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Originally Posted by Raviel
Does anyone else think episode 3 would have been received much better had the producers bothered to stick with the sequencing of events in RnR?
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Nope, I think an advantage the anime version has over LN one is that viewers expected Sachi to be recurring character. They expected her to be one of Kirito's harem member. Put a spoiler upfront that she is going to die at beginning of episode is a bad move. It will also add even more time skip into an already confusing episode. I believe this is correct decision from anime studio part.
I do believe, however, that this episode will recieved better treatment if they just cut the whole RNR deal out, the whole Xmas event things. They can just made this episode purely a Black Cat guild episode so they can introduced Sachi and killed her off more effectively.
I don't if this is really better solution. It will surely give birth to new complain but at least it will make the episode better IMO.