SAO started out okay but then took a sharp left turn towards absolute ♥♥♥♥. I kept watching for longer than I should have, hoping it would recover but it never did, only descended to even grosser and weirder levels of fanservice and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ plotting. By the time I stopped watching it was too late, I had lost that sense of childlike innocence and wonder, every day waking up I would remember that something like SAO was allowed to exist in this world and I'd throw up in my mouth a little. I actually stopped watching anime for an entire year, the only shows I watched during that time were cooking channel and Ice Road Truckers. Finally I gave in and accepted that there was no going back, I would never be whole again, I would never find moral redemption.

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