Sword Art Online

just finished watching the anime and i have to say it was awesome!!! What do you guys think? I currently watching Accel world lol anime like SAO got my attention now :D

Accel world was done by same guy who wrote SAO. SAO has a Season two coming out this year also. Is called Gungale Online.

SAO was amazing.. So was accel world.. <3 It reminded me of sao, only a more macha-fied version of it ^^ Kuroyukihime was awesome.. ^^

I enjoyed the series very much. Great premise and I enjoyed watching the characters change and grow. It was also interesting how many characters were shown dealing with the situation in fairly realistic ways. The series started to lose my attention after Ep. 15. I thought that Kirito's sister was a bit stereotypical and it would be nice to see a sister once who didn't have a big brother complex. They had plenty of room for psychological depth without taking it to the slightly creepy side. The resolution was nice, but a bit contrived. Nevertheless, I am glad I made it through to see the rescue of Asuna, a character I enjoyed because she had a bit more depth than a lot of anime girls who typically fall into a blatant cookie cutter stereotypical category or are unbalanced wannabe males. I would have liked to see more involvement from previous Sword Art Online characters though. I am sure a lot of them would have been willing to help Kirito with his Alfheim Online mission and I would have thought he had learned more of a lesson about trusting and involving others from his SAO experience. I also thought that the lessons learned from the realities of online gaming were a bit muddled by the seed reinforcing the concept of escapism. I would have thought the dangers of extreme escapism and attempting to create an artificial or real utopia would have become clear. I like the characters and story, but I do not see a point in it continuing either. The story ended with promise for the future and sort of a Happily Ever After. Adding more that will no doubt suffer in quality will only be harmful and it is better to leave it to our imaginations to fill in the rest.

As much as I loved the anime I have to say I enjoyed the light novel far more. A number of one-shot characters who just appear in the anime and the vanish just suddenly make more sense in light of the novels, as well as a lot of awesome side stories that make the world far more vivid as a whole. I have to disagree with you Gotz but knowing where the story goes after the anime ends I have to say there is absolutely a point in it continuing. They go on to explore the aftereffects of the SAO incident and explore very realistically how VR technology would go about changing the very fabric of modern society from its uses in modern medicine and military applications. For anyone interested you can read all 10+ volumes and side stories in english here: http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Sword_Art_Online The anime covers all the way to the end of volume 4, you can skip to 5 if you want but I found the additional content skipped in the anime worth starting from volume 1.

I just started Phantom Bullet this week. The first 4 volumes were very well done in the anime, and I didn't feel that much was left out. A lot of people complained about ALO as well saying just SAO was enough, but I think the more we get to see, the better. It's a great world. And maybe Klein will finally have some luck with one of Kirito's fan girls. Poor guy haha.