I stopped watching at episode 13 even though I know that technically the first arc ends at episode 14, but with the direction things were going, I couldn’t put myself through another episode of this. Sword Art Online started off promising enough, taking place in a distant future where technology has reached the point where mainstream videogames not only appealed to a slightly broader audience than you’d expect, but also were able to literally insert yourself into the game. Mix…

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Equipped some nice earrings for your day off with a special someone, Asuna? I’m gonna go ahead and assume the type of item equipped is of the type that doesn’t really have all that big of an effect on the user when equipped a la bracelets and the like in the Persona games? It makes sense and all, but I always found those kinds of items useless… or at the least I didn’t swap them out as often as I…

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The saga continues! While it took me a while to warm up to this series I will say one of the better things I like that been used in practically every episode so far are little nods and references to past episodes that you wouldn’t think were so important… like a magical item you could use to teleport yourself out of any situation. Yeah, maybe I should have seen this one coming, but that was before I figured out this…

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It’s been another month-ish since the goings-on of last episode and this time around you can really tell. To be thrown into the middle of the rebels planning to destroy the Death Star latest boss where not only is Klein there but also Asuna and the rest of the fighters from three episodes ago is jarring in a good way. Kirito is smack in the middle of a group that ostracized him back in episode two and yet for the…

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After some CBS Survivor level drama, it looks like the focus of the episode this time around is Silica—a beast tamer that doesn’t prove to be one of the more mentally stable characters we’ve met so far. She doesn’t seem crazy in a “beg for fingernails on the subway” sense, but if you cried virtual tears over what essentially serves the purpose of those Teddie Bears in Earthbound then that has to count for some level of crazy. It’s been…

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Looks like Kirito’s been going solo for an unspecified amount of time and was able to gain the trust of one particular guild. Token girl aside, they seem pretty interesting… or at least as interesting as a guild can come off as within the first couple minutes before the opening sequence. Interesting to know that the entire group knew each other from their school’s computer club irl. Any mentioning of a computer club in my animoo makes me think of…

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