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Terrible Opinions posted:The author's obvious fetish for sexual violence against women the male viewpoints care about isn't going anywhere as long as there are still viewers. Elephant Parade fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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Jul 31, 2020 05:15
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That can be fair but I find it funny that the guy just could not help inserting not just sexual assault but his specific cuckold scenario sexual assault over and over again. For every scene there is a guy being made to watch. They also could have all easily been excised in the story in adaptation while losing basically nothing, though that is more on the adapters. Minus the sexual assault the scenes would just be very obvious retreads of that one time Kirito got poisoned by the pker in season 1.
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Jul 31, 2020 06:09
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Terrible Opinions posted:That can be fair but I find it funny that the guy just could not help inserting not just sexual assault but his specific cuckold scenario sexual assault over and over again. For every scene there is a guy being made to watch.
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Jul 31, 2020 06:40
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also like that scene in the LN while it's not good it's still nowhere near as bad as they did it in the anime, this is a weird adapation thing, i wanna say the person who storyboarded it also did the other problem episode from the first half of alicization
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Jul 31, 2020 10:05
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God these villains are so strawman evil. I've seen more morally gray villains in... basically every piece of media I've ever consumed? I got halfway through typing that sentence and realized I couldn't think of a more comically evil villain. The Joker maybe? "If this is a Japanese server, and you're legitimate users, why do you have good gear?" Isn't that like... exactly the reason they'd have good gear, PoH? Also maybe you shouldn't make "they have good gear, they're bad guys" your argument when you're wearing your custom evil clothes and throwing your butcher cleaver that flies like Mjolnir around, buddy. Also gently caress yes, it makes like no sense but I am all in on guns being in play now.
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Aug 1, 2020 23:14
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They are literally members of a PMC. It's incredibly in character for them to be just evil.
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Aug 1, 2020 23:29
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This sequence feels like it's dragging on forever. And we aren't even getting good fights any more, except for time guy vs emperor bad guy.
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Aug 2, 2020 00:52
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Dexo posted:They are literally members of a PMC. Ha, I mean that's fair, but my problem is they lack any sort of depth at all... okay, maybe depth's not what I mean, but like, a motivation. Like, they name dropped Sugou this episode which made me think of every other SAO villain, and while almost every one of them were also hilariously evil (except arguably Kayaba) but they had some sort of reason they were doing awful things. Kayaba had his dumb dream, Sugou wanted to perfect his mind manipulation project to sell to the Americans and to mold Asuna into his waifu, and Death Gun (well the multiple Death Guns) wanted to incite terror plus that one creep wanted to have sex with Sinon. So far this season, Gabe & PoH's motivation is "get paid" (which is boring), and their personalities are "we're loving psychos (and one of us wants to Pac-Man some souls)" Whatever though, there's still time on the clock for them to be remotely interesting characters. Or maybe their ridiculously evil levels will start being funny to me, who knows. Terrible Opinions posted:That can be fair but I find it funny that the guy just could not help inserting not just sexual assault but his specific cuckold scenario sexual assault over and over again. For every scene there is a guy being made to watch. Yeah, I'm sure some people would complain about the anime not being "completely accurate" but given that Kawahara himself has expressed his regret over writing this stuff in the past, there's no need for the anime to depict the tentacle stuff, or at least not be as explicit. Having Leafa get captured may be necessary story wise but there's no need to show tentacles snaking between her boobs or up her dress besides some people at A1 being clearly into it.
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Aug 2, 2020 05:31
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How does the one paper-thin bad guy have soul sucking ability when the irreplaceable account that had those powers is gone and he's converting his account from a loving Ghost Recon Wildlands game? Whatever, whatever, I know it's a dumb question about a trash show. But follow on, since we've established in this episode that all these Chinese and Korean randos are open to the idea that they're being conned why do they all just stand around while the other paper-thin bad guy loudly pontificates about his role in a presumably infamous group of serial killers from the Aincrad incident?
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Aug 2, 2020 06:12
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Not Keyser Soze posted:How does the one paper-thin bad guy have soul sucking ability when the irreplaceable account that had those powers is gone and he's converting his account from a loving Ghost Recon Wildlands game? Whatever, whatever, I know it's a dumb question about a trash show. Pretty sure the soul munching wasn't an emperor account power, it's just a thing he (and presumably anybody) can do, he's just the only one who does it because he's a creep. Although the soul thing might also help because he's logged in from the soul translator thing instead of just any old headset.
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Aug 2, 2020 06:19
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Not Keyser Soze posted:How does the one paper-thin bad guy have soul sucking ability when the irreplaceable account that had those powers is gone and he's converting his account from a loving Ghost Recon Wildlands game? Whatever, whatever, I know it's a dumb question about a trash show. It's just the the manifestation of his will. Like how Sinon was able to summon Hecate. Anyway shout out to king simp for the Administrator. Willing to risk it all after Kirito killed his virtual wife.
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Aug 2, 2020 06:22
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Not Keyser Soze posted:How does the one paper-thin bad guy have soul sucking ability when the irreplaceable account that had those powers is gone and he's converting his account from a loving Ghost Recon Wildlands game? Whatever, whatever, I know it's a dumb question about a trash show. Yeah, I was waiting for anyone to recognize the SAO survivors. I know it was hushed up but you know there would be stories out there.
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Aug 2, 2020 06:30
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Not Keyser Soze posted:But follow on, since we've established in this episode that all these Chinese and Korean randos are open to the idea that they're being conned why do they all just stand around while the other paper-thin bad guy loudly pontificates about his role in a presumably infamous group of serial killers from the Aincrad incident? I haven't read it myself, so I can't really verify, but on Reddit people are saying the anime simply dropped all the details about different language barriers that made it sensible in the LN. Supposedly the foreigners don't understand the Japanese used in that scene. And I guess megalomaniacal laughter needs a translation to be grasped as evil.
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Aug 2, 2020 12:29
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Its a shounen anime, by law you're contractually obligated to let people monologue for a bit.
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Aug 2, 2020 12:34
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Oh hey it's...I have no idea who these two are. Were they in a side story that never got animated? That would be awkward. Wow, that's an incredibly silly backstory. Why does he have mind control powers?
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Aug 8, 2020 21:41
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Yeah, I was all ??? too, but helpful people informed me they're from some anime original movie, apparently, and this is again anime original content that's hard to describe as anything but filler. Unless... you watch the movies like a true fan, I guess. I tend to skip them, since I hate recap garbage. This season has been incredibly "anything goes", with people pulling wonderful new skills out of their rear end at will.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:47
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darkgray posted:Yeah, I was all ??? too, but helpful people informed me they're from some anime original movie, apparently, and this is again anime original content that's hard to describe as anything but filler. Unless... you watch the movies like a true fan, I guess. I tend to skip them, since I hate recap garbage. Yeah, They are from Ordinal Scale. That guy's an SAO who was in Asuna's guild that Kayaba lead. He was/is the number 2 player in the titular Augmented Reality game Ordinal Scale . The Singing idol that everyone knew is the Idol Yuna from the game. Who is actually a reincarnated AI version of Eiji's friend(GF?) that her dad used Eiji and the other SAO survivor's memories to recreate. Ordinal Scale came out after the author had already written Alicization. But was set between Phantom Bullet, and Alicization. The author added some more stuff from OS in the books after Alicization and Ordinal Scale came out, so it's technically canon, but yeah this is just the animators adding it probably because the movie did well, if I had to guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGaguBURqk0 Also yeah, dude's power doesn't really make any sense. Outside the fact that the general concept of Alicization and the underworld is that your power is defined by your self image and like resolution. This entire scenario in the books was just that these players were following this dude because of the story they've been told before logging on/the fact they think it is just a game, and because there were only a few people who logged on who understood japanese, so they had absolutely no clue what anyone was saying, until someone who could actually translate stepped in, and calmed everyone down. I guess the Anime is making it so dude's like resolution is able to affect and influence those who themselves don't have
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Aug 8, 2020 22:23
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Oh I actually saw Ordinal Scale but remember next to nothing from it except how wonderfully nonsensical the explanation of the title was.
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Aug 8, 2020 22:25
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Sindai posted:Oh hey it's...I have no idea who these two are. Were they in a side story that never got animated? That would be awkward. They're from the (original material) movie so yeah it's pretty wild. Especially because Eiji was one of the villains of the movie and it ended with Yuna the fairy girl dying/discorporating. So it's like... I can't quite think of an equivalent scenario but let's just say it's like if some villain from one of the tons of One Piece movies suddenly popped up in the show proper with zero introduction and was like "We're on the same side now guys!"... and then he died. I do like that basically everyone's like "Oh poo poo (the equivalent of)Hatsune Miku's here, I guess this server really is Japanese!" darkgray posted:Yeah, I was all ??? too, but helpful people informed me they're from some anime original movie, apparently, and this is again anime original content that's hard to describe as anything but filler. Unless... you watch the movies like a true fan, I guess. I tend to skip them, since I hate recap garbage. I was (and still am I guess) loving the new skills out of the rear end but I'm kind of tired of the mind control. Again, I get that willpower=real power in this game/universe but like, come the gently caress on, manifesting your (Also the movie is totally unironically good and I would recommend it even if you're a casual fan) TwoPair fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 22:46
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Nothing in this anime makes any sense anymore. Let's get em all in here, why not? Where's the girl from Mother's Rosario? She needs half an episode to show up and do nothing too. At least it seems like we're finally at the end of the dumb Suffering Porn arc.
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Aug 9, 2020 04:33
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Since I haven't seen Ordinal Scale this episode was just confusing and kind of stupid. But then again that's been this whole season so far.
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Aug 9, 2020 05:01
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Kwyndig posted:Since I haven't seen Ordinal Scale this episode was just confusing and kind of stupid. But then again that's been this whole season so far. I can't believe I'm saying this but I really hope we get back to Kirito soon, I can't stand 20 episodes of this misery porn bullshit.
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Aug 9, 2020 05:19
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You're right, I miss Kirito. I can't believe I'm saying that. The series is much simpler when he's around.
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Aug 9, 2020 05:27
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Kazy posted:I can't believe I'm saying this but I really hope we get back to Kirito soon, I can't stand 20 episodes of this misery porn bullshit. Yeah, Kirito not being around was cool when it was Alice and the TwoPair fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Aug 9, 2020 05:58
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i am i think...two weeks behind and just skimming the thread but definitely had the thought while reading earlier that this was much better when it was a kirito show though eugeo was a huge loss and i will never be cool about it
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Aug 9, 2020 06:22
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this arc has been gradually getting worse pretty much since the moment it started and that's kinda sad. rip, hopefully the next one is better
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Aug 9, 2020 06:45
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SAO has got to be the most lavishly produced utter horseshit in existence
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Aug 9, 2020 19:09
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I assume the merch side of the IP is some sort of infinite money generator in Japan.
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Aug 10, 2020 15:09
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Mordja posted:SAO has got to be the most lavishly produced utter horseshit in existence The Transformers and Fast and Furious franchises still exist.
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Aug 11, 2020 00:35
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Not Keyser Soze posted:Nothing in this anime makes any sense anymore. Let's get em all in here, why not? Where's the girl from Mother's Rosario? She needs half an episode to show up and do nothing too. So about that...
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Aug 15, 2020 18:52
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Tamba posted:So about that... I can't be the only one who just started laughing when THAT happened.
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Aug 15, 2020 19:04
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I wish there'd be more about Kirito's trauma beyond this one episode.
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Aug 15, 2020 19:37
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ZoninSilver posted:I can't be the only one who just started laughing when THAT happened. Dude I almost did a loving spit take. Between that and Sachi I'm just like, are we doing callbacks to literally the whole show's history? Who's left to make a cameo besides Kayaba (not that there's any doubt his ghost rear end will show up at some point)? Anyway, RIP Asuna doing anything of consequence. You had a good ~6 episodes. Kazy posted:I wish there'd be more about Kirito's trauma beyond this one episode. I feel like he might've had a brief PTSD freakout in Phantom Bullet but my memory's kinda hazy
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Aug 15, 2020 22:59
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Sakuga? In my SAO?
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Aug 16, 2020 01:47
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 Actually, I think it's an absolute trash masterstroke to combine the ridiculous, 11th hour villain motivation speech AND the impossibly long blade lock.
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Aug 16, 2020 02:34
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did we ever see kiritos sword unlock from the tree? There are two or something right?
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Aug 16, 2020 03:07
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doomisland posted:did we ever see kiritos sword unlock from the tree? There are two or something right? The only one we've seen is it just shoots a TwoPair fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Aug 16, 2020 03:12
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Kirito has only shown his Shikai His Bankai is still unknown
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Aug 16, 2020 03:21
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TwoPair posted:Dude I almost did a loving spit take. Between that and Sachi I'm just like, are we doing callbacks to literally the whole show's history? Who's left to make a cameo besides Kayaba (not that there's any doubt his ghost rear end will show up at some point)? He freaks out a bit once he realizes the antagonist was someone from SAO. kirtar fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Aug 16, 2020 03:49
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if kirito gets to have a power up based on his video game bf, asuna also gets to have one with her video game gf. that’s just fair
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Aug 17, 2020 18:22
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