Sword Art Online is Harem Now? (anime) Opinions (:?

The Premise Many fanboys consider SAO to be original. As what you just mentioned, it is a rip-off of Hack Sign. But the main problem with the anime was that it lost it's original focus.

The orginal focus of the anime was trying to be an anime about clearing the game, which then turned into an anime around unnecessary side stories, CSI, fishing, and much more unnecessary side stories. Then once the ALO arc occured, it took a nosedive into a garbage dump. In SAO, when you died in the game, you died for real.

The story in SAO was about clearing the game. In ALO, the story was about Kirito becoming a fairy and trying to save his waifu from a rapist. In ALO, you cannot die, so there was no sense of suspense.

Plus the show lacked urgency. At one moment, Kirito will be trying to find Asuna, only for him to derp around with some useless alliane or with his Imouto. Any conflict that does happen is only solved by a deus ex machina.

Episode 24 had literally, the biggest deus ex machina, out of any anime I have ever seen, and that is not a good thing. Plus, ALO devolved further into weird and disturbing Otaku fetishes like incest and tentacle rape. The romance One of the key aspects of SAO was the romance between Kirito and Asuna.

The romance can be summarised by paraphrasing a quote from the reviewer named Draconismarch about the romance. "Let me put this into perspective for all you virgins out there who never talked to a girl. Here is an analogy of their relationship.

Let's say I met this girl in Philosophy class. We talk a little bit here and there. Nothing major.

Sometimes she gets mad at me and punches me in the face for no reason. When that semester ends, we go about a full year without seeing each other until we see each other in the next chemistry class. During a lab, one of the beakers overheats and she gets a shard of glass stuck in her hand.

I know first aid and am capable of properly healing her. Immediately after that, I tell her to come into bed with me, and then after we ****, in the rational state of mind, I ask her to marry me. Which she says yes.

After ALO, the romance turned into a love revolving around a 16 year old gamer (Kirito), a comatose girl (Asuna), and his cousin (Suguha). The characters SAO focuses on the main character named Kirito. In literature, there is a term that refers to perfect characters as gary stus.

Kirito is the epitome of a gary stu. He's perfect, he gets all the girls, he gets the best weapons, he gets the only special skills, he gets special gear that nobody else gets, he is a hacker, he breaks the game's rules, and everything he does is right. He is only popular among the fans because he is easy for the fanbase to insert themselves into Kirito's shoes.

Asuna, the main heroine, starts off as a mysterious and independent character, who latered turned into a generic tsundere who cannot do anything without her boyfriend. In fact, all the female character cannot do anything without their boyfriend Kirito. The only other significant male leads, that are not villains, are only either wimps, or are only given about one or two episodes of screen time.

The reason for that is becuase if they recieve any more screen time, then that will taint Kirito's awesomeness. Then there are the villains in the story. The villain in the SAO is Kayaba Akihiko, who traps 10,000 players for over two years inside Sword Art Online.

At the end of episode 14, Kirito asks Kayaba why he trapped all these people, killed over thousands of players. His response was that he did not know. If you are going to write a villain, you better give him a good reason why he would do all the things he has done.

So Kayaba is a poorly written villain, but he has the complexity of Johan Liebert compared to ALO's villain, Sugou. Sugou is the kind of person that you find in a hentai, a rapist who is evil for no reason, only to make Kirito look like a better person. A middle aged man who wants to rape an underaged girl and screams like a 15 year-old girl.

The character consistency is also bad. At one moment, Kirito will go Guts from Berserk and brutally kill whatever he sees and then the next moment, he will act like a friend, for no apparent reason. The Fanbase The fanbase for Sword Art Online is about as hostile and at times, even more hostile than the Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece fans.

Trying to talk sense into them on why the anime is not good, even after giving legitimate reasons to support your opinion, will result in them cursing you out and denying everything you just said. At least the HST can have some substance to back up their claims, but with the SAO fanboys, they don't have much to back themselves up in a debate.

It was an okay anime I wish they didn't go so fast with the SAO arc I think they should have taken their time in 10 episodes 2 years went by and I wish there would have been more action scenes.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.