Review of Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale

Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale is not like most other SAO titles and mainly for the better. what really makes Ordinal Scale stand out is: how nostalgic it is, the cool concept is with is above average executed and the nice love story of Kirito and Asuna. But on the other hand, this anime has a lake of a "good" plot, the plot was predictable and half-backed although this was probably because of how much fan severs there was. I love fan serves in anime and this romance has a lot of it. this anime portrays the very close relationship between Kirito andAsuna better and in more depth than any other SAO session. Seeing kirito and Asuna so close really shows how much they actually care for each other. This anime makes me rethink the relationship between them. For the most part, the romantic sections are good but having the characters always have off comments about "loving each other even if throw any troubles is overused in this series and in this movie.

The concept is very cool to see in the SAO universe, an "Augmented Reality system" this anime shows how cool augmented reality can be and it does that well. It shows the small things from like pop up menus to the Ordinal Scale fights looking really nice and semi-realistic. They did a very good job at using the concept to have a mix of the SAO season 1 feel by having cool fights and as making it fit into the overall theme and narrative of SAO as a whole.

All in all, this is an anime that gave a lot more detail of the relationship of two of most well know characters in anime. This anime is good if you're an old fan reminiscing about SAO first half of season 1 or following the story.