Review of Sword Art Online

My feelings on Sword Art Online are rather . . . odd. When I first began to watch it, I fell completely in love with everything; I found it very surreal, which is one of my favorite things ever. But then I began to watch Gun Gale Online and began to slowly lose interest, so I stopped watching and began to really think about it. After which I sat and watched Digibro's hour long "diatrabe" on it and that kind of sealed the deal. This. Show. Is. Terrible. Completely, utterly, dreadful. Riddled with plot holes and contrivances of every color. If you're looking forsomething that you can sit down and watch and not look very deep into and base your enjoyment purely off of what you feel, or if you're a 12-year-old-boy, then this show is fine. But in all other ways . . . oh my.

I'm not even going to get into everything; there's far too much.

Kirito has literally no characterization whatsoever, aside for the PTSD guiltyness or whatever. Asuna has one of the best character designs I've ever seen, and everything is actually quite well animatied--though I have seen some evidence of a drop in funding or something--and I suppose some things can be interesting and I did feel emotional when the show wanted me to, but now that I've thought about it, I am actually infuriated that Sword Art Online managed to dupe me so thouroughly.

Things that happen with Asuna get to a level of just pure offensivness more than once, the ENTIRE SECOND HALF of the show is just one giant contrivance where the author just wanted something dramatic to happen and just . . . guh. Stop watching it, guys, it's an insult to your intelligence.