I love SAO, more than I hate Build Fighters
I love Gundam too, just not certain parts
Edit: the irony behind this meme is that none of the comments are talking about Gundam
This is perfectly understandable if you e only seen the first 12 episodes of SAO
Bitch I saw SAOII, Ordinal Scale (my favorite), and both parts of Alicization
I’m strong enough to get through the series (I just haven’t saw Progressive, Alternative, or Abridged (I’m avoiding that one like the plague))
I’m just a rando online but I would say give Abridged a shot. It’s clear that they understood the show and while they do poke fun, it’s not just constantly shitting on it like I’ve seen from some abridged series. That said, Abridged Kirito is portrayed kinda like Donald Duck in that he’s deliberately insufferable so that you laugh when he gets his comeuppance (which is frequent), so if you think that would be too much to power thru, just give it a pass then.
I’m not a certified SAO hater but I did sour on it by myself after the Alfheim arc started so I loved what Abridged did to “fix” some of my issues with it, and it has a hella memorable ending to the Aincrad arc that actually uses the OP (This Is War by Thirty Seconds to Mars) for the climax.
Did watch all of that and abridged. Ep1 is a masterpiece.
I love to hate on SAO
But that’s true of nearly all anime’s. They’re filled with plot holes, shitty power scaling, and nonsensical magic/science lore.
Turns out, having a culture of single authors writing weekly released manga and then rapidly turning them into anime to ride hype trains leads to some honestly terrible stories.
But its fun! We know they’re stories being told by really small teams if a team at all and they’re trying their best to entertain us.
Also, it’s a good way to see what you do and don’t like in any story. I’ve found hating on anime’s has taught me what I appreciate it something and then I stick to stories that do that well.
SAO taught me I love fantasy aesthetic anime’s but also that lone wolf angst gets old to me.
It’s peak hate watch material. It’s world building is ass, it’s character writing is worse, the animation is mid (yes, even for the time), and it somehow eclipsed vastly better shows of the time.
If the anime industry learned from Log Horizon or Grimgar instead we’d be in such a better place.
SAO is top tier. Until the fucking fairy shit.
Then they did a second season where they did the exact same fucking bullshit.
It must be on purpose. There is no way it played out like that unless the writers wanted to intentionally set up rug pulls.
Yeah, I’m a sucker for the “OP protagonist wins effortlessly all the time and everyone loves him” shows. Sometimes you just want to hear a feel-good story set in a world where the good guys just win like it’s the only logical conclusion. There’s enough suffering and uncertainty in the real world without it needing to be in the fake worlds I escape to; I want them to be low-stakes auto-success stories more often than not.
Yeah thats a rough one bud. IRL its hard having an unpopular opinion. I hate SAO so dont get this confused, just feeling some sympathy for you.
