Yeah, that's the one aspect in which it unquestionably surpasses both YGOTAS and DBZ Abridged. You need some familiarity with canon to understand a lot of the jokes in those.
Yeah, that's the one aspect in which it unquestionably surpasses both YGOTAS and DBZ Abridged. You need some familiarity with canon to understand a lot of the jokes in those.
Yeah, that's the one aspect in which it unquestionably surpasses both YGOTAS and DBZ Abridged. You need some familiarity with canon to understand a lot of the jokes in those.
"His wife's tamagotchi."
Yui is pretty adorable, my deadpan murder machine couldn't possibly be this cute! Hell, I can actually buy Yui being Kirito and Asuna's kid.
Agreed on Alifluro, that was rather weak. Hopefully they can fix this and the other issues in the later episodes.Ehhnnn.
Whoever they got to play Yui was overacting really hard during the goodbye scene. Like, you know how sometimes a sentence is punctuated with a little voice-warble when you're nearly crying and trying to hold it in? She did it in literally every sentence. She sounded like a parody of 'almost crying' acting, except it wasn't a parody, because everything with Yui was played far too straight. Like, I get it, mostly this series has shot for verisimilitude within its own world. But this episode was fucking stupid and they did nothing to either fix or mock its fucking stupidity. It was played too straight and ultimately I can't call it their best work even if it had a lot of funny moments. Also Alifluro's character really wasn't funny.
On the flip side, that could be them playing the whole "AI = imperfect imitation of humans" angle completely straight.Like, you know how sometimes a sentence is punctuated with a little voice-warble when you're nearly crying and trying to hold it in? She did it in literally every sentence. She sounded like a parody of 'almost crying' acting, except it wasn't a parody, because everything with Yui was played far too straight.
I mean like, we know Ali can be really funny. She's as gut-busting as anybody else in Fate/Cero. But here her whole character and punchline is... she's horny? And stupid? Um... ha ha? For a series that's had fucking masterful zingers to have an entire scene have the equivalent of "lolcocks" as a punchline about four times in a row strikes me as a complete sleepwalk from the script.Agreed on Alifluro, that was rather weak. Hopefully they can fix this and the other issues in the later episodes.
You know the scriptwriting and storyline are decent when you praise that bit and nitpick the actress' delivery of the line.
What's sad about this? Well, SAO was originally just a novel - words on a screen or a piece of paper. The story and script were everything then, and it's getting quite clear that it wasn't particularly good, compared to what the writers for the Abridged series have come up with.
That was pretty dumb, but the gags they used it for later were pretty good.In fact they made it even more cringe by having their sociopathic hero spout trite lines about being made to care
Eh, I found the cafe scene to be pretty funny. I definitely agree with your comment about Gleam Eyes though, that scene was dumb (although SPANISH GUITAR MAN!).I mean like, we know Ali can be really funny. She's as gut-busting as anybody else in Fate/Cero. But here her whole character and punchline is... she's horny? And stupid? Um... ha ha? For a series that's had fucking masterful zingers to have an entire scene have the equivalent of "lolcocks" as a punchline about four times in a row strikes me as a complete sleepwalk from the script.
Also good lord, I just tried to watch Fate/Cero. That was painful.
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Large amounts of terrible voice acting, zero pacing, jokes that constantly fall flat, poor photoshop quality... I gave it two episodes and decided to go catch up on Mob Psycho 100 instead.