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Originally Posted by lightbringer
But there was basically no material left in RNR and no substantial cuts were made. Just the little bit about how he saved them in the forest and the meta-story about hunting the ants. That's not enough to fill a whole episode IMHO. It's just my opinion but I think RNR was really well adapted.
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It probably would have been better to pad it out, really. Basically the problem was that we had no time to form an attachment. Because the story is about Kirito dealing with the aftermath of Sachi's death, we had her introduced and then killed in
half an episode. It's just a bit hard to care much when it happens so fast. The LN version of the story didn't need to prep you for it because you'd already read the main story where Kirito mentioned it.
If they devoted one full episode to the guild, ending with their deaths, and then another episode to him chasing down the Christmas story, it probably would have been much better even with anime-original padding.