Sword Art Online

It could have been great, and ended up being only ok. Great action, good story potential, and instead they rush through the main storyline and focus on the random filler that was never in the original light novels until much later.

Thanks for putting the spoiler alert, as that did catch my eye and stopped me from reading the rest of your post, but you may want to put a spoiler tag in your topic title as well. :P

It's one of the best anime's I watched, the best part is before they beat the game, and the ending was just ok, but still. I tried to find an audiobook of the series, but there aren't, ppl did the prologue but it was impossible to me to understand what they say...I need to read it by myself someday, since there are the books in digital format. The books must be a lot better than anime...

I don't really remember much about that anime, but I do remember thinking it was overrated as hell. I did kind of like that brief part with Kirito and that small guild who knew each other in real life, though that was too short. I can see why people would say the anime is just a summary. I haven't read the light novels, but I probably will eventually.

And fuck S2+

Also, regarding Log Horizon: when it came out, some people said it was SAO properly done. The two really shouldn't be compared seeing as how they're completely different. If you liked it, do check out Maoyuu Maou Yuusha though. Completely different themes, but the author has a unique style I personally really like.

SAO is a garbage casual anime for people who don't know anything about anime. The same crowd that like crap like Naruto, Bleach, Inuyasha and Atatck on Titan.

The anime of SAO covers volumes of the light novels, so the pacing is rather difficult.

Didn't enjoy any of the characters at all, except for Klein who was alright.

The original four .hack games and I believe some of the novels did everything better.
Tried watching SAO, but it's such a blatant .hack clone with a terrible story, nothing at all is original.

Its a good anime, and have a lot of fans, log horizon is another great anime with similar flavor, but they are very different i like both a lot, SAO for the action, Log for the politics.

It looked like a random mess. Being with a guild gives you skills that apparently makes you invincible. Characters going through menus in-game and players using a controller. No one can read your character sheet. No game balance at all.

SAO to me was one of the worst animes I've given a chance, I gave it the 3 episode treatment and it failed to entice me. If it gets "better" later on, I don't care. It's not worth watching a long season's worth of garbage to possibly like an episode or two.

Yes, it's a garbage, train wreck of an anime. As with the posters above, it seems like only casual anime watchers like it. Anyone who's watched more than like 20 series can attest that it's overhyped garbage.

It was wasted potential. It would've been much better if they dropped they second half hentai storyline and concentrated on the first half more. The character development was horrible and every girl in the show felt pointless, just the typical damsel in distress that wanted the D and that's all they were. I don't even feel the action scenes were good, they ended before they even started and the boss fights didn't have any feel to them, just a big ass mob monster.

first half, good enough. second half, absolute bullshit, dont even bother with it, just watch first half then only last episode. also ignore ome of the game related bullshit like stable launch of mmo and no server maintenance ever. what the hell

I've finished it recently too, i liked it very much, but everything beyond 14th episode felt like a spin-off or smth ;D

The second half the the season was indeed pretty terrible.

Action scenes were good. The rest of it was underwhelming, too much Kirito too little character development.

I watched SAO first and then Log Horizon. Log Horizon was definitively better, not only for the story but pacing and the setting was done better as well.

I really loved the action scenes in SAO,also felt like that it was more made for girls than for boys with that plot,also I LOVED LOG HORIZON,I can't wait for another season!also the new SAO season is coming this summer,and I hope that it will have better story than the first series :)

Your standard power fantasy, not much to the story and characters. But a nice watch

The 1st arc is decent, the 2nd one is terrible. I also watched several episodes of Log Horizon, but I don't like it for some reason.

I liked it.

I watched whole SAO (+ special) and read every single SAO Light Novel. I do like it very much as a whole. (I'm not casual anime watcher).

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