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(Boku no Eiyuu)
“My Hero”
What in the world IS GOING ON HERE?
Before we dive into this week’s episode, don’t forget that Sword Art Online: Alicization will be a split-cour show that will resume later this year in October! Unfortunately, that means it’ll be a while before we get to see the kick off to the next arc called War of Underworld.
Anyways, what a way to mark the halfway point of the season! With everything building up to this point, who would have thought things would have went the way that they did? Eugeo’s gone, old Alice is gone (presumably since her memory fragment also disappeared when Eugeo did), and things in the real world look like they’ve gone to shit. If I’m being honest, I’m rather impressed just how many things happened in a single Sword Art Online episode.
Kicking things off with Eugeo, I have to admit that I was really surprised that the plot ended killing him off. As one of the main characters who’s been there since episode one, his passing definitely had a bigger effect on me than I expected. Not only did it help give all of his prior actions legitimacy, but something about Kirito having to deal with the realities of death just felt so appropriate that even all the cheesy lines weren’t enough to break me away from the emotions that the scene was trying to convey. If I had one tiny complaint about Eugeo’s final scene though, it’d probably be just how little time the story gave to dealing with Alice’s old memories. Assuming we’d just accept things at face value, it would have been nice if there had been a little more time given to Kirito and Eugeo’s struggles about which Alice should exist. That said, the whole thing ended up resolving itself rather quickly since it looks like Eugeo and the young Alice get to live in peace while Kirito and the current Alice get to deal with the present.
Super minor side point, but I thought Quinella’s last scene was real inappropriate and not necessary. Deep down I don’t think she was an “evil” character (evil is really only determined by the victors am I right) and having to see that nasty burnt slave of hers “integrate” himself with her just felt wrong. I get that it’d be nice to see Quinella get what’s coming to her, but I don’t think that was necessarily the way to do it.
Fast forwarding to the end of the episode, I have to ask, was I the only who was kind of shocked that a military-style attack was going on in the real world? That and with tons of bullets flying around, wasn’t it kind of odd to see just how (relatively) calm Higa and Kikuoka were? God, just how crazy can things get from here? In any case, I’ll catch you guys later on once Alicization returns. Stay safe until then!
I need to ask some questions Did Asuna enter the Underworld and is Alice death?When a character dies, do they also dies in the real world?
You didn’t phrase the question well but Yes Asuna does eventually enter Underworld, and no Alice isn’t dead.
I’m anime-only so I could have got this wrong, but it looked to me as though “Alice the childhood friend of Eugeo” is “dead” because the part of her memories that were sealed when she was synthesised are gone forever. However, Alice the former Integrity Knight is still very much alive.
Alices wounds were terrible to behold. Fortunately, most of the damage was from her burns and not from blood loss. Her life had stopped its steady decrease. I propped her up with my left hand, and although she didnt wake up, her eyebrows did twitch, and a faint breath exhaled from her lips.
ome on, guys! Alice is a girl so she is alive. Eugeo is a guy so he is dead. Isn’t it obvious in Kirito’s-one-guy-in-the-village-world?
Yes, like Angelus said, the real Alice is dead together with Eugeo. its worded better in the LN with her and Eugeo’s fluctlight capsule got ejected from the Storage. So the current Alice is somesort of another AI that developed/born when she ‘breakthru’ the Taboo-thingy. tho i kinda missed the detail about that.
So like at the end of the arc I thought the Alice that gets her own body in the real world was fundamentally the same person. Though if I’m wrong I guess I’m an idiot lol.
BRING BACK EUEGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I’m glad the clown got what he wanted.
https://images.randomc.net/Sword%20Art%20Online/Sword%20Art%20Online%20Alicization%20-%2024%20-%2035.jpgWhat the hell happened in reality while Kirito was in the Underworld trying to fix things. He was like gone for 24 episodes and had urgent matters to attend to while under and it all goes to s* in the real world.
enlighten me if anyone knows. https://images.randomc.net/Sword%20Art%20Online/Sword%20Art%20Online%20Alicization%20-%2024%20-%20Large%2023.jpgIs our nude villainess dead? I was expecting Kirito to seduce her rather than see something random kill her; was expecting her to be “ultron” in Kirito’s world. While the anime didn’t show it, I did hear Kirito had seduce musketeer X, actually would like to find where to read that and if musketeer X will appear again. https://images.randomc.net/Sword%20Art%20Online/Sword%20Art%20Online%20Alicization%20-%2024%20-%20Large%2036.jpgIs Rath being attack by terrorists? I was wondering, besides minor crime like Death Gun, what is the worst Laughing Coffin could do in this arc, I guess I found my answer.
Best guess is a foreign power with an interest in Fluctlight technology. Then again, it could be those guys Kirito’s group fought in GGO back in episode 1. https://images.randomc.net/Sword%20Art%20Online/Sword%20Art%20Online%20Alicization%20-%2024%20-%20Large%2030.jpgThis is what I look like after watching this episode– spent and exasperated.
In fairness.. Underworld isn’t such a secret anymore. Other players will be able to connect externally to the Underworld fairly soon, both good and bad.
mild spoiler: the clown just died in vain and alone but Quinella’s synthetic soul(also purified perhaps?) returned to the “source” ring of all programs, that’s where we’ll see her next, well, somedayy, if the anime gets that much far.
https://images.randomc.net/Sword%20Art%20Online/Sword%20Art%20Online%20Alicization%20-%2024%20-%20Large%2021.jpgWell, if our villainesses died, then Kirito must find it ironic that the clown he tried to kill end up saving the world from the villainesses version of Ultron. Imagine how that villainesses can do when entering the internet. Shame, I won’t find another non-hentai anime character that remained naked for so long.
on an extra note, it does give some sad effect to see a woman being burnt to death. meh.
Quinella disappearing:The supreme rulers face caught on fire, and the fear and rage there vanished. Her silver eyes looked skyward. Even in the moment of her utter destruction, she was unfathomably beautiful.Imy ownworldI couldnt hear anything after that.The wild conflagration rapidly contracted. The flames converted to a platinum flash of light that further contracted and then expanded.It wasnt quite an explosion. It was more like everything was returned to a state of light that filled the space. There was no sound or vibration, simply the conceptual phenomenon of the oldest living soul in the Underworld perishing, an event that expanded past the walls of this enclosed, isolated space.The silver light shone and shone for so long that I began to wonder whether the world would ever return to its original state.But eventually, the light did indeed begin to abate, and color returned to my sight at last.I blinked several times to clear the tearssurely because of the light that burned my eyesand I looked closely at the point that had been the heart of the explosion.I couldnt find a single piece of evidence that the woman and the clown had ever been there. The pillar of light was gone, leaving behind only the marble pedestal sticking up from the floor and the crystal console on top of it.At last, both logic and intuition told me that Administrator, who had once been a girl named Quinella, was utterly gone. Her life had reached zero, and the lightcube that held her fluctlight was reinitialized. So too, I expected, would be the lightcube of Cardinal, located adjacent to it. Eugeo and young Alice disappearing:Alice nodded vigorously, shaking the ribbon that held her golden hair in place. Yes. We can leave the rest to those two. Im sure theyll guide the world in the right direction.Yeah. Soshall we go?Okay.Somehow, he was back to his youthful form again. He and the girl his age and height walked hand in hand down the hallway in the direction of the distant light.And in that instantThe durability value of the human unit designated NND7-6361 dropped to zero.Upon receiving that signal, the program that controlled the Lightcube Cluster issued a single order to the cube that held the corresponding fluctlight. The interface faithfully executed its order, reinitializing the praseodymium crystal structure.Over ten billion cubits of photons glowed at once and dispersed.A soul named Eugeo, who hadnt lived even twenty years of subjective time, was freed forever from the little cube.And at the same time, another lightcube located far away from his own was similarly processed.That lightcube, produced through improper system operation using memories extracted from the soul named Alice Zuberg, was also freed from its crystal prison.Where the amalgamation of photons that made up those two souls disappeared to was a question no one could answer. What happened in the end of the episode from the novel:In June 2026 in the real world, which felt like an eternity ago, Id participated in a long-term continuous test of their next-generation full-dive machine, The Soul Translator, or STL.The test period was three days. Through the Fluctlight Acceleration (FLA) feature, the subjective time I spent in the VR world would be 3.3 times as long as real time, or ten days in total. At the end of the test, they had blocked my memories of the event to protect company secrets, or so theyd explained to me.But that was a lie. I hadnt dived into a test environment; they had sent me into the same Underworld I was in now. And it wasnt ten days I spent here. I estimated it was over three hundred times that amountfor a span of ten years.In the center of the screen was a black window. In the middle of that was a volume meter, just below the blinking words SOUND ONLY.The meter twitched, producing a rainbow-gradient bar. Then it shot upward, just as a rustling static noise reached my ears.This was sound from the real world, I sensed.The world on the other side, where things were no doubt peaceful and totally unconnected to the madness happening in the Underworld. The real world, where this blood and pain and even death were merely events of interest, at best.A great storm of numerous emotions that Id been keeping under control came bursting up from inside me, rocking me where I stood. I leaned toward the monitor and, in as loud a voice as I could manage, called the man who had brought me to this place.KikuokaCan you hear me, Kikuoka?!If my hand could reach Seijirou Kikuoka or any of the other managers right now, I might actually attempt to strangle them to death. Such was the helpless rage I felt as I slammed my left fist against the marble table and screamed, Kikuokaaaa!!!Then a noise came from the screen.It wasnt a human voice. It was a crisp series of percussions, tatatak, tatatatak.The first thing that popped into my head was a memory from years agothe sound of automatic submachine-gun fire in the VRMMO called Gun Gale Online. But the other side of the screen was just a laboratory for Rath, a small tech start-up. Why would I be hearing that from there?Kirito, are you there?! Are you in there?!That was definitely Seijirou Kikuoka. Holding back my confusion, I shouted, Yeah! Listen, Kikuokayou monsterWhat youve done is!Ill listen to every last name you can call me later! Right now, you need to listen to me!!He was in such a pressing panic that I actually stopped in my tracks.Listen very carefully, KiritoYou must find a girl named Alice! When you doFind her? Shes right here! I shouted back, and now it was Kikuokas turn to be stunned into silence. Then he rushed back into his explanation, faster than before.M-my Godthats a miracle! G-goodThen once this transmission ends, Im going to return the FLA rate to a thousand. You take Alice and head for the Worlds End Altar! The internal console youre using now connects directly to Main Control, but thats about to fall!To fall? Whats going on there?Im sorryI dont have time to explain! Listen, to get to the altar, you have to leave the Eastern Gate and head far to the southThen the very first voice I heard came in again, very close by.Lieutenant Colonel, I closed the A7 barrier, but that only bought us minutes atNo, wait, oh no! Theyve started severing the main power line!!Oh man, thats bad! Thats real bad!! shrieked not Kikuoka but Higa. Kiku, therell be a surge if they cut the main power now! The Lightcube Clusters protectedbut the surge will hit Kirigayas STL in SubconItll fry his fluctlight!!Nothat cant be! There are numerous safety limiters on the STLBut they were all deactivated! Hes recuperating, remember?!What in the world were they talking about?What was this about my fluctlight if the power went out?A split-second silence fell, until Kikuoka broke it.Ill handle the locking here! Higa, you take Dr. Koujiro and Asuna and evacuate to the Upper Shaft. Keep Kirito safe!!B-but what about Alice?!Ill raise the FLA rate to its max limit! We can think about the rest later! Right now his protection is paramountI hardly listened to any of the rest of their shouted exchange. One of the names Kikuoka had mentioned struck my mind, rocking it like a storm.Asuna?Asunas there? At Rath? But why?I leaned closer to the console to ask Kikuoka. But before I could say anything, the original voice let out a pitiful scream.I cantTheyre cutting the power!! The screw propellers are going to stopall units brace for impact!!And thenI saw something strange.White pillars of light, silently falling from far above and piercing the ceiling of the cathedral.All I could do was look upward at all the beams of light intersecting on me.There was no pain, no impact, no sensation of any kind.But I understood on instinct that I had suffered too much damage to recover from. The light wasnt piercing my flesh; it was piercing my soul itself, it seemed.Something very important, something that made me me, was ripped into pieces and vanished.Time, space, even memory melted into an empty void.I simply wasEven that word lost its meaning.And just before the ability to think itself was lost, I heard a distant voice.KiritoKirito!!It was a voice so nostalgic I wanted to cry, a sound that was maddeningly precious.It wasWhose voice is that?(To be continued)
And then they announce a 7-month-long hiatus. To the surprise of all licensors and affiliates who now have to rearrange their schedules at the last minute.
but… people knew since September?
Wow, I can’t believe Chudelkin finally got laid. Salute for the premium snapchatter who finally got his money’s worth.
https://images.randomc.net/Sword%20Art%20Online/Sword%20Art%20Online%20Alicization%20-%2024%20-%20Large%2003.jpgThe body looks so badly drawn. I can draw better oppai.
I’m not really happy that Asuna is back 🙁 I also hope somehow Eugeo is still alive ;_;
Why? I’d imagine fans of Asuna have been waiting for her to become relevant again and that she will and in a big way.
You fool. You damn fool. Did you really think there was enough space for TWO important main male characters in a self-insert harem? More than ONE competent/useful male character for women to fall in love with that ISN’T Kirito? Nonsense. The balance is restored.
That reminds me of the predictions I posted in the comments section of the first episode of Alicization in this very site:“Any other member of the supporting cast wont be able to catch up. If they are shown to be equal or better than Kirito at some point, theyll be imprisoned, broken, suffer som kind of limiting trauma or just die.”I suppose it’s “die” this time. At least Eugeo, who could have been the protagonist of his own story, one independent from SAO, didn’t fall under this other prediction (which nevertheless came true in this season too):“Well have male characters who will become ineffectual, or comic relief, or turn evil, or be rapists. Bonus points if they are all of the above at the same time.”
It was “die” this time for Eugeo and it was “broken, suffer some kind of limiting trauma for Kirito.
Damn Eugeo, you are the better protagonist!
I really enjoyed the second SAO series, and the GGOA spinoff, so I was really looking forward to this. Started the third series last week and binged to the end and… it’s bad. Really bad. I’d always known the Alicization arc was really long, so I sort of just assumed it was also good, else why be so long? But, nope.There’s barely enough plot here for 12 episodes, let alone 24. Very few new characters, none of whom are very interesting. And, worst of all, the fights are boring. I go into SAO looking for beautifully animated fights kept interesting by well-defined rules. Now it’s like Dragon Ball Super: no clearly define rules, uninspired fight choreography and scene direction, and each battle is little more than caricatures tossing gobs of energy at each other while shouting.
I personally wanted them to up the pacing to somewhat turbo speed and get the arc done in much less episodes. Pacing was always an issue and the lack of stuff happening at times too.
I HATE THIS FKING EPISDOE!
Just what Kirito didn’t need, another person dying on him…I bet that when the next cour starts, we’ll learn what happened from Asuna’s side.This arc of SAO turned out way better than earlier ones, as I’d hoped since the hour-long first airing. Looking forward to seeing you again in October.
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I’m totally obsessed with Sword Art Online. My friend recommended I watch it, because he couldn’t stop raving about it. I was happy to see it was available to watch on Netflix. I’ve been totally binge watching, but trying not to read too many of the comments to avoid spoilers.
For someone marathoning this show I gotta say this is the most I’ve enjoyed SAO since the first half of the Aincrad arc. The concept of this arc really captivated me, and I love these characters a hell of a lot more than the old cast.