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I have not. Elaborate.
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08-31-2012, 11:16 PM | #52 |
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The details are messy.
Spoiler: show Literally the most iconic line in the entire series comes from that chapter. ... Eureka, I've found it!
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Can you link me to where I can read it? ^^;
Also, I read something on UTW's blog about an H scene that vanished from the anime (and then Raze later found out from the published books as well) but it had to do with Lizbeth's episode which is nowhere near Weeks 2, 3, or 4.
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08-31-2012, 11:27 PM | #54 |
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^^^^
Took a while to get it, there were a number of troll edits that made it out to be Kirito x Klein. D:
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How is this Week 2 material? This sounds like it would come way after where we are in the series right now. Which, in fact, would seem to be indicated by the chapter heading of 16.5! I'm going to quit reading where I am for right now but yeah I definitely see the Kinoko Nasu-esque writing for the sexually explicit stuff. As for the "quote of the series," I don't think I saw it (I skim-read through line 80 in that document) and don't tell me what it is either 'cause I want to see if they say it in the show or not.
But yeah, that's pretty, uhh, not PG-13.
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09-01-2012, 12:30 AM | #56 |
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I meant that the light novel community spilled the beans around Week 2/3, and I heard about the chapter in Week 4. There wasn't much communication between the LN camp and the anime camp, but this chapter definitely raised some eyebrows.
Incidentally, it's kind of a microcosm of SAO as a whole - a palatable dish doused in nasty dressing and clumsily cooked and presented. There's a few interesting ideas that frame the H in context of the series, but in the end, it's as corny as corn-bread.
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Never read that light novel chapter until now.
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Episode 9 was a mixed bag. (Funny, so was Episode 20 of Hyouka! ) There were aspects I liked and aspects I disliked. And just like with my Hyouka post earlier tonight, we'll have to go into the spoiler box if we want to discuss it in detail.
Spoiler: show All in all, it was just another week in Sword Art Online. Within this series, I feel like Episode 9 was an above average episode and I am not ashamed to admit that I enjoyed watching it. Outside of this series, it was rife with problems (some of them insulting) and it reinforces my belief that Sword Art Online is not a great anime. Entertaining, sure, but not great.
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Alright, episode 10. Talon will love all the Asuna-waifu-ism that happens in this episode. I, on the other hand, facepalmed so hard my hand almost went through my face.
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Episode 10 was the first episode of the series I'd call great, warts and all. It was clearly written for me and no matter how much Doppel or kaisap try to crow about chauvinism here all I'm seeing is a hopeless romantic's (perhaps naive) take on the dream union between man and woman. And I thought it was great. I disagree with kaisap's frustration that Asuna is being treated like a powerless damsel in distress who can't wipe her own ass. The Asuna on display in this episode kicked major ass. Spoiler: show So what all did I think about the episode myself? Spoiler: show I dunno. I thought this was a great episode, SAO's first. Definitely my favorite SAO episode to date. But I'm pretty sure kaisap is going to have some strong backup in the form of lilbluecorsola if Skype is any indication so sit tight, kaisap! Backup is on its way!
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I started watching this late, being able to watch through 6 in two days.
It seems clear most of you guys have some low opinions of it, but personally, I like it. If I may attempt a psycho-analysis of Kirito to explain certain behaviors: Episode 1: Spoiler: show Ep 2: Spoiler: show Ep 3: Spoiler: show Ep 4: Spoiler: show Ep 5-6: Spoiler: show Ep 7: Spoiler: show Further analysis possibly pending. |
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As a manga reader, I feel you've misinterpreted NHK, but I didn't watch the anime so the ideas might be different. But prior to decaying into a gratuitous NTR fest, NHK the manga pretty much blamed modern Japanese culture as forcing and glorifying a shallow lifestyle that would lead to forsaking the value of anything and everything. Sato's senpai was a perfect example of this, a woman who could never understand love, could not grasp the fundamentals of companionship and was destined for loneliness. Quote:
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Silica? Lizbeth? Godfrey? ^^;
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You caught my implication, but I didn't want to actually go out and say it because I don't know if those names could conceivably be given to Japanese-born kids. Some names like Ken, Amy (Ami) and George (Joji) seem common over there and even if they had Japaneses origin, their relationship to their English language equivalents can't be ignored. At that, what if their names were "Minazuki Silica" or something?
Heathcliff, though, isn't a name I hear often. I put it on the same level as hearing someone call himself Socrates - it's a name with literary significance that never caught on as a popular name online. In the Western mind, it evokes either the Wuthering Heights character or the better known cartoon cat named after him. Given Heathcliff's status in the guild as mysterious and powerful (much like the Bronte character), my gut was it's a self-proclaimed name, and if so it's one with more than a pinch of narcissism.
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And you're trying to bend over backwards to defend the argument but Doppel ... it doesn't work! ^_^; Silica is not a common name period, neither in Japan nor anywhere else. Neither is Lizbeth which appears by all accounts to be a corruption of Elizabeth which is 100% Western. (There are probably as many ethnic Japanese with 0% Western family tree influence in the past 100 years named Elizabeth as there are ethnic English named Harumi with 0% Japanese family tree influence over the same time period. ^^; ) And as for the Japanese names you just cherrypicked, you picked a landmine of a name with Nakata Jouji/George's name. That is not a typical Japanese name and immediately, immediately tells you that either (1) it's a pseudonym or (2) he's of mixed parentage. (In George's case, it's a pseudonym. Wikipedia seems to have 100% taken to romanizing it as Jouji given that he has offered kanji for its writing but regardless his legal name is Nakata Hitoshi. And I've seen it written so often as George that I know I'm not alone in hearing it that way. "Jouji" as an ethnic Japanese name is just that uncommon!) As for Ken, Ami, Maria, and so on, yeah, you can find names like these, but they don't sound like their Western counterparts (e.g. Japanese MAria vs. English maRIa) nor were they borrowed from the West: they're indigenous names that just happen to coincidence of coincidences match some of ours because lol who'd have thought that with only two to three syllables per typical given name you might get some cross-cultural repeats? So sure, they may have Akamatsu Ken or the Ken in Street Fighter but it's not at all in the same category as Heathcliff. lol But back to agreeing with you. :o 'Cause I actually do agree that you might have a leg to stand on as you answer the question, "Why Heathcliff? Why not some other name?" If Reki just picked it randomly out of a dictionary of English baby names, boo urns. But if he picked it because of Wuthering Heights, that could be interesting. And it could speak to a purpose. That he purposefully chose this name because ... well, because of lots reasons we could speculate on!
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I have a technical question though regarding a quote from Kirito, which perhaps novel-readers can explain: Spoiler: show Dumb developmental decision dissection aside, thoughts on (the equally dumb IMO) episode 10: Spoiler: show
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I hated last week's episode. I just cringe every time I see the Kirito x Asuna married pairing so blatantly shoved down my throat. Like everything about Asuna screams "I'M A BRIDE CHARACTER!" with a few crappy moe quirks and the ability to fight (but she magically goes weak when Kirito's around).
For this week's episode...good god, I'm close to saying Accel World is better than this show. Incoherent bitching in the magic spoiler box: Spoiler: show Oh, also, I would laugh if Asuna got pregnant, and her belly suddenly goes back to normal after a day with a message showing "Baby has been added to your inventory". For a bit of good news, a new episode of watchable SAO came out! |
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Figured I should pop in to say that, once again, I probably won't be watching this weekend's SAO just yet. From the sneak peek picture that UTW put up on their blog, I saw that this week's episode is about that one mysterious girl we've seen in the opening credits, the only one of the side story girls whose side story we'd yet to see. I have a feeling she's a big deal side character and that her story isn't going to be wrapped up in just one episode. If I'm wrong, someone can tell me I'm wrong and I'll watch her episode now. If I'm right, then there you go and I'll be waiting until this upcoming weekend's episode comes out before watching her arc. Not really in a rush anyway since (1) this is SAO we're talking about ^^; and (2) last week's episode felt like a good conclusion to the few things the show'd gotten me to care about, escape from Aincraid notwithstanding.
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I think you all are overthinking the anime, and that's why you're not enjoying it as much as I am.
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