I don't think this one was meant to be nearly as funny. It focused much more on the "improve the writing of the plot and characters" aspect of this Abridged Series than on the humor.
SAO Abridged
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Honestly one of the things I loved was all the callback jokes, like seriously, I respect the hell out of that kind of forward planning.
Like the Tron thing is obvious, but then we get stuff like the Tutorial NPC disappearing (remember him?) and the mafia guy, and heck, Kayaba's response to someone sassing him being murder with a "You're dead" (Remember Rossalia?) and probably others, I loved that.
Plus the explanation was hilarious.
Plus the explanation was hilarious.
Schwer-Muta
A Shy Arrogance
I liked it. A lot of it was less funny than the other episodes, but I think a lot of that was unavoidable.
Ultimately, this is the story of SAO. You can make the line that takes you from the beginning to the end squiggly and fun and can mess with lots of things along the way. And that's the great thing about an abridged series. But you do have to arrive at the ending. A lot that an early episode might have brutally subverted or made into a joke has to be engaged with head-on, because you are out of wiggle room. This is how the season ends. Kirito has to fight Kayaba. Kirito has to have a weird conversation in weird digital not-heaven with Kayaba. Kirito has to wake up in a hospital and go "WHERE IS MY WAIFU?"
That being said, I was surprised how much of that worked for me when I actually found the characters involved endearing.
Ultimately, this is the story of SAO. You can make the line that takes you from the beginning to the end squiggly and fun and can mess with lots of things along the way. And that's the great thing about an abridged series. But you do have to arrive at the ending. A lot that an early episode might have brutally subverted or made into a joke has to be engaged with head-on, because you are out of wiggle room. This is how the season ends. Kirito has to fight Kayaba. Kirito has to have a weird conversation in weird digital not-heaven with Kayaba. Kirito has to wake up in a hospital and go "WHERE IS MY WAIFU?"
That being said, I was surprised how much of that worked for me when I actually found the characters involved endearing.
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And the true villain was B****sda all along
Season 2 coming eventually!
Right at the end after the credits, there was an SAO Abridged arcade machine with a continue screen counting down from 20. When it hit 4, the screen went black, but you could hear someone inserting a coin into the machine.
Oh, didn't know that was supposed to be a coin.
Strunkriidiisk
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"Is that a cathe-AAAGHH!"
I cringed. And then I laughed.
I cringed. And then I laughed.
VolantRedX
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I honestly don't know if they should continue to season 2. SOA sure shouldn't have. Though honestly this show has totally replaced canon in my mind so maybe they can be a bit better.
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I don't know, I think they might have a lot of fun with season 2. Assuming, of course, the condense it down a lot for both arcs.
they did a better job on the emotions then the orginal thats for sure.
edit: wait your talking about SAO2 not the next arc. well we would get to see their take on Sinion.
look at it this way. several episodes of Asuna insaulting and snarking out the creepester culminating in her and Kirito double teaming him till he breaks down and lets Kirito slaughter him.
edit: wait your talking about SAO2 not the next arc. well we would get to see their take on Sinion.
Ridiculously Average Guy
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I assumed Sinon was just going to be a female version of Kirito when he first got stuck in Aincrad. And him being confronted by what a shitlord is/was.
Ridiculously Average Guy
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Yeah, that's certainly going to be...interesting.
Anomen
「Innocent」
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And threadmarked. Thanks to it being on hosted Facebook, it will still be there tomorrow, so I'm going to wait until I have more time to watch this behemoth of an episode.
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Yeah, my hope is her being a bit psychotic and rather than being traumatic over the killing and guns is a lunatic so we can have a moment when they argue and it is like,
"Bitch I kill people!"
"So what, me too, I stabbed people for two years, you wanna go!"
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My hope is her being super chuuni.
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Yeah, there were some slow bits, and some less than stellar bits, but overall? This episode made my cold, shriveled heart feel real human emotions, especially the last little bit with Kirito and Asuna. Which is quite a feat, given the source material.
Also, Klein was endearing as fuck. Love that guy.
Also, Klein was endearing as fuck. Love that guy.
The Last One
Here because reasons
I dunno, I just can't stop hearing Cell when he speaks.
Strunkriidiisk
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I thought so at first, but that stopped when he stopped doing the Heathcliff voice.