is pulled on me I tend to get REALLY pissed off. If my character data vanishes because of some glitch it pisses me off. Oh well, I guess I will just have to see.
Season 1 Episode 11
Kirito Know Reality
Here is one fact that I like about Kirito. Unlike the majority of players he still has a pretty firm grasp on reality. Which is more than I can say for most of the cast. He brought up a pretty valid point to Asuna. I will not spoil it. Granted it was brought on by him losing track of reality. However, still it was a good thing. Granted this whole slice of life happy couple bullshit is kind of annoying. However, I guess that was bound to happen eventually as both sides broke down a bit.
Season 1 Episode 7
Kiriko The Mack Daddy
You know it is kind of funny. When you first see our main character Kiriko he strikes you as one of those typical games. You know small, weak, non-social, then he comes into this new world and is stuck there. Then all of the sudden he is managing to seduce every girl who comes by him. It is really funny to watch. Then again, I am pretty sure I could be a Mack Daddy if I was like that.
He kind of has the curse I do when it comes to meeting people online. He only seems to meet females. Which is not all that bad, but not all that good. It is like they are repulsed in the real world by some mystical force and then th binary brings them back to me. Hmmm... well regardless it is making me want to actually try to give a damn at SWTOR. Because PSO2 has banned me for being not Japanese.
Season 1 Episode 5
Vigilante or Bounty Hunter?
You know the more I watch this series I have to wonder what exactly the main character plays. He only seems to show up when there is a crime that needs to be solved or something of that nature. Oh well at least there are a few returning faces. It was getting old always seeing new characters over and over and over again. While our main character just slowly lost his mind.
Granted I can really agree with him on the whole taking it easy thing. Yeah you are stuck in there and yeah it is real time. However, at the same time rushing through the game will not do anyone any good. I hate people who pull crap like what his little girlfriend does. Granted it is good to not sleep out in the open. There are plenty of sociopaths out there. Not that it really matters. You need to have the cute Tsundere moments with her right?
Season 1 Episode 3
Why Hate Them?
So I am noticing the funny pattern of people all hating the "Beaters" as they are so very nicely named. I have to wonder why exactly people are hating all of them. Because what exactly did they do to deserve this? I mean, all they did was play the Beta. I played the Beta of SWTOR and I am not any better off. At the end of the day it all comes down to gaming skill and know how. Even with everything I know about RPGs and stuff I still suck at SWTOR. Yet everyone in this world is hell-bent on making sure everyone who had so little life that they could get into the beta suffers. It just does not make sense to me. Ok some of it does... but most of it does not and it annoys me. That is just like hating someone who used a cell phone before you did because he or she had one. Oh well at least our main character knows how to make people suffer a bit.
Season 1 Episode 1
Games I Would Not Play
You know there are somethings in this world that I would not do. I am pretty sure I could resist the urge to play this game. There is a part of me that knows I need the detachment from reality, but I still need to be solidly grounded in reality as well. If I could never leave the game what point would there be in ever leaving? So I would be one of those who watches from the background. Then thank myself for thinking things through a little