/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>811905

The writer and character designer of this is actually the guys behind Kino no Tabi, only the setting is SAO.

>>811909

>the guys behind Kino no Tabi

How about that? Might actually be worth checking out, I guess.

Ok, but SAO Abridged. Do all of you /a/utists like it or am I going to receive an inordinate amount of angry impotence because it's one of those things we're required to be unreasonable about?

>>811967

It was better than the original at least. Could have done without their shitty flash animations.

Haven't seen anything SAO-related before this (all I know is glop) and thought it was promising. It's a story about online VR FPS, with some fun bits about how the gameplay is different from reality.

>>811967

Abridged series tend to be Reddit-tier humor.

>>812003

This one's actually quite different. If I were to say what actually makes SAO Abridged good, it's that rather than simply trying to make jokes, the writers took the time and effort to creat an arcing story using the original SAO series. Kirito and Asuna get personalities, and character arcs. Kirito's guild dying actually means something in this one, and the entire explanation for why they were trapped in the game DOESN'T get hand-waved at the end. It's better than SAO simply for the fact that it has effort and care put into it.

>>812005

Oh, okay. That sounds pretty neat. I'll check it out tonight.

>>811967

>>811993

>It was better than the original at least. Could have done without their shitty flash animations.

Perfect sum up.

It's not that it's really that great is just that it's the only where the abridged stuff is clearly well above the original work.

Writers properly play with vidya codes and trope, drama has lasting effects, characters have character, overall story makes more sense.

All the things SAO cruelly lack.

How long before MC lady encounters Kirito in game/real life and he's so awesome and cool and nice and also really really awesome?

What if her partner turns out to be Kirito?

>>811868

gave the first episode a try, even if I've hated just about everything after the arc with the titular game. Hard to get invested when there's no real stakes, and while I was intrigued enough by the prospect of some tall lady rping as a pink loli, the disconnect of her being superfast and cool just because while being with a partner that actually knows his shit left a bad taste in my mouth.

Maybe I'll stick around for three episodes, but I feel like I'm definitely not going to bother watching to the end.

>>813113

>the disconnect of her being superfast and cool just because while being with a partner that actually knows his shit left a bad taste in my mouth

So what would you rather have? Her be entirely useless or be literally Kirito with magical "I'm the best" powers? The anime skipped ahead, but by this point in the LN she had already spent a few months doing nothing but playing solo PvP against groups in her free time.

>>813108

I sincerely doubt Kirito could stand not playing an edgy faggot avatar. If anything I wouldn't be surprised if the partner was a girl too.

>>812005

There is some reddit-tier humor, and some of the characters (namely Asuna, and her voice is annoying) are annoying, but it's alright.

>>813140

I wasn't aware, I'm a filthy secondary in this series. If that's the case, then fine, but she gave off the impression of being entirely useless for the first two-thirds of the episode, which made her sudden burst of skill against people hyped up to be professionals rather jarring.

>>813293

They're professionals training for real-world situations, not professionals at the game. They're not interested in or prepared for fighting people who've built their characters to differ significantly from ordinary human abilities. That's why their leaders forfeit immediately after seeing her fight. They're not there to learn how to fight sanic lolis.

Gun Gale could've been /k/'s Gun autism: the anime, wherein it's a classic Shounen complete with commentary from the peanut gallery, except it's all about guns.

You have the side-characters talking about whatever Winchester, Browning, or Smith and Wesson the opponent currently has, meanwhile our Protagonist's standard hunting rifle makes his hair change color and become OP. Gun-of-the-Week, the Anime sounds awesome.

>>814019

My goodness, that is a cute a ara. Would you look at that thigh gap?

>>813163

They're the B team of TFS, I wish they had a stronger work ethic or that they could make money directly off this shit so it wouldn't take the heat death of the universe for things to come out.

But looking at patreons influence on everything else more money usually leads to more disappointment, patreon cunts are like contractors no amount of money will get the job done right and on time.

>>814027

Thigh gaps are heresy. And extra heretical on an ara.

>>814145

Wait, are you saying that you are not a cute little girl?

>>814196

Some of us can't help being born cute tall girls.

>>814145

>Shy college student escapes reality into violent videogame

>Turns into psychotic killer loli who names her gun and talks to it

Jack Thompson was right all along!

>>814027

Oh my God! I apologize with all my heart and soul for not noticing that beautiful thigh gap! That gap means she is sweet and somewhat awkward! That means she has autism! That means her sexiness just went up three-fold!! Praise God for this beauty!!

Huh, it has SAO in the title and even mentions SAO. Yet it's not garbage so far.

I hope it stays this way.

>>814402

>SWAT team using it for training

>Using only tactics and what they learned from training

>Enter MC

>Sprints at super speed

>Can jump 20 feet in the air

>Dodges full auto fire from 5 trained marksmen

<Not overpowered

>>814550

>Uses mechanics available in the game

>Overpowered

That's like saying someone is overpowered in Street Fighter because they use super moves against someone who won't.

>>814550

>this culter didn't max out his cyberlegs

Either way, gunloli a cute

>tfw tall

A relatable character in SAO. 2018 is going to be best year.

How tall is she really? I hate it when they talk about height but then don't give numbers. I bet she'll turn out to be something like 1.74m and only a giant towering over men by Japanese standards.

>>814601

183cm

>>814603

That sounds reasonable, around 185cm would be where I'd consider a woman's height becomes noticeable as pretty damn tall. In Japan she must be towering above manlets in public transit.

>>814603

>10cm taller than me

It hurts on so many levels.

>>814618

>Not taller then her

Not exactly a manlet, but it still isn't something to brag about.

>>814618

>implying I wouldn't enjoy being bullied by her

>>814603

>.12 cm taller than me

I guess that's not too bad.

>>814603

tfw still taller

>>814611

I know a nip who stands 6' exactly and its hilarious to hear about being able to shame everyone for not being able to reach high things without a stool.

>>814612

>>814628

>>814671

I've never met a man shorter than 6 feet tall, where do you people come from?

>>814840

I'm 6 ft even. She is just 0.12 cm taller. Should've put a 0 before the dot.

>>814842

You're 0.12cm taller if you furrow your brow, so that the skin on your head is wrinkled, hell, you're probably 1cm taller from looking up. How do you seriously go around telling people that you know your height to the mm?

>>814878

I know i'm 6 ft even. That's what I always say. I just threw the number into a unit converter to cm, then took the difference of my height and her height. Hence 0.12. It's a rough estimate for this thread, bro.

>>814840

Where the fuck do you live, Norway? Average for white Americans is just under 5' 10", as in most guys here aren't 6 foot.

>>814921

I'm 5'11" in Canada and I'd say I'm on the short side of average here. 5'10" includes all the hispanics.

I'm 6'2" and I'll often see guys as tall as me or just a bit taller (aus). Rarely I see someone that's considerably taller. I've only met 2 women who were just a bit shorter than me and 1 has herpes and the other is is a mega christian (but still sleeps around like a harlot).

>>814564

If only that were true and she wasnt the only one who could fucking fly basically

>>814967

It depends on when this takes place. During the GGO Arc it's stated that Agility builds are on the outs because people think they're shit and Strength builds are the new meta. It's obviously she's dumped like the majority of her skillpoints into agility.

>>812032

And it properly embodies being in a vidya, it's not cringy.

For instance in RE:Zero every time subaru mentioned game masters in the first few episodes I had a stroke. Same thing with the "PAUSE" gag in konosuba.

So lads does this animated cavepainting have anything to do with SOA apart from the VR game from the second season?

>remove kirito

>SAO substantially improves.

imagine

>>811909

Well then. Normally I'd object to having a second author take over, but here I'm 100% on board. This might actually be good.

>>814971

If you removed SAO from the title than at worst it would be paying homage. It's just cgdct in a VR fps at the end of the day.

>>814971

>So lads does this animated cavepainting have anything to do with SOA apart from the VR game from the second season?

None so far.

Which is probably why it's receiving light praise...

Maybe I'm a retard but if a game like GGO existed I would be playing all the time. Though I would probably want a realistic version there's no bloom linked to how fast your pulse is racing.

>>815003

The surprising thing is that GGO doesn't already have a 'realism' mode (or the spec-ops team would have used that instead).

>>815021

At that point the military should have their own VR simulations where they fight each other instead of playing civilian games where the enemies have superpowers or are shittier at tactics than the average airsofter. They aren't getting good practice with GGO.

>>815023

To be fair ISIS itself is not much different than a bunch of dumbfucks larping on a desert. How do you get that experience without fighting against untrained maniacs from public like the machinegun guys they slaughtered?

>>815027

We all do anon.

>>815027

I want real LLenn to sit on my face

>>815032

You play ArmA III

>>815034

It actually takes place even farther I think, considering all the timeskips.

>>811917

I'd advise against going ahead, or you'll be stuck comparing the book and the anime for the rest of the season. I'd wait until after it ends and then a bit longer before picking it back up.

>>815246

You're only looking at stuff that got an anime.

His pen name comes from Sig Sauer, and he loves guns. So he wrote a spin off for GGO, it's not that out of nowhere really.

>>814934

>5'10" includes all the hispanics.

Now I know your lying.

>games have no customisation

>nip games with no loli

>getting triggered over bestial races

>trying 36 games before finding one that ports you as a loli

>dc'd if you get excited

What a dystopian future.

>>815307

>spics aren't manlets

Beans, corn and mixbreeding with spaniards won't save you, anon-kun.

Is it true? Can you give 3hz anything and they'll at least turn it into something good?

>>815507

I hadn't realized this was by 3hz. I'm picking it up now.

>>814603

>6ft

I'll show her what a real man is, ie 6'3''+.

The big guy gives the impression of being a total nerd IRL.

>>816775

Kumeta's assistant voiced himself in Zetsubou-sensei and Anno voiced the main character in the Wind Rises so I wouldn't doubt it if he voiced himself.

>>816865

It's still SAO, a shojo pretending to be a shonen,

Pino is obviously the singer.

In the backpack is probably a meme like a MG-42 or something.

>>814550

>>814967

You haven't seen the actually good teams yet. There's lots of bullshit to come.

>>816865

>>816886

How much you fuckers wanna bet M-san is a manlet IRL?

>>814973

>>814971

>>814991

Adaption of an unrelated work by the author of Kino's Journey brought in to provide a separate story with SAO treated as a background setting. Said author is a washed-up "up-and-comer" from 2000, so it's hilarious to see how much better he can deliver on the VRMMO concept than Reki, the "best" amateur of recent years.

Alright, I get it. The protagonist is self-conscious and awkward. I don't care. Can we go back to doing silly and fun VR shooty things with the pink loli now?

>>817068

>Why continue sentience on this plane of existence.

Because the alternative is becoming a normalfag.

>>816775

>I wonder if he voiced himself?

I guess so. He sounded a bit awkward, not like a professional

>>817002

Yes, they're out of back-story now.

As always, it's "let's rearrange everything!" syndrome, episodes 2 and 3 essentially come first in the primary work. Instead of a slow build-up and four straight episodes of action, you get this weird break between them, and then back to the fun things.

>>817002

>>817222

What are the odds that this won't just turn into a story about how being a cute little girl isn't something that Japanese girls should want? Just the premise tells me that it's going to end up being a story about how the MC learns to stop wanting to be a cute loli.

>>817276

There's nothing like that in the first three volumes of the LN.

I am already 99% sure that Pito is Kanzaki (the singer). She's actually singing in her concert, the marriage of a friend is just a fake excuse to protect her identity.

>>817075

A fate worse than life.

Did you guys notice that little interaction where LLENN offers Pito some cookies and she smiles and gestures she doesn't want it?

I fucking ==LOVE== shit like that. They had no reason to animate that but they did anyways. It was just cute and something people would do in that situation.

How come she's so fast though?

>>814605

Girls as "tall" as 169 cm already get bullied in japanese high schools. Sometimes, even in their workplace.

Just ask Toyosaki Akizilla.

>>817713

Didn't she also get shit for doing a cover of Hey Jude by The Beatles?

>>813146

Kirito played GGO with a girl avatar, I can't remember if it was by choice though.

>>817710

Probably spec'ed into agility to better escape from reality monsters. Probably got an evasion skill or two, too.

>>817764

You'd think the game would be full of female characters if it was possible to have a different gender than your natural one, but they're seemingly fairly rare

>>817764

>Kirito played GGO with a girl avatar, I can't remember if it was by choice though.

Nah he had an androgynous char. He didn't pick it, it's SAO creator's ghost that's messing with him giving him the edgiest and gayest chars every time he changes game.

>>817764

He played as a girl (male). He confirms it shortly after spawning.

New episode out.

What the fuck was that ending to this episode?

>>819624

>What the fuck was that ending to this episode?

I assume Pito told M to kill LLeen in the letter, but he failed.

M likely is military or ex military, his fear of dying probably comes from a past trauma.

>>819624

What it all. Also clearly M was a real soldier and has massive PTSD.

If true, right in the feels.

The line-less shooting if you know how to use a real gun is kind of a weird mechanic to have, because this is supposed to be an American game. There are so many people in America that own and practice shooting real guns all the time that you'd expect it to be a well-known mechanic and huge part of the meta rather than a secret technique that only a few people can do. They're playing on Japanese servers so it would be rarer, but you'd expect players to know it's possible.

>>820064

Line-less shooting isn't a mechanic at all, not in the way you mean. The trick is that the line shows up as soon as you rest your finger on the trigger, so players who don't know how to shoot start to aim, prepare to squeeze, and find the line using the aim assist. To shoot line-less, you have to get the exact right line and pull the trigger in one swift motion, to avoid any aim assist popping up. There is, however, line-less sniping, which is a well known mechanic; lines are only visible if you are aware (how this is determined is unclear) of their origin point, so snipers get a free shot.

Spoilering these for a reason.

By the midpoint of the second tournament about five episodes from now, you should be introduced to a Japanese hunting club. They actually know how to shoot, so they're capable of it, though not to the degree of gun-nuts like M and Pito, or any of their mercenary supports. It's like the divide between casual players and serious players, where the people in this first tournament are 90% smallfries.

What the fuck was that ending

>>819793

I got a giggle out of that scene.

>>820723

Isn't that what Project Reality is?

>>820064

>rather than a secret technique that only a few people can do.

But the thing is you can't actually shoot like that.

Just accurately shooting while moving at a human sized target 50m from you with an AR is not easy and if the target is also moving it's considerably difficult...

Even something like ArmA is insanely simplified compared to reality when it comes to the shooting mechanics.

In fact it's worse, most militaries don't have an accuracy doctrine for the infantry, they have a volume of fire doctrine. IE "if 10 guys are emptying 2 SAW, 8 M-4 vaguely in the direction of the enemy one bullet is bound to hit something, worst case scenario the enemy is too busy taking cover to retaliate/move". Because shooting in itself isn't easy and doing any sort of athletic movements at the same time is very very hard.

That's the whole reason of existence of assault rifles: you fire single shots from a fixed position at a know target, you fire bursts in the rough direction of the enemy when in doubt (which is 87% of the time).

It mean that if there is an assist in the game and you play only with your own skills you would get your ass handed out to you 99% of the time, even if you're a good shooter IRL, because the average gamer would simply be OP.

And quite logically the place this doesn't applies would be for aimed shots (which is easier IRL) and reflex shooting (short range). If you know how to properly use the sights, have zeroed them before hand, etc... and therefore can tell were the gun is shooting relative to your point of aim, the assist system becomes largely irrelevant, allowing you to take accurate shoots without it.

Note that you would need triggers with very short pull which I assume would be extremely unpopular in the game (since they largely only use 2 stage triggers).

>>820778

Main thing is really just for the guys with SAWs to pin down the target with volume of fire, then have the guys with M4s get closer to be able to hit decently enough.

That or pin the enemy with volume of fire until artillery or air support finishes them off.

Pinning is really useful in winning firefights.

>>820778

Sure, and it can't be done with automatic weapons, which limits its usage pretty significantly. But it's apparently not that hard to do, because as the other anon mentioned there's a team of hunters in SJ2 that can all do it, and manage to take out quite a few people. There are a lot of hunters in the US--if that's all it takes, you'd expect it to be a staple of tournament play. I guess this can all be explained by this tournament being a gimmick that doesn't attract the best players, though.

>>820902

It's not too hard to shoot accurately while standing still (or better, laying prone) reliably, it's already harder to hit something that moves, which is why the sniper guy does it (and jap hunters) but essentially it would rely on you having a field advantage (distance, cover, surprise).

The problem is it being a game, players using the game mechanic are able to get reliable hits while on the move which simply isn't possible IRL (unless getting really serious military-style training) and worse as the Lenn or Kirito demonstrated, it's actually possible to move both way faster than IRL and in ways that are impossible IRL.

So sniping ends up the only time you can really use IRL shooting skills, because even if you miss your opponent can't riposte immediately (which should happen, there enough plenty of military sniper videos shooting at snackbars, guys trained up the ass that will show you that yeah taking 2 or 3 bullets to hit a running guy is perfectly normal as on average it takes something between 50 000 and 1 000 000 for the infantry to do the same).

And snipping isn't america favorite past time. America favorite pastime is emptying M-4 at 50m and using scopes any distance past that and pretend they shoot well (when you're supposed to train to use it at 300. without a scope. So that you might hit something at 150 in combat conditions...).

If the shooting mechanic related to IRL stays coherent I fully expect the hunters to use ambush tactics, but being hunters they will do so at a relative close range (42m being the average hit on target for hunting) which will be their downfall.

Note that I don't actually expect it because reading anything written by jap gunloons while being one with actual access to funs and a little IRL knowledge has given me some of the greatest facepalms I've ever had.

>>820924

Speed isn't the only abnormal characteristic, either, which is a big problem for professionals who have a sense for when people should die. Gun Gale definitely isn't a great sim for realistic gunplay, even if it is a great sim for realistic guns.

Almost every speculative comment about "how it should be done" made so far comes true or is validated. Sigsawa knows his shit.

>>820950

>What other meaning could M have?

I too am wondering this... oh wait. Wait. It doesn't stand for masochistic does it? Like that S and M kinda thing?

>>820737

That's most shooters on PC and was the rule before consolizing everything became the norm. In fact PR deliberately goes directly against aim assist and actually has aim hinderence to make run and gun the stupidest thing you could do short of activating Gary in spawn. goddamn it nacho

>>814603

Shes a big girl.

>>821818

For you. She's still a head shorter than me.

>>821865

Cute like a yappy little chihuahua that was dressed by some ghetto skank.

>>811905

>SAO shit

Nice meme. I can easily name worse shit in every season. SAO by far is not the worst and not even bad. You sound like an anime newfag who does not yet have his own opinion and instead chooses to follow memes which he thinks is a popular opinion for easier communication with people and out of fear saying something people won't like.

>>822025

Is that revolver recoiling like its an automatic?

>>822035

>Is that revolver recoiling like its an automatic?

Yes.

It's a Webley-Fosbery.

>>822035

It's a Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver. That's how it cycles.

Someone clearly knew what they were doing. Aside from that, there was one episode where Princess used a Schonberger-Laumann 1894 of all things.

>>822037

Ah right, forgot about those.

>>820855

>>816865

What? They were wrong.

>>822597

P-chan in the front page.

>>822600

>front page

>>>/leddit/

>>822622

That's embarrassing.

>>822634

Do you even know what pages are, anon?

Someone Chaika up p-chan

>>822597

>>822570

>>822568

System announcement: /k/ommando prestige class unlocked.

>>822671

>the ruskie is blonde

Not even surprised.

>>822022

>image

Is that from Noir? Have I found someone else who appreciates such things? Safe for off-topic

>>822558

She did well to remember the basics of CQC.

>>822570

>>822597

Sigsawa really likes the idea of your tools talking to you huh.

>>822882

>>822881

To be exact it how you quickly differentiate modern military grade Soviet/Russian ammo as it is a process step they added in ammo factories in the 70's to ensure the longevity of ammo stockpiles.

>>822874

Just like /k/

>>822878

I actually gasped "Uso"in a similar way just before she did.

>>822968

I wonder if blonde-hair and long-side-bangs-blue-hair think each other are cute and that's why their avatars look like each other.

>>822978

>avatars look like each other.

Avatars are randomly generated by the "The Seed" program. If you want a certain character look you need to reroll or buy an account from someone.

The only rule is that the character needs to have the same gender as the player.

>>822980

Such a dumb game design, and yet it's used all the time in these stories.

What's more dumb is that it's actually been tried, except for the gender thing for obvious reasons, and even worse since it didn't let you reroll.

>>822968

Alright, looks like I was wrong.

>>822978

>those two girls desire each other's bodies

I like the way you think.

>>822980

What if some secret code in GGO generates the charater that you desire? That would make sense considering the MC, those two girls and some others we saw so far.

Yeah, I know that this is full head-canon territory.

>>823026

>his trap avatar is actually from GGO

I didn't actually watch SAO so I wasn't certain about this. Guess that proves my theory right.

>>823011

>What if some secret code in GGO generates the charater that you desire?

Kirito's GGO avatar contradicts the theory.

It also is highly likely that the character generation is done by The Seed which it likely did for all the VRMMOS Karen tried.

It seems to be an inherent aspect of the engine and not in the power of the developer, otherwise Karen's VRMMO otaku friend would have recommended her a game with character creation.

There's also the fact that character types have certain rarities, and that people seem to be able to reroll to get certain looks.

In the SAO GGO arc a background character tried to buy Kirito's account calling it an F-1300 type which you allmost never get, later he corrected himself after realizing Kirito is male and called it an M-9000 type.

>>823032

>Kirito's GGO avatar contradicts the theory.

Maybe he just isn't honest about his own desires? He might be able to lie to himself but the VR-brainscan actually recognizes that he's a faggot for cock.

>>822901

Not true. Most surplus ammo has it. Bongstuff, jap stuff and most American made stuff until the mid 80's had it.

>didn't know latest episode was out

>skim through bread

>get spoiler raped by screencaps

>>823212

Good bless you,anon.

This show has no right to be good bit I'm glad I picked it up now.

>>822878

That delivery was perfect. Everyone involved knew how retarded what just happened was and instead of playing it straight they did it the best way possible.

Also, it's kinda funny how the dyke squad is only about 2 years younger than LLENN. They look like JC, not JK.

>>815345

No, he's saying that 5'10 is still too tall. Hitler was 5'10, the averge spic is at most 5'7''.

You know what SAO needs after 5 episodes?

A recap episode.

Said no one ever, except the jews of the east.

>>823070

>Most surplus ammo has it. Bongstuff, jap stuff and most American made stuff until the mid 80's had it.

You're sure? I though that red sealant was a Russian thing and other countries that did the same simply used a colorless one (or simply didn't in the case of non-Russian made WARPACT caliber ammo).

I've seen 5.56 rounds with red sealant but it was commercial ammo made in Russia...

>>824963

They could've just given us a blooper reel instead. The post credits was the only fun part of the recap.

As well as M's hunger for ass.

>>825006

Yeah, older surplus has it. The russians never bothered to change to a clear lacquer. I'll have to see if I got any old surplus kicking around for a photo, the japs used the lacquer ring as an identifier to what the ammo type was unlike everyone else who used painted tips to determine what was AP and such. .223 never had a colored lacquer ring. 7.62 nato and .30-06 did

I love how she makes the JK-gang look like middleschoolers.

>>822968

>>827854

Uniforms aren't as cute!

>>827929

All of my shirts consist of the same ten black shirts. Maybe she's just a super-autist like me?

>>823011

>character generated from desire

isn't that kind of how accel world generates characters?

>not an ounce of fanservice from LENN, but there is from other, bigger girls

This franchise just doesn't stop being huge normal faggot piece of shit, despite the LNs lewd illustrations. Even magazine scans don't lewd LENN.

>>827933

>People think you only own one shirt

Joke's on them!

I wanted this to just be about a cute tall girl playing as a cute small girl, accompanied by cute small girls playing as big girls. I don't like the whole "death game" thing. I know it has the SAO name, but I was still hoping it would ignore that idea.

>>828274

It's not SAO if it isn't shit.

But I wouldn't consider some edgelords suicide threats as constituting a "death game". She probably wouldn't follow through and if she did, who cares? It's not like people who don't want to die are at risk. Unless we are going that retarded.

LLENN's character song is out, she's a lucky girl!

>is out

Sorry, meant just the pv for the song is out.

>>828274

Yeah. It was doing so well until it introduced this pretty convoluted way to save a person from dying by having this specific person be the one to kill her in the game. Kind of cornered themselves when the mangaka called it Sword Art Online when we are so far removed from it at this point. Unless Sword Art Online is actually revived later in the Light Novels, they might as well have gone with a name changed and called it something else. The connection to it are very loose now and is there for branding purposes.

>>829504

>This guy, or whatever xir is, isn't Kirito, is it?

No it isn't. Kirito's GGO skin has long hair.

> I hope they're only saving budget to spend it on the battles.

That's not how anime production works. Animation starts to go QUALITY when there are production issues.

A director making changes late, or animators creating bad cuts which need to be redrawn can heavily impact the already thight schedule that anime production has. Furthermore there's lots of outsourcing for most anime, a bad looking episode can be the result of having choosen a suboptimal company to do the work.

The recap episode was already a bad sign, recap episodes are normally used when the production starts having issues.

I think that trench knife hair pin is cool.

>>829741

I do not pity the poor fucker that's about to get his teeth turned into scrabble tiles.

>>829744

I guess we know how she will get her reverse harem now.

>>829741

Do you think it's actually a knife, or just an accessory? Is she going to dramatically let her hair down and accidentally give herself a really bad haircut?

>>829763

It shouldn't be curved, but otherwise looks just like a WW1 trench knife.

>>829507

>No it isn't. Kirito's GGO skin has long hair.

I never watched the shit, so I figured he might have cut it eventually or something.

>>829741

>>829769

Wouldn't it be better for her hair if it had a sheath?

>>829824

I'm guessing her hair would just heal, it's part of her base character model.

>>828274

I don't think it's that bad. Despite including a bit of that theme, the characters are still much more well-written than anything in SAO. I think it's being handled fine.

>>829965

>I think it's being handled fine.

They dropped the ball on Pito. She's somehow supposed to be absolutely crazy and obsessed with death, but even the fucking JK are as bloodthirsty as Pito is, comparatively she doesn't seem any worse than the rest of the cast.

>>829973

Yeah, that seems to be her character, not the shit that M spoke about in the backstory. Might also be that they were just lacking any reason for the second royale to take place and for Llenn to participate.

>>829975

Who knows though. We haven't actually heard any of this from her own mouth. Only from M. Could just caulk this crap up as everyone's favourite: MISUNDERSTANDINGS.

>>830001

She does have a sugar daddy after all.

>>820950

>>820923

calling it: Pito is the idol and M is her manager, hence the M.

The dialogue between those two is awful.

>>828274

If it doesn't have any stakes then why bother watching it? It's not some slice of life comfy thing, I'm expected to feel tense about the situations presented in the show so if there's no risk why would I? In the context of the universe it's just a fucking video game. I'm interested that the batshit insane chick is threatening murder-suicide, that means this royale match has consequences in context and makes me want to stick around to see how it will turn out.

>>830905

I feel like the blonde one would be a bit more tolerable if she was still stacked like she is IRL for some reason. It would make her weirdly cocky attitude easier to swallow.

>>830045

>>830052

Shouldn't he be called P-chan then?

>>828274

Alright, here's the deal: its not a bad show. But its not great or good. Yet it isn't 100% shit. The 'only' tension in the show is derived from the fact that this is supposed to be apart of SAO. Which, if you recall, the only appeal was "If you die in the game, you die IRL." Therefore; GGO has to have some element of 'actual' consequences. Hence, Pito and her "if I can't get a thrill of death going on then I'm going to kill myself!" However, Im 100% certain, after watching the sixth episode that everything is going to turn out okay. How? Because every character we have encountered in the game has been seen out of the game. Also, now that we have seen real M, we can now assume who Pito really is. The singer that LLEEN listens too Why? Because its pretty obvious. 1. We have seen the first sponsor of SJ. But not the second. The first apparently had a lot of money to sponsor SJ, so that means the second sponsor has to have money.

2. We have seen all the characters in game out of game, save for one.

3. M found LLENN fairly easily. There is no way he's some hacker or anything like that. He also has obvious ties to Pito. So he's either her boyfriend, very good friend or a really, really good stalker. If Pito is the singer, it would not be hard to pin-point who LLENN is irl since she sent her that letter and all you have to do is tarace it back an boom, the sender.

I would've like a show about lolis shooting lolis in a vidya gaem. But we don't get that since the author of this needed a way to help sell his idea and SAO needed a filler for something aside from Kirito and his harem. So we have to have the SAO tie-in so that we can have lolis running and gunning. Even though this has 'nothing' to do with SAO.

>>831286

I think their ammunition is not infinite, and in games (as well as real life) GL ammo tends to take up a lot of space so you can't carry that much.

>>828038

Thank god for that.