ben0119

Gentle Criminal was his toughest opponent, really?

His power is increasing? I thought she had to be touching him for the quirk to work.

He's 18 here?? He looks way older. Well that went badly. Shit. Tried to help and just ended up causing a problem.

Who did? It was stupid, regardless. As if it's so easy to get rid of depression.

Heh, pinned them down. YOU'RE UNDER ARREST. THE POWER OF LOVE. Too bad it only helps the person she loves and not herself though. I thought for sure her power would be related to hacking.

Hahaha. Fetish, or a dumb joke I can't figure out the point of.

So she's just short? Is it because of a quirk or what? Because I'm pretty sure she classifies as a dwarf at that height. She was stalking a guy? And Gentle saved her from suicide? What are the dark circles from?

If she hasn't been bathing for a while certain areas are going to smell worse than others.

Why does the silver hair girl sound like a guy? What the fuck is wrong with that guy? That is the past winner?! ARE THE JUDGES BLIND?!

Who are you talking about?

Demarco things he's a fucking zen master apparently, with that intro.

I didn't feel like taking a screenshot, but in the last episode in that freeze frame where everyone is cheering, the belly button guy has a really creepy expression, reminded me of one of the Titans.

Well that's fucked up. They're gonna take it all off the actual Adult Swim site and paywall it, eh? What a way to treat the people that are paying for cable to get the actual channel.

I did watch the show. The stuff I described about it should be proof enough of that. But do you really think I'm going to commit to memory a bunch of characters from a show I didn't even like that I watched umpteen years ago? And only 3 episodes at that?

Hey, Demarco answered my question. It turns out that they still had the rights to Mob after all - https://ask.fm/Clarknova/answers/160197211113 Part 2 - If that is the case, and new shows aren't available due to covid delays, why not get something you never aired from the past few years or older. Even if it's not new, it might be new to a lot of viewers. Unless you still had the rights to Mob Psycho 100? Ben0119 about 2 hours ago We still had the rights to Mob Psycho 100. Our budget has been cut (understandably) due to financial losses resulting from Coronavirus. Nothing cheaper than free!

Sleeping in fields but it was also clearly shown that Kirito was a beta tester for the game and also a shut-in gamer nerd with years of experience playing MMORPGs and games in general. He was also shown to be leveling on his own. He had a health regen skill, a very well-known and run of the mill RPG ability... No that is not what happened. Kirito and Asuna both died to take out Heathcliff at the end, only surviving due to Kayaba sparing them as a reward for beating the game, or the game ending and the world being discontinued immediately after the battle. I think it would be more over-powered for Kirito to be good at using the guns. Instead he used the guns as a side weapons and used what knew, swords, to play the game, which he had plenty of experience with. Obviously most people playing a gun-based game aren't going to bother with swords or take the time to be good at them. I doubt there was even that much crossover between the two audiences of such games. I saw the Santa boss as being more demented and freaky, than outright comical. And I mean, there have been plenty of times in shows where characters are tormented by ridiculous looking and acting characters. Now you are just being over the top. Yeah that definitely would have been better if more of that stuff was shown. We did get ideas about in SAO II, with the special school and Asuna saying "Kirito is still playing SAO," of course the players PTSD and Kirito having to rehab after coming out of SAO. But yeah probably not to the degree it should have been. Eh I again disagree on that. Moments of levity are needed and everything can't be depressing all the time. Even Attack on Titan, that you mentioned, had comedy in it. There's not really much we can do to argue on liking a character or not. Someone either likes a character or they don't. I thought Eugeo had plenty of screen time and development in the series, definitely defining character traits and personality. He is one of the better done characters in the series, in my opinion. And I found it heartbreaking when he failed to fully reunite with Alice and then ended up dying. Finally again I will stress that Gary Stu/Mary Sue is an idiotic term that I would love to never hear uttered again. And TV Tropes is a fucking stupid site that people put way too much stock in. People refer to it and use the terms as shorthand, a lot of times people just end up spewing a slew of trendy buzzwords to make up for not really having any substantive argument at all. You say Kirito being a Gary Stu *blegh* is by plot omission, and I say it is by people omitting various scenes where Kirito was shown to have earned his abilities, and also his flaws and weaknesses and failings. There were multiple times where Kirito froze up in battle, like the time when those army guys were fighting the boss that was too strong for them, and Klein and Asuna went in to fight it, it again happened in the fight with Administrator. Kirito clearly has PTSD and trauma from his past experiences, mental health issues and emotional weaknesses. But because someone is skilled at something, those flaws get ignored, a very simpleton way of looking at things. It's not all about skill and physical strength, which again, was shown how Kirito got where he was but is conveniently ignored by people who want to bash on the series. As I said, a lot of the time, people just use Mary Sue as shorthand for "competent character I don't like." It's fine to not like a character or not be into them, but just because someone doesn't like a character doesn't make the character bad, or the story bad. I believe with some people it stems from a inferiority complex and resentment of people that are more successful, skilled, talented, and intelligent than they are. We often see how successful people are vilified in this country. Someone works hard and studies hard to get to where they are, but because they have more than other people and more respect than other people, these people who were unwilling or unable to achieve such success in their own lives harbor resentment towards them, and say that they were born into what they got or cheated to get what they got, had an unfair advantage, they're good at they do but are simply are assholes, even if they earned it they still don't deserve it etc etc. And again, it seems very apparent with some people, they believe that if they simply don't like something, that isn't good enough. The thing they don't like has to be bad for them to feel validated in their opinion and feelings, and so they try to come up with these reasons as to why a particular work is demonstrably and unequivocally bad (if they even go that far, as many prefer to just lean on TV Tropes terms to crit hit win the argument for themselves,) even though art is subjective, and anyone who likes this thing that is CLEARLY BAD CAN'T YOU SEE THAT is has taste cancer, a bad fan or not a real fan if it's a sequel to an already well-regarded property, the people who like the thing they don't like are on the wrong side of history and of art appreciation and criticism, are tantamount to being crazy. There are plenty of things that I don't like that I can acknowledge are well-made and even good, and I can see the appeal of them. I would give Mad Men and Joker as examples. While the look back on the 60s and advertising business at the time is interesting and novel, nostalgic, the characters are scumbags and not really anyone I want to watch for seasons at a time. Joker is a well-made movie and I would call it good, but it is extremely depressing and disturbing, I felt uncomfortable basically the whole time watching it and wouldn't watch it again. Maybe that is the intent, either way, I didn't like the movie. I was just really glad he didn't do anything to the mother and little girl. But just because I don't like a movie I don't feel the need to exaggerate my importance or validate myself by saying since I don't like something, it must be bad. I would just say it is not my cup of tea. Granted, many times these will align for myself and others (though again art is subjective,) but every time? Ehhh...

I don't know about all that. I didn't see SAO as being that bad. And I never really found myself taken out of the show. Though generally, maybe it is a my years of watching wrestling that has made me more forgiving of subpar and bad writing and tasteless things being done.

I believe it was said that Yuuki either didn't respond to the medicine, or the strain she got was an especially resistant strain. And yeah a freak blood transfusion accident. All of this would be exceedingly rare and unlikely, if not unheard of. I don't know why Reki didn't just say Yuuki has some form of cancer and leave it at that. But would you have preferred Yuuki to be dying of the usual mysterious "anime-itis?"

There's no racism, sexism, or homophobia in the series. You are being hyperbolic and claiming things that aren't there so you can bitch more, as usual. With the incest, for what it's worth, it didn't fully go anywhere, and Suguha didn't know that the guy she was crushing on was her brother and Kirito didn't know the player he was teaming up with was his sister, either. Though all he had to do was go in his sister's room and look up at the Leafa poster that was up there. Hell, I even advocated for Suguha to be kicked out of the house! Then someone back then told me Kirito didn't have the moral authority to do that since he killed people in SAO, although they were psychotic player killers. The AIDS thing was a bit eh, I will agree on that, though technically possible, Reki probably should have used something else, though in my opinion I was glad her disease was actually mentioned and explained, than Yuuki dying of the usual mysterious "anime-itis." I had figured and hoped that since the adaptation would be written by a woman with something of a resume, although she spoke quite highly of Reki, things like the rape and incest would be omitted and other issues could be smoothed over and the writing in general buffed up. They would also have a lot of creative freedom and mileage they could gain out of the show just staying with the Aincrad Arc and fleshing it out more, since so many of the floors and time there was not shown. There is all sorts of adventures they could have come up with. They wouldn't even have to touch the Fairy Dance Arc and indeed it should be left out entirely, though they would have to find another way to introduce Suguha, if it is deemed she is so vital to the series. Maybe just stick her in Aincrad with all the other players. There are tons of options they could use. If and when they want to want to cover the Mother's Rosario Arc, they could swap out Yuuki's disease for something else. Simply saying she has some form of cancer would be work well enough. They also vowed that the series would not be white-washed and Kirito and Asuna would be played by Asian actors. If the series really isn't ever going to happen then that is quite a shame.

Dude you constantly bitched about it crapping out... and yes the feed being 1 minute and sometimes more behind.

I don't think that was why or how they found her. I remember she was disabled from helping players and was only allowed to watch them suffer, so Kayaba was not only torturing the players by denying them a therapist, but torturing the therapist too. I don't think it was what you just said. I just remember them finding her in a forest. Maybe she was simply relegated to being a character in the game but couldn't instantly teleport around to counsel players? Presuming that is how she might have worked as intended. Actually, maybe there would have been multiple instances of Yui to counsel so many players? Would they all be the same Yui like Naruto shadow clones or it would it be multiple individual Yuis? ANYWAY. I don't want to search things too much because I don't want spoilers for future stuff. I guess I can go re-watch the Yui intro episodes later. Edit - You were right. x_x They did find her in the forest and it's true she was disabled from helping the players but could observe, but this is what the wikia said in second of her two-parter intro - She only saw hate, rage and desperation in the players until she saw Asuna and Kirito, who were enjoying themselves despite being trapped in the death game, and decided to get as close to the two. I'm sure there were other players that were content in the game, but Yui simply didn't observe them. We actually know this is true thanks the old fisherman that appeared. But still. True even though Kayaba was a genius and came up with SAO, we know he didn't develop it on his own as his girlfriend Rinko was introduced in the Alicization arc, along with talking about the past development team. Even if he was also as much of a genius to come up with Yui as well, he couldn't have made her on his own, either. No he didn't have anyone killed. From what I can tell in the show, the government and companies either don't know Yui exists or don't care. There was a whole explanation by Kikuoka about how the citizens in Underworld are a whole new revolutionary AI, and are clones of real people's souls. Yui was wholly created artificially. So does this mean Yui isn't "real" or isn't a "true" AI? D: The way it came across without outright saying it is AI like Yui aren't good enough for Kikuoka. T___T Bah, I can't find a clip of Kikuoka's speech, but it was episode 6 of Alicization which is on umpteen streaming platforms, and here is an excerpt from the wikia - Interested in receiving Rinko's assistance on his project, Seijirou revealed that its true purpose was to create Bottom-Up Artificial Intelligence (Bottom-Up AI), a type of AI that would be able to respond appropriately to any unexpected situation without prior training, unlike the usual Top-Down AI. Such an adaptive artificial intelligence was created by using the Soul Translator to scan and replicate the Fluctlight of a human.

I wouldn't say she is good at everything. Yuuki's good at that game, because that's all she does. I don't recall it being said her friends took turns playing the character. As I said, it was compared to them being in SAO, having such a long period of constant experience. This also made the characters wonder if Yuuki was an SAO player, and Kirito said no, because if she had, she would have gotten the dual wield skill, since she had faster reflexes than him, which is how he got the skill. I mean, some people are likable? I don't see how her being "instantly adored" means she's a Mary Sue. I don't agree on Kirito, either. He has had multiple cases of failure and weakness and things not going his way. It was shown that he spent time on his own level-grinding. I don't know why people thought we needed to see multiple episodes of him doing nothing but that. And I'll say again, I feel like I lose brain cells every time I have to read or type that idiotic term "Mary Sue." Really, it's just shorthand for "competent character I don't like." I don't remember the Santa event ever being portrayed as comical. That episode wasn't portrayed as comical. So I don't know where you're getting the mood whiplash thing from. You're saying it got too dark? But it still had sweet moments, like the message from Sachi I linked. So, what you're saying is... the book is much better than the movie. And Reki is less at fault that some would like to believe! I still haven't read the books yet. I checked some out from the library a long time ago but never got around to reading them. Obviously that's not an option now, but I should still try to find some way of reading them when I get the chance. I did read a few excerpts here and there and saw there was more detail given, which is often the case with books compared to TV and movies. But I thought that issue came from the original books. The first arc was a story that was cut down to meet a word limit for a writing contest, and was still too long. Reki then went back later and expanded it. But, if there was still stuff cut even by the anime, I have a feeling that will be rectified for Aincrad, at least, when they inevitably animate some of the Progressive series, where Reki is remaking and further fleshing out the original arc to show all the floors, I believe. Yeah some people were complaining about the pacing being too sluggish in Alicization at some points. I found an article about fans being upset by pacing and here they were actually mad at things being cut! So yeah, I don't think having all that stuff in there would help the pacing issues, for the reasons you gave. This is why 1:1 book to screen adaptations can't always happen. But I don't agree with you about Eugeo. I am still shocked and upset by his death. I was convinced that he was going to be healed since he fell in two pieces but was frozen in the middle... but nope! Then I realized Alice's memory crystal also got destroyed. Along with Cardinal's death and Kirito becoming a vegetable, that mission was almost a total failure for the heroes outside of killing Administrator! I still just really can't get over that Eugeo actually died. Eh I doubt it's 90% that's been skipped. But, you realize what you're asking for, which might even go beyond the Aincrad Arc itself in relation to adapting Progressive material, is a Kai of SAO, but making it longer! =D Be careful what you wish for.

Well that was what I was saying. The nobles were able to get away with shit, and it didn't register to Kikuoka because they weren't shown as violating the taboo index. And it was recently revealed that the seal of the right eye was likely put in by an INSIDE MAN, since having that in place would go against Rath's goals.

Right, and if they are considered immunocompromised, is that why he is so pessimistic and won't shut the fuck up about the virus? His lardo waifus are at risk!

Well, we primarily have one jackass to blame for that. I wonder if those morbidly obese characters are considered immunocompromised?