Review of Sword Art Online

Alright, so we all know the story of SAO, or at least what all the plot summaries say. It's about a boy, Kirito, who enters Sword Art Online, a virtual reality game, but the creator has made it so no one can leave the game until someone completes it, and if you die in the game, you die in real life. DUH DUH DUH. This sounded SO FREAKING COOL. I was so ready for some bad-ass monster fighting scenes and some crazy magical sword skills and awesome friendships, etc, etc. What I got was a love story. This anime focused so heavily on the romance that Ifelt it let the good parts go in order to push along the romance. There were SO MANY directions this anime could have taken, and well I thoroughly enjoyed the direction they took, it wouldn't have been my first choice. I went into this anime expecting to like it for its bad-assery, but I came out liking it for its romantic charm. I was pissed or a long while at how they handled this but looking back on it now I can't discredit the fact that I did really have a good time watching it.

However, in the second portion of the anime things got super weird, am I right?? We had everything from elves, to sister love, to crazy rapist guys. It was a bit much. Nevertheless, if you are thinking of watching this anime I do recommend you give it a go!