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Looking for information on the anime Sword Art Online? Find out more with MyAnimeList, the world’s most active online anime and manga community and database. Ever since the release of the innovative NerveGear, gamers from all around the globe have been given the opportunity to experience a completely immersive virtual reality. Sword Art Online (SAO), one of the most recent games on the console, offers a gateway into the wondrous world of Aincrad, a vivid, medieval landscape where users can do an… Synonyms: S.A.O, SAO Japanese: ソードアート・オンライン English: Sword Art Online More titles
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Type:TV Episodes: 25 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jul 8, 2012 to Dec 23, 2012 Premiered:Summer 2012 Broadcast: Sundays at 00:00 (JST) Producers:Aniplex, Genco, DAX Production, ASCII Media Works, Bandai Namco Games Licensors:Aniplex of America Studios:A-1 Pictures Source: Light novel Genres:ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, FantasyFantasy, RomanceRomance Themes:Love PolygonLove Polygon, Video GameVideo Game Duration: 23 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Nov 1, 2024chloethehuman11Recommended Being a fan of anime, for years now got me really interested in Sword Art Online and its virtual reality MMORPG concept where players get stuck until they complete the game successfully. Its initial episodes were absolutely captivating thanks to the animation and engaging characters like Kirito, Asuna, and Lilith. However, the pacing took a bit of a hit later. The sudden switch to Alfheim Online felt quite abrupt. Despite this issue, the show still had some standout moments and thought-provoking themes. All in all, I’d say Sword Art Online is a bit of a mixed bag—it’s not, without its flaws but it definitely has …its share of unique and unforgettable highlights. If you’re, into anime that blends action, with drama and fantasy elements then it’s definitely worth checking out. Reviewer’s Rating: 7What did you think of this review? Nice 
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Jan 3, 2025oKAIRIoMixed Feelings I just rewatched it after 12 years since the first time I saw it, and I found that it wasn’t as fun as when I watched it as a kid. However, I still rate it highly in terms of animation quality and the score by Yuki Kajiura, which really enhances the emotional atmosphere of the anime. As for the story, both arcs feel a bit slow. The first arc, Aincrad, starts off interesting, but there are many filler episodes that don’t contribute much to character development. I was expecting more action and intensity from this arc, especially since it’s the opening arc. The second arc, Fairy Dance, …which is noticeably lighter than the first, has a much clearer goal and focus. The story moves straight toward its objective. While the game system isn’t as engaging as Aincrad, the plot doesn’t stray too far off course. Overall, I still think it’s an anime that can be casually enjoyed in 2025. If I want to relive some nostalgia, I could rewatch it. The music and score are well done, but as for the enjoyment of the storyline, I was a little disappointed. Reviewer’s Rating: 7What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0More reviews by oKAIRIo (1) Show allRead moreShow lessOpen Gift Report 
Jul 15, 2025RemanTheArcheanNot Recommended The first half of season one of this show might be the most absolutely disastrous trainwreck of storytelling I’ve ever seen in TV and film. If you want to speedrun a semester-long course in all the ways that storytelling can fail, I struggle to think of a better alternative than this show. It’s so bizarrely disjointed. All creative works that require cooperation between multiple people can resemble a sausage factory to some extent, but this is like the sausage is being assembled by a fentanyl zombie that only manages to get half the pork into the meat-sock and smears the other half around on …the table. Then he mumbles “here ya go!” before collapsing dead. I got here from looking for anime similar to Solo Leveling, this was the most commonly cited rec on MAL. Those people are liars. This has only the most basic similarities to Solo Leveling, as in they both use video game tropes. This has vibes akin to Ready Player One, but is otherwise just generic anime in terms of plot. Characters die in the first few episodes, but these characters have had a total of like 5 minutes of screentime, so the melancholic music and atmosphere just fall completely flat. Then in E4 it randomly shifts and becomes a Blushy Crushy romance show and contrives every situation it can to get a girl to flash her panties at the protagonist. Then it becomes a character drama to some degree, and a mystery. Then it keeps on cycling through genres until it’s checked almost every single one of them off its list. Is it an action/adventure? A love polygon? A harem anime? A comedy? A power fantasy? A mystery/thriller? A tentacle hentai? I was half expecting mechs to pop out to really cover ALL the bases. Meandering through a lot of different genres is not in and of itself a bad thing. But it’s usually best to have 1-3 consistent themes, and then make small excursions into other areas. In contrast, this show is wearing a completely different hat from episode to episode, which makes watching them in sequence extremely jarring. Furthermore, the protagonist’s personality swings massively. Is he this confident, edgy, Shadow the Hedgehog type? Or is he a generic dorky anime protagonist? Or perhaps somewhere in between? The answer is: whatever the show creators want him to be at any given moment. There’s no real meta-narrative to drive the overarching plot along, other than “get to the top of the castle to free yourself from this digital prison”. But that really doesn’t seem to be that much of a pressing concern. There’s dithering between whether being locked in the game world is terrible, or if it’s actually not all that bad since they get to spend it in an interesting place and form friendships and relationships. This tossup is interesting, but the show doesn’t know how to handle it, and instead of trying to do a nuanced take between the two, it wildly vacillates between the two extremes based on whatever’s going on in the scene at that moment, e.g. if they’re about to make progress towards escaping they have a flashback on all the bad things that happened implying they’re about to be liberated from the worst prison to ever exist, completely ignoring the previous episode’s conclusion that this game isn’t all that bad. The main conflict just gets… randomly resolved halfway through season 1. It just comes out of nowhere, for seemingly no reason. A dude essentially says “surprise, I’m the final boss”, he dies, and the overarching narrative is just gone. Then the game’s creator is asked why he created the MMO in the first place, and he essentially responds with “IDK LOL”. Like…. what!?! This show is so bafflingly badly paced that I investigated what happened. It seems like this was a big webnovel series that went on for quite a while. Apparently the anime adaptation had no idea what to do with all of this, so the show creators just kind of picked random bits and jammed them together without thinking much. The result is this absolute mess that I don’t understand how anyone can take seriously. The second arc of season one is much less chaotic and actually tries to tell a coherent story. Instead of “abysmal”, it’s merely “bad”. In its best moments it never rises beyond generic anime pablum, and it still has a decent amount of structural flaws. The most glaring flaw is that the stakes don’t make sense – the characters are no longer in a “if you die in the game, you die in real life” situation, yet they still act excessively cautious. Furthermore, the main tension is how the protagonist’s girlfriend is due to be married in a week to a total creep, so that presumably sets a deadline. But… it’s not like marriage is a death sentence. The girl would still be alive, and they’d probably give leeway to a quick annulment given the circumstances. The first arc was so bad that it made me want to watch it to see what nonsense would happen next. The second arc was better from a qualitative standpoint, but was just kind of goofy and bland. Reviewer’s Rating: 3What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0More reviews by RemanTheArchean (35) Show allRead moreShow lessOpen Gift Report More stacks
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