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The best installation of sao
I've never liked sword art online, it doesn't have anything to draw me in. The only thing I liked about the franchise is the memes it spawned. I went into this installment with an open mind. It was worth the watch, I'm really excited for the next arc. Kirito was facing his biggest challenge yet, he'…
Read full review on AniList →Is SAO what did you really expect?
SAO was one of my starting animes. I still to this day could vividly remember the days when I stayed up all night binging a whole season in one night. As I watched more and more anime, the way I consumed and viewed them changed. I grew more critical, and my opinions on shows I watched changed, but S…
Read full review on AniList →Alicization ultimately fails to capitalize on any of its initial setup leading to a boring, half baked conclusion.
I really wanted to like this. The first season holds a lot of nostalgia for me, as it was my very first anime. But with all the contrived plot devices, bland characters, tropey cop outs, and boring setpieces, the show fails to engage its audience in any meaningful way. Leaving a couple interesting i…
Read full review on AniList →Vindication for a much-maligned series arrives like a knight in shining armor.
In recent memory, there has been no series that people have quite loved to hate as _Sword Art Online_. And for good reason – although the premise is nothing short of stellar, and the settings and battles are vividly brought to life by a sizable animation budget and the Midas touch of Yuki Kajiura, m…
Read full review on AniList →SAO's best, finally grasping the potential that was lacking in its previous seasons while adding more.
In my opinion this has been the best of SAO. While being the weakest world from its predecessors, Alicization improves upon almost every other factor. It had much more world building and immersion than anything before it and is only continued further in the next season. The music as well heightens t…
Read full review on AniList →Ironically soulless, but still entertaining enough.
# Sword Art Online: Alicization 5/9/6/7/7
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Note: I'll use my MAL reviewing format until I tweak it for AL. [link Here ](https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=804354)is how my _"review"_ system works. __W.I.P__
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Funnly enough I really loved SAO and ALO. Hated GGO, loved ordinal scale.…
Read full review on AniList →The soft-reboot feeling of Alicization breathes new life into SAO, but it still struggles to be greater than before.
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The soft-reboot feel to Alicization breathes new life into the doldrums that SAO was stuck in ever since the death game ended in Aincrad. Even in GGO, where the whole plot was someone trying to recreate the tension of the first arc, it never came close. Alicization achieves this by using…
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