REACTION: Sword Art Online Abridged Episode 1 

If anybody could give me a link to a Slap on Titan episode 1 I would appreciate it. Also feedback is appreciated!

yeah the abridged has a better story and characters

"Love knows no gender." True true

The Head Designer in this is living out the fantasy of many game designers when they have extra hostile players that complain a lot. *sits at a table with the sign “Change my mind”*

The intro is This is War by 30 seconds to Mars.

You might want skip the intro music cause of copyright issues 🙂

Yeah that's not the opening xD Well, maybe the scenes in it are. I can't remember tbh, but the song is from 30 Seconds to Mars.

You should really react to the entire sao abridged. Kirito of this one actually has a personality and actually develops as a character. It's so much better than the original.

YES! This is my favorite Abridged Series of all time! So Awesome You're reacting to it!

No one ever wants to be my cannon fodder either.

I can relate to your view on SAO, i watched first 4 episodes and didn't watch more. However i watched all Abridge episodes in one go. Strange how it goes :s

Asuna goes back to being a badass in part 2 of SAO 2, but everything after the first arc is more of a hat-tip to the first season.

I finally watched the whole series. Thanks for doing this video. Might not have discovered it otherwise.

Please keep going with SAO abridged. its way better than the real series. they fix pretty much every issue people have with the original, and they get better as you go

Yesss its here! :D

a little warning: the Abridged story and characters are different to SAO, hence if you try to relate one to the other you might end up getting confused.

I enjoyed the initial half of the first season of Sao, but this abridged is leaps and bounds better. Plus, if you pay attention, the number of running jokes and callbacks throughout are just amazing

Watch out for copyright strikes on the 30 seconds to Mars intro. Everyone got struck for those.

I'm glad that you took my advice. No one likes SAO, so you are not alone. Don't rewatch it because the ending of SAO Abridged would be RUINED!

Yea it get better with each episode, I hope you give Hellsing and Overlord abridged a shot as well!

Also yeah I don't blame you. I left my comment before starting the video actually lol. I forget how long the first arc of SAO is, but I didn't really care for the stuff after it. Basically the first arc of SAO 1 and the first arc of SAO 2 were the ones I liked. Watching past those episodes did, to me, feel like more of a chore. I just didn't like the Alfheim stuff. I forget if the Aincrad arc of SAO is 10 or 14 episodes long, but I definitely preferred the first 10 myself. Personally I think SAO 2's first arc is the best. Sinon's not only the best girl, but the most complex/deep character who gets the most development. I'd compare that arc to the Hunger Games, because apparently the writer is a fan of the Hunger Games.

I didnt know SAO was abridged. I gotta start looking for other abridged anime’s now lol. 👍👍

Abridged Kirito's voice is so hilarious... I love this Abridged series as much as I love DBZ Abridged. Easily just as good :P

keep watching it gets better

yes please continue

Also just letting you know that episodes part 5 and 6 are a two parter

And YES! That's my problem with Asuna too, and why I don't really like the pairing even though I respect Kirito being loyal and having an established relationship. Asuna was pretty fierce and badass, but they changed her character into a stereotypical housewife, with her cooking ability being super played up and emphasized. I loved their relationship at first, and still do in those first episodes. It's very sweet, especially when she came to his rescue in a fury. I'm just a sucker for romance, but after that... That's also why I prefer Sinon. She did develop feelings for Kirito, but it was over quite a bit of time. She's even more fiery than Asuna was, and with more attitude. Not in a heavy abusive tsundere kind of way, though. She had her own personal demons to deal with, so her feelings for Kirito took time to develop as her character developed, and those feelings were more like... background subtle. Sadly they don't show much of her past her arc, because she's not the main duo, but when they do show her, she more or less maintains her character, and in the games. Asuna on the other hand... maintains the same character that I also don't care for.

yes i love this Abridged :D

I hate SAO the anime but I love this abridged version of it! Glad to see you're wathing this one!

I promise, stick with this to the end, A Slap on Titan too, you won't regret it.

WE'RE FUCKED!!!!!!! 😂

IF YOU Want to Die of Laughter Watch Code MENT Episode 1 - Purple Eyes I Promise the funniset Abriged Ever

This is a good abridged but it gets better later and is much better then the actual show. Helsing ultimate is another great abridged (its the team four star guys so expect that quality) there is a few other abridged that are good too

overlord has an abridged. it's really good,but it's only one episode.😢..but keep up the good work.😍😙

If you can't do A slap on titan right now, I recommend Abridge on Titan. It's made by an associate of Teamfourstar and is only 10 episodes

Mannaged to talk during two funny jokes. BallsDeep69 and Hexagon. *sighs*

Lol this right here

Episode 5 is my favorite 😂😂😂

Ohhhh when u finish watching this ongoing series. Watch Hustler Art Online it's a great one shot abridged

Would you ever react to 2GS's Abridged videos

The first half is always better like in season 2 first 12 were awesome then to why again

This version of asuna is the shit!

Idk if my comment went thru lol at least watch up to episode 5 that's my favorite 😂😂

Am not going to lie but sword art online is not my type either so.. Am with u Raven even do l seen 2 seasons of that anime, after that it began to start about fan service and that's when l stopped mostly coz at first it was a teen show but then it almost turned into a type of inappropriate adult show and then the plot was getting way slower to move on.. so yea it's not the best anime but alteast it's something..

If you’re reviewing abridged series check out BlazingAzureCrow, he’s got some really good stuff.

Hey Raven you should do a reaction to digimon abriged series by BlazingAzurecrow also love the reaction also it's mandark

Was this made by teamfourstar? I've never seen sword art online anime. I'm someone who would hate on 2010's anime but would lost his shit over early 2000's anime. I know most people nowadays like anything fresh and new but I'll stick to oldies but goldies. I'll stick to your dragon balls content from now on. This seems like virtual world type a thing, it reminds me a lot of Runescape and other MMORPG games. Neat concept, had I been 10 all over again, I'd probably lose my head over this but that's 15 years too late. I'm not total weeb when it comes to anime, I mostly watch it to reminiscent a simpler time :)

Have you watched the actual anime of SAO

i only like the first half of the first season then it turn into a harem and i'm like wtf??

It's Mandark LoL

I have mixed feelings about SAO abridged. Though I wanna put it out there that I do love the fuck out of it. For a while I thought it was better than DBZA, but I've come to appreciate the amount of careful writing and care for the story DBZA has. However, I love SAO abridged. It made me check out the original anime after seeing a few episodes, and therein lies the problem. I like the original a lot, which is obvious from the content of my channel lol. I have seen more romance anime than I can count, and a lot of them deal with a lot of pussyfooting or drama between the two love interests, drama born from stupidity for the sake of dragging things out. SAO doesn't do that. The relationship isn't immediate nor does it take forever. And unlike a lot of protagonists in romance anime, Kirito's not a perv or an idiot. He's nice, caring, competent, and protective. He's one of few male protagonists who have actually done anything to make girls falling for him believable. A lot of protagonists will get the attention of any girl within a 10 foot radius without doing much of anything. With each girl, Kirito's displayed at least something. And while it's not a harem anime, it does have a lot of the same tropes. However, unlike other harem anime, the relationship here is established. Kirito's not spineless and indecisive. In quite a few harem anime, the main guy will be just that and cause pain for all the girls involved because he can't/won't make up his mind. Here Kirito shows to be decisive and loyal. Even though Kirito x Asuna isn't the pairing I prefer, I appreciate Kirito being a loyal upstanding man to her. That and the relationship they shared was sweet and actually was established before the last episode. In some romance anime, the relationship is never fully established. I also appreciate that Kirito's different from a lot of anime characters. Instead of having an over-the-top personality like Kamina or Naruto, and having like one or two defining traits, he's more like a normal human being. All of us are a mix of many personality traits in moderation. Kirito has a lot of traits. He just doesn't overly exert one. Overall he's very nice and kind. Some could say "too perfect", but if being a decent human being is "too perfect", then those people have a very low bar for what a decent human being is. At the same time, though, Kirito can have a short temper. He's gotten pissed and hostile very fast depending on what buttons are pushed, and he'll behave rude and cold if he's displeased, like whenever he has to deal with his government "buddy" (forget his name). He's also displayed fear and regret, and has even had character growth given that he originally preferred to stay by himself because... well some people just don't like crowds and he also didn't want the responsibility of looking after others, but now he's got a whole group of people he does stuff with, and has accepted it. He's also shown to be cocky, a bit of a flirt, a smartass, and an asshole. The whole little conversation he had with Sinon before his first 1v1 round in the BoB preliminaries, when her "friend" was sitting there with them. She was being cold with him still, but said "Make sure you make it to the finals, so I can kick your butt myself", and with a cocky tone, he called her out on the true meaning of her words and said "If you're inviting me, I'll have to make sure I'm there". But that whole conversation he was teasing her. And it felt natural. Guess that's what I mean. Kirito's relationship with Asuna, the attraction others feel to him, Kirito's general behavior... it all feels natural. It's not as entertaining as an over-the-top character, but I understand, like, and respect it still. He definitely has a personality, considering there's a lot of traits in him to mention. People with no personality have no traits you can point out. Tbh, characters who are mainly defined by one trait, even though it's over-the-top exaggerated, I'd say have less personality. They are not as complex. They come off as very two-dimensional. Like abridged Kirito, he's mainly a stereotypical troll asshole you'd come across while playing an online game, most likely as an antithesis to Kirito being nice in the original. It IS funny and entertaining, but it doesn't make him more complex. And also, now that I look back at it, it makes Asuna and Liz developing any feelings for him feel VERY forced in the abridged. Not natural or believable at all. Mainly I dislike the mentality that this series is good because it fixed the original. This abridged is good on its own merits. The original doesn't really need to be fixed... except maybe the Alfheim stuff. I mean, I do get what they were going for when making the bad guys basically rapists to show how bad they were, because I appreciate that they acknowledge rape as being among the WORST things you can do to someone (along with murder and torture, which rape is a form of, because they violate a human's rights in some way and usually destroy them as people). I mean, for a time, both rape AND murder were punishable by death. It is extremely horrible... though they kinda overdid it by making two main bad guys rapists. And while Kirito's powerful, it's in a setting where that kind of thing is believable. In the two SAO games I play, I'm often considered that "untouchably good" by other players. I've made discoveries and done things in Hollow Fragment that redefined the meta, and even in Hollow Realization I've gotten comments from people saying "You redefined how I play this game". So yeah, it's possible to be OP in a video game, but he's far from perfect. He was the closest to untouchably perfect in the Aincrad arc, but he still made mistakes and had help with stuff. Against Hethcliff at the end, he fucked up by activating Eclipse because Heathcliff designed all sword skills and knew their weaknesses, which caused him to technically lose, having Asuna bale him out and still resulting in a double kill after Heathcliff impaled Kirito first. He's just exceptionally skilled in the game, and he was also high level, which in my experience does make a lot of difference, even if you're Lv170 against a group of Lv140s. There's other anime that have had even more ridiculously OP characters with powers that come from asspulls or just are lazily written in (Looking at Ichigo, because if it exists in Bleach, Ichigo has it), and ones who don't make mistakes or ever get or caught off guard. In their own way, they're fun to watch too. For me, it's just fun to see a character who's competent and doesn't spend most of a fight being tossed around and then making a sudden comeback at the end when they realistically should've already died/lost but have infinite plot stamina (Naruto), to where it doesn't feel like much of a personal victory for the main character. tl;dr SAO gets a lot of undeserved shit, and is often accused of things that simply aren't true.