(L) Sword Art Online - Light Novel Discussion

[Parousia]

Originally Posted by DOmus

any idea of how many days all those 200 years where in real life??

The time acceleration varies by how much fast does they want. From what I know the maximum was 5000 seconds in UW would be equivalent to a second in the real world, so that 200 years might have only taken a few minutes in the real world or I don't know.

Originally Posted by Nishaven

Did they just erase their memories about 200 years or all memories about uw?

Yes, if you are looking for a reason then just scroll up.

[c933103]

Originally Posted by Nishaven

Did they just erase their memories about 200 years or all memories about uw?

Spoiler:

from the point after thw Human Enpire vs DT war end and negotiation start

[nooneagain]

Originally Posted by c933103

Spoiler:

from the point after thw Human Enpire vs DT war end and negotiation start

Spoiler for uw:

so that means whatever fighting/sword skills they may have obtained up until that time still remains, amirite?

[DOmus]

Originally Posted by nooneagain

Spoiler for uw:

so that means whatever fighting/sword skills they may have obtained up until that time still remains, amirite?

Pretty much the armament full control and the realising phase, although, i dont know if they are usable in other worlds that are not uw

[nooneagain]

Originally Posted by DOmus

Pretty much the armament full control and the realising phase, although, i dont know if they are usable in other worlds that are not uw

ok thanks. I was hoping I could see a brief peek of how much they grew up and level up drastically as a player/fighter after UW in other games. but unfortunately for me, it didn't happen

btw in the MR arc, did they show the final fight in the sword tournament "on screen" or we only get the results?

[Flere821]

Kirito's memory keeps to slightly after the final battle after Alice was sent off, he still remembers everything in UW (eg meeting Eugeo, fighting Admin) before the acceleration started locking his and Asuna's mind in UW for 200 years.

[c933103]

As mentioned in EX02, after UW arc end, most of them would be in prep for public exam and etc. so there are not really many chance for that..

[nooneagain]

for kirito fans here, doesn't it make kirito less interesting to you(in terms of swordsmanship, reaction speed etc) when yuuki came in because, you know, she has faster reaction speed and all, than kirito. I've been following sao, and what I liked about kirito is his swordsmanship and reaction speed, I didn't find him unique in other areas. But then yuuki came in and she had all that kirito has and even more 'cept for dual wield. In GGO, when he swats bullets, to be honest I was amazed, but then after watching the new arc and looking back at GGO arc, I was like: meh yuuki could prolly do that. Don't get me wrong though, he still my 'fave' character in the series...

[dotdotslash]

To me the whole cutting bullets thing really made him a less interesting character than if he'd needed to work and think harder. I also wasn't a fan of the explanation. I could understand if the explanation was "well, the developers put the photon sword there, so they enabled it to be used by both making most bullet damage crazy low and making the sword automatically tend to act as a shield" but that's not how it was played. Of course since the explanation is "predict the prediction line" there is some very small room for someone faster, and I don't think this either detracts or adds to Kirito's character.

[nooneagain]

^if not about cutting bullets, how bout his reaction speed? yuuki has faster reaction speed

[DragonKing0117]

Originally Posted by nooneagain

^if not about cutting bullets, how bout his reaction speed? yuuki has faster reaction speed

If Yuuki was a bit more experienced when it came to fighting with her life on the line, she'd most likely be able to pick it up. As it stands, the only reason Yuuki is not able to pull off half of Kirito's skills, besides the obvious, is that most of those skills were developed during a time Kirito considered the lives of others or himself were in danger. Of course with more training, Yuuki could do it, but again, there are obvious reasons why she can't do that.

[Parousia]

Originally Posted by DragonKing0117

If Yuuki was a bit more experienced when it came to fighting with her life on the line, she'd most likely be able to pick it up. As it stands, the only reason Yuuki is not able to pull off half of Kirito's skills, besides the obvious, is that most of those skills were developed during a time Kirito considered the lives of others or himself were in danger. Of course with more training, Yuuki could do it, but again, there are obvious reasons why she can't do that.

IMO Yuuki is very experienced since she spent a considerable thime in a medicube.

Spoiler for Dive Time:

3 years I think which is longer than the record of SAO survivors

Also she's been jumping from game to game since before she met the members of the Sleeping Knights. I think she only lacked on experience with games that focuses on melee(mostly swords) battles like SAO or ALO.

[nooneagain]

^but she was able to beat kirito, despite lacking experience in melee games? damn scary kid. imo she's kinda OP if not only for what happened by the end of the volume.

[Jarkzy]

I know you may get asked the same thing a lot of times, but since Im new to the forum and there are a lot of messages just to be searching the ones that i want, im gonna ask it to you anyways:

Spoiler:

Having read the Web Novel summaries, I still cant really understand the relationship between Alice, Kirito and Asuna. It seems like Alice has clear interests in Kirito, but Kirito seems to just ignore her in that way and still prefer Asuna, but then suddenly at the last chapter Alice puts herself as Kiritos wife by calling Kiritos father "father" and no one complains xD

From my point of view I just see Alice like another of the harem girls, with just a little bit more of confidence, and Kirito seems to have no interest in her as he just seem to really love Asuna, even more thinking that the one writing this story is Kawahara, who seems to be the biggest Asuna x Kirito fan; but then this little things come and make me cringe a bit haha

Since you probably know more than me about the series Id like you to tell me your opinion on this, being as objective as possible, pls dont let your ships carry your words lol

PS: I know this may be beacause what Im reading is a summary and not the original text, so I cant really get into the context of the situation and this was probably just like a kind of joke, but since the ending was unconclusive and the story may continue in the LN Im really afraid of this series going to an unnecessary love-triangle plot unless than focusing on action

[DOmus]

IIRC, it ends in a triangle between alice, kirito and asuna. With asuna having the priority
Asuna: wife in sao, alo
Alice: partner in UW after he lose his memories

[nooneagain]

Originally Posted by Jarkzy

I know you may get asked the same thing a lot of times, but since Im new to the forum and there are a lot of messages just to be searching the ones that i want, im gonna ask it to you anyways:

Spoiler:

Having read the Web Novel summaries, I still cant really understand the relationship between Alice, Kirito and Asuna. It seems like Alice has clear interests in Kirito, but Kirito seems to just ignore her in that way and still prefer Asuna, but then suddenly at the last chapter Alice puts herself as Kiritos wife by calling Kiritos father "father" and no one complains xD

From my point of view I just see Alice like another of the harem girls, with just a little bit more of confidence, and Kirito seems to have no interest in her as he just seem to really love Asuna, even more thinking that the one writing this story is Kawahara, who seems to be the biggest Asuna x Kirito fan; but then this little things come and make me cringe a bit haha

Since you probably know more than me about the series Id like you to tell me your opinion on this, being as objective as possible, pls dont let your ships carry your words lol

PS: I know this may be beacause what Im reading is a summary and not the original text, so I cant really get into the context of the situation and this was probably just like a kind of joke, but since the ending was unconclusive and the story may continue in the LN Im really afraid of this series going to an unnecessary love-triangle plot unless than focusing on action

probably asuna is just secured that kirito loves her more than anyone. there are others who speculate that Asuna is the main wife, meaning there're other wives too and alice is one of his wives XD(personally I dislike that lol). But with all that we've been shown, Asuna exclusively owns Kirito's heart, and of course he loves his AI daughter, yui, too. I do enjoy harem animes too, but I personally don't want it in SAO. well it already contained harem, but it's not that strong compared to harem-tagged animes.

[Jarkzy]

Originally Posted by DOmus

IIRC, it ends in a triangle between alice, kirito and asuna. With asuna having the priority

I dont think so, Ive never seen any scene that implies that Kirito has any romantic interest on Alice, on the other side. Kirito and Asuna kissed right at the ending and it implies that they love each other with all the "Id never leave the other one stucked alone on UW" and that stuff. Plus If im not wrong, at the end Alice wanted to sleep with Kirito and he just rejected and forced her to sleep at Suguhas room or something like that, in favour of Asuna

[Jarkzy]

Originally Posted by DOmus

Alice: partner in UW after he lose his memories

I think that UWs partner would be Asuna after spending 200 years there with him xD

[XFire]

ALice is in love with Kirito, but from the way things were set up she had absolutely zero chance with him. At all. Ever.

[DOmus]

Originally Posted by Jarkzy

I think that UWs partner would be Asuna after spending 200 years there with him xD

Yeah, i should have said "Partner before legal wife arrived"