Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie 1 - Aria of a Starless Night

MitTheNoob Dec 8, 2022

8

Personally, I think this was a really well animated movie. It includes the normal main characters with the inclusion of Asuna's storyline before SAO. I was thinking this was going to be a full story about Asuna's life before SAO but there wasn't a full story but it does explain some of the things in the first season. I've watched the entirety of SAO and to tell you the truth, I don't think this is better than the first season. (SpOiLeR below) What you get is a very shortly told story of why Asuna ended up at the theatre meeting and how she met Kirito before that. However, the thing I hate most is that a LOT of Aria's story isn't even told very much at all so I was given no reason to really even care about the character. She was a classmate of Asuna and a good friend and that's all there was. The anime also suddenly cuts to them sitting on a roof as friends and no one knows why they're even friends. Or should I say, we aren't even told why she is her friend.  They entirely cut the whole concept of teleporting between 2 floors into walking up some damn stairs that lead you to the next floor. They also cut out Kirito's "being solo" thing which was like a selling point for the first season.  Overall, I feel like there was a lot more that should have been told that wasn't and it was cut very short of something that could've been great but I was let down by all the jumping around. I wouldn't be rating it 8 if it was bad though so I do think it was pretty good in reguards to all of that. However, I do still recommend watching or rewatching S1 if you wan't a more in depth, full story. Thats all. Now go enjoy some anime. 

OkamiX Sep 20, 2022

9.6

" IT MIGHT CONTAINS SPOILERS " Well well well , that's a good remake tbh no overpowered MC bullshit no harem just a pure isekai story with dark theme however don't get me wrong the first season of the franchise was dope until they gave us a typical anime ending that makes no sens , the story here focused on a newbie has no clue about a video game specifically MMORPG game found herself stuck in VR game , we saw character developing over the story progression besides kinda get betrayed by her bestie moreover most of the plots here was about asuna not kirito and that's kinda a good change , well the story followed the original light novel plots .  i can't give this movie 10/10 because we have to watch the sequel , why ? Isn't obvious the franchise went down with every season get released so I don't trust it anymore lol it could be a shitty anime later on .  Furthermore the soundtrack didn't change that much from the anime and that was kinda cool I guess otherwise I believe they added some new ones , in addition the animation was quiet good like all these light effects and fights .  At the end I've nothing else to say except hoping that the sequel won't ruin this remake , I really wana experience a good adaptation here .