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A blog for all things Sword Art Online. Sourced art, Gifsets, discussion, commentary and more. Occaisonal running down of hate posts and missinformation as well.

[loverofpokemon]

The most unnecessary scene and unrequited crush in SAO in my opinion.

it could've work just fine if their relationship was platonic on both sides and the crush didn't exist. That’s my only complaint. Reki seems to struggle with this. He wrote such an amazing arc with Alicization and WoU, only to ruin it ( for me ) with this scene, that is played off as a joke. For me, it's just makes me uncomfortable and it feels disrespectful towards Rinko.

Just because a woman and a man are friends doesn't mean one of them will develop a crush on the other. Some times they work just as friends even if they are both straight.

Fyi i am not againts Rinko moving on, but it shouldn't be Higa. Bro is a bum and a wuss. She deserves better.

[sourcedartonline]

Not sure if the anime changed this slightly, or you missed it, but she is completely oblivious that he's asking her out here.

Obviously she's not thinking about something like that in such a situation.

[animepopheart]

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[indygotcha]

guy: *sitting besides the wall from rain, looking pensive*

bystanders: is that the elitist solo player... must be having real edgy thoughts

guy: *to himself* how many chicken nuggets can i cram in my mouth at 1 time

[thecursedartistdragl]

I find it interesting that a good cunk of issues that Sao has are mainly do to the anime cutting content from the lite novel or not explaining it well

For example how kirito figured out that heathcliff is kayaba in the anime it feels like a leep of logic well in the lite novel it explains that kirito has maxed out speed how was heathcliff faster

[sourcedartonline]

Agility and strength are the only stats in SAO, and Kirito is more of a strength build. He does not have maxed stats.

It's not a leap of logic in the anime. Heathcliff literally stops time. That moment leads to Kirito gambling on him being Kayaba.

What isn't revealed from the light novel is that Heathcliffs demeanor reminds Kirito of a cat watching mice, leading him to surmize that he might be Kayaba along with him never going into the red zone and stopping time during their duel all lead to his gamble.

[sourcedartonline]

I created this blog to credit artists for art that was just posted in the tags without a source, now it's just all AI art and it's depressing.

[momoartworks]

Unironically almost ate a whole pint of ice cream while trying to remember what the clusterfuck solution was to the murder mystery episode in Sword Art Online in comparison to SAO:Abridged's like 15min solution.

I was seriously Pondering™ and then I noticed half the pint was gone.

[sourcedartonline]

They were using the fact that the shattering animation of dying and item durability running out looked the same.

Like incredibly convoluted for sure.

[momoartworks]

Okay i had a vague memory of something like that but then the thing is how did they teleport away when the item durability ran out

because, like, okay i can accept that the item durability animation takes precedence over the teleport animation that's just how games go sometimes, but like, every time we see someone use a teleport crystal they need to pull it out and use it and when that guy was hanging he was also holding the sword, right? he would have had to pull the crystal out of his inventory and everyone would see, right?

was there like a party teleport crystal that grimlock used to take hanging guy away at the right time? and also when the girl fell why did she go to the roof? why not just teleport out of town? even if there was a party teleport WHY THE ROOF

see this is how the pint almost was gone.

the abridged solution was that everyone involved in the scheme was a fucking lunatic or incredibly dumb, not the animation thing. SAO is not very well written.

[sourcedartonline]

Maybe if you actually read the writing and not just shit on it you'd know?

All you have to do is be touching the crystal. You don't pull things out of your inventory to use them in SAO, you are the avatar, you're holding the items on your person that your going to use. He already was holding the crystal before he jumped out of the window.

The girl fell from the roof so they couldn't see that she was using a teleport crystal. If they were up close the difference would be obvious. I'm not even sure what you mean about her teleporting to the roof. The "assassin" was Kains.

[momoartworks]

Unironically almost ate a whole pint of ice cream while trying to remember what the clusterfuck solution was to the murder mystery episode in Sword Art Online in comparison to SAO:Abridged's like 15min solution.

I was seriously Pondering™ and then I noticed half the pint was gone.

[sourcedartonline]

They were using the fact that the shattering animation of dying and item durability running out looked the same.

Like incredibly convoluted for sure.

[catgirlkirito]

thinking about eugeo (yes again) and i will never get over the fact that when hes like Cardinal turn me into a sword so i can kill myself while being useful its the only way. kirito is so genuinely dismayed at the notion of 'but if he does that and can't transform back, then what about his happy ending with alice that all of this has been for!'

because its just. such a clear tell that kirito does NOT understand eugeos mental state or the way he views the world and his place in it, partially because hes just bad at being a friend (relatable) and partly because on some level he just never stops thinking about the underworld as a videogame land with funky nonsense rules that he never fully internalized and never understood the way people who actually live in that system internalize them

because like. 'going back to rulid with alice and being happily ever after' has explicitly been something eugeo gave up on LIKE THREE FUCKING BOOKS AGO.

[sourcedartonline]

He would retrieve Alice’s memories and return to Rulid Village with her. That was Eugeo’s only wish for the longest time. However, he felt he no longer had the right to hold on to that hope now that he had been deluded by the highest minister’s words, put on an integrity knight’s armor, and turned his sword upon Kirito—and Alice, too—even if it was only temporarily

That's Eugeos thoughts when he's trying to kill Administrator. So obviously Kirito can't know Eugeo's mindset for the past two years only changing an hour or so before. Literally the last thing Eugeo is thinking about in his point of view before being captured the volume before is about saving Alice.

Eugeo doesn't give it up volumes before, he gives it up in that very volume and only after fighting Kirito.

[sourcedartonline]

When I saw a post in the SAO tag by someone with a bachelors degree in writing I should have known that they'd not actually read the writing, don't seem to have really paid attention to the anime, and did absolutely no research about what they were discussing.

[rootoftaboo]

do you think sao has like customisable clothing in like the sense where you can alter length, trim, shape and colours or did the big guilds that require uniforms have to like call dibs on craftable outfits cus like since kayaba was probably designing the game to deliberately kill players (mob levels matching the strongest player nearby upon spawning rather than all players average level/the dungeons difficulty level) there probably wasn't preset guilds that players could join supplied by the game

[sourcedartonline]

There existed players that specifically just did tailoring as a profession. The canon version of Mito is actually a character named Ashleigh referred to in the series multiple times who was a seamstress. You can do more than just alter, you can create clothing and armor just like you can create weapons.

Kayaba didn't design the game to deliberately kill players, he designed it as a fully realized world. There is no level scaling in the game, that's something YouTuber Mother's Basement made up to hate on the series.

There's a quest on floor three that allows players to create their own guilds.

[catgirlkirito]

Just had this horrible realization lol

[sourcedartonline]

Kikouka had already realized what they'd actually done when Kirito contacts the outside though.

The realization had already been made that they had no idea what they'd actually created.

They wouldn't have used him that way anymore than they did Alice.

[derseprinceoftbd]

[sourcedartonline]

The idea that the Abridged had development that the original doesn't is why most of the SAO fandom doesn't care for it.

If only its fanbase wasn't so damn toxic that most normal SAO fandom doesn't want anything to do with it.

[pitohuimaki]

[systemheaven]

『ソードアート・オンライン　アリシゼーション』

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[herstartrekshit]

spy kids 3 inspired sword art online. prove me wrong.

[sourcedartonline]

Sword Art Online was written in 2001.

[cecenyss]

Once again very upset about sword art online’s objectively interesting story concept being ruined by horrible execution

[sourcedartonline]

Trapped in a video game was never the concept of SAO, it's always been about the blurring of reality and virtual reality. The one shot was written with the idea of "what if people were forced to treat virtual reality as reality" And the series has consistently explored those ideas for over twenty years.

You were falsely advertised.

[luigi-hentai-expert]

You know, out of all the issues I've heard of people having with SAO, and the way it handles its MMOs, I think the most important one that I've never seen is the fact that kirito's (and presumably everyones) skills and abilities are transferable between game that are all based off the root, and that's fucking hilarious, because imagine playing a game in unity and you grind out whatever it is, and then you go to a completely different game in unity, and you still have those skills. literally what the fuck was kayaba thinking.

[sourcedartonline]

Probably because unlike most SAO misinformation this one is pretty new, having being grabbed by Crypto bros who didn't know what they were talking about.

The only thing that transfers between games in the SEED nexus is a rough amalgamation of your stats. You don't transfer skills, items or equipment.

The only exception to this is Alfheim because it was made pre-SEED and runs on the full spec Cardinal system and is a direct copy of SAO, allowing for full account transfer.