Sword Art Online is a show I have taken an interest due to it's reputation in the community of anime. It's a hot topic for some reason so I decided to invest myself in this show to form a valid opinion on this show with thorough points. What I found is a show that is comparable to someone wearing a mask. The mask looks beautiful, sexy, and attracts your attention. But when you take the mask off, you get a hideous abomination of bullshit and fuckery that is inhuman. We are going to look at every point of this comparision
The Mask
The mask is an interesting idea with beautiful animation. The action is immersive with clean graphics. It is impressive and amazing in every right. The background scenery makes it feel hyper realistic with a set of fantasy, and depicts a VR world to the same degree we imagine it in 2020. The character designs are great, and the design is eye pleasing. The concept of the show itself is an ear catcher for sure. Being forced into an MMORPG world similar to LoL is a concept worth exploring and modern for it's time. It looks to be an experience you don't want to miss. The music and OST's are done amazingly. The OP's are iconic, and the music fits the scenes perfectly, and it's so orgasmic, especially to a music fanatic like myself. These OST's are god tier. When Yuki does your OST's, you're in for a masterpiece of music
Ignore the scene but the FUCKING PIANO HOLY SHITTTTT:
These tracks combined with the beautiful fighting and animation, and not to mention, the voice actors are amazing. There are great performances everywhere, but why is this show hated so much despite these qualities. Let's take off the mask...
Behind the Mask
Behind the mask you have a sexist, garbage, and rotting hell of plot holes, dungeons, and bad character development. I don't know where to start after S1, but let's start
Kirito is too overpowered to the point of it being LOL. There's scene where he gets sliced and diced but still doesn't die because of the plot armor he has. He has powers that just make no sense and it isn't explained besides the fact that he's a bit of a hacker. Wow. Just fucking stupid in general. He seems to have everything made for him and it causes his ability to lack development, which causes the show to feel terrible because of this development
The surrounding characters revolve around Kirito. They are built around Kirito to the point that it is memeable. It makes their characters extremely bland and makes them forgettable.
The surrounding characters revolve around Kirito. They are built around Kirito to the point that it is memeable. It makes their characters extremely bland and makes them forgettable.
I know I'll get some backlash, but Asuna just seems tsundere stereotype and their whole relationship seems like it was inevitable. It's a typical development which isn't bad...but it doesn't make any lasting impressions like Hinata or ZeroTwo.
The villain's are terrible terrible. Most of the villain's are straight pedos with twisted intentions that most animes don't touch. The double entrendres, the ugliness, the uncomfortable scenes it forces it viewers into. The villains become so deluded, delusion, and forgettable, that it takes away from the memorability of the show.
The develop of how Asuna's sister lived is shit as well. It destroys the concept of the show.
I could go and on and on with the misogynic views, sexism, and shit plot, but I think I covered it all
