09.24
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 the one from Haruhi. Oh, Day of the Sagittarius…
Good to know they addressed the one thing I was gonna get ready to gripe about had it not been brought up. Just who exactly is in charge of publishing the paper? Did the people that gave up on fighting and stayed in the villages decide to pick it up to at least be somewhat useful? Does Akihiko just send everyone status updates on what everyone else is doing? (sidenote: Picked up where I left off in Persona 3 Portable. Akihiko remains the one character whose dialogues I actually listen to all the way through if I’m tired of listening to Junpei/Vic McDerpaderp).
I wonder if the show’ll take a page out of other RPGs and give the girl characters super skanky armor that somehow provides the most in terms of defense. Considering the length of Sachi’s skirt, I’d say it’s decent for someone below level 30, but any level higher and she might have to start skimming through catalogs for something new to equip…
Oh the whuu? Coulda sworn the twist at the end of the first episode was that Klein was one of the first to die in the world. Woulda really set quite the unforgiving tone throughout the rest of the series. I mean, I guess it’s nice to see a familiar face, but still… eh, I guess it’s what I get for not paying as much attention as I should be while watching.
A “track” option? Because girl gamers didn’t need any more reason to feel less inclined to play this game. Maybe it’s something only higher levels could do since her guild didn’t really seem to bother to find her themselves. Kirito and his level 48-ness, I tells ya. He probably gets unlimited storage in his dropbox.com account with stats like his.
Friggin Kirito, maxing out his social link. Actually, now that I brought it up, I wonder how “intimate interactions” would transfer to the real world. There was already some kind of technical mumbo jumbo about how your mind is fooled into thinking it ate in the real world by eating in SAO, but what about… blah, I’ll stop there. It’s definitely not the type of animoo to even warrant that amount of thinking towards.
I could understand bringing in Klein for all of two seconds into the episode, but to introduce the guild this episode only to kill them off halfway through? And then to quickly jump to Christmas Eve? Cold-blooded of you, SAO.
The whole bit with Kirito’s search for the rare item seemed incredibly rushed to me. Half the episode was used to try and build up the guild’s character as a whole which was alright, but nothing special making me not really care when things bleed into the second half of the episode. While I’m not tired of Kirito’s character, I will say I’d care for him more if the episode took the time to linger on some of the more important things he’s gone through in this world. Maybe not a Casshern Sins level of linger, but a significant amount more than what I’m seeing so far.
I will say the last couple minutes of the episode was the perfect mix of sad and awkward (Sachi’s message sounded more like something a creepy ex would leave in your voicemail the more I think about it) that would make even Casshern proud. Or whatever you’d call the sentient robot equivalent of “proud.”