Review of Sword Art Online

Is SAO a complete dumpster fire? No. Is it really worth your time? No It inhibits the worst place where large Toblorones and the Bible Black Dub loath to look into. That black pit, is utter mediocrity. Kirito is Jesus Kun and even excusing the scenarios that are justified in universe for being OP, that fails to excuse him being utterly unbeatable except when people cheat even when there is no level disparity. The entire rest of the casts consist of a single black guy, Klien, the guy who should have been the protagonist, and a harem of females who are sexually assaulted by monster, Kirito or both. Theart's good, so's the sound design for the most part, but everything about the plot feels bare-bones, poorly paced and scattered and because all the characters either suck balls or are trying to suck Jesus-kuns balls you really can't get invested with individual character arcs (which is a power that can save for over arching plots quite easily, if the characters are interesting enough. EG Seinfeld).

Go watch the Abridged series, it's better paced, better reasoned and the characters have real, human emotions despite being a collection of negative character traits more than actual people.

It aught to be noted that I love both traditional and subversive Shonen and actually enjoy some of the better Iseki shows. This one is just not very good.