It was great, but not as great as I had hyped it for myself. That's the thing with long pauses in production that build up the anticipation.
Like with Ep 11, it had more drama than humour, but this time I didn't feel as though it was as inevitably forced by the source material, rather than just missing some opportunities. Like, I get that Kirito was understandably distraught, but there's just so much more sarcasm one could express about a modern arranged marriage with a
coma patient and he already has an established character trait of escaping into mouthing off, even,
especially even, in a bad situation. Maybe they are trying to build up Kirito's comeback, but that does not change that the current episode suffered because of that.
But other things were good, like the interaction with Sugu, Kirito trying to use Twitter as a weapon and of course, as always, establishing and keeping Abridged continuity, like the King of Ashes. I wonder if they are going to make him join Death Gun eventually (at least if they can't bring back Fluffles as the Meowing Death Gun instead
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).
Wow, Rapey McRapeface actually has more menace in the abridged. I, uh, kinda wasn't expecting that.
He is actually essentially the same character as in canon, just more open about if from the start. That should tell you a lot about the canon Alfheim arc.
Also seems like Sugu has absolutely nil romantic interest in Kirito so far, which is another point in favour. Instead she's just happy to taunt and insult him at every possible opportunity
She did show a creepy "romantic" side though, so they might still do something with that. Especially for as long as Kirito and Sugu as Leafa don't know who the other player is.
I loved how a lot of Youtube comments were "what? are they actually siblings now, not just cousins?", completely ignoring that children raised together in one household
are basically siblings and normally treat each other as such.
Especially if they are already as closely related as cousins. What do they think they would call each other? "Adopted sis?" And
that's what makes incest creepy, not genetics.