Review of Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
story: - i see the peak of the virtual VRMMO game, where tens of thousands of players from different countries gather and wars together. the creation of A.L.I.C.E, the world’s first AI with a soul and a brain like a human, is wild. a walking piece of metal wanting human rights? of course, the government isn’t going to agree that easily. they just see it as a hunk of metal run by a program. they don’t see it from kirito’s perspective. - kirito got nerfed and became paralyzed. yep, this is what all the fans who followed the series wanted. hopping between games and always having OPstats and strength. it’s pretty annoying because they never showed kirito grinding to level up his skills. he always just shows up with some new power that no one else has. honestly, i was getting bored of him if he didn’t get nerfed and always stayed the main star.
- THE RAPED scenes... seriously? why do japanese people love putting in this kind of crap? from season 1 with asuna, season 2 with asada, and now suguha in season 3; almost every girl in SAO has been raped by some crazy guy, covered in tentacles, hugged, or almost kissed by a psycho. no one likes the fcking scenes like that except in doujins, damm'it!!! it really pisses me off seeing women’s dignity and morals being messed with, just to fit some weird japanese fetish. sure, it’s an avatar in a game and what happens to their bodies doesn’t affect their real bodies... but that’s not the point; it’s about what’s shown.
- vassago/PoH, the villain, isn’t just some psycho who loves killing. i didn’t expect to see a backstory explaining his hatred for japanese players. i always thought he was just some crazy killer, but yeah, there’s always a reason behind actions.
- what do you think is the hardest thing to erase in this world? money? wealth? or a job? no, the hardest thing to erase is your data once it’s uploaded to the internet! akihiko akaba shows up again out of nowhere, and how is that possible? it’s a copy of his mind, his personality data stored on the networks. it’s not going away because copies keep being made and spread everywhere. just like when you upload a photo to facebook, it gets copied, backed up, and spread across data centers all over the world.
- not many stories like this exist, where the main character fights alongside the heroine/woman he loves for multiple seasons. ahh, how lucky kirito is; he’s got someone who’s stayed by his side for hundreds of years, but on the other hand, he’s also got a bunch of women who are super sympathetic towards him.
- the last 4 seconds showed "kirito will return." is this a sign of a sequel season? if so, i hope they make a movie about asuna and kirito’s life for 200 years in the underworld; i really want to see it, a world where it’s just the two of them.
- the series ends with the underworld becoming a sci-fi genre in outer space. instead of fighting and flying with wings and swords, they’re using fighter jets and missiles. such a fast development, i don’t even know how many generations have been born in the underworld. (i’m not curious enough to start imagining it from the novels).
quality:
- the animation is still as good as the first cour, especially the effects like the smoke in every battle—it’s awesome. the duel between captain bercouli and vecta left me speechless lol, such a noble fight upholding the knight’s honor.
- the opening from "Reona - ANima" fits perfectly, burning with the theme of war in this series.
- the rest is the same as cour 1.
i’m sick of rape scenes; it really very annoying!! if i had to choose, i’d prefer gore scenes like metal piercing through the head or losing both legs & blood splattering everywhere. (leafa, sinon)
score: 7/10