Review of Sword Art Online

It's a virtual world, but I still feel more alive here than in the real world -Kirigaya Kazuto Without a doubt ... the worst and most stupid phrase that I have heard in my life. (THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS) Disclaimer: English is not my native language so I may have mistakes. Story 2.5/10:In principle, the first chapter is interesting but after the anime generates expectations and ends up ruining them with it's terrible development and characters as the episodes go by.
The arc of Sword art online is a fictional world that is supposed to be if you die in the virtual world, you die in the real one, a super interesting plot that ends up being one more generic anime since it does not develop at all, the rules of the game No!.does not go into depth ... also how is the game so sold if not even 20 thousand people bought it? XD
There have been video games that have had more sales than that.
The story has the benefit of the script all the time, it's monotonous, the story tries to surprise you but it does not succeed, the scenes that it has ... horrible, really, think of some epic battle scene that is well carried and also does not win Kirigaya. DEFINITELY, THERE ISN'T. (Well,there is a fight were he loses,but the person what he was fighting..was using hacks)
The series tries to take itself seriously and the truth is LAUGH.
The romance in this series is so toxic and forced ... well, the romance I will touch on further in the character section.
The alfheim / fairy dance arc is HORRIBLE. It is like the copy of the first 14 episodes only worse and in another game that on top of it is about horrible fairies. A huge world full of possibilities to explore but NO, what does Kirito do? He goes looking for his girlfriend while having scenes of dubious comfort with his cousin. That's the alfheim arc, and in the Sword art online arc it's pretty much the same, plot-ruining romance that feels forced.
The places are named above and the characters instead of developing with it no.., also instead of Kirito moving with the plot, Kirito himself tries to move it and it feels unnatural and very noticeable. There should be arches from each place of the game but the places..NO! They name them above and do not give them any importance, literally, it is that they do nothing more than wander the world and there is nothing to highlight from a scene except one that I will name in the characters section that is to laugh and is of the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Alfheim:1/10
SAO:4/10

Art 5/10:

The truth ... although it was animated by A-1 Pictures ... it is of doubtful quality, if the art seems to me somewhat ugly in some scenes and sometimes it looks deformed, the art of fights is bad and good at the same time, in my opinion, the best of sao's art are the character designs, backgrounds and eyes, because afterwards there is a lot of deformity, but ... there are exceptions, it is in itself a bipolar art, bad and good at the same time.

OST and voice acting 6/10:

This is the best of the series ...
OST: I think the OST is quite good, it has many remarkable songs and it is entertaining in some parts ... although there are songs that don't convince me, but for the most part it is very good and the songs almost always match with the scenes.
Voice acting: The voices are good but there are some voices that don't convince me like Lisbeth's voice.

OP and ED 8/10:

(I won't count this section with the score)

In principle, in addition to the songs that are used in the background in the scenes, the openings and endings are the best of anime.
The opening is magnificent, I loved the choice of song, LisA's Crossing Field is magnificent and iconic, very catchy and in my opinion it's never boring, I never get tired or never skip it.
I also love the ending, I found it interesting that Asuna's seiyuu interpreted it, it's very beautiful and I don't get tired, although sometimes I skipped it.
The second opening and the second ending are quite good and I loved them, very good.
Although it seems to me that such a bad series as SAO doesn't deserve those openings and endings.

Character 1/10:

The characters are the worst of the series in addition to the poorly managed plot that the anime has.

Kirigaya Kazuto:
The worst thing I've seen in an anime protagonist, inhuman, the most unreal thing I've seen, his feelings don't feel very realistic when he expresses them, his powers don't make any sense and he's completely idealized by the same author, Reki Kawahara,Kirito is A generic Gary Stu.
In the first chapters he is an acceptable character, making the hatred of people who hate betatesters fall on him is acceptable, he took a risk, but ... the character is ruined when he enters the Moonlit Black Cats guild, trying to hide his true level, so that others don't get mad at having someone stronger in their guild! I mean, that never happens, if there is someone experienced in the game on a team, that person is supposed to be the most respected. And thanks to hiding their level, everyone dies. Also, when he takes care of a girl with Asuna for an alleged murder that happened to a friend of the girl, they don't take care of her, they leave her completely alone, what irresponsibility,my god.And then when they all get together to speak the girl who is in danger of death stays standing in front of the wall and well..Kirito instead of helping her, lets her "die" since she didn't really die. Then there is a scene in which A final boss assassinates an army and what does Kirito do? Well, he ends up taking his new ability of 2 swords that he had discovered a few months ago and that not even the viewer knew that he had that ability and well ... kill the final boss in VERY LITTLE TIME and then he let ruin the scene and end up being forced. And well ... a "Kirito's Beneficence" is that he can ruin a plot and he can also make 4 girls fall in love in 8 chapters. Then there is a situation in which he ends up murdering someone who almost kills him ... and instead of feeling guilty since he lost one hand in the act and killed someone,his girlfriend Asuna was there, after killing the guy he ends up kissing her, the most normal, obvious and you know what Kirito does? is 15 years old and well, It don't affect him at all!
After that ... later with Asuna they arrive at the house, having a very ... sensual atmosphere)? .. and then after Asuna was almost completely naked, Kirito tells her that he just wanted to sleep, yes of course. Later, with Asuna they buy a house in the forest, and you know what?, even though Asuna is his girlfriend, Well ... let's buy separate beds!.
Then, they adopt a girl and seek to see if she has parents, later an army girl tells them a strange story and well, Kirito's girlfriend, with 4 friendly neurons, thinks and says: We should not trust, it can be a trap ... and then their "daughter" tells them better to trust and well, what does Kirito say? I think we should trust, it is also better to risk and regret it than to doubt and regret it, I would not trust if it were him, because ... SAO, it is a game in which you die in the game and in real life!, YOU HAVE SAID THE SAME KIRITO, REGRET, TWO TIMES TO REFER TO 2 DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES. And then they also take to the place that it may be a trap for the girl!, What irresponsible parents, after they are almost attacked, for the benefit of the script Yui saves them, so that later, they go to a room with a kind of computer in which he exposes his computer skills by hacking the system to turn their daughter into an item,How easy, 15 years old and with those skills.
Then with the army they will fight against a powerful monster ... here comes the good thing! After killing the monster, the guild boss paralyzes them all and tries to kill Kirito, but since the creator does not want to kill the protagonist, he makes Asuna by the power of love he frees herself from paralysis to save Kirito from being killed, how normal, right? Then, Kirito is killed but for strange reasons he revives and ends up killing the final boss of the game, how convenient, right?
Well, that above was from the first part, the second part is the same but worse, Kirito with convenience from the script for everything,makes falls in love more girls without sense and kills final bosses and well ... the same, a character, that I don't understand how people love him.

Yuuki Asuna:
A horrible character, a girl who could have been one of the best characters but thanks to her toxic romance with the stupid protagonist, she ends up becoming a stereotypical shonen girl who must be there to give fanservice to the horny teenager on duty.
She was a girl who didn't depend on a man, it's not that i hate female characters that are not strong and "feminine", I love Honda Tohru's character. Likewise, she is also a stupid character and dependent on Kirito-kun can sometimes be something rational and that thinks with the small brain that she has. Asuna is a character that could have been good but the tsunami of a sexualized girl of the shonen that has to be in a relationship with the protagonist caught her off guard. To sum up, Asuna could have been a good character but ended up being a clumsy stupid girl who depends on the protagonist, who sometimes has a brain.

Kirigaya Suguha:
Horrible, it's almost as horrible as its brother but at least she is more acceptable than the one.
In principle, her relationship with her cousin has an acceptable development and is not a: I love you oniichan!
Although, his character gives a lot of cringe to the viewer in many situations despite having an acceptable development, and it's thanks to the romance with Kirito, how can you fall in love with a relative? XD
It would have been better for them to go deeper into that since how the subject was touched was somewhat forced and cringous.Almost is best character

In short, SAO, it did horrible.The series never gives great importance to characters other than Kirito, I summarize, Lisbeth is useless, Silica had a lot of potential but it was wasted when she falls in love in Kirito, Klein ... he had potential, Yui is irritating. And then the series doesn't give much importance to other characters, those would be the most notable "secondary" although they're not since they don't contribute anything to the plot and they are completely bland.

Character Design:

The character design was really good in this series, really creative and very interesting, but I feel like with a good character design that ended up being created in vain since the series they belong to is VERY bad.

Enjoyment 3/10:

I just got bored in a lot of scenes, it also gave me cringe and also wanted to drop the series.
It was a completely embarrassing experience.

Final thoughts:

Sword art online could have been a good series if it weren't for the poorly written and cliche protagonist it has. The series is completly generic,which in my opinion is a complete waste of time.
Characters: Completely pathetic.
Animation: It could have been better although there were scenes in which it was something beautiful, the most remarkable thing is the backgrounds.
The author doesn't know how to deal with female characters or male characters, simply pathetic.

Describing SAO in two words...PATHETIC and GENERIC