Fixing Alfheim - the WORST Part of SAO 

perhaps more importantly, what idiot would think that a headset using strong microwave radiation directly on the user's brain is a good and safe idea?

@@robertedwards4510 well tbh how did it even get FCC approval in the first place

@@Daster1316 let's face it, if we start thinking about this, it's just going to cause physical pain with how little sense it makes

@@robertedwards4510 well the FCC would never approve the nerve gear unless they low the mircowave transducers to a safe level so.

@@Daster1316 correct the show isn't aware of that though

Damn, why is real life incest nasty but anime incest so hot?

Only in anime... oedipus Rex.... and most Steven king novels and movies... he made a Mother and son make out scene that I wish I could forget

When Geoff said that Kirito and Leafa properly reconcile as family after the emotional revelation, how does that happen exactly? Like, what would they say?

Ah good one

* i T s F r E e R e A l I s T a T e *

Might I suggest you Redo of Healer

@@lucasjiang2167 I was less disgusted with redo of healer than sao. Redo had class

@@CluelessCarter yeah unlike sao redo didn't pretend it wasn't a hentai

@@CluelessCarter "Redo had class" you heard it here, folks

@@2dollarchickenwings689 ahh yes class ....thats smashed on to the watchers head

I also like how the charisma thing is not just plot bullshit. It is an actual game mechanic used quite a few times in Aincrad.

And even the shockingly evil thing being done is just the logical conclusion of something that was used as a silly, and very funny joke in the previous season. The premises of: “What if some clown had a hat that increased charisma and was actually able to change people’s minds because this is a full-dive VR game?” and: “What if some other clown had that hat, and used it to sexually assault people by overriding their consent?” ultimately aren’t all that far apart from each other in the grand scheme of things.

@@uc4490 “I hate that hat!”

you know shit's bad if the original is being seriously and unironically compared to the Abridged version

@@anonymousfilipino3232 Abridged is fucking genius though.

*exasperates* i never would have even thought!

*gapes mouth* this is so unexpected!

the fuck

wait wait wait wait.. *w h a t*

Lmao

Invaldalia He is broken. Like every single one of us.

He is

He sounds broken the entire time I just hate his version no matter what he says the original version is way better

@@jacksonbuhler4513 Honestly his version is so much better because (a. He makes Yui have some purpose other than replacing a possible tutorial npc (b. He gets rid of the rape and sexual assault scenes that were pointless and unnecessary (c. He has Kirito's sister get over Kirito later on (d. We finally get to see Asuna and Kirito fight for the first time and (e. He just tells the overall story so much better while making Jesus-kun finally bad at something (flying). Need I go on?

@@jacksonbuhler4513 I don't see anything his version has that is worse than the normal version.

Unnecessary sexual harassments And the fans don't criticize that at all, they just turn a blind eye

@@pinkkorone7978 I WAS 13 WHEN I WATCHED THIS AND I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD 😭😭 i rewatched it (17 yrs old) and i just,,,, what the fuck

@@pinkkorone7978 as a fan, one of the main things the fans criticize (they do exist) from what I see is actually the sexual harassment scenes (except the ones that weren't useless).

@@pinkkorone7978 because that's just anime it's pretty much the norm

Same thing that happened to High School of the Dead, Cross Ange and numerous other franchises, its such a shame so many shows try to rip off Griffith and don’t get what made Griffith a good character.

Asuna still solo lol

She's just been having some fun with Shoji.

@@repulser93 He deserves it for stealing the wheelchair lady's yogurt

​@@MGNew Can you solo the hood of a silver-colored 2006 Honda Civic going at 126 miles per hour?

​@@axain7784 Thank you for writing this, I will probably use it next time I hear "x solos y"

Sad thing is that this actually sounds like a great idea

No! That'd be... But Kirito... Damn, that's a pretty good idea.

Hell yeah. Not only is Klein less ridiculous OP than Kirito, but he's also more likeable.

S. I. V. It sounds like a joke but it sounds like it would actually be true. Or that something THIS simple is ALL that it needed.

HECK YA

V Rez yes I agree

What kind of a harem anime would this be if MC-kun didn't get all the ladies?

@@KusogakiRenfir Apart from Asuna, that all appear in 1 episode each.

I kinda liked the idea but everyone falling in love with him left a bad taste

FR

Honestly the only thing bad in sao was the sexual shit, fuck the studio, fuck the anime Watch bofuri

I didn’t like her 4th season arc the most because they put her backwards. She was a leader in a massive guild of the best players in SAO that had the goal of risking their life to clear levels. She gave up her position to follow her personal goals and also Pursue a relationship with Kirito. She would have learned to stick up for her beliefs in that position. A sick girl was not needed to teach her. Asuna is not a normal teenager. She had her innocence taken from her. Her trauma would make her problems different. Duty to a family is nothing next to the obligations she would have felt towards freeing thousands from a game as one of the strongest players. And yet, she was willing to break convention there and do her own thing. There’s a good plot with mother daughter reconciliation there but you shouldn’t do it by turning Asuna into a normal teenager. Asuna’s character arc here should have more been like distant father learning to connect with his family. Instead of crying Asuna should have gotten in a heated argument with her mother. That’s what she’s done in the past with ‘authority figures’. The resolution should be around resolving the mother/daughter conflict and mutual understanding but in a way that more matches Asuna’s character and experiences in SAO.

She was damseled because Sugo took away her stats

who names their pc

@@landlockedcroat1554 it's literally the first line of your device settings on your PC and has been part of Windows for a very long time to help distinguish computers when they're networked together. I guess being so busy trying to posture how superior you think you are that you can't notice how dumb what you're saying is, is at least on brand for you, though.

Seriously first time I watched the Alfheim Online arc I thought it was like season 2 so everytime I searched season 2 I would get GGO

I still can't get over the fact that in the anime called Sword Art Online, they escape Sword Art Online halfway through season 1.

@@DStecks Reminds me of Once Upon a Time where they break the curse in the first season so they have to keep inventing new curses to give the characters something to do and keep the show going

@@alpacawithouthat987 yeah! I remember watching the show and wondering why there are 7 seasons if the main problem was already solved 6 seasons before that! I definitely can see a lot of similarities between how this played out and how sword art online is still playing out even though the series could have ended without the fairy dance arc and so on and so forth...

I thought the show ended when they escaped and asuna “died”. Lowkey thought it was a 10/10 anime for making me feel extremely sad that she died. Then i saw SAO 2 and was like “how the fuck is she still alive?” Then i went back to SAO 1 to find out there were many episodes and the show went to shit.

This man speaking facts

Stop SAO fans don't understand reason!

The first half is bullshit; if the characters acted like normal people then there wouldn't be an episode 2. However I do agree that they did my boy ballsdeep69 dirty.

@@2dollarchickenwings689 why though? They would still try to escape

@@mdv9831 actually I do

Welcome to the world of anime, I’m pretty sure there are much more worst stuff than that😂😭😭

when i watched tht scenes i almost forgot that im watching a anime

Your brother is a gem.

Oh my god literally the EXACT same thing happened to me. My brother introduced it to me when I was really young but told me not to watch those episodes! But then I watched them a couple years later anyway and was super grossed out. This is freaky

i introduced sao to my wife recently and i didn't even started her to alfheim arc we finished when kirito awakes

He DID nerf her. That's exactly what happened. By the point we see her in ALO, she has been there for like 2 months, all alone. And actively rebelling against him, would've done more harm than good, because there is no telling what Sugou could've done, like for example, erase her memories.

@@beastunleashed657 I think more what this tells me, is that Sugou made a "10th" inaccessible race that is just an empty, featureless slot. The standard "Fairy", no racial abilities, skills, magic, no advantages or disadvantages. Essentially something that can only ever gain equipment and items as a form of progression, rather than "learning" anything. This is the default for anyone who logs in, even newly-registered players who arrive at the chamber where they pick their race. Literally the only difference is that Asuna and the 300 other survivors were programmed to spawn at specific locations, whereas the default for all standard players, is to spawn in the registration chamber. They never got to pick a different race, so they don't change from the base default race, the Fairy. Hypothetically, if Asuna could have found and made it to a GM console, she could have found a way to access the registration chamber in order to pick a race. That chamber is the only function in the game that can change a player's race, and the default blank race might even have a lower priority in the metadata below the core nine. So no, he didn't nerf her. He just stopped her from receiving the registration prompt.

@@EatAnOctorok perhaps, but either way, he squashed any chance of her having fighting capabilities

Thats why SAO abridged did pretty much all of that aside from the nerfing part

@@AteYourLiver Yes but that also made the threat completely pointless. There is no real reason why she can't just escape. This villain can't really be taken ssly in any way. Do note that I'm not praising OG Sugou either, but atleast he was somewhat competent.

XD LMAOOOOOO

m8 I think it's funny .-.

See the difference is that when I can't make an anime, I don't. When A1 can't make an anime, they just do it anyway and try to take people's money through it.

srry....

Lol

There’s that one comment where Asuna realizes the longer everyone stays in SAO, the more they die and expire anyways.

Lmao ikr

watch saoa

@@vanbrosko97 been there, done that, loved it.

‘Cough’ RWBY ‘Cough’

The reason why he wasn't bugged in the first place is that Agil (who gave him the game in the first place) told him that it's just a normal game and so he can kill anyone to his heart's content

​@coyolord8031 That shouldn't change anything? He's just been trapped in a death game where death mattered and saw friends die even murdered some people himself. For most people even if you know its safe it would be difficult to go back into a similar situation like that

​@@coyolord8031I agree with OP. Yes, Agil told him death doesn't influence the real world outside of Alfheim, but it should've fucked with him like it did during the Phantom Bullet arc.

​@coyolord8031 you should look up PTSD! Thats what we're talking about 😊

It must be the same size as the ass Reki Kawahara is pulling plot points out of.

It’s a 4 season room

Well, he can't make a better history though. That'd take a vast array of resources in just as vast amounts, even if he had the time machine necessary to even make the attempt at baby Hitler's life.

God Of Urging I think he meant to type “story” instead of “history”...

The joke => You

HAHA YES

5 comments and 1k likes. Nicu

It WAS actually. That's part of the reason why she was afraid of people in a powerful position in Mother's Rosario and Alicization.

@@beastunleashed657 People actually watched Alicization? Lol

@@scrublord9505 Yes, it was watched by more people than you think. Although not as much as S1 thanks to the quite frankly ridiculous hate train.

@@beastunleashed657 ridiculous? Look I enjoy SAO, but not unironically, and you can't tell me the show is objectively good. It's horribly well written and AFAIK it's not because it's a bad adaptation of the novels either, it just is. I think it's fun, not good, and that's an important distinction. So tell me do you think it is good?

@@sonfoku73 Yes I do think it is good for the most part with bad writing at times. If it was objectively bad, it would be a 4 on MAL, not 7+

Yeah, i was so disappointed when she got trapped, then gets abused, and being a hopeless side character

@@yez9475 Well at least the progressive series are tying up loose ends

I never thought they would fight because this is clearly not the type of anime where the main character is going to get showed up by his girlfriend. He's made to be Jesus-

Truth be told, a lot of people actually love his work. His Light novels are consistently number 1 in Japan so I think he doesn’t care. The anime isn’t his creation, its an adaptation of his creation. His light novels have better writing than the anime can provide.

probably dont care as long as he get a royalty

Yeah, ofc he would care about some western normies screaming at his work on youtube and twitter. Nah man, his work is huge in Japan.

Royalty Checks.

To be fair, he does recognise how bad it is in a couple interviews like how the kill mechanism world for the nerve gear and how the women are essentially trophies; so he does recognise the fact.

SO much better

@@rassberrypi more like >:()

then rape

(joke btw)

@@clearskiesmovieproject4685 but was it really a joke🤔

Get this guy his own storyboard team. Heck, give him a show. Heaven knows they're doing dumber shit with other shows these days, anime and otherwise.

same

Make him the editor

Barro 45 is greater than 44 Yeah, good point.

Barro 45 is greater than 44 He be a actual movie star.

Completely based. Felt the same way after the video

Well, you can win some raids in games, but it takes a lot of gear, practice, knowledge and huge amounts of time to muscle memory everything

You'd think with all the people calling him Jesus kun, he'd be able to beat the dungeon. Guess he isn't that OP then.

I remember some youtube cinemasins knock off channel who made a video about sao (actually there's 2 of them) And one of them called leafa "Milk tits"

@@charisk2845 Anisins?

@@rehaan6428 0:40: MB roasting Butch Hartman so hard he becomes Fried wihtout even mentioning his Name.

Kirito would obviously win because the creators make him too overpowered

@@milkbread1640 But he doesn't want to hurt Asuna soooo

Yeabes das true😳😳

Milk Bread you mean Jesus-kun

no seriously not

mark t. When its not a fanfic

mark t. And he’s not even a fan

It's an AU fanfic where its compitantly written

@saoabridged

You are hater with pfp

I think that's a good idea except for the last part. I don't think its fair to expect a woman to change her appearance just so she wouldn't be appealing to a man. If she *wants* to be in less revealing clothing just for herself then thats fine, but she shouldn't need to wear less sexualized clothing just for other people's convenience (you hear this argument a lot with public school dress codes.) Having Leafa wear the same clothing but be framed in a less sexualized manner would be fine.

Very true it's a funnier, better written version of an anime that has so much potential

I never laughed harder and I love how asuna kirito are psychopath to the point yui thought one would each other

@@segghhs I'm assuming you meant to put kill in there?

you know you suck at writing when everybody does your story a billion times better than you

I chocked so many times to SAOA

Lucy Nguyen he saved the best for last “...part 2,5.... Jesus-kun...”

She’s his cousin. It’s still incest

Not if it is Kentucky

Oh right, just gotta love those anime mmos from Kentucky.

They had to get viewers from Alabama somehow, right?

Destiny is a bitch, the old VoG had these little things you had to stand on to open a door, and adds kept spawning to recapture them, unfortunately I can only do one at a time, so I spent three hours bouncing back and forth and never got in

😂

That would actually work really well. After all, wasn’t Yui supposed to be an emotional support AI. When she explained who she was after the whole grim reaper “fight” she said she was made to help the players cope with being trapped in a game. That would reference her original use and make her an extremely vital character Kirito needs in order to get over his trauma in the future story arch’s and defeat the big bad in ALO.

They could, but that kinda goes beyond the scope of what Geoff is doing here. Geoff is pretty much making Alfheim better making as few changes as possible; he’s proving that he can use Kawahara’s own building blocks to make a much better story. Making Kirito’s PTSD more prevalent would go a long way to improving his character, but that would be adding in more scenes as opposed to tweaking existing scenes.

I mean why didnt kirito just report sugou

@@iisajudge5671 If somebody is reported, they could easily make another account. Also, he's kinda in charge of ALO...so yeah. Try reporting an admin.

Borbs Birbs but why didn’t kirito just show the police the screen shots or post them on social media. That would easily solve the problem

xklnbx14 I’m actually working on something like this myself. I’ve separated my chapters into separate documents, though, as “episodes”, as I plan to instead turn them into PowerPoint animations for RU-vid instead. Currently working on the end of Episode 3, which is really just the first scene of Progressive 1, and Episode 4 will be the anime’s Episode 2.

@@EatAnOctorok gl

Aaron Rayner id like to see it when it’s done. Please upload it to your RU-vid channel or add me on some sort of social media so I could see it. You could write it in the comments but we both know *AIN’T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!*

I totally agree, I would buy that, DO IT MB

can we get 666 likes

Something Witty is way ahead of you.

especially the elephan in the room: You can brainwash somebody yet, you never brainwash anyone.

Exactly

I was actually disappointed. Glorified FanFiction sounds appealing to me.

I wanna invent interdimensional travel just to find the universe where this is the SAO we actually got.

Yeah, god this was great. I could definitely have dealt with that rendition. He didn't addressed all the skeveness I hated about this series and even though he didn't mention it, he answered a question the real plot never did. How can we be in suspense in a world where you can't die.

lambs Fittingly enough, a "sexy" torture scene was also the final nail in Fairy Tail's coffin.

I believe that is the killing thing for most everyone for ALO

@TtR / JaRa pretty sure that's one part people would like to forget....the whole almost rape and violation of asuna is the one of the main reasons ALO was the worst part of the SAO series

Thank god for the Mother's Rosario arc

Omar Jafry ikr the only good part

The bad guy doing a bad thing and getting his face dropped onto a sword is a good thing. The show never shows that scene as sexy it is supposed to make you uncomfortable.

@@eddieboston6540 Exactly, it isn't supposed to be fanservice, it's supposed to be uncomfortable and disgusting, except for the parts with Kirito's sister, those are sadly supposed to be sexy.

@@PlatinumKrown what moments with his sister

@@eddieboston6540 I was pointing out that Suguha generally seemed to be fanservice compared to asuna during the alfhiem arc. But that's just me going off of memory, nothing serious.

@@PlatinumKrown Look at it this way: if A is assaulting B, and you're looking at B's boobs and crotch, whose point of view are you inhabiting? The victims or the perpetrator's? The language of film isn't something that just happens, the choices made have meanings. If they wanted to make you feel Asuna's pain and empathize with her, experience this horrible thing with her, they camera would be done from her point of view. They wouldn't be focusing on her body parts (which, by the way, is a choice that dehumanizes her further). You'd see only the villain and his actions, and they'd switch from time to time to showing her expression, so you could keep track of her feelings as well as her experiences. The POV they actually used is voyeuristic, therefore if their intention wasn't to titillate, they chose the wrong way about it. My discomfort doesn't come from watching a sexual assault and feeling the victim's pain, it comes from watching animators sexually assault a character.

W

No lol

@@gamu1651 L

The incest was.... Idk. I just kept screaming no

That was the scene that almost made me and my brother toss his computer out of the window. A visceral reaction I know. Thankfully, the story wasnt like Yay! Incest! But oh that framing...

*engaging

I don't even care about the incest part. It's just so poorly written.

@@scamin441 Creator didn't think so. Dude cried in the corner because the directors didn't let him go with "his" ending. But eh, I've never watched that anime. Only heard about it.

Ikr? This re-imagining of SAO makes it seem smarter than what we were originally given. In fact I'm quite bummed out this isn't real.

Saaame!!

Whenever I see the whole, "I like to see you do better!" My response is: "You don't need to be a good chef to say the food sucks." If it tastes like shit it tastes like shit.

Ikr

CompletelyNewguy exactly

Plan B

_"We may never be able to stop people from doing stupid shit. But with your help, I will always be there to call them on it afterwards. And really, isn't that what truly matters?"_

I wouldn't pay for it but I'd sit through the crunchy roll ads

I couldn’t pay for it :l but I would find a way to find it!

Ikr

NZPS T tbh he SHOULD make an abridged version of SAO with this plot In the future

I agree!

If you know what I mean

And copying Digibro to boot. Good video though.

I don't ship Kirito and Suguha because HE'S MARRIED. Are there ANY good sibling romances? I'm not even asking for anime, I mean literally any work of fiction.

+LOL Icon well there's eroman- ok no

But I hear that one's cute... Dammit industry, don't make me come over there and make it myself!

At least we got SAO abridged, thankfully

...

replace Suguto with Quinter.

Suguha and kabuto

Jk

In my opinion the Asuna VS Kirito was a trash, cliche and simple decision.

So (kinda) true

@@danielantony1882 still a milion times better than the original version

@@bebol121 Sounds like you hate SAO a lot.

@@danielantony1882 I don't know how such conclusion could ever cross ones mind...

There were... SO many ways they could’ve done it instead of resorting to... that. They could’ve had Leafa be his best friend. Maybe he was staying with her and her family while he recovered from being trapped in VR for so long. God, the cousin thing just made me want to hurl.

@@Cheetahgirl_Studios Yeah. The series had already been running the unrequited harem trope into the ground by the point Suguha had been introduced. Having the plot string along ANOTHER faux love interest was getting not just tired, but kind of insulting.

@@ifuckinghatebarking Well it doesn't GO anywhere, so any logistical issues are kind of moot.

Sexual assault online

Why not Asuna and Kirito kicking his ass together? It is, at its core, a love story after all.

Hobbert Eevee I don't care which is it. Bastard deserved death be it from Kirito or asuna

Dame Desu hmmm.... can it be kayaba and yui (lol)

Nishank Raj yui is an ai who can't kill or do anything in the real world like that. And kayaba didn't really witness it

Well i was kidding why are you serious. I was just saying what could have make sao more bad. Well in that case also, i am talking about in game (not real life). Just suppose, yui find out admin account. From admin account, then she made herself an in-game monster and killed that ........whatsoever name (i didnt tried to remember his name). Or she find out kayaba data and then using admin power she created a npc like kayaba but whoes aim is to kill that ....again whatsoever person. Dont be serious. My writting in this comment is worst then the sao author as i didnt put any mind in it(just like author). Just take it as fun and again i was only think what the author should do (to make more bad).

Jo King truth

+Jo King Unfortunately, the audience that disliked SAO often proved they were dim. While there are plenty of problems with the show, often the complaints were about issues that didn't exist, wherein people failed to understand the in game 'politics' and/or the time skips.

Simply Solus But do people who complain about issues in SAO that weren't issues at all. Complain about fake issues because they are dim or because the in-game 'politics' and/or the time skips might have been handled poorly?

+Jo King Did anyone actually watch SAO for the story? I always thought it was more of a tech demo with some decent writing. I say decent because I really stopped caring after Kirito and Asuna started a frelling family up in a few episodes. That's some pretty aggressive growth. I thought this was supposed to be a romance, not an STD.

+Nico #1325 While I do think it could have been done better, a lot of the complaints fall purely on the viewer rather than the show. Take Digibro's 1 hour long hate video about SAO wherein he fails to understand basic things like why Kirito acted as the 'villain' and became a 'beater' in the second or so episode despite the reasons for this being spoon fed to the viewer multiple times with additional details being dropped throughout the episodes, or how he assumes that because someone waited in line to buy a game, that they would therefore be a good player because they waited in line despite their being no logical backing for this conclusion.

BronyTran it's fine we have Sao abridged

mind explaining what this sao abridge is?

d4s0n yo An abridged series of SAO made by Something Witty Entertainment, and its pretty fucking good.

It's better in every way than the original

d4s0n yo you should watch it

If I ask you what figma is, are you going to say "figma balls"?

@@Chameleonred5 Absolutely, but also it's the weeb name for a figure or miniature.

@@nanahuatli2144 I have learned two things today: That figma means "figurine" and that SAO merch went in some rather unpleasant directions.

HeyFaiffy #notallanime some of them show it as horrifying and emotionally distressing.

TyphoonZebra HeyFaiffy didnt even say all animes are like that, and the focus isnt *all* animes~ The focus is the ones that sexualize rape and sexual assault~

Khennie Melon I know, bro, I was making a facetious social commentary, making reference to sweeping claims and their "not all" rebuttals. Why you gotta be like dat?

ok

The Anarchist Otaku I think you did get the point. First of all she wasn't generalizing all anime, just anime who blatantly oversexualizes rape. You do notice almost EVERYONE has a problem with that specific scene? Second of all what makes you think she likes those TV shows in the first place? Did you just assume that she didn't like anime and this assumed that's she must like all Western media? Don't assume things. Third, why are you insulting her intelligence as if she didn't know that Western​ media do exhibit sexual content (especially game of thrones) who usually showcase the exploitation of minor? I feel like your making this arguement to the wrong person for the wrong reasons.

Andy S *me hoping people actually use illusions in their fighting styles and not just bullshit out everything like Kirito*. And yea Kirito used Ilusion magic , but he simply created some smoke. I was honestly hoping for him to use something more distracting but nope smoke here it comes and the salamanders are the fire team , which is let’s see fire can produce smoke so in a normal setting they would be trained to be able to see past smoke.

yes! everyone was so freaked out by the fact that he was a spriggan and then there wasn't even conflict or a real reason they didn't like the spriggans.

@@thatoneannoyingguy6619 They would be TRAINED to SEE PAST SMOKE? What the actual fuck did you just write there, buddy? That is the equivalent of saying that modern soldiers use guns so they are trained in not dying of gunshot wounds in case they shoot themselves on accident. AKA, anime logic.

Riwillion Actually, it’s more along the lines of a corrections officer being trained to see past and resist the Riot Spray that they have to stop prisoners. Which, shocker, they do. How is conflating it with gunshots at all the same type of comparison?

@@SylentVoidkeeper In the same way that you cannot "be trained" to not die of gunshot wounds, you cannot "be trained" to see through smoke. There is nothing to train or be learned there. You either are able to see through the smoke or you are not, but that 100% depends on factors that are outside your control, mostly, how thick the smoke screen is.

Agreed. And to Quote the author of this video.... "JUST DON'T FUCKING DO IT!!!!"

The Abridged does just that, actually.

Clocks ticking nom nom

Excatly what I thought! In sao she was a very powerful character and an amazing fighter. Then in alfheim all of a sudden she is COMPLETELY helpless?? I love sword art online but that character arc change was total crap.

@Ben Layers That's true. People fail to realize that.

@@siahayezz3307 What was she supposed to do anyway? Your point has no foundation to stand on. You fail to notice that Asuna couldn't do anything no matter how much you wanted her to.

Daniel Antony when she escaped from the cage and got to the control room, she could have easily hurried up and got herself out, but no she had to sit there and get distracted by the mind controlled brains, had she hurried up and not taken her time she could have easily escaped, but well knowing there were people after her she still took her time instead of left immediately, made no sense

@@siahayezz3307 How was she supposed to leave? You're just assuming some nonsense here. How would she leave if there is no way to leave?

Same here. AoT is my favourite manga, and in fact piece of non-interactive media, of all time. It’s story and characters are well written, and that’s the biggest point, but the lack of fan service (apart from abs) is refreshing. The female characters in AoT aren’t loved because their assets, but because they are written like genuine and believable humans. Additionally, the only near rape scene in AoT happens to a boy and it isn’t played off for laughs, although I have seen more than a few reactors treating it that way, but it is a genuinely traumatising moment for the character and other characters in the series treat it that way and try to comfort him.

@@Doom_Hawk All the great anime don`t have much fanservice

Yea, I think that really was the point where I went from "this is ok" to "Oh, hell no!"

Rape is always a touchy subject. Playing rape for fanservice is sadly endemic in anime, and this was just a more graphic version. UGH.

yeah, but the few times rape is used not for fanservice but for story purposes, like for example in Berserk or Wolf Guy (even though not all scenes like that are truly necessary in those 2, they are the first two examples of 'rape done right' in Manga/Anime), it can be done very well especially if the psychological effects on the person that got violated are done right. But yeah, there are way to many glorified "romantical moves" that are actually pretty close to sexual assault and authors that are like "let's throw rape in there" to attract more people to their Ip

Like I said, it takes a thoughtful touch and you need to know exactly why you are going there and what it will accomplish. Berserk is, honestly, a bit iffy for me as it goes way too close to the overused trope of using rape to anger/motivate the main male character. But I am not 100% on it. It was extremely impactful and, for what it was, well executed. So, iffy. Once we have a good long break from women being raped as motivation, it will be easier to accept scenes where it does happen. However, Berserk is also quite old at this point, from well before .any. pressure to reduce rape content was taken seriously, let alone in anime. And it did feel very apt for what happened. I think it would be harder to do now, and certainly SAO treated it with absolutely no nuance or thought beyond 'hehehe boobies'.

KingofTerror on the whole "brainwashed" idea. I dont like it. Becauese it nearly demands the lazy trope of "if i just try hard enough to remind her of who she really is then she will remember and be herself again" or the "if i kiss the love interest (because i was her rral love interest) then the person will instantly regain their true self and be instantly ok" i prefer the much darker: "crap now i have to hope that the bad guy kept a backup of my love interests memories aso that i can cause more braindamage and re rewrite the persons memories and hope that i dont reduce them to the menta state and ability of a brick." But then the backup turns out to be. A different build of the corrupted memories and the end result is even worse than the initial result turning the love interest into a "full throttle" sycophantic psycho bad guy that is so in love with the prime bad guy that they are more than happy and willing to go all in on badguy stuff (Full corruption). So now the good guy has to rescue the love interest by capturing and re rewriting their memories to turn them back to who they were but at the moment of truth the love interest beggs to not be "murdered" like this now forcing the hero to face their own dark side and the implications of their actions and thus they choose to not rewrite the person but instead notice that the person seems to be developing a split personality. Wherein the original person begins to surface at seemingly random times. But the evil personality always plays it off like they were play acting. Eventually the corrupted love interest has an internal struggle (and because this is a vr videogame) they split physically within the game into two sepperate people and as things get revealed it gets found out that whichever personslity manages to log out first, that one will become the permanent version of said person. And the other will be deleted as "old data from a previous save" but becauee we need a potentially tragic ending from the dark side. Corrupted version is given log out privaleges and is able to log out first. However hero character was expecting this and had nav pixie prep a script (which ultimately deletes her) to save love interest as an item to the nerv gear itself and now hero has to wait for corrupted girl to log back in so that he can enact his master plan to re enstate the true love interest back into themself. Once this has been done original love interest takes root but retsins all memories of the evil personality and is fundamentally changed by those memories. While still being themself.

Welcome to the small percentage of people who like SAO but acknowledge its' flaws

same bro same

im in that percentage too.

wow it's almost like the nonvocal majority of any fanbase is able to enjoy something but see where it is bad

Im in that percentage as well

That's everything.

Verde the Star Warrior this entire series could be summed up as Gordon Ramsay screaming "YOU FUCKED IT UP"

@@ShadowFox10587O he would also shout WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE

Same shit goes for GGO

Kirito: "hold my daughter"

@@triaz2662 i think it's from the channel Something Witty entertainment

KirbyKips episode 15 Preview Update, and she has massive insecurities about what Kirito thinks about her because he saw her roleplaying, actual Character development setup there.

@@WanukeX especially since we know that Kasuto hates dealing with roleplayers and can barely put up with it. That could also have Him get some growth since as shown when he gives her the juice in ep 13, he genuinely does care about her as a family member

@@mystorage894 They are, they're real cousins.

@@prower9494 Yeah it was weird that at first they tried to make it seem that they weren't

This is great and I wish we'd had this in the show thank you!!!

That’s actually really amazing! The situation about how you can distance yourself from those you love is a very relatable theme to go on, and your plot makes it more emphasized than it is in the actual plot, which is nice. It also just gives Kirito more flaws, which he desperately needs.

A lot of that does happen in the original story tbh. It's even better explained in the light novels.

Damn both the video and your comment makes total sense and I can actually see it play out. This whole arc could be done in like 24 eps or a 2nd cour like alicization did???.Heck it can even be a whole season I guess by combining your idea with Mother's Basement. With this content I think it will make the alfeim arc better

@@blinded1555 You know what would be even cooler? If they changed ALO and made it have all 9 realms of Norse mythology. Then make it so that Kirito has to beat 8 realms and then he reaches the 9th realm (Asgard) where Asuna is and then the fight (the one that MB mentioned) happens. Can keep the Suguha stuff and also have Kirito's other friends help him.

Mother's Basement Fun thing but did you realize that Film Theory released an SAO video if not at the same time, REALLY close? I'm not inciting anything I just thought it was weird how that worked out

thanks for using dark theme

Ah just got to the end of the vid never mind

this comment chain made me smile

Mother's Basement my deed for the day is done

0:40: MB roasting Butch Hartman so hard he becomes Fried wihtout even mentioning his Name.

He did an awesome job with Fairy Dance arc, but fix Gun Gale online? It's impossible

Krono I enjoyed gun Gale online

You can easily make it better by shortening the cave arc in ggo.

YohSou He can't make an entire episode on " shorten the cave arc"

There are probably tons of things he can do for Gungale Online. A big example, fixing the actual game's balance because it is _horrid_

Kattywompus well at least he removed the sexual parts

True

Or make someone else the MC for ALO. Kirito is just an overused character at that point

But if done right, it could be a welcome surprise

_YES_

This version was decent

Personally I thought some of the fight acenes were SAOs saving grace

And rename agil Tiffany

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@@christopheralvarado4544 Same. the fighting scenes were brilliant imo, the only thing I would change is if they had some sort of major setback from some of the fights. For example, when Kirito's hand gets cut off (by the guy who used Asuna's bodyguard turned evil) and they have to find some sort of potion or whatever to heal it. What was the point of showing Kirito's hand getting cut off like that if it didn't mean anything?

Like, the characters in SAO are so easy to read. Once a drama scene starts, you know how it ends.

The second arc in season 2 is just filler.

bryan diaz varela don’t

Guess its for "research"

You mind lendinge the rope if your not gonna use it? (For a school project)

Gud

This is why I don’t look at anime art.

With chunks of kirito's hacker brain floating around inside

XD

@@jamfingers55 And a bit of tentacle extract

@@gangrenousgandalf2102 and a bit of witty-ness

Your profile picture says it all

Haha same

Eh, I'm not really a fan of SAO abridged, and I don't even watch SAO. I honestly don't find characters constantly being jerks to each other all that funny. It's mean-spirited, if anything, and I don't like mean-spirited stuff. If you like that stuff, good for you. I just don't like it.

@@TF2Fan101 of course you wouldn't like the abridged version of a series you didn't watch. It's meant to be a joke for people who knows the context. If you don't know how the series is supposed to be going, you wouldn't find the parody of it funny.

You have reached the nirvana