Review of Sword Art Online

Ahhh SAO. You damn bastard who single handedly pushed the anime industry towards creative suicide. The grandfather of all isekais. The one show i simply cannot find a single aspect worth of praise. Stop lying, this show isnt average nor had a good start and you aren't special for going being a hipster about it. Think about this: virgin otaku neet who looks like a model and knows everything there is to know about the world and is the smartest person ever coming up with revolutionary techniques to enrich himself in goods, fame or women. A lot of women. Yes this damn description can be applied to 90% of theisekais out there and even then the remaining 10% still find a way to suck ass somehow.

Why after millions of years of evolution our species reached the point of praising anything about this trash.

The first half and finale of the story not only are riddled with plotholes and asspulls but never make any sense since the story is simply an excuse to self insert in a power fantasy.
The only reason for the female characters to exist is for either fawning over the underage manchild of the protagonist or to be a damsel in distress.

I'mma be a hipster right now and say it. The second half of this anime was better than the first.
The story had a real villain with real motivations even if they were shit.
The story had a path to take even if it was extremely generic and was already done to death already, essentially the quest of the hero for revenge and to save his woman.
Yeah it was generic but it still was better than Kirito walking around with his massive dong because he's Kirito that's why. Because there was no other beta tester nor someone good at playing videogames, because he is the only gamer on the entire world.

Because people who come up with the mathematical damage formulas, drop rates and figure out the AI behaviours do not exist. Because people who make wikias do not exist.
Because Kirito as the entire gamer energy of the world inside of him.
The videogame world has no meaning nor a reason to exist if we never aknowledge it.
The only videogame references we get are some bs about some losers using points into non combat related skills because they are stupid. The entire point of the show is supposedly to win, survive and get out but nooo, they gotta upgrade their fishing skill, they gotta make those 50 fishing quests to get the golden fishing rod broooh.

Whenever Kirito encounters someone they inmediately go into a life or death situation and it's not because the game world is unforgiving and cruel and cheats you, it simply leaves you wondering how these pathetic bastards haven't died due to suffocation because they are incapables of taking a step for themselves without critically cripping themselves.

Also there is a shit ton of fanservice because Kirito is the ultimate embodiment of manlyness.
He is so manly that he cries like a little bitch after being cucked and it takes the clearly sexual advances of his cousing onto him to man up. I'm not joking this is essentially without spoilers the shit that happens. His entire arc of character development is banging a family member and becoming better after it, somehow.

Also while i don't think it's respectable to seriously add incestual elements to your story i can tolerate it, but what i won't tolerate is that every time Kirito meets a female wether its an underage child, a teen or an older woman they all fall for him and start following his every move. Eventually forming a harem konga march. And yes his fucking cousin joins that party.
And guess what. 300 years later this shit won't change. Because Reki (creator) has no clue how to write and to this day that i'm making this review not a single thing has changed.
A billion movies later, a trillion beach ovas later and 400 new seasons of SAO and the creator still has no clue how to make an engagin believable decently written story.
Don't even get me started on the studio and directors of this shit, yes they suck ass and they tremendously water down the product to show the entertaining bits of it denying any possible world building whatsoever.
Yes the original work has no redeemable qualities whatsoever but at some points it feels like it tries and those attempts at not sucking are always skipped in the anime adaptations.

The start is garbage. While some people are worried about the state of their lives for like 2 nanoseconds everything runs smoothly afterwards, Kirito even fucking walks away like he was walking home after school with all the chill in the world.
Not a single of the everlasting elements that the story has was present on the start and that's why people think the "start was good". No it wasnt, the ride wasnt even on.
It's like saying that the start of a rollercoaster ride wasnt that bad at the start when the start was the employee trying to figure out how to turn on the damn thing.

"Oh but it has won like 4 billion awards in Japan and the creator is more rich than Steve Jobs your opinion is wrong". Well guess what. Japanese folks have a complete garbage anime taste.
Every single one of them is like an underage weeb of your country thinking DBZ and Naruto are the best. They love tropes and cliches and that's why so many animes feel exactly the same to others. That's why character archtypes exist in the first place and that's why subversion of the archtype is almost never seen, because they don't care about originality or innovation. So if you think like them that SAO is just an anime that receives way too much hate and that's really good then congratulations at least when it comes to taste you are pretty damn japanese.

The way Kirito powers up is never elaborated on so he is as powerful as the plot wants him to be. Literally the only person he ever struggles against is people who are above the game world rules.
The justification for his OPness is something extremely simple that anyone could have achieved even if they didn't know it was a secret. It doesn't require anything to achieve it's beyond basic.

Kirito is fucking pathetic and a complete loser inside and outside the game but he is somehow special because he is the only japanese teen on the entire world who knows how to play videogames. So yeah.

Fuck SAO and fuck his tremendous popularity that killed anime, not that it was good to begin with, it just made it worse.