Review of Sword Art Online
If we make it back to the real world, I'll find you. And fall in love with you all over again. After reading all these negative reviews about Sword Art Online, i decided to make my own review about one of my favorite anime. This is one of those few animes where after finishing an episode, you want to watch the next one right away! But what makes this anime different from all the others? Well, gaming, love, relationships, the will to fight for one and the other? The way you can feel the sorrow and the happiness like they do. Alright time for some description of theplot. (WARNING) Might be spoil
Story: 7
This teenage kid with 10.000 others gets trapped in a gaming universe, its not possible to log out unless they clear the game. If it should happen that they die in the game, the same will happen in real life. There is 100 floors they have to clear before they can win the game.
Alright this sounds very promising, there is a story for what i think could be one of the best animes. However instead of a sort of long anime, they chose to make a big time skip, which i think is sad because they had the plot for what could be something way better.
The romance part: If you want to watch this anime, do NOT expect only action and fighting, because the romance is probably the biggest subject in this anime. Personally i like animes with romance, and this is not an exception. The relationship between the 2 main characters (Kirito and Asuna) is special and unique. Its a sort of anime where you just wish for their happiness, which sometimes just seems impossible for them to get.
The story gets 7 (good) because its a brilliant idea to an anime, but just sad that they didn't complete it like the way i wanted it to :).
Art: 8
The art is good, beautiful design, characters where you really can feel well, yeah their feelings :p. It looks nice, beautiful landscape and well, nothing really bad about it.
Sound: 8
Great music in the right timing, the voices fitted perfectly to the characters. well realistic sword sounds?. Not really much to say about the sound. To be honest is was not the thing i focused on the most :)
Characters: 8
The characters in SAO is typically gaming characters. A person running a shop, solo player, team player, guild master, game master, blacksmith etc. These individual characters had nice personalities but nothing outstanding and not bad either. However there was these few characters you really noticed. Asuna and Kirito of course, which both of them was the best characters, you see how they develop throw the series, they get stronger physically and emotionally.
The villains is also well done characters, that really provoke your feelings, and the way you can see how they are mentally degraded.
To make this short.
2 main characters:10
villains: 8
Rest of the casting and characters: 6
Enjoyment: 10
This is one of those few animes i really whole hearted enjoyed. It got some great points of views. I would even say it got some piece of life in it, it makes me think about the life afterwards, it proved how much a person in love really want to fight just to be with each other. A wonderful romance anime with twists, fighting, love and friendship.
Overall: 8
I enjoyed watching this anime, which i hope you will to. I can surely recommend this anime. Just remember you are not watching a shounen anime, you are watching a romance anime with action in it. Watch SAO and judge for yourself whether you liked it or not.
This is my first review so please feel free to write to me if i am doing something wrong, or anything i could do better.
And also feel free to ask any question needed :)