Audience reviews
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_Bubassotto_
An idea that didn't work for me.
This chibi-style Sword Art Online special attempts to be light and fun within its premise: short episodes where the characters appear in caricature form commenting on events from the main story. The intention is clearly to connect with the audience, revisit moments from the anime, and, incidentally, promote the work in a more "fun" way.
But, to be quite frank… for me, this was an extremely tiring experience.
The format quickly becomes repetitive. The idea of taking already known characters and putting them in sillier situations might work in small doses, but here it's stretched too far. Instead of adding something new or interesting, the episodes seem to revolve around superficial comments and jokes that don't have much impact. There's no development,…
Read at the sourceShirogari
Sword art offline is a chibi animation styled in the format of a newsshow. It consists of 5 elements that repeat every episode namely the news headline, trivia, playback corner, life counseling and slot talk.
The news headline and slot talk are generally boring. The playback corner and life counseling involve Asuna, Kirito and Klein talking with a character that was invited to the newsshow on that day with a very heavy focus on romance. Trivia is the only good part of the animation but even that isn't great in some episodes.
The animation is a bit about recap but mostly about comedy. The humor however is almost completely based around romance and the harem aspect of the anime and simply not funny.
The main characters are Kirito, Asuna and Klein supported by other SAO characters voice…
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Yeah, it's ok. The art style was pretty good however, the soundtracks were not that good. There were some facts about Sword Art Online like the reason behind the name "Titania", and many more. The character design was really so cute.
If I talk about the story so it was nothing that special. It was just an ordinary filler or breaktime story.
This extra edition doesn't play any role in the main story so, if you have enough time if you don't wanna finish the anime early so, you can watch it.
Overall the extra edition was good and some seen were so funny.
Read at the sourceEoussama
I guess every popular show has got to have filler content included in the Blu-ray / DVD releases. The Sword Art Offline special shorts are just that to SAO in general, from this one it picks up the trend of the simulcast Chibi commentary trying to hide the fact that it's just another cheap trick to force you into watching a recap.
It goes through the entirety of Aincrad and ALfheim arcs, I liked the trivia section. The jokes were lazy and trying too hard at times, thank God for the short length of the episodes (11 minutes) or else it would have been a nightmare to good through.
The art style is very barebones, a mix between Chibi a,d picture drama, it doesn't try too hard and pulls off what it wants just decently.
Read at the sourceHirudan
Since many of the reviews for these shorts bring a railing judgment against them, I thought I'd offer a modest defense for them and why they aren't (completely) terrible.
Ultimately, I evaluate any anime series, including chibi short spinoffs like this one, based on how well it meets the objective that it sets for itself. The main Sword Art series attempts to tell a sweeping story about how players hold on to their humanity in a virtual world, and while we can debate the efficacy of its attempt to meet that objective, Sword Art Offline sets no such lofty goal for itself and thus shouldn't be held to the same kind of standard.
This series is, in every sense, bonus material: it's meant simply to offer a few laughs and smiles to fans of the series who have already watched all there is to…
Read at the sourceCabernetRose
Sword Art Offline didn't seem to add anything; I felt that if you watched it or didn't watch it, you're not missing out on anything (action-wise or information-wise).
For animated chibis, they displayed a very limited range of emotions (most of the time it's just blushing); they're chibis, they're supposed to be over the top in my opinion.
Plus, too much useless fanservice and tsundereness that I find plain annoying.
The attempted humour falls flat, and everything that happens is extremely predictable.
The segment that I did enjoy was the trivia corner because it wasn' something that was necessarily repeated information - usually it was something new that you wouldn't get from just watching the series lightly.
Read at the sourcePeaceAndCake
first of. there is NO new material in these shorts. secondly, whatever any other reviwers say, this is NOT a recap show. and, imho, you should only watch this if youre a true SAO fan. maybe even a hardcore one. i'm not, but i still enjoyed these short episodes.
the review:
each episode consist of up to five parts of a SAO news station broadcast:
the headlines, sword art offline, trivia, playback corner, slot talk, life counseling and ending
the show starts with "news headlines" by chibi anchor asuna followed by either "sword art trivia" with chibi yui (yeah) or goes straight to "sword art offline". in the sword art offline part there is dialog between the chibi host asuna and the chibi commentator kirito. the dialog plot is far from complex. it's buildt on nothing more than; jealousy, m…
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