[FlareKnight]

In terms of the whole getting attached to characters bit I think an episode is more than good enough. If there's anything that "Natsume Yuujinchou" taught me is that one episode stories can have just as much emotional impact or more than a longer arc. It's all about execution. Not saying this episode was as emotional as one of that series' episodes, but it can be done. Overall it wasn't too bad. It could have been better, but I thought it wasn't bad.

I thought that they did a good job making you care about Sachi and that last message hit home for me personally. Yeah, the rest didn't really matter to me, but that one girl did and it was sad to see her go down like that. Glad she made that message for Kirito though since he really needed it.

I'm definitely getting a feel for Kirito and curious to see how he approaches interacting with people going forward. Has already had some tough experiences in the last two episodes.