Why do People hate Sword Art Online so much?

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Seriously, what were people expecting that made them hate it so much? I enoyed the series; cliche tropes and all. Its not the worst animated nor does it have the worst plot ever.

[Dyne]

People have opinions

I thought it was boring, generic and the plot was pretty bland, but I'm not exactly an anime expert myself

[Radene]

....I'm at an impasse here.

See, I actually liked the anime, but on the other hand, I don't have a single good thing to say about it :D

Maybe I just liked Asuna being a protagonist of her own.

[Crystal Sharrd]

I think it's good, but I've only seen a couple episodes from the second and third seasons.

[Indiana Georg]

what is this and is it good ?

[AlmightyDunkle]

Back when I used to sort of watch Anime I thought season 1 was pretty alright, had a few cliches here and there.


Season 2 was a f***ing dumpster fire though.

[Radene]

Originally posted by indiana_georg:

what is this and is it good ? :PZ4:

It's...well, what can I say. A time-passer. The reason it gained traction was one simple question: "If dying in a VR game meant you died for real, what would happen?".

It kinda went from there, grabbing all the tropes/cliches it could.

[Indiana Georg]

Originally posted by Radene:

Originally posted by indiana_georg:

what is this and is it good ?

It's...well, what can I say. A time-passer. The reason it gained traction was one simple question: "If dying in a VR game meant you died for real, what would happen?".

It kinda went from there, grabbing all the tropes/cliches it could.

sounds boring and something they took from inception

[Jonathan Sensei]

It was ok - nothing too special. Log Horizon on the other hand did what SAO wanted to do and then some. SAO season two is almost as bad as Tokyo Ghoul √A.

[Radene]

Originally posted by indiana_georg:

Originally posted by Radene:

It's...well, what can I say. A time-passer. The reason it gained traction was one simple question: "If dying in a VR game meant you died for real, what would happen?".

It kinda went from there, grabbing all the tropes/cliches it could.

sounds boring and something they took from inception :M4Sherman:

Except that SAO is a year older than Inception.

...then again, neither of them is actually the first who asked that question.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Meh. It got highly overhyped at release, as it was massively popular in Japan. It carries over a LOT of the stereotypical tropes that plague anime, and if you combine that over abundance with the oddly dis-appropriate disgust the anime "Fans" have of other people liking anime, it was a festive crap show waiting to happen.

I personally very much enjoy the series, so much so that I went ahead and read the light novels and all the side stuff. The worst thing I can point to about the series is that how it still hits me with the cheap emotional manipulation, and that with how the Light Novels were written, then translated into a liner series that they should have probably pushed each story arc out about another 6 episodes, Or at least for the first arc. They leave a LOT of actually important character development stuff out.

It's just a middling, average series I happen to enjoy. If you want to watch the series with a LOT of the issues fixed, go watch SAO abridged.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by indiana_georg:

what is this and is it good ? :PZ4:

Its essentially a show about getting stuck in a vr world that's so real in your mind that if you die in the game you die real life. The character is a level below Jotaro in pure deus ex machina wins, but its pretty good anyway.

[Mossy Snake]

Bad story based around a bad game

"SAO was a huge hit! It sold 15,000 copies!"

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by Coffinmaw:

It was ok - nothing too special. Log Horizon on the other hand did what SAO wanted to do and then some. SAO season two is almost as bad as Tokyo Ghoul √A.

I never got past episode one with Tokyo Ghoul, it just seemed too much gore. Everyone bleed way too much, it was like a b grade movie.

[Jonathan Sensei]

Originally posted by Grima The Fell Dragon:

Originally posted by Coffinmaw:

It was ok - nothing too special. Log Horizon on the other hand did what SAO wanted to do and then some. SAO season two is almost as bad as Tokyo Ghoul √A.

I never got past episode one with Tokyo Ghoul, it just seemed too much gore. Everyone bleed way too much, it was like a b grade movie.

Well, i'm an old gore hound and people at the time were saying that show was a good horror anime so I had to see it. But like with SAO season two, TG's season two was really disjointed to say the least.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by MossyRathalos:

Bad story based around a bad game

"SAO was a huge hit! It sold 15,000 copies!"

I guess in context asking people to put their brains in a device that simulates the damage you take to your real body is a lot ask people for a new genre. The plot was trope checklist, but more meh than bad.