Review of Sword Art Online

Looking at the overall score I gave this show, you're probably thinking "How the hell do you like SAO?! SAO is shit!" Well, let me tell you. Story- 8/10 The story for the first arc goes as such: 10,000 people are trapped in a video game, and if you die in the game you die in real life. Seems basic enough. However, basic isn't always a bad thing. It's a solid story line, and the way they execute it is nice. The second arc, however, is a bit of a problem. It goes from a cool, kickass story about survival to a perverted, incestuous damsel-in-distress story. WTF Reki Kawahara? ButI still gave the story an 8/10 because of how good the first arc was.

Art- 10/10

This and Sound are where this show shines the most. This anime was produced by A-1 Pictures, which is also well-known for making Fairy Tail and Blue Exorcist. I think A-1 Pictures did a good job on those shows, but on this show the art and animation were flawless. The art was bright and colorful, the character designs were nice to look at, and the animation was fluid.

Sound- 10/10

I'm just gonna say it now. It's impossible to give the sound for this show anything below a 10. The soundtrack was amazing, I loved every song from Crossing fields to Swordland. The voice acting was amazing as well, and he English dub isn't that bad.

Character- 7/10

You can guess why the score for Character is so low.

Yup. Sugou Nobuyuki.

Without spoiling anything, Sugou is a terrible, perverted rapist with a fetish for young women and no likeable qualities.

But besides that, the characters are pretty good. I understand that Kirito is OP as hell, but he does a good job of portraying the "beta tester". I loved Asuna's character until Fairy Dance reduced her to a damsel in distress. The side characters were pretty cool as well, such as Klein, Lisbeth, Silica, and Agil. Heathcliff was an awesome villain as well.

Enjoyment- 9/10

This was the first anime I ever finished, so of course there's gonna be some nostalgia involved. Putting that aside, however, Sword Art Online was an anime series that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was cool to see the character interactions as they work together to escape the death game.

Overall- 8/10

After seeing all the hate, I thought this anime would be terrible when I first went to watch it. However, I quickly realized that this is far from the worst anime ever. If you're one of those people who dropped it after two episodes, keep watching. I promise you won't regret it.