SAO is top tier. Until the fucking fairy shit.
Then they did a second season where they did the exact same fucking bullshit.
It must be on purpose. There is no way it played out like that unless the writers wanted to intentionally set up rug pulls.
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nagaram@piefed.social 1 day ago
I love to hate on SAO
But that’s true of nearly all anime’s. They’re filled with plot holes, shitty power scaling, and nonsensical magic/science lore.
Turns out, having a culture of single authors writing weekly released manga and then rapidly turning them into anime to ride hype trains leads to some honestly terrible stories.
But its fun! We know they’re stories being told by really small teams if a team at all and they’re trying their best to entertain us.
Also, it’s a good way to see what you do and don’t like in any story. I’ve found hating on anime’s has taught me what I appreciate it something and then I stick to stories that do that well.
SAO taught me I love fantasy aesthetic anime’s but also that lone wolf angst gets old to me.
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shani66@ani.social 3 hours ago
It’s peak hate watch material. It’s world building is ass, it’s character writing is worse, the animation is mid (yes, even for the time), and it somehow eclipsed vastly better shows of the time.
If the anime industry learned from Log Horizon or Grimgar instead we’d be in such a better place.