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I don't remember that. And why would there only be two kids in an entire town? Doesn't make much sense. Do homeschooled children have socialization issues? From what I quickly and lazily searched up, seems like probably do but it's hard to get good data, since a lot of the studies are done by homeschooling advocates. She lied about his dad being dead? Well, Goku let Vegeta live because he said he wanted to fight him again. Though, it's worth noting that Vegeta was supposed to die here, after his original appearance, but was kept alive by the editors because Vegeta was popular. I mean, a lot of the Z Fighters are past enemies, but Vegeta was introduced as someone who slaughtered billions if not trillions, and enjoyed it. Later Toriyama tries to retcon it as Frieza made him do it and was just following orders, etc. Goku lets Frieza power up completely because he says he wants to fight Frieza at his best. It seems obvious before this that even if Frieza was at full power, he wouldn't stand a chance against Super Saiyan Goku. Of course, Frieza is still extremely dangerous and should've just been put down as quickly as possible once Goku had the upper hand. At the end, Goku even gives Frieza some of his own energy, granting him mercy, thinking he might change or at least crawl off somewhere, but he attacks Goku so Goku has to take him out. Really what it is, is Goku is merciful, sometimes because he wants a chance to fight them again, or a naive notion they might change their ways, or both, and in a lot of cases to people who do not deserve it. But what makes even less sense is Goku straight up killed fools when he was a kid, and as far as I'm aware there's never any explanation given for this character change. But to be fair, all the other characters chew out Goku for this behavior. I watched through that Heaven's Arena stuff. Don't know which episode I stopped on. Was around the time the show finally got around to explaining how its fighting system works long after I stopped caring, in an extremely boring and uninteresting way, and Gon and Killua chopping people in the back. I don't really recall anyone calling Gon's actions into question. Mostly people just talked about how special and awesome he is.

I watched up through Heaven's Tower or whatever it's called. And you shouldn't need that many episodes to explain things. On the first episode of most shows you instantly understand their world, with of course more than can be elaborated and expanded upon later. That worldview is why I sometimes question if human psychology works different in that world or maybe Togashi doesn't just understand how people work.

I'm sure, but you do seem bizarrely obsessed with content ratings, unlike anything I've ever seen. You must be getting something out of it warrant that level of unwarranted interest.

I dunno, the ropes and mask are awfully tight, and the one eye being closed etc suggests struggling and difficulty breathing. She certainly doesn't seem to be enjoying herself.

Sounds like you're projecting. Or maybe volunteering some of your own fantasies. Keep them to yourself.

Your stuff is downright vanilla. These other people are just sickos!

So will Moose be self-immolating himself soon?

What world building? I mean, you can say show and don't tell all you want, but if what is shown is contradictory and nonsensical...

I was going to say that but was too lazy to look it up and didn't want to be wrong, lol. But yeah, self-insert for Roddenberry. I wonder if he was aware the term came about from a woman who wrote a fanfic parodying Star Trek fanfiction way back when? Like, literally Mary Sues came from Star Trek fans and he puts one his show, lol. Yeah I remember that. Was Wesley jettisoned off the show before or after Roddenberry died? It gets used a lot, but overused in some cases. As I said, not every character that gets accused of being a Mary-Sue actually is one. Reki said he was inspired to write SAO because he was a big MMO fan but wasn't very good at them, and was impressed with the elite players in them, so he created SAO with those kind of characters. I don't know if it's literal self-insert for Reki himself, but if the wish fulfillment for viewers is "good at videogames," there's a lot worse things you can do. Number 1 in every state? What? Also I thought the show was reviled. All this talk makes me want to check it out. Chances of it getting on Toonami? I talked about that before. The whole series is basically the director shouting "look how awesome my wife is!" The first movie is watchable at least, then the movies get progressively worse, but yeah, it's lame not having the game characters as main characters. Kind of reminds me of Nozomi coming in and stealing the thunder from the established canon characters, or the original Mary Sue story, lol.

So, I got side-tracked and fell behind at episode 5. Just got caught up the past few weeks but didn't have a chance to post on the episodes. And yeah, what happened in episode 10, and the lead up in episode 9, was really, really bad. It's somehow even worse than the incident with Oberon. What the hell was Reki thinking putting this scene in?! It was not needed! This arc was going so well, too! Here's my post on the episode itself - For all the light novel readers that were extolling the virtues of this arc, saying this is the best arc of SAO, or the people that even went so far as to say that this is the ONLY good arc of SAO, I wonder they have to say about this. I really want to know if the ABEC versions of Oberon, Raios, and Humbert look this creepy, or if it's something made worse by the anime's character designer. Why do they have to look so fucking creepy? The way their eyes and their faces are, it's just... GAH. What really sucks about this is we can't really just write this off like we did with Fairy Dance and pretend the whole arc never happened, like with Bleach's Bount Arc. Alicization has mostly been good so we can't really divorce it from the rest of the show like that. Indeed, we don't just want to write it off, so there's no getting around this! This arc is now tainted! DAMN IT, Reki! https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/01/20/sword-art-online-sexual-assault-plot-device-comments-reki-kawahara/ https://mobile.twitter.com/frog_kun/status/1086434402089881601 https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/15/sword-art-online-alicization-sexual-assault-creator-response/ https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/09/sword-art-online-season-3-censorship-rape-assault-anime-stream/ https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/13/sword-art-online-anime-sexual-assault-rape-explanation-story/ So, Reki said he included rape in his stories because light novels he read had rape in them. Anyone know anything about these series and how it was used in them? Regardless, that's not the best way to take influence or inspiration from another story. You don't just put something into your story because you read it in other stories. After going to fan events in the U.S., he's realized and decided that he's not going to include rape in future stories. That's Japan for you... I guess no Japanese fans had any issue with the scenes? Lovely. He said the anime made the rape scene way more intense and graphic than in the book, and apologized to the voice actors. Anyone read that light novel and can tell us what it was like there? But I mean, why would the anime creators make it even worse?! It was censored on Hulu? How much worse could it be than it already was?! *watches video that was linked* Okay that's worse but not as bad as it could have been. But the scene was pretty bad to begin with.

Shows how off the mark I was about those "constant orgies," lol.

Like company, I guess. There's a lot of depraved people on this forum. You've got CountFrylock with his fat fetish (adblock is your friend, you won't have to look at his avatars anymore then,) Poke, whose survival apparently depends on daily viewings of girls with masks grinding up on content rating boxes (and that current avatar of his is trending towards suffocation fetish, creepy.) Some guys want to make love to cars... I wouldn't be surprised if Top Gun wants to make love to an F-14! The point is, keep it on topic. This is a forum that migrated from Adult Swim. It's centered around that. Go to some porn forum or fetish community or something. No one wants to hear about that shit.

Ep 15 - Ok I knew these kids were bad news. You guys shouldn't have let your guard down and let them get near you. Yeah that is quite a fucked up backstory. Raising kids to make them fight to the death to try to make a revival spell work. And they're the only 2 who lived. The failed revivals reminds me of what happens when you try to bring someone back to life in Fullmetal Alchemist. Is there any horrible thing Quinella HASN'T done? Poison dissolving spell. And he noticed the kind of knives and sheaths they had. Kirito was like Adam West Batman there lmao. "I used my anti-explosion spray!" I knew they were dangerous but didn't think they were Integrity Knights. Makes sense though. 5 Integrity Knights. You didn't tell us it was really one Integrity Knight and her underlings! False advertising! Lol Damn, I wish Link's sword beams were that effective! If it's a mirror and not generating the beams itself, you just need some way to cut off the sunlight to this room! Not sure how though. Though I have to wonder, would using the sword directly and getting blood on it weaken it's beam ability by making it less reflective? Lost to plenty of battles to Swordswomen? Who is he talking about? Yuuki? Oh yeah, Liena. Maybe he and Asuna sparred? I know he did poorly in kendo against Sugu. So the Blue Rose Sword's Perfect Control Art freezes the ground and anyone on it, and restrains them with icy thorns etc. Hmm. Now what is Kirito going to bust out? Gah, cliffhanger! And no commercials. Did we upgrade to the commercial free Hulu without me knowing or are we getting SAO III commercial free now to make up for what happened in episode 10?

Ep 14 - Collected all that armor and weaponry so an army couldn't be created. So Administrator doesn't want an army because she's afraid of them rebelling against her? But she's not going to be able fend off the Forces of Darkness. I still want to know why the windows stop halfway up the tower. Is it even possible to shoot that many arrows at once?! The way the Integrity Knights transform their weapons like that reminds of zanpakutos. Ice element. Nice. It turned into a bird! Kirito spinning his sword to deflect it. Cool. Oh, Blue Rose Sword is ice element, of course! Damn Eugeo just went nuts! Doing it for Alice! Oh, it's the same guy who took Alice! That badass armor, but different color. His memory was erased not only of his past, but of finding Alice. Can't have him remember that Alice was a normal little girl. Unfortunately this guy isn't the evil villain Eugeo hoped he was. Lost the memory of his wife. And after all that this guy's mind control thingy didn't pop out? I wonder what he will do though. Uhh you might want to tell Eugeo what your ability is so you can strategize. The Integrity Knights don't have real experience because their memories have been erased. Administrator didn't think about that. Now what. 2 little girls? They're armed. Surely THEY aren't Integrity Knights? New OP already. I guess it's going to change even though it's the same arc, since this arc is so long. But there's still things from the first OP that haven't been explained, and they've gone to the next one! Doesn't that go against some anime rule or something? I really liked that song too. But maybe I'll warm up to this one. New ED is nice.

Ep 13 - Of course Rath knows what Quinella is doing. How could they not? They want the people of this world to suffer, that they will rebel against the Axiom Church and surely they will be forced to kill each other in the process. I'm not sure the point of having an invasion from the Land of Darkness will serve though. So, I wonder if the unethical dev, if that was just his personality, or he put on an act so the world would turn out this way. And if it's all just monsters that live there, who was it that the Integrity Knight killed that Alice ended up trespassing over? Dumb bitch got rid of the guardian dragons. So, the naked girl in the OP is Quinella. She seems drawn differently there though, or maybe it's my imagination. Regained the beauty of her late teens? Maybe it would have been better if you at least said early twenties??? Cardinal, is the Sub, Quinella is the Main. "I will correct the errors of this woman." Heh. Why is Cardinal stuck as a little girl though? Is it because of the ritual Quinella performed? Umm, surely there's something better you can come up with than deleting the world and everyone in it?! Kirito won't stand for this! Aww, all she wanted is a hug. Use that knife and then Cardinal will cast a spell to put Alice asleep. That would be crude. Hopefully Eugeo can win her over with the power of love, even if Quinella supposedly did remove that memory! Still not sure how the hell Kirito and Eugeo are going to accomplish this though! Gah the cliffhanger!

Ep 12 - Interesting that Alice expected they might break out. So, this guy has definitely had his memories altered, and possibly Alice as well. But they almost saved him! Of course Cardinal is a cute little girl. Makes me think she is Yui's sister in a way. So, I have to wonder if Kikuoka knew about the unethical developer, and wanted him to act that way so there would be those kind of people in the world, ones who might eventually break the Taboo Index. Or was he rogue? Ok so how did Kikuoka not notice Quinella's shenanigans? Surely what she was doing must have been of interest to him? Then again she is trying to create order, not disrupt it. And Cardinal did say that maybe Quinella was able to access the command list with help from the outside. Hunting and murder forbidden. Not because murder is wrong, but because Quinella doesn't want anyone to reach her level. You level up with every kill. And somehow Raios knew if he beheaded Eugeo it would raise his level. But, this means that everyone in this world are vegetarians? Because if hunting was outlawed, could you still raise your level by slaughtering livestock?

Ep 11 Who is that idol-looking girl on the Times Square-style screens in the OP? Eh, did she recognize or remember Eugeo, or was just shocked a criminal would try to approach her like that? Couldn't tell. So these Integrity Knights, Alice included, are Judge, Jury, and Executioner. That's nice. Of course she lets them have their swords back, even if they don't get to carry them, still... lol. How the hell are you going to rescue him, girl? Ronie, the undeveloped friend. But Kirito gets lunch at least. And where is Liena in all this? Lol do they have to be carried hanging in chains like this? So this guy just made a robot in his spare time. Asuna's reaction hahaha. Oh of course. For some reason I thought maybe the Fluctlights might be waging some kind of cyberwar, or maybe controlling vehicles and weapons remotely or directly, no, they're going to have robotic bodies. And not sure I want to know what Niemon looks like. Those two guys... and that one guy's smile, don't tell me, Raios and Humbert were Rath devs? I'm sure they justified it in their minds as "it's ok to rape Fluctlights, they aren't real people." FFS. I want to know why the windows stop halfway up the tower. So I guess Kirito told Eugeo about the voice during the time skip. I don't think we heard that much before either, did we? Hm, Alice lost her memories? Or maybe she's really dedicated to her job? Not sure. Why was she made into an Integrity Knight instead of executed anyway? I'm surprised Eugeo suggested escaping first. He's getting used to this heh. The door, or the hinges at least, are apparently weaker than the chains. Ok. And good thing that guard is a heavy sleeper. Guess they don't expect anyone would dare try to escape (even though they would have already violated the dreaded Taboo Index to end up there in the first place.) THANKYOU Kirito. Yes, no more feeling conflicted over every little action. How the hell do you think you're going to just go back to the village? The whole Axiom Church is going to be after you! So what do the roses being here mean? LOL Kirito and Eugeo just had a boss encounter. Memories erased, maybe, but this guy still has a personality and isn't some automaton.

Ep 10 - Yeah Frenica is a different girl. No Pancho or anything? Surely they have some sort of rain proof stuff in this time? What is that? Insense? Oil? Yeah I was right that Raios is just as much a sicko as Humbert, if not worse. With a tongue like a Orichimaru, this guy could be ole Slugsworth's brother (Oberon)! Hahaha flying into the bed like that, like an evil version of Lupin. FFS. OK that escalated REALLY quickly. I didn't think it would turn out like this. The 2 girls tied up, about to be raped, Eugeo chops the one guy's arm off, the Kirito chops the other guy's hands off! Those girls are going to be traumatized for life! LOL I need a screen cap or gif of Raios when he's fighting Kirito and his face gets all ugly when they clash swords. Raios didn't even die from blood loss. His AI got fried by having to choose between Taboo Index and his own life. Presumably it's against the Index to commit suicide which is why Humbert said he couldn't give him the rope? He said his life would decrease and that's it's against the Index.! Ok, so I hope the Taboo Index violation was committing murder, and not Eugeo stepping in and stopping the rape. There's no way that "punishment" can be considered valid, when son much as petty theft never even happens for fear of violating the Taboo Index. But, Eugeo's eye did explode apparently, because he went against the programming. *sigh* Ok, so, the whole thing of there's some things that aren't against the law which you still shouldn't do, and some things that are against the law that you should do, AIs bending the law and still doing evil acts etc etc, surely there were better ways to go about it than this?! Like, maybe killing in self-defense, WITHOUT the whole rapey part? For all the light novel readers that were extolling the virtues of this arc, saying this is the best arc of SAO, or the people that even went so far as to say that this is the ONLY good arc of SAO, I wonder they have to say about this. Uhh, if you are trying to make this world immsersive and real to the AIs, maybe DON'T have the evil head pop up and make note of Taboo Index violations? Ok, they don't have any idea about videogames or virtual worlds, but that is definitely not something they're accustomed to seeing. What is the purpose of that? Why does it need to be visible to the AIs? Not sure what not letting the girls hear it is going to do. They already saw it, didn't they? Healed his eye. And... what she's saying, is Azurica (keep thinking her name is Amurica, lol) a Rath developer or someone else from the real world? So, they don't come to Alice. She comes to them. Her hair looks like a sword, lol.

Ep 9 - I don't see any way how this could have gone well. If Eugeo turned down the sparring session they'd probably take offense to that too. Why is Tiese blushing during this convo? Thought that was the fox making that noise but it was Kirito lol. Another anime where nobles are assholes. There's Black Clover, One Piece, Attack on Titan, Bleach, I guess, what else? I thought the blonde guy was Humbert. Well, either way, they're both creeps. Pretty sure stay cool isn't meant as a farewell. And why did Kirito say it in English? Doing shitty things without violating the law, getting away with as much as they can, sounds very human, and Kikuoka's project is succeeding more than he thinks. Ugh. Inappropriate orders for a female page. Oh good. I don't like where this is headed. Those two douche bags chilling in robes. Raios may not be the perpetrator, but he's definitely allowing, defending, and maybe even encouraging such behavior. HOW is that not against the Taboo Index or the school rules? With as strict as everything else is?! Giving him massages in the bath in her underwear. It could be a lot worse. And yep, that's what we've come to. Guess I spoke too soon when I said Alicization was largely devoid of bad SAO-isms! Damn it Reki! Arranged marriages. Ouch. Wait, marry her so she doesn't risk getting stuck with some creep? I assume it wouldn't be a real marriage, but just one to help her out. Because I'm pretty sure Eugeo thinks of Alice as more than just a close childhood friend. But, Tiese doesn't actually like like Eugeo right? She just appreciates him because he's not an asshole? Why is that bed so long? I get the idea that "Frenica" is actually Tiese... Wait, she's not his page. Maybe not.

Ep 8 - Now that I see it's in the OP, Kirito's sword doesn't resemble the Blue Rose Sword as much as I thought, after all. It's not blackened from tarnish, dumbasses. It's not even black but dark blue, and is obviously shiny. I think you spend too much time polishing YOUR sword, Humbert. So Kirito will show what he can do for Liena, but not against her, in a battle with Volo. Oh that was just his sheath. I was gonna The power of Volo's imagination, his whole family history backing him. Sword powered by the blood of his opponents though, I don't like the sound of that. But Kirito has all his friends, and most of all, Asuna, backing him. His sword grew... come on. And it even looks silly like that. Reki... really? I knew as soon as we saw those flowers that would be getting stomped on. Well, went at with a trowel, close enough. A mysterious voice taught Kirito some Sacred Arts? Flowers healed. Now that I see it's in the OP, Kirito's sword doesn't resemble the Blue Rose Sword as much as I thought, after all. Maybe Kirito could really show Liena his stuff if he could DUAL WIELD. It's not blackened from tarnish, dumbasses. And it's not even black, but dark blue, and is obviously shiny. I think you spend too much time polishing YOUR sword, Humbert. So Kirito will show what he can do for Liena, but not against her, in a battle with Volo. Wanted to see it between them. Oh well. Oh that was just his sheath. I was gonna say, Volo's sword looks weak and basic as fuck, haha. But Volo already saw you use that move in the forest, Kirito. Didn't he? Does it still count as a combo if the strikes don't come in quick succession? The power of Volo's imagination, his whole family history backing him. Sword powered by the blood of his opponents though, I don't like the sound of that. But Kirito has all his friends, and most of all, Asuna, backing him. His sword grew... come on. And it even looks silly like that. Reki... really? Kirito cutting Volo's uniform doesn't count as a hit? What? More noble douche bags. We've gotten enough of them in Black Clover. I knew as soon as we saw those flowers that they would be getting stomped on. Well, went at with a trowel, close enough. A mysterious voice taught Kirito some Sacred Arts? Flowers healed. Eugeo and Golgorosso can't hold their liquor hahaha. Wait, Liena's family is banned from using that sword style and passing down their style, so they can't pass down their skills and everyone has to make up their own style, or they couldn't pass down that Norking style and had to make up a new family style? Because I mean, wouldn't her teaching of Kirito be considered passing on her sword style? Also you would think that having your own style instead of the traditional ones everyone knows about would be an ADVANTAGE! Yay Liena broke Volo's sword and beat him! After all that fuss over the flowers you pick them? You should have given her the flower pot. Well, guess the roots are still there, and she might not be able to know how to grow those flowers in this climate. Kirito ever the mischevous. Of course their pages are two cute girls. Is it just me, or does Ms. Hall Monitor look like Kayaba's gf? And these two look like they could be Silica and Lizbeth. Liena seems like she could be Asuna. Are some of these Fluctlights really people from the real world in disguise? Naaaah. For one thing, there's no way Asuna could resist mackin' on Kirito for a year, or Kirito not be able to figure out it's Asuna. LOL Golgorosso never even got a line.

Ep 7 - Augh. A 2 year time skip, really? Well, maybe it's ok if it was just skipping a training arc. And I suppose they wouldn't make it to Alice so quickly and easily. Kirito likes to sleep in, just like me. Eugeo looks good in that uniform. So that's how Underground's system works. And willpower plays a role. Haha tripping over themselves over Lienna. Don't forget about Asuna and Alice you guys! Golgorosso. Rolls right off the tongue. Lol those guys so buttmad over Kirito and Eugeo. Volo looks creepy, but not as much as that blonde guy that looks like he'd be good friends with the Laughing Coffin guy and Oberon. Kirito developing a green thumb in Underworld. Don't be so self doubting and hard on yourself, Eugeo. Make a strong sword from this guy in the capital from this strongest limb from the Gigas Tree. Like something right out of a videogame haha. That's different from the sword in Aincrad right? Looks kinda like the Blue Rose Sword, but darker. So, isn't Eugeo also technically breaking the rules of the Taboo Index? And Volo too. So he won't be sparring with Liena after all? Well, hurry up and get Kirito's punishment over with! Gah, cliffhanger!

Finally got caught up the past few weeks but didn't get around to posting. Ep 6 - You're really going to believe him so easily? I don't trust that Aizen-looking fuck. And the AI already destroyed itself. You're monsters, playing god like that. So wait, was Higa's friend Korean, or Japanese? Either way, someone from one of those 2 countries died in a war? Wtf has happened in this world? So, it's not that obeying the law so perfectly made the Fluctlights not realistic enough AIs, it's that he needs them to able to kill. You're right, Asuna, and of course Kikuoka doesn't care about the Fluctlights' rights. The Axiom Church "corrected" Alice. Scary. At least she wasn't killed. But we can guess that by the promotional artwork, OP, and ED. Maybe they should have thought about that before they sped up time in the world, and maybe they should slow it back down now. So this is going to heal Kirito... So her name happens to be the same as the project. And man, 80s cartoon and toy lines would be proud of that forced acronym! And does this all mean Yui isn't a "true" artificial intelligence? D: Asuna brought an Amusphere with her, and they let her use it? So much for top secret! Well, guess the cat is already out of the bag anyway. Really, it's THAT nurse again? And she was a military nurse all along. Of course. Sooo did the other Death Gun just get away after attacking Kirito, or what? Lol, Kayaba all emaciated and had his own IV set up. Just goes back to playing SAO LOL. Hmm, would killing Kayaba release everyone though? Well, I guess since he was the true final boss, and beating him did beat the game. The best years of your life? Come on, Asuna. I'm sure you have better years ahead of you with Kirito NOT locked up in a death game. I can see not holding a grudge, because hate could consume you, but come on. What did you and Kirito do? Kill some player killers in self-defense? I mean, what? A dream, I hope. There's no way AI Kayaba broke into the real world, much less her head?!

Nothing has happened in particular that I can think of. Eugeo is definitely straight. I will say not much effort at all needs to be made for any potential fanart or fanfics shipping the two, though, lol.

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