Yeah, according to their Patreon they have made a lot of good progress on that front, as well as for planning their SAO V2.
 

Huh so thats what they meant by what kirito is like irl during one of their livestreams...

Also

HALLE FUCKING LUJJAH ITS BACK READY TO BE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL AND EVEN MORE WILLING TO CARPET BOMB US WITH JACKASSERY MEMES AND THE PROBABBILITY OF KIRITOS SISTER NOT BEING A ONE TRICK INCESTUAL NON CHARACTER.

my apologies i needed to get that out of my system. I am now curious to see how his sister acts in game... and maybe that back story on the hospital visit.
 

Quite the amusing start to ALO, I must say. Loved how they showed Kirito suffering PTSD from leaving the game while Asuna remains trapped in VR, and the interactions with Sugu are gold. Especially how she beat his ass in the kendo fight - no Kirito winning despite being a month out of (on the muscle exercise front) a coma here!

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 :p
Wow, Rapey McRapeface actually has more menace in the abridged. I, uh, kinda wasn't expecting that.
He comes off as more competent, somehow, despite also coming across as absolutely absurd during the hospital visit and his various comments about Asuna. Got a chuckle out of how he sicced hospital security on Kirito as he left, though.

...Now I'm wondering if the ALO arc could've been skipped entirely if someone else's company had stepped up and took on the burden of maintaining the SAO servers, instead of Sugou's. Dude made a good point on how SAO completely torpedoe'd corporate interest in VR games... which does make me wonder how he got ALO past the investor pitch stage.
 
That catheter trauma... I feel for you my brother, I feel for you. More than half a decade and to this day, I still fear the terrifying catheters. If there is a reason for a man to fear surgeries, or, indeed, hospitals... it is catheters.
 
Oh gods. Apparently Kirito's sister is just like him.

Also, ugh. I couldn't even watch the second half of the episode. Did they really have to take that bit up to 11 too?
 
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I will happily watch this Italian Car loving Fucker die. I couldn't stomach the Creep in the original but somehow I think the Abrodged will have more taste about it.

Also, I was so wrong about IncestGirl. Yay. I was expecting SugarAndSawblades not AgressiveKirito.
 
So we're not using spoilers? Cool!

While not super comfortable with insults like 'tard' I loved the rest, Suguha is everything I wanted and was hoping for, seemingly not remotely interested in Kirito, scarily competent and a massive tool, just like him prior to his character arc XD

Plus the father and villain had a lot of personality, horrible one's sometimes genuinely scary, but also hilarious in a way that makes me feel guilty for laughing XD

Also neat, the King of Ashes is still around XD
 
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While it was obviously great, I will say it was a huge missed opportunity not to undercut Kirito's big declaration in Asuna's hospital room by actually having security come in to beat the shit out of him after 30 seconds. I suppose it would've stepped on the tweet joke's territory but I feel like it would've been the stronger joke overall and kept the same intent of "Kirito is a powerless weenie IRL". I mean it's not like getting him in front of the computer to see the desktop notification was really so crucial as to require going with the weaker joke.
 
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 :V).

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 :p

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.
 
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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.
Not to mention the fact that, IIRC, Kirito didn't even know that Suguha knew they were actually cousins and not siblings until later.
 
While it was obviously great, I will say it was a huge missed opportunity not to undercut Kirito's big declaration in Asuna's hospital room by actually having security come in to beat the shit out of him after 30 seconds. I suppose it would've stepped on the tweet joke's territory but I feel like it would've been the stronger joke overall and kept the same intent of "Kirito is a powerless weenie IRL". I mean it's not like getting him in front of the computer to see the desktop notification was really so crucial as to require going with the weaker joke.
There might have been problems finding footage for that. While Something Witty has been absolutely incredible when it comes to making new scenes, there isn't quite as much to work with with Kirito IRL. It is an abridged series, however much it improves upon the original work.
 
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