AnimeSuki Forums

Register Forum Rules FAQ Members List Social Groups Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Go Back   AnimeSuki Forum > Anime Discussion > Older Series > Sword Art Online

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 2012-07-16, 09:49   Link #1241
Ray
Garnet
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dann of Thursday View Post
So, is it like a version combining some of the side stories all into one big chronological volume so there's clarity?

Well, that would take far too long honestly. They didn't even get to 100 anyway.
Ye. We don't know if it'll be chronological, but he said that it'll focus on eliminating the plot holes and inconsistencies.

Exactly. He mentioned that it'd take years of writing to do that.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kyp275 View Post
I'd say the entire Aincrad arc is one giant plot hole, with everything that's been written so far being little more than snippets here and there
Uhh.. like to exaggerate, do we? ;p

@noobita: Hm.. Chapter 16 I think.
Ray is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 09:55   Link #1242
kyp275
Meh
 
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by noobita View Post
I mean, when were both of them realize that they love each other.
Asuna started to develop feelings for Kirito about 1 1/2yrs in, starting with a certain event in the Murder Case side story. Kirito on the other hand is less clear, but it's something that slowly developed over the first half of vol.1
kyp275 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:00   Link #1243
kyp275
Meh
 
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aphrah View Post
Uhh.. like to exaggerate, do we? ;p
A little

But that's how I feel about the whole Aincrad arc though. In a manner of speaking it's a bit like Tolkien's Simarillion, you get a bunch of different stories that covered various periods of the First Age, covering some of the key events and the key characters, but left much of it blank or mentioned in passing only. Heck, there are even inconsistencies and contradictions in the simarillion too, just like Aincrad
kyp275 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:00   Link #1244
Nightengale
~Night of Gales~
*Author
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Asuna : a little bit over 1 1/2 years into SAO.

Kirito : Arguably round Chapter 10, slightly before or slightly after.

Mutual : It's pretty obvious by Chapter 12 that they knew they loved each other. The last few sentences of Chapter 12 was pretty much a confession already.

"That" : ... Chapter 16 >.>
__________________
Night~and~Gale: ~ The Final Mythology of the Man who Defied Destiny.

The sleeping lion shall awaken beyond the depths of time, crossing ten billion lights, come to Terra.
Nightengale is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:03   Link #1245
novalysis
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by kyp275 View Post
Asuna started to develop feelings for Kirito about 1 1/2yrs in, starting with a certain event in the Murder Case side story. Kirito on the other hand is less clear, but it's something that slowly developed over the first half of vol.1
With Aria/Rondo/Monochrome, the situation becomes a little more ambigious. I personally think that in the revised time-line, Asuna would leave Kirito sometime before the Black Cats Arc on a reasonably amicable note, Kirito being considered a friend, but not yet a love interest.

So, her feelings in Murder doesn't pop out of no where - it's roots laid in Aria/Rondo/Monochrome, but only really comes into being in Murder.

As for Kirito, I think it's worth remembering that about half of his time in SAO revolved around replacement Gold-fishes for Su-chan. Sachi (April), then Silica (February the next year, and possibly even up till the eve of Murder). And I still wonder how he got the courage to help Silica after Sachi. I wonder whether, in SAO Progressive, we might actually see Asuna interacting meaningfully again with Kirito even before Murder- perhaps even on the 50th Floor boss fight, where she manages to repay back what Kirito did for her in Aria, and get Kirito out of his semi-suicidal funk. Because I cannot see how RNR completely stopped that tendency.

It's an interesting commentary - the First Fourth of Kirito's time involved being a "Beater", his early adventures with Asuna, a period of loneliness. The next fourth kicks off with the Black Cats and Sachi, their lost, his hardcore "Solo" state, where he becomes more of a Soloer then than at any point before or after, and ends with RNR. The next Fourth covers the period between RNR and Murder- which includes the matter about Silica, but likely also quite alot of front-line fighting. It is only in the final Fourth, from Murder onwards that Romance becomes a consideration.

Unless Progressive re-writes quite alot of things, including the whole RNR affair, I'd say that Kirito spent anywhere between a quarter to half of his SAO time relying on replacement Goldfishes of Sughara for human contact and comfort. The other half of the time, Asuna was likely his main source of regular human contact and confidence. (Yes, I know I'm not counting Klein in, but it's quite vague how often Kirito interacting with him, and whether both of them ever deeply confided with one another).

When all this is taken into account, poor Sughara never stood a chance in ALO, just from the events of RNR alone. And so, she joined Kirito's Unrequited Feelings Club. If you were younger than Kirito, odds are, after Sachi. he might have been adverse to getting too close to Imouto-like figures like Silica. In a sense, I think if Asuna was younger than Kirito significantly, and not his equal, Kirito would never have opened up to her.

And I just watched some of the Cynical Brit's Videos. I'm now trying to think what it would be like if HE was trapped in Aincrad. (Yes, I know the ALF/Army is a good indication of the same scenario).

Last edited by novalysis; 2012-07-16 at 10:13.
novalysis is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:07   Link #1246
Ray
Garnet
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
Quote:
Originally Posted by kyp275 View Post
A little

But that's how I feel about the whole Aincrad arc though. In a manner of speaking it's a bit like Tolkien's Simarillion, you get a bunch of different stories that covered various periods of the First Age, covering some of the key events and the key characters, but left much of it blank or mentioned in passing only. Heck, there are even inconsistencies and contradictions in the simarillion too, just like Aincrad
Heh, I've noticed. ;p

Tolkien Simarillion? First time I've ever heard of it, but I see. I agree that there're quite a few plot holes/inconsistencies, but I wouldn't consider the arc to be one massive plot hole, though.
Ray is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:19   Link #1247
Dann of Thursday
WHERE'S...MY...COW????
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Age: 33
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aphrah View Post
Ye. We don't know if it'll be chronological, but he said that it'll focus on eliminating the plot holes and inconsistencies.

Exactly. He mentioned that it'd take years of writing to do that.
Hmm, well it would be nice if he incorporated all the short stories and whatnot into one chronological volume, though I imagine that would come out pretty long. Is there a page limit for Light Novels or anything like that?
__________________
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, if you want to test a man's character give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
Dann of Thursday is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:21   Link #1248
Ray
Garnet
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dann of Thursday View Post
Hmm, well it would be nice if he incorporated all the short stories and whatnot into one chronological volume, though I imagine that would come out pretty long. Is there a page limit for Light Novels or anything like that?
It's just that some side stories would work better in flashback format. But yeah, I agree for the most part.

Not that I know of. All Kawahara has to do is keep writing more volumes if he wants to detail more events and whatnot.
Ray is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:24   Link #1249
DurararaFTW
Member
 
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by novalysis View Post
With Aria/Rondo/Monochrome, the situation becomes a little more ambigious. I personally think that in the revised time-line, Asuna would leave Kirito sometime before the Black Cats Arc on a reasonably amicable note, Kirito being considered a friend, but not yet a love interest.

So, her feelings in Murder doesn't pop out of no where - it's roots laid in Aria/Rondo/Monochrome, but only really comes into being in Murder.

As for Kirito, I think it's worth remembering that about half of his time in SAO revolved around replacement Gold-fishes for Su-chan. Sachi (April), then Silica (February the next year, and possibly even up till the eve of Murder). And I still wonder how he got the courage to help Silica after Sachi. I wonder whether, in SAO Progressive, we might actually see Asuna interacting meaningfully again with Kirito even before Murder- perhaps even on the 50th Floor boss fight, where she manages to repay back what Kirito did for her in Aria, and get Kirito out of his semi-suicidal funk. Because I cannot see how RNR completely stopped that tendency.

It's an interesting commentary - the First Fourth of Kirito's time involved being a "Beater", his early adventures with Asuna, a period of loneliness. The next fourth kicks off with the Black Cats and Sachi, their lost, his hardcore "Solo" state, where he becomes more of a Soloer then than at any point before or after, and ends with RNR. The next Fourth covers the period between RNR and Murder- which includes the matter about Silica, but likely also quite alot of front-line fighting. It is only in the final Fourth, from Murder onwards that Romance becomes a consideration.

Unless Progressive re-writes quite alot of things, including the whole RNR affair, I'd say that Kirito spent anywhere between a quarter to half of his SAO time relying on replacement Goldfishes of Sughara for human contact and comfort. The other half of the time, Asuna was likely his main source of regular human contact and confidence. (Yes, I know I'm not counting Klein in, but it's quite vague how often Kirito interacting with him, and whether both of them ever deeply confided with one another).

When all this is taken into account, poor Sughara never stood a chance in ALO, just from the events of RNR alone. And so, she joined Kirito's Unrequited Feelings Club. If you were younger than Kirito, odds are, after Sachi. he might have been adverse to getting too close to Imouto-like figures like Silica. In a sense, I think if Asuna was younger than Kirito significantly, and not his equal, Kirito would never have opened up to her.

And I just watched some of the Cynical Brit's Videos. I'm now trying to think what it would be like if HE was trapped in Aincrad. (Yes, I know the ALF/Army is a good indication of the same scenario).
I'm not sure what you mean by replacement. He never relied on Sugara for human contact. Pretty much the opposite, before SAO he avoided her more then anyone.
DurararaFTW is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 10:41   Link #1250
Random Wanderer
Senior Member
 
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by DurararaFTW View Post
I'm not sure what you mean by replacement. He never relied on Sugara for human contact. Pretty much the opposite, before SAO he avoided her more then anyone.
But he still cared about her. He expressed regrets to Silica about how he hadn't been able to tell things to his sister. And that wasn't the first time he mentioned his sister, either.

I've read a few of the sidestories, but I haven't gotten past volume 2 in the main, so I can't talk about what may have been revealed later on, but it seems pretty clear just with what I have read that he views certain girls as imouto-like characters, and tries to protect them in honor of his own sister.
Random Wanderer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 11:07   Link #1251
novalysis
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Random Wanderer View Post
But he still cared about her. He expressed regrets to Silica about how he hadn't been able to tell things to his sister. And that wasn't the first time he mentioned his sister, either.

I've read a few of the sidestories, but I haven't gotten past volume 2 in the main, so I can't talk about what may have been revealed later on, but it seems pretty clear just with what I have read that he views certain girls as imouto-like characters, and tries to protect them in honor of his own sister.
Exactly. Asuna was the only exception to that rule.

That rule very much governed the way he behaved with Sachi, Silica and even Lizbeth.

The queer thing is that even though the romance aspect has been so much praised, I think the side stories made it clear that for much of Kirito's time in Aincrad, his main psychological focus was to find some kind of human contact to fill the gap in emotional need he felt with regards to his Sister/Cousin we see in First Day.

Asuna on the other hand, interacted with Kirito on a whole different paradigm from the rest of Kirito's so called "harem." Have you noticed that most of Kirito's "harem" in a certain sense were stand-ins of sorts for Sughara?

So yes, even if Kirito had distance himself from his sister (it was implied though, there was a time a mere few years before SAO where they were closed), there was fundamentally an "Imouto" need that First Day captured very well that influence Kirito's behaviour significantly until at least Black Swordsman, if not Murder.

The thing is, he never ever really filled the gap well. He found something better to transcend beyond it - Asuna.
novalysis is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 11:16   Link #1252
Sixth
Hu Tao
 
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by kyp275 View Post
Asuna started to develop feelings for Kirito about 1 1/2yrs in, starting with a certain event in the Murder Case side story. Kirito on the other hand is less clear, but it's something that slowly developed over the first half of vol.1
Can I know which chapter is murder case?
Sixth is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 11:20   Link #1253
Ray
Garnet
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
Quote:
Originally Posted by noobita View Post
Can I know which chapter is murder case?
The Murder Case shide story is the first part of Volume 8, if I remember correctly.
Ray is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 11:22   Link #1254
trinitem
Dedicated Lurker
 
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: You Guess
Age: 30
Quote:
Can I know which chapter is murder case?
A Murder Case in the Area is the first story in volume 8.
trinitem is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 11:56   Link #1255
Sixth
Hu Tao
 
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
@ trinitem and Aphrah

Thanks you for the help.
Sixth is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 12:11   Link #1256
Algester
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
well here are some problems with the Light Novel, first we do know that originally SAO was a web novel in fact it was supposed to be a Light Novel entry for Dengeki... but Reki just happens to exceeded the page count with a substantial margin and thats just SAO, ALO,GGO and Underworld were not written in this point in time during the Dengeki contest, so Reki decided to just post SAO as a web novel while at the same time keep on writing what he thinks of the sequels to the story thus ALO and GGO arcs were made, however the Underworld arc is up for debate as the Alicization Arc was meant to be a stand alone story independent of the events of ALO and GGO, however the re-occuring characters for the Underworld arc are still Kirito and Asuna, so this is where the material editions come in to play as these stories are basically what got lopped off from the published novels or else each volume could be as thick as a kyoukaisen volume and Dengeki may not have that much of a budget to publish one door stopper so they adivsed Reki to cut off some things from the original web novels so that it can be printed and published. So in a way until Dengeki decides for Reki to re-edit SAO (which he is willing to) then that is the only time when we can really see the true canon in SAO arc, which I got news of that SAO:Progressive (re-written SAO in part canon) will be part of the Blu-ray special
Algester is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 12:19   Link #1257
Ray
Garnet
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
Quote:
Originally Posted by Algester View Post
the Alicization Arc was meant to be a stand alone story independent of the events of ALO and GGO
Really? What happened then?

Quote:
So in a way until Dengeki decides for Reki to re-edit SAO (which he is willing to) then that is the only time when we can really see the true canon in SAO arc, which I got news of that SAO:Progressive (re-written SAO in part canon) will be part of the Blu-ray special
What do you mean by "part-canon"? SAO: Progressive will be part of the Blu-ray special? Where'd you hear that? Because, honestly, it sounds too good to be true..
Ray is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 12:46   Link #1258
DurararaFTW
Member
 
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by novalysis View Post
Exactly. Asuna was the only exception to that rule.

That rule very much governed the way he behaved with Sachi, Silica and even Lizbeth.
Then I'd argue that it is not about age, but rather, as Lizbeth says ability to stand beside him on the battlefield. (Which Lyfa ironically possesses, but she was just straight up too late.)

Quote:
The queer thing is that even though the romance aspect has been so much praised, I think the side stories made it clear that for much of Kirito's time in Aincrad, his main psychological focus was to find some kind of human contact to fill the gap in emotional need he felt with regards to his Sister/Cousin we see in First Day.
I agree he has a save the girl syndrome. But I'd disagree he spend half of the two years in SAO focused on saving and unknowingly seducing every female MMOer he could hunt down. Where others just plain regret ever getting involved in MMOs, Kirito's only regret is leaving things this way with his sister. His main drive in SAO was his unceasing intention to be the best at the Sword Art Online.
DurararaFTW is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 14:47   Link #1259
Anh_Minh
I disagree with you all.
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by novalysis View Post
The queer thing is that even though the romance aspect has been so much praised, I think the side stories made it clear that for much of Kirito's time in Aincrad, his main psychological focus was to find some kind of human contact to fill the gap in emotional need he felt with regards to his Sister/Cousin we see in First Day.
It wasn't really just about his sister. It was about his whole family and his place in it. He was hurt by learning he'd been lied to with regards to his origins, but at the same time couldn't deny the love he received, which made him feel guilty about feeling hurt, and so on. He was a bit of a mess.

Faced with the hedgehog's dilemma, he tried to avoid others, to avoid relying on others, to avoid having others rely on him, while at the same time craving human contact, feeling guilty about letting others down, and so on.

Asuna broke down his defenses by being able to take care of herself even on the frontlines where he lived, and by sheer determination not to let him get away.
Anh_Minh is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2012-07-16, 15:52   Link #1260
Dann of Thursday
WHERE'S...MY...COW????
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Age: 33
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aphrah View Post
It's just that some side stories would work better in flashback format. But yeah, I agree for the most part.

Not that I know of. All Kawahara has to do is keep writing more volumes if he wants to detail more events and whatnot.
Yes, some could work better whereas others like Yui's story could probably be well integrated before the whole business with the fishing. The Black Cats work as a flashback, but I'm not sure about RNR then. I feel that story might be weird to integrate as a flashback unless you had him think to it after telling Asuna the story or have him tell RNR as well.

Indeed, though it would be nice to have an eventual end. Or even some post end stories detailing what everyone ends up doing.
__________________
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, if you want to test a man's character give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
Dann of Thursday is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
action, harem, kirito, non-harem, possible harem, romance, shounen, tragedy, virtual reality

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:02.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
We use Silk.