Review of Sword Art Online

Do know that even if I'm writing a review just now, I watched this years ago and rewatched it many times already. I will be biased to a certain point because this is one of my favorite anime. I will remain rational and will just try to explain the things most people hate about the show. First I noticed that people hate the anime BECAUSE of Kirito(Main protagonist) I don't understand why but they hate how OP he became. Just to inform, Kirito was my favorite character for a long time before. That is because I can relate specifically as a gamer. Now, that's notreally the point. The reason why Kirito receives hate and love at the same time is because the kind of people that watched the anime is divided. 1 - The type of otaku that see themselves in a character and they probably are gamers too, because they liked kirito so much it translated to what they are playing and they became cosplayers cosplaying kirito. 50% of the Kirito fans are that way. They are the type of audience that look at the characters more, rather than the story. 2 type of the audience that watched SAO are the ones that probably don't have passion for MMORPG games in the same genre as SAO. And because of that they pay attention to the story more, therefore they notice the flaws about Kirito being too OP. Now I'll explain why I think Kirito being OP was reasonable and didn't kill the anime. First reason Kirito's OP-ness developed in SAO. Now, we know that physical traits, knowledge and habits are translated to the game. Why did Kirito becamo OP? he have dual wielding special skill, a skill given to the player with the fastest reaction speed. Now, people may say that Kirito got that because he is the protagonist. Yes that's true, but it wasn't reasonable and was not out of the blue. You see as the anime goes on it was revealed that Kirito once practiced Kendo as a child and from how Suguha(his sister) acts Kirito wasn't terrible at it. It was said that he quit kendo to stay away from suguha that could mean he still was interested(That's why he like swords). Now that can backup why he have a fast reaction speed, but that alone can be lacking so the other thing people forget is He is a gamer. Naturally gamers have skills of their own, a fast reaction speed can be one of that. Now those two reasons covers why his reaction is fast physically and mentally. Other reason for his OP-ness is because he is a Beta player, that isn't unreasonable at all because he is a gamer, being able to get to the Beta is already a proof of that(That means he is updated in gaming news) Being a gamer ofcourse he have the instincts of a gamer(He knows what to do ingame unlike the thousand of people that died because of stupidity). With those I believe I already atleast made it more reasonable for you(reader) to understand why he is OP ingame(All game he plays). Last reason why Kirito is reasonably OP is because its a survival game. If the character is weak he won't survive and it will be boring. Being OP in a MMORPG is not impossible nor rare.

Discussing the other thing that isn't likeable about Kirito is his personallity I don't really know how I can stand that but, I just wanna say that Kirito isn't only a Solo player in game. But if you noticed Kirito doesn't have a single friend in real life other than the people in SAO and Suguha. Now enough fan boy-ing for me. I got over it already anyway since he isn't my favorite character now neither my favorite SAO character(My favorite now is Asuna)

Summary
Now ill just write a few reasons to why SAO is good AS AN ANIME
- It have good designs and Art style
-A lot of cute female characters
-Season 1 arc 1 is good survival anime, arc 2 is basically the heart warming type closure for arc 1
-Season 2 arc 1 is a good flashback of Arc 1 of Season 1. Arc 2 of season 2 is more about moving on and giving new element to other characters.
-SAO reached mainstream flatform already thats why it will receive a lot of criticism and it is one of the main known Game based anime so it will be compared a lot. But if you look at sao as a separate anime, you will understand how its different and is not reliant to that Gaming mmorpg plot it have.