This episode was fantastic. That was just incredible. That was the end of this arc that I was waiting for, for a very long time. One of those infinity/10 episodes that you are only privileged with seeing a few times in a lifetime. That was phenomenal.
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Originally Posted by GDB
...Wow, not sure if that was just poorly adapted or if the novel was that bad too, but man:
1) Show Kirito get stabbed and injected in solar plexus, then imply he was instead stabbed in the left nipple. This I assume is 100% on the anime, but still. Why not just, you know, have Sinon save him before he gets injected rather than forcing a deus ex machina 1 in a million saving throw?
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The anime was the one that made it look iffy. It was done much better in the novel. However, in the novel it used rule of (something related to emotion) to make it work. He was also aiming for his heart, so this ultimately makes sense. The problem with anime versus novel is that it would have had to take extra time explaining things about Kirito's situation and so on to draw up the emotions to make that not seem like a Deus Ex Machina... and they're not just going to adapt the novel poorly. That would go against the Novel reader's and the writer's wishes. It's iffy, but still fine IMO. Plus, they weren't going to take more time to explain it... because people like you were already complaining that it was too long. You can't take that back, because you said as much on the threads of the last few episodes of this arc already.
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2) "Girl I've been macking on for the last few weeks, I want to introduce you to some people. These are my friends from SAO." Yeah Kirito, because Asuna isn't your girlfriend/pseudo-wife or anything. Go ahead and introduce her as a friend and nothing more.
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I've heard this complaint a few times. People saying this are just not thinking clearly. It would have completely killed the mood. Now isn't the time to tell her that. Sinon would have felt embarrassed and worried about whether she was making Kirito "cheat" on Asuna. Kirito was trying to introduce her to new friends. Telling her that one of them was his girlfriend would have instantly set a bad vibe and kind of made it murky whether or not Asuna was clear friends with Sinon or whether she was trying to back-stab her and get back and her & hurt her.
Asano was already scared enough that she almost left before Kirito managed to make her stay and listen. He was smart as introducing them as his friends because this much was true, and the whole point of that introduction was to help Asano make real world friends that are also girl VRMMO players. Another thing that people saying this ignored is that Kirito already talked to Asuna and Lizbeth about Sinon's circumstances and they all explored what happened to her past in order to try to help her cure her trauma.
They all planned what to say here. It isn't like Kirito just talked to Asuna for the first time after spending time with Asano. They already discussed how to make the introductions, so this remark should just get scrapped.
It was done much better this way than any other way people were suggesting.
That's for sure.
I really liked this episode and it was an excellent finish to an excellent arc. I just wish they had exposition/fight episodes like this more often, because this is way better than the episodes where I feel like nothing is happening because it is just a bunch of fight scenes.
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