Review of Sword Art Online
No, I am not a FANBOY of SAO, neither do I HATE it to death because it is full of tropes and makes Kirito out to look like god amongst men. I enjoyed it, kinda. At least the idea of it. The first episode was well made, too well. It brought everybody into it's lush world, introducing all the possibilities. It looked like an anime about video games that didn't suck and it didn't, at least for the first half when it mostly did what was expected from it. The second half on the other hand was a big downfall. It literally copied the first half withoutremorse, doing the exact same things without nothing new and unexpected. It just brought in more fetishes and fanservice witch is why most of the people probably got turned off from the series.
The thing with the first season is that it left me with very mixed feelings since it was good, it did something incredible and brought a really good VR game anime to the world while messing it up in the second half.
You can see my whole review about it here where i systematically pick it apart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6Ioci-7XI
Much love appreciated <3