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Im going to earnestly recommend you watch Sword Art Online Abridged instead of the original. It is by far the better story.
Yeah the whole thing is about how both Kirito and Asuna are fucked up in various ways but also don't know how to not be fucked up until they start interacting with other people, getting hurt, finding love, and generally growing as actual characters much to their general displeasure when they realize they've grown. See Kiritos entire frustrated rant about humanity while he's busy saving some random strangers who almost got themselves killed.
After episode 13 you should just turn it off and go watch Log Horizon or .Hack if you crave that MMO Isekai fix
The most recent episode had a part where the fairy character commits allegedly funny violence offscreen, it's just not that deep. It's extremely standard web humor of the time it started, without the clever jokes or attempts to say something more with the material I would credit to Yugioh Abridged or DBZ Abridged. The latter two insist you credit the official release, but that's not doable with SOA Abridged because the fanbase of the abridged show hates the official release and think that adding yandere jokes to a harem show is the height of cleverness and satire.
I think a parody that HATES the original material sucks. It's the difference between something wonderful like Blazing Saddles vs Epic Movie.
https://legendsoflocalization.com/sword-art-online-hollow-fragment-gallery/
It's a sixteen part series.
The latest episode reveals that the leaders of two opposing nations, as portrayed via its roleplaying members to include a very substantial amount of backstory they created due to the fact they're technically still playing a children's game, actually know each other in real life. Not only that, but they're exes who tried to hack each other's accounts leading to what was essentially an in-game body switch that they both chose to ham up in the most gratuitously cheesy fashion for the sole purpose of embarrassing the other with their antics.
Everyone else roleplaying with them, on either side, is a friend or family of one or the other or both. The traitorous viceroy character that leaks information which leads to one side ambushing the other in a surprise attack turns out to have done the whole thing purely because he's their mutual longtime friend and he is sick and tired of both leaders using what used to be fun roleplay as a proxy war for their breakup feuding and wanted them to meet face to face so they could finally talk things out and bury the hatchet.
But yeah sure it's not that deep clearly just cheap random fart jokes.
I watched the series based on testimonials such as the one you offered, and I was deeply disappointed. I think in order to be a "parody" or "satire" of something, you really need some kind of point. I disagree that writing strange new original plotlines is the same as doing that.
"Yeah the whole thing is about how both Kirito and Asuna are fucked up in various ways but also don't know how to not be fucked up until they start interacting with other people, getting hurt, finding love, and generally growing as actual characters much to their general displeasure when they realize they've grown." This isn't some clever theme that the abridged series came up with, it's the literal text of the original material. In case this wasn't clear enough, the most recent material in the real series (the Progressive film) figuratively writes this sentence onscreen, highlights it, and then repeats it for 90 minutes. I don't mind criticism of the original work, it deserves a bucket load. I mind the idea that doing Adult Swim style jokes over animation you didn't have anything to do with "is a much better story."
I enjoyed the first season but there's heaps of just uncomfortable tropes that have perpetually come again in all the Isekai inspired by it
Season 2 is so offensive to me I wish I could unwatch it
It also gets massive points for giving Kayaba a solid reason for doing what he did instead of just an, 'Oh I forgot' line. Hell they even make fun of that line because it's so bad.
I mean, 'fantastic' is pretty subjective so I don't think it's "downplaying" it but rather just... not liking it?
Never watched another episode.
Good sound track though. Look up bits of that on Youtube and listen to them with zero context.
Having someone explain in detail two very specific things that make good character arcs and such and basically responding with ' nu uh lol' isn't just disliking it. It's downplaying what the series did.
It'd be like quoting those long Tomoko posts and going, 'lol no she's just dumb' and leaving it at that.
it's a useful reminder for whenever anyone says that the 90s were unambiguously good and/or cool: no, they also sucked, and they sucked in exactly that way.
https://www.slashfilm.com/703353/why-everyone-thinks-the-cult-classic-anime-ghost-stories-bombed-in-japan-when-it-didnt/
Obviously I'm glad this was before cell phones or else there'd be footage of teenage me saying some of the worst shit ever just to get a chuckle out of Jimmy
...got an unexpected chuckle from me.
Read that new series Earthchild:
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