Sword Art Online: Alicization - Reviews

Sword Art Online Alicization

Compared to many other anime, this one is one of the most difficult to rate. I'm always sure that the author has absolutely no idea what he wants to do and just chews through all the ideas without context, as long as something comes out of it. And the Alicization season is no exception.

However, I think this arc (including Underworld) is the best of all Sword Art Online, even though it has practically nothing to do with the original anime and is more a mixture of Soma (The Game) and Matrix. However, the author has finally managed to bring interesting ideas to the forefront and ruin them a little less. Especially the characters he has fleshed out a lot more here.
I will regret this sentence, but if this arc had been an independent anime that had NOTHING to do with Sword Art Online. Then it definitely would have become much more popular. Unfortunately, SAO has already ruined its image and you can practically only watch this series with skepticism without expecting any great results.

So what happens in this season? If you have played the horror game Soma, you will be able to interpret yourself a bit more into this theme. Since the "human consciousness" and the true form of a "human being" comes here quite in the crossfire. Divine Kirito-kun ends up in a virtual world, which is connected to his subconscious, because of an extremely stupid plot. In this world, however, there are no NPCs but evolved versions of human brains that had been imprinted over generations. AI is most similar to humans, as these were copied along with the brain function and could reproduce themselves in a virtual world.
This irritated me at the beginning, as Sword Art Online suddenly throws out a new level of science fiction technology without having introduced it before, but the writing here has never been good.

Kirito's adventure begins in this world where he makes new friends, forms relationships, and tries to free himself. Having all the characters be practically lifelike copies of people, unaware that there is a true reality outside of them, gives them much more personality. Especially the new protagonist Eugeo who is the best character in the series. He had more buildup and personality than all of them combined so far.

So the story practically plays out like a relatively decent Isekai fantasy title, in which the protagonist slowly develops and wants to become a knight or something else. Unfortunately, it only lasts until about episode 11, from then on everything escalates pretty quickly and turns into a somewhat cliché shounen.
I liked the aspects of the world, the abilities you could develop and especially the power system was very plausible. Those who have a stronger will simply become stronger. For example, opponents with a massive ego or god complex were incomparably powerful. Others who saw themselves as mediocre would never be able to break through their limitations. Thus, this was the first season in which Kirito's power became significant.

Unfortunately, as I said, this season very quickly turned into a boss rush shounen, where suddenly one boss after another is introduced until you get to the final boss. And the scene leading up to it was very questionable. The author panicked trying to make it as brutal, obscene, and shocking as possible so that you get the alternation between "nice school life" and "cruel reality" shoved in your face. I'm referring to the scene with the 2 nobles and the 2 girls, which was Satisfying at the end, but still unnecessarily overdone.

[Animations 9]

The animations this season were top-notch most of the time. Rich in detail, dynamic, and immensely fluid delivery of fights and action. Unfortunately, there were some scenes where it wavered a bit more, this is understandable with 24 episodes.

The backgrounds were mostly fine, except you could see the landscape and sky, in these scenes, you would have loved to take a screenshot, as this has been a pure work of art.

[Characters 5]

Sword Art Online is often accused of having bad characters and honestly, I disagree, they are simply average but not a disappointment. Now aside from Kirito, in this season he became an extra very quickly and honestly he was no longer a protagonist. Eugeo took over the entire role and I wonder what Kirito was doing half the season anyway. He only had glamorous appearances in fights; otherwise, he wasn't even present. At the same time, the new protagonist had a complete guide and build-up from A to Z.

The antagonist this season was reasonably okay, cliché but the possessed atmosphere and at least personality.

[Conclusion 5]

I enjoyed this season more than I expected to when I started. Though is not an anime I would ever watch again, but slightly better than the average you usually see. Sword Art Online has a massive amount of flaws, so, understandably, it has such a bad reputation. However, I would never go far enough to say that it should not be watched. It's simply average, that's all there is to it.

The only problem is that it's so long and that its average quality will discourage viewers in the long run.

[Enjoyment 6]

Honestly I was expecting better. The story is way too similar to SAO2 although there were some new additions to the story. Overall it's just repetitive.

Sword Art Online has the worst fucking villains, it's infuriating. Alicization like season 2 feels tact on with some shitass tape. But It is an improvement over the first two seasons. This time they aren't forcing a romance subplot down our throats when there's already someone he loves. And thank god it's one continuous story and not one good "arc" surrounded by god-awful filler. Everything else is either average or above average. 

I really do like SAO, but this season was'nt at all as enteresting as the other seasons.

The story was weak, but animation and sound where fine.

I also did'nt like that we did'nt see more to Asuna and the other old characters.

Sword Art Online vuelve por todo lo alto dando un enfoque fresco a su trama.

Como hicieron con la pelicula Ordinal Scale (AR) esta vez nos encontramos con una nueva tecnologia de inmersión siendo esta la más hardcore de toda la saga, permitiendonos conocer un mundo unico de gran personalidad y a nuevos personajes con un buen nivel de detalle que haran las delicias de esta nueva temporada. La animación es bastante notable con un sonido de 10 al que nos tiene acostumbrada esta saga.

La historia podria dividirse en dos, su transfondo que vendria siendo el mundo real, y el mundo digital que es el que iremos viendo la gran mayoria de tiempo. Ambas juegan por separado, cada una se mueve a un tiempo diferente y ocurren sucesos diferentes hasta que ambas se unen.  Esto le da mucho juego a la serie creando una linea de complejidad curisosa e interesante. 

Hubieron personajes que a mi me enamoraron, por ejemplo Alice es una maravilla (quizas sea ella la que tiene que estar con Kirito <3). Todos los sucesos que ocurren en Underworld son puro SAO, sobre todo la recta final, dejandos perlitas de la primera temporada.

En fin, que me alargo mucho...una obra rendonda que sin duda alguna esta a la altura de esa primera temporada que colocó a SAO en el lugar en el que se encuentra.