As I was finishing the series, I was badly ill with a cold, so... I may not give the clearest and the best review but I'll try ^_^
Sword Art Online is a huge series that came out while I was taking a break from anime, I didn't know about it until JesusOtaku's top openings of 2012 that I found out. I watched episode 1 on Hulu then stopped, I wasn't quiet ready to get back into anime. On my down time to decide what to do after finishing Evangelion so many weeks ago.... since Toonami is now showing the series, I honestly didn't care for how the dub script was done, it just felt out of place to me. so! I took it upon myself to finish the series.
Sword Art Online is based on a set of Light Novels by Reki Kawahara, who has also created Accel World, (I plan on reviewing that next) published by ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Bunko label in April 2009 following with a spin-off in October 2012. There is also a few manga adaptions as well. But today I'm talking about the anime that was released in July 2012 to December 2012.
The plot is set in the year 2022, were gaming and MMOs has become advance, through the means of Nerve Gear. The game device uses the brain of the player's all five senses to control their in-game character, in the game known as Sword Art online. Our main characters are
Kirigaya Kazuto "Kirito", a solo player known as the Black Swordsman.
Asuna Yuuki, Sub-leader of the Guild Knights Of The Blood
And a array of minor characters
So.. the series starts out quiet normally following the plot in episode 1 and 2. Then in episode 3 onward, we get array of flashbacks. Then the plot goes alot array of directions, not really sure where it wants to go and kind of goes flat We get a better even out plot around episode 7-9 In episode 9 or 8 felt like I started getting attached to the characters. I'd also like to point yes, there feels like there is plot holes, and not everything explained quiet well sometimes. The main male character is sterotypical but the female character, Asuna makes him a slighly more better character. The relationship and love story alone is kind of makes the series worth it, which in the end is what the series is a love story in a MMO setting. I'm sure some of the plot is filled in by the light novels, which.. I'm not sure if I'll finishing reading or not there are 13 volumes in all. Meaning I'm not sure if I wanna go through the series again in written form. In some ways you wanna just wanna finish the series already or not finish at all but it kind of holds you on cause you get attached alot I felt like I couldn't finish it it was sometimes predictable. So! after 18 episodes I dropped it. it is way overhyped. (however our newest popular series, Attack on Titian is not it's awesome! :D) Let's hope Accel World is better and doesn't go in a different direction then intended if not... screw it! I'll move on to something different. I do believe anime these days has gone a little bit in quality or my tastes have completely changed whatever the case, I give a overall 7, at least for the effort.
Until Next time! ^_^
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