Review of Sword Art Online

This is my first review so what I want to tell you at first is that before doing the review of the show, I want to talk about the fans (or just viewers) of the animes. Before do that I will advice you that I decided to use very popular animes on my examples. The animes I am mentionating are there just to help me to show you what I mean. On my point of view there're NOT overrated animes. It is impossible nowadays to really say: "the anime "______" is the best anime ever". It is impossible to say that because people's tastes changethroughout the time. We cannot say that fans of anime nowadays watch the same shows that people 10 or 20 years ago. On the same way, we cannot say that the way that many series are done in this edge is the same in which series were done before. Times change guys.

Regarding my idea that there're not overrated animes just let me please you something. Why was SAO so popular on 2012? Why was SnK so famous last year? Why the best anime of this year is (and it is just an example because I dont know what people will say of the animes this year) Tokyo esp?. Well, the answer is simple. People like it so much those animes. If an anime reached a very large popularity it is probably because poeple really liked that anime. It is unrespectful to say that an anime is overrated just because you saw it and you didn't like it as much as maybe other animes you have seen. Anime is not exactly about fashions. To illustrate, in 2011 maybe the most famous was Mirai nikki (and as I said before it is just an example), and then in 2012 people got crazy with SAO, and then in 2013 people loved to dead SnK. What it means is just that for many people there are still new shows which can become their favorite. It won't be weird to find out on 2015 that the best anime ever is not SAO or Snk but Fate zero.

Of course there will be lots of people who still will prefer "old" animes such as cowboy bebop, slayers or DBZ. Then I say to you: Please don't say that anime before was better.The idea of watching anime is not to be close-minded to the changes. Rmemember that new fans are coming and it will be very common that begginers in the anime just watch animes from 2006 so on and don't care on watching classics as Evangelion. Maybe some years later Steins gate will become "the new classic" and Evangelion will be forgotten.

To wrap up, Anime is just about likes. It is not very intelligent to discuss which anime is the best beacuse it willl never happen that ALL people agree. Of course there can be recommendations, but don´t take recommendations as orders that avoid you to watch an anime that you might like. Just enjoy an anime and if you want to just share your opinion of why is it bad or good, but never ever judge an anime as the worst one. Just remember, there're lots of people with lots of different tastes.

Now besides all that advice, I'll proceed to give MY personal opinion.

As we know SAO has been a very controversial anime because the opinions are extremely divided. And the reason they´re divided is probably because of the twists that the story has.

Story: 1st arc: 8/10. The story in the first two chapters seems like the serie willl be about a group of people trying to finish the game. (At this pont I don´t give so much details because you are suppossed to read the summary first) I think here´s come the first reason of why opinions are divided. Many people (Most of them gamers maybe) were expecting that the serie continues straight with the story presented in the first two chapters. I mean, lots of people wanted to see how they actually finished the game and that's all. But here appears the first twist. After the second chapter the story takes a different way to develop. We'll notice in the show some parts of comedy, action and romance (and a little bit of fan service too) that are not very connected with the principal story that is suppossed to be finishing the game. Well, maybe it is connected with the story but actually without the situations that are presented between chapters 3-8 (more or less) we ould say that the progress is very slow. Is in this part when I noticed that the focus of the story was not really beating the game but show how while they advance in the game the MC, who got an harem (and many people, including my self, believe that it was not neccesary that the MC had an harem) and the female MC interact until fall in love. So in this point of the story many people dropped the show because it finishes being a romance anime on chapters 10-14 (more or less) and at the same time many people who was boring with watching how they advanced in the game got happy because of the relation ships of the characters. For this frst arc what I can say is that it has of all a little bit: action, comedy, romance, mistery (in a pair of chapters xD ), etc.... As it has all that I´ll give it an 8 because to me seemed interesting .
Now the real problem comes on the 2nd arc..... 6/10
The problem with this part of the story is the drastical change of the show. We'll be introduced in a new game with some new characters. The problem here is that the new game and the reason to finished it are not pretty good. To illustrate the feelings of who followed the anime, let´s say that you just watched your favorite movie, then you decided to see another movie that compared with your favorite one is not very interesting. That´s exactly what heppened here. Maybe the idea of the arc is not bad, but compared with the first part just let´s say taht is weak.

Art: 8/10

The art and the animation is one of the strongest points of the show. Maybe the art or the animation are not such great as other animes but without doubt is pretty good and it is above the average. I like it a lot.

Sound: 8/10

I'm very hard to convince when the topic is music. I loved the first opening and the second one was just good. The endings didn't produce me nothing special. The ost was cool enough. It had the level that it required for the show. It wasn´t epic but enjoyable.

Characters: 8/10

Nowadays most of the characters of anime are clasified and the result is that many charachters of this industry are judged as cliché characters. For me SAO doesn't have any original character but still you can like or dislike them.

For many people who watched the show, I think their main problem was the MC. Kirito was judged as a bad character because was the typical OP MC who was wanted by lots of girls. But as well as this attitude is hated by many, there's probably many people who loved his expressions and the character himself.
It is useless to talk about characters, specially if there are many tipes as in this case, because the reactions of dfferent people will be very different for sure. To exemplify, the female MC, asuna, has a tsundere attitude in a good part of the show. People who hates tsunderes probably will hate her and in the other hand people who love tsunderes will probably like her a lot.
I like it Asuna and some other characters so I'll give them a 8

Enjoyment: 8/10

This is the most important part, In the end nothing cares if you enjoyed the show. There are sometme that a serie can have a very bad story, sound, art, characters, etc and still you can enjoyed it. I know the show has many mistakes but I'll be lying if I say that I didn't enjoy it. I liked to see the battles and the romance parts and sometimes the show was just bored. I´ll give it a 8

Overall: 8/10

I´ll give it a 8. In my opinion it is not the best anime I have seen but I like it. I would recommend it because is a simple story that can be interesting if you get engaged. Just remember, I´m just sharing my opinion about it, it is not my fault if some of you watch this show because of my recommendation and in the end you don't like it and I don't want to see people messaging me that they hate me because I didn't say it was a masterpiece.

Thx for the attention and sorry for the mistakes on the writting.... I'm not a native speaker and I'm still studying the language.