Animated-Aaron's Review

Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first half of Sword Art Online. Please read the first half: SAO Pt.1 (sigh) Time to burn down a bridge.  Guys, Gals, & Non Binary Pals. This is Animated Aaron’s Review of Sword Art Online Pt. 2 !Background! Two months after the SAO incident, 300 people are still in a comatose state. Asuna is one of the 300, but is being held hostage by the owner of a new VR company, Nobuyuki Sugou. She is trapped in a new game called  (ALO) and it’s up to Kirito to log in and beat the game with the help of a player named Leafa. Who is actually his cousin, Suguha. !Story! Okay, so…where do I begin with what’s wrong with this half of the show? Well, the sudden shift was the first thing that bothered me. The show spent so much time establishing one world with knights and guilds that it comes across as odd that we now have to learn the rules of a new magical world with fairies. There’s new characters you have to get invested...

Okay, so this show has people split between loving it or hating it. Sending hateful messages to each other and starting flame wars in YouTube comment sections. That being said…here’s my review of it. Guys, Gals, & Non-Binary Pals, this is Animated-Aaron’s review of ‘Sword Art Online’. Pt. 1: (Episodes 1-14) !The Plot! In the year 2022, an online virtual reality game called ‘Sword Art Online’ hits the market and a stream of players log on for the first time. Among them is Kazuto Kirigaya (Kah-zoo-toe Ke-ri-gah-ya) under the screen name “Kirito” (Ker-e-toe). Like the thousands of other players, he finds himself unable to log out meaning he’s trapped. The game’s creator informs them that they are stuck there until they can clear the 100 floors of the game. And because the game is linked to each person’s brain waves, if they die in the game, they die in real life. So it’s up to Kirito to become stronger and beat the game.  !The Story! Okay so the synopsis of the series ha...