@sarimkhann386
most people missed it but the original title of this video was "why was anime's worst show was so popular?" I can feel how tired pey is
@TheJDUBS2
the sao plot was so haphazard because it was originally written for a web writing competition. the author basically wrote the first two episodes a couple world building chapters and the ending. then when it gained some little bit of popularity online he went back and started trying to fill in other pieces of the journey. thats why it feels so disconnected and doesnt really tie together very well and some things are dropped or not looked at further
@some-online-dude
You know rating systems are completely broken when 7.2 is considered bad
@Beatsify
SAO helped get me into anime back in the day, so I can’t help but love it
@jerymaster
Potential. That's what that show had so much off and got thrown in the gutter. Increadible ideas and world that, well exploited, could have made a masterpiece. But for all the writers great ideas, his skill at creating characters and creating a story with them was abysmal. More so than the lack of logic in its world, the lack of logical and humane character in his story is what broke the whole story. Villains with no real motivation, allies developped as much as side quest characters from MMOs, main character bland with a fluctuing logic that constantly goes from one side to the other, its a mess of character writing that, sadly, never got better as the series goes on. So how could he exploit the world he made, when its near impossible to want to follow his characters into it, to explore it with them.
@sonoaltocomelevi1824
Oh yeah SAO, that anime of 15 episodes where they're trapped in a video game and have to reach level 100 to complete it and get out I remember it. It finished with Kirito killing the creator on level 75 than going out of the game and meet Asuna in real life. What? Elf saga? Second, Third season? Movies? I genuinely don't know what are you talking about
@inducteddragoon
I was never into anime growing up. Never heard anyone talk about it. But i remember back when i was in highschool. I was staying at a girls house and was just scrolling through Netflix. I had no idea what anime was. I had watched DBZ before but in my head that was just a cartoon. But then i landed on SAO. I read the description and was like "This sounds badass" i started it up and was immediately hooked. Been watching anime ever since. I'll always love the show for getting me into anime. Just wish it was better.
@NoraNoita
You managed to really sum it up nicely there. My favorite parts of SAO were the moments it was using video game mechanics, I especially remember that moment Kirito confronted some Bandits on a bridge and them not being able to hurt him because he was so much higher in level and was outhealing the damage done, badass moment, made perfect logical sense. But it just never went back to it really, there's are so many awesome concepts you can do in a world setup in a video game, because you can create, as you can in making your own game, any values and status effects, mechanics and interactions, that can make for some very cool scenarios, what if the characters could respect their stats, and then they get together theorycraft how to skill to beat a certain floor, "oh for this floor, the scouting team said there's a constant room wide debuff that drains your health at a steady rate, let's counter this with some heal over time" stuff like this would be awesome. But it went a rather generic route instead, discarding cool moments, mechanics and established interactions, and gave the poster boy some cheat weapon skills. I didn't like SAO and SAO 2 after watching them, feeling disappointed, but then I found Log Horizon and was amazed that an anime managed to actually deliver on using game elements properly.
@isaac_marcus
2:40 ish THIS FRICKING GHOST. I'm convinced that at this point of the story, there was a planned reveal that no one was actually dying; that it was a social experiment to see what people did if they THOUGHT people were dying. Those who died were able to log out, and communicate with the creator. That lady was so miffed about getting murdered by her own husband she asked to linger as a ghost and he acquiesced
@thejoriath
The creator of SAO has tried repeating for YEARS to tell everyone that SAO is NOT an isekai but a real-world story but nobody hears him apparently
@propelledgaming9441
A lot of people dont realize season 1 of sao was stitched together from several short stories, it was originally written for a writing contest and people liked it so much they demanded he write more stories about it. Eventually it got so popular he had to make a proper storyline and kind of just stuffed everything in so they could make an anime. Sao Progressive is everything the original series should have been.
@LordBucea
To be honest, I can't really just hate it. I just see it as it is. it's fun but not very well written and you also can't deny that the action and animation was really nice. The author (Reki Kawahara) was just learning to write at the time of writing SAO. in fact, it's his first actual "published" work. Probably that's why people loved Alicization so much. He had some time to figure things out. The same applies to the Progressive movies.
@zFrizzi
As someone who rewatched sao recently, I can say that it holds up surprisingly well, i genuinely remember it being much worse but comparing it to the sea of power fantasy isekai that's out there, sao it is definitely way above average. The first arc was decently entertaining, the fairy one was complete garbage, the gun one was also pretty entertaining to watch, and the fourth one was probably my favorite because since kirito isn't the focus it doesn't feel so much as a power fantasy. Then there's Alicization which went surprisingly hard, and the new movies they're putting out that I feel will solve most of the problems of the anime.
@Calembunial
OK so what I think a lot of people are forgetting, ESPECIALLY the Sword Art Online haters, is that this anime came out in 2012. I'm guessing a lot of anime watchers these days aren't aware of this, but anime back then was... different. It's not like what you see today. There were certain tropes that just wouldn't be explored by the vast majority of anime. One of these tropes, and in my opinion THE MOST INFURIATING ONE, was that couples in anime were RARELY allowed to get together before the end of the series. This was incredibly frustrating. And I get it - it's hard to keep a romance story going once the two main characters accept their love for one another. It takes a creativity that I imagine not many authors possess. But for all its flaws, for all the things people complain about in SAO, there is one thing they just simply can't deny. And that is that IT GAVE THE FANS WHAT THEY WANTED! Kirito and Asuna kissing by episode 10 was literally one of the most GROUNDBREAKING SCENES IN ANIME HISTORY at the time! It absolutely DESTROYED the meta, going against 99% of what mainstream anime was used to. Kirito being effortlessly winning everything? Every female character (including his cousin) being into him? Weird plot devices just randomly showing up to progress the story? UNEXPLAINED OCCURENCES?! It didn't matter - people just wanted to see Kirito and Asuna reunite in real life outside of the game! So when people complain about SAO today, especially after watching all of the things that came after, already being used to the same old anime tropes... I can't help but feel a sense of unfairness. It's like people who dunk on Skyrim, even though at the time of its release, it was arguably the greatest accomplishment in gaming. There was NOTHING else like it in a lot of ways! It completely revolutionized the concept of open world, and everything else that came out after it HAD to live up to most of its standards. Try playing Skyrim nowadays though, after playing things like The Witcher 3, GTA 5, the new God of War games, etc. Suddenly, Skyrim isn't feeling as special. Now, I'm not trying to say SAO was to anime what Skyrim was to gaming. But it's still important to contextualize SAO in comparison to the other anime at the time. And back then, for people who weren't used to watching anime (or for people who had seen way too many romance anime that ended without so much as a confession), SAO was the best thing they had ever seen. Basically, what I'm trying to say is, SAO's flaws only become apparent after you've watched a lot of anime - especially the more modern ones. And I think THAT is worth taking into account before trying to say it's the "worst anime show". Calling SAO bad is like taking a look at Skyrim's combat, and using that to say it's a trash game that's not worth playing.
@cryouuu
babe wake up another pey talks anime video dropped
@bloogonis
The ghost ep was a foreshadowing of upload/AI. Where the world seed used her traumatic death and a partial copy of her mind to make an npc so in effect a real ghost. Same thing for Kirito not dieing at the end it already showed you have a grace period before you actually die from the revival charm and Kirito had already been poking holes in the systems limits since he unlocked dual wielding. A lot of complaints ive seen are people forgetting that SAO is scifi horror and not fantasy isekai. They aren't in another world, with bodies beholden to physical laws,they are comatose in a hospital hooked up to a death game simulation.
@bob778_6
Some of the Arcs were pretty amazing like "Mothers Rosario", tears were definitely shed at the end of that Arc. Overall the Anime had problems with the story not being consistently good so it was like a YoYo in terms of quality where it would seem amazing & then just drop off a cliff out of nowhere leading to a lot of whiplash, I know I tuned out after S2.
@Infectedjohn
SAO was a decent show, people made it be completly overblown from both sides, both the ones claiming it was the best thing ever and the ones claiming it was the "worst" were competing to be the more ridiculous. The writting was MUCH better than the average fantasy back then (at least from the japanese side) and the novel was definetly pretty good. Making overblown claims was really the biggest fault of the community.
@twelfthknight
You know the apologue of the slowly boiling frog? How a frog won't flee if you slowly heat the water its in. That's SAO. It gradually moves into being a pure power fantasy, until we reach season 2 and it just throws off the illusion of being anything else. The realization that you've been tricked, backstabbed and quite possibly bamboozled into thinking there was more going on under the hood than just awesome guy does awesome things while everyone looks upon him with yearning affection or childish ressentiment-- that stings, as it turns out.
@Crane0001