Sword Art Online - Anime Spoilers & Speculation (for SAO Novel Readers only)

[Rageth]

Well, consider the fact that if you read the novel in order, then by the time you reach that point, Laughing Coffin is just some PK guild that Kuradeel was a part of.

PoH, XaXa, and Johnny Black weren't introduced until 2-3 books later.

[Queen of Corners]

Originally Posted by Rageth

Well, consider the fact that if you read the novel in order, then by the time you reach that point, Laughing Coffin is just some PK guild that Kuradeel was a part of.

PoH, XaXa, and Johnny Black weren't introduced until 2-3 books later.

Yes, but that's not what I meant. At least, not completely. I know I was like 'wait, what?' on the first read, but Kirito's inner monologue succeeded in at least making us familiar with parts of the story. What worries me in particular is how anime will handle it. They have the advantage of already showing cameo appearances of LC members, but other than a lengthy flashback or something like it, I don't think there are many ways to explain Kirito's BSOD.

[hamazura]

PoH, XaXa, and Johnny

XaXa is the death gun right?
and PoH is

Spoiler for ...:

the dark knight(?) in alicization.

what did johhny do?

[Queen of Corners]

Originally Posted by hamazura

PoH, XaXa, and Johnny

XaXa is the death gun right?
and PoH is

Spoiler for ...:

the dark knight(?) in alicization.

what did johhny do?

Yes.

Spoiler for Johnny Black, Alicization:

Johnny is the one who stabbed Kirito with that syrng and pretty much the reason why Alicization played out the way it did.

[hamazura]

Originally Posted by Queen of Corners

Yes.

Spoiler for Johnny Black, Alicization:

Johnny is the one who stabbed Kirito with that syrng and pretty much the reason why Alicization played out the way it did.

so johhny is the doom bringer for anime only viewers. gonna do cliffhanger shot at the end

[l.kostas]

Originally Posted by hamazura

what did johhny do?

http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Johnny_Black

[Queen of Corners]

Originally Posted by hamazura

so johhny is the doom bringer for anime only viewers. gonna do cliffhanger shot at the end

Assuming it gets done. We don't know that yet. But I'm sure hoping it happens.

[l.kostas]

Originally Posted by Krono

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I guess I'll post it here to be safe. It seems that someone has gone to the effort of translating Reki Kawahara's twitter commentary for the first couple of episodes if anyone is interested:

The translator is Tap and he just added the episode 3 commentary:
http://www.taptaptaptaptap.net/kunori-commentary/

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by hamazura

PoH, XaXa, and Johnny

XaXa is the death gun right?

Spoiler:

XaXa, his brother and Johny are all Death Gun. XaXa plays the game online while his brother and Johnny does the killing

[l.kostas]

The official English site is ready:
http://www.swordart-onlineusa.com/
Episode 4:
http://www.swordart-onlineusa.com/st...ao-two-04.html

[chaos_alfa]

It seems someone has already come up with the corrected hypotheses how Death Gun kills his victims.

Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

Nobody is thinking that perhaps the victims are killed IRL and that the shows that Death Gun puts up on GGO are just a scene to make people think he's doing it online?

I haven't ruled that out yet.

That was quick.

And someone else came up with the correct conditions which have to be satisfied for it to work.

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

for that to happen

1. there would be more then 1 Death Gun
2. real life name and address of the victim.
3. form ep1, the autopsy stated they found normal abnormal.

1 is easy,
2 would require either DG to be one hell of a hacker or someone who work for the GGO company.
3. what kind of weapon/ways of killing someone would undetectable to current autopsy techniques?

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by chaos_alfa

It seems someone has already come up with the corrected hypotheses how Death Gun kills his victims.



That was quick.

And someone else came up with the correct conditions which have to be satisfied for it to work.

once someone came up with the hypotheses. You just need to come up with logical corresponding questions/conditions.

[hamazura]

Originally Posted by chaos_alfa

It seems someone has already come up with the corrected hypotheses how Death Gun kills his victims.



That was quick.

And someone else came up with the correct conditions which have to be satisfied for it to work.

its not that hard to speculate that.

[chaos_alfa]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

once someone came up with the hypotheses. You just need to come up with logical corresponding questions/conditions.

Originally Posted by hamazura

its not that hard to speculate that.

When I was reading the story I wasn't thinking in that direction and it came to me as a surprise when it was revealed.

[hamazura]

Originally Posted by chaos_alfa

When I was reading the story I wasn't thinking in that direction and it came to me as a surprise when it was revealed.

same here.
i didnt even bother to think any theory or other shit when i was reading the novel.
its already hard to just imagine the scene you know, im a bad novel reader

but i think the difficulty level of death gun mystery is 1/10.

[chaos_alfa]

Originally Posted by hamazura

same here.
i didnt even bother to think any theory or other shit when i was reading the novel.
its already hard to just imagine the scene you know, im a bad novel reader

but i think the difficulty level of death gun mystery is 1/10.

I agree with you on that one, it isn't a very complex mystery.

[Queen of Corners]

Originally Posted by chaos_alfa

I agree with you on that one, it isn't a very complex mystery.

Still doesn't make it that easy to guess. Most people don't think of the simple solution at first.

[Xellos-_^]

probably because it was too simple.

[hamazura]

Originally Posted by Queen of Corners

Still doesn't make it that easy to guess. Most people don't think of the simple solution at first.

its far easier than 100% of all detective conan's cases
maybe the level of difficulty of death gun mystery is same with danganronpa case 1. which is very easy

[Queen of Corners]

Originally Posted by hamazura

its far easier than 100% of all detective conan's cases
maybe the level of difficulty of death gun mystery is same with danganronpa case 1. which is very easy

Phantom Bullet IMO comes across more as Sinon's character arc than a real murder mystery, though. It's better that in this case the key to the mystery is something simple than a horde of complicated explanations. Not brilliant, but not stupid either.