Well Asunas stats were lowered at that point.
And the other chick is weak as **** .
You can like or dislike whatever you want, but don't complain about things that aren't wrong. My friend recently watched SAO and has been complaining ever since about "Asuna suddenly gets weaker for no reason, this show sucks because of it"
this show sucks because it had enormous potential to be extremely good, but it was wasted to provide fanservice to the horny preteens that buy any merch they can get their hands on
I wouldn't say the first season is that terrible. I mean it's pretty ******* insulting that it teases you with a little depth at the start then becomes disgustingly basic kiddy **** , but it gets the job done and it's a nice looker with a dank ass OST.
Besides, by making SAO entry level as **** it will hopefully allow for newbies to get into far better animes, well at least it makes me feel better using that perspective. I wont deny though that the over-saturation of the SAO clones these days because of its success is ******* painful. Even A-1 pictures, the dudes who made the anime for SAO, are making ripoffs. Hell, there's 1 coming out this season by them
The first half of S1 was an amazing buildup, I hoped that there's gonna be some story between the main guy and this strange hitman coffin guild
But as you said they proceeded to make it as basic as possible after that
But why? Time constraints? Money? Animation is hard as **** ?
I briefly looked at the light novels and ... they don't SEEM to be going any more in-depth than the anime.
This show SHOULD have been anime of the year, but it flopped so hard. I would have preferred Hellsing Ultimate/ Garden of Sinners scheduling format to really flesh out the characters and the world.
If I remember right, the light novels were originally written for a competition so there was a word limit on it. Then he decided to continue, he wrote stories backdating to fit into the gaps that had been left by the first novel. It still misses a lot of floors and stuff, but it's much more thorough. You can look up the chronological order of chapters if you want.
If you thought it had potential, I'd definitely suggest reading on past the Aincrad novels, they do get better as the writing gets chronological and overall more in depth. The Alicisation arc (I haven't finished it, don't know if it's finished or not, haven't been able to find any more translations) has a cool premise, but also has a very ****** explanation of why a few things worked the way they do in the system. But overall I liked the story and how it went.
And the anime followed the light novels pretty faithfully, but I think this is one of the few times it would have been better for them to not. They should have broken chapter order and shown it in the chronological order. Might have even gotten an extra season then.
The character is weak on several other counts, more often than not boiling down to reliance on the male lead character - from needing him to fight on her behalf so that her cult would let her do her own thing for a little while, to saving her ass when she rashly runs into a dungeon she knows nothing about and gets her arae handed to her instantly (hell, even with the help of a lesser male character, she struggles to hold off a beast for 10 seconds before the male lead solo's the ******* thing).
Strong characters can be raped, but then that would presumably take a strong character to rape them; in both cases the assailant was a pussy who cried for mommy when confronted. I think BTOOOOM! is closer to having a strong female character faced woth the possibility of rape.
That last one is happening in real life if a maniac came at you with a syringe that would stop your heart and kill you, would you be ******** your pants? of course you would be.