Sword Art Online Tells It Like It Is…
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 10, 2012 13:06 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Image Gallery, Internet, Light Novels, MMORPG, Otaku, Sword Art Online
MMORPG anime Sword Art Online’s brutal honesty in depicting the gender and looks of the players behind their virtual avatars has turned more than a few heads, as has the realisation that it is really an anime about creepy otaku pretending to be cute girls online…
The actual anime is being reasonably well received in spite of the fact that almost all the cute girls are actually men (it remains to be seen whether it takes things a step further and has a few episodes devoted to camping rare mobs for hours only to have them stolen by Chinese gold farmers or worse still killing rats for days only to lose everything in a server rollback):
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It was such a great episode! Reminds me of Accel World. I love it.
well u see the creator of Accel World & SOA is the same person maybe that's the reason it remind u Accel :P
hope it ends up in a movie crossover
Unlikely as Accel World is set at least 30 years in the future, after they've shrunk the helmets into implants.
the novels have a crossover regardless
SAO is a hell of a lot better than Accel World.
Are you guys idiots... read the light novel... SAO was the prequel (NervGear Invented 2022)of Accel World (2046 Burst Link came into)
Basically Kirito was one of the beta tester #$%^& i wont spoil it.. but imma give a hint..
read Vol 9-10 of the light novel
Same World jut diffrent years
SAO currently is from 22-26 with Allicization
while AW is in the year 2046
and there is a Crossover ShortNovel with Kirito in the year 2026 testing the first Quantumdevice thats going to be the base of the Quantumdevices AW uses with a fight against SilverCrow(Lv4) that detected some timeanomaly in the burstworld.
Its an itneresting read and i hope it gets an OVA
there are also speculations that KuroyukiHime is Kiritos daughter deue to obvious similiarties later in the SAO series
It's good to find some1 who also read SAO...
but srsly Silver Crow who has more advanced function than Kirito Lost to a 1 on 1 fight
but yeah..
Swords > Fist XD
1st rule of the internet:
There are no women on the internet.
If there are, then it's just some sick guy imposing as a female.
Also, "crossing field" by LiSA is fucking awesome.
SAO's going to be the summer highlight for me, and fuck that Type-B otaku anime shit.
(I'm looking at you, Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru!.)
First rule of the internet is extremely false today, if it ever was true.
Nuff said.
Type-B?
The hell?
Anyways, SOA is seriously moe ;3
if that's all it takes to be moe then fine but don't expect anymore than what you seen
Umm.. moe? Which dude are you referring to? :O
I am a guy and I always play female chars in games, However, I do not try to hide I am a guy, people need to learn its a damn videogame and not match.com or some shit. Why do I play female toons you may as? its simple, they usually far better looking, most mmorpg male chars are either stupid looking huge beefsticks, or bishounen boys that look like girls anyway. That and i'd rather have a nice ass to stare at on a female toon then stare at a male chars ass for hours and hours in game.
Very close to my thoughts fellow anon. I have no idea why people assume that char gender must be equal to user's one and start to whine when they learn they are not.
because you break the virgins' hearts!
At least there are plenty of federal agents around IRC!
There are no women on rpgs
There is but one place to find women and that place is Facebook!!!
Yeah but most of them there are idiots in some way.
attention whores
I found women online in places other than Facebook. Unfortunately they were all trying to get me to become a paying member of some porn site or other.
mmorpgs you mean. And there are women in them, the male players generally outnumber them while the total female toons is generally more than the total male ones but there are still female gamers. It varies depending on the mmo. Ive played with several over the years, voice chat and all soo.
yeah...that's the point...
But in this MMO anime, there's a beauty claim by Kirito soon.
they're not creepy, they just do it to get free fake digital video game monies from desperate nerds
The only anime this season that caught my interest...
I hope it turns out well. >_>
your getting old shounen
Nono, new shonen, hes got a harem.
Is this the new .hack//something?
You can say that. it's similar in a way, but with more moe ;D
Yea, I was about to say, either Hack, Digimon, or something else with a "living in a digital world" premise
But this guy will never be as badass as Haseo. Probably a close 2nd though.
oh he beats Haseo by lengths
especially near the end of volume 1 and during the whole Phantom Bullet Arc he is just plain beast
Past beast. More like perpetual hax.
Well, he does have the nickname of Beater, a combination of the terms: Beta Tester and Cheater. :P
I think the sex scene this character gets in the novel makes him better than Haseo... in some ways.
Digital game world with music also done by Yuki Kajiura, that's not too far off.
not only that, but both series were about people who were trapped within the game. Tsubasa Chronicle also featured a virtual world in a somewhat lengthy story arc... huh... is it all a coincidence? If not, then I have an eventual adaption of RealPG to look forward to. ^^
not only that, but both series were about people who were trapped within the game. Tsubasa Chronicle also featured a virtual world in a somewhat lengthy story arc... huh... is it all a coincidence? Or can I expect to hear her in an eventual adaption of RealPG. ^^
.hack and the light novel for this anime is written on the same year
Really? It says 2009 in the author's notes. .hack started in 2002.
Yep. The SAO web novel was written in '02, but the first light novel was published back in '09. It's hard to say which came first.
Development for .hack began in early 2000.. so i'd say .hack came first
it was written as a webnovel in 2002, an published as an actual book in 2009 after the author won a competition and got a contract.
also in the novels, it stated thta you actually couldnt change your gender in SAO... ut i guss sicne the info only came up in the sex-scene and sint too important otherwise (its just a little exposition explainign why their avatars have penis and vagina) and they wotn directly include that in the anime anyways, they didnt pay too much heed to that.
No, this is probably good unlike hack
clearly some troll who wants to start shit and probably hasnt even watched it. Dot hack wasnt perfect but its still better than this garbage.
nothing beats 1/2 but I doubt they will make it into an anime considering it's a manhwa (korean) and it on comes out every couple of months.
the ideas .hack and sao cover are completely different. sao is more about the impact this kind of technology would have on society and individuals.
don't generalize stories so much. Stories with the same basic premise can go in wildly different directions.
Clearly someone who probably hasn't even read the novels. SAO is better than hack, and I'm not trying to say that hack is bad. (Except maybe "twilight".
If you think He is a troll do not feed him, and of course don't estart trolling yourself ¬¬U
.hack was for dumb fuck 13 year olds who didn't know better, everyone grew out of it, except for a few it seems. SAO takes on darker routes that actually deals with lives, not some shitty ass 13 year old's wet dream. Fuck you .hack fans, fuck you.
@Anon 16:49
I think you mean "Udeden". No need to tarnish the word "twilight" even further, especially since the .hack franchise was probably the best thing it had going for it.
I don't really see the point on comparing hack with SAO. Storywise they are not gonna be the same...it is like people go to the cinema to watch movies, people DON'T care if comedy, romance or action movies have been done to death, as long as it is ENTERTAINING without feeling it is a waste of time.
ROFL! "BWAHAHA! YOU ARE NOW STUCK IN MY DIGITAL WORLD THAT I CREATED BECAUSE YOU PUT AN OBVIOUSLY DANGEROUS DEVICE THAT WAS QUOTED AS SUCH BY THE CREATOR, ON! NOW YOU MUST ALL PLAY TEH VIDEO GAEM AND IF YOU DIE IN GAME YOU IN DIE REEL LOIFE!" Yeah real dark. At least dot hack had subtlety. Look who's calling who a 13 year old.
This show feels like .Hack// series with The Matrix living rules, which are :
Death in Virtual World == Death in Reality World; you can be a superhuman in this virtual world although you don't know about fighting; and you can't force disconnect or you're dead.
But actually, SAO is written in the same time of .Hack//Sign, so it is not influenced by .Hack//
The author said that this story is influenced by Ragnarok Online & Ultima Online.
Also, the story isn't focusing at the game's world. Later, the story will take place in the reality world with some scene about pseudo-incest romance, triangle love, greedy richman, AIDS issue, and so on.
I suggest you all to read the translated light novel in baka-tsuki before judge the story by reading some troller comments in sancom.
lol spoiler comment ^
But PK was an everyday kind of thing in .hack//SIGN. So death in VR --> respawn.
Except that if you get PKed in Aincrad, you die
That's for .hack//
In this story, players can't recklessly to be killed because it cost the life.
So in other words, the story wants to tug at our heartstrings with melodrama to hook us, like Deadman Wonderland?
lol, inspired by RO? That's funny, because when I saw the town up there, I was like "Prontera!? =D "
The character designs also remind me of RO.
Which is awesome. The only MMO I've ever enjoyed.
RO was awesome, untill everyone got emo, guilds became family, then guild jumpers kept stealing items, people kept getting backstabbed, it was like some mafia movie. Things have settled down since it became f2p, more people.
Guilds became family and in some servers you could marry and *adopt children*
That was lulzy awesome.
that would suck lol cause I lag out a lot, lmao, then a server outage d/cs everyone, killing hundreds in one go.
Btw, the novel have written that the protagonist went to other games. So, I'm 50-50 it's kinda like .hack//
Actually it does. Not saying there arent guys out there that prefer to stare at a female as a guy player, but also pretending to be a girl to "seduce" a guy, especially for priority on drops, mission/quest assistance, etc, not to mention just flat out asking for in game currency.
Dont forget THOSE players XD
Also the bit about farmers and rat campers... Yeah since the game is "play tough or die" and unless theres a way to "buy gold" while still connected to said game is possible since logging off to go to a gold farmers website to buy it is impossible, then there wont be any of that going on here. The 3 hour long rat killing session? Possible if respawn timesarent total crap and/or mobs respawn at all considering the mc's comment on "places being picked clean"
Old school FFXI player here, so i speak from that bubble in case you're wondering XD