10.03
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 did with other equippable things. Yes, if you didn’t find out already, I’m using my SAO reviews as my opportunity to gripe about the handful of RPGs I’ve played.
I always wondered what it would be like if shopkeepers in games had a bit more personality outside of “lemme sell you this” and “lemme rip you off when I buy your stuff for half the price you got it for.” Though talk of legendary dragons guarding rare items seems a bit too cliché for my liking.
Midway through the episode and Lisbeth is coming off as essentially a one-episode version of Winry minus the backstory. Though I guess you could say she makes up for that by having the show’s Ed continue to speak down to her even though she clearly has some experience on her, which is a bit annoying. She’s been trapped in the game the same amount of time as you have and was able to not only make it to the higher level floors, but also make a nice li’l sword shop, too. Give her some credit, Kirito.
With the tone of the last couple episodes, I was expecting some kind of twist with the dragon actually being some dude hoarding the crystals for himself, but instead we get a Blue Eyes White dragon. Okay.
…followed by another scene of Kirito insisting that he is on par with any main character in a Persona game. I wouldn’t mind, but 1) we already had a similar scene to this before and 2) there’s been enough tension built between him and Asuna to warrant not putting the show in the direction of a harem. And a love triangle just doesn’t feel right for this show. Kirito doesn’t need this many ladies around him and honestly, 7 episodes in, I was hoping there’d be a larger focus on the guilds teaming up to charge through the latter floors of the game. How far behind episode-wise am I? *checks Wikipedia* Ugh, if it’s aiming for 26 episodes, I hope they make more in the vein of 5 and 6 soon.