Review of Sword Art Online

Ah, Sword Art -- I finally finished the legendary anime series that is acclaimed by so many. And it turned out that this so loved anime is actually kind of terrible; I'm not going to lie -- it may have a lot to do with me going into it with all the great comments my friends gave it and everyone suggesting it, my expectations were too high. Basically the only relevant characters on the cover picture are Kirito, Egil, Klein, and Asuna. Those other girls? yeah they're all in like 1 episode each really and that's it. What bugged me is I went in with the thoughtthat it was just a cool game they've gotta get out of -- wow that's a cool story BUT THEY PUT A FRICKIN HAREM IN IT -- WHY??

It just baffled me -- the lack of equality between genders in the show -- like Asuna appears to be really strong and independent but Kirito ends up fighting all kinda of battles for her like she's some kind of prize meant to be won which annoyed the hell out of me -- if you're going to be an independent female then BE AN INDEPENDENT FEMALE.

The whole second arc is shit. They totally went off subject and I only finished it for the sake of finishing it. It switches goals from trying to get out of SAO to a lame goal of trying to save Asuna from a different game and so many unnecessary characters come into play.

I'm sorry, I can't take 16 year old love seriously. I guess I can understand wanting to save your friend and shit but he went over the top and they acted like their love was the end all love, like no you've still got so much time to discover yourself

My advice is to watch it since it is so central to the anime community BUT go in with low expectations and don't take it seriously at all -- take it with a grain of salt. That's what you get when you come out of watching something deep and meaningful like Evangelion and go into something like SAO with absolutely nothing underneath it.